Dead Armadillo
@deadarmadillo.bsky.social
Four legs up & motionless in the middle of the road.
The Republic of California should float century bonds and buy up every last acre with the proceeds, and structure those bonds such that they are collateralized by the associated lands.
June 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Republic of California should float century bonds and buy up every last acre with the proceeds, and structure those bonds such that they are collateralized by the associated lands.
100%.
I was an undergrad the night of Tianenmen. Took a walk and watched campus leftists ignite a fire at a BofA to protest Apartheid, the cause of the day. The contrast stuck: US college kids lighting symbolic fires while Chinese kids were crushed by tanks. Well aware of the history.
I was an undergrad the night of Tianenmen. Took a walk and watched campus leftists ignite a fire at a BofA to protest Apartheid, the cause of the day. The contrast stuck: US college kids lighting symbolic fires while Chinese kids were crushed by tanks. Well aware of the history.
March 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
100%.
I was an undergrad the night of Tianenmen. Took a walk and watched campus leftists ignite a fire at a BofA to protest Apartheid, the cause of the day. The contrast stuck: US college kids lighting symbolic fires while Chinese kids were crushed by tanks. Well aware of the history.
I was an undergrad the night of Tianenmen. Took a walk and watched campus leftists ignite a fire at a BofA to protest Apartheid, the cause of the day. The contrast stuck: US college kids lighting symbolic fires while Chinese kids were crushed by tanks. Well aware of the history.
One can hold both opinions: that the Trump administration's actions are horrifying, and that Columbia's reputation has taken a massive hit. Academic-disrupting protests either reflect campus-wide views, or are dictated by the minority.
Laughable academic environment for a serious student.
Laughable academic environment for a serious student.
March 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
One can hold both opinions: that the Trump administration's actions are horrifying, and that Columbia's reputation has taken a massive hit. Academic-disrupting protests either reflect campus-wide views, or are dictated by the minority.
Laughable academic environment for a serious student.
Laughable academic environment for a serious student.
Oooh... "Top 10"!?
LOL... so was its law school: "Give us passing grades. No final exams. We're traumatized, but so-o-o serious!"
So very seriously academically unserious & overrated.
All this for only $100K/year.
Presently, not a place for serious students - it's a playground for child-activists.
LOL... so was its law school: "Give us passing grades. No final exams. We're traumatized, but so-o-o serious!"
So very seriously academically unserious & overrated.
All this for only $100K/year.
Presently, not a place for serious students - it's a playground for child-activists.
Final exams at Columbia upended amid campus turmoil
“Final papers, presentations, projects, or take-home exams that are due this week in classes should be reassigned later due dates.”
forward.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Oooh... "Top 10"!?
LOL... so was its law school: "Give us passing grades. No final exams. We're traumatized, but so-o-o serious!"
So very seriously academically unserious & overrated.
All this for only $100K/year.
Presently, not a place for serious students - it's a playground for child-activists.
LOL... so was its law school: "Give us passing grades. No final exams. We're traumatized, but so-o-o serious!"
So very seriously academically unserious & overrated.
All this for only $100K/year.
Presently, not a place for serious students - it's a playground for child-activists.
My kid is graduating from HS & headed to college to study math.
The last university on earth I wanted to pay for him to attend is Columbia University.
It's not a place for serious students: it's an unserious playground for child-activists who haven't yet ever earned rent.
The last university on earth I wanted to pay for him to attend is Columbia University.
It's not a place for serious students: it's an unserious playground for child-activists who haven't yet ever earned rent.
March 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
My kid is graduating from HS & headed to college to study math.
The last university on earth I wanted to pay for him to attend is Columbia University.
It's not a place for serious students: it's an unserious playground for child-activists who haven't yet ever earned rent.
The last university on earth I wanted to pay for him to attend is Columbia University.
It's not a place for serious students: it's an unserious playground for child-activists who haven't yet ever earned rent.
Bring the Rays to Oakland!
We will love them & make them ours!
We will love them & make them ours!
March 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Bring the Rays to Oakland!
We will love them & make them ours!
We will love them & make them ours!
Waiting for Trump to blame the current wildfires in Georgia & the Carolinas on [checks notes]….
Californians and our water policies.
Californians and our water policies.
March 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Waiting for Trump to blame the current wildfires in Georgia & the Carolinas on [checks notes]….
Californians and our water policies.
Californians and our water policies.
Congrats!
You must be the 37th guy for that RE agent but managed to seal the deal.
You must be the 37th guy for that RE agent but managed to seal the deal.
March 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Congrats!
You must be the 37th guy for that RE agent but managed to seal the deal.
You must be the 37th guy for that RE agent but managed to seal the deal.
“This is how competitive authoritarianism works - you find vulnerable targets and persecute them.”
Good job!
You just described in a pithy nutshell what intolerant assholes at Columbia did to Jewish students with the complicity of the university’s administration.
Good job!
You just described in a pithy nutshell what intolerant assholes at Columbia did to Jewish students with the complicity of the university’s administration.
March 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“This is how competitive authoritarianism works - you find vulnerable targets and persecute them.”
Good job!
You just described in a pithy nutshell what intolerant assholes at Columbia did to Jewish students with the complicity of the university’s administration.
Good job!
You just described in a pithy nutshell what intolerant assholes at Columbia did to Jewish students with the complicity of the university’s administration.
If you think about this Congress as his 4th wife, it makes sense that the honeymoon period would be particularly brief.
March 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If you think about this Congress as his 4th wife, it makes sense that the honeymoon period would be particularly brief.
OMFG.
After the Universe stops hating me, I'm going to that sushi place in Japan & then jetting over to be your "cousin" at the Chinese family reunion barbecue.
After the Universe stops hating me, I'm going to that sushi place in Japan & then jetting over to be your "cousin" at the Chinese family reunion barbecue.
March 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
OMFG.
After the Universe stops hating me, I'm going to that sushi place in Japan & then jetting over to be your "cousin" at the Chinese family reunion barbecue.
After the Universe stops hating me, I'm going to that sushi place in Japan & then jetting over to be your "cousin" at the Chinese family reunion barbecue.
Want.
Immediately.
Never been to Japan, because the Universe hates me.
Immediately.
Never been to Japan, because the Universe hates me.
March 7, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Want.
Immediately.
Never been to Japan, because the Universe hates me.
Immediately.
Never been to Japan, because the Universe hates me.
"Podz" is acceptable shorthand on a character-constrained public interface.
March 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"Podz" is acceptable shorthand on a character-constrained public interface.
This was completely foreseeable after his inauguration-eve press conference.
I expect this 5%/GDP demand abruptly to become Trump NATO policy - his invocation was deliberate and it isn’t designed to be met. It is designed instead, NOT to be met. In that way, Trump effectively suspends American Article V obligations.
March 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This was completely foreseeable after his inauguration-eve press conference.
My eldest is a senior and attended zoom-informationals all summer & fall to learn about multiple colleges: the student-presenters at Ivys & near-Ivys usually each said their land acknowledgment when beginning zoom presentations.
It’s you who aren’t where these are routine.
It’s you who aren’t where these are routine.
March 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My eldest is a senior and attended zoom-informationals all summer & fall to learn about multiple colleges: the student-presenters at Ivys & near-Ivys usually each said their land acknowledgment when beginning zoom presentations.
It’s you who aren’t where these are routine.
It’s you who aren’t where these are routine.
“Real life”: Start of this year, principal at my sons’ public high school instituted a land acknowledgement policy that required its recital before every class.
Every.
Class.
Like a prayer.
Lasted several months before fading. Now just at assemblies.
“Just” is doing a lot of work above….
Every.
Class.
Like a prayer.
Lasted several months before fading. Now just at assemblies.
“Just” is doing a lot of work above….
March 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“Real life”: Start of this year, principal at my sons’ public high school instituted a land acknowledgement policy that required its recital before every class.
Every.
Class.
Like a prayer.
Lasted several months before fading. Now just at assemblies.
“Just” is doing a lot of work above….
Every.
Class.
Like a prayer.
Lasted several months before fading. Now just at assemblies.
“Just” is doing a lot of work above….
Another British naming contest!
I suggest, "Stucky McCargoface"!
I suggest, "Stucky McCargoface"!
March 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Another British naming contest!
I suggest, "Stucky McCargoface"!
I suggest, "Stucky McCargoface"!
Ancient geology as political destiny.
March 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Ancient geology as political destiny.
Same.
Campaign rally of lies is unworthy of both comment & viewership.
Especially when “challenged” by performance-art opposition and its juvenile auction paddles.
I watched my kid play HS baseball and then we watched tape of the Warriors beating the Knicks in MSG.
Far superior use of civic time.
Campaign rally of lies is unworthy of both comment & viewership.
Especially when “challenged” by performance-art opposition and its juvenile auction paddles.
I watched my kid play HS baseball and then we watched tape of the Warriors beating the Knicks in MSG.
Far superior use of civic time.
March 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Same.
Campaign rally of lies is unworthy of both comment & viewership.
Especially when “challenged” by performance-art opposition and its juvenile auction paddles.
I watched my kid play HS baseball and then we watched tape of the Warriors beating the Knicks in MSG.
Far superior use of civic time.
Campaign rally of lies is unworthy of both comment & viewership.
Especially when “challenged” by performance-art opposition and its juvenile auction paddles.
I watched my kid play HS baseball and then we watched tape of the Warriors beating the Knicks in MSG.
Far superior use of civic time.
Did Musk announce Tesla's release of self-driving red candles?
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
March 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Did Musk announce Tesla's release of self-driving red candles?
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!
Oh.
Sorry. That's rude of me.
(BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!)
Oh.
Sorry. That's rude of me.
(BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!)
March 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!
Oh.
Sorry. That's rude of me.
(BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!)
Oh.
Sorry. That's rude of me.
(BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!)
Democrats should announce that they will seize any and all such properties through eminent domain from any purchaser at their earliest & next available opportunity.
Freeze out sellers.
Freeze out sellers.
March 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Democrats should announce that they will seize any and all such properties through eminent domain from any purchaser at their earliest & next available opportunity.
Freeze out sellers.
Freeze out sellers.
While both the maple and snake take dumps on the word, "Trump."
March 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
While both the maple and snake take dumps on the word, "Trump."
Our beloved tuxedo in the thick of our teenager's clean laundry... deposited on his beanbag. She appeared at 2am starving & flea-ridden as a 6-week old in our backyard - would guess coyotes & owls made off with the rest. Now she's ours and we are hers.
March 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Our beloved tuxedo in the thick of our teenager's clean laundry... deposited on his beanbag. She appeared at 2am starving & flea-ridden as a 6-week old in our backyard - would guess coyotes & owls made off with the rest. Now she's ours and we are hers.
This is so painfully, obviously true, it defies comprehension that one must speak out against it.
And yet….
What on earth have we become?
And yet….
What on earth have we become?
March 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is so painfully, obviously true, it defies comprehension that one must speak out against it.
And yet….
What on earth have we become?
And yet….
What on earth have we become?