LLMs have done many crimes to me, personally, including stigmatizing the em dash.

This interview has everything: correct opinions about AI, our descent into fascism, Christology, a house full of zoo animals for some reason

Frankenstein was really good but then it was just sort of over?

RIP to all the students who thought the ethics-oriented essay question on this exam was the easiest choice.

Why should I give a shit whether cats *want* to be pet when they don't give a shit whether I *want* to be stepped on?

Sometimes I want to post things like "It's so important to spend time alone in the woods," but my friends are on here and they would make fun of me.

Deer outside my window

The university library can keep threatening me with that dollar a day fine, idc. You'll get this book when I'm done with it.

Someone stole my bike from our backyard wtffffff

I miss seeing the stars every night.

Nu-Image Style Shop Epes, AL

Have my fellow Union Theological Seminary alums no pride? Are we really going to let ourselves be out aura-farmed by a guy who got his MDiv from Princeton? They're calling him Hot Priest now. We've gotta step up our protest game.

Feeling pretty homesick today. I miss this place a lot.

There's something comforting in the energy of the Portland Frog guy

It’s also pretty funny to specifically use a “love your neighbor as yourself” quote in order to whip up resentment towards other people. Like did you really *get* what those religious vegetables were trying to tell you?

Born soon enough to be allowed to enter academia as a woman, but too late to avoid having my attention span fried by screens.

grad school in the humanities and social sciences

Jerry Falwell openly bragging about breaking the third commandment lmao

One time I started reading Thus Spake Zarathustra in public and a man I did not know approached me quoting Nietzsche at length.

She's getting more writing done than me.

Get your lights out at night to avoid disorienting migrating birds, and treat your windows so they don't fly into them when they do get sucked down into our towns!

Say what you will about the so-called flyover states but I never once saw a roach there.

bonuses to heretic/apostate/blasphemer phrasing: -emphasizes this is an internecine faith dispute -does not put the onus on nonchristians to sort good from bad -gets to the meat of it (punchy) -does not imply christianity and goodness are synonymous

Have we considered that maybe the rapture did happen and no one who spends any time Online made the cut?

I don't want autistic people to not exist but I do want people to give a shit about how difficult it is to be the family member of an intellectually disabled person. Being on social media today feels like being a kid again, trying to tell people you're struggling and being met with condemnation.

No one is disrespecting that guy in death more than his own allies istg

Close enough, welcome back Jesus of Nazareth

Even the crabs know you don’t put up with a surveillance state.

Among other things, fascism is just so ugly. Absolutely foul aesthetics.

My algorithm is so convinced I'm a lesbian that I do sometimes wonder if it knows something I don't.

Multiple people in this copyediting discussion board have described themselves as "triggered" by the Chicago Manual of Style.

It's times like this that I really miss having a department-wide grad student group chat.

Also, this is what is wrong with the cable news formula. Even when they know nothing, they must fill the air and so they fill it with speculation. We don’t know why this terrible shooting happened. It’s dangerous to speculate motives or politics. Please stop.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

Lord let this full moon pass from me.

is it porn or loss of status that is the root of reactionary politics becomes a false dichotomy when you remember that sex = power for many of these people

Reading John Stuart Mill and I can't help but think that he would be pretty disgusted by some of the people who pass for utilitarians these days.

Not claiming to be the most courageous person myself but like, "people might boo me" is not really the kind of consequence that makes a choice brave unless you are literally a child.

broke: internalizing the contents of A Secular Age woke: posting aesthetic pictures of me "reading" A Secular Age

In my fourth year of this PhD and I am once again explaining to my mother that the university pays me and not the other way around.

Medical science: Ahaha we have invented tens of thousands of life improving and saving medications ahaha we are unstoppable Grapefruit: