Cornelia Lambert

Part of an email reading “development of a First Gen Mentor Program to build on SIUE's growing first-generation student community and the demonstrated value of mentorship in student success. We were thrilled by the strong response and interest from faculty and staff eager to participate. As we moved toward implementation, our office experienced some unexpected staff transitions over the summer, which have temporarily impacted our capacity to launch and sustain the program at this time. While we are unable to move forward with the mentorship component right now, we remain committed to supporting first-generation students and plan to revisit this initiative in the future as staffing allows.

When your mission to recruit and retain new student populations runs headlong into your desire to grind university staff into pulp.

More than anything else, the whole world runs on the disregarded suffering of children.

Michael Shannon is James Garfield

Nick Offerman is Chester A. Arthur

Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

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I'm so excited for AskHistorians to have @lzreis23.bsky.social for a fantastic AMA today on her book Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex! Come check it out!
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this!

4. Every other discipline thinks they can do history but they often cannot

Not the weave! They need it for "Weekend at Bernie's" purposes!

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once:

— virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— against increasing the minimum wage
— buys foreign imports because they're cheap

What could go wrong?

Paging Achille Mbembe

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BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons.

Who’s with him?

*8/28/2025 thread of noncooperation*
Sidebar!

I've been thinking a lot about Lisa Cook fighting to *stay* at the Fed vs. CDC leaders *leaving* the CDC.

Productive noncompliance looks different under different circumstances. "No, I won't get out of your way" vs. "No, I won't help you do harm."

4/

"Do not pretend you do not understand" goes a long way towards the heart of a LOT of problems rn

Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years:

-gender does not cause them
-SSRIs, no
-mental illness, no
-internet/gaming, no

Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo:

suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns

Thoughts and Prayers didn't work, so Republicans have moved on to Those Kids Are Better Off Dead.

Nothing like it

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

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What I see is a starving canine

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?

RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research

D: I just read them to you!

R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

👀

Yet another thing I don't understand is how using LLMs on student work isn't a FERPA violation

Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**

"Roseanna Roseannadanna haircut" describes it PERFECTLY.

Monster: A Tale - paperback (Pre-Order) | Northodox Press What kind of person would take a baby, asleep in his pram?What kind of a person would leave him there? Alys Greenwood is a privileged overachiever. Hollie Nelson is a drifter and a thief. In a cinema ...

Here’s a nice thing for a Monday! As some of you already know, I have a new novel coming out in April, and my publisher @northodoxpress.bsky.social has just told me that pre-orders are now live! (Short thread incoming...)
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A good read!

April 11: “The phones are ringing off the hook.”

July 6: “Many of these countries never even contacted us.”

@atrupar.com

Excellent 🧵with timeless insights about technology and power

They know.

Any contention otherwise denigrates the work of disabled Americans who spent months lobbying against Medicaid cuts on the Hill, protesting, getting arrested, etc

No, the people who don’t know? Voters - they blame Dems link.springer.com/article/10.1...