It’s been a long year this week.

We’re focused on other news at the moment and it’s understandable. Also today - a professor was fired for political reasons and the admin cut HSI funding.

Happy 30th anniversary to our beloved Warrior Princess! #xena #xenawarriorprincess #30thanniversary

Happy Pride Month!

Hey, want something fun for your Saturday? I'll be on @itsafandomthingpod.bsky.social's marathon livestream! Click to save the link to the pod's YouTube channel, and the link in the next thingy in this thread will take you to the schedule www.youtube.com/live/PW-uIDc...

And now, together with my fellow professors, I enter the end of term process colloquially know as the Grading Conclave. I will only emerge after the grading is complete - black smoke = still grading. White smoke = I have finished the grading.

This is my Bestie, Pat. In addition to being an amazing teacher, intellectual collaborator, & Deadpool to my Wolverine, he runs MARATHONS in his free time to raise money for students! Please consider a donation! gofund.me/faf24124

Sounds gay, I’m in.

Instead of paying taxes can I just donate $ to NPR?

The good news (?) is that NPR and PBS are one executive action away from incentivizing branded tote bags filled with Molotov cocktails in their next pledge drive.

Every day feels like living in a White Lotus episode where everyone in charge of the country is entitled and terrible, and I’m not even on a beach.

Nobody: Me: … Okay but why does the Claude AI logo look like a puckered butthole?

I originally read this as “US consumers are retching” and yeah, pretty much.

My favorite character in The White Lotus is the location. Holy shit, good job, Directors. Everyone is an awful person, but the nature makes me want to drool. (Okay I also like Belinda & Walton Goggins is always excellent. *tips hat* to the man who made us appreciate Boyd Crowder).

The most inexplicable part of Severance is Devon & Ricken’s relationship.

Happy to see the results out of WI today. Will change the assumption that money can buy elections, hopefully.

Damn, RIP to Val Kilmer, a hell of an actor.

A friend just started watching Severance and I can’t wait to send them this.

I’ve been laughing at his dumb face for 10 minutes.

This week, @carlatemis.bsky.social from Bed, Wed, or Behead, along with Tanya, join me to discuss all the buzz in pop culture and fandom. We also discuss Gwyneth Paltrow’s recent remarks about intimacy coordinators. #podcast itsafandomthingpod.com

New episode alert! @carlatemis.bsky.social from Bed, Wed, Behead, along with Tanya, join me to discuss how the PR machine influences fandom reactions to celebrity accusations. Trigger warnings: discussion of sexual assault, domestic violence, and misogyny. #Podcast itsafandomthingpod.com

Loki sat on my lap today. This is eventful bc he’s been leaving that spot open for our old kitty Patches who passed last week. 💔

*Australian actor over 30 shows up in media* Me ( to Levi who does not care): That person was on McLeod’s Daughter’s! (Look it up, Kids).

A friend shared this non pay walled version of the Atlantic article with me. Worth a read 😳 archive.ph/8l0pK

Also I just had my eye exam & I’m walking out feeling like this.

Yeah. Pretty much.