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Some days I like to imagine Wyna Liu reviewing the analytics for Connections and absolutely cackling as she sees everyone fall for her traps.

Our statement supporting the reinstatement of AFT/USU member that was fired

A sit-in/work-in is planned for this Tuesday, April 15, at 12pm at the LSA Building Atrium. Register: bit.ly/work-inrsvp

A black and white staffy mix rolls around in a patch of sunny grass. She gives side eye to the camera.

95% of dog ownership is waiting to see if they'll get sick from that dumb thing they ate.

Pictured: the goofball herself.

If you're in a position where you've been asked to work on such a list: get bad at doing your job. Provide the incorrect data. Take forever to do it. Put errors in the data. Provide separate lists for first names and last names. Provide a list of every single employee in your unit/at the uni.

Last week(?) UMich Regents directed deans of schools to produce lists of employees in DEI roles. This morning, UMich HR sent out an email to employees, encouraging them to self-disclose disability or veteran status.

Do not do any of these things.

Hello hello! We're looking forwarding to re-connecting with y'all in 2025. What have WE been up to? Check out our website! What have YOU been up to? We always want to know. www.hathitrust.org

A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"

ACT UP, 1990

LEO-GLAM kicks off bargaining with rally LEO-GLAM held a rally on the Diag Wednesday to celebrate the commencement of negotiations between the union and the University.

Read all about our LEO-GLAM Bargaining Kickoff in the Michigan Daily!

YouTube video by Yaelokre Yaelokre - Harpy Hare 𓆱 (Illustrated Song)

Anyway if anyone needs a recommendation from a tailspin ventcore thursday afternoon, I am absolutely in love with Harpy Hare by Yaelokre. First time I heard it, I replayed it 4 times in a row. youtu.be/5-I1lT6Jbdo?...

Today's daylist is named "tailspin ventcore thursday afternoon." Spotify says "You listened to otherkin and forest on Thursdays in the afternoon. Here's some: tailspin, ventcore, copium, fearful, relatable and venting."

So is Spotify's AI just making up names for categories of music? This is from my daylist, a feature I enjoy, but wth is "tailspin" or "copium" music?

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

When the user is finished with a session at the teletype, it is necessary only to leave the machine. The user should plan his session at the teletype to avoid long trances. If such happens, the user should save his work, and leave the machine for someone else to use. Remember the motto, TYPING IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THINKING.

A line from the original 1964 manual for BASIC:

"Typing is no substitute for thinking."

🤣 that actually makes sense

But seriously though, why are people so obsessed with avocados?

Where's the Spotify playlist for the Living for the Dead Show? So many good haunted October songs....

Excerpt: ...decorations of the bed. But my efforts were fruitless. An irrepressible tremor gradually pervaded my frame; and, at length, there sat upon my very heart an incubus of utterly causeless alarm. Shaking this off with a gasp and a struggle, I uplifted myself upon the pillows, and, peering earnestly within the intense darkness of the chamber, hearkened—I know not...

A h-what?? An INCUBUS? Don't you mean a succubus, Mr. Poe good sir?

Yet the character of his face had been at all times remarkable. A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a finely moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy; hair of a more than web-like softness and tenuity;—these features, with an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up altogether a countenance not easily to be forgotten.

I mean....come on! What straight map rhapsodizes on the beauty of his childhood bro like this??

Also do not pay money to read this! It's in the public domain and available at Gutenber.org:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/932

Search results found 2 pieces in the top 5: "Queer Theory: Edgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Homoerotic encounters in the fictions of Edgar Allan Poe"

Re-reading the Fall of the House of Usher for the first time since I was an ostensibly straight kid and immediately googled "was Poe gay." Glad I'm not the only one who picked up those vibes...

And yes, that is what I decided to use my one and only inaugural Blue Sky post on.

Rebecca Black smiles innocently and All American teenagerly in this capture from the Friday music video

Here however, she is in her alt-goth phase, with a heavy black fringe, braids curled up, wearing a blue pleather high neck dress with intense blue and black eye makeup. Her long black evening gloves end in metallic nails suggestive of surgical instruments.

When/how did Rebecca Black go from A to B?