Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialWendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Something tells me the burrowing owls didn't enjoy all the rain we got last night, poor things! 🪶 932141
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners 5075461388
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There's never enough Classics content here so let's talk about a couple of (as I tell my students) 'load-bearing culture words' in Latin and some of their cultural significance: beneficium: a favor, kindness, service officium: a duty, kindness, service & munus: a service, favor, obligation, gift. 432258
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialJaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.devatlas.jazco.devAtlasA living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours. 1171427428
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most riveting thing I've seen all week 384113593085
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 01/01/2026I'm gratified to hear that the letter to management that I and thousands of other NYT contributors signed heartened trans staffers and briefly led to change, and saddened to learn that the personal anti-trans animus of Sulzerger, Kahn, and Ryan led to a dedicated effort to reverse this. 112315
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The vibe is "university professor reluctantly posting an online lecture". 010
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialZoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thank you, Instagram, for showing me the wild world of Hog Showmanship where you have to lock eyes with the judge and mean mug them like they killed your parents while showing off your pig 31573108
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialAR 🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦 @aaronise.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ëgs, Flœr, Bůtr, Kitchèn Set 5 and a Mįcrowæv Offen. 1491
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"How did we end up with a leader exercising total, near-authoritarian control over the entire American right-wing who utterly lacks virtue" says guy who launched a crusade against the dude suggesting that virtue demanded opposing such a man, even if it meant losing elections. 729322
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The funny thing is there's probably a fair amount of scholarship they could quote (especially from over 30 years ago), although anything about the frequency of conflict before writing is kind of speculative. The giant bronze age battlefield in Germany shocked many. 000
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026When someone uses "technocratic" as a term of abuse there's a very good chance you're about to hear the most braindead thing anyone could possibly say about the issue under discussion. 837943
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Although given cows' incredible water consumption raising them in dry places is kinda bad too. I was really shocked when I learned how much water they go through. 010
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026yelling “wake up sheeple!! they’re coming for the race/IQ guys!” to a room vacated months since by academics fired for teaching about gender or quoting Charlie Kirk’s less flattering lines 31110149
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026On faisait des châteaux de sable On prenait les loups pour des chiens Tout changeait de pôle et d'épaule La pièce était-elle ou non drôle Moi si j'y tenais mal mon rôle C'était de n'y comprendre rien 000
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It looks like that's exactly what happened. Bouke de Vries hired him unilaterally through a grant he controlled. Apparently no one else in the department wanted him teaching there. bsky.app/profile/ptrb... 140
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026There's a letter from the philosophy department here: bsky.app/profile/ptrb... 020
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Yes, the fact that he got unilaterally hired outside normal processes by a tenured prof illustrates the quality of his work. 100
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Begging BlueSky to realize that they are the Spreadsheet People 1932130
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026We were given permission to share it individually. Central administration concurred in it having to be taken off the website "because it might confuse people and make them think that this is Ghent University's position, not just the department's" 2709
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Feeding "you just died. this is the moment, when you find out what religion was right: not mush, not everyone a bit, be specific. name one." into Google Search and it keeps naming Islam, like, reliably, four times in a row. What does this mean? Is it just because I'm in Indonesia rn? 371406
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialDoug Simpkinson @douglips.com · 18/08/2026I can't believe there's more than one forbidden image that could be in this thread. I better change the subject. How about a recipe for paella? 1727534
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialEmily Zhou @reversibledestiny.bsky.social · 16/08/2026there's this unpaved lot on the williamsburg waterfront, behind the trader joe's, that always has its gates open. it's full of broken/spare city stuff and some fabrication projects. there's a "no trespassing" sign, but no one seemed to mind that i was in there wandering around, fascinated 720024
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This is the moment I think of the most when I ask myself how we got here. A speedy trial also forces a public confrontation with what actually happened, and would have made Trump politically toxic. It's hard to think of what could have been without bitterness. 000
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This article is really excellent. Hillbilly Elegy Ohio LARP in Poland is fascinating. 000
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Can't even begin with surreality, cultural hodgepodge reflection of what we broadcast to the world about who we are. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...washingtonpost.comWhat I learned about the American Dream from Europeans pretending to live in OhioThe state of the American Dream looks very different from inside a role-playing event deep in the woods of Poland. 612814
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15/08/2026I'm not even going to acknowledge you "Smokey Bear" truthers. Take that junk over to 4chan buddy 5613
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026You're just getting swayed by him reciting the Odessy in Greek in that one interview... 000
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Apparently my Odyssey take at Foreign Policy (foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/23/o...) is likely to end up in the next print edition of the magazine, so if you haven't read it online, you'll be able to read it there. I *think* this is maybe the first time I've made the print of FP?foreignpolicy.comOdysseus at the End of CivilizationNolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values. 1231135
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The wage impacts of rising healthcare costs are grim, but people don't even see most of it since it's employer-side. 000
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialJon Plotkin @jplot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If job suddenly didn’t have to pay health insurance premiums she would almost certainly get a raise. Maybe not to the entire amount they were previously spending but certainly more than the increase in taxes. 011
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Yeah, super-ACA is probably more doable than M4A, but I worry about the durability of that under future administrations. 000
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The Thomas the Tank Engine version of this article has a point. 020
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The mix of what follows being either a consequence of her actions or something only she could prevent makes that hard. Denuclearization and anti-deficit spending were disastrous however. 000
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Imo it's really hard for online shopping to settle at an equilibrium that values quality- e.g. you can't judge the quality of a dress from pictures easily, but the price is the price, and that ends up being the site of competition. 020
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026investigator: and you’re saying the charts don’t account for inflation? suspect: prices are up 30% investigator: but this is showing real wages, not nominal. is this your knife 763032
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I misread "Pape" as "the Pope" and I was really surprised he was writing about air superiority. 000
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Washington is kind of exceptional for going from "longish nice hike" on a good summer day to "the winds are so strong I cannot walk, and rescue cannot come" on a bad one. Let alone the extremity possible in winter. 010
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026NEW BLOG POST! Some thoughts on Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, the historical context of the Bronze Age Collapse, the Sea Peoples, and the legends of the Trojan War, and whether Nolan's movie is "historically accurate" or not, and what that even means.nathangoldwag.wordpress.comDid Odysseus Cause the Bronze Age Collapse?We were all set for The Odyssey to be our summer discourse. Battle lines had been drawn, takes had been prepared. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s 8th century BCE epic poem was… 1423462
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/07/2026Creating a vector database of nearly 10k LGBTQ related bills from 2004-present. This will allow for semantic search on bills as well as novel textual analysis. It'll include all bill meta data along with hand coded values by the legialerts team. I don't think anything like this has been done before. 945559
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/07/2026Ok, I've got a beta up and running with full semantic search along with agentic RAG to enable insights from the full corpus database. In plain terms, it allows you to ask questions and it will answer using the full legislative database. Given the costs to run, it'll be invite access only. 515720
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Not really, the Su 35 is a modernized Su 27, so about equivalent (technologically) to a late F16. Russia hasn't had the budget to do much more than tweak late soviet designs, so it doesn't have anything like the F-22 or the F-35. 010
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Most of the recent change is democratic voters getting mad at elected Dems for being too accommodating to Trump, so it really depends which segment of "doesn't like Dems" were talking about. Iirc most voters think Sanders is too far left, and he's the most popular. In aggregate 2+2=5. 000
lynxcis.bsky.social @lynxcis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Substack then Twitter brain rot, I think. He went from smart to stupid to racist. 000
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialIsaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 18/06/2026New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a... 2053327563
Reposted by @lynxcis.bsky.socialHush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Is Germany ready for single life? Fighter jets don't just get built. They get into messy international relationships. We break down the latest breakups, gossip, rebounds, and love triangles in defence aviation here: hushkit.substack.com/p/the-future... 1104
