torihoover.bsky.social
baltimore-based academic who’s just trying to get that rate my professor chili pepper
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very fair, she was just doing her job!
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damn
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and you can vote on your phone is such a funny afterthought here
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we can do a panel and i’ll present my paper (read: rant) about popular conceptions of the 2010s as the internet’s wild west era and how language around the “digital gold rush” was fed in large part by asian “click farms” and “gold mines”
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the way i was about to screenshot this and text it to you until i saw you reposted it…
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Ah yes because everyone knows if you have assets in excess of $2000 then you are officially wealthy and safe from financial ruination in the case of medical emergency
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lookin like the sheriff of not knowing shit about foreign policy
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To be honest we MUST bring the psycho bird back it is extremely important
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Bro it’s because they gave college students free GPT+ to cheat on exams
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Even IF you are for the death penalty, this is heinous barbarism. Cruel and unusual indeed.
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not fair that i had to experience secondhand embarrassment from reading this article when apparently chesky himself has never once felt it firsthand
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Is it just me or do I hear the Irish catching some strays here from Kevin, uh, O’Leary?
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pity that francis was pancaked by a drunk dump truck driver but at least he is now with god
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mom can you come pick me up, they are private equity-ing the government
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in fact literally watched someone do this with her final exam at a cafe right by johns hopkins last week
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I think they do keep them on hand for him, per the Hot Ones he did with Brunson he’s a Mike & Ike obsessive
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man, i hate the language of “a win for conservatives” when this is not a football game but the future of education in one of our biggest states
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Cool okay so now do the other 225 men sent there with no criminal records and no due process
It doesn’t matter if the man has allegations against him — he‘s been illegally sent to a concentration camp in another country with no chance to defend himself in a court of law
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the way she tries to whatabout it as though inflation is imposed by administrations the way tariffs are lmao
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the victim mentality doesn’t work too good when uhhhhh you’re in control of all the levers of power
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90% human…. how did they scientifically determine that
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and because fascism is the enemy of art they’re all going to end up looking like the fugly nathan bedford forrest statue on i65
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My mother will say things like “I can’t on Wednesday, I have the gym.” All day???
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This combined with the FBI coming after the judge in Milwaukee… haunting stuff
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do think problematic writers’ work can still be incredibly valuable in literary study — Diaz has written one of the only actually-readable second person stories — but that doesn’t mean he is owed a spot in the Norton! Also, as an academic myself, teaching from the Norton is kind of lazy, sorry!
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Truly WILD to claim Junot Diaz is being “disappeared” in April of 2025 when people ARE actively being disappeared for thought crimes BY THE RIGHT
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this man has terminal twitterbrain
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Also, a huge number of Americans, including those who identify as Conservatives, believe in a path to citizenship for people like undocumented asylum-seekers! The DREAM Act is popular! Cmon, Dems, be FOR something!
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TIL george washington’s dogs had freak names
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i’m Dogs in the American Revolutionary War (not war dogs)
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A betting app that lets you gamble on how how long it will take your uber eats to be delivered
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about their innocent families; their children, spouses, parents, siblings, and communities who cannot eat or sleep. kilmar, and 200 other men — merwil gutiérrez, andry hernández romero, neri alvarado, arturo suárez — who were condemned because they dared to believe in the american dream
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ah yes very familiar with the league of deeply lonely leaders of local groups who are committed 4chan leftists
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the minutmen
the patriotists
the sons of liberty
the inalienables
these all suck but i’m trying something idk
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So what I’m hearing is we need a pithy patriotic name
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this i assume is how my ig followers feel when i post a story once every quarter
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I looked it up because apparently I don’t value my one wild and precious life enough not to entertain utter stupidity — they said “more accurate,” not “better”
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Also, not to be That Person, but plenty of prominent Black thinkers like Nell Irvin Painter, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Eve Ewing, and Ibram X (and the NABJ) all advocate for capitalizing White!
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(there was actually a great take on this in chris hayes’ recent book on attention, which channeled an oft-misconstrued lincoln quote)
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Part of a politician’s job is to tell us who we are — to dictate their vision. Then we choose who we agree with using our votes. But dems exist in a world where we (via focus group and consultancy) supposedly tell politicians who we are and they campaign accordingly. Never works
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I presume whenever he says this about anything it’s an attempt to cover his ass bc they are doing blatantly illegal shit and he knows it but still — if Biden had responded to reporters even one time with this comment we’d read 20 Times pieces questioning his mental fitness
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They also thoroughly believe a young pretty woman is entirely undeserving of a leadership role by virtue of her being a young pretty woman