OH HI HANDSOME I TOO HAVE MY LIFE TOGETHER I SWEAR I AM NOT A TINY VULTURE

hello lady cardinals! look at my beautiful plumage i have my life together, i swear

dropped by the paint store for some swatches, thought these two colors complemented each other well

“The guy next to me looks a little like Robert DeNiro.”

The Mysterious Production of Eggs

I just don’t finish articles anymore when they’re this crowded with ads. I can’t.

summertime for academics

this is the weirdest captcha-type quiz I've ever seen. Something about the size and stacking choices made on the burgers took me aback. Also the weird watermark over the burger--is that Cthulu I'm looking at? And why four burgers? These machines are getting weird about how they evaluate my humanity

The admin just had to have their state propaganda get out ahead of this

face your fears

The George W. Bush Presidential Library still has this banner in storage. Maybe DJT can bust it out again tonight.

Apparently DOGE’s definition of “DEI” included crucial sanitation infrastructure for majority-Black counties in Alabama apnews.com/article/sewa...

Thanks to our child’s bath bomb, we now know what it would look like if Walter White dissolved a Minion in hydrofluoric acid

over on the PA subreddit folks have identified that Sen. Fetterman’s mustache makes him look like Dr. Robotnik and now I can’t unsee it

If Gov. Shapiro were serious about making kids learn cursive, he’d require students to use flexible dip pens and write in Spencerian script. All children deserve the chance to write like a 19th century diplomatic envoy preparing a formal treaty

why does this description sound more like a tech company than a federal department?

Same energy.

bookended by The Whig Identity and The Whig Ultimatum

Indeed, accusing democracy of being effeminate was essential to Nazism. See, e.g., Kenneth Burke, “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s ‘Battle,’” p. 167:

found my new email signature

These days my mental state vacillates between William Hogarth’s “The Distrest Poet” and “The Enraged Musician” (1741)

I think about this panel from Matt Groening’s School Is Hell comics a lot

“The Divine Raffaelle, represents Mars, in the attitude of War, with a drawn sword uplifted and ready to strike, while an unarmed Angel from behind, with gentle but irresistible force, arrests and holds the descending arm.” - Charles Sumner, “The True Grandeur of Nations,” July 4, 1845

how it feels to get the academic job you want

What Star Wars hill am I willing to die on? I get this question a lot. I’d have to say the peak of Mount Umate on Coruscant, the only visible part of the city-planet’s surface.

This guy had great hand-eye coordination

Someone needs to write this book for us burned out academics

I went to the gaslight museum in New Orleans. They kept lying to me & making me think I was crazy