Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15hI converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions. 181743268
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10hTrump: "Based on my record of peace, a record like no one has ever had -- I'm just saying how crooked the whole Nobel Prize deal is" 376786175
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Everyone losing their minds on Quebec Street (SOUND UP) 4769
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21htrump asking natalie what time it is in norway and she just keeps telling him it’s night time there 1564940
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21hIn covering the decision to livestream a public execution, the New York Times accurately compares Pentagon officials to ISIS www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u... 14363133
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 23hIt’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó 9543185
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 21hTeaching mathematics undergraduates is a slightly demoralising experience this week. They are all extremely worried after the latest OpenAI dump. Not a single student has expressed excitement or enthusiasm (or even ambivalence). It’s worrying. Things are changing. #MathSky 2222
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Cartoonist: Dave Whamond 315168
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21ha big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy" 442210413
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office" 405115922503
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026On a personal level, I feel honored that I've met Carson. On a different personal level, I'm glad that the Nobel is celebrating someone shy, peculiar, intense. May all the weird/funny/creative/dark/introverted people of the world live long and prosper. 145850
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What if a solution to the housing crisis is right in front of us? My long read on the shrinking neighbourhoods of Toronto and Vancouver and how we could fill them up with people again. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... 98723
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026By and large, people who can't get along with cats are the type to feel okay *demanding* intimacy/trust, without even establishing any sort of foundation of respect. That often extends to humans. Cat-hating is a litmus test that fairly accurately eliminates that sort of yuck from my closer circles. 143
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anne Carson, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature today, was denied tenure by Princeton University in 1987. 25512
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026FOX NEWS: 77% of voters say the economy is only fair or poor. How does this bode for the midterms? KEVIN HASSETT: People feel that way because of Biden 336898193
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere). 141036324
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2buff.lyAn Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged... 527989
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Just yesterday a student told me how interesting she found the evolutionary psychology module a colleague teaches at Brunel. Her enthusiasm won’t survive reading this textbook. Surely it’s a matter of self-interest for the discipline to guard against harbouring this kind of unscientific nonsense 410734
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is the first interview with Anne Carson, by RÚV, the Icelandic state broadcaster. Click the video, it’s in English.ruv.isTilfinningin er klikkuð, segir nýi Nóbelsverðlaunahafinn - RÚV.isAnne Carson hlýtur Nóbelsverðlaunin í bókmenntum í ár. Anne er íslenskur ríkisborgari og búsett á Íslandi. 34419
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake. 1423201845
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care. 35449641227
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 252161363691
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I would sign Elon's deportation documents today, actually 2734028
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Do Cats Really Love Us? gizmodo.com/do-cats-real...gizmodo.comDo Cats Really Love Us?We asked experts to reassure us about the loyalties of the internet's favorite animal. 3131
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comEU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressureThe Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat. 491130546
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 08/10/2026find a job that’s right for you. 22657175
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Systematically destroying US hegemony in higher-education may feel like "owning the libs" but (1) Education is massive export for US (2) Best & brightest from around world stay in US and start businesses here (3) Higher-education is key employer & medical life-line in many *Republican* states. 17390120
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2023On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 deaths. 340 wounded. That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since. That disaster helped lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU60...youtube.comHarrow and Wealdstone Train Crash NewsreelNewsreel footage of the aftermath of the 1952 Train Crash at Harrow & Wealdstone Station, which claimed the lives of 112 people and injured hundreds more. 10447240
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A magnificent thread, which must be read until the very end; and I mean *must*. Many thanks to @andylewis.bsky.social for the heads-up. 56323
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026some folk'll never lose a toe but then again some folk'll 3756
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026tfw someone is trying to undo your father’s legacy 1069554
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 61135402716
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Do you remember... From 1984 to 1988, Honeymoon Suite had three platinum albums and six top 40 hits in Canada including New Girl Now and Feel It Again. In 1986, they won the Juno for Group of the Year. The band continues to tour, and they released their ninth studio album in 2025 7735
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/10/2026Good job US gov't getting those “foreign information manipulation and interference” discussions quieted down by [checks notes] engaging in information manipulation and interference... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comEU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ requestLithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website 111441
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 102142974705
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 07/10/2026Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS. 14898122
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026Holy shit. 700260948611
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You ever hear about how Dianetics has remained a bestseller for 75 years? Yeah. 181327413
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 07/10/2026 422382
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said 373595859
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 191114523118
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Q: There was universal condemnation across Nebraska for your choice to import 300,000 tons of foreign beef. What's your message to ranchers struggling to make a profit? Trump: We brought some in from Argentina and Brazil because we have to get elected 39222106
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026ummm 641016106
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Yeah, sorry your kid died or whatever. What do you think about my chandeliers?" 23556871300
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote PeaceSeeker @coloradocarly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This thread is a hilarious read. 0507
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Still not a hoax. 14496248
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797613043
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120113571
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10994642974
Reposted by Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote Cole Harrington @vicehii.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hazey was apparently designed by Chuck Jones??? 571495