the moment i saw that my instacart shopper replaced sold out brioche bread with a completely different bread of the same brand, rather than brioche bread in a different brand, i knew he was a man

i ordered some very pretty gold and pink metal bookmarks months ago. so naturally i have no idea where they are and am currently saving my place with the torn-open envelope of some unwanted mail

Score on one of many breakaways where it's only your attacker and the keeper? Washington Spirit: nah Score on a probable intended cross into the box at the death of stoppage time from well outside that somehow sneaks its way into the back corner of the net? Washington Spirit: that one

"Nneka, next time you go home make sure you get your vincy passport" - my pops, who i have been telling for literally TEN YEARS that i need his birth certificate to get my passport. i am going to start yelling.

i had this exact question so fyi in case you do too: if your book was in the atlantic list but published after 2021, it's not part of the settlement www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/faq#q-49

Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Am I reading this correctly? A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza? What the hell?

WE CAN READ

absolutely outrageous how the author and editor are trying to convince us that "disproportionate violent action" is simply a call for self-defense, not an explicit incitement to disproportionate violent action

the daily caller published a call to violence of the left yesterday, a news organization that has connections to the heritage foundation

got pancake mix and chocolate chips; forgot to buy syrup. tragic!

i found this for you:

apparently this little guy is always trouble

psa for people who like to cook: savory spice shop has a sale right now where you'll get free shipping on $49, a free flavor extract on $60, and a free caribbean green seasoning spice if you spend $75. you can combine all three offers! so i essentially just got 25% off my order savoryspiceshop.com

...Since then, she was asked to report to immigration authorities every six months. She was arrested in San Francisco when she had gone for a check-in. She spent 60-70 hours in detention without a bed, forced to sleep on the floor despite double knee replacements. #Pinks www.bbc.com/news/article...

Assata Shakur 1947-2025

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i look forward to finding out how much im gonna get paid

ever so often i chuckle when i remember the time i tweeted that i dont like grits and somebody told me i was disrespecting the ingenuity and resilience of enslaved people lol. grits are gritty! its the texture!

and its absolutely wild how normalized this kinda behavior from elected officials has become

I support this.

I show music videos in my Hip Hop Feminism class every semester, and the looks on their faces always puzzle me.

I (accidentally) showed the uncut Tip Drill music video in class when we were talking about pop culture and the Black female body. I used the term "almost pornographic" and was met with a chorus of "ALMOST?!" and that's when I realized Gen Z is...different. They legit thought I was showing them porn

i really appreciate this because one of my favorite comedians/podcasters (shoutouts mel mitch) made a few videos about this and i didnt fully get it until now

ive been unnecessarily preoccupied with fonts lately and it's really troubling me that i grew up on times new roman, but most of my lesson plans are in calibri, and now that i'm recycling relevant material from a few years ago, the default font is aptos. i got used to teaching in calibri. ENOUGH!

Shame on #harvard Durba Mitra’s brilliance is just too much to handle for a place of so much darkness. Triggered and pissed all over again www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

ayyye just crossed everything off of last week's to-do list and it's only monday

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

Also, relatedly, there is a pre-history to Bondi’s apparent slip on free speech vs hate speech. She wasn’t simply speaking in ignorance of the law but in a context in which both conservatives & liberals had agreed that if sthg is considered politically “hateful” you can be punished for saying it

Casemiro scored and then decided he was done for the day

guys i am SO ANNOYED at casemiro for this. SO ANNOYED

reading this and repeatedly telling myself "fix your face so you dont get wrinkles" www.npr.org/2025/09/19/g...

Nc lets gooooo! - me, a spirit fan (Rooting against orlando at all opportunities to do so)

ME: wanna hear a joke BSKY REPLY PERSON: a what

My my!

Judge:

yesterday in class i overheard a student say he didn't know where something was and his friend told him it's in the syllabus. is the indoctrination....working?

ok spirit hear me out. put kouassi on the wing and play leicy centrally as a false 9

these 1030 nwsl games will be the death of me. and on a school night no less?!

“This isn’t the America I know” Black People:

in the opening hour alone he closed the temple door on o'connell while they were running from trouble, mocked him when he had all the horses, beat o'connell with a camel whip (lmao), and stepped on another man's glasses and left him stranded. trash lol

there are few movie characters who get what they had coming to them more than benny in the mummy 😂

ah, well

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

sharing this particular link less for the news about kimmel himself, and more for the list it includes of regular people being targeted/fired

please read this alt text yall lol

I hadn’t logged in in years (because honestly?) and this was all the push I needed to do a thing that took 2 minutes.