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Neither here nor there but this reminded me of how, when I was in grad school, Scott Walker tried to make it so grad students paid taxes on their income+tuition remission and UW had to tell him that the value of tuition remission is basically inter-university clout politics and not real money

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At a university this size this move only makes financial sense if you believe that PhD students are some kind of luxury expense rather than what they are - the primary category of worker doing the bulk of the teaching labor for the meagerest wage possible.

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Community-based land stewardship by indigenous people has an incredible track record when it comes to nearly any environmental benchmark you care to monitor or measure scientifically e.g. Native nations on the West Coast using fire traditionally (follow @jdaldern.bsky.social for more on that)

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Any land reserve held by the state is just land waiting a few decades to be privatized Lands must be inalienably granted to local communities to be administered democratically, including and especially Indigenous peoples

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Me when the conversation is characterized by the use of language

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Who's y'all's favorite sociologist who does ethnography? I'm tinkering with my methods syllabus and thinking of including a couple more sociologists (currently sitting at: 1)

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I very carefully planned sections this semester to compensate for new baby and at the last second before the semester a tenured prof in another department demanded to swap a course time with me and now I have the most fucked up, arrhythmic schedule of my career

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Morning music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmB2...

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Southwest West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky could use your attention rn

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Morning music: open.spotify.com/track/0NXFWv...

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Like 10-15 years ago I saw a talk by Carolyn Nordstrom where she made a bunch of wild claims, chief among which that technocracy was going to result in planes literally falling out of the sky. A professor offered a gotcha: "but planes aren't falling out of the sky." Her reply, "wait 10-15 years"

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The trapdoor spider

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like 2 blocks from the Vollis Simpson whirligig park in Wilson, NC, there's a gas station with a giant painted CHICKEN GIZZARDS promise on the side. also, always trains sounding off a couple blocks over. anyways, I'm thinking about how much I love the intersecting chaos arts of the south.

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Does every field have some really important scholar that people love to hate but mostly haven't read? In environmental studies it seems to be Anna Tsing, who legitimately is one of the only people saying anything of remote relevance to the real world

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These "I didn't know voting for Trump meant he would do the things he said!" articles appeal to two liberal fantasies at once - a: that Trump voters secretly hold progressive ideals deep down and b: that they are dumb as fuck. So I'm suspicious of anything that panders to me in such an obvious way

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For #FolkloreSunday theme of light and positivity: wayang artist Samidjan in Yogyakarta created Javanese wayang depicting trans goddess Betari Jaluwati and trans man and knight Bambang Irawan. In his story, Betari Jaluwati possesses the memories, knowledge, and bravery of marginalized people. 🧵1/4

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I'm not saying it would fix everything, but if Big K.R.I.T. chose this particular moment to release another Live from the Underground level all-time classic album it would at least make things better

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Starting a list of resources for folks who are either impacted by the EKY/SWVA floods or who want to help. The water is high, y’all, and we’ve got freezing temps almost all week. Feel free to add to this

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I'm the person whose job it is to find guys like Martin Starr and Gregg Turkington and put them in Marvel movies. Next up I'm going to make Connor O'Malley play some kind of Hulk. Not like the main Hulk, but one of the other ones. Like a side-Hulk

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Yesterday's view of Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka. Image taken by Landsat-8/9. Panchromatic and slightly enhanced SWIR.

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Teaching two different departments' 101 classes concurrently is really funny because it makes you seem like maybe you specialize just in the beginnings of things. But like a lot of different ones

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Morning music (this and every morning) open.spotify.com/track/1Rs3d2...

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Appalachia is a colonized extraction economy. The profit is sucked out to financial centers around the world. People in Appalachia are aware of how they are regarded. Organize WITH them.

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Tug Fork (you may remember that from Matewan) at Williamson hit six feet above major flood stage. 48 feet, just four below the record flood This is going to be very ugly in southwest West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky

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visiting a Mosque in Mali on google street views (as one does) & found a spot with a weird double image glitch section

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more of central appalachia is going to get washed away and the guys in power are figuring out how to do away with fema

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Been watching some groups and so much damage in Eastern KY already due to flooding—people posting about waiting to be rescued & trying to coordinate help. Steve Hensley at WYMT posting that the North Fork of the Kentucky River surpassed 30 feet for the first time in 40+ years. Photos from yesterday:

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Local news covering the story of the hiring freeze at NC State:

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So, we are getting some heavy flooding here in East Kentucky. Stay safe Appalachia.

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It’s official they’re evacuating Coal Run about 6 miles from my house. No rescue attempts made for those who stay behind.

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From a FB page in Neon, Kentucky - it’s flooding again. A lot of people are still wrangling with FEMA over buyouts from the 2022 flood in eastern KY. This is probably the worst it’s been since then, widespread flooding from WV through TN

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