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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That’s your argument? *You* liked it? Have you ever considered that you may be a narcissist?

Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2/ Most psychologists and therapists can tell you that conceding to narcissists’ demands will make things worse in the long run. If we give up the four months’ standard time we currently have, we will never get any of it back.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1/What arguments do you see from them? They’re narcissists! *They* want more afternoon an evening daylight. They “don’t care” what happens in the morning (as at least one person in this thread has already explicitly said.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do you have any narcissists in your family or close professional circles?

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2/ Keeping the twice-yearly clock change should be the lesser evil for those who support permanent standard time. Permanent DST means caving in to the narcissists. As it is, we only have four months of standard time a year. In no way should giving up even that pittance be considered acceptable.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1/ I see the DST debate as genuinely emblematic of life in Trump’s USA. Fully 85% of the “arguments” we see in favor of permanent DST reek of ignorance, narcissism, naive realism, and an outright lack of empathy. Permanent DST should not be regarded as a lesser evil for supporters of standard time.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Your most effective comeback would have been to say that I support Tom Cotton. Instead, you chose to defend Trump on this issue. That’s interesting.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you support permanent DST, you support Donald Trump. If you’re uncomfortable with that, perhaps you need to rethink your position.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I support permanent standard time. But I hate the idea of permanent DST so much that I’d rather keep switching the clocks than do that.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As long as it happens . . . one way or the other. And no, I’m not one of those people. But it would shock me if one or more of them aren’t itching for revenge.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Maybe so that the NCTE higher-ups would have to answer questions in court that they’ve refused to answer outside of court?

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Outside of “Barely Breathing,” I was essentially unfamiliar with Duncan Sheik’s work. But I’ve always remembered the opening line of a magazine article I read at least twenty years ago: “Duncan Sheik majored in semiotics.” RIP

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Though he may occasionally smoke a fatty along with the two or three gin and tonics he consumes before 11:00 a.m.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I believe that key elements of both the anti- and pro-AI positions highlight how utterly clueless most people are about what writing is and how it works.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Rule change suggestion for the NFL: pass interference on a play where the ball is underthrown is a five yard penalty with no automatic first down.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hoping to see more Palace content in my feed here, but thrilled not to have the clickbait, AI-generated slop that keeps showing up on Facebook.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

3/ This is a crisis of political will. It is a crisis of anti-intellectualism.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

2/ My department currently has half the number of full time professors it had when I started here more than 25 years ago. State appropriations per FTE have dropped by 40% since 2000. We have more students than there are people teach them. This is not a crisis of enrollment.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

1/ Where I work, we just finished the first week of the semester. All of my classes are full or over-full with waiting lists. Every day, I get emails from students begging me to give them overrides because they don’t have enough credits to be full-time students.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Currently, between 61 and 62% of US high school grads go directly to a college or university. If you think 50% of grads would be better off in trade schools, which specific ones have made the wrong choice to go to college? And on what basis do you pass that judgement on them?

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That’s not an answer to the question I asked.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So is it your behavioral science expertise that entitles you to declare that 50% of university students would be better off in trade schools? Shouldn’t they have some choice in the matter?

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A great year for psychedelic rock: Love, “Seven and Seven Is”; 13th Floor Elevators, “Reverberation.” And many more.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you don’t know what Market Fundamentalism is, you could . . . I don’t know, do some research. And no, I’m not implying anything remotely like you claim I am, because I’m capable of thinking about human activity is something other than purely economic terms.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’m in Pennsylvania. Corbett was an absolute nightmare, but neither Wolf nor Shapiro have come anywhere near digging us out of the hole.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You appear to be so enmeshed in the theology of Market Fundamentalism that you can’t think sensibly about higher education. Why would anyone want to reduce the number of universities by half? So that we can build more prisons—which are far more expensive?

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Even in states with Democratic governors, the situation has been dire for years. Most Dem elected officials simply don’t give a shit . . . at least not enough to do anything about it.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

At Rush “Fifty Something” tour in Philadelphia.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Kicking off National Vinyl Record Day with one of the greatest albums ever made: Love, *Forever Changes*.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’d bet that many of the people raising allegedly sincere concerns about the DSA platform are the same ones who brushed off (or laughed off) concerns about Project 2025 during the 2024 presidential election.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ironic, given that Harvard invented the required first-year college composition course in 1875.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If Dr. Fauci will plead the Fifth in response to every question he’s asked today, one of the Dem Senators should ask: “Dr. Fauci, during any of President Trump’s COVID press conferences, based on what you smelled and heard, do you believe he shit his pants on stage.”

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We might not ordinarily think of notebooks as technology, but this book vividly illustrates how, for centuries, they have been actively enabling key developments in human thinking and human activities.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Without CCCC (the organization *and* the annual conference) I would never have had an academic career (or at least not one remotely like the one I’ve had). This is a nightmare scenario.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I only write in my books in pencil, because (the tinking goes) I can always go back and erase it if need be. And yet I never erase any of it.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

What’s fascinating to me about yacht rock is how so many of the bands and figures associated with it worked in other, very different genres also: hard rock, prog, smooth jazz, country, folk, etc.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Dang. 1. e4 e6 has long had a solid reputation at the highest levels.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

But he sure knows how to ride hoes.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Short: Bad Religion, “Change of Ideas.” Long: Marillion. “This Strange Engine.”

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I feel so enlightened to learn that far too many of us have reacted to the right’s “dangerous anti-intellectualism” by creating an uncritical fan cult around people who actually know what they’re talking and writing about. (Seriously, WTF?)

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Haji Wright came on WAY too late. Should have been in there around the hour mark.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Except for those whose moms were raging narcissists.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Couldn’t overcome the massive distraction of Trump getting involved.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’ve seen that claim too. To be honest, I think the U.S. being disqualified because Trump interfered would be the best outcome in an all-around horrible situation. Trump taking all the blame for screwing up a chance for the US to advance in the World Cup would be fitting.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The post I was responding to was vague enough that it was unclear if the poster meant Balogun should choose not to take the field or Pochetino should keep the whole team off the field. The latter would be an automatic forfeit. Pronouns must have clear antecedents.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Ridiculous. They could simply put Balogun on the bench and leave him there. Forfeiting the match would be stupid.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I agree that Trump has utterly tainted this next game, no matter what. However, I also think Belgium look horribly petty complaining about this. Balogun’s red card was a very lucky break for them, happening in a game they didn’t even participate in.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

There’s also an exception for Lionel Messi—but that one also involves the red card never being shown in the first place.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Not only bulletin board material. Now they look like they’re upset that they lost a lucky break they caught with the questionable and controversial red card call in a game they did not participate in.

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Tim Mayers @drtrmayers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Agreed. That was a stone cold penalty.

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