mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I just had to pay $1100 to get a second rabies shot at the ER. Shots 3 and 4 were at Urgent Care for $25 each. Why was I dumb enough to go to ER for shot 2 you ask? Because that’s the only place I could get it. Shot 2—exact same as 3 and 4–available for me only at ER, for $1075 more. Burn it down. 011
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And the moronic press will cause the news cycle to be dominated by those small beans things instead of the substance of his testimony. 040
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s like people who read the Melisn dialogue and think it blesses their will to power. 010
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Those kids are so much more courageous than the so-called professionals of the national press, it’s stunning. I’m in awe of them. How many of us can say we know we would have had the guts to do what they did? 020
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Rich MEN, not kids, Men, not girls, not women, MEN MEN MEN! 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Should your (male) PhD advisor suggest his female students wear cotton underwear? Truth. STG 010
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So depressing, because outside a few outliers: Raskin, Lieu, Van Hollen, I have been given no reason to think our representatives will fight. If only there were a way to replace them all with the wine moms. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Is there any equivalent story in NYT? 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I just don’t understand the law. Is there just an infinite number of times you can go back to the well to poison it? Infinite takes before there’s an end? How can this keep going on like this? This is an insane system. 010
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 17/09/2026So why isn’t/didn’t Jeffries offer it himself and force a vote? Has he made a different political calculation? Is he just a coward? What? 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Justice Kavanaugh is a social person. He needs friends.” That’s BART to you, thank you very much. 010
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Can’t he be hounded out of office? He’s shameless so it would be hard, I know. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The gravy train has left the station. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Almost as if the opposition party and the news media haven’t done their jobs. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It’s because Vance is clearly in control of himself in a way Trump is not. He owns everything he’s doing more than Trump. Trump is deranged and evil. Vance is pure evil. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The way reporters breathlessly report this “controversy” without pointing out that there is no way the “controversy” arises out of anything but outrageous Islamophobia is a large part of why we are where we are. 010
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I hated Reagan at the time. But any sane person would take him now in a heartbeat. Arguing over Reagan in these times……sheesh. 020
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026My recollection is that VP Cheney pressed intelligence services to present their intel more confidently than they might have done otherwise. Is that correct? And did the UK get the raw intel to make their own assessment? Or did they just take the US’s assessment? 001
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Just received the Edwardian stamp holder I purchased recently. Just lovely. As pictured. Beautifully packaged. I’m very happy with my purchase. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Yes to desktop fountain falls. Heck yes. 010
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Why is Jeffries saying they’ll do things they can’t do? Why is he so bad at his job. It’s just so depressing. Autocracy on the rise and a feckless bore who can’t orate or plan is going to be speaker. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 31/08/20263 same thing about Piker and Ms. Rachel. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 30/08/202613 is too few. Needs the new 4 to vote in lock step with the 3 sane ones and our side never does that like the Republicans do. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The economy just “came under” duress. None knows how or why. Act of God! 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 28/08/2026God I hope they send him to Venezuela or something. 100
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Vote Blue no matter who unless you don’t want tooooooo 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 26/08/2026And what happened to the folk who set up a guillotine on Jan 6 for Mr. Pence? 010
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Come up to the lab, see what’s on the slab. 010
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 24/08/2026And what evidence do you have for your claim? There’s no reason to believe Jeffries was doing what you say. 030
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 19/08/2026It’s also, apparently, bat fledgling season in the US—so maybe also in UK? Lots of bat encounters here at this time as junior bats fly places they shouldn’t. At least your bats don’t have rabies! Lots of rabies shots in New Hampshire this month. 020
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Who’s the 1 D who didn’t pick up 89%, do you know? Did he say? 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Agreed. He’s terrible. Who would be both a better and a politically-acceptable replacement? Genuinely asking. Who’s on the bench? 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Isn’t his favorability -13 or something? If so, is it crazy to be concerned? Maybe he can turn it around, but…. Like, I hope he pulls a Mamdani and shows them, but I’d prefer a safer candidate. Is that so terrible? 001
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 13/08/2026NBC news, this is disgusting. He’s a criminal stalker and you’re abetting him. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It sounds like you’re not aware of the demographics of the professor in the article that started all this. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Yes. I’m not sure exactly when I got it (what the real point was). Much better to get it yourself than have some professor point it out, but these days I think we have to point it out. Yours is a nice job which I’m glad you shared. 000
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Just like for writing essays, students need to know—and we need to tell them, as you are—that the product (the essay or the book read or the calculus “answer” or the code or the design) was never the point. The process is the point. 120
mtthucydides.bsky.social @mtthucydides.bsky.social · 09/08/2026It would be useful if more folk knew why they’re called the Liberal Arts. Not because the bearded professors are all communists, but from the Latin adjective for “free.” The Liberal Arts teach what a person needs to know if they are to be free and sovereign in a democracy. 000