Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrain @docstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Me for the duration of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. 010
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainDavid Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it? 619861
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrain"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Higher Education is not just about training workers, but also about training citizen leaders and good citizenship in part means thinking that the details matter, that getting them right matters, because it impacts some of your fellow citizens. "It only matters if job" is poison to citizenship. 6577105
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainRobin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/09/2026‘Greek finance minister encourages Germany to implement reforms’ www.ft.com/content/7a28...static.klipy.comAntonio Banderas' Satisfied ReactionALT: Antonio Banderas' Satisfied Reaction 1355097
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir. 10085531484
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainSeinfeldism @seinfeldism.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Well, he tried to poison his boss. / S03E16 The Fix-Up 0133
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries. 5151681314
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrain👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Reading about Japan's first astronaut, who was a chainsmoker and spent most of his mission being violently sick. He died earlier this year, RIP to a real one. 11913207
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Correction: 1930s problems require 1945 solutions 634252
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainAlex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.docs.google.comAlex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle... 32312120
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Someone vaguely left of center potentially does something wrong in academia: this illustrates the need for a total ideological purge enforced by a media lynch mob Postdoc does eugenics: get this man a sabbatical immediately 39810
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainMelchron the Annihilator @fishymcgee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026 11129
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Every day I have to hear about some asshole 201141222798
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainNot the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 21/08/2026 171415334
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here. 4147021084
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrainmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026like the reason they do not speak up for Palestinian activists on campus but DO speak up for The Racism Professor is because they are not for the principle of free speech on campus. They disagree with the Palestinian activists but agree with the Racism Professor. bsky.app/profile/jand... 4797101
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrainpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Moby Dick by artist Gerard DuBois 154122731866
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainStereogum @stereogum.com · 10/08/2026Our column the Alternative Number Ones looks at the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' smash "The Impression That I Get" and the brief late-'90s ska-punk momentstereogum.comThe Alternative Number Ones: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "The Impression That I Get"In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum... 0283
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/08/2026 322131
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainSeinfeldism @seinfeldism.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Elaine, could you just not talk for one minute? / S08E07 The Checks 0193
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainRemember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Willie Upshaw 1B Debut: 1978 - Retired: 1988 CLE - TOR baseball-reference.comWillie Upshaw at baseball-reference.comCareer stats of Willie Upshaw 071
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrainmaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It's not a coincidence that everyone still whining, in the year of our lord 2026, about covid lockdowns are all people who should be forcibly locked in their homes with all the doors and windows bolted shut from the outside while the rest of us just quietly forget that they ever existed at all 11808116
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 02/08/2026Miller is confused because he was simply living out a key plank of the Republican platform: domestic abuse, a goal of right that they legislate and govern to promote and vote as a primary electorate to support. They believe men should abuse women and children. This man is a representative case. 1417
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainSeinfeldism @seinfeldism.bsky.social · 02/08/2026See this gasket? I have no confidence in that gasket! / S07E21 The Bottle Deposit (Part 1) 0112
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainVeerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026 437338826560
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refraindr. Marcel Piss 🥜 @drpiss.bsky.social · 09/04/2025right about now the funk soul brother check it out now the funk soul brother right about now the funk soul brother check it out now the funk soul brother right about now the funk soul brother check it out now the funk soul brother right about now the funk soul brother check it out now the funk sou 10192092807
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainNick Felker @felker.dev · 20/07/2026Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth 46119622719
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrain⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians* 316254926964
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 07/07/2026can't stop laughing at this Poilievre: "We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture." 9972499386
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Das Denkmal, Berlin, by Sibylle Bergemann, 1986 (flipped), 📸 by Carl de Souza 71371117
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainBruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Happy Canada Day. It's an imperfect country, as every country is, but not a day goes by that I don't count myself as lucky and blessed to be a Canadian, surrounded by Canadians. 1226934
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainRemember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Kelly Gruber 3B Debut: 1984 - Retired: 1993 ANA - TOR baseball-reference.comKelly Gruber at baseball-reference.comCareer stats of Kelly Gruber 1181
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainTariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...nytimes.comU.S. Denies Entry to World Cup Referee From Somalia 522427787
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 29/05/2026A necessary and proportionate corrective to oberlin students objecting to war criminals as graduation speakers 37015
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrainmaple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The easiest jobs to replace with AI are execs because AI is remarkably good at doing nothing useful and being dumb as hell while pretending to be the most special smartest boy in the room 936264
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/05/2026Breaking News: Sonny Rollins, a jazz great with a forceful and imaginative approach to the tenor saxophone, has died at 95.nyti.msSonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality. 20520202
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrainthe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 25/05/2026right-wingers have their violently stupid ideas, of course, but it’s somehow even more insulting when they want to create discourse on the humanities they are fighting every day to defund. fuck off and go vibe code a racist gambling app you absolute piece of shit 91853229
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrainkirin @koboldstyle.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Social media really showed absolutely anybody paying attention that the rich and powerful are dumb schlubs, as dumb as anybody, and we started pointing it out and making fun of them and they went absolutely apeshit on the world and on governed society in return 0226
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainReturn of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 21/05/2026“You hate a shit sandwich, but have you considered a shit salad?” 927339
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainDavid White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 10/05/2026There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob. 182812703
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrain"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/05/2026This is both a correct description of the current situation and also very clearly the thing that needs to change. Higher education cannot survive without public support and that will never be forthcoming until we convince a critical mass of the public to support knowledge for its own sake. 328253
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Glad your vibe coded personalized keto assistant has increased your protein input or whatever but people actually hate this shit for reasons that have nothing to do with pollution or structural power, which are also bad. They hate this shit because it is making their lives, personally, worse. 383536414
Reposted by Fallstaff’s Sorrowful RefrainAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau... 22278951521
