Is Nellie Bowles the worst writer in America?
09.03.2026 18:23
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If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
I love that @modernlanguage.bsky.social has posted the depositions of the DOGE bros who gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities. All part of the lawsuit the MLA, AHA, and ACLS have filed against the federal government.
*Lee Beaman is a member of the Council for National Policy sensor activates*
omg, nailed
It’s so good!
INNOCENT! FREE HIM
And when all these publications dissolve, Google will have nothing to scrape for new information.
Killing jobs and killing industries that will eventually lead to their own demise.
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my absolute favorite “explaining things doesn’t work” example is the greatest thread in the history of forums, an epic argument between grown adults about the number of days in a week
narrated beautifully here by @jonbois.bsky.social
They should invent a way out that isn't through
A big step in adulthood is realizing that buying fresh ginger and garlic along with having some sesame oil and Shaoxing cooking wine on hand allows you to make all the same sad stir fries you made in your 20’s but suddenly they’re good and you’re good at cooking
Shaoxing wine, sesame oil, garlic, and ginger on a counter.
Kung pao tofu in a wok.
Yes! Yeeeesss! I’ve recently added black vinegar in the mix too, and that’s been a revelation.
UNC won’t release results of its months-long $1.2M investigation into School of Civic Life. UNC says release would run the risk of harming or embarrassing subjects and sources in the investigation into conservative-led school. (Via Jane Sartwell) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... #nced
Nashville Noticias staffer Estefany Rodríguez was detained by ICE in South Nashville on Wednesday morning. There was no warrant for her arrest. Her attorneys have filed an emergency petition in federal court seeking a writ of habeas corpus, or an immediate review of whether or not her detention is legal. Rodríguez, who was in the car with her husband — a U.S. citizen — has been following all the legal steps to citizenship. In her job, Rodríguez has reported several stories that hold ICE accountable, and it’s unclear whether her detention was retaliation. As of Thursday afternoon, she was in Alabama en route to an ICE processing center in Louisiana.
Something I don’t think can be emphasized enough is how fast ICE is shipping the people they detain off to another state. “Move fast and break things” but for people in potentially life or death situations. nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/j...
move slow and repair things
"omg did you see Rotta the Hutt? He's Jabba's son and he is going to fight the Mandalorian and Gr-"
You bolt awake in the hills of Burbank. It is 1976 AD. You are Marcia Lucas, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Star Wars must match George's original vision
launching sts2 by typing only "slay" into my search bar 💅💅💅
A Nashville reporter who has reported on ICE was detained at a stop in South Nashville yesterday. Estefany Rodríguez fled Colombia after getting death threats and is awaitng an asylum hearing.
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A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime
A mini schnauzer with her head braced against Ursula Le Guin’s “The Books of Earthsea.”
Petition to stop referring to massive books as “doorstoppers” and start referring to them as “schnauzer headrests.”
Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writers—including one historian who died in January.
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Buying this for potential use in my Narrative Design course immmmmmmmediately.
Check out Jason Loviglio's new book "Empathy Machines," which looks at the history of NPR, sound, voice, and public media's complex relationship with national ideology.
2026 nuclear family meme— featuring Fritzi as Neurodivergent Aunt, Sluggo as Sluggo, Nancy as Daughter, Nancy Jr as Woke Dog
Anthropic's defiance of the Pentagon's A.I. orders was undeniably brave, a welcome contrast with Big Tech's general approach to the Trump admin. but the resistance folks shooting Claude to the top of the app charts need to understand that Anthropic is not very principled, and is not your friend:
Ultimately, you get K12 subsidies for wealthy families who wouldn’t touch a regional public uni with a 39.5-ft. pole driving state budget cuts that pressure public unis to increase tuition, putting public higher ed even more out of financial reach for students already priced out of other options.
No surprise that state voucher programs that benefit (1) swanky private K12s and (2) rich families who could already afford private school & would never dream of sending their kids to public schools in the first place are coinciding with yet more squeezes on public higher ed budgets.
