Hey, a fellow Texas Techsan! I got my PhD there and worked as an adjunct for a couple years.

I’ve been reading a really interesting book called “Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror.” Although its subject matter is more concerned with the psychic impact of WWI, there’s a chapter about the rise of fascism as a response to WWI (among other factors) and how the fascists sought to claim…

All I an say to that is YEESH

I work for a certain east coast university that had one of the most high-profile outbreaks following a pretty disastrous (and well-publicized) re-opening. I think here it was the frats that got shut down more quickly than the sororities, but both got hit.

For me it’s when Lady Liberty is trying to raise concern about The Tick and yells something like, “He threw a dump truck at Apocalypse Cow. A dump truck!”

I’ve somehow missed those, fortunately.

Voting against Tillis is one of the things I’m most excited about doing in November. This guy sucks so much. Not having to hear his annoying attack ads against Cunningham, “Another liberal democrat... from Washington,” on Hulu will be nice.

Oh, for sure! I’d say engineering in general is very patriarchal.

I’m not an urban planner (I’m a traffic engineer/ road safety professional, specifically), but about half or more of our research staff are planners. And I would absolutely argue that you should be including BIPOC and immigrant voices in your planning processes, but that’s unfortunately not how it often plays out in…

I wonder if this is more common in the Humanities? I can’t think of any examples of racial mimicry or deceit in my field (Engineering/Planning). We just have problems with plan ol’ white supremacy, as far as I can tell.

Shit, I kept scrolling down, wondering why Esther didn’t mention Leverage. I totally forgot it was a TNT show!

Hey, thanks! I can definitely see it now. It’s like a Magic Eye test.

I’m bald and can barely tell when even my loved ones get haircuts. Struggling here.

Take this with all the healthy skepticism you’d reserve for anyone talking research you haven’t done yourself, since I’m not a researcher in this field and only recently completed a Coursera course on it, but Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, one of the preeminent authorities (and founders, if we can say there was a…

I don’t recall them ever outright saying it in the episode, but I like to think the reason Laszlo was able to fool Jim simply by sticking a toothpick in his mouth is because a toothpick is a miniature stake, and no vampire in his right mind would willingly put a stake in his mouth.

Hoffman 100% carries the film.

Not often I see my alma mater in the news, and bummer it’s for something like this. Hopefully Stollings and co. will be kicked to the curb.

I wish more reporters grilled his ass like this and called him on all the times he says, “Many people have told me...” Fucking who, Donald?

My wife started rollerblading during quarantine and seems to have a natural aptitude for it. She suggested I buy some skates too so we can skate together, but I have proven much less graceful. Much, much less graceful. I think I need to buy a bubble.

So here’s the Metafilter post about his secessionist leanings (some articles were aggregated after Bloomberg quoted him talking about California as a nation state), and I found this quote further down the comment chain: