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Victorianist β€’ Utopianist β€’ Environmentalist β€’ Essayist β€’ 100% AI-Free Links to All the Things: linktr.ee/doctorwafflewrites

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Ooof -- Markwayne Mullin is a bad guy

05.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Paternal grandfather: dairy farmer. Maternal grandfather: tool and die maker with an 8th grade education who was mostly unemployed after the age of 30

04.03.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You are evacuating the concept of "complicity" of all significance

04.03.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Entry Ermines

03.03.2026 23:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OMFG

03.03.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This answer may seem simplistic but instead I think it is just simple

02.03.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I spend a lot of time thinking about where it all went wrong and I think I’ve settled on: colonialism. As soon as we accepted genocide and chattel slavery as the price of our society, everything was fucked.

02.03.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A notebook with a written account of a breakfast eaten along with a sample of the beef eaten.

A notebook with a written account of a breakfast eaten along with a sample of the beef eaten.

Do you like breakfast? Do you like breakfast so much you'd stick samples of it in your notebook? Joseph Thomas Fowler would!

02.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New β€” I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

28.02.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 5223 πŸ” 2192 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 107

WHAT IS β€œTHE OTHER POINT OF VIEW”???

27.02.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So you know β€” there are risks involved πŸ˜„

27.02.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Great Expectations was the first big scary β€œold” book I got through in college β€” couldn’t put it down. And now: I am a Victorianist

27.02.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just came out of a class teaching "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" by Ted Chiang so: 🀯

25.02.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(I was also pretty much joking but figured what the heck? you never know when you might stumble onto a fellow obsessive)

25.02.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It does! (I am married to a Kiwi.) But interesting because they've also been munched to death by introduced sheep. (I realize that very few people are as obsessed with lawns/grass as I am right now because: book.)

25.02.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Please tell me more. I am writing a book about lawns and am currently in the middle of the β€œTouch Grass” chapter β€” about the history of lawns and mental health. I’m a little stuck. Speak to me of the grasses

25.02.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Have you read Annihilation??? πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

25.02.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mon dieu, this is satisfying

24.02.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🍻

23.02.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Counter-argument: in general, women do indeed care a lot more about what others think because we are socialized to do so (you know: patriarchy) and yet so many STILL manage to be brilliant and produce original, groundbreaking, breathtaking work. HOLD OUR FUCKING BEER

23.02.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I have been teaching for 25 years, and I’ve never used Canvas/Blackboard, never stopped giving in-class exams with blue books, and never allowed electronic devices in the classroom (except for accommodations). I feel like I’ve just pulled a pair of boot-cut jeans out of the back of my closet.

23.02.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

POGO

20.02.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

POGO!

20.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NH lawsuit ends Trump administration’s DEI ban in schools nationwide A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the federal ban on diversity and equity programs in schools after the federal government agreed not to enforce it in New Hampshire and the ...

www.nenc.news/2026-02-18/d...

19.02.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Book reviewers and authors!

04.02.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

25% of the time we are dead before we get to enjoy?

04.02.2026 20:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

no no no no no no no

24.01.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hard agree but respectfully question use of the word "own" πŸ˜†

24.01.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

My favorite setting is medium-high

18.01.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Philly will TAKE THEM DOWN

18.01.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0