SJ
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We’re all pronouncing this “BLUE-skee,” right?
Progressive Texan, academic-ish, Gen X. A tiny bit obsessed with my dog. She/her.
Progressive Texan, academic-ish, Gen X. A tiny bit obsessed with my dog. She/her.
Finding myself in the unusual position, as a Gen Xer who grew up very straitlaced in a really conservative environment, of having known what *that word* meant since high school—long before the internet! I feel so worldly.
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Finding myself in the unusual position, as a Gen Xer who grew up very straitlaced in a really conservative environment, of having known what *that word* meant since high school—long before the internet! I feel so worldly.
Brian Kelly sure does yell at his assistants a lot. It’s kind of embarrassing.
October 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Brian Kelly sure does yell at his assistants a lot. It’s kind of embarrassing.
Bluesky recreates what made Twitter so fun: erudite professionals making comments about taints and deez nuts
August 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Bluesky recreates what made Twitter so fun: erudite professionals making comments about taints and deez nuts
One of my favorite ways to troll my contractor husband is to wordlessly get the tape measure out of the closet and just start measuring things around the house.
July 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
One of my favorite ways to troll my contractor husband is to wordlessly get the tape measure out of the closet and just start measuring things around the house.
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What’s ironic is a good “prompt engineer” is basically the skills you’d get out of a liberal arts education, but boiled down to a 6 month course at $10k a pop and leaves you no transferable skills.
July 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
What’s ironic is a good “prompt engineer” is basically the skills you’d get out of a liberal arts education, but boiled down to a 6 month course at $10k a pop and leaves you no transferable skills.
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You mean learn how to interpret texts and form probing questions? In college?? Wow, we never thought of that, AI brain genius guy.
July 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
You mean learn how to interpret texts and form probing questions? In college?? Wow, we never thought of that, AI brain genius guy.
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How to craft a prompt. Somewhere all the abused, demoralized English comp professors should be sharpening their knives
July 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
How to craft a prompt. Somewhere all the abused, demoralized English comp professors should be sharpening their knives
Did no one at The NY Times think about changing the theme of the Strands puzzle today? Good grief.
July 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Did no one at The NY Times think about changing the theme of the Strands puzzle today? Good grief.
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Yes!
Thank you to everyone who is doing every small sacred thing they can think of!
Thank you to everyone who is doing every small sacred thing they can think of!
If you're reading this, whoever you are & whatever you're doing to try to make this world better, whether it's calling, protesting, providing mutual aid, making art, raising awareness, training & teaching people new concepts & skills, journalism, surviving through it all, or whatever else: thank you
July 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Yes!
Thank you to everyone who is doing every small sacred thing they can think of!
Thank you to everyone who is doing every small sacred thing they can think of!
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If you're reading this, whoever you are & whatever you're doing to try to make this world better, whether it's calling, protesting, providing mutual aid, making art, raising awareness, training & teaching people new concepts & skills, journalism, surviving through it all, or whatever else: thank you
July 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
If you're reading this, whoever you are & whatever you're doing to try to make this world better, whether it's calling, protesting, providing mutual aid, making art, raising awareness, training & teaching people new concepts & skills, journalism, surviving through it all, or whatever else: thank you
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The more we can look beyond ourselves , the more we understand that our safety and well being is bound up together and inseparable from each other- the more will make it through this.
July 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The more we can look beyond ourselves , the more we understand that our safety and well being is bound up together and inseparable from each other- the more will make it through this.
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Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America."
Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"
Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"
a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay
ALT: a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay
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April 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America."
Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"
Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"
I feel like Severance tricked me into watching episode 2.4. Like the whole show has been a trick to make me watch a Werner Herzog piece.
March 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I feel like Severance tricked me into watching episode 2.4. Like the whole show has been a trick to make me watch a Werner Herzog piece.
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It’s comforting for some lawyers to lament the “tough spot” Trump has put some law firms in. But I choose to remember what civil rights lawyers endured, and the integrity & courage they showed despite being considerably more vulnerable that well-resourced law firms being bullied by Trump.
March 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
It’s comforting for some lawyers to lament the “tough spot” Trump has put some law firms in. But I choose to remember what civil rights lawyers endured, and the integrity & courage they showed despite being considerably more vulnerable that well-resourced law firms being bullied by Trump.
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn’t notice them. “Don’t make any sudden movements, or they’ll spot us,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said out of the corner of his mouth, […]
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March 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
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Amplify this more. Elon has no ability to assess downstream consequences of his decisions because he knows nothing about govt besides what can be fed into an algorithm.
Really smart people have residency t for what they don’t know. The willingness to learn is a key quality of the truly brilliant.
Really smart people have residency t for what they don’t know. The willingness to learn is a key quality of the truly brilliant.
Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.
Your new allies: www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
March 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Amplify this more. Elon has no ability to assess downstream consequences of his decisions because he knows nothing about govt besides what can be fed into an algorithm.
Really smart people have residency t for what they don’t know. The willingness to learn is a key quality of the truly brilliant.
Really smart people have residency t for what they don’t know. The willingness to learn is a key quality of the truly brilliant.
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Featured post: “All in all, this concept is so bad that it has an excellent chance of passing the Legislature. Much as we would like to help the rest of the nation by demonstrating once more just how stupid ideas work out in practice, couldn’t we give this one a miss?”
Molly Ivins on School Vouchers (1997)
Another bad idea whose time has come in the Texas Legislature is upon us. It's time to revive my old proposal that Texas be made into a national laboratory for bad government. Having a bad idea in you...
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February 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Featured post: “All in all, this concept is so bad that it has an excellent chance of passing the Legislature. Much as we would like to help the rest of the nation by demonstrating once more just how stupid ideas work out in practice, couldn’t we give this one a miss?”
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As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.
I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
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I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
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This is a First Amendment question combined with a practical question. The answer is as follows.
First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract.
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First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract.
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Being a lawyer and all, do you know what the tipping point is for it to become acceptable to openly advocate for political assassinations? Just a little curious, is all.
February 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.
I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
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I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
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Dear Mr. Bezos,
I write to pitch you my op/ed about how private equity dominance is an egregious corruption of the “free market” you love so much, and benefits the personal liberties only of billionaire executives. In this essay, I will…
I write to pitch you my op/ed about how private equity dominance is an egregious corruption of the “free market” you love so much, and benefits the personal liberties only of billionaire executives. In this essay, I will…
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
February 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Dear Mr. Bezos,
I write to pitch you my op/ed about how private equity dominance is an egregious corruption of the “free market” you love so much, and benefits the personal liberties only of billionaire executives. In this essay, I will…
I write to pitch you my op/ed about how private equity dominance is an egregious corruption of the “free market” you love so much, and benefits the personal liberties only of billionaire executives. In this essay, I will…
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New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including:
“Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”
“Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”
February 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
New — HHS just got another email with guidance stating that they aren’t required to respond to the 5 bullets email, but if they do they should follow specific guidelines including:
“Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”
“Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly.”
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Can’t help but be reminded of the words of Russell Vought, now head of OMB: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected because they are increasingly viewed as villains. We want to put them in trauma.”
February 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Can’t help but be reminded of the words of Russell Vought, now head of OMB: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected because they are increasingly viewed as villains. We want to put them in trauma.”
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/12 The story has gone hugely viral, in the news across the country. Great. But my favorite is a small local paper in Ohio just going “that’s bullshit, they can’t do that” and republishing the banned editorial.
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A judge in Mississippi orders newspaper to remove editorial, so we’re publishing it
At Scioto Valley Guardian, Ohio’s leading news website, we stand unwaveringly for the freedom of the press—a cornerstone of democracy enshrined in the First Amendment. Today, we are reprinting an e…
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February 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
/12 The story has gone hugely viral, in the news across the country. Great. But my favorite is a small local paper in Ohio just going “that’s bullshit, they can’t do that” and republishing the banned editorial.
sciotovalleyguardian.com/2025/02/19/a...
sciotovalleyguardian.com/2025/02/19/a...
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Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless.
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Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:
February 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless.
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Professors please pull up a chair.
I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government.
At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)
I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government.
At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)
February 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Professors please pull up a chair.
I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government.
At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)
I’ve been talking to my classes about what has been going on. I explained indirect costs to them. I talked to them about what a probationary employee is in the government.
At the end of class they asked if we could talk about it more. (1/)
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House Republicans released a draft budget that aims to cut $2 trillion in spending.
The programs impacted could include Medicaid, SNAP, and education programs.
Why the cuts? To finance another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
The programs impacted could include Medicaid, SNAP, and education programs.
Why the cuts? To finance another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
February 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
House Republicans released a draft budget that aims to cut $2 trillion in spending.
The programs impacted could include Medicaid, SNAP, and education programs.
Why the cuts? To finance another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
The programs impacted could include Medicaid, SNAP, and education programs.
Why the cuts? To finance another round of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
It's reverse Robin Hood.