dog update: - 17.5 year old: has started eating his own poop, managed to acquire a tick in january - 15 year old: now pees *inside* his water dish at 3am every night - 2.5 year old: found a dead rat yesterday, made me pull it out of his mouth

doing some editing on my book manuscript draft and found that I mistyped “pro bono” as “bro bono” and i need to find some way to make this a thing

i hate the democrats with the heat of a thousand burning suns

New in Books! @kaareeenah.bsky.social on Worn Out and Data Driven. 📚 ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/15365042251377368

i've been at uva for 15 months and this is my third lockdown.

active shooter at UVA, close to our building. i am hiding and terrified. the things this university and its students have had to suffer through. 🩵💜💙

it's really difficult to communicate what it's like to be hungry and not be able to eat bc you have $4 left in your bank account. when there's literally not a single dollar to buy anything to eat. to sit and continue working while starving. to look forward to sleep--at least then you aren't hungry

🎶anything can happen on halloween🎶 🎶has anyone seen my tambourine🎶 youtu.be/SSZYVFc6BqI?...

Another great issue from the @contexts.org crew! Check out @kaareeenah.bsky.social's review of @karenlevy.bsky.social's Data Driven and Madison Van Oort's Worn Out! - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... - I really appreciate the part on moving from an either/or to a both/and approach to organizing.

over ONE THOUSAND undergrads, grad students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members showed up today and *made this happen*. it took a LOT of work. and we did it

we MADE them say no. hours and hours and hours of organizing over a very short period of time made this happen. union power ✊ www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

prepping for class this week on race & tech. can't do last year's class without taking major risks. plan B was to ask students to use gov data to explore a particular issue, but can't do that either because datasets no longer exist/the shutdown means websites aren't working.

oh my goddDDDDDDDDDuhhhhhh

even after all these years of teaching, i still have not figured out how to teach ANT without boring the students to tears

one "little fight" i had with my ex husband involved him squeezing me until i couldn't breathe :) ya know, just lil fights

someone threw up the bat signal!! it's time for me to remind everyone that david brooks thinks poor people are too stupid to understand sandwiches.

hey #4s2025! did you enjoy the panels on technonationalism and technofascism as much as i did? you might also like these panels on the 'network state' that i'm hosting today on tech billionaires' efforts to build successors to the nation state. First @ 1:30, second @ 3:30. Sheraton, Jefferson B!

my entire flight to seattle has been full of people hacking and coughing and wheezing

registering my car in VA this week and i finally found the perfect plate

Here is the acting CDC director discussing health care in a seastead free market:

The United Campus Workers of UVA faculty committee objects to the current presidential search committee, demanding a more representative and transparent process www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

UVA's wall-to wall union, UCWVA at UVA has joined the Faculty Senate, Student Council, Wahoos4UVA, Emeritus faculty, and others in expressing No Confidence in the Board of Visitors. ucwva.org/who-we-are/u...

i have said before that the fracas at UVA is a product, in large part, of a set of alumni who believe that the university was at its greatest when it was a segregated finishing school for white men. i was not exaggerating, as you can see here in this letter from Scott Douglas Gerber

new from the editorial board of the cavalier daily! Shared governance is dying while our Board prospers www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

reminder to not fall for the bullshit. they don't give a shit about "meritocracy" or whatever the fuck www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/11/s...

the most sf bullshit to ever bullshit missionlocal.org/2025/07/phil...

Brown must give the govt * Course evaluations that allege instructor antisemitism * A big new student survey on antisemitism * a detailed and not-meaningfully-anonymized spreadsheet about all reports of discrim on basis of "national origin, including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics[.]" 6/

"Fundamentally un-American." A group of VC-backed Christian nationalists seeks a theocratic haven in Tennessee. Political control, religious purity tests, talk of civil collapse — and they’re buying up land. This isn’t a drill. This is the Network State. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

~10 years ago sjsu students staged a "faint-in" to bring attention to the fact that there was no air conditioning in the social science building i remember sitting in a qual methods course at 4pm on an august afternoon. the prof had to end class early bc it was legit too hot to continue

"Other politicians might be skittish admitting a chatbot co-wrote their speech or that it helped draft a $5.6 billion budget for the new fiscal year, but Mahan is trying to lead by example..." 💀💀💀💀💀 sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-may...

🫠 www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/17/c...

our dog locked us out of the house. a new rock bottom

this dude, btw, is part of a group of billionaires trying to build a city in the middle of california farmland. despite all their proclamations about building a sustainable, equitable city, *this* is the money driving the project

the UVA faculty senate has voted NO CONFIDENCE in our board of visitors after they colluded with the DOJ to oust the uni president. they are still working on a “voluntary resolution agreement” with the DOJ and we still don’t know what that means

The Faculty Senate has now adopted a resolution of No Confidence in the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia with a vote of 46-14.

next time you’re in office hours with a student ask them if you can look at their desktop. the things i have seen

The demand for “viewpoint diversity” does not extend to the Board of Visitors at UVA. As usual THE CAVALIER DAILY is a very fine newspaper. Perhaps we should get some of its journalists appointed to the NYTimes. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

what in fresh hell

happy heat wave monday, here's our gigantic main coon, fritter

all i know is that the answer is *NOT* friday the 13th. jason gets cryogenically frozen, thawed out in space, and then turns into mecha-jason by a swarm of mini robots in the med bay? please. art.

got booted off my internet this morning because my lamp froze when updating

unfortunately this continues to be relevant (at least we were so poor my ex husband could never buy surveillance tech to keep an eye on me) www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/18/1...

"Meta announced a new partnership with defense contractor Anduril Industries Inc. last week to develop products for the US military, including an artificial intelligence-powered helmet with virtual and augmented reality features." www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/05/m...

today i’m 35 🫨☀️✨💫 who knew i would live this long !! and that i would still be here with my little dude, who survived all the abuse with me 🩷🩷🩷 (first pic is 2013, second is today 😊)

six years ago i was stealing food and tampons and sleeping in my office to avoid my ex husband. this weekend i painted the office in a house i bought 🥰💫