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Occasional writer, intermittent artist. Red lipstick enthusiast. Likes cake. Current academic librarian, former hospital librarian. Atlantic Canada. She/her/elle.
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Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

submitted 1 hour ago • 194 comments

People assuming that the government doesn't work is the result of ~50 years of nonstop conservative slander and propaganda with minimal pushback. Big Tech guys coming in and expecting to find massive fraud with no real value seems like a case of projection

submitted 8 hours ago • 51 comments

ay

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

THE POPE'S MOM WAS A LIBRARIAN

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

You guys, a conclave of old cardinals can decide on a POPE faster than an academic search committee can decide on the four people we're bringing to campus for an assistant professor search.

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

A Chicago pope comes with yellow mustard, chopped white onions, bright green sweet pickle relish, a dill pickle spear, tomato slices or wedges, pickled sport peppers and a dash of celery salt.

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

Had to give a pope-free presentation but that's okay, my cat was the true star.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

An AMERICAN pope? In this economy?

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the one, folks

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

submitted 5 hours ago • 202 comments

Maybe now I can shake this feeling of popelessness

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke pours from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.

submitted 5 hours ago • 160 comments

New pope! Now tell us who it is before I have to go teach! I still have time to add pope jokes to my slides!

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

People are making a lot of obvious class based judgements and pronouncements about the family of the missing children in Pictou County and it is really gross. You don't know what happened, you're not the police, you're not Poirot over there even though you listen to lots of true crime podcasts

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”

submitted 8 hours ago • 202 comments

English language really cooked with “notwithstanding”

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

I love conclave live coverage so much. Nobody knows anything. Live video feed of a chimney. Endless vamping. This is what it’s all about.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

This fun @ziyajones.bsky.social look at the state of the family-style chain restaurant includes a quick and fascinating history of the concept (starting with HoJo's nearly a century ago), and contemporary visits to both Jack Astor's and -my personal fave- East Side Mario's. (Eh bada-boom bada-bing!)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Happy conclave, everyone! Also special shoutout to the CBC for having very detailed explanations so I, a lapsed Catholic, can catch up on my cardinals.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The year is 2025. The US king is threatening Canada. A federal banker is Prime Minister and just announced the expansion of universal dental care, Alberta's threatening a referendum & Quebec is reviving EB after its parent company rallied against Canadian "wokeness" on behalf of incel investors.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Again, we (as in higher ed generally) largely did this to ourselves, in tandem with the private sector -- both of us working in tandem to make education primarily transactional job training -- and we need to accept our part in that and figure out how, if possible, it can be fixed.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I need to start getting fries from the pub delivered to me while I'm in management meetings.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Bleak. nymag.com/intelligence...

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submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

at least some of what’s fueled “ai” is the assumption that anyone *should* be able to write professionally. It’s obviously not true, but the work seems easy when you don’t know what goes into it. It’s specific to writing—no one thinks it’s a problem that they’re not getting a tryout for the Mets!

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Incredibly, panelists are hardly ever considered on the basis of fitness for participation. Years ago on the musksite I wrote up a bunch of things I heard from panelists over the years. Let's see how many I remember.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Eyes down, Conclave watchers! A few facts for your scorecards: - Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so. - Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so. - Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI. - Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

submitted 2 days ago • 651 comments