05.03.2026 22:08
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I didn't think I could be sadder about either of those trades 😢
Same. That "retire a capital" locker room vid feels like a sick joke or a jinx now.
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I went to a high school in a poor-ish town one over from a naval base/shipyard during the lead up to invading Iraq. The recruiter that was allowed to roam the halls promised children that all their problems would be solved if they signed away their bodies, and it went exactly how you’d expect.
The Lafayette College Physics Department is hiring a laboratory and demonstration coordinator! Come work with me!
hr.lafayette.edu/2026/02/24/p...
Huh. Perusing the media landscape, I've noticed that the *women* hockey players are being asked questions about what the men did while most of the men have not had to answer a single fucking one about any of it.
So weird. Odd. Strange.
"I thought the joke was distasteful & unfortunate, & I think the way women are represented, it's a great teaching point to really shine light on how women should be championed for their amazing feats. Now I have to sit in front of you and explain someone else's behavior? It's not my responsibility."
Hilary Knight got the question re: that phone call and the laughter at the Torrent presser. Her answer:
Never forget that the primary tactic of this movement is distraction. They point to medical statements, procedural wins and tangentially related anecdotes because *they have no evidence of their core claim*
If lots of kids were transitioning without assessment they would be talking about that.
The Lafayette College Physics Department is hiring a laboratory and demonstration coordinator! Come work with me!
hr.lafayette.edu/2026/02/24/p...
Glad to hear the USA women's hockey team declined the invitation to the SOTU, even if scheduling probably played a role.
Disappointed to learn that USA hockey sent the women home on a commercial flight while the men got a charter 😒
We are counter-programming the State of the Union with a fundraising telethon featuring everyone’s favorite Bluesky posters doing short presentations and sketches on stuff they are passionate about. Will stream on YouTube starting at 8:30pm EST
postersmadness.wordpress.com
Underrated life hack: writing things down in one or two central locations. Your memory is faulty. Don't rely on it to remember all the little things that life requires. Instead, remember where you can look for all the things you need to remember. Keep it simple and, when you can, free.
And it's OK if systems evolve over time, too! I've used some form of GTD since grad school, but the tools and exact structure have fluctuated over time.
As a specific tool rec, @habitica.com definitely got me through my last few years of grad school, when my ADHD was still undiagnosed
Ooh I like this game! My underrated life hack suggestion for academics, including graduate students is: pick an organization system and use it. Getting Things Done, Full Focus Planner, Bullet Journal, something. Academia is not a place for trying to do things haphazard.
I know I buy far too many books but I like to think that lining the walls of my house with them wards off evil in some deeply important way.
Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.
As always, women showing men how to do it.
me: I am not patriotic
me when the US women’s hockey team wins: 🎆🦅 [EAGLE SCREECH] 🦅🎆
Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave
I read that book for college and I'm still scarred
Photo of front and back of mask packaging. Front says Benny Goodday Mask and has drawing of white rabbit walking through woods, has KF-94 label, plus writing in Asian characters I can’t decipher. Back has additional Asian characters.
I have a bunch of individually sealed kid sized face masks that I just re-discovered in a cleaning frenzy. My kid found them uncomfortable so didn’t wear them, but I hate to throw them out when I know someone can use them. Qty 50-100, free to a good home, will ship for free w/in the US. Pls re post!
a map with 5 different colors showing the different strictness of various states, and it just looks like a patchwork quilt of confusion
This is what the state of Voter ID laws currently is. It's incoherent, every state has different rules, untangling them or giving generalized national advice is pointless. Most folks don't know the rules INSIDE their own state, much less in everyone else's!
www.voteriders.org
Please read this thread!!!
And if you are concerned about ICE being deployed for voter intimidation, find a local voting rights org who is already doing the work.
Start with Vote Riders. States having weird/changing Voter ID laws is less flashy for scaring folks but it works real well.
Thread. Instead of fearmongering about ICE agents intimidating voters at the polls, direct your energy to becoming a poll observer or poll worker, and to advocating for changes to voter laws. Call your political reps, find grassroots orgs doing this work, etc.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
Baltimore rat to help in the fight, forever fuck ice
@actualkatherine.bsky.social 🐀 🧊
#iceoutofbaltimore #iceoutcomics
Setting up our economy so household wealth is in residential real estate was a bad plan. keeping that setup but not allowing households to enter is a recipe for disaster.
I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at galluppanel@gallupmail.com to let them know what you think of this.
the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi
IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:
THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI