I know many others shared this previously, but I need to re-up the brilliant Pause Before You Prompt post & graphics because they're SO GOOD, with a hat tip to @mlboyd23.bsky.social : theimportantwork.substack.com/p/pause-befo...

hi i read 12 books in January :) & I’m on storygraph now to (hopefully) track my reading if anyone wants to be friends ! u can find me at app.thestorygraph.com/profile/mlbo... (i read a smorgasbord of literary fic & romantasy so. be warned)

reading with @mid-theory.bsky.social and reflecting on it, was SO FUN 🫶 mid-theory.com/2024/12/20/j...

Vol. III, Issue 1 Spotlight: @mlboyd23.bsky.social considers how the noisy act of striking is also an act of the responsible educator, a sign of our scholarly commitment to identifying and inhabiting possibilities. Read it now at the link in bio!

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I wouldve done terribly on the marriage market as I cannot hold my tongue and I have no “figure”. I am only good at fainting i fear. Also I would have been a servant getting yelled at in the kitchen anyway

new from Mid Theory Collective: our second Mid Theory Mixtape features our October writers each sharing five books that have shaped them in some formative way. link below! mid-theory.com/2024/11/11/m...

unironically reposting a lot of pro Massachusetts content rn everyone be warned. Instead of libbing out I’m massing out

does anyone know if we can play archived crosswords without crossing the NYT guild picket line

Finally saw Fast X and legit gasped at the ending like never in my wildest dreams did I see that coming

bruins are back baby like look at that perfect record

Being able to walk home from a concert…. On a beautiful brisk fall night… just delicious

was just voted off kelsvivor… made it to the top 4 when I was betrayed… plz give me privacy during this trying time 🙏

driving along blasting atw10 w apple cider donuts & cinnamon coffee on board fall girls are winning, nature is healing, autumn is rising etc

When Noah Kahan sings if I could leave I would have already left… that’s soooooo me

yesterday my mom handed me two (2) dollar bills to buy us two (2) sodas I was like now where have u been since 1982

wore a new pair of pants today and no one is in the office to see them… unconscionable

what do we think my students think when they walk into my office for the first time and see a poster of Patrice Bergeron right at my eye level + several photos of Taylor Swift. probably “she’s so cool,” right?

Amelia has been summering in Needham but I’m pleased to announce she’ll be back in the big city soon. I’m being told “she purrs like a lioness” with her new catalytic converter. These streets ain’t ready for her 🤭

Why is CVS texting me like this. MARGARET! It’s like an oomf who just discovered I was being silly goofy foolish again

i would not recommend being 28. avoid if at all possible

if anyone thinks of a job that I could do w my life plz lmk! i have few skills but I am interested in health insurance and a paycheck :)

people need to stop accusing me of putting myself in situations. I assure you I am just living my life and not even being that weird about it!

sorry to my followers that I haven’t been skeeting it’s bc I’m spending my every moment reading James Joyce scholarship. Kinda wish he was a worse writer so people would have less to say…..

is dunkin donuts on here bc I have a bone to pick w them!!! bring back the old dd perks program you cowards !!!

it’s soooo important to have friends who will pack up ur stuff, physically shove u out of ur office & force u to get a good lunch before you teach for several hours

Brendan didn’t solve a single Taylor puzzle… bc he’s working his full time job ??? & currently on a plane for said job??? Excuses excuses

heard Taylor’s puzzles are back up so instead of going to sleep I’m logging in for my shift. Swifties in service 🫡🫡

good news my dad - king of consumer reports - has issued a resounding “I like it.” Re blue sky

does anyone know what it means to be ‘ontologically evil’ jw

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