So my parents went to another estate sale today. And picked up a couple more Pleasant Company American Girl items. I now have Kristen's bed (missing pillow), Kirsten's rag doll, and Kirsten's loom kit (complete, never used). For $25.

Sure did sleep the day away. But after a couple of nights of insomnia, followed by an upset stomach last night, I think my body needed that. Idk why this semester has been so fucking hard, but I can't wait for it to be over.

Well, in honor of COP30, my class did two rounds of the World Climate Simulator. Hardball level, without the US present. We got to 2.3 degree C by 2100. And not nearly enough contributions to climate funding (and one group saying no climate refugees in return for $$). I so love/hate this activity.

Ronny Chieng finds out why college students are using AI when they could just be using... college

It is amazing how much working on a single job app messes with my ability to think and focus. And how much it causes my anxiety to skyrocket.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is not a hero and should not be rehabilitated. She's the same person and angling for higher office. Just use her to weaken MAGA. Divide and destroy.

10 years ago, 59% of new solar capacity was deployed in rich countries. Today, emerging economies lead the charge. #China, #India and #Brazil have together delivered 60% of all new solar capacity since 2015 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇧🇷 2/7

Why are job applications so tedious????

Just let my students talk me into doing a 5 star Pokemon raid with them at the beginning of their data collection period for our community ecology lab. Because. Science. (We won!)

I loved the enrollment period as a student. Now I look upon it with dread that my classes won't meet minimum enrollment.

Why is it that my dog waits until I sit down with ice cream to tell me she wants to go for a walk?

That moment you get to link your students to a webpage discussing biomes in Pokemon Go because, yes indeed, we will be playing Pokemon Go to study community diversity in lab on Thursday.

Started the day by running over a squirrel on my way to work. Please don't be an omen for the week.

"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?" "Rosalind Franklin's notes." "That's correct."

How I'd like to spend N7 Day: playing Mass Effect non-stop. How I will be spending N7 Day: grading, vacuuming, dog nail trimming, laundry. ....at least I'll end it with a Garrus/Shepard fic marathon? That counts. Right?

When you start a new playthrough and romance your favorite love interest again

So I'm still working through my CSI reruns and apparently in this episode, Taylor Swift is a guest star @infromthesnow.bsky.social

Went straight from cold to cramps. This week. 🤢

Fuck yeah New Jersey and New York. And all the other great election turn outs. But I'm definitely biased towards home.

It's 7:30 pm. I have classes done for tomorrow, dinner made for the next few days, lunch packed, and even showered. But I have so much grading and I feel so guilty that I'm just sitting here on the couch watching CSI instead. I just don't have any energy and the cough is coming back. 😑

Me: gonna get so much work done this weekend My body: how about a low-grade fever, sore throat, exhaustion, and nausea? Really happy I did grocery shopping yesterday and planned on mushroom soup for dinner the next few nights.

I nearly did this today. Went with Dutch football fan instead. ...also a ridiculously lazy costume choice.

The reason 42 million Americans are on SNAP is because employers aren’t paying living wages.

Definitely jinxed myself the other day by bragging about my new ability to sorta budget and save in emergency funds to my parents. Currently sitting at an auto repair shop because I hit a curb and damaged my tire to the point of needing it replaced. 🙃

Apparently my parents' hurricane of chaos pup hurt her back by falling off the bed last week and is on restrictive actvity for the next few weeks. I honestly don't know how Mags is going to survive when this is her native state:

Fuck yeah!

The joys of being a professor in the fall: eventually all those germs from coughing and sniffly students catch up to you. Especially when weather turns cold and wet at the same time.

Co-sign.

Just your regularly scheduled reminder that dolphins have some of the weirdest interactions with other species in their communities: www.zmescience.com/ecology/anim...

Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life https://theonion.com/trump-defends-demolition-of-yggdrasil-ancient-tree-of-life/

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

I now own a Kitchenaid stand mixer....for a grand total of $5. My dad purchased it at a garage sale to see if he could fix it. Turned out the answer was yes.

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

As humans change the climate, largely by burning fossil fuels, the frequency and severity of weather disasters are rising. Climate Central now hosts the billion-dollar weather disaster database that the Trump administration took off NOAA's website. www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

PAYCHECK $0.00 A single dad holding back tears on national TV because his federal paycheck can’t cover food and rent, while Trump’s building a $350 million ballroom at the White House. Is America great yet?

I'm starting to see multiple threads where bluesky folks are trying to raise money for their local food banks because of the shutdown of SNAP starting November 1... can we get a thread going for people to find each other? Drop your link and put your city in front, let's coordinate city by city!

I'm almost certain one of my students drew every single image in her animal adaptations infographic. In an age where there's constant worry about AI cheating, this is even more beautiful to see than it would've been 5 years ago.

I love how I can date these old episodes of CSI in my rewatch through technology. Just saw the Dell laptop in a scene that I had in college, and with the exact same marbled red backing I had and loved. So clearly, this must be mid-2000s. 😀

Everything sucks but I got to take my students to the local cemetery yesteday to collect data on survivorship for a population ecology lab. I think my favorite part were all the non-class related observations students told me about.

“He’s not only provided the political climate & resources for the University to turn into the empty shell that it now is, but has also given so many in our leadership the inspiration to crack down on civil & constitutional rights, attack academic freedom & turn their back on common human decency” 🔥

Reskeeting with alt text but yeah that's basically right. Reagan fucked us all in ways that we can barely comprehend

If your car dies, you die in real life

Emperor Palpatine xkcd.com/3157/

'Respectfully' at the beginning of a sentence is usually an indicator that the sentence will not, in fact, be respectful.

I am still so fucking tired from this weekend. But! Thanks to my friend's help with teaching me how to budget effectively (most of the time), I was able to contribute money to the kickstarter at the level I wanted to and not have it affect necessary funds or create credit card debt.

Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/

Missy greeted me with a toy and a wagging tail. I think the meds are working. 😁