i just put together that the Anne Marie Lastrassi conspiracy is probably why Beyoncé sings in Italian on Cowboy Carter. Our petty queen. ok. back to my social media hiatus.

i really want to watch another simple favor, but do I really want to watch blake lively for over an hour?

i'm seeing beyoncé in two months and seven days.

i had an international/exchange student this semester who is returning to their Japan over the summer. given that context, I told them they could do one of their last 2 speeches in Japanese if they wanted since that's the mode their public speaking would likely take.

un peu de français

i’m particularly fond of 51-across in todays NYT crossword.

my most common feedback to authors in reviews: "the citations are overwhelmingly white. if you're going to engage [marginalized concept/method/theory/framework], then your citations should reflect that same commitment." I don't understand why it's so hard to understand

notes from teaching.

i just finished #Oathbound. i am wholly unwell. 230293746392746★/5

advice from the talc powder lawsuit trenches: please make and keep a list of 1) all your addresses from birth on, 2) all your employment from birth on, 3) how many times you buy a product per month from birth on, and 4) how and where you apply baby powder from birth on. 🤪

i appreciate companies sending "do you want to opt out of [parent]'s day emails?" emails. but like...i still want the sales. now I'm just an orphan and paying full price???

who knew trying to place in the duolingo tournament would be a full time job this week?! how do these people have T H O U S A N D S of points already. (#1 is over 14k, #10 is over 4k)

i'm tbd on my plan for my body when I exit, but if i chose the wormfood route, I would appreciate my grave marker reading: "too pretty to do math."

whoever invented french counting—specifically after sixty-nine—needs to be in that circle of hell were the eagle rips out your guts over and over and over.

to encapsulate having adhd as an academic, this is the process one (1) essay/article idea has already taken and it's not even close to done: -wrote about inertia -"hey what else is in newton that's affect-y?" -reading newton (w00f) -theorizing the Newtonian forces via affective rhetorical theory

my mom was part of the talc lawsuit against J&J in Georgia. the number of people involved in this suit (client, attorney, and otherwise) who don't know the difference b/w reply and reply all is very concerning. (and annoying).

argumentation textbook: "now, i don't make a habit of eavesdropping on people's arguments..." me: "really? cause, *I* do."

i'm genuinely curious: if you watched #ANTM growing up, is there anything from the show (e.g. smizing) that cross your mind whenever you're posing for a picture or looking at a picture?

I've been thinking about safety, leaving, staying, exile, asylum, displacement, for academics, journalists, activists, etc etc. One thing the heat of this moment is doing-- is revealing the inequities and exploitative nature of academia. This thread nails it.

me on a voice memo just now: but i will say….mmmm….actually i don’t remember what i was going to say. -ends memo-

overwhelmingly positive.

A whole group chat

almost time for my favorite weekly game: which white lotus cast member are we seeing nakey tonight. pls be pornchai.

✨magnificent✨

70% of china’s tax revenue is paid by enterprises/companies.

me, assigning a creative assignment: i would go ham with making this visually appealing, but you don't have to go full tilt. me, grading said assignment: why didn't they go full tilt? :(

not a day since 3/9 has gone by that I don't remember at least once I day that I know now what Lucius Malfoy's........wand looks like.

A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days. At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/

This is Trump country — Greeley, Colorado — where 30,000 people have filled a stadium and thousands more are cheering from outside for Bernie Sanders and AOC. Police removed barricades to allow crowds to watch from the UNC lawn. The people united will never be defeated ✊

just had an AMAZING massage so if the entire universe could refrain from stressing me out for the next seven-to-ten days, that would be much appreciated

Dear Elon Musk: Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione Luigi Mangione

We need to tread eugenics with the seriousness we treat the most vile forms of bigotry because eugenics is what turns those bigotries into action items.

i was talking to a friend about this, but having grown up poor, gone through grad school poor, etc. even having the tiniest bit of “disposable income” now is a wild feeling.

imagine if dems were as proactive as they are reactionary. alas handwringing is only a reaction.

If anyone is curious, Cowboy Carter was released 328 years (to the day) Isaac Newton was appointed to the Royal Mint. i will not elaborate nor share why I stumbled upon this information.

Cartoon by Kevin Necessary www.kevinnecessary.com

BIG EMPHASIS ON THAT LAST PART

i forget who in COMM/RHET said it, but the whitelash was immediate even in the dems: the entire slate of candidates post-obama were white and all but 1 were men (and old all were old, whereas obama was young/er)

i showed my grandma this picture. her response "she looks TERRIBLE." so, we're not currently speaking.

i'm not condoning it. i'm just saying the show Designated Survivor offers a pretty good plan for a hard reset on government. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

LMAOOOOO!

the current jeopardy champ looks like the dollar general version of Gabe from the office.

from this pic you’d never know she’s on the verge of nervous barfs

Hey disability studies & critical race folks, I’m hiring a graduate student summer project assistant! Please share with students/peers and apply if you fit the description! docs.google.com/file/d/1VWnY...

woke up feeling a good bit of imposter syndrome re: academia. no real reason, just hitting today. the first email in my inbox is an invitation to review an article from an editor who is one of my favorite scholars to read and write alongside. i wish it were always that easy to dispel the feels.