She's the Man.

Can we get past $2000 by midnight? That would mean we're 10% of the way to our goal.

I want to note that many of us warned back at the beginning of 2026 that a major consequence of ending DEI would be that men of all backgrounds would find it much harder to get into college, because "gender balancing" affirmative action would no longer favor them. hechingerreport.org/an-unexpecte...

Kesia is from the far North, where her family herd reindeer. They were always supportive of her studying for the civil service exam. Particularly her oldest brother. Selen never said things directly. Instead, he would check that her tablet was charging over night. Or buy her a new calligraphy brush.

Hey if you don’t already follow me on TikTok, and you like Ancient Greek art, history, and archaeology, then you should maybe. No worries if not. #ClassicsBluesky www.tiktok.com/@elliemackin...

This is exactly the kind of thing I keep hoping to see more of in the world. We don't always need to ask permission to make things better. And most of us have more power than we generally assume.

“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’” Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”

Barf Bag: Apparently, being a career-driven female in Manhattan becomes spiritually corrupt only after you’ve successfully leveraged it. www.jezebel.com/woman-with-2...

People are really mean about pigeons and that bothers me.

This is hilarious.

End of semester/2025 vibes.

Shots! Shots! Shots!

My neighborhood has a lot of Somalian families. They're all incredibly friendly and kind. Their kids are wonderful and respectful. The local small businesses are run by and for the Somalian community. I love living here and feel very safe.

Pete Hegseth has the vibe of a classmate who did well on the presidental fitness test in elementary school and decided that it made them tough as nails.

Y'all - this is in the Atlanta suburbs. A Republican stronghold. There are no safe districts. No safe seats.

Congratulations to Leaders We Deserve candidate Akbar Ali, who is now the youngest member of the Georgia General Assembly at 21 years old! He'll be focused on lowering costs, fully funding schools, standing up to Trump, and taking on HOAs. Beyond proud to be his biggest backer in this race.

It's weird to be jealous that other countries have legislation protecting drinking water.

I'll be real: LLMsAI have sucked the joy out of teaching writing for me. Written assignments have become emotionally exhausting exercises in policing students. I feel like I have turned into the academic equivalent of a partner that constantly accuses their significant other of cheating. 

Trump ruins LEGO. www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/12...

In ancient Mesopotamia, astronomers needed to know the moon’s position, even on a cloudy night. So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days. 📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner

Just blocked two people I was previously following for gloating about ICE raids targeting Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan. Be better people for fucks sake. I cannot fathom what is wrong with you

Y’all. We just ended our last executive board meeting for my nonprofit for the year. It is only 6 of us. The fact that we survived and raised almost a quarter MILLION dollars this year in spite of: - Trump stealing $40,000 from us via attacks on our funders 🧵

In one year I - wrote a book - raised $250,000 by myself for my nonprofit to help women impacted by incarceration - delivered almost 100,000 menstrual products to incarcerated women in 6 states - excelled at my new role as a Senior Epidemiologist at my actual job - met my 1st boyfriend What a year

much to say about the OU girl's bad psych paper and ensuing chaos (including “why are governors involving themselves in undergrads' grades?” and ”why do I even know about this??”) but—like every time I encounter it in conservative talking points—I’m struck by the essay’s demonization of compassion

Yeah, the American people likely should have been paying more attention to getting a Real ID since 2005 - AND this is still a lovely stinking albatross of consumer rage we can hang around MAGA’s neck, so I’m ALL in on blaming this squarely on Trump.

I am not thinking about the Roman Empire, I am thinking about the Greek speaking central Asian empires that continued after Alexander the great.

The thing I've been putting off for ages took me 45 minutes to do. FML.

@thelouvreof.bsky.social it's still up, and here's a screenshot.

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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.

my hot take based on nothing is: GOOP is part of why we landed here.

Okay, I might actually do a marathon now.

One of my first journalism professors would give you a zero if you had even one error of fact. It happened to me. Sucked so much. He was one of the best professors I ever had, I took three more classes from him, and we’re still in touch

"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon

My local grocery store sells hibiscus flowers in bulk. Any ideas what folks use them for? I was thinking tea???

What could you do with 12 pesos in the 1780s in #NewSpain? Get 4 second-hand volumes of Villega's #FlosSanctorum (Spanish version of #GoldenLegend). If you added 4 reales you could get a blessed shroud. Ofc, if you were dead you couldn't read so the shroud was a better investment. #BookHistory

every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually

If you’re disabled, housebound or living in poverty and unable to boycott the big retailers this weekend… it’s ok. Many of us save up for months waiting for a sale to get items we need to survive. When you’re sick & in legislated poverty, some boycotts are inaccessible. We need community care.

AI was their ticket to resegregation I’m so serious . Segregation is the only system that could support this level of mediocrity

19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras. Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking? He gets a full presidential pardon. Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.

I've taught history for 19 years and this is EXCELLENT advice. I've done this for over a decade. I did tweak it after a horiffic situation. I now have my students sign off that I reviewed the instructions with them and that they were able to ask questions.

worst parent trap remake ever

I've been browsing some of the university press sales this morning. The algothrim now thinks I want to read histories written by Fox News commentators. I honestly want to fight whoever programmed the algorithim.

You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...

5 animals you've seen in the wild: 1. Bald Eagles 2. Humpback Whales 3. Dolphins 4. Turkey 5. Alligator

Major jump scare in a cdrama when the lead actress dons a red baseball cap.

We're witnessing the greatest sustained attack on the human spirit in history. Big Tech seeks to destroy the arts. They're destroying the school system. They want to make us lobotomized people who can't read, write or create. They've turned dystopian fiction into a manual.

My algoritms keep sending me content about #stoicism. Why? I don't know. I have little interest in it because of how the manosphere and white supremacists pushing "classical education" seem to love it.