He was just trying to remember the word paracetamol.

how do I make students stop calling me mrs. Milov there has never been such a woman.

is this a taunt?

Whenever an exterminator tells me that "rats are the smartest animals" I lose confidence in his abilities. He's already prepared to surrender.

I’m just astonished he’s never posted a DM as a message before.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Rubella in young children is exceptionally dangerous for pregnant women—you know, the people who take care of sick kids and also give them siblings. Miscarriage, stillbirth and congenital deafness are but a few effects.

Might as well defend your faculty.

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

yeah its off topic but FCC really does have a dope logo

The goal is the elimination of a public sphere.

one outcome of people getting fired for expressing their thoughts about CK on social media will be less use of social media.

who is this great plastic surgeon that Nancy m. recommends?

UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

today my dermatologist told me that I "sure do have a lot of moles," and that they are "perfect." #neverforget

Are people turning away from social media in larger numbers as the news gets worse and family and friends reveal themselves to be worse? I hope so but I suspect not.

Also, as an experiment, people should figure out what the real legal basis of their tenure is. This will be different at different schools -- but at least at private schools, you're looking at contractual guarantees, backed by accreditation standards.

phew glad we have AI www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

anyone who remembers 8th grade boys can see how “enigma” is actually juvenile for “vagina.”

🚨🚨🚨ACHTUNG! Job alert! 🚨🚨🚨

Love thy Nader but its just Laura, Claire and Ralph arguing about solar versus wind.

so how do these scam "recruiter" texts work? what if I AM interested in this next opportunity and am really a great fit?

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

so you're saying this is the last email I have to ignore?

as is my custom, im celebrating being forced to work and pay for a babysitter on Labor Day by filching a seltzer water.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o... "...it is unlikely that there will be any unionized federal workers outside of policing agencies by the end of his term in 2029."

One cool thing about UVA is that there are classes on Labor Day but of course all schools and daycares are closed. I love that for us.

part of becoming a parent is realizing just how much of the smells I associated with childhood was really just urine in varying stages of dryness on different fabrics.

Is anyone studying the phenomenon of mass politicogenic depression?

A perversion of the False Claims Act principles: a bounty for rejecting claims. Instead of promoting transparency, it promotes the consolidation of black box tech at the literal expense of disabled Americans.

However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

Does it ever seem like the 20th century threw up?

theconversation.com/latin-americ... My colleague Charlotte Rodgers with literature and a warning.

And the local wine shop/copier center

no that's not a thing

Gleichschaltung is a good word to add to your vocabulary now.

Also why do people think the Court got played?

Is the hope here that “markets” will believe that Cook, a black woman, has been fired for cause (of being a black woman)?

Kent States of America

It’s easy to ignore what is happening inside the agencies/bureaucracies/civil service because of decades of feminizing/delegitimizing those jobs but they actually are the frontlines of authoritarianism.

"Those we can expect from across all of higher education in the months ahead."

Love to be awaken with my outstanding balance for an EpiPen after a late night in the ER with my kid (he’s ok!)

What do u think he’s kompns8ing 4?

R.I.P. rest in pelt Gerry Spence, a Canny Courtroom Showman in Buckskin, Dies at 96 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

This jet lag is hitting me hard I feel like joe Biden

Some women prefer low birth weight babies.

wow that sounds bad

wow that's so cool and something I will definitely do

is this a fake 5-star review for a required module in Workday?

The school opened in 1961 and joined many other school districts that chose to honor Confederate leaders at the height of the Jim Crow era. This was an example of "massive resistance" against the civil rights movement. 🗃️ www.texastribune.org/2025/08/12/m...