Never thought when I said, "Man, the mutation of society and religion relations would be a dope thing to study," that I'd get to see this shit happen in real time. What a time to be alive.

I just finished my reread of Animal Farm before I assigned it to the kids. It really makes you realize how society has not changed at all. 😔

“The pope should be careful before talking theology” is just extraordinary stuff. Top-shelf. You write one book that gets turned into a Ron Howard movie and suddenly you’re nailing your manifesto to the cathedral doors.

Have to leave the house tomorrow - *hiss* - so I'm winding yarn for a travel project. - *yay* #knitsky 🧶

*cackles in Witch Hunts*

What are we even doing anymore? This is an article on USAToday. The article is *maybe* 6 paragraphs long, and it has an AI summary?

Passed down an incredibly scratchy fountain pen to the kid without misophonia and then promptly ordered myself a new pen because I'm a problem solver.

My spouse and I have a game where we send each other dystopian housing and living articles that are clearly meant to mutate public thought with what someone thought was a convincing argument for living less comfortably and marketing it as a good thing. And just look at today's selection.

"We'd never get what we want if we didn't ignore the law" is a fucking choice.

Just made too much roux for the first time since going full-time gluten-free, and now I'm hoping it freezes as well as regular. 😬

This reading for class says, "First, Freud's ideas about leadership seem unusually insightful."

Me to the spouse: WHAT IF .... I did TWO Masters at the same time. Spouse: .... You need a good night's sleep. Wtf.

Me, to the kids as my spouse uses chemistry to remove a pickle jar glued to a glass fridge shelf with some substance* after they tried to PULL it, which they refused to see how that would possibly be an issue: And this is why science matters, guys. Safety first. *It's almost always maple syrup.

Bruh was part of the largest health care fraud/embezzlement cases and then (Voted in! After that!) was governor of FL during the years of Epstein. But, his Crypt Keeper ass is over here *hide your children hide your wives.gif* on CNBC, and they're letting him.

Hell yeah!

We all just lost the poker game to the kid who can't even read yet.

New Iranian tweets on the blockage and negotiations.

I don’t usually share Twitter posts but that would be the president of Iran and yes he’s being completely serious, Islam recognises Jesus as a prophet and the Pope as a successor figure

Feliz lunes 🎊

Hey, arachnology folks! How does one tell of these are baby orbweavers or ticks? I can't tell. Guessing spiders because of walking on the web. But, my trauma of this house is making me not so sure. Clearest photo I can get is labeled because I know people are creeped out by spooders. #arachnids

Never thought I'd read those beautiful words. #hopecore

Brb, I'm going to ask Cthulhu if she wants me to send her back home because an opportunity has opened up.

Sapphic romance novel idea: Two women fall in love while competing against each other in a reality TV knitting competition show. You can call it — Heated Ravelry. 🧶

Kid who won't eat any foods is sick, and my parenting degree just didn't prepare me for what to do when "medicinal soup" and toast are not on the menu. This is why I tell people EVERY kid is a different experience, so stop w/ the unrequested advice. I may have repackaged congee enough to work. 🤞

The youngest plays a lot of Pokémon. We have a running joke that we taste baked goods "for poison" when they first come out of the oven. These two factoids collided today into a very worried child. Oops.

This audiobook of Dungeon Crawler Carl that my spouse got me has a narrator that sounds like Kronk. 🤌

Can't even get nat'l healthcare, but aight.

Me, to my kids' incessant barker: Sir. That is just uncalled for. Contain yourself. My kids, to my bird yelling about bananas: Ma'am. Please. Do you mind? That's incredibly rude.

My whole week was sidetracked, so now I've got something like 3 books to read, 2 essays to write, and some knitting to accomplish today. This does not include actual work and house management. Me, to my to-do list:

They just all hate the Constitution so fucking much.

Love it. Picasso.

The kid is playing the otamatone like a violin while watching the other practice violin. Just a cacophony of WHAAAAAA. Be happy the internet isn't chill, or I'd have to share the beautiful sounds with you.

I have hit a new level of chronically online. I just had to find sources for a paper that I knew had happened, *but hadn't been journalismed yet at the time of writing*. There's a non-zero chance I just taught someone that our president threatened to nuke an entire civilization 2 days ago. 😬

Kid, after installing their copy of Violet on my Switch: Your game is probably done downloading if you want to go find Dachsbun. Me: Adults have RESPONSIBILITIES, child. I have work to do before I have fun. Kid: .... That sucks. Me: *sigh* Yup.

If anyone hears anything more about Congressional Dems allegedly meeting at 1130 today to maybe actually cement their war powers for once, would you be a dear and send me a link? I'm going offline to finish this paper, but I want to make sure I don't miss that reference. #polisci #gradstudent

This is impossible because I can not tell you how many chihuahuas I have met named Muffin. Any of those could be a sleeper muffin.

A flare-up hit me in the middle of the night, so I'm in bed. Told my spouse I'd have to get my journal from downstairs. They said no. Just stay there, I'll bring it. They just brought a stack of every notebook and planner from my desk, including my knitting. Guess what wasn't in that pile?

Good job, Millennials...you've still got it!

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Oop.

Oh no. I just found out that Pokopia has Dachsbun. This is a *problem*.

Took a break from my paper because I'm using a particular current event as an example, and it keeps changing before I can write about it, and it's exhausting. I'm going to have to put a disclaimer at the end of it. "The preceding statements may no longer be fucking relevant at the time of reading."

Except then, he said he'd still vote for him right after that.

For those who need to know when to cite things in papers, take my advice to my children: "If you didn't know it before researching, or think a man would ask a woman to prove it; cite it." Thank you for coming to my TegTalk. #gradstudent

*poet slam snapping*

I was so ready to apologize to the people who followed me yesterday when this feed turned back into "fucking: y/n" book reviews, knitting, and kid quotes, too. 😔