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This is a @telodendron.bsky.social illustration

I've believed for a long time that you can't really call yourself a responsible adult unless you have a separate email account that you only use when you need to send an anonymous tip to a reporter

Barber-Scotia College (Concord, NC) was founded in 1867. In 2004 the college was stripped of its accreditation. Last year they enrolled a class of about 100 students, with the stated goal of regaining accreditation. Their website lists 24 faculty members, none of whom exist

Tomorrow's the day when I'm going to tell you all about the private nonprofit college which has a faculty entirely made up of professors who don't exist. Just something to look forward to if you like hearing about academic fraud

Back when my social circle was largely critical-theory grad students, I knew so many people who believed that ideology was a disease that mostly afflicted people who hadn't studied critical theory at the graduate level

That's me

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Had to open and staff the library solo for a short period this morning, was only there for 3 hours, and I still had to evict a couple people for filming a tiktok in the reading room

I just imagined a dessert called "Coffee Disaster"

no it isn't

day two of four days off work, time to indulge in one or another of my personal hobbyhorses

I always read all the ads in every issue of this magazine... Turns out there's a Midwestern screamo band called Tina Fey. Pretty confusing, at first I thought that Tina Fey was fronting a Midwestern screamo band and I was about to order a copy of their new 45

No good magazines in this medical office waiting room

Every game in this Nin*endo Dire*t involves using a sword to kill monsters, but more importantly, to parry

I am not used to the kind of public interactions that you have when you're working at a library circulation desk. People really expect you to do a lot of affective work

One thing about music in the 90s was, if you were a college student with a band, you definitely knew an art student with a camera who could do the cover art for your album, and the art student knew someone who would pose nude for the cover photo

"Melba had broken the transition problem wide open by starting every paragraph with 'Moreover.' She freely used 'the former' and 'the latter' and every time I ran into one of them I had to backtrack to see whom she was talking about. She was also fond of 'inasmuch' and 'crestfallen.'"

Making a little trip up to Books Kinokuniya today for manga and stationery shopping... Gonna resist the impulse to wear a shirt from my collection of weeb shirts

@hungryghoast.bsky.social have I got a job for U www.teamworkonline.com/football-job...

College merger announced

Should I make some predictions. Why not. Why shouldn't I

this happened to a former boss of mine, the director of the archives at a state university; he had a falling-out with the library dean; the archives director was removed from his post and promoted into a newly created vice-dean position with no responsibilities

CONVERSATION issho ni shimaashou

I recently acquired a new data set, and I'm equal parts disappointed and relieved that it's not very useful

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Twin Peaks: The Return - Dougie Jones edit. Las Vegas content only. Show starts with Dougie and Jade in the vacant house, ends with Dougie returning to Janey-E and Sonny Jim

I'll take this $17.50/hr internship because I want to know exactly how pissed off Le Guin was when Ghibli made an Earthsea movie but Hayao Miyazaki let his son direct it

I just figured something out! Gonna keep it to myself though

Wow it's a mascot with cirrhosis

This happened in April but I didn't see it until this morning. As far as I know there's no online clearinghouse for bad news about private colleges and universities

oopsie

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Man what the hell

I survived and emerged even more powerful

about to head into a 4-hour staff retreat... looking over the agenda... there are no items on here that seem likely to lead to a struggle session in which my coworkers explain why they don't like to work with me

I'm looking at a college that is in some weird kind of financial trouble, but it's such an outlier from the schools I usually track that I am not able to tell whether the trouble is real or not

Martin University closed in a hurry last December. Here's a postmortem from an independent Indianapolis news outlet that's a thousand times better journalism than anything that the Chronicle of Higher Education ever bothers to put together

had to prop my office door open this morning for ventilation reasons (they turned off the AC), and in the last 30 minutes I've had two people pop in and start conversations with me. I don't like that

it's the rainy season here in Georgia so there's a lot of wildlife that you wouldn't otherwise see. yesterday's sightings: - box turtle in a pile of leaves - glass snail on a trash bag - very wet coyote

Wittenberg University of Springfield, OH goes up on the big board

I swear to God I am not trying to start fights with anyone but people sure don't like it when you disagree with them!

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Happened again. Did you know that some people don't have news alerts set up to monitor the financial health of their place of work

Brubeck/Desmond "Over The Rainbow" 1953 at Storyville

Just remembered this thread from 2023. I am still coming up with 90s novelty songs in my mind

Great song great video great write-up

This time they gave us double spring rolls

just glanced at next week's calendar and realized that - although it's a four-day week - we've got two all-staff meetings totalling six hours :(