Both Twitter and BlueSky are just full of rage bait, but the good thing about BlueSky is that you're generally being asked to get angry about a slightly smarter thing.
Seriously considering writing a script that auto-blocks everyone who replies to me with one of these phrases.
I hate Twitter academic job market advice, but I unfortunately have some: If you're applying to some non top ~25 program and you'd really want to work there, add a few lines in your cover letter saying that and why. Search Committees only want to interview folks they can realistically land.
The real political genius of Donald Trump is that, more than even Ronald Reagan, he successfully realigned Republican politics by turning dumb Southern grievance into dumb White grievance.
America has mostly given up on solving difficult problems so I propose we solve some easy ones to get our confidence up. We should start with how cold air conditioned buildings are in hot climates. Why am I, as a fairly muscular adult man, shivering in my office?
Lied about having the rona to get out of an in-person DEI training and now, because of Woke, I think I actually got COVID.
This is why all political journalism in America is communicated through trite sports metaphors or "political junkie" bullshit. The actual stakes of politics are measured in human lives, but succeeding in that game means being willfully ignorant of that.
There should be a thing where you get to go on medical leave to get back in shape. Been back in the gym for the last few weeks after sitting on my ass all summer and I only have the mental energy stare blankly at the wall.
About to do an interview with a Sinclair newscast and will harp the entire time on how Republican immigration policy makes Americans poor and how cities need to build more housing. If any of it gets aired, it will be really, really funny.