Reposted by nonathanTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Why I Left Academia Writing personal essays is easier than teaching, grant-writing, or getting research articles published. But nobody told me that in grad school my latest for the Chronicle 1066376
Reposted by nonathanRevan @revan.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026A true crime ew.com/white-house-...ew.comWhite House parodies Nicole Kidman’s AMC ad: ‘We come to this place for MAGA’Somehow, heartbreak feels bad in a place like this: the White House has recreated Nicole Kidman’s beloved AMC ad to promote a ‘golden age’ of MAGA. 1133
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Evergreen post for anyone telling you "personal responsibility" is the best or sole fix to a structural issue 010
Reposted by nonathanLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026I personally think it’s great that we are inventing guys that the X-Men are supposed to fight 441566285
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I think the idea behind these--that there are and should be means of accessing stupidly inflated amounts of excess money--is a huge part of the problem (see that 408k salary tweet going around). Getting by or stability is no longer thought of as enough; you can only be happy if you hit the jackpot. 010
Reposted by nonathanScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 23/07/2026Noticing a lot of bees that have fallen asleep on the job this summer. Look at this guy and his little leg twitch! 410114
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026It's alarming, because both this and the new harry potter series register to me AS slop in the same way AI content does. It's difficult to parse which is informing which at this point because they operate on the same principle of merely remixing well-known images and sentiments to juice reactions. 131
Reposted by nonathandjent atkins @jojjjajjr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026frankfurtschoodle.orgfrankfurtschoodle.orgFrankfurt SchoodleA daily Frankfurt School quote-guessing game. 24418
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026From the Fitzgerald translation: "Yes I laid the pipe, but I did not like it!" 1182
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Everyone on the mconnell deathwatch as lindsey graham keels over in the background 000
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The issue for me is that the focus on the minutia means that you also risk losing the ability for the art to be abstracted and applied to other things (a very important potential in art!) because the main function becomes referring back only to itself. 000
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026One year out of the timeframe, but the introduction and first chapter (whole) from Levine's Forms really helped my thinking. Also the first and last chapters of Sharpe's In the Wake, but I honestly think that book is best read in full. 180
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I find it eerie that this is also how crypto rug pulls work 130
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Do I think trump could somehow use the various levers of government to throw off the knicks specifically out of spite? No, not really. Do I think some of his hanger-on ghouls would still be stupid and petty enough to try it? Probably. And is all of this still his fault regardless? 100% 010
Reposted by nonathanDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/06/2026the extent to which ""leftist"" thought leaders are adopting far-right language about hr ladies tells you a lot about what noosphere they're stewing in 171013168
Reposted by nonathanZito @zeets.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I don’t want to make an account just to buy something. I don’t want to download an app either. I just want to pay for the thing and leave. I don’t want to join the rewards program. I don’t want to get the inevitable email that my information has been compromised. 22820166
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Not for nothing, I think digital culture contributes to this quite a bit. The line between giving your data to an unreliable vendor and having it sold off vs giving it to a reliable vendor who will likely get hacked at some point feels increasingly thin! 010
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I think we've long passed into a reality where "con" is the lens through which society is viewed popularly, with the problem being that it renders people unable to distinguish, using religion as one example, out-and-out cons like scientology from other pro-social forms of faith. 110
Reposted by nonathanThorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 28/05/2026a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes 17668691621
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026I was opposed to this ides for a long time, but I think his combination of canny and wholesome is kind of exactly what might be needed right now. 050
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I had reservations going in, but between this, completely folding on the new maps, and the collective bargaining veto, I'm kind of agog at how much of a failure she's been right out the gate. 060
Reposted by nonathanJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/05/2026Also worth noting that The Great Gatsby was only a modest success when it was published, it only became the cultural behemoth it is today during WWII, when the novel was licensed for a "books for soldiers" scheme via the US government. F. Scott Fitzgerald was long gone by that time. 1439136
Reposted by nonathanMaterialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026[reading the illiad] what the fuck do you mean zeus was there. zeus is fake. 842440
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Appending all my prompts with "and don't be weird about it" 020
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I'm not sure, but my contribution is gemini trying to speak the unspeakable of what you pay a "pittance" in when I was trying to check whether it had one or two ts. 040
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Why do they all look like jared leto dressed as mark david chapman? 050
Reposted by nonathanRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 22/04/2026Here's an important read for today: policymakers are encouraging students to learn trades that are costly to teach, but community colleges and apprenticeships don't have the capacity to meet demand. This sends students to the more expensive for-profit sector, where they take on debt.wsj.comThey Chose Careers in the Trades and Still Wound Up With DebtAs community colleges and union apprenticeships fill up, more students are turning to pricier training options for blue-collar careers. 69842
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I did know this word, and I desperately needed this word. Thank you. 130
Reposted by nonathanSam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 16/04/2026How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas 161918376
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026My first thought after watching that interview was wondering how soon we were going to get the point where he tries to kill himself. I have no affection for him, but that exchange makes it abundantly clear that this is not someone who can handle what he and the world have turned him into. 090
Reposted by nonathanTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/04/2026In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways 8942268
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Chadwick boseman's death was caused by a cia deadhand operation triggered by the success of black panther 010
Reposted by nonathanBrandon @spacejamveteran.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Rich people have gotta go man 0318
Reposted by nonathanJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 29/03/2026Please don’t snitch tag because I don’t want the boy-arguments, but… I think we are due (overdue?) for a reconsideration of the domination of this libertarian speech philosophy built in a 90s neoliberal tech consensus that no longer exists (if it ever did). 3144
Reposted by nonathanYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27/03/2026Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary. 1185463942
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Long story short: cops are fucking useless at getting your bike back. Don't report it to them, or else it just becomes another reason for them to demand more money while doing less. 000
nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I got my bike stolen ~3 years ago. Reported it to the cops, went and got a bunch of info myself on where it was being resold from online networks, and sent all of it, plus a connection to the resale site, to the officer. He sat on it for 2 weeks and acted flummoxed when I reminded him of all it. 100
Reposted by nonathanAaron Hillis @aaronhillis.bsky.social · 26/03/2026An underrated Miyazaki classic #LGM 334613792
