Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Fully expect to have a 70 degree day in Madison in January. 000 0
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026SNL has done this forever. Funny much of the time, but gobsmackingly dreadful and just painful to watch way too often. 110 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Especially since so many pitchers have a jinky leg kick with multiple starts and stops 010 1
Reposted by Ken MayerUW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication @uwsjmc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026You did it again, flock-stars! 🦩✨ Thanks to your generous donations, the SJMC has broken its record for Fill the Hill gifts! Now it's time for SJMC Director Mike Wagner to take on the Spice the Hill Challenge.🔥 Can he handle the heat? Watch to find out. 021 2
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Nicely done all around! If UComms does not work this into an appearance on Hot Ones they have failed. And since this is the internet, I will be that guy and point out that water does nothing to capsaicin. Milk, yogurt, or tequila are indicated. 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026static.klipy.comTom Cruise Salutes in Top Gun MaverickALT: Tom Cruise Salutes in Top Gun Maverick 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I take it you are not a fan of interpretive jiggery-pokery. 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is just incredibly lazy journalism. You should be ashamed. 000 0
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026True @nytpitchbot.bsky.social territory. NPR talked to 4 self-selected people to draw this conclusion. I guess 4 fly fisherman is "some" fly fishermen. so there's that. This is just incredibly lazy journalism. 020 2
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I hear the word "cassette" and the first thing I think of is "pencil." It's a technology as important as the lever and knowing how to start a fire. 020 2
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Well, he’s gotta be making at least $90,000 a year. 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Especially because the research he cited doesn’t really support his argument. 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think it's because Iowa is so far away from Missouri you can't see them at the same time on a globe. 001 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Well who *wouldn't* want a 43-inch pepper mill that was expertly crafted in France from a single piece of sustainably sourced beech wood and finished in glossy black lacquer with elegant metal accents? 020 2
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It really does - in addition to being kind, it's unexpected (1st year students are far more likely to fear their professors). 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They will remember this forever. Like telling their great grandchildren about their awesome sociology prof forever. 120 2
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026that prose is the reading equivalent of chewing on leather 120 2
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Now you can add "add that thing I need to do to the list" to the list and then add the thing to the list and then check both of them off. 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s even worse than Money Magazine announcing a new “best place to live in the u.s” every year to sell magazines. Just cartoonishly silly. 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Hey muse, here is my bank account info. Please bet $15,000 on Draft Kings for me." 1220 22
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Everyone knows this is because the great book editors are all in Greece or Martha's Vineyard when the votes come in. 020 2
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Or as they would call it at Lambeau, Third Fifth Park. 000 0
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the professional drinkers in Green Bay are reading that as Third Fifth Park. 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I had no idea what I was doing, but was a California beach bum so I was enough of a curiosity to get by. I remember so clearly thinking “there’s no way this is going to work.” Everyone seemed so much smarter than I was. It was terrifying. 040 4
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026How come they never do ads with people who won $1 million betting? Rhetorical question. 030 3
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026static.klipy.comMonty Python: I Got BetterALT: Monty Python: I Got Better 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Talking Chinese." Piers Morgan is such a goddamned idiot. 020 2
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Well, to be fair, the beginning does encourage children to express their love for their father. 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The so-called Center for Intellectual Freedom is a fraud perpretated on the people of Iowa and the students and faculty at the University of Iowa. It's just cartoonishly dishonest. 1156 15
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026if that guy comes to my house, I'm going to answer the door eating a rib and holding a martini. 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This would be better than Jesse Helms reading the text of a phone sex line into the congressional record in 1985. 000 0
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026About halfway through this remarkable piece of student journalism, you learn that the data on alleged liberal bias is *completely made up* 16325 63
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just wait until you start wearing them out and have to get new ones. 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026So that's what the kids are calling it these days. 000 0
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Accuracy in Media."static.klipy.comSure-sure-sureALT: Sure-sure-sure 000 0
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026it‘a a good way of catching plagiarism: print the paper with every 3rd word deleted, and ask the “author” to fill in the blanks. Trivial if it’s your work, impossible if it isn’t. 000 0
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Bugs Bunny could do that, too. Cartoons are like that. 010 1
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026static.klipy.comThat'S Enough Cal BradfordALT: That'S Enough Cal Bradford 020 2
Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Had to deal with some of these parents over 40 years. It was tiresome, but also darkly comic. And they just *loved* the "federal law prohibits me from saying anything to you about your child's performance in class" part. 1250 25