VIVA LA SANDWICH

Everyone's favourite Dr Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social has been having a rough couple of days and I bet she would be delighted if Bluesky surprised her by pushing her friend Rachel's fundraiser over the finish line!

a man was just found not guilty by jury lollification

Everyone close your eyes and send a psychic message to the jurors about whether or not they should convict/acquit sandwich guy, just to round out this banger of a week

Nah. If OpenAI goes down it’ll be due to the courage of authors and publishers for holding law breakers responsible for their illegal actions.

Listening to Florence and the Machine’s “Everybody Scream” and thinking of Lucille Clifton’s “It was a Dream” Poems are spells, songs are spells, screams are the most primal of spells What should you do about the nightmare we find ourselves in? This This This

student, interviewing me for another class: how would you describe your teaching style me: well, years and years ago my students told me I reminded them of Ms Frizzle student: no but wait you literally ARE Ms Frizzle me: Dr Frizzle now 💅🏻 student: *cackles* me: make mistakes and get messy man

MF was just WAITING for me to get home

If you missed this, there is a recording now stoopstorytelling.com/event/signs-...

who visited you?

🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky

Sometimes the Dead that visit On Halloween are the shades of Who We could've Been

Halloween, in my religion, is Samhain, the time at which the veil between the worlds is thin, and we recognise that life continues and exists in many forms. We offer hospitality to strangers, knowing that loved ones may be among them, unknown to us even as we are known to them.

talking to my son about Silicon Valley misogyny: pre Y2K as a 19yo intern I learned multiple computer languages in 2mo to create the first of its kind monitoring system for a refinery that could be updated w/a single click & all the other engineers said OMG LOOK A SECRETARY WHO TAKES MATH NOTES

Thread. :)

A bit of LORE about this child is once, in elementary school, his bus simply did not come. The school called me to say it was late, else I would have gone to get him, not realizing the bus was going to be 3HRS LATE The child took things into his own hands.

me: I gotta get off this phone man, I can feel my brain rotting my child, sticking a fry in his mouth: in my day we knew how to live in the moment you know

we did it fam, we posted so hard we broke the bots 🥹

Happy Halloween from Star Trek and the haunted horny candle that makes you have sex with the ghost who had sex with your grandmother

Da iawn!

one of the grandkids just got ahold of the family group chat and I’m crying

There was a bumblebee teaching english today

just reading the bylaws and the 40 millionth user has to fight dril AND derek menswear guy??

ATTN: Two faculty positions are available in my department (neuroscience) at the University of Minnesota. This is a general search with no topic focus. November 20th application deadline. Apply here: hr.umn.edu/jobs/Find-Job Assistant Prof job code: 364920 Associate/Full Prof job code: 364921

how the average straight couple looks when going out for dinner

“I’m down for whatever,” I say, falling asleep.

samhain eve blessings to @swilua.bsky.social for putting this thread on my feed

shook the bed laughing

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Saving to add to my lecture on kerning

Walked into my bedroom and saw this WYD

May I present one of the UKs most prolific jewel thieves. Joan Harrington. A real pioneer in the field.

This timeline is so unserious

A visionary 😭

Smile about something!

Something to brighten the timeline

This year’s video!

I love educator Halloween. What do you mean an elf is teaching quantum mechanics

STAY ANGRY MEG

Progress.

This is a good rule. I need to adopt it for myself immediately.

This timeline manages to be both gravely horrific and deeply unserious at the same time.

Literally, this was our nightmare back before we all left Twitter

Waiting for a train and there are ads up everywhere saying “What if government worked like your favorite app?” And I can’t express how revolting that is to anyone who’s actually Online

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

Doctor: Ok, your chart says you take albuterol? Me: yes, asthma. Doctor: good good. And here we have a recent…. Rabies vaccine?! Me: Doctor: Bat? You’re giving “would touch a bat” vibes. Me: precisely. 😐

Please help Madeline on this quest

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no one: the 69yo woman next to me: why are men so obsessed with that part of their body? never stop touching it, just always gotta diddle diddle diddle. Like CHARLIE, the remote is literally in your hand, you’re gonna need to wash it off if you want me to touch it me: 69yo: the remote, I mean