Isaiah

Professional francophile

[Isaiah @izzy_seibs]

DEVILed eggs 🍳😈🍳??? Not on my watch! 🙅🏼‍♂️🙅🏼‍♂️ "As for me and my household, we will serve THE LORD."

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

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[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

Diva down

[Isaiah @izzy_seibs]

Commenting “ok hannah horvath!!!!!” every time someone posts a pic of their dumb new tattoo

[Isaiah @izzy_seibs]

@Gaismair I’m in France right now, have had TV news on in the background all night, and haven’t heard a single word about it!

Only thing they’ve been talking about for hours is Marine Le Pen.

[Isaiah @izzy_seibs]

RETVRN

[R.F. Kenmore @rfkenmore]

Today I learned LL Bean used to sell Patagonia in their catalogues

Baggies in 1984
21% cotton!

[CityOfTakes @CityOfTakes]

@ArmandDoma There’s also a contingent of guys who got leftist politics in college and have trouble squaring it with their middle class upbringing (and current corporate job), so they become obsessed with/LARP the dirtbag aesthetic to distance themselves from their normie lib counterparts.

[LINK 🐂🫎 @DJProfessorL]

Buzzword slot machine:

[Matthew Noah Smith @MattNoahSmith]

I teach college and here's the thing:

Writing is a materialized form of thinking. It is not just a way to record thoughts. It is a concrete route to understanding.

If one uses a machine to write, they cease thinking. They abandon a route to understanding. Not good!

[Isaiah @izzy_seibs]

@yunghic1 It was the MFA uniform on Reddit for yearssssss

[Isaiah @izzy_seibs]

@Ga___vz @fentanylbrownie Says she’s trad but she’s mixing metals smh

[chlo 🏎️ @_cosmicangst]

They bleached Cunk

[Isaiah @izzy_seibs]

You know the people on the Amtrak or NJ Transit quiet cars who have phone calls or play stuff from their phones on speaker hate to see me coming

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

Why did leftists decide that manifestly low conscientiousness is a mark of "authenticity"? They did it with Fetterman, it blew up in their face, and now they've done it again with Platner: falling in love with an obviously unreliable underemployed weirdo. https://t.co/cid5VoEtsW

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

English is full of “lexical gaps”: words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin but not other, related words↓

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is a brilliant metaphor from Harvard professor Joshua Greene on why grade inflation is so harmful. https://t.co/cHCUzQIvyG

[Dion @2024dion]

As Putnam pointed out in Bowling Alone, the kinds of third places that are actually declining are the ones that form thick attachments -- churches, fraternal clubs, bowling leagues, local political groups, unions, etc.

But discourse about third place decline centers on the consumer economy, because people want there to be someone to blame (greedy capitalists tearing out the coffee shop seating, neoliberal austerity minded governments closing the libraries) rather than their own behavior.

Much easier to blame the man for your problems than to put down the phone and go out and form community with like-minded people.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Explaining the bourgeoisie to an American: imagine a burgher

[melody @melkuo]

Fare enforcement is one of the things I’ve completely changed my mind on. I used to take the compassionate stance and think it doesn’t hurt to give someone down on their luck a pass.

But this is further proof that it’s more a small minority of people with deeply antisocial behaviour.

We can’t let our public spaces devolve such that the average person doesn’t want to use them.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

Seems bad