Scott MacKenzie
@henrythe5thelement.bsky.social
He/him. UMiss Prof. 18th-Century literature, political economy, scarcity, & porridge
This thing appears to be real -- I photographed it myself, promise. When it appears in pretentious New York Bakeries, will it be named the Crozza? No! It will be named the Pissant. Copyright!
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This thing appears to be real -- I photographed it myself, promise. When it appears in pretentious New York Bakeries, will it be named the Crozza? No! It will be named the Pissant. Copyright!
Can you believe the absolute fucking grift of these people?
Uh, hi scott, we made a problem for you and now we have a great deal for you, where you can pay to make the problem go away. 🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦
Uh, hi scott, we made a problem for you and now we have a great deal for you, where you can pay to make the problem go away. 🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦
September 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Can you believe the absolute fucking grift of these people?
Uh, hi scott, we made a problem for you and now we have a great deal for you, where you can pay to make the problem go away. 🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦
Uh, hi scott, we made a problem for you and now we have a great deal for you, where you can pay to make the problem go away. 🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦🤦♀️🤦
Academics are all familiar with emails from their own institutions seeking donations, to their own institutions. (I wonder how that strategy would go down at a bank or Walmart). It’s bullying and craven. This week my institution has come up with this “opportunity”:
July 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Academics are all familiar with emails from their own institutions seeking donations, to their own institutions. (I wonder how that strategy would go down at a bank or Walmart). It’s bullying and craven. This week my institution has come up with this “opportunity”:
Thanks AI, part 7222: thanks for bringing us this new “family experience.” I do not think that my feedback would be valued
July 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Thanks AI, part 7222: thanks for bringing us this new “family experience.” I do not think that my feedback would be valued
Dear others,
Please enjoy the below graphic
Please enjoy the below graphic
July 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Dear others,
Please enjoy the below graphic
Please enjoy the below graphic
The Claude letter has some cutenesses, so I'll post it here
June 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The Claude letter has some cutenesses, so I'll post it here
“Two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
Without that skilled editorial staff, no one knows how to spell “two pillocks”
Without that skilled editorial staff, no one knows how to spell “two pillocks”
February 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“Two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”
Without that skilled editorial staff, no one knows how to spell “two pillocks”
Without that skilled editorial staff, no one knows how to spell “two pillocks”
@tedunderwood.me: What are you doing? What kind of discipline are you building that does not ask such a basic question? You better find out before these faith leaders do, or your credibility will be toast.
February 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
@tedunderwood.me: What are you doing? What kind of discipline are you building that does not ask such a basic question? You better find out before these faith leaders do, or your credibility will be toast.
This cover has been stolen from Ariana Grande's bootleg album "I Think Johnny Cash is Stalking Me"
February 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This cover has been stolen from Ariana Grande's bootleg album "I Think Johnny Cash is Stalking Me"
This email just showed up at 10pm on a Friday night. Literal paraphrase: we are panicking and shitting our pants, like, literally running around the office screaming “strike me down with lightning dear lord, strike me now!”
February 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This email just showed up at 10pm on a Friday night. Literal paraphrase: we are panicking and shitting our pants, like, literally running around the office screaming “strike me down with lightning dear lord, strike me now!”
Darth Vader: Let me disabuse you of something. The view of Imperial Commanders operating as planetary genocidists is just completely wrong. That’s like, priority No. 5 or something.
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Darth Vader: Let me disabuse you of something. The view of Imperial Commanders operating as planetary genocidists is just completely wrong. That’s like, priority No. 5 or something.
Darth Vader: Let me disabuse you of something. The view of Imperial Commanders operating as planetary genocidists is just completely wrong. That’s like, priority No. 5 or something.
January 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Darth Vader: Let me disabuse you of something. The view of Imperial Commanders operating as planetary genocidists is just completely wrong. That’s like, priority No. 5 or something.
Just to reassure anyone concerned that American C.E.Os may be prioritizing their own virtues to the exclusion of effective business optimizing, Andreesen means a highlander-style contest where only 1 can be a good person. All others must die.
January 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just to reassure anyone concerned that American C.E.Os may be prioritizing their own virtues to the exclusion of effective business optimizing, Andreesen means a highlander-style contest where only 1 can be a good person. All others must die.
"Disabuse" is to "abuse" as "inflammable" is to "flammable"
January 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"Disabuse" is to "abuse" as "inflammable" is to "flammable"
At least, on a day like today, we can comfort ourselves that the owners of the means of production are focusing the enormous productive resources of capitalism on making sure they are good persons.
January 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
At least, on a day like today, we can comfort ourselves that the owners of the means of production are focusing the enormous productive resources of capitalism on making sure they are good persons.
Marc Andreesen's C.E.O goals:
1. "I'm a good person"
2. Wear matching shoes
3. Shiny stuff!
4. Trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land
5. Optimize profits
1. "I'm a good person"
2. Wear matching shoes
3. Shiny stuff!
4. Trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land
5. Optimize profits
January 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Marc Andreesen's C.E.O goals:
1. "I'm a good person"
2. Wear matching shoes
3. Shiny stuff!
4. Trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land
5. Optimize profits
1. "I'm a good person"
2. Wear matching shoes
3. Shiny stuff!
4. Trample the needy and do away with the poor of the land
5. Optimize profits
No problem. It will be a great party
January 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
No problem. It will be a great party
I think I'm just going to post this flagrant assgas from Marc Andreesen's NYT chat with Ross Douchehat every day:
January 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I think I'm just going to post this flagrant assgas from Marc Andreesen's NYT chat with Ross Douchehat every day:
Finally! A venue that can handle my cutting-edge paraphrase!
January 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Finally! A venue that can handle my cutting-edge paraphrase!
It was me. I did it
January 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It was me. I did it
Here's our department reply:
December 28, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Here's our department reply:
Raise your grading-cramped hands if your institution has sent you an email like this one (be careful not to disturb the asbestos in your crumbling ceiling tiles if you are in your office)
December 28, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Raise your grading-cramped hands if your institution has sent you an email like this one (be careful not to disturb the asbestos in your crumbling ceiling tiles if you are in your office)
I tried out All Day TA with my fall class on Romanticism. So fkn dumb and stupid. For a class whose business is reading (which should be every class), it does nothing but harm.
Here are a couple of sample responses:
Here are a couple of sample responses:
December 14, 2024 at 7:18 PM
I tried out All Day TA with my fall class on Romanticism. So fkn dumb and stupid. For a class whose business is reading (which should be every class), it does nothing but harm.
Here are a couple of sample responses:
Here are a couple of sample responses: