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Dr. Michaela Thompson

@snarknado

Cross-disciplinary scholar, environmental humanist, union organizer, adjunct. "All joy is fleeting except the joy of easing others' suffering" 🦈 ⚾️ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ₯Ύ

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In Miami <24 hours, cybertruck sightings currently at four.

04.03.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a man 's face with sweat on it . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with sweat on it .

TFW when you say fuck it and send the weird email to your colleagues anyway and they're totally into it.

18.02.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing like a confirmation that you're being surveilled by your employer.

18.02.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man wearing glasses and a black shirt with the word jaws on the bottom right corner Alt: Martin Brody from Jaws looking pensive.

TFW when you're about to send a goofy email to colleagues but you don't know if you're at that level with them yet.

17.02.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In the thrift store looking for stuff, I can cut up to make a janky version of traditional Klingon ceremonial dress, like a totally normal person

14.02.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today my class was repeatedly interrupted by a capella singers coming to serenade various students for Valentine's Day, and it was the cutest thing I've ever seen.

13.02.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've used "statesider," but I like "USian" much better.

11.02.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Living under capitalism is like being forced to play a board game you dislike where the rules are boring, unfair and nonsensical but which the winners, who started with an advantage, keep explaining are excellent, and if you try improve the game you’re β€œcheating” but if you stop playing you’ll die

10.02.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 462 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 5

Don't worry, I'm going to make sure that the students use critical thinking to come to their own personal conclusion as to why Bezos is both megalomaniacal and a pathetic sycophant.

04.02.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who wants to bet they are behind on her expense reports?

04.02.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've nicknamed one of the sessions in my Science Controversies class "Fuck Bezos" and every day validates that decision more firmly.

04.02.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

PERFECT GIF.

04.02.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my god, and all of my reference services slips from the Cape Town archives are neatly tucked inside. It's a miracle.

02.02.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I just found two missing fieldwork notebooks from ~ten years ago and I just about fell over out of sheer relief.

02.02.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Still from Star Trek Voyager episode Threshold depicting two amphibious creatures with catfish barbels in a tropical environment

Still from Star Trek Voyager episode Threshold depicting two amphibious creatures with catfish barbels in a tropical environment

On 29th January 1996, "Threshold", the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Captain Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant space newts and had babies first aired. Since it's #ThresholdDay we aim to answer a burning question: did Paris and Janeway fuck? If so, how did they fuck?

29.01.2026 10:26 πŸ‘ 863 πŸ” 323 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 136

[School] may come to regret hiring me to teach a class on science controversies.

29.01.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm betting "no drugs" doesn't include prescription uppers to stay awake and downers for sleep.

29.01.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Providence RI.

15.01.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here

13.01.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 3372 πŸ” 1061 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 21

Lobbyists and YRs are scavengers; they don't do their own hunting.

07.01.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seems a reasonable guess. Got peregrine falcons in the area? They leave similar featherplosions.

04.01.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Pop rocks were a key component.

03.01.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This makes me sound like a terrible snob, but that's only because I am.

20.12.2025 21:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

After years of well-meaning gifts, I've finally learned that what the children in my family really want in their stockings is terrible, mass-produced candy with some sort of gimmick (fizz, slime, turns their mouth awful colors). At least I bought it from a mom-n-pop penny candy store.

20.12.2025 21:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't even live in Ohio. I'd still be throwing elbows.

20.12.2025 21:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The other folks at the gift exchange are terrible, there'd be a fistfight over him at any of mine.

20.12.2025 21:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Bank of America logo really sells it πŸ™„

20.12.2025 14:40 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Got to sit in a room with a scholar I respect greatly, immediately acted like frickin weirdo.

18.12.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am, without exaggeration, afraid to go to the MIT campus tomorrow.

16.12.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m slowly amassing a collection of the most lopsided goblets from the MIT glass sale, and I love all of them so much.

08.12.2025 19:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0