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MFA-haver and lowercase deadpanner. I don't want the world, I just want your half. (all views expressed here are mine, not my employer's.)

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perhaps his merch could include a stuffed animal?

04.03.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

a little treat I give myself sometimes is to pretend I don't know that Al Green the singer and Al Green the elected representative are different people. he sang "Love and Happiness" AND was escorted out of the 2026 State of the Union address? iconic.

25.02.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

can't lie, I'm mad that bitchy little air quotes have been coopted by the president. I love to "emphasize things"!!!

24.02.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Writing While the Alphabet Burns: Ukrainian Literature to Help Understand the Ongoing War Russia’s war on Ukraine is entering its twelfth year. As Ukrainians fight to defend their borders, many are also fighting to defend Ukraine’s language and culture. As literature scholars and transl…

β€œAs Ukrainians fight to defend their borders, many are also fighting to defend Ukraine’s language and culture.” Ukrainian literature to help understand the ongoing war.

24.02.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

just went to one of their in-person trainings last night and cannot recommend it enough.

24.02.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot from Twin Peaks, caption reads "Diane, 11:30 am, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."

Screenshot from Twin Peaks, caption reads "Diane, 11:30 am, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."

It's a national holiday

24.02.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 518 πŸ” 226 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 10

forty days without my dad. vichnaya pamyat.

22.02.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

we put a Giant Skeleton Fund on our wedding registry and it apparently brought our guests great joy (in addition to bringing us a giant skeleton)

20.02.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not that we need any more evidence that Trump is doing ethnic cleansing, but the way this regime keeps pushing for random changes in green card processes, asylum, and TPS to suddenly make people undocumented drives home that none of this is about someone's legal status.

20.02.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 544 πŸ” 173 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

mine as well.

20.02.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Poet's Warning about the Climate Emergency - Pittsburgh Review of Books In August 1791, in a wooded clearing in northern Saint-Domingue, enslaved Africans gathered beneath heavy skies. The ceremony at Bois CaΓ―man, part ritual and

my executive director is the coolest. pghrev.com/a-poets-warn...

19.02.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

while there's still time!! 2028 approaches!!!

18.02.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you are objectively correct to do so.

18.02.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

rage makes absolute sense. you did not ask to be put in a position that you would have to survive in the first place.

18.02.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know Paul! this is ridiculous!!

18.02.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

sold!

18.02.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

18.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 40978 πŸ” 10907 πŸ’¬ 312 πŸ“Œ 339
screenshot of a mental health assessment asking "Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems?

Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen" followed by four options: not at all, several days, more than half the days, and nearly every day

screenshot of a mental health assessment asking "Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems? Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen" followed by four options: not at all, several days, more than half the days, and nearly every day

I need this therapist assessment to include a state of the world caveat

18.02.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

it makes me so happy that a column I once managed at Publishing Trends could be a source for such cool data.

17.02.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it makes me so happy to see this out in the world!!!

17.02.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

my coworkers are beginning to realize that there is nothing I love more than a Little Task, preferably very tedious. alphabetizing the bookshelves? I'll volunteer. unifying the format in a contract? already did it. laboriously linking every past lecture to a program page? believe it or not,

17.02.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

three of my closest friends from high school and I get together and take a group photo for our moms whenever we're all in the same place. they are my heart, and I'm lucky.

12.02.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my dad has been gone for one month today, and to mark the day I've been playing some of our favorite music and doing things he loved and feeling grateful I got him for as long as I did. in the midst of my grief, there is still so much joy.

12.02.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

10.02.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 53366 πŸ” 16909 πŸ’¬ 1156 πŸ“Œ 1343

when they sang "Waking up and getting up has never been easy"...I too relate.

09.02.2026 20:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us

meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

09.02.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 2211 πŸ” 296 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 21

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

09.02.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 4381 πŸ” 787 πŸ’¬ 165 πŸ“Œ 139

β€œCollection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

09.02.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 5166 πŸ” 1768 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 44

Truly he is the Best Bunny.

09.02.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 432 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.

09.02.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 2921 πŸ” 375 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 16