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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 28/09/2026

Anyway the most important Yoder Lab product of the last 24 hours is that Liz Lemon has officially figured out “fetch”

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 27/09/2026

Updating the pfp because the mustache seems to be here to stay

Timer selfie, standing in front of a whiteboard in my office in a blue plaid button-down with an old “Introduction to Botany” book in one hand

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 26/09/2026

Caturday greetings from Liz Lemon

A little tabby cat sitting upright in a vintage wood-frame armchair

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 25/09/2026

Fifteen intolerable, unjust minutes until dinner time

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 23/09/2026

Whereas the first broadcast episode of Star Trek showed us the Enterprise’s conservatory

Yeoman Rand standing across a greenhouse table from Lieutenant Sulu, who has his back to the camera doing something with a giant alien plant-thing

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 21/09/2026

Love (derogatory) a well-crafted opening sentence

Screenshot text: White nationalism has become increasingly visible in American public life. Superscript refs: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 19/09/2026

Caturday greetings from Liz Lemon

A little tabby cat sitting on a platform on a cat tree by a sunlit window, looking down and to the side

Same cat same platform, she’s up on all fours and arching her back and yaaaaaaawning

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 17/09/2026

For your consideration this Thursday: Long Lemon

A little tabby cat lying on her side on a rumpled blanket on a sofa, streeeeeetching out with her little paws

Same cat now relaxed but still long, turning to look up at the camera

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 16/09/2026

My copy of AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD, college-era annotations and all

Photo of a book page with the note “Classic” scrawled on it, underlined, text visible:

OUR PARENTS WOULD SOONER HAVE left us out of Christmas than leave us out of a joke. They explained a joke to us while they were still laughing at it; they tore a still-kicking joke apart, so we could see how it worked. When we got the first Tom Lehrer album in 1954, Mother went through the album with me, cut by cut, explaining. B.V.D.s are men's underwear. Radiation makes you sterile, and lead protects from radiation, so the joke is...

Our father kept in his breast pocket a little black note-book. There he noted jokes he wanted to remember. Remembering jokes was a moral obligation, People who said, "I can never remember jokes," were like people who said, oblivi-ously, "I can never remember names," or "I don't bathe.).
"No one tells jokes like your father," Mother said.

Telling a good joke well-successfully, perfectly—was the highest art. It was an art because it was up to you: if you did not get the laugh, you had told it wrong. Work on it, and do better next time. It would have been reprehensible to blame the joke, or, worse, the audience.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 16/09/2026

This devious creature very nearly persuaded me to get out of bed to give her breakfast, until I checked the bedside clock and saw it was a full hour too early

A little tabby cat lying on her side between the edge of a couch and the base of a scratching post, looking up at the camera with big eyes

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 14/09/2026

What they don’t tell you about adopting a cat is that when you have to go to work you lose like 10% of cognitive function to wondering what the cat is up to back at home and wishing you could give her scritches

A little tabby cat sitting on a sunlit cat tree platform, her head cocked just so

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 14/09/2026

I had forgotten the real punchline of Renault’s “Shocked, shocked” line

Bad phone photo of my TV, with Renault saying to Rick, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” [the HBO Max subtitles are BAD]

The croupier walks up to Rick and Renault, saying, “Your winnings, sir!”

Renault: “Oh, thank you. Everybody out!”

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 11/09/2026

A STORY ABOUT AN ILLEGITIMATE LEADER COMMITTING WAR CRIMES TO AVENGE A DEVASTATING SURPRISE ATTACK, BROADCAST THE WEEK OF 9/11

The highest level of the Expanding Brain meme

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 11/09/2026

STRANGE NEW WORLDS is back, baybeee

Vince McMahon growing excitement meme:

It’s a cave mission

With a badmiral

Jim Kirk learning command

And Scotty in a skant

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 10/09/2026

Liz Lemon Emerging From Her Windowsill to Shame Mankind

A curtain-covered window over the headboard of a bed, with a cat’s tail hanging out from under the curtain

The cat now leaning down to stick her nose out from under the curtain alongside her tail

Now most of her head and a forepaw are out, the tail is withdrawn as she prepares to jump down from the windowsill

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 09/09/2026

There’s a couple candidates but the most Bluesky appropriate is: cat

Selfie on a couch next to a little tabby cat

Direct view of the cat, curled on a rumpled blanket with her head down, both forefeet reaching out to touch my arm at the bottom of the frame

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 09/09/2026

Anyway back to living in this double dumbass mess, the only Vulcans coming to save us are us

Screenshot of the Windergound forecast, going from rainy with a high of 87 F today to sunny and 105 F tomorrow

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 09/09/2026

And now seated for tonight’s viewing

A television screen with white text on a black background:

The cast and crew of Star Trek
wish to dedicate this film to the men and women of the spaceship Challenger whose courageous spirit shall live to the 23rd century and beyond....

Same TV, text now with a starfield backdrop:

A
LEONARD NIMOY
Film

Same starfield, text:

STAR TREK IV
THE VOYAGE HOME

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 08/09/2026

Okay but here's the actual final version going into service in today's lecture

Strong dog/weak dog meme:

strong dog [original source]:
- see it for yourself
- reading is what? fundamental
- drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring bro
- U can handle the truth
- finding facts isn't hard if U have a library card

weak dog [chatbot summary]
- I'll say the thing you want me to say sir
- I'm pretty sure that's right
- You're right I said that wrong
- Sorry about the hallucinations
- You should check my answers

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 05/09/2026

If nominated, Liz Lemon would not run, and if elected she would not serve But wait, is that Churu

A little tabby cat sitting on a cat tree platform in morning sunlight from a nearby window

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 03/09/2026

“Did I put the scratching post far enough from the bookcases?” A story in two parts: last night and this morning

A little tabby cat perched atop a tall scratching post with IKEA bookcases to the left and right, she’s stretching out curiously towards the one on the left, contemplating a jump. The taller bookcase, to the right, has a square glass lamp and a little stuffed chickadee toy on its top surface

A view under a bed, where the tabby cat is sprawled behind the stuffed chickadee toy

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 01/09/2026

Okay I have reached an important decision, as promised: introducing Elizabeth Lemon Yoder

A small tabby cat sitting on a folded comforter at the foot of a bed, forefeet crossed daintily

The same cat curled up on a circular cardboard scratcher-bed

The same cat settling into a rumpled orange blanket at one end of a couch, tail up

Selfie, with the cat on the orange blanket in the foreground, I’m leaning into the frame from behind and reaching around to scratch under her chin

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 01/09/2026

Not the point but via this post blekhman.substack.com/p/universiti... I am once again seeing this absolute textbook example of bad data viz from of the California State University system

A ring-pie chart of "Distribution of AI classroom policies among CSU faculty" with the options forbid, discourage, neutral, encourage, require, and not addressed sorted in such a way that the 40% of respondents who forbid (22%) or discourage (18%) are visually separated

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 31/08/2026

Dropping this into the friendliest audience on the Internet to ask: is this going to land in classroom use or am I carrying two skateboards

Vigin/Chad meme:

The Virgin [chatbot]
- I'll say the thing you want me to say sir
- I'm pretty sure that's right
- You're right I said that wrong
- Sorry about the hallucinations
- You should check my answers

The Chad [original source]
- see it for yourself
- reading is what? fundamental
- drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring bro
- U can handle the truth
- finding facts isn't hard if U have a library card

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 31/08/2026

Good pedagogy is all about choosing memorable visuals but also sometimes the slides are for me, specifically

A slide with the title "Confidence limits and hypothesis-testing" superimposed over a screengrab of Julie Andrews walking down an Austrian country road in THE SOUND OF MUSIC, singing I Have Confidence

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 30/08/2026

And this happened about a minute after my alarm went off and I turned in the light this morning

A little tabby cat, sniffing a hand outstretched across a pillow

Same cat, flopped onto tousled blankets on the bed, the same hand just in frame giving her a pet

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 30/08/2026

Indeed, within an hour of that third Churu

A view down from a bed covered in tousled blankets to where a little tabby cat is sticking out her head, ears forward, curious

The same cat now sitting on a weights bench beside a cluttered IKEA desk set up at one end of a bedroom

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 30/08/2026

She polished off three tubes with a break for a little playtime and then crunched through a bunch of her dry food, I think we’re gonna be okay

A little tabby cat lying under a bed, contemplating a cardboard widget at the end of a springy wire

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 30/08/2026

🚨 Churu has been accepted, I repeat, Churu has been accepted 🚨

A little tabby cat just under a bed, licking chicken purée off the forefinger of a hand reaching under the bed to meet her

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 29/08/2026

Day two and she’s still mostly finding small dark spaces in the bedroom, hasn’t eaten, doesn’t want treats, but she took a couple toys with her under the bed

A little tabby cat crouched under the slats of a bed, eyes moderately big

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 29/08/2026

Considering how much furniture I’ve purchased for this new roommate, she doesn’t actually seem to want much space

A small golden brown tabby cat sitting on a sort of pillar perch in a shelter space full of cats and cat-friendly furniture, licking her lips

The same cat emerging from a carrier set down by an IKEA desk, looking cautiously to her left

And now stepping out of the carrier to her right

And now a close view of the cat hiding under the lowest shelf of a bookcase, so just her nose and eyes and a paw are visible

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 26/08/2026

This is the clearest articulation I’ve seen of a thought that keeps me up at night and I guess it’s nice that it’s embedded in a convincing argument that the global tide is turning

Screenshot text: As a result, democracies across the planet are now threatened by what might be called fossil fuel fascism - an extremist political movement that breaks laws, spreads lies and threatens violence in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain markets for oil, gas and coal that would otherwise be replaced by cheaper renewables.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 24/08/2026

Shed blood for the first time in the war on Canvas (got a little cut handling a sheaf of scratch paper for in-class quizzes)

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