Norah

Norah

@noraham.bsky.social

Professor, parent, partner, likes reading, cats and food

217 Followers 329 Following 606 Posts Joined Oct 2023
4 months ago

It's definitely a thing, dressing in the fashion of the century you wish, not the century you live in

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4 months ago

I get that. Today I get to go to a screening so they can monitor me for an entirely different kind of cancer than the one I have. Less neato, still necessary.

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4 months ago

Whenever Harvard professors complain about their mean woke students I always think, sounds like a Harvard problem.

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4 months ago

Nah, but I say that only because he can't look her in the eye

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4 months ago

Truth

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4 months ago

Didn't he do that to his ex too?

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4 months ago

Libby is great!

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4 months ago
• UC must publicly release a
Trump administration
settlement proposal by Friday after losing its appeal to keep the document private.
• UCLA faculty succeed in their lawsuit demanding transparency.
• The proposal includes demands for stricter admissions policies and campus protest restrictions, among other demands. Last month, the UCLA Faculty Assn. sued UC after the university rejected its public records requests. The association is an independent organization unaffiliated with the Academic Senate, the body that formally represents all UCLA faculty in relations with campus administrators.

The UC Regents have so far refused to release the demand letter UCLA received from the Trump admin. @uclafa.bsky.social sued for its release last week and won. Glad to see that yesterday a judge rejected UC’s appeal of the decision. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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4 months ago

"Being told I couldn’t defend free speech was almost too on the nose."

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4 months ago

GenXer here, happy to blame the rampant racism, misogyny, and rape culture we were raised in. Add to that all the ironic and nihilistic posturing, which is a good way to let hate and grievances take hold.

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4 months ago

We tried that once. We already know catastrophic plans are a catastrophy.

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4 months ago

Yay for good news! That's goals right there!

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4 months ago
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No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left Portlanders deploying inflatable animal costumes, a brass band, mass ukulele renditions of “This Land Is Your Land,” naked bike rides, and other tactics in their ICE protests are undermining the Trump...

Feature filmmakers love left-wing violence plots. Secret gun-toting guerrilla groups, shootouts, car chases, hunted fugitives, and the rest work well – for movies, whose only job is to hold our attention for a couple of hours.

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4 months ago

Paid well for their betrayal too. Shame how little ethics and integrity are valued

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4 months ago

Woulda been a good start. Shoulda done it under Biden

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4 months ago

Dead Can Dance, Into the Labryrinth

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4 months ago

I know a little life hack that gets you pubic hair for free

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5 months ago

Ah, so one white reactionary influencer = thousands of ordinary citizens & residents

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5 months ago

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

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5 months ago

We share a birthday! Happy birthday Libra!

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5 months ago
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

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5 months ago

May he have as much luck running for governor as he did in the mayoral race

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5 months ago

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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5 months ago

So sorry to hear this. As someone navigating illness myself, advocating for yourself feels like taking on another job in addition to the job of healing and staying well

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5 months ago

They pay the hospital for whatever treatment the patient needs, not the patient. He of course knows this but figures we voters are uninformed and easily led

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5 months ago

I just learned about this! So envious

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5 months ago
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Faculty called for USC to ‘promptly reject’ Trump compact - Daily Trojan The Academic Senate called a special meeting Monday for faculty to provide input on the demands.

Glad to see we’re united against the “compact.” For one, I love USC’s cosmopolitanism. I’m proud to have directed dissertations by students from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S., and every term I love having awesome students from China, India, and many other places. Fight on!

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5 months ago
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Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience Guest Columnist Benjamin Nathans urges Penn’s leadership to resist the White House’s demands in its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

Penn historian Ben Nathans with an op-ed in our campus newspaper:

"No self-respecting university that values its autonomy and the integrity of its teaching and research should sign the compact."

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5 months ago

I am so grateful to be sleeping in my own bed tonight, not in the hospital. For oh so many reasons, but especially cats

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5 months ago

This from the country that doesn't believe women's rights should be protected by the Constitution

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