Dork Academia otter
@acerbicotter.bsky.social
In the War on Empathy, I am choosing to fight on the side of empathy. Opinions are my own & definitely do not reflect those of my workplace.
Given the bad faith actors on here, unless I know you or we share a mutual, I will probably block you. Sorry.
Given the bad faith actors on here, unless I know you or we share a mutual, I will probably block you. Sorry.
Pinned
new seasonal name coming shortly but this modification of the halloween one I had popped into my head and I couldn't resist the change at least for a couple days
I recognized several of the signatories' names (I used to live in the Chicago media market, 25+ years ago)
"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I recognized several of the signatories' names (I used to live in the Chicago media market, 25+ years ago)
Shorter and protestantized version: "To the current US government: Y'all need Jesus."
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Shorter and protestantized version: "To the current US government: Y'all need Jesus."
this is just that alpha-gal allergy writ large
the meat death of the universe
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
this is just that alpha-gal allergy writ large
Someone using "female" in lieu of "woman" - remains undefeated as a red flag`1
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Someone using "female" in lieu of "woman" - remains undefeated as a red flag`1
@alderfish.bsky.social Stuart and Duck have a menu suggestion for you...
Look, maybe you give a little dog a small pancake
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
@alderfish.bsky.social Stuart and Duck have a menu suggestion for you...
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"My name is Fozzymandias, look upon my Waka Waka works!"
"My name is Ozzymandias, look at my works and say
"Has he lost his mind?
Can he see, or is he blind?
Can he walk at all?
Or if he moves, will he fall?"
"Has he lost his mind?
Can he see, or is he blind?
Can he walk at all?
Or if he moves, will he fall?"
Once upon a time, I walked the land
I happened to spot a sign in the sand
"My name is Ozymandias, look at my works
"Look up, bow down, and admire me, jerks"
I happened to spot a sign in the sand
"My name is Ozymandias, look at my works
"Look up, bow down, and admire me, jerks"
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"My name is Fozzymandias, look upon my Waka Waka works!"
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IMPORTANT
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
IMPORTANT
I have only one of these (those who know me and what I do know which one) (not a beard and I hate podcasts) but yeah, I suspect a Vance presidency would require me to up my beta blocker dosage so I don't have a rage stroke.
this nerd usually has one or more of the following attributes and obsessions:
- a beard
- catholicism
- a favorite history podcast
- housing policy
- advanced degree
- a beard
- catholicism
- a favorite history podcast
- housing policy
- advanced degree
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I have only one of these (those who know me and what I do know which one) (not a beard and I hate podcasts) but yeah, I suspect a Vance presidency would require me to up my beta blocker dosage so I don't have a rage stroke.
Huh I wonder what UPS is bringing me from Virginia. I know that tree ornament is coming USPS from New York and I *thought* JetPens shipped from California....
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Huh I wonder what UPS is bringing me from Virginia. I know that tree ornament is coming USPS from New York and I *thought* JetPens shipped from California....
UGH I JUST NEED TO FINISH THIS GRADING BUT VERY MUCH DUNWANNA
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
UGH I JUST NEED TO FINISH THIS GRADING BUT VERY MUCH DUNWANNA
ah yeah we're at the time of year where the local news again shows people grinning as they hold a dead deer's head so it looks like the deer is looking at the camera again
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
ah yeah we're at the time of year where the local news again shows people grinning as they hold a dead deer's head so it looks like the deer is looking at the camera again
that's where the oreos that don't pass their Final Oreo Exam wind up
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
that's where the oreos that don't pass their Final Oreo Exam wind up
Frankly, it's past time they do. As someone who was raised to believe hard work and honesty would mean success, and that intelligence and kindness mattered on this b*tch of an Earth, I've been asking myself hard questions since 2016, and it's destroying my sense of self
More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Frankly, it's past time they do. As someone who was raised to believe hard work and honesty would mean success, and that intelligence and kindness mattered on this b*tch of an Earth, I've been asking myself hard questions since 2016, and it's destroying my sense of self
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Welcome back federal workers
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Welcome back federal workers
I would be willing to risk it
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I would be willing to risk it
So wait, he might have been “the smart one” if he picked the Cabinet for Trump I?
Oh god is the reason why Trump is so much more unstable term 2 is because Epstein is dead???
November 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
So wait, he might have been “the smart one” if he picked the Cabinet for Trump I?
Jerry Not Found
Jerry404
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Jerry Not Found
Jerry 505
jerry forbidden
November 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Jerry 505
Ah, so Elon’s da is doing the “race suicide” schtick people were doing back in the early 1900s
It was why some columnists back then wrote anti-teddy-bear pieces, because they feared if (white) girls didn’t play with dolls, they wouldn’t want to become mothers someday
It was why some columnists back then wrote anti-teddy-bear pieces, because they feared if (white) girls didn’t play with dolls, they wouldn’t want to become mothers someday
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ah, so Elon’s da is doing the “race suicide” schtick people were doing back in the early 1900s
It was why some columnists back then wrote anti-teddy-bear pieces, because they feared if (white) girls didn’t play with dolls, they wouldn’t want to become mothers someday
It was why some columnists back then wrote anti-teddy-bear pieces, because they feared if (white) girls didn’t play with dolls, they wouldn’t want to become mothers someday
The grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud thing on the old Simpsons episode was just a premonition of all of us reacting to OneDrive
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud thing on the old Simpsons episode was just a premonition of all of us reacting to OneDrive
It would never occur to me to call ICE on a bunch of guys just doing their jobs, at a car wash or wherever. Geez. Nation of fricking busybodies
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It would never occur to me to call ICE on a bunch of guys just doing their jobs, at a car wash or wherever. Geez. Nation of fricking busybodies
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Me: I need to relax.
Dog: *walks up and spits out a live roach*
Me: I need events to relax.
Dog: *walks up and spits out a live roach*
Me: I need events to relax.
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Me: I need to relax.
Dog: *walks up and spits out a live roach*
Me: I need events to relax.
Dog: *walks up and spits out a live roach*
Me: I need events to relax.
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
maybe some of you need to see Brian May with a badger this morning (picture ganked from The Guardian's news quiz for this week)
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
maybe some of you need to see Brian May with a badger this morning (picture ganked from The Guardian's news quiz for this week)
1. Yikes.
2. I was offered a position at the university there after I had taken the one here; they seem even more remote than where I live now.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
2. I was offered a position at the university there after I had taken the one here; they seem even more remote than where I live now.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hundreds evacuated and dozens hospitalized after an ammonia gas leak in Oklahoma
People in immediate area were in respiratory distress after a tanker truck spewed a plume of anhydrous ammonia gas
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
1. Yikes.
2. I was offered a position at the university there after I had taken the one here; they seem even more remote than where I live now.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
2. I was offered a position at the university there after I had taken the one here; they seem even more remote than where I live now.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...