In retrospect it should have been a huge red flag but it was a TT job at one of my top choice schools & I was naïve af.

Less than a month after I was hired, before I moved two states away or even got paid, I had the chair of my new dept telling me how they planned to take revenge on other colleagues whom I had never met and what role I would play in that process.

Definitely lived this a couple of years ago.

Here they come
Walking down your street
Get the funniest looks from
Everyone they meet

He's one reason I doubt the influence of "the algo" on streaming services. Repeatedly get suggestions for his show… "you may like this!" and the answer is no, no I won't.

Both served in the Army Air Forces in WWII. One made it a career, was in Korea and Vietnam & worked manual labor type jobs for an oil co. after leaving the service. The other worked for a chemicals/fertilizer co.

I loved the former, never met the latter. Both had terrible struggles with the bottle.

Lmao good and bad kings, right

Boarders

If you see this, post a drummer that starts with C

Like this

Mid-2000s ny hipster culture was an easily avoidable mistake.

And now 5 years in to teaching (I'm also in the UW System, at one of the comprehensives) I think I would have just thrown him out of class.

My 1st semester of teaching I had a student use "globalist" in a speculative project about apps or websites of the future. I gave him a chance to change his language, he didn't, so I gave the class a short lecture on the term immediately following his presentation. Glad that hadn't happened again.

It doesn’t matter who you think the US has been. The question is—is this who and what you want the US to be???

Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars so I can win and then ignore you until I need money again. This is the best you're ever gonna get, and if you don't like it, you're a traitor who wants the worse guy.

Vote for me. No I won't do anything for you. No I won't do anything you want for the betterment of society. I don't care about you; I don't owe you my work and deeds, YOU owe ME your support. But see that guy over there? He's worse. I promise I won't be that bad. No other guarantees. You're welcome.

Jeff Fucke

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Lmao

To me this is a facet of a larger trend of MBA-speak, buzzword garbage overall.

I find myself going to push my glasses up my nose when they aren't in my face and then get laughed at.

Encouraging our Chicago allies who survived Operation Midway Blitz to please post here about that post-”drawdown.” IIRC heat died down but ICE is back doing same shady shit only shadier. Celebrate the win (when it actually happens, not just a liar‘s words) but know this is a strategic retreat.

If you didn't know, Ruohonen is a Finnish name. When Finns immigrated to this brutal country they got called all sorts of names, disparaged, and worked in some of the toughest mining and farming jobs in existence.

Richie Ruohonen, curler from Saint Paul, gets it.

Not at all cringe

norman rockwell's freedom of speech, but the standing guy has been edited to sit down

couldn't sleep so i made him sit down

You never miss a chance to try and defang left actions, do you?

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

message from MN

I smh every time I see announcements for one of these on campus.

The literal opposite of this meme

The literal opposite of this meme