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your friend with the rhetoric professor of haunted doll-ogy (doll hauntology) (actually a really beleaguered small town department chair, send help) aka tesseractive on other platforms e/em pronouns In a small voice: also wrestling
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Let's be honest. The hour we skip tonight is going to be the best hour anybody experiences in 2025

I’m not a producer but if I was I would start every meeting by getting people to plot their status on this

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there is no amount of sacrifices of vulnerable groups of people you can make to the ghouls to get them to view the rest of you as human and all the sacrificing will do is be enough moral injury to turn you into ghouls

You can hire actual PhDs at a steep discount to this. Traditionally, you don't even have to treat or feed them very well

one thing I've become very convinced of is the need for the civil service to do waaayyyy more propaganda. like you should know about how NOAA makes the weather app on your phone work. you should know that Uncle Sam runs GPS. you should know how impressive the US census data collection effort is, etc

hey, did you know that the world is a better place because of your creations and art and writing, no matter how niche or how many people see it

tweaked my back trying to do a comical will riker pose in the breakroom, how's your monday going

Making English Official: Writing & Resisting Local Language Policies (Cambridge UP, 2024) by Katherine Flowers is now available for free as an open access PDF: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Again I say unto thee an analysis of “AI” and work would yield that most people end up “working for tech”

One thing that needs to get repeated until it sinks in is that “AI” does not simply function as a tool that people in power are using; it’s even more powerful as a permission structure for the destructive & extractive things they wanted to do in the first place.

just received word from corporate, they're shuffling you like a deck of cards tomorrow. yeah i'm also unsure of the mechanics, it's outside my purveiw. they say you're not allowed to eat unconsecrated soil or think about the sun for at least 12 hours beforehand, so keep that in mind. you'll do great

There’s a great quote in THE MARK INSIDE where a 1920’s con man says that the perfect victim is not a stupid man, but a man who’s made his fortune in one specific field, because these men assume they’re brilliant in all other things and believe they can’t be fooled.

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

for the first time in a long time, I came in first in a Magic draft with my students (three way tie but I'll take it). I have heard negative chatter about Aetherdrift draft but honestly we had a blast? And not any more issues with board stalls than usual.

the thing about kings is that the only way to make a king go away is for the king to die. there's no other way to get rid of a king. if i had to choose between president (can make me go away by voting or impeaching or just waiting eight years) vs king (can make me go away only by killing me), well.

one of those "the system isn't defined by rules, but how they are enforced" days, rather than the usual "the purpose of a system is what it does" days

every day i find out what cartoonishly evil thing they did, like uh oh! tesla intern octavius fiddlehorne has deleted the database at the research institute for cancer in kids. and all i can do is post until i find the words that activate one of my followers to go manchurian candidate on elon musk

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

I know "the Resistance" was cringe but personally I think it was healthy that swathes of the public, civil society, and Democrats behaved as if there was still a country worth saving back in 2017. The alternative, it turns out, is much worse.

What a time to be reading Latour's "Give me a Laboratory and I will Raise the World" essay about Louis Pasteur, you know, the one where Latour famously says: "Science is politics pursued by other means."

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

i'm becoming a 24/7 lifestyle 1992 roleplayer and setting up a bbs instead of this shit istg

grant me the serenity to scroll past things that are none of my business, courage to gas up my buddies in a world where kindness is rare, and the wisdom to know the difference between a poll and a rhetorical question

In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.

at least there's a new alison bechdel book coming out?????

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someone asked me today if my spirit was broken yet and it turned out he meant about being a department chair and not like Everything Else.

if you knew a guy who went to a giant public bathroom every day and rooted around in the stalls for turds, and proudly came out to show them to everyone, there's no way you'd believe him if he told you he didn't love shit. the same goes for people who stay on Twitter to quote-tweet the right wing

this is the energy we have to bring into the next four years

why have I never seen *this* pop up in a hist rom???

aidan wachter is on here!!! giving good advice as usual when I have crossed his path.

working from home was good for me because i was isolated from workplace bullies that couldn't find me to hurt me.

the best part of a lottery ticket is the time between when you buy it and when the numbers are drawn. the possibility of a better life hangs over you. that's why we need to start selling lottery tickets that won't be picked until the year 2100. the rest of our lives will be wondrous

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...