Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Follow-up -- in an email, Grasso declares that we, a major research university, bow to misinformation rather than use our vast resources to combat and correct it. Institutional intellectual bankruptcy. The death of honor. 151
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As if we needed any further proof that there is no right-wing psy-op @umich.edu will not fall for, President Grasso just forced the College of LSA to "pause" its grade-covering policy for first semester students, a humane and well-tested initiative that had the usual suspects foaming at the mouth. 2100
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Cleese has been an insufferable wanker for years, but this is ugly even for him. 141
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026MSU nightmare. Physician sexually assaults a patient, she reports it right away, and they LET THE GUY KEEP TREATING WOMEN, so he assaults another one THE NEXT DAY. archive.ph/2A8Muarchive.ph 130
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Both Mike Rogers and John James are now calling for an end to the Iran war. Their internal polls must be abysmal. 160
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Guys, I think we just got a major assist in the fight against AI dominance. May ETTD hold. 010
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026checkmate, AI. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...med.stanford.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 020
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Pflaumenkuchen. Couldn’t get Damson plums, fingers crossed. 080
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Over on twitter, people are celebrating the "deal" that forced Trump to acknowledge Denmark's/Greenland's territorial integrity, didn't get him the mineral rights he craved, and gave him military installation rights he already had. Press for once not fully on board with the bullshit 130
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Universities quickly learning that corruption need no longer be hidden; you can just openly give your board member a 50% stake in money you make from the most crappy form of teaching there is. 050
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Over on twitter, the big news is that Tillamook cheese is certified halal (i.e. doesn't use animal enzymes), and they're all calling for a boycott. That place is something else. 141
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Regents wrote another bonkers presidential contract -- if Raver gets fired, she gets nothing. If she quits, she gets 6M and a faculty appointment. In other words, at the first hint of conflict, it's in her financial interest to bail rather than to see if they can iron things out. 273
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Seems American owner of Reading FC hired the ghost of Leni Riefenstahl to jazz up the opening. via @sszy.bsky.social 020
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Brötchen therapy for the weary professor at the end of her career 0100
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Epstein Class Mike www.metrotimes.com/news/donors-... 052
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026In Germany, everything important is handled by clubs ("Verein"), including dying -- the Society for Humane Death ("Gesellschaft für humanes Sterben") will take care of you, for a price. One death, 4K, buy two deaths and get the second one 50% off. 001
Reposted by SilkyThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/09/2026More than 300 million birds are expected to soar across the U.S. on Saturday during their annual fall migration, prompting requests for residents to turn off or dim lights to help ensure their safe flight.nyti.msAs Millions of Birds Migrate, Residents Are Asked to Turn Off the LightsBirds are drawn to lights, and more than a billion die each year after crashing into buildings, experts said. 10272126
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Another day, another @umich.edu sexual abuse scandal. This is gruesome reading. 3135
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I have not yet decided whether to use my power for good or for evil 0110
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The students in my Detroit Sports class are making documentaries for the final projects. So far, we have "Roller Derby in the Masonic Temple," "Golden Age of Boxing in Detroit," "The Olympia," "Joe Louis Arena," "Hank Greenberg," "Willie Horton," ... 190
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So how worried are we about Trump promising to pay for votes? It's obviously bullshit (remember the "DOGE dividend"?), but I worry that people will fall for it. In a functioning democracy, it would be illegal, naturally, but that ship sailed. Please talk me off the ledge here. 150
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026don’t often agree with FIRE but @umich.edu well deserves their F in free speech protection and should be ashamed. 030
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026don’t often agree with FIRE but @umich.edu well deserves their F in free speech protection and they should be ashamed. 020
Reposted by SilkyNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Open AI has hired Chuck Schumer's daughter to help them with government relations. I don’t like it one bit, and this kind of thing is a big part of the reason top Democrats have done such a poor job of turning the Trump family’s far more extreme corruption into an election issue. 11743214
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My greatest professional accomplishment, erased overnight. RIP watchlist. 0111
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Some very satisfying five minutes courtesy of @vcaston.eurosky.social -- some iffy choices, alas. but all things told, a cheerful watching experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRR3...youtube.comDictatorships Going Down - Statues Being DestroyedYouTube video by davay 130
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Even boomers, who should really know better, only know slightly better 031
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Having germany explained to me by americans today, bluesky style. everything, it turns out, is obvious, and Sachsen-Anhalt is a proper stand-in for all of the country. we will solve it by being mean about Musk. 280
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026trotsky took a big piece of shrink wrapped parmesan from the counter, carried it into the living room and abandoned it there on the floor where we found it at pesto making time. i can’t fathom the depth of the crisis of conscience he experienced. 030
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026We're gonna beat Ohio. This kind of luck transcends skill. 260
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It's my birthday. Look at this present! I feel loved. 150
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026and in the middle of this antichrist-in-cambridge piece, there’s an ad for something titled “there will be another Jason Arday” 041
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026coming to realize that after cohorts that has their brains scrambled by covid, i’m now teaching students whose brains are being scrambled by AI. 030
Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026First student complaint about “discussing modern politics” in my detroit sports class. Buckle in, kid. In this household, we believe that sports are politics. 0100
