Back at work, but at what cost? This is fine dog on fire gif etc

are these potato chips white supremacist or

earnestly trying to "work" for the first time since i finalized my diss. goblin drums echoing faintly in depths of my plundered brain etc

wondering what i'm going to do when tariffs and climate change make my three coffees a day untenable

one of my bf's personal training clients keeps trying to sell him Amway protein crap and I KNOW this stuff requires a soft touch but I just want to take him by the shoulders and shake him

People on the left who love books and reading and writing and teaching and learning need to push it. Right now, too much is right wing classical education vs neoliberal ROI education.

It's Flat Francxs Friday

Take your weird, offbeat, misfit ideas about culture/ecology/history to Heat Death!!

NEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored. They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.

it might be the kali yuga but you still have to try

ditto which brands of flour are actually flour and not drywall, which meat distros might include shit and/or human parts, etc

the vibe is that we live in a simulation designed to make people go insane and then punish them when they do in fact go insane

graduating rn feels like diving off the deck of the titanic

my dissertation is due in a week

i am trying to write a dissertation with microplastics in my brain

i think "do not pre-emptively comply" must be understood to include complying by way of despair

why are we unironically using czar as a job title now

it is very frustrating to write about cultural black boxes and taken for grantedness. because in writing literally anything i am inevitably forced to take some things for granted.

me, crying: stop checking your email. nothing important is going to happen at 2:09 on a Saturday. also me, teeth grinding, eye twitching: one more time. just one more time. one more time. one more t

It's not Flat Francxs Friday but here's some Francxs for your morning anyway.

happy monday let's get this dissertation

It's ✨Flat Francxs Friday✨

desperately clinging by my shredded fingernails to the belief that people are, on the whole, in the long term, basically redeemable, but man, being on the internet is not helping with this

Relax your jaw.

I am trying so hard to convince my class that slow, close reading is worth the effort without sounding like a "kids these days!!!!!" geezer

Still trying to figure out how to use this website in a way that feels pleasant/helpful. On the Other Site all my favorite interactions were from an anon shitposting account but I went and stuck my whole professional/government name on this one.

I have nothing constructive to contribute to the discourse. Here is a picture of a lizard.

“We should actively undermine and sabotage systems, and recognize that labor as a moral project that we engage in, the way luddites sabotaged machinery that tore people apart.”

orchid update!

once again looking for a specific black t shirt in my wardrobe that consist almost exclusively of black t shirts

you ARE fat, and you are also a shrill, demanding harpy, which makes you unlovable, and a humorless cold prude, which makes you unfuckable, and a menstrual hysteric, which makes you unhireable. girl power though :)

when i was a kid it was sort of a harrowing rite of passage for poorly supervised young wanderers to watch someone die on the essentially unmoderated pre-social-media internet now literal headless children is just tuesday and the president is like 'this is not a war crime actually, carry on'

My orchid re-bloomed! I achieved this mainly through neglect.

I have 66 "papers to eventually read" tabs open. I am not optimistic about this .

I love every cicada.

I am being so normal at the conference

watching people do gender to their infant children in social media is so fucking bizarre "boy mom 💙 💙 💙" no you have internalized misogyny

fuck yeah

i have so much rage about leaf blowers

Healthcare in USAmerica: you can buy gummy boner pills on the Internet, but tHAT'S IT

I feel like I live inside a 4D billboard

For I have known them all already, known them all: have known the nalgenes, stanleys, clean canteens. I have measured out my life in trendy water bottles.

Actually work on this chapter that I'm supposed to send out tomorrow or spend another two hours organizing my philosophy meme stash - who knows what I will do!!!!!!!

Happy Flat Francxs Friday

Me, lying around: I'm tired of being a feckless dandy! I want to do hard things! Me, doing hard things: well this sucks.

it's ✨flat francxs Friday✨

a lot of downsides to living in a forgettable flyover state but damn am i glad i don't have to contend with those self-driving taxi monstrosities

The CDC advises you to simply walk into Mordor.