Jake Wright

“MAGA is a bunch of 12 year olds” continues to be an excellent meta-explanation for everything they do.

Is my Excel spreadsheet sentient? I am a serious person.

But is the joke conscious?

I want to make a panpsychism joke, but I just can’t.

This is like 1995-in-music good.

Why… why would you stop at one?

Last time, the South Korean pep band played the boss music from Mega Man 2 in between innings. It was spectacularly gonzo.

What if baseball, but we let the players have fun?

LAD get: Colton Parayko

BLUES get: Freddie Freeman

This line from my annual review letter just tickles me:

“As is the case with most of Dr. Wright’s work, the project is fused with his usual intellectual intensity and unapologetic wit, equal parts irreverent and academically challenging.”

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Bluesky remains undefeated.

My high school girlfriend and I frequently babysat her Very Evangelical Cousins, and we watched a lot of VeggieTales. It was, if I may say this about a series of direct to video cartoons about CGI Christian produce, Real Shit. Much better than 90% of contemporary cartoons.

The VeggieTales’ successful reimagining of Madam Bovary, a work originally attacked by censors as lewd and obscene, by turning it into a children’s cartoon about a blueberry is a seminal triumph of imaginative adaptation. In this essay…

“The business that makes certain content freely available for purchase in a capitalist system is oppressing me because customers are freely choosing not to purchase it” is certainly a take.

The best VeggieTales song is the Water Buffalo Song and it mentions Jesus exactly zero times. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

What else was I supposed to use as a cheap candleholder?!

Does… does Groundskeeper Willie work at the cemetery?

Makes me proud to be Irish.

The simple truth that a lot of people don't want to hear is that the actual solution to college sports was figured out by the University of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis decades ago when they withdrew from the Big 10 and (future) Big 8.

It's pro or D-III. Those are the choices.

(With a h/t to @sharonk.bsky.social)

I’m running for president with a four point plan to Restore America’s Promise:

1) Abolish ICE
2) Prosecute MAGA crimes
3) Trans Rights are Human Rights
4) If you hear someone using speakers to listen to music or watch videos in public, you are legally permitted to yeet that phone as far as you can

Forget the epistemic allies. It’s the epistemic axis I’m really worried about.

Uh huh.

Here’s a professional pro tip from everyone’s favorite pedagogical chaos goblin: If you ask someone to meet with you, don’t start the meeting with “so you wanted to meet” and proceed to take and make phone calls *during* the meeting *you* asked for.

I’m all for supporting journalism through subscriptions, but I don’t need to pay money to find out they’re making it up as they go.

I’m all for supporting journalism through subscriptions, but I don’t need to pay money to find out they’re making it up as they go.

One of the worst things that happens to adults is losing the moral clarity of childhood.

What is tenure for if not this?

Keitel also walked out of Nuremberg and basically said, "Yeah, I did tons of war crimes and was actively involved in the Holocaust, but I thought I'd at least escape hanging."