Jared
@jradicalphd.bsky.social
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Here I was agonizing over every comma and exclamation mark in my correspondence, oblivious to the fact that an alarming number of extremely powerful, rich, and ethically bankrupt public figures (ahem, Larry Summers) were firing off emails that are borderline gibberish (with a side of ellipses).
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Here I was agonizing over every comma and exclamation mark in my correspondence, oblivious to the fact that an alarming number of extremely powerful, rich, and ethically bankrupt public figures (ahem, Larry Summers) were firing off emails that are borderline gibberish (with a side of ellipses).
Took my 10 year old to his first concert last night. @thebeths.bsky.social. His review to his younger brother this morning “YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW EXCITING IT IS!”
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Took my 10 year old to his first concert last night. @thebeths.bsky.social. His review to his younger brother this morning “YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW EXCITING IT IS!”
There are more important things in the world, but I would really love it if streaming services would stop animating old album covers.
October 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
There are more important things in the world, but I would really love it if streaming services would stop animating old album covers.
It’s Joyce by a mile. And it would still be Joyce by a mile with only Dubliners and Portrait. But it isn’t just those two.
Pick one! Once and for all!
Joyce
Faulkner
Joyce
Faulkner
October 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
It’s Joyce by a mile. And it would still be Joyce by a mile with only Dubliners and Portrait. But it isn’t just those two.
I had to put in level 2 outlet, but I have a 40 ish mile total commute. I charge overnight a few times a week and never really think about it. It’s probably paid for itself in gas savings. And my super basic Bolt EUV drives better than any gas car I’ve ever owned. EVs are a no brainer.
How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State
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October 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I had to put in level 2 outlet, but I have a 40 ish mile total commute. I charge overnight a few times a week and never really think about it. It’s probably paid for itself in gas savings. And my super basic Bolt EUV drives better than any gas car I’ve ever owned. EVs are a no brainer.
Live footage of me watching the Cubs:
a group of people standing next to each other on a plane .
ALT: a group of people standing next to each other on a plane .
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October 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Live footage of me watching the Cubs:
New pedalboard set up for tomorrow night’s show. This is getting absurd(ly cool).
September 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
New pedalboard set up for tomorrow night’s show. This is getting absurd(ly cool).
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Some smart publication should reach out to every single person who signed the Harper’s letter and get their comment / explicit no-comment
I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.
September 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Some smart publication should reach out to every single person who signed the Harper’s letter and get their comment / explicit no-comment
Me watching the cubs figure out how to score runs on my watch on date night:
a man is pointing at something in front of a blackboard with dollar signs on it
ALT: a man is pointing at something in front of a blackboard with dollar signs on it
media.tenor.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Me watching the cubs figure out how to score runs on my watch on date night:
Caché.
okay new movie prompt, what are some great paranoid thrillers? just watched klute and really enjoyed it. the first modern one that comes to mind is martha marcy may marlene, which was stunning
August 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Caché.
The guitar looper pedal, while an ingenious little invention for practice, is the embodiment of selfish individualism in performance. In this paper I will…
August 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The guitar looper pedal, while an ingenious little invention for practice, is the embodiment of selfish individualism in performance. In this paper I will…
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these motherfuckers stoked the flames of bigotry for decades for political gain. now they’re acting like someone who drove drunk, crashed his car into a tree, and wants to blame the evil dems for not taking his keys away. sorry you lost control of the beast it and ate your party whole
August 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
these motherfuckers stoked the flames of bigotry for decades for political gain. now they’re acting like someone who drove drunk, crashed his car into a tree, and wants to blame the evil dems for not taking his keys away. sorry you lost control of the beast it and ate your party whole
I’ve been thinking about Russian River Beers too much and immediately thought “Beers don’t have opinions.”
Pliny the Younger apparently thought sports were very stupid but it's funny that it's for the exact reason laid out in Seinfeld s6e12 ("The Label Maker")
![[6] L To Calvisius.
Thave been spending all my time here among my tablets and books as quietly as I could wish.
"How is that possible," you ask, "in Rome?" Well, the Circensian games have been on, and that is a kind of spectacle which has not the slightest attraction for me. There is no novelty, no variety in it, nothing which one wants to see twice. Hence I am the more amazed that so many thousands of men * should be eager, like a pack of children, to see horses running time after time, and the charioteers bending over their cars. There might be some reason for their enthusiasm if it was the speed of the hors or the skill of the drivers that was the attraction, but it is the racing-colours which they favour, and the racing-colours that fire their love.
If, in the middle of the course and during the race itself, the colours were to be changed, their enthusiasm and partisanship would change with them, and they would suddenly desert the drivers and the horses, whom they recognise afar and whose names they shout aloud. Such is the influence and authority vested i one cheap tunic, I don't say with the common crowd, - for that is even cheaper than the tunic, - but with certain men of position; and when I consider that they can sit for so long without growing tired, looking on at such a fruitless, cheerless, and tedious sport, I really feel a sort of pleasure in the thought that what they take delight in has no charm for me. Thus it is that I have been only too glad to pass my leisure time among my books during the race-meeting, while others have been wasting their days in the most idle occupations. Farewell.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26gfiesadzjgf44w2dv5yeo7/bafkreieap7ojlbpperccfkitgfnxrufik6wdvrgrtfa6ssdm72ihbdhwqm@jpeg)
July 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I’ve been thinking about Russian River Beers too much and immediately thought “Beers don’t have opinions.”
Because I’m rewatching it at the moment. The part in Terminator where Cameron can’t leave it well enough alone and has Arnold standing in front of the flashing “Tech-Noir” sign holding an Uzi.
here's a game I just invented, what are the worst scenes in otherwise good movies? eg:
terminator 2: john teaches the terminator slang. "hasta la vista, baby" and "no problemo" lmao
the dark knight: harvey looking right at the joker in full make up and not recognizing him bc of the nurse's mask
terminator 2: john teaches the terminator slang. "hasta la vista, baby" and "no problemo" lmao
the dark knight: harvey looking right at the joker in full make up and not recognizing him bc of the nurse's mask
July 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Because I’m rewatching it at the moment. The part in Terminator where Cameron can’t leave it well enough alone and has Arnold standing in front of the flashing “Tech-Noir” sign holding an Uzi.
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Don’t want to lose sight of the fact that the No Kings rallies were planned specifically as counterprogramming to Trump’s parade. Imagine if you were planning a birthday party and bars nationwide announced they’d hold Fuck That Guy’s Birthday Night and like 15 times as many people showed up to those
June 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Don’t want to lose sight of the fact that the No Kings rallies were planned specifically as counterprogramming to Trump’s parade. Imagine if you were planning a birthday party and bars nationwide announced they’d hold Fuck That Guy’s Birthday Night and like 15 times as many people showed up to those
PCA is so much fun to watch! MVPete!
June 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
PCA is so much fun to watch! MVPete!
Apple Plantar Fasciitis
April 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Apple Plantar Fasciitis
You know you need the semester to end when you think, “This lullaby version of ‘Rock the Casbah’ is so relaxing.”
April 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
You know you need the semester to end when you think, “This lullaby version of ‘Rock the Casbah’ is so relaxing.”
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Trumpism fulfilled.
April 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Trumpism fulfilled.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR *AND* if you teach or study film, nothing you’ve ever taught/studied)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR *AND* if you teach or study film, nothing you’ve ever taught/studied)
April 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR *AND* if you teach or study film, nothing you’ve ever taught/studied)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR *AND* if you teach or study film, nothing you’ve ever taught/studied)
Variations of “how so?” “Say more” are also a college teacher’s bread and butter. The other trick is “when you say [abstract word] what do you mean?”
Dumb journalists think being a tough interviewer requires writing down gotcha questions in advance.
Smart journalists know that the trick is just listening and sometimes going, ‘how so?’
Smart journalists know that the trick is just listening and sometimes going, ‘how so?’
Chotiner is a legitimately good journalist but it’s wild that people think he’s some sort of evil wizard because he says “what do you mean by that”
April 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Variations of “how so?” “Say more” are also a college teacher’s bread and butter. The other trick is “when you say [abstract word] what do you mean?”
Who would have guessed that a company named after a communication technology which has fallen into the wrong hands and is now a dangerous surveillance tool that threatens freedom would become a company that surveils people and threatens their freedom?
New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner"
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Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature pa...
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April 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Who would have guessed that a company named after a communication technology which has fallen into the wrong hands and is now a dangerous surveillance tool that threatens freedom would become a company that surveils people and threatens their freedom?
For sale: Golf clubs. Broken shafts.
Relatedly, there's a very clear divide between guys who bought new clubs and guys who quit golf on FB Marketplace. The quitters note "some broken shafts" in the listing title.
I wonder if you could predict divorce rates based on the number of listings for golf clubs and bass amps on Facebook Marketplace.
April 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
For sale: Golf clubs. Broken shafts.
Relatedly, there's a very clear divide between guys who bought new clubs and guys who quit golf on FB Marketplace. The quitters note "some broken shafts" in the listing title.
I wonder if you could predict divorce rates based on the number of listings for golf clubs and bass amps on Facebook Marketplace.
April 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Relatedly, there's a very clear divide between guys who bought new clubs and guys who quit golf on FB Marketplace. The quitters note "some broken shafts" in the listing title.