Oh yeah! Serious Brain Drain.
02.04.2025 13:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@wordsmithy.bsky.social
Emerita Professor of Japanese history, essayist, ecosystem restoration gardener, beekeeper, textile artist, and all manners of nerd
Oh yeah! Serious Brain Drain.
02.04.2025 13:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0THANKS!!
07.03.2025 01:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Good feeling or...?? I was over the moon for almost a year before I became sort of disoriented!
22.01.2025 17:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A good feeling, or...??? I was over the moon for almost a year.
22.01.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Exactly. Why would anyone want to interact or "share community" with imaginary people? Make it make sense!!
13.01.2025 14:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Meta-hell and Xitter don't offer much in the way of incentive, for sure!
13.01.2025 14:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Preserve your capacity for joy in these perilous times.
youtu.be/oHs98TEYecM?...
Great post. I've had an intuition, for a long time, that race piggy-backs this phenomenon. Sports would be an example though my intuition is based on academia.
01.01.2025 16:58 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Moving is so exhausting, be sure to rest plenty!
31.12.2024 00:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Really NICE!!!
31.12.2024 00:55 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I wonder if he'll actually attend the service.
31.12.2024 00:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0And certainly different gamers game differently. I'm not the same gamer I was at 20.
30.12.2024 20:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ah. I see what you're saying. I always think some readers read patiently, and at particular times in their lives? I'm not the same reader I was at 20. What evs: you do you!!!
30.12.2024 19:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0World-building is everything. Why would I spend 15 hours reading/gaming a world without culture and back-story?
30.12.2024 19:53 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The elephant in the middle of the room is that MAGA is an anti-education movement. Muscular, belligerent mediocrity is the MAGA brand. Tell Vivek the call is coming from inside the house. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
30.12.2024 14:46 โ ๐ 1274 ๐ 303 ๐ฌ 46 ๐ 25Guinea worm used to afflict 3.5 million people each year. This year, thanks in part to Jimmy Carter, there have been 7 cases. He negotiated the longest humanitarian cease-fire in history to distribute water filters & larvicides www.scientificamerican.com/article/jimm... via @tanyalewis.bsky.social
29.12.2024 23:14 โ ๐ 3284 ๐ 886 ๐ฌ 34 ๐ 34Dear Jimmy Carter....
Rest in Peace.....
Care for yourself like you are the last raw egg in the universe. The academy can break a person! Especially women of color. Phew!
29.12.2024 22:54 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0I had to take early retirement. I couldn't stick it out. 23 years was 23 years too many!
29.12.2024 22:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Whatever helps you survive the academy!
29.12.2024 22:16 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0When people say 'run government like a business,' they mean cut services, raise prices, and pay the CEO 400 times more than the workers.
21.12.2024 22:32 โ ๐ 12111 ๐ 2983 ๐ฌ 279 ๐ 126Elon is such a Boer.
21.12.2024 01:50 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Oooh!! Thank you!!
20.12.2024 17:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Secretly voted" lol.
18.12.2024 14:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm ALL wet in the mouth!!!
18.12.2024 01:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Oh DAYYUM. I'll be right over!!
18.12.2024 01:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Wax Lips. #Blackskyover50
18.12.2024 01:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Maybe itโs time to talk about white-on-white crime, the white communityโs  violent culture and why Caucasian America is ALWAY in its angry era
thegrio.com/2024/12/16/w...
I'm confused: are we supposed to feel for C-Suite execs afraid to return to their offices?
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