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Brown notebook with cutout art of blooming plants, with large magenta glitter swirls complementing the art

This was my mildly ridiculous, slightly tacky project from the other night. I cut out flowers from an old calendar, arranged them on a blank notebook, then added glitter spirals. #crafts

70s style office building

Hello and welcome on the Terry Sanford Federal Building in beautiful downtown Raleigh, NC where I will be live-posting a show cause hearing starting at 4:00 ET

I resent having to read this AI slop disguised as a "research identity" proposal. Besides being ungrammatical, it doesn't even make sense (just shocking, when there'sat least two layers of AI). What does make sense is poorly considered.

"We lead the world in transforming lives and communities..." Um, dude, you're objectively bottom tier on almost every metric even within the Big Ten sooooo maybe let's be realistic.

#academia

Trust our AI, Meta says. Buddy, when your content planner (not visibly gen AI on the frontend) is telling me today is both the start of Ramadan and the beginning of daylight savings time, you're not making a great case...

(Not that I would use AI voluntarily anyway)

Oh hi, yes, those motherfuckers ARE denying my Ubrelvy after just reapproving it a couple months ago. We'll see what the outcome is of my provider's battle with them

100% this. Give me my trash chocolate and/or sugar & citric acid with artificial colors and/or sodium bomb.

I miss campus vending machines. Could really use a bit of junk food (yes, I have office snacks but they're all healthy).

Signage for "Excel Church"

"You know who else pivoted a table?"

It's ok to not feel ok.
It's ok if your antlers haven't grown in yet.
It's ok if you can't shape-shift into a raven.
It's ok if you haven't haunted the night for a while.
I know you're doing your best, and that's all any of us can do right now.

The women, gender, and sexuality student conference was today. I moderated a session and attended a few more. Also did exhibit tours for some attendees. I was able to connect several with related resources that fit their research interests, which I always enjoy.

Related: about to murder the big diesel truck owner running it outside my house. The sound/vibrations are juuuuuust the wrong pitch to make everything worse.

Skipped the evening event I was going to go to. Body made very clear that it was crash time and I could either be safely home or trying to make it through a micro opera.

Dear Heavenly Father, in this holy season of Lent we petition thee for just like a soupçon of schism energy to bring the vibes up around here. Please grant our blessed Pope the strength to excommunicate Vance and maybe a few other assholes for good measure. In the White Sox’ name we pray. Amen

Granted I haven't done any hardcore cleaning, but not a single chip, 5 days in.

Halfway through a wash cycle, just realized I didn't empty my jeans pockets. Thankfully, I think the only thing in there was business cards.

This. And some of the stuff Tudyk has said in the last year or two also raised my eyebrows (I'm not remembering exactly what off the top of my head).

a comic book panel of a meteor missing earth

TURN AROUND AND FINISH THE JOB YOU COWARD

This is Aly. She just learned about capitalism. Certainly not a perfect system, but if that is what it takes to put chippies on the table, she understands. 13/10 (IG: alythebichon)

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

Though the non-manual-labor grandpa WAS a Mason, so I am related to both kinds.

1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]

Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team

“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”

lmaooo GET EM

Mason (stone and concrete, not Free)/general contractor. The other one was a lawyer but mostly worked in banks (there was family Drama so grandpa was only at the family firm for a year or two).

I know this pain. Last time I needed new frames I only had 2 or 3 options that fit, only one of which wasn't terrible on me. Pouts. Want pretties.

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.

So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.

Shut it all down.

I really really feel this. We're hosting the Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibit right now, for which I'm solely responsible. Really wish this content wasn't so relatable because everything go boom.

Podcast Addict

A Tiger Electronics portable LCD game branded for The Flintstones movie. Featuring Rosie O'Donnell as Betty, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma, Rick Moranis as Barney, and John Goodman as Fred. The system is purple with yellow accents. Nothing appears on the screen except the sparse background image.

We're being led by the Tiger Electronics portables of humanity. Everything is black and white, they have no music, and no matter how much you push the buttons, it doesn't feel like you can control a goddamned thing.

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

It’s interesting* how “competence” is gendered & used as a way to dump work on the “highly competent” committee member (often a woman).**

* Not interesting at all. Infuriating

** I’m sick of having to do all the things as chair of this v imp campus comm. I can’t even get anyone to take minutes