Sarah Caudwell (whom you should read right now if you haven't yet) knew all about this.

Can you liken something to itself?

It is regrettable that the governor of Virginia doesn't know the difference between "regretful" and "regrettable".
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Ashley's and my NY Timeses this morning. Apparently we opened the app just on either side of the Times's decision to change the headline on Douthat's thing.

I get inordinate pleasure every time these groups waste a tiny bit of money by sending things to me.

The main reason universities should say no to this deal is that it's a betrayal of what a university is all about. But in case any administrators aren't convinced by that, I hope they draw the right lesson from the second story: the Trump administration won't abide by any deal they make anyway.

As is so often the case, the best part of this SMBC comic is the extra panel you get by clicking on the big red button on the web site. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/priors

[Reposted this on my own feed, but I thought @zachweinersmith.bsky.social 's followers should all see it. From an actual conference proceedings.

Like this.

Apparently I have to have the book returned by this date. I'll try to hurry.

Surely a coincidence that Uber sent this email right after the NY Times expose of sexual assaults on Uber trips. (Note that they are providing ways to "feel" safe rather than to actually be safe.)

This street in La Conner, Washington, is actually named Road Street. Someone wasn’t even trying.

As soon as the summer camps for little kids start on my campus, the dining hall is completely covered with wet floor signs. They don't even wait for someone to actually spill something, because they know it'll come along any minute.

Checking in at the doctor's office. I'm not going to lie: I'm tempted.

Still learning how BlueSky works. I reposted something of Phil Plait's just now, but it didn't include the image I thought it would, so it probably didn't make much sense. Here's the image.

And another

(Reposting because there was something wonky about the way I did it the first time.)

My university is very efficient. We were expecting bad weather today, but rather than waiting for the storm to start, they arranged for the building to start leaking 24 hours in advance.