I want what she has (to be a Yugoslavian pop star)

Ohhhh I bet that's why JHU suddenly got really generous with undergrad financial aid this year

I am trying to get my mother to visit and I dreamt that wanted to fly from Denver to Moscow, take the Trans-Siberian Railroad to North Korea, somehow get to Busan and board a ship for SF, and then take a cross-country Amtrak to Balti, and I was trying and failing to explain to her why that's insane

TIL the universe is the moon's shoe, thank you Emily Dickison en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems:_...

So a few months ago I received a text from my cousin—whom I had only met twice before—that he and his wife were living in Balti and would like to get coffee. We had coffee, we had them over for dinner, they invited us over for later this month but just texted to cancel because they are divorcing??

another all-time tweet I am constantly thinking about

news is illegal

Idk if y'all have seen coverage of the AMVCAs but those looks put the met gala to shame

Hello I have a recommendation. It's a game show on youtube where the contestants look at pictures of random people's bedrooms and guess who they are. The host was fired from the Bernie campaign in 2020 for insulting Pete Buttigieg on a locked twitter account www.youtube.com/@InteriorMot...

happy mother's day to the mother possum who broke into my aunt's kitchen to have her babies under the stove last night ONLY

drag queen named Polly Troblem is this anything

Eight (8) couples of my and/or the boyfriend's acquaintance have announced their engagements recently. Two are already married in courthouse weddings. Everyone needs to calm down of engagements

A bunch of extremely beautiful pictures of wind farms in China - all photographs by Weimin Chu e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

Just learnt that "The Sound of Music" was dubbed in Mexico as "La novicia rebelde" / "The Rebellious Novice", which makes it sound like a telenovela. And, after all, is "The Sound of Music" not unlike a telenovela?

Nine years ago today 🌿 Delphinium geyeri, our Geyer's Larkspur, blooming on the Neva Road shale bluff #nativeplants

Emily Brontë’s eyebrow raise in the “so BROODING” panel may be my single favorite expression in comics

A gentleman in line at the new pharmacy just tried very hard to flirt with me (the old pharmacy, you will recall, is being occupied by rats), and I hope I was not overly standoffish with him but I just can't be courted in fluorescent lighting

one of the three patriarchs of yiddish fiction: "the air was clean, delightfully clean, so clean, like you can't even imagine how clean"

GODS TIMING IS ALWAYS RIGHT #ART

My brain scanned "WA" as "Washington" and I was like ooooh koalas in the Pacific North West!!? but, of course, it's Western Australia

damn JHU just sent an email blast to all grad workers about how evil the union is that feels very...potentially illegal?? union-busty? libelous?

this looks fabulous on her

GOD yes

let’s look at the back

now that's costume as art

inability to recognize the petit bourgeoisie is truly the most pervasive mind disease in American journalism

Where Cherubs Fear To Tread A Room With A Partially Obstructed View Howards Pause The Long-ish Journey

A Magician of Earthlake, The Cementary of Atuan, The Farther Shore, Therru, Snippets from Earthlake, The Other Breeze

95% of the time I am convinced that JHU has the most depraved administration in this thrice-accursed land, but I guess Ron Daniels hasn't, uh, run over any students yet???

“run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint” is the only life advice I’ve ever taken from a book

people in my department love to throw ""parties"" that are just smoking and talking about Hegel, and I believe both of those activities should be discouraged

the intake forms at the eye doctor's have a question about "illegal drug use", you won't catch me that easily

I would like to heartily recommend Women Wearing Shoulder Pads--it's a stop-motion lesbian telenovela about a wealthy Spaniard who moves to Ecuador to make her fortune breeding guinea pigs for pets and definitely not food

[starting discourse] something I have observed among young, leftist Jews and Quakers both is an intensifying religious traditionalism that, while an interesting response to (or symptom of) this historical moment, is not something I particularly care for myself

My regular pharmacy has been taken over by rats so I am forced to use a new pharmacy. This is not a little inconvenient but I think I am on the rats' side

Joan Brown, Woman Preparing for a Shower, 1975, oil enamel on canvas, 84 x 72 inches

You know, if there's one thing I can confidently say As A Political Theorist In Training (tm), it's that this is wrong

Did you know there's a Yiddish-language Hasidic version of Monopoly called האַנדל ערליך / Honest Trading ? I played it last night at my Yiddish teacher's house and it's utterly wild. Instead of paying taxes you have to go to yeshiva for several turns and pay yeshiva fees

Was thinking recently that what's so odd to me about young-earth creationism is the conviction that all creatures have always been *exactly as they are*. Like even if God created the world ex nihilo, would it not boggle the mind for, eg, apple trees to be the same as they were 6k years ago?

I don't want to talk about details but it's very surreal when, like, my academic/professional life continues to go quite well and meanwhile there's like a weekly emergency in both my and the boyfriend's families and many of my friends are Not Doing Well and also there's a weekly geopolitical crisis

This article is how I learnt that the right is using the term "red-green alliance", not to refer to eco-socialism, but to a supposed (nonexistent) leftist/Islamist axis. I am so very tired!!

Soave sia il vento

From BBC Africa via IG. FWIW, I picked up my Tern on my birthday but ordered it weeks earlier.

I have a horrible story. A recent PhD of an adjacent department just got married to his now-husband in the department's seminar room. Their marriage certificate is still there. Can you imagine, I ask you!

פֿרילינג איז אײַנגעקומען אין באַלטימאָר און דאָס קעצל װיל אַרויסגײן אין דרויסן כּדי צו עסן גראָז ביז דעם װאָס זי ברעכט אָפּ🤮

Watched Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stevens's new film about the 2020 California wildfires and companion animals and labour and art and getting married and I cannot recommend it enough. It's fun and funny and kitschy and moving and deeply serious www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W3G...

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

I wrote about AMOC newrepublic.com/article/2091...