Ryan Boyd
Here for a good time / Los Angeles
- There are six websites now and they all suck
- (gameshow host voice) That’s! what’s! UPPPP!
- Reposted by Ryan BoydThey’ve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. That’s the plan.
- Feeling very Unaccomplished at my rapidly advancing middle age
- Bro do NOT forget that spring-training games start in two weeks
- Reposted by Ryan BoydNEW: USC named its interim president, Beong-Soo Kim, as president — effective today. When USC announced Kim’s interim job a year ago, the board and search committee said he was not a candidate for the permanent position. They later changed their minds. www.latimes.com/california/s...
- (Axl Rose voice) Welcome to your groceries, they cost a thousand bucks
- Reposted by Ryan BoydNew at PB: In a new roundtable commissioned by @dennismhogan.bsky.social, @andyhines.bsky.social discusses the new edited collection “University Keywords” with Rana M. Jaleel, Vineeta Singh, @anniemcc.bsky.social, and Dan Nemser.
- Early Bluesky (like 2023) was bizarre. People would get a thousand followers and turn into Colonel Kurtz.
- Reposted by Ryan Boydjournalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
- The problem is always that a few people have all our money
- Who made those fortunes? I did! You did! Ordinary workers did!
- Reposted by Ryan BoydDo not love how this industry has been shredded and remade into a teetering heap of gig work Freelancers fighting each other for a dwindling number of scraps, generational talent falling out of the ecosystem entirely, former staffers struggling while billionaires stuff their pockets A fucking mess
- Things are getting more and more That's What's Up, and more people are enjoying it increasingly every day.
- Reposted by Ryan BoydUpdate: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.
- Editor-in-chief hits "perfect dab" at newsroom-demolition ceremony
- "Books to be phased out in favor of Sunday Slop," leadership announces
- Absolutely stunning how many of my laundry-room-using neighbors are unfamiliar with phone timers
- These days the song would probably go 🎶 TikTok killed the microblog star 🎶
- You'll hear the worst music in the world and it's usually Tim McGraw
- She was herb-a-derbing in a pickup truck yeah-uhhh
- Real Gs wake up at 5:30am for no reason
- Eyes Wide Shut
- The Girl With the Lewis Lapham Tattoo
- Irish peasant ancestors putting down their shovels and shaking their heads as I go crawling back to Hinge
- People died in a famine and immigrated into brutal coal hollows so I could do this
- My great-great-great grandfather who died at 41 watching me "message" someone in a Dodgers hat
- Critics are raving about “bachelor slurry”
- They’re saying that it’s more That’s What’s Up than it has ever been before
- Reposted by Ryan BoydIt's February and I *need* to hear Keith Hernandez say something weird in the booth late in a meaningless Mets game
- Wonder if the dispensary will have anything new? Probably just weed again.
- Oh man I got hexed by a bog witch again
- Perfecting your hair system and face-goo routine, playboy?
- In a mood to read Martin Amis again
- As a middle-aged man in the terrifying dating pool, it's important for me to keep up with trends, issues, and new technologies.
- The funniest phrase in English is "hair system"
- I need a new cool jacket
- It would almost certainly solve my problems.
- I got into teaching for one reason: To help people acquire the vocational workplace competencies that employers are looking for!
- Hell yeah new Crohn’s flare, that’s wassup, can’t stop stacking these Ws
- Q: Up? A: And at them.
