kid is worried that the very garish required makeup for her dance recital is "too subtle"

KRISTEN: we are proud to be partnering with Raytheon for this quickfire [CONTESTANT INTERVIEW]: i know raytheon has influence globally and i want to do that thru food, so yeah, super super dope TOM: we want this dish to be * the bomb* KRISTEN: dad joke! you have 20 minutes

brief moratorium on thinking people in new york should shut the fuck up, happy for you all

okay moratorium was very brief yuck

are they allowed to read on love island? seems like the best possible reading scenario

The humanities teach critical thinking. Part of critical thinking is self-doubt. The worst students to teach are those who are certain that what's happening is too easy for them (often this comes with a thousand page sci-fi novel attached, begun when they were 12, never edited)

academia is a dumpster fire and only getting worse BUT there's always a powerful moment that pops up to remind you why it's worth it to do this work* *freak injury requiring extended hospital stay and therefore decent insurance to avoid hundreds of thousands in medical debt

Learn to poem. nytimes.com/2025/08/10/tec…

it was actually kind of fun and exhilarating but in grad school i got to go to a dinner with gornick before a reading and she was just...mean

would truly be horrible if students were cut off from valuable open information, otherwise how could i spend class time trying to gently persuade that hellen keller was in fact real

the kneejerk belief that nothing is sincere is def bad for the world and imho related to this weird thing now where people only like the same shit they did when they were 11 cuz they kinda believe that's the last time they were geniune the-independent.com/life-style/per…

remake of taking of pelham 123 but only the subway takes guy held for ransom and actually there's no ransom he's just held until the world forgets

someone do a deep dive on a generation of gen x magazine writers, the last to make a decent check off it, also the last to be stylistically terrible but allowed to call that distinctive, and have uniformly responded to a harder new world by becoming reactionary substack grifters

some poor sap in 1700 trying to politely say can i get you something for the third time to a dude who's been there for 6 hours and has inexplicably taken off his shoes

where have you gone andy borowitz our nation turns its lonely eyes to you

obsessed with famous and wealthy brown alums publicly expressing their shock that such a bastion of progressivism would capitulate to fascism because they got to do an interdisciplinary major and dartmouth would never

man i have made it so clear that i probably won't catch you if you use AI because i don't consider it my job to police losers, but when people cheat so poorly and obviously i am FORCED to catch! it's making you a worse cheater and that will serve you so badly in life!