Stephanie King

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Email spam: CHRISTIAN SENIOR SINGLES!
Me: Damn, you missed on all three

there are more of us than there are of them and we will scare the nazis back into cover of darkness in my lifetime

Well this week can just go right to hell

I was not one of those people, but I am now

I'm old enough to have been on the Do Not Call list 📵

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

"Phreeli instead wants to offer actual anonymity. It can’t help government agencies or data brokers obtain users’ identifying information because it has almost none to share."

I hate those profiles where they're like "I make 6 figures and live paycheck-to-paycheck!" and it's always:
-huge mortgage
-private schools
-maxing out 401k

There have only been a couple of years of my marriage where we've crossed the line to 100 and I feel like Scrooge McDuck

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

I am in the U.S. so I was like WHY ISN'T "MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA" ON HERE until I clicked and saw the cover is just different

This list looks really interesting and will check some of the others out!

Lmaoooooooooooo

But then I would have to actually speak French to someone's face

Is it because everybody has ALREADY been laid off

"Holiday" question:

I would like to leave a lil present for the person who cleans my office (like... spotless). HOWEVER I have never seen them and have no idea who they are. What is a nice gift (besides $$$) and how can I make sure they know it's for them?

I like this one!

"Biweekly"

HELP do you mean
a) twice a week
b) every two weeks
c) a bisexual week

I'm so sorry that happened to you! The one time I was most aggressively confronted by a student, it was also a student with an A. I wonder what THAT'S about? Like you're doing fine, why are you HOLY COW ATTACKING ME

Agree with someone else here who said you should document it just in case

Even the Pantone color is racist

I've had it with this year

Head Writer: ...okay what next?
Writers' Room: What if we made them declare "white" the color of the year?
Head Writer: No, that's too stupid
Writers' Room: Is it? Is it though?

I am watching with my morning coffee!

Yuma was amazing and Malinin was meh... interesting!

Is it:
a) seasonal depression
b) the end-of-the-semester strungout blues
c) the part of the movie right before I get superpowers somehow

Every day isn't supposed to be this hard, is it

That's not true, some people are debating "did this paper's rubric justify giving it a zero" instead of the bribe thing 🙃

A cat backpack with a little window for the cat to look out of

I've had good luck with @canadastrong.bsky.social here, and they offer lots of colors and smaller sizes if you've got kids!

I went to a professional training for work this afternoon and the trainer was SOMEBODY I KNEW from a completely different context

I think this means I am officially From Québec now

True, but I always think about the math of "we'd rather hire 20 people and have a scheduling nightmare every semester than give give 5 people job stability"

Plus "using a fleet of adjuncts to teach 100 sections of freshman comp" instead of hiring 4 or 5 NTT folks

Tell me more about this heated eye mask 👀

I understand why lit mags can't be open all the time, but it makes me sad when I've got something to send out and all the places I think would best like it are closed ☹️

In the new year, please consider that your lit mag or newsletter deserves better than to rub elbows with nazis. Close your Substack and use literally any other platform. You will gain readers like me who avoid Substack no matter what great art you are producing there.

Definitely agree that the screeching/hissing approach is NOT working