Michael Ekstrand

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

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I think most people are pretty okay if you own a house. maybe it's when you own all the houses that we start to raise some mild objections

In true Idaho style, this bill does not apply if the child is married.

expedited skeets is a feature of Bluesky Orange.

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

Many years ago, before losing our religion, we visited a church and heard a sermon on David and Goliath that included the rather memorable line “Jesus has America and God’s got Israel”.

Anyway, that religious/political paradigm has no relevance to current events… none at all…

This is how I access Bluesky.

we broke functional and very useful writing support tools to replace them with AI, that doesn't work and doesn't give us a means to correct the error.

things that drive me up a wall with AI getting shoved into everything:

right-clicking a word flagged for misspelling in the Outlook composer (and possibly other places, idk) no longer presents an option to add it to my dictionary.

They even bribed us with pins and personal pan pizzas to read. It was an amazing time.

Alas, poor Yorick!

book: “having a dedicated practice buddy is a huge support”

me: <misreads ‘dedicated’ as ‘decapitated’>

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

Some of the biggest (mostly white) panic merchants on here strain to compare current events to Nazi Germany, and while there's always something learn from that era, the best comparisons for Trumpism are wholly American: Jim Crow, the Klan's terror, on and on. We beat it before, we must do it again.

IP is not a new debate.

Greek gods were all like, “YoU WoUlDnT DoWnLoAd A FiRE” and Prometheus was all like “watch me!” and then a giant eagle/legal was like, “you must pay $100 million or your liver.”

I am utterly humorless and relentless about this: you absolutely should never, ever, not for one second, not only a minor, obvious point, never hand it to this man.

Start reading this thread from the top. Cat makes excellent points about the importance of effective health-science messaging in general, but specifically in regard to antivax parents.

The vampire Lord Harkon from Skyrim, scheming from his lair to acquire a magic arrow that will blot out the sun and let vampires rule the land

God forbid a man have hobbies.

Something something ice skate uphill.

oh my.

TIL that my institution requires *6* external letters for tenure applications.

academic fam is that normal? (my previous institution required 3-4, I think)

Very happy that @mvdan.cc is about to release a new version of the excellent 'shfmt' with support for a lot of ZSH syntax! github.com/mvdan/sh/iss...

If you are attending #ECIR2026, @mariaheuss.bsky.social and I invite you to join us at the IR-for-Good Track. This year, we are revamping IR-for-Good as a core track at the conference and we have a really exciting agenda lined up for you! #IR4Good

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you want to see a dead body?

ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect

do they also offer letter?

lol now i want to take number.