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Twin Peaks Day and the anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine are the same day, and I don't like it.

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UNC getting rid of its "US Diversity" gen-ed requirement in the middle of the semester. Given how obsessed university admin are with enrollment numbers, this is a threat to departments who teach these courses. I am not on campus this semester (and am just a grad student), but hoping to see pushback.

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We'll take good news where we can find it!

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I like the Super Bowl because you can go to the grocery store on a Sunday afternoon/evening and it's practically empty.

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Since you have to take out a second mortgage to afford eggs these days, this is a reminder that tofu is a great egg substitute.

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Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.

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Neither taking nor teaching classes at UNC this semester, but still got me excited to get the Condition 2 email. Happy Snow Day, Tar Heels!

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To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."

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On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.

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Day 4 of being sick and my (35F) voice sounds like the kid narrating from Shogun Assassin at the beginning of GZA’s Liquid Swords.

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Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Two-tiers that raise independently. Top tier is for cars and trams, lower tier for rail and pedestrians.

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Friends, I’ve heard mention in the past of various alternatives to Goodreads. In 2025 I’m trying to do more non-academic reading and I’d like to keep track of it somehow. Any recommendations?

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Happy “new planner” week to all who celebrate.

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This is so tragic. Another awful consequence of animal agriculture. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

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Can anyone point me in the direction of how to pronounce the name "Jakob Johann von Uexküll"? I might need to say it in a job interview and don't want to embarrass myself

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Nobody wants a student essay as a product; we want students to learn to compose their thoughts in written form as a process. I mean, would you have a machine run your laps or play your scales for you? In which case we would not say you had run or played.

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give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

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Reed College looking moody this week

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Vegan apple frangipane tart for my partner’s very lucky German students.

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I ...what www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Four stars

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Go Carrboro! Excited to learn more about this tomorrow

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I was wondering why so many Russian/Slavic scholars were following me (the audiences in my ASEEES talks this week were not that big!). Glad to be in such good company!

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At a bar in the airport being periodically surprised by men emoting at televisions.

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Felt like a silly tourist coming to the Boston Public Library to read. Found the prettiest reading room. Not 5 minutes later a tour group enters and people start pulling books of the shelves and taking photos of themselves pretending to read. People are so so weird

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When the "V" means vegetarian and not vegan ☹️

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Amazing news! All the love to WNC ❤️

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Struggling to write today? Try this advice from my bf: "Write an Escher painting."

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i admit i live in an echo chamber of leftist politics, the only exception being when i hear things said by the president, the next president, the supreme court, members of congress, people on the news, my family, or people i encounter in my daily life.

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How wonderful to have so many new followers (including several scholars I greatly admire)! I promise I’ll sort through and follow back many of you soon. This weekend trying to scroll less and focus on finishing up my presentations for ASEEES.

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