Civilization will look back on the Poptart bowl in 500 years and wonder what religion sacrificed giant poptarts in a big toaster

Vanity Fair’s photographer deserves a raise for this answer alone

Here is a new article just published co-authored w/@grantmitchell.bsky.social & @sharilfranke.bsky.social We developed new measures of party institutionalization & party strength that cover both democracies & autocracies around the world since 1970. #polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

BYU offense and special teams can walk home today.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Either my statistical model is wrong (which is saying that more drinking and less time outdoors leads to increased odds of a person flourishing) or the world is really messed up. Normally I’d say my model is wrong, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the world is just really messed up 😭

oh.

Official estimate: 5 million attendees at #NoKings, up from 3 million for #HandsOff

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

This is crazyyyy not my stats class telling us to get feedback from ChatGPT on our paper

From Bulgaria’s best cartoonist, Christo Komarnitski

Why doesn’t anybody ask Elon to wear a suit in the Oval Office? Or at least take off his weird ass hat?

Government workers when DOGE shows up.

My friend who works at a women's shelter and helps victims of sexual assault and domestic violence just got her grants frozen. In case you were wondering how things are going.

Now we are doing it via linear algebra (not calculus anymore)

We’ve reached the point in the semester where I have energy drinks and little Debbie snacks for breakfast (The semester has been going for a week)

Why am I learning how to do freaking OLS by hand

That’s exciting

*pleading* with the academic soldier within me (that’s carried me for 15.5 years of school) to get me through one more semester. The soldier is going AWOL

Nobody: Professor: wow, look at Russia in 1789. That’s a big boy.

I had a suppressed memory of Google+ reappear in my mind and it feels like a fever dream. I’d pay money to see what 10-11 year old Shari posted on Google’s social media platform back then.

Why does ChatGPT insist on me creating so many objects in R? Like “oh, you want to find the ICC for a model? Let’s put it in an object, and then summarize that object”

I got a diploma frame for Christmas but it’s only a reminder I haven’t even graduated yet

In the final minutes of It's a Wonderful Life, George Bailey gets to see what the world would look like if it was ruled by a malicious megalomaniac with no empathy and no concern beyond increasing his own personal wealth. Thank goodness that'll never happen.

Indeed it is!

I think I slayed my stats final which might mean I failed it, but glad it’s over 😭🙏🏻

My paper with @kbclarke.bsky.social and Jack Paine, “Violent Origins and Authoritarian Order: Divergent Trajectories after Successful Rebellions,” was featured in a NYT article analyzing recent events in Syria! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...

Watching the polar express for the first time in years…why did this become a popular movie 😬

Students that clap after the last class of the semester really bug me

I know I learned how to parallel park in drivers ed, but every time I actually parallel park, I forget how. It turns into a weird 20 point turn thing, with me nearing tears because I think everybody is judging me.

we're cooked

If I had a dollar for every way fast food workers have spelled my name… today’s version was “Sherriey”

My philosophy professor said causation is impossible to prove and those were fighting words tbh

In my time at university… -Russia invaded Ukraine -US pulled out of Afghanistan -Open Israeli/Palestinian war -Assad is gone -Attempted US coup -Whatever the hell is happening in South Korea right now Super exciting (scary?) to see how much can change in so little time

To the people fear mongering about the Syrian victory. This one goes out to you.

DAMASCUS: 1000s of prisoners have been freed from Sednaya prison, now flooding the streets, an monumental moment. For many, the frantic search begins, desperate to know if their loved ones are among the living or the lost. Either way, the "human slaughterhouse" is no more.

Things that keep me up at night: the time I gave Ice Town as an answer to a professor asking for examples of failed US cities…thinking it was a legitimate and real place…only for the professor to write “Ben Wyatt” on the board. I think about that a lot.

I only went to the soda and cookie shop twice this week so I consider that a win tbh

Me, all afternoon, trying to fix my wifi by restarting my router over and over (it’s still broken)