Elspeth

We cope as we can.

White plate on a teal mosaic-pattern placemat. The plate has a large serving of a tomato and okra dish.

One of my summer favorites - okra with tomatoes, garlic, and preserved lemon, from an Ottolenghi cookbook.

Perfectly reasonable. Just don’t gnaw on my purse book.

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Attn @premeemohamed.com you have been enbaggified?

Records department has now been notified, however. This is going into the ship archives.

a) thank you 💕

b) facts - Jewish women were right behind Black women as Harris’ highest voting demos

c) “Blame the Jews, not me!” is a timeworn strategy—over 1500 years old.

Effective, ok, but a dodge from where the real focus should be. (See below)

d) Solidarity is the only way home. Always.

Black folks.

Do not let them blame the attacks on woke, DEI, and affirmative action on the Jewish community.

They want us at war with them for what they created by electing Shitler twice. I mean they voted for him 3x.

Jewish community followed the homework assignment in 24, they ain't the enemy.

He appears exhausted by the experience.

Harriet Walter and Edward Petherbridge as Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey in “Have His Carcase”

It sucks, doesn’t it.

Start of Wikipedia article on 19thC member of pariament John Bell, declared of unsound mind but there was no way to remove him from Parliament.

Continued Wikipedia article on MP John Bell, who declared himself a bird. He said he could fly better than most birds because he kept his shoulders oiled. He died in 1851 but a law to allow MPs to be removed from office for mental instability wasn’t passed until 1886.

History is frequently very funny.

I have been reliably informed by women and female-presenting enbies that in our 40s we find ourselves caring less about societal expectations. I’m pretty excited about that stage of my evolution and consider this a positive step in that direction!

So much belly floof on display. I am SCANDALIZED.

Honestly one of the best things to come out of 2025 so far for me is realizing my age has finally caught up with my clothing taste. I can at last wear the middle-aged-woman-in-education clothes I want without feeling frumpy.

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

Psst, hey kid, wanna see a perfect visual metaphor?

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

AI hype is going to drive people who actually know how to do the work, and do it while upholding professional ethics and values, from libraries, from education, from medicine, and on and on and on. It's already happening.

I had this all take place recently, uterus yeeting included, and am happy to share my experience with you if you want.

Late afternoon on a weekend. Time to pop some corns.

Excellent farmers market haul this morning: corn, green beans, tomatoes, lemon cucumbers, okra, strawberries i can smell from the next room, and a steelhead trout filet.

Should I hide my popcorn first?

No, not horrified. He’s too pretty to be horrifying.

Bright green, leaf-like greater anglewing on rough brown stucco.

Hey @premeemohamed.com this guy is lurking by my front door. What does he want? He won’t ring the bell, just lurks.

We’re good at that.

What’s the plan for the bounteous harvest?

Oooh. *grabby hands*

If universities were taking our concerns seriously, then they would give us an option to block gAI from at least some classrooms, I dont know, but no, once more, the priorities of tech fields in the university dictate where the entire fucking university must go, and damn the rest of us

Oh hey fuck this entirely.

If LinkedIn is going to actively start removing hate speech protections for trans people, it might be time to start petitioning certain groups to make their feelings known to LinkedIn, at scale

The Holy Pita of Antioch!