What the frick frack paddy whack is going on with the Wordle choice today???

There was an abduction in Northeast not 30 minutes ago.

My posts might not give this impression but I genuinely do love my job. I love the people I work with and the things we get to create. I do not love when administrators actively work to punish their employees who dared to exercise their right to unionize.

This is your reminder that UMN Human Resources fully told a grad student and Team USA athlete that he would have his pay docked if he went to the World Cup #SkiUMah

I got called a "union goon" this morning by a faculty member and I'm wondering if this goes under Work Experience or Skills on my CV

Finally formally assigned to other group members the tasks that make up hours of my invisible labor to keep the lab running and I feel FREE

Modulo operator is underrated there I said it

the steward win to end all steward wins

You don't know what else someone who's wearing a red knitted cap is doing, and they prob shouldn't announce all the things they are doing — nor do we want the fash to be able to identify who is and isn't doing heavy resistance work by virtue of a hat. Let symbols be popular.

Monday Morning Motivation: The horrors persist but so do we

Imagine being the person sending out campus safety alerts and using the term “slight explosion”

Shaffer, looking for a friend, smiling and pointing at her pal Chavez: "Chavez, help me. What do we want to postpone this til?" Chavez, not being a good friend: "today"

Reminder: thou SHALT (sick, hungry, angry, lonely, tired) not take cranky folks personally. Friend, go have a nap, have a snack, feel better, and we can revisit this conversation at a later time. 🤗

Frodo in the command prompt is lord of the pings

Choir moments: "When you take a breath, consider: are you surprised? Are you honouring Darth Vader?"

I will continue joy posting. There is still more work to do, AND there are Good things! Art! Community! Individual children retured home and abductions stopped! Singing! Joy is not optional when you're fighting evil.

(Some) Joyful highlights of the Art Shanties: 1. Vibrance assuring us they have IRB (Intergalactic Research Board) approval 2. 6 people dressed as penguins with squeaky toys 3. Garbage Pail Kids tarot reading 4. BEAVER FACTS

i need a spreadsheet for david attenborough documentaries that turn into depressing climate warnings and which ones are chill

And you posting on Instagram about a general strike doesn't mean a whole lot if your workplace is unionized but you aren't a member 🤔

One of our postdocs told me today that an experiment I proposed was "a really smart idea" and I wish I had a non weird way of telling him how much that meant to me

All power to those who chose to participate, and also to the many, many indie store owners who weren't consulted about this and are now in the unenviable position of being forced to explain why, no, this isn't the same as last week.

Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me on the Agilent gas chromatography forum

Kind things I heard today: 1. You can wait inside Francis while we get your tacos. 2. It hurts to feel this, but think how awful it would be if you didn't feel anything. 3. Do you want handwarmers?

Can't think of anything more perfectly encapsulating this morning here in Minnesota.

For my cold weather folks: how are you keeping your face warm without accidentally looking like an agent?

I've been having dreams about my old students. Anonymous phone calls asking questions about where a kid is, claiming they're family. I don't know if I should answer. I can't call my student or it will lead ICE to them. I can't find them. And then I wake up.

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

In case you're wondering yes they're still there

The next big thing in reality TV cop shows is Will Stancil shouting "just arrest me gosh darn it" and apologizing under his breath to another driver as he gently squeezes them out so he can stay on the tail of an ICE squad.

Ok this is the last pic you're getting tonight

So, there are apparently organs on my front doorstep? Larger than my whole boot. They weren't there last night. Anyone have ideas?

🚨Hours after ICE murdered Renee Good, Border Patrol swarmed an Uber driver demanding ID: UD: What do you mean if I’m from this country? BP: You don’t have the same accent as me UD: You’re going by accents now? BP: Where were you born? UD: You guys need psychiatric checkups

I highly recommend “sound on” for this new angle

And if you absolutely must use them (like I do), NEVER EVER EVER PUT YOUR HANDS IN YOUR POCKETS

It pains me greatly to see him verbally cooking when he is failing in actions

It's been more than 28 hours since a woman was murdered and there has still been ZERO communication from UMN to even acknowledge it, or offer flexibility to workers whose kids are home from MPS this week, or anything. Not even a ChatGPT platitude. What is going on????

I'll take it. Unrelated, anyone know of any job openings in reaction engineering, catalysis, analytical chemistry, or similar?

Shoutout to the man on my ~4 hr flight back to MSP who managed to spill not one but two beverages on me, including one before the plane started moving

If you work or study at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, make sure you know what to do. monarcamn.org/upstander-ba...

Reading this petition response is curing my impostor syndrome and making me think I should go to law school

Driving home while 97.1 is stuck

Noooooooo it's over 😭😭😭

*Halloween Blizzard Voice* "Did I ever tell you about the night Cities97 played two bars of one song on a loop for hours?"

I think if you were rejected for a job at a company, you should be entitled to a 90 day break from that company's ads. Please stop rubbing it in I just want to watch Abbott Elementary

Well maybe we got lost in translation Maybe I asked for too much But maybe this thing was a masterpiece Till you tore it all up Running scared, I was there I remember it All too well

In keeping with the theme of the University of Minnesota walking out of negotiations: yesterday the graduate labor union at the U filed a petition with the state to finally get the University to follow the law. Explainer below, tl;dr press release here: umnglu.org/wp-content/u...

Not to vaguepost but I have an exclusive and *exciting scoop* about the university of Minnesota, the ongoing labor/negotiation issues, general shenanigans. DMs are open if you like to write about local issues and want the first details!

Good news, everyone! Turns out the new UMN $200/year athletics fee actually has nothing to do with the House settlement. To imply otherwise is, direct quote from RC, "fake news".

That travel day had everything! Allergic reaction (possibly anaphylaxis?)! 5 hour delay! Mild physical assault from a passenger followed by a flight attendant clearly thinking I was experiencing psychosis! Overnight on the floor of the airport! Gate checking! Didn't brush my teeth for 28 hours!

Am I really an impostor or am I just the Anna Delvey of chemical engineering