Reb v. Wade

puzzle pieces in the process of being put together, scattered next to a box with the puzzle image printed on it (cartoon depiction of three young women who are smiling and wearing bright-colored dresses)

puzzle depicting cartoon image of three smiling young women standing in a room next to a bookcase

one of the best gifts i've gotten this year, the other being the personalized jigsaw puzzle a friend sent to me a few months ago

black t-shirt printed w/ a tweet that says "Brian Eno isn't bald he just has 'ambient hair'"

friend: this tweet made me think of u
me: omg that should be on a t-shirt
friend, one month later: happy birthday, here's a t-shirt

When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:

such a cute idea for when you first meet people

just remembered that today is Meredith Monk's 83rd birthday 🎉🎉

(which means that it's also Joe Biden's 83rd birthday)

SARA my heart almost leapt out of my mouth reading the first half of that

we met during peak covid and i was probably complaining about how many men were still spitting on the sidewalks

somehow she was still into me after going home and googling "ethnomusicology" 🥲

social profile (Siri found in WhatsApp) Rebecca Notes Two brothers, Dad, born in GA, grew up in Alabama. French, Italian, German, Romanian(?) translator/music review ethnomusicology (google), NYU undergrad, Masters, In progress PhD. Likes whiskey abortion books No's onions bananas unmasked men

my best friend just sent me the note she made after our first date ~5 years ago and i'm dying

18 years ago today, my mom got diagnosed w/ cancer (ultimately terminal)... this time of year has been difficult ever since

WHY DOES STUFF LIKE THIS KEEP HAPPENING WITHOUT OUR CONSENT
(also, thank you to the people who post instructions for how to opt out of it)

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

"For the sake of her 14-year-old son, JJ, she needed to ask her doctor for an abortion to protect her health. [...] More than 90 doctors were involved in Walker’s care, but not one offered her the option to end her pregnancy, according to medical records."
www.propublica.org/article/texa...

my body canNOT get used to daylight savings this year 😫

whooooooa cool

good to know; tysm!

oh my bad!

i remember those dreaded 12/1 deadlines..... u got this!!

ah, i didn't realize, thank you! i'm just worried that my students will forget/not be able to afford the added expense. hm.

(our dep't only recently started administering in-person exams, rather than assigning final essays, bc of the plague of chatgpt)

Blue book exam - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_bo...

back in my day, the university provided students w/ blue books for our in-person exams. but i was just informed that my students will have to buy theirs at the university bookstore... which seems really bizarre to me!

wait students have to buy their blue books for exams now? tf

There are going to be more stories like this than we will ever hear about. Each person deserved the world, and we let them die.

i'm reminded of this archived tweet from like 8 years ago bsky.app/profile/rsl3...

passed w/ distinction, officially ABD~~

mock box art for Michel Foucault Monopoly special edition picutred is the French philosopher in profile with his hand on his forehead, the traditional spaces on a monopoly board have all been replaced with GO TO JAIL except for one square reading IN JAIL

game of the year

i have discerned that "Lizza" is not a nickname for Olivia Nuzzi but rather an entirely separate person, but otherwise i've managed to avoid learning much more than that. thx 4 your support

text from Dad that says "D-[fencing emoji]"

told my family i'm defending my prospectus today

forgot to follow up on this but i read this book within 24 hrs of seeing yr skeets and enjoyed it a lot. also kinda agree with the 3-star goodreads review that said reading this book feels like reading "good twitter" lol @lisairontongue.bsky.social

apparently eugenics and AI had a baby

i honestly don't know who she is and kinda don't wanna know