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since I've already been gauche:
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged;
Missing me one place, search another:
(I still don't have invites and
@lissaharris
still has first dibs but)
I stop somewhere, waiting for you.
I'm so sorry to do the thing where I talk about the other place over here but:
a of all Moominposting is all the rage rn
b tho: is this Moomin with a níðstang?!
someone who knows more than me about Norse folk culture and/or Moomin, help
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just saw a woman doing whatever the fuck she felt like with her body and had to have a public temper tantrum about it
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tell me no women were on your design team without telling me no women were on your design team
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someone on here said insurance doesn't cover teeth bc you don't need teeth to work
and I haven't been right since
It bothers me that there is no public education on how to correctly floss and yet every time you go to the dentist they tell you that you’re flossing incorrectly.
It also bothers me that dental isn’t included in health insurance as if teeth aren’t also my body.
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this
what works for me about twitter is its unique brand of hyperverbal chaos
I want to learn bizarre shit from wildly passionate dysfunctional nerds whose interests only barely overlap with mine
while also cultivating professional networks and keeping tabs on current events
i have a discord, it is GOOD. but it's not the same thing as stumbling across a medievalist's twenty-tweet thread about penises on tapestries or whatever
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@mar_de_palabras
@BajaEnjoyer
it's streaming somewhere -- I forget where I watched it
but also
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just bullied the nurse into triple vaxxing me through use of my superpowers*
*being autistic and refusing to let it go until I understand why someone is telling me I can't have something I want
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no I distinctly remember being told we were overreacting
Republicans were always going to come for contraception next.
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now I really want a mask that looks like Louise's valentine's day makeover
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dear other men:
please resist the urge to tell me why this dude is behaving like this
I know why
so do all the other nondudes in this thread / on this planet
contrariwise if you're asking why he'd post this, might I suggest: talking to a nondude or a transdude
we know why
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this is clearly a hippo?
Apparently, if you can see a boxing glove, you're left-brained, and if you can see a dinosaur, you're right-brained. What do you see in the potato?
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someone on here pointed out that you don't need teeth to do manual labor and it has haunted me ever since
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@e_maselli
imagine running around the world with a bone deep conviction that women should just always already be displaying their bodies in whatever way seems correct to you
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one of the more upsetting revelations whilst so many of us are working from home was reading responses to Toobin's behavior
and seeing how many dudes on Ada Lovelace's internet think wanking at work is fine as long as no one catches you at it
why, why would you do this
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women are not at a loss for places to receive unsolicited dick pics
WHY
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"When people are like, ‘I wish I was as confident as you,’ I’m like, ‘Just look in my mirror and decide that you don’t hate it.’”
I freaking love
@nicolebyer
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So many of our current problems—disdain for the humanities in tech circles, the way streaming services have treated film history, general disregard for human life—stem from the fact that we’ve forgotten that some things have intrinsic value.
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you ever see a photo and immediately know it's going to be in textbooks for decades to come
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now is maybe a good time to ask why domestic law enforcement has tanks and why they feel empowered to deploy them against US citizens
and also why I didn't see any fucking tanks when armed insurgents took over the Michigan State House
Update: the National Guard tanks are headed towards the Third Precinct
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we deserve better villains
Holy shit this is real. This dumb turd is really gonna kill this platform
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man I am so fucking powerful
why can't I get anyone to read a syllabus
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"classic American prudishness" is white christian nationalism in pearls and a cashmere sweater set
I mean, we're talking about 13-year-olds. What do they think these kids have not seen or read on social media? But again, it had little to do with the Holocaust or anti-Semitism and a lot to do with classic American prudishness. And hypocrisy.
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reminder that these incarcerated folks, who risk their lives to protect the lives and property of Californians, will be ineligible to work as firefighters upon their release
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PS snitches get stitches
(or the twitter equivalent, which is to say: blocked)
Snitch-tagging:
Seeing a tweet about someone and then tagging them into your reply so they see it.
If the original tweeter wanted to pull that person into the conversation, they would have tagged them themselves.
Snitch-tagging is un-good.
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we fucking heard you
we just don't know what you're talking about bc you're speaking in fucking riddles
call it "manners" all you want
you're not saying what you mean
and somehow WE'RE the problem
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IRREGARDLESS
a bitch might glow in the dark now
but she is thrice vaccinated
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you know what would prevent this feature from being abused
eliminating this feature
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slut era* = getting my HPV vaccine in under the wire
*trying not to get cervical cancer
(my insurance doesn't even seem to be billing me for it? which is dope; I was prepared to pay out of pocket and it's not cheap)
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2020: America is starving and burying its dead three deep in mass graves
Yesterday 10,000 cars in San Antonio lined up for food distribution.
More than any picture or statistic I’ve seen, this is what scares me.
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I made the last "exam" in my global religions class just three questions:
what was your favorite thing we learned this semester?
what was the most surprising thing we learned?
anything else you want me to know?
and like
FEELS, Y'ALL
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I cannot express how much work it takes to figure out which drugs actually work for your brain
(after doing all the work to prove you "deserve" them)
this shortage is such a slap in the face to all of us who've done that work and are trying our best to function the way you want
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honestly in the grand scheme of inadvertent autistic stubbornness this is nothing
you should have seen when my grad school roommate, who had a car when I didn't
didn't want to go for fries at midnight
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y'all I know teeth are important and they affect other parts of your body
that's why I was horrified
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her: well, would you want to be forced to be vaccinated?
me: in a pandemic? yes, that is how public health works
anyway this is why I try to minimize trips to my GP
what's a little fatigue compared to avoiding these kinds of conversations as much as possible
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her: it's a lot
me: right but what does that mean
her: FINE I WILL GIVE YOU ALL THE SHOTS
WHICH ARM DO YOU WANT TO BE THE SOREST
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starving kids while treating yourselves is some supervillain shit
North Dakota GOP senators voted to increase their own meal reimbursements, 10 days after voting against a bill to expand free school lunches for low-income students
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me: it's my understanding that COVID is also a lot
and I'm already here
and medical stuff stresses me out
so can we just do this
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yes hi I wrote a whole book about how people would prefer to be outraged by unbelievable bullshit than actually change practices and behaviors that do material harm
outrage feels good
work is hard
people are a problem
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her: you won't feel good
me: right, I know, that's why I'm here during fall break
does getting too many shots cancel out their effectiveness or
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dear Slack:
it's not the customized invitation messages we're worried about, so much as what happens if some rando decides to harass you once you've accepted the invitation
I am once again begging to to speak with a woman, any woman about this
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I figured since I was coming in anyway I should just knock out the COVID booster and the flu shot while I was there
her: I wouldn't recommend it
me: why
her: it's a lot
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GOOD FOR HER
Upside-down fig tree in Bacoli, Italy. "No one is quite sure how the tree ended up there or how it survived, but year after year it continues to grow downwards and bear figs."
#archaeohistories
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"they were going to die. they just died sooner"
is a thing that could be true about literally every being on this planet
elderly and disabled people are not disposable
"We've had 21 deaths in Wyoming. Most of those were people with pre-existing conditions or in old folks homes," trustee Kevin Christopherson said. "They were going to die. They just died sooner."
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so very, extremely this
also spoilers: the answer is white supremacy, because when these headlines say "evangelicals," they mean white conservative evangelicals
signed,
#ReligionNerds
everywhere
I regret to inform you that I cannot read one more think piece headlined "Why Evangelicals Support Trump." We are years past this.
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@LouisatheLast
I just saw her on some makeup campaign and she looks so freaking vampy and gorgeous
I love the wee lesbian
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PS when she expressed concern about how this administration is handling COVID I agreed
and then mumbled something about public health failures
her: I blame people for not getting the vaccine
me: that is...not how public health works?
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hi friends
hello
are you a tenured or TT faculty member interested in the expertise of someone who shares your qualifications and training but not your good fortune on the curséd job market?
would you, in short, like to "pick" a NTT expert's "brains?"
okay good let's talk
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@BeeCycling
@megelison
OR they want in on that sweet, sweet abuser money
misogyny and white supremacy are great for business -- just ask YouTube, Facebook, and this here platform
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they're not
they're administrators
exactly the same people who have been treating students and teachers alike as disposable for decades
As I watch this, I am horrified. How can the people who ordered this be educators?
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So You (Think You Might) Have ADHD, Autism, OCD, etc.
let's start with the basics
a) YOU'RE NOT LAZY
first bc laziness doesn't exist; it's the way white cisheteropatriarchal capitalism keeps us sacrificing our bodies for profit
and second bc I know you: your brain never stops
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@lil_baba_yaga
or just not making their bodies as available as said men seen to think they should
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university profs are working five times as hard to make sure students get as much out of remote learning as possible
most of these folks are on 9mo contracts, which means many don't get paid in the summer
full tuition means there will still BE folks teaching next year
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JEEZITS
If they ever throw a lil seasoning on these Jeez-Its I’m buying in bulk
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as I am child-free, I generally refrain from offering parenting advice
but just for today:
y'all need to start teaching your cis white boys to lose, to step back, to share
because when they don't learn that, people (and democracies) die
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okay definitely muting this now
if you're mad about misogyny, call your reps about all the anti-trans bullshit making its way through state legislatures rn and maybe donate to
@RedCanarySong
or any other org that supports sex workers
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to quote
@AngryBlackLady
: abortion is healthcare, motherfuckers
PSA: if you come at me using words like “murder” to describe a safe, routine medical procedure that 1 in 4 U.S. women will have in their lifetimes, you’re inciting violence against providers & clinics and shaming people I care about, and I’ll block you.
#abortion
is normal
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I am begging y'all STEM folks to take even one class in the humanities
also please stop recreating race science for lulz every six months
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hear me out
what if we just stop asking white conservative evangelicals what they think about anything
because they're going to tell us anyway and we're not going to be surprised
stop making them feel like they're so fucking important
they are not
Only 35% of white evangelicals said the
#coronavirus
is of critical concern, a new
@PRRIpoll
has found.
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she's gone
thanks for all the love and kindness, friends
we've felt very held through this and we're really grateful
Dora's appointment is in a couple hours and I am very sad
she's currently cuddling the toy
@ThePookyJ
brought her
which is honestly a p good sign that she's very, very tired
that bitch never cuddled a stuffie in her LIFE
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yes, this is how protests work
Striking how many people
@hannah_natanson
and other reporters have talked to who are marching *today* b/c of the use of force on marchers yesterday.
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dear the internet:
none of y'all get to discuss shariah until you've taken at least one (1) damn religious studies class.
shariah is: complicated; not what is happening in AL (or MS/ OH/ anywhere else in the US)
you are: not helping.
thanking you kindly,
RELI profs everywhere
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yeah none of this is new, thanks
A new and rapidly growing Christian movement is openly political, wants a nation under God’s authority, and is central to Donald Trump’s GOP
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got an interview this afternoon, friends
think happy thoughts
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I'm honestly touched that some agéd hater went so far as to put a stamp on this shit
(it went to my no-longer office sometime in the last 18 months; I just found it in the bottom of a bag I forgot to unpack)
anyway I'm framing it 😂
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"dating opportunities for heterosexual men diminish as healthy relationship standards increase"
no, go ahead, take all the time you need
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we keep fucking telling you:
they are coming for Griswold
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I wrote a book about McMartin (among other things) and this entire thread is bullshit
there's enough dangerous misinformation floating around right now
knock this the fuck off
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no I didn't
neither did you
You witness someone stealing food while grocery shopping, what do you do?
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*White terrorists who destroyed 139 acres of public land to cover up illegal game hunting flown home by
@VP
in a stunning act of disdain for the American people.
Oregon ranchers Trump pardoned flown home by Pence donor in private jet
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having both worked in food service and the academy:
a) food service is harder
b) if I had to wager, I'd say maybe one in 25 PhDs could hack a week in food service
@Karnythia
Once I fired a PhD from a fast food joint because they thought food safety wasn’t a skill
Left raw food out CONSTANTLY
They complained on the way out I was just jealous of their education
I pointed out that said education brought them to being fired from a min wage gig
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y'all my dad is dying
like we're moving him to home hospice care *dying* dying
and none of these Irish motherfuckers in this hospital room are appreciating my jokes
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okay let's do this again:
judeo-christian is an anti-Semitic and islamophobic framework
and anyone who knows even a single Jew knows their high holidays have been over for months
gtfo
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remember when the last Terminator movie was literally about the violence people face trying to cross an invisible line between made up countries
robot dogs shouldn't have to be Skynet
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two hours later and this is officially my most popular tweet ever
I have no soundcloud but y'all should definitely read
@safiyanoble
's _Algorithms of Oppression_ and think harder about how "neutral" tech facilitates white supremacy, sexism, & misogynoir
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Delighted to announce that my first book,
#AbusingReligion
(working subtitle: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions), is under contract with
@RutgersUPress
.
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once again, with feeling:
how do y'all think we're destroying society
we can't even get you to read the syllabus
The rest of the article's good, but casting "the academic left" as a significant force in Britain's decline is just doing the same kind of scapegoating that got the UK to where it is.
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literally this is white christian nationalism in action
I am BEGGING y'all too talk to anyone who has taken even a single religious studies class
As Christianity’s hold has weakened, ideological intensity and fragmentation have risen. But American faith,
@shadihamid
argues, is as fervent as ever; it’s just that what was once religious belief has now been channeled into political belief.
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@sophygurl
@rhysfelis
and gum disease affects your heart! but if the company just wants you working till you drop, who cares
there's always another 11 year old to take your spot
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okay
@DanielJCamacho
did NOT let me call this "Sons of a Preacher Man," but I forgive him
for
@Sojourners
, I wrote about
@daniel_m_lavery
and
@graceelavery
's imperative to hold the Ortbergs and Menlo Church to account
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one side of that debate shot at the door of a healthcare facility yesterday
but the shooter, not the healthcare facility, is somehow the "pro-life" debate team
Anti-abortion leaders across America were elated when Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to appear at the March for Life last year. Now, the mood is sober after Trump has been replaced by Joe Biden, a supporter of abortion rights.
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😭😭😭
man this is the opposite of that one with the raccoon who tries to wash their cotton candy
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twitter, now and forever
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made it to Notre Dame
had braced myself for the in-room crucifix
and like
did y'all get robbed??
what in the protestantism is this
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oh no I love this
(both in a LOOK AT THESE SMILES and also in a "look what's possible when you meet people where they're at instead of treating them like they're problems" kind of way)
This is seven-year-old Ellison. He has down syndrome and struggles with sensory overload.
His parents used to dread haircuts until they met Vernon Jackson, a local barber.
Best 30 seconds you'll see all day.
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HEY KIDS
it's ADHD story time!
specifically a "here's what I learned about being ADHD / autistic / generally ND in the academy" thread
bc I promised someone and also it's been on my mind
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oh good, love to pander to occupying armies before attempting regime change
Nothing to see here, just the fascist governor of Florida doing events exclusively for police before he launches his campaign for President
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