Reposted by chrisSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 03/10/2026New copypasta just dropped 931150
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Congrats to rhet/comp on winning the English job market this year 😵💫 000
Reposted by christhicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026thinking about this again and smiling 3464331461
Reposted by chrisDefective Altruist (Official) @tokenwhitefriend.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The real strength of our civilization is and always has been what they hate about it. 0345
Reposted by chrisSam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly 231635450
Reposted by chrismtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too 18983198
Reposted by chrisThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trusting everyone to sort out what in their information environment is valid and true is a fucking disaster. We *all* get taken by bullshit sometimes no matter how good we think we are at filtering. We *all* have a tendency to trust charismatic people we like over people with actual authority. 317523
Reposted by chrisJill "Bury a Friend" Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then... 12731383
Reposted by chrismattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/09/2026Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube 171696250
Reposted by chrisMelissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We should let people dream of something besides labor 9624131
Reposted by chrisRobert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The “skills” framing also treats students as employees whose productivity must in turn be maximized, driving everything from Ai adoption to punitive censorship to Pinkerton-style crackdowns on protests. 1165
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Chivalry mode” on dating apps, you say?? Sounds like something a millennial medieval literary historian should write about Public scholarship mode: ACTIVATED 021
Reposted by chrisEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t. 962297
Reposted by chrisMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad: 141214589
Reposted by chrisSpooky eBoy 🎃 @mandoqueer.itch.io · 25/09/2026Hot take: this is the mythical "Broadly supportive, less than ideal, but fair for Texas" answer everyone pretends is the only thing being said when discourse about this gets on our collective timelines. 1124
Reposted by chrisBrian M. Wise: Snarkasaurus Rex. Ω, MFers. @brianmwise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The best kind of masculinity is the kind that doesn't give a fuck if you wear a tutu and have a beard because your daughter wants you to be a fairy princess. Or if your son wants to be on the dance team, not baseball. Men are not defined by what some idiot thinks is masculine. 19363271002
Reposted by chrislastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such. 191288283
Reposted by chrisStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them. 471831300
Reposted by chrisAshley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The entire Internet is conspiring to try to force me to watch short form videos and I never want to see a short form video 1232
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I wonder what would happen on this website if everyone had to internalize the idea that all people of all identities and subject positions are capable of being bad and wrong sometimes and that not every disagreement or misunderstanding between individuals is a categorical attack on a larger group 141
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026As someone who wrote a Master’s thesis on C. S. Lewis’s space trilogy, my most pedantic Inklings opinion is that the Narnia books are apologues, not allegories. They’re full of heavy-handed Protestantism, absolutely, but that’s not what allegory means and Lewis, if nothing else, understood allegory. 110
Reposted by chrisBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.gizmodo.com71% of Americans Say They're Completely ExhaustedA CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States. 1401267036705
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Spent my office hours on Tuesday applying for two more jobs Chance of breaking down in tears on the way to work while blasting “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” some time between now and March is like 97% 010
Reposted by chrisKimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Sometimes, I start writing a post, and then I read what I wrote and say, "Who cares?" and delete it. 7368940
Reposted by chrisChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I asked Florida GOP & Republican National Committee for comment, detailing how Rawson: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist flag -had dozens of white supremacist donors -once wrote "public lynchings worked" They did not respond. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...talkingpointsmemo.comExclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives... 329998
Reposted by chrisPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries. 5151701314
Reposted by chrisRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026so far these are the big real uses of AI 1. Analyzing huge data sets better than we could before 2. Automate hacking and malware to an unprecedented degree 3. Supercharge fraud beyond all prior precedent 4. Flood the internet with slop / disinfo Where's the change in our very nature? 522634301
Reposted by chrisKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/09/2026Update: the dialect map quiz thing going around is a cheap knockoff of the good one, which is here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comHow Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Published 2024)What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map. 1201256322
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 01/09/2026baby, I make plenty of money and I pity people who enjoy working because I suspect that many of them don’t have a particularly rich inner life 020
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I spent the last year researching and writing the most comprehensive thing I’ve worked on since defending my PhD in 2019. 36 pages, 97 references. I picked up near-expertise in an entirely new sub-field in the process. And now that it’s out for peer review, I’m terrified it’s bad lol 150
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I’ve been on Bluesky since it was invite-only and I can only name four of these people 000
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I spent my writing time this morning applying for a job instead of actually writing 020
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 22/08/2026who’s ready for another round?? it’ll be different this time, definitely 010
Reposted by chrisAnil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry. 423258932
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I hope AMC adapts Anne Rice’s _Memnoch the Devil_ because I *need* to see how the Internet reacts to Sam Reid’s Lestat time traveling to ancient Jerusalem and drinking the blood of Jesus Christ while he is en route to Golgotha, which is an actual thing that happens in Anne Rice’s _Memnoch the Devil_ 150
Reposted by chrisOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here. 4147041084
Reposted by chris#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026That dude looks someone sprayed Mitch McConnell with wrinkle release 363767
Reposted by chrisPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026we were going to do an IBCK episode on Arday, but it would feel too cruel and gawky now, so i'm just going to thread some of my thoughts on the whole affair 91088109
Reposted by chrisFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/08/2026every day, every hour, brings us images that are totally beyond the powers of parody 933195687
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 10/08/2026My New Yorker essay would be “Why I Tried to Quit the Tenure-Track 1,000 Times but Ultimately Stayed” and the entire copy would read “It’s simple. No one outside the academy would give me an interview. 90% of university faculty are low-earning wage slaves like you, dear reader.” 010
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 10/08/2026What the discourse about tenure-track jobs is missing is recognition that you can get one at a small regional school in BFE that will pay you less than $60k/year to teach a 5/5 and you can even get promoted to associate with tenure in 5 years and you’ll still be teaching a 5/5 in BFE for $60k/year 110
Reposted by chris"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Alright, I'm putting a line in the stand: No more 'why I left academia' takes from dudes that never got their monograph out (in book fields). 'oh sure, I got a gold-plated academic job and bailed out in advance of the tenure decision without a book out, but it was BECAUSE OF WOKE!!' Sure, buddy. 2091999
chris @tragiculous.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Today was my most productive writing day since my son was born in March and I’m unreasonably happy about it 000
