Banana Laffy Taffy is included in the orientation tote bag in hell.

How I feel when I cite myself:

I had a colleague known for deep and meaningful relationships with students tell me AI was a “godsend” for letters of recommendation. Believe it or not, I’m very good about not lecturing my colleagues into oblivion, but not *this* day. I led with “what the fuck are you doing?”

Ok its that time again… I have 4 days left of my pain medication for my autoimmune disease and it costs $120. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Cash.me/$tayytoocole or venmo: tayynycole

Update: Surgery was successful and we made it home okay! Just need funds for food today, which is looking to be $40. So far, have $10 towards the goal!

I have said this before: I fucking HATE masking. I find it uncomfortable, I hate the way I look in one, it's MISERABLE to teach or lecture in, and I dearly miss dining indoors. I still do it because a. I don't want long COVID, and b. I give a damn about people who can't afford to get it.

As I read this, I'm reminded how I was treated differently when I started wearing my 'fancy' engagement + wedding rings to medical appointments (esp OB/GYN) And I can attest to changes in how I was treated during hospitalizations once the doctors learned that my husband was white

Raising $500 by 6/5. I don’t even feel like going into the spiel anymore. GFM still hasn’t verified my identity. I’m available for death and grief work on a sliding fee scale. sayheylenee.com for more info.

“For three years, everything that happened in the entryway of Willie Banks’ Westbrook home was captured by his neighbor’s security camera.” “What he didn’t realize until recently was that a state drug officer was using the camera feed to watch him in real time without first obtaining a warrant.”

This article is so important. It shines a light on bookstores and communities on the front lines of the Long Covid crisis we face, what they're doing to protect people, and how we can support them. Also hell yes indies and BOOKS! (And they shout out our Covid Safety Guide, w00t!) Read and share ⬇️

Leah:

Beloved! While you are investigating the credentials of a certain "therapist," please keep that same energy for some of your pastors. 🙏🏿

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

What's your favorite song by the Bee Gees? 🎧

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Gospel of Mark:

The Max Road fire in Florida’s Everglades has spread to nearly 6,000 acres and is at 40% containment about noon on Monday. No homes are threatened.

Angel bystanders:

FYI Golden Calf www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Zacchaeus:

Potiphar:

Who is the Rocco to your Elmo? 🪨

I saw more folks than usual masking today in Toronto. 😷

Music fans! What's your favorite version of You Belong to Me?

If all the news about the hantavirus outbreak has you searching for something you can do: wear a mask; and if this passes and it turns out you don’t need it to protect yourself from a hantavirus pandemic, it will still protect you from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Investigators say Monica’s daughter called 911 around 2:25 am while hearing screaming from upstairs. She told dispatchers her father was killing her mother. She then went upstairs, heard her mother screaming for help, and tried to enter the locked bedroom. #BlackskyNews blacknews.com/news/monica-...

So many people panicking about hantavirus but stopped wearing masks to protect against much more transmissible covid. Ok.

Y'all worried about hantavirus doing what COVID is already currently doing just a lil slower and less loud. I ain't saying don't care. I want y'all to care about getting sick and to think about who told you COVID ain't an issue. Y'all don't trust them with hantavirus why trust them with COVID?

Why didn't y'all tell me about the prequel to The Bear?!

"Academic freedom is weakened when a majority of the faculty lack the protections of tenure." www.aaup.org/background-f...

I’m short on rent because I chose groceries. I am ineligible for SNAP. In all honesty, $1000 would get me straight. So let’s try that. $1000 by June 1. My original goal was $500 by May 15. I’m adjusting it, cuz why not? #HelpFolksLive2026

Chris Smalls, the labor organizer and activist known for his role in leading Amazon worker organization, was allegedly tackled outside of the #MetGala by security.

At the grand opening of Quark's:

Guards at the empty tomb:

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

The world's first automated double dutch machine, invented by mechanical engineer and Penn State professor Tahira Reid Smith. She first drew it up as a third grader.

Throwing this out there for #TeacherAppreciationWeek: I was gifted a classroom printer from internet friends about 2 years ago. It has completely died. It is really helpful to have a way to print color pictures or to simply print that one extra copy I need. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

An important piece for all client/patient-centred health care practitioners to read. thesicktimes.org/2026/04/24/w...

Whenever I talk about anti-Blackness it's the one time when people feel the need to chime in with all the other identities too Like I get it but I'm like, can we talk about the anti-Blackness because it's really at the root of all of it. And when people get that, it should crystallize our tactics

When did we get all of these new dinosaurs?

this is happening in every police department in Canada. it is systemic. and police boards are not doing their jobs and municipal and provincial governments are pretending not to know this and then they give them more of our money ---- we need to deal with the police.

a marching band of workers is joining Sunrise protesters at the New York Stock Exchange for May Day

Did I just see a report card for...?!

Michigan State Police are investigating after an MSU zoology student from Maryland that was getting ready to graduate was shot, by his mother's count, 17 times by police. 17 times.

I wrote a plea. Black women are being killed by Black men at alarming, epidemic rates. We have to stop this. Us. Black men. We have to. andscape.com/features/bla...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social ICYMI, a piece that reminded me of Twilight Of The Elites, for obvious reasons. "a world with universal basic income is more meritocratic than a world without one" www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...