professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 4hI've been doing this every week for 14 years - it's called Pub Quiz night. 110
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 23hSomeone posted a 1988 Volvo 240 with a 5 speed manual on FB for an affordable price and I am so upset that I had to spend that money fixing my garage roof this fall. I'll be taking it out on the shingles I have to install after work. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just saw an ad that exclaimed, "AI Can't Make Plasma, So We Need Donors Like You!" and I think we can all see where this is headed. 011
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026WHAT DO YOU WANT? IN-FORMATION. YOU WON'T GET IT! BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, WE *WILL*. 010
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not if the CEOs get what they deserve, it won't. 020
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I *revelled* in reading Hamlet aloud w/ my classes. A few students were annoyed - "Why are you making us read this before class if we're just gonna read it in class?" - and some hated stumbling through it, but most got a *lot* out of it. Much easier to answer critical questions w/ oral reading. 130
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I've said it many times before, but I don't think there's a better lyric in all of pop music than "I wish that I knew what I know now/When I was younger/I wish that I knew what I know now/When I was stronger." because I know no truer line in history. 140
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There's a crossbow on raffle at my local. I wonder if this counts for @stevequick.bsky.social 's movie crossbow count. 110
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Had this at one time and foolishly gave it away because I mistakenly believed I had digitized it. Oops. Well, now it's time for a re-watch, I think. 020
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The next POTUS should turn the basement of the East Wing into the Executive Dungeon and name it The Donald J. Trump Memorial Correctional Facility, in honor of its first and only occupant. 010
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Better a furry pilot than a football coach senator. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Human brain is two separate organs: One is an infinitely kind, galaxy-level genius, and one will murder your whole family for trying to teach it to use two-syllable words. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Two days pissing rain means zero progress on the garage roofing project. Gonna have to go hard tomorrow, assuming it's dry by then. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Happy birthday, you magnificent son of a bitch. This album lived in my car tape player exclusively for two straight years. It is hands down my favorite comfort record. Been with me for 30 of its 31 years. Even got to have Jim play a show in my living room once. 030
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I don't think I'm a radical on the subject (I'm about as "normie" left as a guy can be), but as someone with numerous transgender, non-binary, LGBTQ friends, I will flatly refuse to vote for anyone who fails to support their rights. It needn't be a platform pillar, but you can't dismiss them. 010
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A tiny break in the clouds along the northeastern horizon at sunrise this morning is the last bit of sunshine any of us are going to see for the next 36 hours, I think. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New personal rule: If your business or service's advertisements are produced with AI, I refuse to patronize you. 010
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 17/09/2026After a single halfway decent episode, I'm back to restating my position: This season of Strange New Worlds is deeply insulting. Worse than Voyager. Such a great cast is being denigrated by some of the worst writing and plot since "Sub Rosa." Fucking travesty. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026For the second time in my bus driving career, I saved a spotted salamander from certain death under the wheels of a pickup on a farm road by moving it into the grassy ditch this morning. That's right, folks - you're reading the words of a hero. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026And you may find yourself... Living in an arid desert And you may find yourself... In another part of the Gulf And you may find yourself... Behind the wheel of a derelict tank 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Also, every localish Jayhawks fan owes it to themselves to make a pilgrimage out to the hall. Been there 4x. Brought Canadians, Japanese, locals, girlfriends, and friends. Some day @haggischomper.bsky.social , you should come up - we'll even bring a couch! 100
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Listening to Packers fans bitch about refs today is too rich, given the past 15 years of history. You bitches got pantsed yesterday - quit your whining. 100
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 13/09/2026And all it took to find them was uttering the nonsensical phrase, "Afghanistan banana stand." 020
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Remember when that stupid shitbag Tom Friedman claimed "The sooner we see $100 a barrel oil, the sooner we see $50 a barrel oil"? And someone still pays that fucking moron to write columns, when he should be in prison for the damage he's done to our society. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is demonstrably bad, but I take perverse pleasure in thinking about the mental knots those ROLLING COAL douchecanoes will tie themselves into trying to blame their $130 tank fill ups on Joe Biden. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My current job is very repetitive, especially in comparison to my previous job (college professor turned school bus driver). Let me assure you of two things: 1) Each of those jobs is equally rewarding in its own way, and 2) There is no way in hell a fucking *robot* could ever do either of them. 100
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Got another "Why do you do it your way instead of my way?" comment at pub quiz last night. 200
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I worked for one day as an expired cheese block sifter at a catfish bait production factory. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"Are you putting on a new roof?" -my elderly neighbor to me as I'm standing up there, 1/3 of the way through tearing off the 30 year old shingles. 100
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Didn't get as far on the awning/roof tear off as I'd hoped to today, but disturbing the wasp nest didn't help. Still good progress for a mostly solo job, though. Hot, tough work for an aging, less-than-fit guy. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Near to what I always used to say to my classes: "I was not asking my students to like the story. Only to reckon with it. Literature that never unsettles us may be comfortable, but incomplete—antiseptically free of debate, friction, and discovery." www.persuasion.community/p/i-taught-a...persuasion.communityI Taught a Short Story. My College Fired Me For It.Academic censorship is very real. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 04/09/2026AI is great. AI is the future. You're a stupid, poor luddite who will be left behind if you don't jump aboard the AI train. AI is inevitable. 010
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This season of Strange New Worlds is deeply insulting. 020
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 01/09/2026So says the whole nation. Deport every member of ICE to a gulag in Central African Republic. 000
Reposted by professoraxemanSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future. 8957091552
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Chagrined that Fry and Laurie - who had our number 30 years ago - remain prophetically relevant to this day. youtu.be/gd2tDALyXO4?... youtu.be/lyHSjv9gxlE?...youtu.beA bit of Fry & Laurie - Kickin' AssYouTube video by Lex 100
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 30/08/2026As a former college professor who now drives a bus for a living, I assure you one of the greatest pleasures of the job is leaving work at work. The value of that cannot be calculated in dollars, especially when measured against the alternative torture of always being at work, even in the summers. 100
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 30/08/2026BIG, BEAUTIFUL BROTHER MORE POPULAR THAN GOD, SAYS O'BRIEN. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 29/08/2026"Stop drinking water, you plebs! Water is for rich guys, data centers, and oil fracking!" 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I would gladly pay $100 MORE per year in utility bills to starve AI to death. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This is obviously why I am so uniquely unsuccessful. 000
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 28/08/2026No one is ever going to call Lake Ontario "Lake America," but pretty soon about 7.9 billion people are going to call Trump's grave "Toilet." 010
professoraxeman @axeeugene.bsky.social · 28/08/2026And you're MOTORIN'! YEEEAH-AAAH-AAHH MOOO-TOR-I-IN'! 010