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Slow runner, fast walker, bean counter, servant of the felines.
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Check on your workaholic friends. We might actually respond for a change! đź« 

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hot take no one asked for: responding to every report of a-hole behavior with “but MaYbE thEy’Re NEURODIVERGENT” is performative, pretentious, and offensive. We are not a fig leaf for bullies; we’ve already spent ages as lightning rods for same.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

What if we stopped trying to “heal” bratty, petulant, aggrieved entitlement with ever-increasing doses of mollycoddling, appeasement, and fawning? Like, what if we tried consequences instead? IDK just spitballing here

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It’s an interesting time to be full-time staff at a university. I keep hearing the phrase “administrative bloat” applied not just to hyass muckamucks, but to the rank-and-file.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I refuse to specify the fandom, but my favo(u)rite story to write contained an embarrassing factual error: a group of characters watched the news of the Good Friday Agreement in a pub together. This would not have been legal for another 20 years. No one called me on it. It’s a very polite fandom.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It’s strange watching Salt Lake City become less and less like the rest of Utah, while the United States as a whole becomes more and more like Utah. With the possible exception of reliable access to the delicious abomination that is fry sauce, I don’t think the latter trend is a healthy one.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Ah yes. “One weird trick - just stay celibate.” 🤮 If women could fix the patriarchy by simply withholding consent, it would have worked already. Co-opting the vile rhetoric of red-state sex ed will not help women. Please don’t do this.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

TIL the counterpart of “gyno” (🚺) is not “andro” (🚹) but, in fact, “phallo” (🌭) This is not the direction I thought objectification was gonna go, but OK!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Hot take no one asked for: If you FaceTune your work headshot beyond recognition, people will exhibit a startle reflex when you join a video call for the first time. It is OK to have a jawline that doesn’t look like it spent an hour in an electric pencil sharpener. Really.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

My husband finally got in an evening of delightful kite-flying winds…and then, inevitably, got his gorgeous dragon kite stuck in a tall tree. I have been trying to uplift his mood with some “kite pick-up lines” —

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

“I wouldn’t run unless something was chasing me, dur hur hur” No shit, Cletus. You leave your dockless scooter on the sidewalk. You ride your e-bike against traffic on the park loop. You’ve never yielded at a crosswalk in your life. You don’t train or leash your dogs. You catcall from your F150.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Apparently all my posts are Cornholio-related now. Sophisticated AF around here.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Pollux, a Siamese mix (shown here above his littermate, Castor), has a stereotypical tendency to get wound up and overstimulated and act like a total weirdo. Dar and I call this his “Cornholio mode.” Today, he also quite literally needed TP for his bunghole. (Not pictured here.)

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I was watching this old clip just now, and I imagined a better world in which we frustrated ICE with something called a “Cornholio flash mob.” Who’s with me? youtu.be/hAvJkpXzMtY?...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

If you had a loving, literate dad, OR if you’ve ever survived an inept Machiavellian boss with smelly hair, you officially have no excuse for buying what the GOP is selling. I realize I was lucky in re: the former. I remain perplexed, because almost every American I know has experienced the latter.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Do bears shit in the woods? Behavioral ecologists are beginning to think that this could be possible.

submitted 23 days ago • 22 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 26 days ago • 162 comments

TIL that if you post a bunch of boring rants about accounting, you’ll be a hit with spambots targeting a specific demographic that’s been stereotyped throughout history as “great with money,” and inevitably castigated for same. (For the record, I’m Episcopalian, but I have family who are Jewish.)

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Also, I don’t know who needs to hear this*, but if you keep hiring people to do your “accounting” for a salary that’s half the cost of living for your metro area, you’re going to get a candidate pool that literally doesn’t understand cash flow.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I would never dream of insisting, repeatedly, that an Erlenmeyer flask was a “test tube.” Why do the labs I serve repeatedly insist that every document with a number anywhere on it is an “invoice”?

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment