What about folks married to an American? This is idiotic?

Travel woes: checked a bag so i could bring good shoes and it’s been caught lost luggage limbo since Wednesday. My current wardrobe consists entirely of C und A (German clothing chain). Also: our dear Shirley (cat) had a diabetic emergency so the pet watcher took her to the vet. She is ok now.

📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Avi Steinberg.

just entered final grades for the LAST TIME YEEHAW #retirement

The night was whirling with insects and implications. Patrick White

Got a steroid/cortizone shot in my severely arthritic left big toe. Podiatrist had to pull around on my toe which caused a bout of severe pain: a pain of many hues: a psychedelic 😵‍💫 pain. Now I’m in the post steroid shot flare. Hopefully pain goes back to being monochrome soon. #chronicpain

📢 JOB ALERT📢 Please spread the word that there are 2x1-year, F/T (Teaching & Research) posts going in History @ Lancaster: Lecturer in Modern British History (1800-2000), with a focus on the social & cultural histories of the economy, advertising, or consumerism. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Still being "Hallo Frau'd" in student emails, even duing the last week of teaching after 30 years if it. The legacy of too stressed or lenient or unknowing GErman highschool teachers who let them get away with the kinds calling them "Frau". I feel like it might be a good time to retire.

My „career“ in a nutshell: 1998: PhD (Northwestern) 1998-1999: Visiting Assistant Prof @ Notre Dame 1999-2002: Visiting A.Prof @ Wabash College 2003-2010: Visiting A.Prof/Assistant Prof @ Albion College 2011-2013: Visiting A. Prof @ Miami U (Ohio) 2013-2026: Assistant Teaching Prof @ Miami U (Ohio)

Just to put it all in one place 1. Posted a picture of Biden hogtied. 2 Mocked Paul Pelosi 3. Said he was glad Mueller died 4. Threatened the entire Iranian civilisation with being wiped out 5. Fomented an actual coup with extreme violence 6. Is a rapist But the left should tone down the rhetoric

Moving out of my faculty office is kind of emotional: am trying to decide whether ot nt to keep my Russian textbooks from when I took it for one semester. It is such a beautiful language.

I’m certain that future generations will come to be taught the philosophies of George Monbiot bsky.app/profile/geor...

Almost at the end of volume 4 of Balle‘s „On the Calculation of Volume“ and the title is finally making sense. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. #solveigballe #onthecalculationofvolume

@au.dk is hiring 3 postdocs (2 yrs) on personality cults & strategic communication in autocracies, led by Jakob Tolstrup & Alexander Baturo. They're looking for profiles with text-as-data, survey experiments and/or Chinese politics experience. Start fall 2026. Looks like a great opportunity!

Orban is out!!!! Hooray hooray!

We’re watching all the James Bond movies on Netflix and Rita Coolidge singing All Time High (Octopussy) is 💯 the all time low of Bond songs. #JamesBond #Octopussy

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"We were led to disaster by the boastful ignorance of men like Trump and Hegseth — boastful ignorance made even worse by claims that God supports whatever they want to do." Paul Krugman: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ignorance-...

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Artemis II today.

TIL that the German word for balliwick is Vogtei, unless you're talking about a balliwick of a chilvaric order which is then called a "Ballei". The husband my husband's first cousin once removed was born in Codlea/Zeiden, Romania, which was a balliwick of the Teutonic Order. #Geneaology

I usually do not keep 2nd spouses of relatives in my ancestry.com tree but in the case of my 12th grandmother Catherine Fleming I'm making exception simply because "Gadfridus Mingay" is the best name ever!! :-)

MRI today: my back is messed up: severe stenosis, bone marrow edema etc. good thing I’m retiring.

buymeacoffee.com/coriwong/e/5... very cool interesting ideas from a very cool interesting person:

I‘ve always thought the idea of being an ornamental hermit would be super cool:

Five more weeks of Uni teaching before „Frau Grimm“ is put out to pasture. 👌👋👌😆

I don't want 4 people on the moon. I want healthcare.

📣 New article online! 'The Revolution Consumed: The Revolts of 1968, Consumerism and Advertising in Western Europe', by Ben Mercer | @mercerb77.bsky.social Read #OpenAcess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Here’s another good one: the reverse of it said „Royal flush.“ 😆

As a corgi lover I truly appreciated this sign:

I went! I liked this sign:

And a basic question: I’m „allowed“ to protest as green card holder (long time 💯 legal alien) right? I of course know I’m not allowed to vote.

Just a reminder: not all „grannies“ ARE grannies. Signed a very content childless older female.

Just another chronically ill person trying to decide whether to go to their local No Kings protest. Have been to all the others. Husband is going for sure. #nokings

My depression’s severe atm but talking to folk here gives me a sense of belonging which I need to try to hold on to. Making this photo helped my brain-looking for the tiny silver owl hidden in it will help yrs-the botanical fractals will dial ⬇️ stress & yr brain will release dopamine if you find🦉:

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Alexa continually thinking I'm saying GOOGLE when I'm saying GOGOL is extremely Gogolian.

The wombat in my banner is by Edward Burne Jones and can be found in the memoir of him written by his wife Georgina: archive.org/details/gri_... I came across it here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uomm...

When I see that 'Gonzaga' is trending here, I can (or rather want to) only think of this fresco of the Gonzaga family (and the good boy 🐾 underneath the seat by Andrea Mantegna. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #dogs #dogsky #dogsofbluesky #fresco #art

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century' Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

Jürgen Habermas, the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, has died at the age of 96. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

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I teach fairytales at Miami! A true Cinderella story in our midst!