Reposted by Scott A. CarterJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Everything he is saying here is fully vindicating my belief that we need Religious Studies as an academic discipline to begin to understand the culture surrounding AI, and its millenarian fantasies. 311230
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026static.klipy.comBernie Brewer FlagALT: Bernie Brewer Flag 010
Reposted by Scott A. CarterAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop. 25789632065
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I mean come on, how can you not love this youtu.be/0bBb-c6IpEE?...youtu.beNomeansno - Big DickYouTube video by MegaKill2425 000
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 07/10/202637 years of being blown away by this album youtu.be/B0oVHWh8Tuo?...youtu.beIt's Catching UpYouTube video by Nomeansno - Topic 100
Reposted by Scott A. CarterCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version. 6542191009
Reposted by Scott A. CarterPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is why imperial collapses can often seem extraordinarily sudden: They come as the culmination of decades of undermining the institutions, relationships, and structures that keep states functioning. A jenga tower can stand with missing blocks until it's given a tiny push. 934651
Reposted by Scott A. Carterbrainplan @brainplan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026that brief conversation with Pat Murphy was maybe the only good in game interview 111
Reposted by Scott A. CarterStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857701247
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How I arrived on Blueskystatic.klipy.comALT: 000
Reposted by Scott A. Cartertoilet 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 190113903094
Reposted by Scott A. CarterDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Congrats to UW Madison on the Nobel in Physics! He is an immigrant to the US. Immigrants make up 40% of US wins in science chemistry, medicine, and physics in this century. 341773
Reposted by Scott A. CarterDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Thanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research 171046208
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When you give talented researchers the resources they need to explore questions no one else asks, they'll lead you to incredible discoveries. Congratulations to @uwmadison.bsky.social physicist Francis Halzen on winning the Noble Prize. 011
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The top marginal tax rate should be 40,000% but I am willing to go higher 110
Reposted by Scott A. CarterLake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 05/10/2026Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI: 0318
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026static.klipy.comLarge Marge Pee Wee Herman Scary SceneALT: Large Marge Pee Wee Herman Scary Scene 010
Reposted by Scott A. CarterJeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The dream scenario of every kid. Bottom of the ninth. Two outs. Bases loaded. Facing the toughest pitcher in the world to hit. Jackson Chourio made magic. 522442
Reposted by Scott A. CarterCasey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Un-freaking-real. Jackson Chourio just walked off Mason Miller. Brewers lead the series 2-0. Even on its worst day, Milwaukee finds a way to beat you. 317620
Reposted by Scott A. CarterNicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is Tohono O’odham ancestral land, and the tribe had been taking legal action to protect the site. They will continue to fight—as should we all!—but the damage is probably irreparable 26153
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My ears are still ringing from the 1995 Peach Bowl when NC State played Mississippi State in the Georgia Dome 000
Reposted by Scott A. CarterMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026"It’s not summer, it’s not winter, and it’s not spring. Grab a calendar and pull your fucking heads out of your asses; it’s fall, fuckers." buff.ly/w93mWIlbuff.lyIt’s Decorative Gourd Season, MotherfuckersFor the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads. 613436
Reposted by Scott A. CarterDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...startribune.comPerry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic... 16758296
Reposted by Scott A. CarterWerewolven Daughter @wolvendaughter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Putting in prompts to get music you like? We already have that. It's called walking into a record store that smells of patchouli and asking the guy with the one-hitter behind his ear for recs. 0275
Reposted by Scott A. CarterPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/20265 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables 833651922
Reposted by Scott A. CarterHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10134993785
Reposted by Scott A. CarterKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752431427
Reposted by Scott A. Cartertaber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026This map from 1951 shows how iron ore moved then along the Great Lakes, and almost nothing about this has changed in 75 years. To make steel, you need iron ore. To move iron ore significant distances, you need deep draft waterways. You simply can not get the stuff to fucking *Iowa* 1221946
Reposted by Scott A. CarterFrog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The night was cold and dark. “Listen to the wind howling in the trees,” said Frog. “What a fine time for a ghost story.” 132083
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As good a time as any to share my autumn take on the Manhattan, the Autumn in New York: -Rye -Zirbenz Stone Pine Liqueur -Black walnut bitters And please do not ask for proportions. Just keep mixing until the colors look right. 111
Reposted by Scott A. CarterVoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.” 6855471027
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One reason why you should involve your kids in cooking is because you get to hear amazing commentary like, "Whisk, whisk, whisk. That's all I'm good for." 030
Reposted by Scott A. CarterIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes. 331189763986
Reposted by Scott A. Carter(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Destroying the legalization of free and easy online gambling is intimately tied into the first plank of the winning platform, anti-corruption. These platforms exist solely to extract, steal, and immiserate. They should not exist and their influence on politics and life in general is wholly toxic. 010032
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That album cannot possibly have been released 30 years ago because that would make me [does math]...old. Also, one of the best examples of an album that 1) fucking rocks, and 2) is so difficult to listen to lyrically. 100
Reposted by Scott A. CarterAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 24/09/2026The political left actually does have enormous amounts of money at its disposal. Left wing poverty is a myth. But nobody on the center-left is spending money and resources remotely at requisite scale to show undergrads that “the peer-reviewed humanities are cool!” The Democratic Party is no help 3324
Reposted by Scott A. CarterDaylightCounter @daylightcounter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We continue losing daylight for 90 days. 🥳 6376
Reposted by Scott A. CarterJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What this provost’s use of AI has also made scandalously clear is that AI is wrecking higher ed so fast a lot of faculty have no idea how far it’s gone. Or that many of the students using it hate it—but use it because higher ed has sat on its hands & allowed its hierarchies to become AI incentives. 25610
Reposted by Scott A. CarterDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If any of these guys spent 1 hour with someone outside of their ideological bubble they might have learned something. For example, if you think you can cut the deficit via personnel cuts, you are a fucking clown who does not deserve to be listened to. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-... 345976
Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You couldn't have waited until Tuesday to post this? 000
Reposted by Scott A. CarterNick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025It is so bewildering that a transpanic over **sports** was the tip of the spear that ended in a bill to literally eliminate the word "gender" from the Iowa Civil Rights Code. If I hear one more person use sports as a justification for actual legal discrimination I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. 617541