PUBLICATION ALERT: Religion in Sociological Perspective, 8th edition, was just published by @sagepub.com. Pleased to have @jh1791.bsky.social join me as a co-author. FREE COPIES: Retweet this post before 10/17 for a chance to win one of 5 copies!

hi friends, i’m in a bit of a tight spot and i need to ask for a little help covering an emergency bill. i don’t usually ask for support like this - i know many of us are just trying to get by, so any donation or share would truly help take some weight off my shoulders rn 🧡💭 ko-fi.com/raspberrriii3

after spending the last 25 minutes trying to unravel this ~200 word sentence, I will no longer be accepting any criticisms about my usage of run-on sentences. 😤

goofin' around with my usual kindred delusions inspired by TMNT and I have once again been reminded how unbelievably ridiculous the Lorwyn changelings were. 😭

every single day I get excited about some new song or artist or musical choice… genuinely feel sorry for those unable to feel that.

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

universe punishing my hubris with an emergency vet visit tonight 😭 🤞🏻🤞🏻 for baby boy

lmao at some point I’m just going to stop trying to rationalize my willingness to do whirlwind trips and just respond with, “built different I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️”

fun 30 hours in Cali, hopefully next time I’m back will be a little longer.

pretty sweet view from the hotel balcony, ngl. (tagging @hobbesq.bolasgang.com for Angels)

hi friends! i’m in a rough spot currently (it’s been a rough six months) and trying to bridge the gap to make my rent this month. if you’d like to give something, anything will help, but also sharing will help too! ko-fi.com/blackgirlmag...

Amidst the shutdown and the continued attacks on institutions, individuals, and communities, it's important that we document human toll. To that end, here's a chance to share anonymously how you and your loved ones are faring in the wake of rapid social and policy change. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

we’re so back, chat

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so happy and jealous for everyone in Atlanta this weekend. miss yall tremendously. glhf, be safe! 💖

Sick playmats, foil token packs, the works. Come on down. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gol...

tfw you can feel the functionality slipping out through your ears but you're not done for the day yet 😭

Emotional self-regulation through the repeated application of CRJ therapy aurally. Or, how I stopped myself from crashing out by blasting Carly Rae Jepsen all the way out.

THANK YOU to everyone who came out to the round table in support of The Trevor Project! And a special thanks to our panel for a great conversation all things Spider-Man! @mentalmisplay.bsky.social @kurohitsuki.bsky.social @k0ppk0pp.bsky.social @claybee.bsky.social

We are live!!!

jfc NPR, why are we platforming Joe Manchin? let that fucking pos rot in obscurity.

This event is TOMORROW, which means it's time to meet our astonishing guests! This is such a great group and I can't wait to hear them bounce off of each other, share their excitement for the set, and help raise money for @trevorproject.bsky.social!

happy 13th birthday to the little old man 🥳

today in class, a classmate said that he was worried to admit that he’s a K*rk supporter and 5 minutes after class I found out that a former classmate and friend (Mexican, immigrant) had committed suicide. I don’t have the language to express how I am processing this juxtaposition.

lmaoooo first day at new store, coworker looks at me and asks "pronouns and adhd or pronouns and autism?" the two flavors of barista 🤭

there's inducing salt and then there's getting the Tom Bombadil player to rope out because your Izzet "enchantress" deck copied Imprisoned in the Moon 3 times to turn off their saga creatures. 🤭

one last thought before I dive back into school work, its unfortunate that the UW cards suffer from the same formatting that the Alchemy cards do. the card arts themselves are great, but the cards themselves just look so...bad. 😔

looking at the commanders I would want to build from Spider-Man and I can tell that I need an outlet because I just want to go sicko* mode. 🤪

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them: They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

there's on the nose and then there's trying to find time on Labor Day to do your assigned reading on Marx in between working both jobs lmao

new ball alert

I love assembling little mid-range value machines. 🥰

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

first day of senior year! 🤭🥳

started talking about this deck idea with @cyrone119.bsky.social today and we decided that the funniest direction for the deck is to make the wincons a) manual Thassa's Oracle and b) Infect from Virulent Silencer. 🤭

hm, think I need to run back an old favorite. 🥰

my office on campus is almost always empty, so naturally the day I wear my Scene Queen merch is the day that there’s multiple meetings in the adjacent conference room and lots of important looking strangers coming in and out. 🫣😅

fun irl note, op for lrt is my boss lol

The NY Times says this administration considers diversity "taboo." A healthy democracy includes a robust appreciation f/ diversity & widespread civic participation. Research from the last 10+ years shows Christian nationalism threatens democracy in at least 3 ways: kettering.org/how-christia...

incredibly frustrating to build a flawed but effective self-medication system to mitigate my sleep disorder, be forced to abandon it to access my ADHD meds, and now unsurprisingly my sleep has fallen to shit because the prescribed meds have zero effectiveness. 😭

very considerate of Florence to schedule her new album release right on time for my usual mid-semester mental meltdown.

friend who is new to Magic texted me last night that they're building a Krenko deck, excited for them and for me to get to experience someone feeling that Krenko rush for the first time.

this weekend I fully flexed my Midwestern-ness, drove 6 hours roundtrip on Saturday for 2 hours at a friend's wedding open house and on Sunday went to a demolition derby at the State Fair. 🤭

I've been binging a 40k lore podcast the last few days but the Imperium will have to wait!

another clean scan at the oncologist marks ~20 months since diagnosis and amputation. 🥳

What's happening in Indiana should be a warning for all of higher ed. IU sanctioned a Professor--who was previously arrested and sanctioned during a campus protest--for allegedly violating the state's "intellectual diversity" law, based on an anonymous complaint. www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

did you know I have a degree in linguistics with a specialization in second language acquisition? did you know no language acquisition experts recommend duolingo, rosetta stone, etc? and didn't even before they went AI slop? why are you using it? is your goal to waste time?

to quote Coach from Letterkenney, "it's fucking embarrassing!"

Sunburst - the more colors, the more powerful I am. 🤭