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Archives educator & Southern lit & culture scholar, researching the Lost Cause in pop/low culture + podcasts & public or popular humanities. Curses a lot. None of this reflects my institution. she/her πŸ’–πŸ’œπŸ’™

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Happy #Bloomsday! I'd say the best way to celebrate is by starting a big old joyfully ambitious book today!

16.06.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

He fired

Carla fucking Hayden

The Librarian of Congress

An amazing, badass, kind human being

May he never know peace

09.05.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 347    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5

I, for one, am tired of [gestures broadly]. I have grown weary of [points in all directions simultaneously].

08.05.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3552    πŸ” 916    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 33

I feel like this looks spectacular in person. It definitely found the right wearer. My goodness.

06.05.2025 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know if I can with the hat, but he looks SHARP.

06.05.2025 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I can’t reskeet everything, but those are flawless looks on Jodie Turner-Smith and Zendaya. Teyana Taylor maybe needs to take Coco Chanel’s advice about taking off one thing before leaving the house, but I can’t actually argue with it.

06.05.2025 04:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Never disappointing. Always putting in the work. πŸ‘‘

06.05.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always. Every year. Because she loves the art of fashion. She studies it. She doesn’t just want to look hot.

Love this green so much.

06.05.2025 04:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Star Wars Intro Scroll

Episode IV
It Was All So Stupid

Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

04.05.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 38312    πŸ” 7975    πŸ’¬ 481    πŸ“Œ 305

Imagine the biggest problem in your life being about which bathroom a total stranger uses.

Imagine pretending random people you'll never meet are somehow victimizing you with their existence.

Imagine being that hard up for troubles that you have to invent them just so you can play the victim.

28.04.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 12051    πŸ” 2490    πŸ’¬ 268    πŸ“Œ 93

If we don’t have no less than three American antipopes by the end of the week, I’ll be disappointed in the convictions of our shitheart tradcath dorks.

21.04.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

PUT THE WOKE BACK NOW!!!!

14.03.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 13607    πŸ” 2348    πŸ’¬ 162    πŸ“Œ 66

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines
Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them.
By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER β€’ The Washington Post

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them. By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER β€’ The Washington Post

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

08.03.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 38183    πŸ” 7231    πŸ’¬ 1128    πŸ“Œ 538
07.03.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the President’s address:

Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.

05.03.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 32758    πŸ” 5589    πŸ’¬ 2061    πŸ“Œ 633

You know, there are a few celebrity dudes that I really, really need not to be secret monsters, and Andrew Garfield is on that list just below Tom Hanks and Stephen Colbert.

04.03.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As usual, the menswear dude has receipts. Always a lovely thing to behold.

01.03.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Okay, that stings.

27.02.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ppl arguing about whether the admin is stupid or craven or evil or what-have-you -- it does not matter why they're doing what they're doing. if a guy is going to stab me I don't care what his motivation is. I address the urgent question of getting stabbed less. we can dwell on particulars later

27.02.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1600    πŸ” 239    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 8

No, Mr. Bond. I expect you (and the franchise as we know it) to die.

21.02.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

aside from being morally bankrupt or outright abhorrent, there’s also the fact that complying in advance simply does not work

08.02.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1008    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 8

Fuck yeah, Kentucky. Proud of my red home state continuing (miraculously!) to vote for their best interests, even if he’s a democrat.

(Like, I know he’s a nepo baby, but his dad was a democrat and so is he, with real dem policies.)

06.02.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From my archival heart and soul: FUCK!

06.02.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Academic Librarians, Information Literacy, and ChatGPT: Sounding the Alarm on a New Type of Misinformation | Pierce | College & Research Libraries News05_TWISI_Pierce Academic Librarians, Information Literacy, and ChatGPT: Sounding the Alarm on a New Type of Misinformation

"As advocates for information literacy, academic librarians should be explaining why ChatGPT’s output has introduced a qualitatively different type of misinformation."

05.02.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 158    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5
A view from inside of my tuxedo cat sitting in an open window, looking at the camera. In the foreground are small trans and rainbow flags (the kind you hold at a parade). Behind him there is a long blue curtain. You can see some trees and sky outside.

A view from inside of my tuxedo cat sitting in an open window, looking at the camera. In the foreground are small trans and rainbow flags (the kind you hold at a parade). Behind him there is a long blue curtain. You can see some trees and sky outside.

Thread of mental health and practical resources for LGBTQ people (US-based) πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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24.01.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 405    πŸ” 373    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

Then fucking do something you useless meatsack

01.02.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 289    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later

Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

31.01.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 16532    πŸ” 5863    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 195
A cartoon of a doctor and a patient. The doctor says: "Here's your problem--it looks like you're paying attention to what's going on."

A cartoon of a doctor and a patient. The doctor says: "Here's your problem--it looks like you're paying attention to what's going on."

#Mood

Cartoon by Pia Guerra

24.11.2024 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2520    πŸ” 335    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 27

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