Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I don't think about the Roman Empire a lot, but when I do, it's to conclude that there is no aspect of its culture I would want to see revived today save for its traditions of interior design: 230
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Love their schizophrenic AI policy. Gonna have to take the whole thing w a grain of salt. 000
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 28/06/2026New evidence has recently emerged that Trump had plans for a victory arch as early as 1984. 092
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The world-encircling river Okeanos, as envisioned by the ancient Greeks. 020
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Activists to conservatives: No one is shoving Pride Month down your throat. G-d: 000
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Me: how do you spell that administrator's last name? Google AI: oo, you speak Hungarian! 100
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Local Coptic Church keeping it real for weekend fundraising festival: 010
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 14/05/2026As it hurries on its way to superintelligence, AI is stumped by the challenge of transcribing a clear and coherent phone message that I recently received. (None of the repetitions are in the original, nor are most of the transcribed words.) 110
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 07/05/2026"Do you know how to talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar?" - B. Obama 000
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Left my academic job to report local news in the news desert of my home town. Maybe this crowd would still have turned out to oppose a sharp cut to the school budget if our news site wasn't there to report on it - but I like to think our reporting played some role. 181
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Every academic monograph means the world to the author; but then the world treats the monograph like this: 040
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Well, we always wanted a photo of Trump behind bars. 000
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Image showing all the individuals pardoned by Donald Trump. 011
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Tried to vote today, but couldn't figure out the doors. 100
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Question: how many states remain members in the Union, and have yet to be swallowed up by the new Confederacy? This flag spotted in a local bar seems to get the number about right. 000
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 04/09/2025The Israel-exception to academic freedom and constitutionally-guaranteed rights is making its presence felt at CUNY. 020
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Opening a store that only catered to people who could speak more than one language never seemed like a great idea to me. 210
Area Man @pthibodeau.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Can confirm. I understand that if we can stay frost-free for another five or six months, there's a chance this guy will produce bananas. 000
