I have a lot to do today but I feel like what is most important right now is walking 40 minutes to buy a meatball sub that has good reviews.

The pandemic created many new birdwatchers and now birdwatchers are creating a new infectious disease. Life is so funny and poetic—and gross.

Ugh. I opened an email late and missed the Kangaroo + Cake event on campus. (It’s what it sounds like: you eat cakes with kangaroos.)

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sometimes capitalism is really fun. Did you know you can just buy a restaurant sushi boat?

This is really cool work & a fascinating read. This particularly stood out to me: "Despite hours of interviews, I found little self-reflection on how their desires might permanently impact local communities or how their easy adoption of these practices is situated within histories of suppression."

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Do we need another form of capital? Probably not. Am I pushing one anyway? Yes, absolutely. I had to do so much chanting for this… so please read the first article to come out of my ethnography on American shamans (those who appropriate Indigenous healing). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I don’t understand why “adult” is used as euphemism for sexy things, like “adult films” and “adult bookstore”, when 99.9% of actual adult things are boring at best and existentially terrifying at worst.

It’s so nice out, I’m going to scroll on my phone along the hiking trail.

Forget the butter lamb this Sunday. Get the mozzarella rabbit.

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I know it’s only 9:30am, but I reached into a bag of Haribo gummy bears and pulled out seven reds. No other color. Maybe it means this week will be less shitty. Or maybe it means nothing and everything will remain the same.

Just finished this 🍊 wall lamp. While this was not my intention, I guess I’m in my Georgia O’Keeffe era now.

You are an old lady who weighs 65lbs and has two bad knees. What makes you think you can fight a Toyota Tacoma? 😐

There is no reason why my washing machine and dryer should be connected to the WiFi. Where can I buy fully functioning appliances from the 80s.

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So inspiring to share the stage with Dr. Krystle McLaughlin & Dr. Catherine Tan in the "Scholarship in Public" panel! Thank you Sree Sreenivasan for leading this rich discussion. Video to come! 🎥💫✨ : @vassar.bsky.social @biophyskrys.bsky.social @catherinetan.bsky.social @sreenet.bsky.social

When the Trump administration defended the murders carried out by ICE last month, it effectively told agents that they operate above the law. What happened to Ellie Aghayeva this morning is not rogue but the agency working as designed—and we should all be outraged and call for ICE’s abolishment.

ICE pretended to look for a missing child so that they could abduct a student.

For half an hour, I dug around, in search of a book I am now realizing I don’t own.

How will the killing of a cartel leader and shelter-in-place order impact your #SpringBreak2026? New York Times has some travel tips!

Today in SOCI 330 “Death & Birth” @vassar.bsky.social we are so lucky to have Matilda Garrido, a death doula, come talk about grief and mourning practices.

If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...

Happy Groundhog Day! This is the groundhog lamp I made in 2022.

💔These babies... www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

Holiday shopping is not going great. I’m eating steak flavored chips in my car.

In my parents’ house a quarter of their appliances require an unintuitive “trick” for it to work. I wanted to use the hot water dispenser and my mother said “hold on you need a pencil for that.”

Do elementary schools still use an economy system for good behavior? I am pretty sure that is the reason why I--an adult--think I deserve a treat after every small task.

Panel 4/4 of the “Piscola hunting squirrels at sunset” lamp is cut and ground. Next week, copper foil and solder.

“The emails are like a portal back to a lost Manhattan power scene.” What? Wasn’t ~nostalgia~ everyone’s first reaction to the Epstein emails? No? Just the NYTimes?

bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken

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The problem with working at a coffee shop is... you could be going through a quiet crisis while Funky Town plays in the background.

People didn’t get paid, families didn’t eat, planes didn’t fly… all so that people can pay more for healthcare in the end. Good job Shaheen, King, Hassan, Kaine, Durbin, Fetterman, Cortez Masto and Rosen you all did it.

After six weeks of furloughs, discontinued benefits, and travel disruptions; after majority of people recognizing Trump is at fault; after the dem big wins last week… Democrats decided eh better to quit while we have the upper hand and settle for nothing. apnews.com/article/gove...

I was at a coffee shop. Tapped my card. Forgot to complete the screen. Barista tipped herself 50% while I was in the restroom. 😐

Watching my friend help her son with his math homework as he slowly melts off the sofa in agony. The tone, the volume, the bargaining are universal and timeless.

Side by side headlines sum it up.

This rat was far too casual about plucking a bat in flight. His ease is unsettling. I wonder if his friends and family have any idea that this is what he’s up to at night.

My friend’s 9 yr old: “what’s your job?” Me: “same as your mom. I’m a professor.” 9: “where?” Me: “Vassar.” 9: “Princeton is the best university.“

Pro-life republicans are always working their hardest to withhold the things that sustain life.

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.

Delayed two hours from LGA. But yeah I guess the airports “appeared to be working largely normal” in that I paid $21 for a burrito.

From a PERMANENT extension of the subsidies and the repeal Medicaid cuts to… a one-year extension of expiring health care subsidies?! Are you fucking kidding me? Let me in there, I once got an airline to buy me a train ticket to catch a diff flight during a snow storm. I can handle this one.

I just realized I have not seen a stretched earlobe since Obama was president. What happened? Did people have them removed and their lobes reconstructed?

I have no idea how saturated the AI market is in the private sector but… I imagine not saturated enough to get 100 of them to come teach.