Bex, if you can keep it

Screenshot of Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in The Godfather, saying: "This is a real nice place you got here. Be a shame if something were to happen to it."

Bienen to Don Corleone: "Well, I see no reasonable response to this other than to do whatever you say!"

caving to a weak president with a 60% disapproval rating implies you AGREE with him

Our family clothing storage all hinges on never reaching Laundry Hamper Zero.

“I was just following otters.”

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

I'm just feeling really sad about a lot of things and maybe this sent me over the edge a little bit.

Tried to take a photo of a pottery thing and hip-checked my whole goddamn cordless drill into my reclaim bucket, WHYYYYYYY

Didn't even get the photo because I found too many imperfections and now I hate it 🫠

You're doing that Bluesky thing that I now think of as 'appeal to marginalization,' using an imagined Other that you consider unassailable -- and, crucially, almost never party to the current conversation -- to prop your argument instead of standing on your point as yourself.

Stock Photos for Vaccines Are Notoriously Bad So We Created Our Own Here's how you can download them for free.

Right? There are so many images that are purposely available for free. I was part of a group of folks who pushed for this back pre-pandemic and they're still up, all free! Encouraged to use! Lots of these in many areas of existence!

A large Christmas tree decorated in a riot of colorful lights and ornaments.

I love a chaos tree. Miss me with the perfect department store type. I want popsicle stick ornaments, rainbow lights, and a distinct lack of structural integrity.

Screenshot of a tweet by Melanie D’Arrigo on X.com that reads: “It’s literally the whole reason why we celebrate Thanksgiving.” Beneath it is a Homeland Security tweet saying: “This Thanksgiving, there is no room at the table for invaders.”

The irony is rich.

People are allowed to vote for & agree with this but I'm the rude one if I disrupt a family event to challenge them about whether they think I should be deported for not loving America enough.

A very large, girthy fraser fit mid-setup in a family room.

LARGE.

Amazon who? @bookshop.org has free shipping all weekend!

I personally don't like having overly sweet stuff with the main meal - savory roasted pumpkin/squash/sweet potato is already delicious! But it seems more common to treat pumpkin (usually butternut squash though) as savory in Australia than in the US - we typically eat it roasted or as a savory soup.

People will listen to neuroscience podcasts 18 hours a day and never shut up about optimizing themselves and still willfully forget that the point of making art is not for a computer to generate an image as quickly as possible it is to activate different parts of that brain you supposedly care about

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The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]

Again, as with all the other federal budget cuts that are incinerating 20-25% of the funding & the entire budget model of every R1 university in 🇺🇸, this is a five-alarm emergency that requires immediate, loud, collective condemnation by our university presidents. Total 🦗 as it’s all being gutted.

anyway it was like 30 years ago and we still talk about it.

When we lived in Australia we befriended some Americans and one night they brought over something like this and there was MUCH CONFUSION. Marshmallows? On a side dish? Like, not a dessert?

I actually laughed out loud. The AUDACITY.

I got a $60k TT offer in 2017 in one of the highest COL areas of the country. Negotiated them up to at least meet what I was making as an NTT lecturer at the time. Left academia last year & doubled it - and still get to do research in my discipline.

To put this in context, I was offered a teaching track job in 2023 that had a salary of $55,000.

Just got extremely nostalgic for a good ol' salad sandwich.

There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.

Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.

Every time I tell my husband (our family chef) that whatever he's cooking smells amazing: "It's just onions and garlic." 😅

We 👀 "search engines like DuckDuckGo adding options to filter out search results suspected of having synthetic content... There’s also a growing mvmt pushing back against new AI data centers... But no matter what form AI slop-refusal takes, it will need to be a group effort." - @tega.bsky.social