Kristen
@rotelfan.bsky.social
Deep South transplant in Philly. Media consumer. Policy nerd. Rotel enthusiast.
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Kristen
@rotelfan.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Honestly unsure how anyone is doing anything other than just listening to Hole's Live Through This on repeat.
Goddamn—this is the one. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now?
Guten tag. I’m just wondering if anybody else can relate to this feeling I’ve been having that I just can’t shake. It’s only Tuesday, but what a we...
www.mcsweeneys.net
May 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Goddamn—this is the one. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
“a speaker affixed to the top that plays one of two tracks: “Fly, Eagles Fly” or a 10-minute YouTube compilation of “Eagle Sound Effects.”
This city and all its people are amazing.
www.inquirer.com/eagles/a/eag...
This city and all its people are amazing.
www.inquirer.com/eagles/a/eag...
It screeches like an eagle, has a replica Lombardi Trophy, and is the most sought-after ride in Philly. Unless you’re a Cowboys fan.
You’ll likely hear Mucha Nama’s minivan before you see it. From playing “Fly, Eagles Fly” to adorning it with decorations, his Birds mobile is a hit — for most of his customers.
www.inquirer.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“a speaker affixed to the top that plays one of two tracks: “Fly, Eagles Fly” or a 10-minute YouTube compilation of “Eagle Sound Effects.”
This city and all its people are amazing.
www.inquirer.com/eagles/a/eag...
This city and all its people are amazing.
www.inquirer.com/eagles/a/eag...
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This account just posts food at British football stadiums and it's the most upsetting shit I've ever seen
May 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This account just posts food at British football stadiums and it's the most upsetting shit I've ever seen
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🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”
May 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”
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Be sure you have a plan to attend one of SEPTA's public hearings either in-person in Center City or online to let them know how your world will change with their drastic service cuts & fare increases.
More info & register at ⬇
www.septa.org/news/public-...
More info & register at ⬇
www.septa.org/news/public-...
May 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Be sure you have a plan to attend one of SEPTA's public hearings either in-person in Center City or online to let them know how your world will change with their drastic service cuts & fare increases.
More info & register at ⬇
www.septa.org/news/public-...
More info & register at ⬇
www.septa.org/news/public-...
Sometimes you find good in this world.
A fun fact is if you visit where they make gruyere they hand you a package of walking around cheese for the tour
May 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Sometimes you find good in this world.
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anytime a dork tells you the usps needs to be profitable ask them how profitable sewers are
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
anytime a dork tells you the usps needs to be profitable ask them how profitable sewers are
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READ. THE. SUBHEAD.
May 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
READ. THE. SUBHEAD.
Fascinating, very long thread that’s still going. Mostly useful info but also hilarious at times. Get in there and start reading!
Pope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired!
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
Read Pope Leo XIV's first homily as pope
During his homily, delivered in Italian, Leo XIV said that Christians must serve a world that is often hostile to their beliefs.
www.npr.org
May 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Fascinating, very long thread that’s still going. Mostly useful info but also hilarious at times. Get in there and start reading!
Today, I learned that Les Misérables is one of Trump’s favorite musicals, and I am not sure anyone has ever missed the point more.
May 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Today, I learned that Les Misérables is one of Trump’s favorite musicals, and I am not sure anyone has ever missed the point more.
“Maybe a dog.” 😂😂
my 14yo made a power point of what she wants her future to look like and this is my favorite slide
May 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“Maybe a dog.” 😂😂
“The lesson many cadets are learning is that it is inappropriate for them to question their own government — a dangerous message to convey to future Army officers.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
“The lesson many cadets are learning is that it is inappropriate for them to question their own government — a dangerous message to convey to future Army officers.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Absolutely incredible
Screengrab to give folks who don't want to click through the gist of it:
May 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Absolutely incredible
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Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.
“When it comes to .. raw milk, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm.”
— Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
— Casey Means, Trump’s latest surgeon-general nominee.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Picks a ‘MAHA’ Movement Leader for Surgeon General
The president said he would nominate Dr. Casey Means, a California doctor and wellness influencer, to be the next surgeon general.
www.wsj.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.
Gen AI tries to make a word cloud and can’t get that quaint 2000s trend even remotely right. CBP is like, yep, this is gold—copy, paste.
genuinely bizarre CBP ad in the Columbia Heights metro station
May 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Gen AI tries to make a word cloud and can’t get that quaint 2000s trend even remotely right. CBP is like, yep, this is gold—copy, paste.
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For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier
May 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier
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When a disastrous tornado struck Mississippi in March 2023, President Biden approved FEMA aid for the state within two days.
But a month after Gov. Tate Reeves requested help for mid-March 2025 tornado victims, President Trump still has not approved the request.
Read more: buff.ly/XYhMyCx
But a month after Gov. Tate Reeves requested help for mid-March 2025 tornado victims, President Trump still has not approved the request.
Read more: buff.ly/XYhMyCx
May 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
When a disastrous tornado struck Mississippi in March 2023, President Biden approved FEMA aid for the state within two days.
But a month after Gov. Tate Reeves requested help for mid-March 2025 tornado victims, President Trump still has not approved the request.
Read more: buff.ly/XYhMyCx
But a month after Gov. Tate Reeves requested help for mid-March 2025 tornado victims, President Trump still has not approved the request.
Read more: buff.ly/XYhMyCx
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There's nothing Philadelphian's and Pennsylvanian's love more than shitting on our public services, but oftentimes those attitudes turn lies into publicly held beliefs. Let correct some myths about SEPTA today:
Everyone is Lying about SEPTA
YouTube video by Alan Fisher
youtu.be
May 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
There's nothing Philadelphian's and Pennsylvanian's love more than shitting on our public services, but oftentimes those attitudes turn lies into publicly held beliefs. Let correct some myths about SEPTA today:
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"I am hoarding toilet paper in expectation of Covid-like shortages caused directly by the policies I am helping to promote, I am definitely the good guy"
these fucking people
these fucking people
Spooked by Trade Wars, Trump Officials Hoard Supplies: 'It Would Be Stupid Not To!'
Donald Trump’s aides and administration officials are hoarding toilet paper, food, and household supplies before his tariffs cause prices to spike.
www.rollingstone.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"I am hoarding toilet paper in expectation of Covid-like shortages caused directly by the policies I am helping to promote, I am definitely the good guy"
these fucking people
these fucking people
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Its the ease with which universities have suddenly the money to pay for AI subscriptions, AI professorships, AI workshops, AI everything while they reassure us that "there is no money" to pay grad students and precarious faculty living wages.
Can you imagine if the loudest voices in higher ed actually stopped to critically evaluate whether so-called "AI" tools are worth the documented and likely-but-not-yet-well-documented effects of their use?
Instead of being AI triumphalist, remembering that tech vendors are not our friends/saviors?
Instead of being AI triumphalist, remembering that tech vendors are not our friends/saviors?
May 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Its the ease with which universities have suddenly the money to pay for AI subscriptions, AI professorships, AI workshops, AI everything while they reassure us that "there is no money" to pay grad students and precarious faculty living wages.
JFC
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Hegseth Set Up Signal on a Computer in His Pentagon Office
The app facilitated communications in a building where cell service is poor and personal phones are not allowed in some areas.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
JFC
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I attended the @phillies.com Phanatic’s birthday party game last weekend: A Philly thread.
First, it turns out it was a surprise party. The Phanatic came in blindfolded!
First, it turns out it was a surprise party. The Phanatic came in blindfolded!
April 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I attended the @phillies.com Phanatic’s birthday party game last weekend: A Philly thread.
First, it turns out it was a surprise party. The Phanatic came in blindfolded!
First, it turns out it was a surprise party. The Phanatic came in blindfolded!
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Small colleges have taken the lead -- but they are now joined by 6 of 8 Ivies: Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and -- yes -- Harvard.
And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.
And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.
A powerful call has just gone up on the website of the @aacu.org : “A Call for Constructive Engagement” signed by almost 200 college & university presidents (more sure to join), from community colleges to R1s! #academicsky #edusky @academic-chatter.bsky.social www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Small colleges have taken the lead -- but they are now joined by 6 of 8 Ivies: Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and -- yes -- Harvard.
And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.
And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.