The Gurgling Cod (he/him)
@thegurglingcod.bsky.social
JBF IRL. (Jonathan Beecher Field) The Internet's only early Americanist. Acting Dean of Weird Kids. Uncle. Assistant SID, PTKU. Early American settler colonialism, charcuterie, stonemasonry, mutts.
Pinned
I find myself in a deep and abject state of despair about the world, and especially my little corner of it. That said, I will try to keep showing up for people IRL and telling the stupidest puns/jokes that I can think of on here.
Harvard was a complete shitshow back in the day. (17th c)
Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Harvard was a complete shitshow back in the day. (17th c)
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The first Columbo is so weird
Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The first Columbo is so weird
What
Charli working with John Cale, what a riposte to the Swift drama.
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
What
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Primary them all.
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Primary them all.
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lol best dive bar bathroom sticker I’ve ever seen
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
lol best dive bar bathroom sticker I’ve ever seen
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Volunteering my service again to help people find the right antenna for their needs
Go to www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php and pull a signal report, then share your results and we’ll see what we can do
Go to www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php and pull a signal report, then share your results and we’ll see what we can do
RabbitEars.Info - Signal Search Map
RabbitEars, where you can learn all about local, over-the-air TV channels.
www.rabbitears.info
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Volunteering my service again to help people find the right antenna for their needs
Go to www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php and pull a signal report, then share your results and we’ll see what we can do
Go to www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php and pull a signal report, then share your results and we’ll see what we can do
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Just told my 10yo daughter about #ChuckSchumer. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "#Chuckanda forever"—which is the sort of pop culture cross-over I can celebrate.
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Just told my 10yo daughter about #ChuckSchumer. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "#Chuckanda forever"—which is the sort of pop culture cross-over I can celebrate.
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Today I learned (thanks, NPR) that from 1875 to 1975, there were more than 6,000 commercial shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. The publicity of song led to safety standard changes and there has not been a single commercial wreck since then.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Today I learned (thanks, NPR) that from 1875 to 1975, there were more than 6,000 commercial shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. The publicity of song led to safety standard changes and there has not been a single commercial wreck since then.
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Do they have the Bear Patrol jet, though @ditzkoff.bsky.social ?
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Do they have the Bear Patrol jet, though @ditzkoff.bsky.social ?
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the listener-member model that public radio has turned to after decades of government underfunding conflicts with its goal to reflect and serve all Americans. spoke with @lauragarbes.bsky.social about her book LISTENERS LIKE WHO? www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...
Funding cuts may make public radio more reliant on old, rich, white donors
After years of interviews, research, and writing, Laura Garbes submitted the final draft of her book on public radio in December 2024. By the time Listeners Like Who? Exclusion and Resistance in the P...
www.niemanlab.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
the listener-member model that public radio has turned to after decades of government underfunding conflicts with its goal to reflect and serve all Americans. spoke with @lauragarbes.bsky.social about her book LISTENERS LIKE WHO? www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...
There is a non-zero chance that there is a 50% chance that either Belichick or Dabo ends up in the Mayo Chair.
Don’t look now, but we are two wins away from Bill BOWLichek
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
There is a non-zero chance that there is a 50% chance that either Belichick or Dabo ends up in the Mayo Chair.
Don’t look now, but we are two wins away from Bill BOWLichek
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Don’t look now, but we are two wins away from Bill BOWLichek
Yes, let’s gather the kids around the old radio and listen to people yell about SEC football.
Alabama is back because Legend was just screaming on Finebaum about not being able to run the ball in a win and his line was cut because he apparently said some words "not allowable on a family show."
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Yes, let’s gather the kids around the old radio and listen to people yell about SEC football.
Decided to make a little ber on myself and invest in something that might make it so writing is not a physically painful process.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Decided to make a little ber on myself and invest in something that might make it so writing is not a physically painful process.
Fucking yikes, pt 11,353
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Fla. Board Says Syllabi, Reading Lists Must Be Posted Publicly
Faculty at some Florida public universities argue the new policy is less about transparency for students and more about chilling academic freedom.
www.insidehighered.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Fucking yikes, pt 11,353
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Professional Q - fairly high stakes zoom call this PM. Does having a virtual background make you seem untrustworthy?
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Professional Q - fairly high stakes zoom call this PM. Does having a virtual background make you seem untrustworthy?
Preaching to the converted, but talking to the grad students about what it means to make an intervention with your writing, and @jasonkirk.fyi's book was the example that came most immediately to mind:
Closer to home, Jason Kirk's novel Hell is a World Without You was an intervention for me.
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Closer to home, Jason Kirk's novel Hell is a World Without You was an intervention for me.
🧵
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Preaching to the converted, but talking to the grad students about what it means to make an intervention with your writing, and @jasonkirk.fyi's book was the example that came most immediately to mind:
Closer to home, Jason Kirk's novel Hell is a World Without You was an intervention for me.
🧵
Closer to home, Jason Kirk's novel Hell is a World Without You was an intervention for me.
🧵
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We cannot let “haunted ICE agent regretfully explores his feelings/past/guilt” become a genre the way we did with every bad actor since the Confederates.
This is why they were in downtown Chicago today.
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We cannot let “haunted ICE agent regretfully explores his feelings/past/guilt” become a genre the way we did with every bad actor since the Confederates.
/pulls up at the Arby's drive thru
Arby's employee: "Can I take your order?"
Me: "Not hungry, actually, but I do have some words on my heart regarding fentanyl's role in our current political crisis?
open.substack.com/pub/sausages...
Arby's employee: "Can I take your order?"
Me: "Not hungry, actually, but I do have some words on my heart regarding fentanyl's role in our current political crisis?
open.substack.com/pub/sausages...
This is your government on drugs
If fentanyl did not exist, the Republicans would have to invent it.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
/pulls up at the Arby's drive thru
Arby's employee: "Can I take your order?"
Me: "Not hungry, actually, but I do have some words on my heart regarding fentanyl's role in our current political crisis?
open.substack.com/pub/sausages...
Arby's employee: "Can I take your order?"
Me: "Not hungry, actually, but I do have some words on my heart regarding fentanyl's role in our current political crisis?
open.substack.com/pub/sausages...
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A pause to register my eternal gratitude to @jsench.bsky.social for turning me on to this many years ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTB1...
(Brb, building a time machine to break off a piece of this iteration of Jesse Jackson.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTB1...
(Brb, building a time machine to break off a piece of this iteration of Jesse Jackson.)
Sesame Street - I Am Somebody
YouTube video by LittleJerryFan92 *RETIRED CHANNEL*
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A pause to register my eternal gratitude to @jsench.bsky.social for turning me on to this many years ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTB1...
(Brb, building a time machine to break off a piece of this iteration of Jesse Jackson.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTB1...
(Brb, building a time machine to break off a piece of this iteration of Jesse Jackson.)
Anyway, one of the ways I have found to relax is to collect and restore antique musical instruments!
Time for bed, but in the morning, I want to share a crazy story from Fire Island last summer.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Anyway, one of the ways I have found to relax is to collect and restore antique musical instruments!
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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First of all, your ass is great. Don’t do a thing.
Especially, don’t do this.
You use your butt far more than you think. Unless you are walking, you are putting pressure on your butt.
Especially, don’t do this.
You use your butt far more than you think. Unless you are walking, you are putting pressure on your butt.
For years, plastic surgeons thought the proportions of a beautiful buttocks should follow the Fibonacci sequence. Now, people are looking for a more Kardashian shape. www.wired.com/story/book-e...
The Mysterious Math Behind the Brazilian Butt Lift
For years, plastic surgeons thought the proportions of a beautiful buttocks should follow the Fibonacci sequence. Now, people are looking for a more Kardashian shape.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
First of all, your ass is great. Don’t do a thing.
Especially, don’t do this.
You use your butt far more than you think. Unless you are walking, you are putting pressure on your butt.
Especially, don’t do this.
You use your butt far more than you think. Unless you are walking, you are putting pressure on your butt.