TIL that there are people who keep opossums as pets

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

She’s crying and pleading and he violently assaults her and throws her to the ground in front of a crowd. Imagine what they guys are doing to people behind closed doors. This is the result of authoritarian overreach and pervasive dehumanization strategies.

The Hidden Costs of Being a Non-Native English Speaker in Philosophy (guest post)

"a disturbing account of what it describes as efforts by Mr. Trump’s top aides to strip the bureau of its century-long history of independence" - "issuing political loyalty tests and directly ordering the firings of agents targeted by President Trump and his allies"

damn. I felt like I was just starting to master the “talk to a stranger coherently and convincingly for 90 seconds while sleep-deprived” == “get a fun stamp for doing a good job” thing, too 😕

I’m not sure if it’s broadly understood what a multi billion dollar industry ABA is & with all Medicaid covered services, there is an incredible amount of fraud This is not the only such case Medicaid fraud is a common business model FRAUD Is the drain on the system NOT disabled people!

This is good news but I'm aghast that it is the rank and file faculty and staff who are doing the legal fighting, rather than the UC System who seems to be mostly trying to "manage" it. When we fight, we win. Fight already, you cowards!

aghast at how the US figure skating federation keeps raising fees every year and then proceeding to wonder why more people don’t want to get involved with the sport bc wdym it’s $180 for the membership that used to be $140, $50 to register of team of two people, $87 to enter one competition

Because a great many members of my field are garbage people with tenure who publish garbage takes while the majority of the field struggles to hold them to account because of "academic freedom" or some such.

TIMELINE CLEANSE!!! #Bloomscrollong

Dueling hurricanes?!? It’s possible next week! It probably won’t work out quite this way. These situations are notoriously difficult for models to handle. But there is truly the potential for two tropical systems off the Eastern Seaboard next week. 1/

just feeling overwhelmed

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I have to say that I consider very lucky to have students who, for the most part (>90%), actually read the texts I assign *and* write their own homework discussion posts. There isn’t a min word count but these kids are writing multiple paragraphs and making great points without any apparent AI use

I would die a happy man if I never had to read the words “raising questions” in another headline again.

por que no los dos

Apparently the rapture is happening on Wednesday and now I'm like should I even bother folding my laundry if I'm going to be fighting to avoid eternal damnation on Thursday?

I’m screaming because this is me too

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

when I was a small child one of my neighbors built a haunted house in their garage. You walked in the big garage door, through a maze they’d built inside the garage, and out a small door in the back. It was a cute and not at all scary haunted house. Think like fuzzy spiders and plastic skeletons

In Denmark, if you’re pregnant and the government thinks you will be a bad parent because you were abused as a child, they can give you a test asking “what’s glass made of?” and “what’s the big staircase in Rome called?”If you fail they take your baby after birth. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

why can’t any company on earth get me this drug I need for my autoimmune disease before Oct. 1?? It really takes that long to ship a box of tablets??

there are still a few things I miss about living in a ritzy area of Cali. Because why did I just drive 25 minutes each way to the Levi’s outlet store, *wearing the pair of 99% organic cotton jeans I bought at the store in Irvine,* only to be told they don’t stock 99-100% cotton in the store??

has anyone been able to figure out why so many straight white women are so goddamn nasty to each other? Like right now this woman on FB is trying to fight me about why it’s actually OK to body-shame skinny people who are trying to gain weight and can’t

haven’t watched the video of Kirk’s widow yet but as someone who eats an obscene number of blueberries in order to help control a medical condition I am already feeling affronted

mad that I spent $75 on two pairs of pants that don’t fit resellers really need to specify whether an item that says “hand wash only” on the tag was put through the wash and dryer because I don’t like buying an “extra small” that’s actually a child large

Everybody's learning about him for the first time from internet poisoned media elites who are convinced otherwise. He can have wanted anything we want him to have wanted.

a problem with thrifting is that I’m so good at finding specific items that I often find the same rare item in multiple colors or color combinations. And then? I must simply buy them all

trying not to laugh too hard at the old acquaintances and distant family members posting “pray for Charlie Kirk” content across FB

will never space in my heart to forgive people who intentionally buy blacked-out Ford explorers and Tauruses because they *want* every single driver they ever get stuck behind to have a panic attack because they think they’re being followed by a cop

begging strange middle-aged men to stop touching me, shouting at me, or calling me their “honey” in public

someone needs to go check on the undergrads

not me having to report even more squirrel poachers!! Hate it when people can’t just let animals in the garden be

found a largish frog

I guess I thought that chopping my hair super short would mean that guys would stop trying to hit on me at literally every major work event ever but *no* instead they lead with comments about how the buzzcut is “so stylish, actually”

colon spasms have got to be one of the least fun parts of this autoimmune disease. Think Charlie horse, but it’s your large intestine

We are witnessing the destruction of the remnants of Turkey’s already agonizing parliamentary democracy, as police forces occupy the Istanbul headquarters of the main opposition party, firing tear gas and plastic bullets both inside and outside against party members, MPs, and protesters.

A slide from my med school syphilis talk

the update to this is that I left the honest review and then had to block her because she wanted to fight with me about it :/

currently wallowing in The Pit of Despair™️ but close to completion

gave my class Garrett hardin’s “lifeboat ethics” + a critique of that paper that points out that many of the allegedly scientific claims it makes are unsubstantiated + my lecture video doing the same & I am surprised at how many students are like no actually maybe we should stop feeding the poor 🤦🏼‍♀️

You really do hate to think of what the world would look like without pissing unimaginable amounts of money away on cops & troops.

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do I even want to know the context

I am consistently impressed by the audacity of people

You know what, fair play to Scooby Doo villains. They walk into a room dressed as a ghost, see a talking dog on its hind legs making the world’s biggest sandwich and somehow manage to stay in character.