This is true of so, so, so many things. You can try a game of saying, “hey, what would be true if both my experience and this fact that feels opposite of my experience were true at the same time”. I think it is really useful. You don’t have live in that space but its okay to play in it.

I think of it that there are two types of importance. The importance of me being me and what I need. And the importance of me being a part of things and impacting others and my world in small ways just by being there and present

The lab has asked for an intro to genetics book for the lab library. Do folks have any recommendations?

I can’t believe I have to make this statement but here it is: There are experts who believe in BOTH modern vaccines and medicines AND traditional plant medicine/ natural remedies. And we dont really conjure the media or capture audiences like the extremists do. 👀

Please support my students kickstarter to finish an educational wastewater video game we started building! I taught an interdisciplinary capstone class video game where programmers, artists, sound designers, and education students could work together! www.kickstarter.com/projects/que...

My food aversion cookbook and guide COLOR TASTE TEXTURE has been called both “funnier than a cookbook has any right to be,” and “life changing.” Built on a foundation on unconditional acceptance of individual sensory needs, for all ages. Written by me, an Autistic classically trained chef.

Please help if you can. chuffed.org/pay/campaign...

At the start of the day she needed $1,000 to get medical treatment for Mohammed, now she only needs $430, PLEASE share this and give whatever you can.

I officially dub this the Yeet Fleet. www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-airc...

Anyone seen writing that thinks about fossil fuels as a kind of time travel? Fictional or scholarly.

I had an undergrad prof who always made comments like this. Frustrated one day, I finally asked him who raised us [to be so displeasing]. I don't think he ever brought it up again.

We signed our lease today, which means I can tell you Good Girl Books will be located at 7685 W Northshore Drive between Richy Kreme donuts and Flourish flowers in Knoxville! We bought a can of pink paint today! IT’S HAPPENING! (Also donuts, flowers, and romance novels is a helluva day!)

What a line... "This was like trying to fix a microwave by hugging it" 🤣

Putting this on my wishlist...

Thank you for your service!

All of this. Public Radio affiliates are often the only thing on the dial in the rural U.S. that isn’t right-wing talk radio or Christian proselytizing (is there a difference these days ha hah ugh) and they do so much good, necessary reporting, even if they don’t get everything right

And when you do, where do you even begin? When they're getting distorted information, what's the common ground on which to move forward?

I have to say that I've been really impressed with the Knoxville News Sentinel. In a decidedly conservative area, they haven't shied from Black-business themed features or this front page story...

Not promising tweets to see when you first open Bluesky. I spent several minutes scrolling for more RFK disasters 😭

Same! Dracula (the book!) gave me nightmares & I couldn't finish it until years later. 😭

🚨Call Harshbarger about Medicaid!!🚨 She's on the Energy and Commerce Committee that will gut Medicaid. Ask how that aids her supposed goals to improve rural health care (spoiler, it won't). @indivisibleknox.bsky.social @nashvilleresist.bsky.social

Oh look, it’s my new to-read list! 🤩 What a treasure trove!

Oh okay. I’ll go cry forever now. Thanks.

Making American Blowflies Great Again

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using GIFs. (“Hard mode”: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR or Disney)

Immigrants in East TN now have to drive 3 additional hours to check in with ICE after the Knoxville ICE was apparently closed. For those living in, say, Unicoi or Carter counties, that could be a **5** hour, one-way trip!

It's important to distinguish the *process* of writing from its *product*. Most suggestions for the OP are what the *product* should(n't) be (which isn't a "bad" thing!). I just think we also have an obligation to inform our students about the *process* & empower them to find their own.

Perhaps not surprisingly, I remember Trump harping on this in his Apprentice days - he fired a Celebrity apprentice cast member for pointing out a problem without also supplying a solution

I have yet to understand: 1) how/why we allowed private "credit score" companies free, unfettered access to our most protected information (eg SSNs, purchase history) and ...

How do we get one of these for Harshbarger??

Morristown, Tennessee Saturday, April 19

I have not had shingles but related too much to this story: Lip tingles -> low immune response, cold sore incoming *here* "skin sensitivity or pain in just one area of the body, often on their torso, face, or back" -> aka back tingles, system-wide immune response, possibly feverish, go to bed!

Here's the link for the East Tennessee PBS Passport - only $5/mo!! www.easttennesseepbs.org/passport-mem...

"White people have a bad habit of only recognizing Black people's work when it happens in white people's spaces and with whites people's approval" I said "Whew SHIT" out loud at that line. He spittin. I need some folks on this app to pass this video around.

Per Hagerty's Knoxville office yesterday "the [recess] schedule fills up really fast" 🙄

I've had my Pixel 4a for almost 6 years & just had the battery + screen replaced by Google for free in January. An even older Samsung finally died last year but might just need a new battery. Now I'm wondering just how long they really last...

Beyond the myths: ADHD explained in powerful comics #GraphicMedicine (2024) kevinmd.com/2024/01/beyo...

🚨Attn #Tennessee: 🚨 Blackburn is on this committee, which will be required to pass Medicaid cuts!!

Not the cumin 😭😭😭

My rep! Wow! Definitely calling to thank him tomorrow!

I told mine today that RFK's bullshit was getting kids sick & it was their mess b/c they confirmed him, so "clean it up". I'll probably say that more often.

Interestingly, this story omits the irony of Erwin, TN having publicly executed Mary the elephant for murder in 1916. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Now up to 4 cases, total.

As of 2023, only 90.5% of TN children have had at least 1 MMR vaccination and Knox county is the only reported county/region to hit the herd immunity threshold of 95%. TN hasn't been above 93% since at least 2017. www.tn.gov/content/dam/...

#measles has made it to Tennessee