Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 23hOut of context, its a very funny headline 000
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 06/10/2026 after all that, a case premised on "its the lack of individual accountability, tacit permission given to students by admin, that created this snowball" that two $100 individual punitive damages were dismissed. Missed opportunity for the smallest self-awareness. Anyway, good on him.kcci.comTeacher who sued Iowa school district for students’ ‘racist’ acts, language wins $425,000A school teacher who alleged the Ottumwa public schools encouraged students’ racist behavior by failing to impose sufficient discipline has won a $425,000 judgment against the district. 010
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“There were many Menckens: some confounding, some repellent, some still bracing as we confront the iniquities of a nation that remains, as he wrote during the last Roaring Twenties, ‘the greatest show on earth.’” @andrewholter.bsky.social on “social outrage” in this age of American sadism:bostonreview.netMencken AgonistesMisrepresented by the right and misunderstood by the left, the Sage of Baltimore delivered scathing—and still bracing—indictments of American injustice. 055
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeReactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The American Library Association's Banned Books Week celebrates reading and calls attention to banned and challenged books in the United States. In conversations about accessibility and free speech, we're reflecting on @adapalmer.bsky.social's essay against self-censorship:reactormag.comTools for Thinking About Censorship - ReactorOne price of free speech is eternal humility, recognizing that none of us is immune to becoming a tool of censorship if we fail to recognize its manipulative tactics. 02212
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 06/10/2026From My new microblog, "i trap people in crowded elevators and talk penised lesbians" Aka the original plot to m night shyamalan's Devil (2010) 0120
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeCommonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 06/10/2026"Twenty years after a regime at the heart of Europe had attempted to annihilate the Jewish people, it seemed obscene to pray for that people’s assimilation." John Connelly: Are we forgetting what ‘Nostra aetate’ teaches about the Church and Judaism? www.commonwealmagazine.org/connelly-Nos...commonwealmagazine.orgThe Wrong PrayerThe Church’s leaders cannot assume that Catholics are familiar with 'Nostra aetate,' or that they are all aware of the Church’s long history of anti-Judaism. 031
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Fun headline Reminds me of a town paper that reported on a referendum failing as "community rejects community center" We contain multitudes 010
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Something funny for midwesterners that MAHA folks thought *they* would be the ones to fight the Ag lobby What, is it hard? Who knew, crunchy granola Rs, if only anyone tried that before, rfk jr was going to do it? Ok 010
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The civic pass the buck flowchart to avoid dealing with people and geographies as they are, as it lays When all governing is diet "kettling" 010
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Dont recall the details but des moines and cedar rapids and the quad cities were all having policy talk on unhoused populations and how neighboring policies would influence which city "ends up" with folks. Des Moines trying to offload people east, out of sight, out of mind, out of sight, in chicago! 210
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Scrolled this far just to see if this joke was made by someone. 0730
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeJason Meisner @jmetr22b.bsky.social · 05/10/2026NEW: Lawyers for Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent call for criminal charges, saying it's "not a political issue." “It’s the Department of Justice. It’s not the Department of Republicans. It’s not the Department of Democrats." www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/05/m...chicagotribune.comLawyers for Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol agent call for criminal chargesAttorneys for Marimar Martinez, shot by a Border Patrol agent during Operation Midway Blitz last October, called on authorities to file criminal charges against the agent involved Monday. 04412
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Texas hold 'em > choosing texas 010
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeOklahoma Voice @oklahomavoice.com · 05/10/2026An unprecedented increase in cooperation between local and state law enforcement and federal immigration officers through collaborations known as 287(g) agreements helped drive numbers up. buff.ly/rol155lbuff.lyFederal funds for local police enforcement accelerated Trump immigration crackdown • Oklahoma VoiceThis summer, arrests of immigrants in the United States soared to the highest levels since President Donald Trump returned to office. 044
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeReuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 05/10/2026Tennessee has become the latest Republican-controlled US state to eliminate or reduce reliance on the American Bar Association for law school accreditation, amid a broader standoff with the Trump administration over the ABA's role in legal education.reut.rsTennessee joins other states in limiting ABA's law school oversightTennessee has become the latest Republican-controlled US state to eliminate or reduce reliance on the American Bar Association for law school accreditation, amid a broader standoff with the Trump administration over the ABA's role in legal education. 053
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Its all a sick PR ploy to genoviawash their ruling parties corruption Hathaway is the dubai chocolate of genovia 030
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Aslan is the Manson Family patriarch of narnia 010
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Aslan is the villain. I watched a high school version play of lion witch from the venues crows nest like 7-8 times and by the end came to Aslan is the antichrist. Every opportunity the lion has to intervene, take the lead, he's "absent" Constantly pushes child soldiers to fight in his place 140
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The degree to which folks exist who have hair color social reaction in the year of our preferred lord 2026, always knocks me down a peg Humbling in a way to know supermarket guy todd's lowest of bars to cross is "that person has eXtEnsIons?!" Undercut acceptance today, socialism tomorrow my motto 040
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Im picky with heavier rock music. Like, the deftones e.g. have never done anything for me. Dopesmoker does nothing. No nu metal. Metalcore's out. Smallest amount of snapcase, cave in, i can do Which is to say, the new Quicksand album is great and idk if im having a midlife bro crisis Sunday Broday 000
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not to rain on their parade because we are doing a city "library v public safety" funding dance rn, and they do show up to advocate. But there's that midwest voter that both supports banned books and is against dei lol Sweet humanity! 030
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Its an interesting area because im quite endeared to my local older ladies who, relative to them in a conservative area, doing their banned book nonprofit is like the most radical thing But everytime im in a store or there's a banned book display, its that sense of this is marketing as answer 130
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026For those whose families lived through the Jewish traumas of Mitteleuropa, it isn't that esoteric why Zionism was once seen this way, even as it has now become Kahanism. The lesson here is not unique to Zionism, but the opposite - how easily liberation movements become the thing they once hated. 315534
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Atlantic really laid a marker down as the premier rag for that op-ed genre with Andrew Sullivan's tenure when he hit his "yes, i was for the iraq war but let me remind you how right i was to be wrong, then" era Proud Atlantic legacies of cowardice Balsa wood busts on pedestals 000
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Iowa preemptively doing it for the sole dem in state executive office was a real gutpunch with Reynolds prior having reorganized toward gubernatorial central control the whole state government, judicial selection board, university regents. 000
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He's obviously never caught a fish "that big" either 010
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeMr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 36953111826
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He says "zhoosh up" in the opening paragraph and as one of the humans on Earth who loves that phrase and is pleased anytime another human uses it, zhoosh, zhoosh it up, salud! 100
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Shhhh. You had me at "available free" The palmetto tree graphic is a nice touch 031
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeChicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 03/10/2026‘I was fighting for my life’: Indian pilot hailed as hero recalls FlyDubai cockpit attackchicagotribune.com‘I was fighting for my life’: Indian pilot hailed as hero recalls FlyDubai cockpit attack 1102
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Seriously, if anyones bored or having trouble falling asleep, look at dan's photo and tell me how many cell phones you count. 000
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 03/10/2026That shot from behind trump facing his crowd reminded me of a where's waldo image, so i started to ask how many cell phones are in that shot. For shiggles. Then, i was all well, really, how many. And i keep getting confused over doublecounting and starting over and i've given up. Its alot. 010
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 03/10/2026As much as im prepared to hate any adaptation i think the teasers so far have looked promising. Apple's scifi track record is surprisingly strong so far so, optimistic its being cared for. The real Q is to do a re-read or not beforehand. I lean to watch it with some cobwebs, re-read after. 1100
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The date: October 20th, 2026 Donald Trump announces the first ever "great american BOGO" as the founders intended 160
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Where the day takes mesevendaysvt.comWho Shot Mr. Cheeseface? The Vermont Demise of a Famous Mutt | Seven DaysThe cover of the January 1973 issue of National Lampoon, the groundbreaking humor magazine's Death issue, depicts a handsome black-and-white dog against a blue background.... 000
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yeah, Rob Sand's campaign is really going for it 000
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Would also accept, "rich is the bridge you never burn" This is an older musician doing a track with a more relevant/credible star to regain some visibility... but no star was available, so they did a track with each instead Real horizontal mobility move, dunno if they understood the assignment 000
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Im so used to reading about how inside baseball ag regs are sold by, you know, ag thinktank or group xyz, to the general public. Something with nooks and crannies. But this is the actual baseline question answered as 'free for all' by arg. Its delusional. Its revolutions are based on less. 000
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Insane move. Within the u.s., as a microtopic, my usual posture is foreign ag ownership hysteria is typically a protectionist decoy hyped by u.s corporate ag interests so they can convince people theyve passed corp regs but really left corp ag alone For once, this is pure. Argentinas crazy 100
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Boondoggle mill The first estimate for jobs i read had new jobs at 2500, then yesterday i read a local news interview w a state aide that was already down to 1500 but had pivoted to talking the temporary construction jobs. No mention ever of how many manufacturing jobs were lost 2024-2026 010
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources 7939341
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026SAURON SOLVED THE RAT PROBLEM Somewhere, a dino w a red beret was also patrolling 020
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeBrian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The other week I ate a bag of chicken-flavored squid chips from Japan. What does that say about the times we live in? I wrote about that for @flaminghydra.com, in which I argue that it is time to consider the postmodern potato chip at the end of historyflaminghydra.comConsider the Postmodern Potato Chip at the End of HistoryThe other week, my partner brought back a bag of crunchy squid snacks from Japan, a gift from a colleague who had recently traveled to Tokyo. It was good enough that we looked it up after we were done... 66020
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026...the tucked away Disney Epcot area of Coca-cola sponsored "world sodas" where at least half of them are not real. Epcot makes them inhouse, they dont exist irl in those labeled countries. I cant decide if the Tiki-fication is fun camp, kitsch, or just horrible. Andy Warhol in the snack factory. 030
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Im a bit obsessed with the cottage industry of "exotic" snack subscription boxes, aka how many kitkats can you take Im a fan of international snackery, but i also love someone who has assembled a box of really bad, subpar chips and put 2000% margin on them lol It makes me think of... 110
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeTommy Beer @tommybeernba.bsky.social · 02/10/2026MSG has operated as an extraordinarily profitable private enterprise while continuing to collect a property-tax exemption granted by the city in 1982. The exemption had originally been justified as a means of keeping the Knicks and Rangers from leaving NYC. 45321
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One of many accounts i do not miss 020
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeKevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Why Did Texas Middle School Boys Choose to Study Joseph Stalin? #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/why-did-te...kevinmlevin.substack.comWhy Did Texas Middle School Boys Choose to Study Joseph Stalin?A Texas History Day story about curiosity, risk, and the freedom to ask 1104
Spooky Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I like a good alt text joke that is still also factual 020
Reposted by Spooky Ineffable Benthic PulchritudeNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a... 162764606