Meredith Guthrie

Thanks! He’s doing great now that we’re using pill pockets so he’ll take his medicine 😆

Sometimes we really just need to see something good. Speaking of which, here’s a picture of Rufus (he had to wear the Donut of Shame for a few days because he injured his toe somehow. It’s doing a lot better!)

Don’t cross the line buds! Solidarity with the workers!

The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them

My office mate is running a Zoom meeting. How dare you make me snort laugh 😂

Hey babes, new earworm just dropped. Scroll up for context. Or not. You do you.

The Campaign for Southern Equality is taking applications for grants for undergrads, grad students & early career academics studying the lives of LGBTQ+ folks in the American South. (It includes asking for conference funding!) Deadline Dec 5

I have a pretty good vinegar pie recipe? (one of the few southern recipes made for living cheaply that's still actually cheap...)

starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life

mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices

The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.

Yes, to watching how this story gets told/rationalized. Numbers have been used against arts & humanities programs even when enrollments are NOT cratering. My take is students right now are very savvy (at least in my classes) about the need for a mix: arts & humanities + STEM. They really want this.

The one thing every single one of us can count on in this life is that you will become disabled.

The only variable is whether it happens at birth, in old age, or somewhere in between

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Well apparently I‘m not insane to think Mufasa‘s fur used to be a different color

Everything that actually made America great is being destroyed

🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.

This how I find out I have a son??

what did Rob Manfred think was going to happen when he encouraged MLB to embrace gambling as a revenue stream?

I just saw a former student of mine at a turnpike rest stop in central PA! What a small, small world! (Her flight from NYC was canceled, so they had to drive back to Pittsburgh.)

This health economist wants your medical bills • An Arm And a Leg Economist Vivian Ho has been researching the US health care system for four decades. These days she focuses on what she describes as the biggest burden on

Want to help check up on whether health insurance companies are meaningfully complying with price transparency laws?

Check out this podcast to hear about a study collecting itemized hospital bills, or go directly to the study website. www.bakerinstitute.org/research/hel...

I meant to live post about #MAPACA2025, but I was having such a wonderful time that I forgot to! (Living in the moment?!? Whoa.) If you ever get the chance to come to our conference, do it! I love these folks ❤️

"Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year, another late 2024 document states."

In conclusion, never stop looking for ways to support & uplift your friends & comrades & community. And happy GDT's Frankenstein Day to all who celebrate.

Now get out there & volunteer for a cause or group that you love. I gotta reputation to uphold here so consider yourself motivated or whatever.

As Hamlet said, “Bark bark bark.” She wanted me to sing Ethel Merman, but I chickened out.

Well deserved! @meanlouise.bsky.social is awesome!!!

Finally (for this panel), we have “‘A friend like me?’ male friendships in Disney animated films” by Anita Jandaly #Disney #MAPACA2025

Next up: “From a Certain Point of View: Disneyland’s POV Videos” from our very own @drtares.bsky.social #Disney #MAPACA2025

Next paper: “Plastic Magic: when Barbie Entered the World of Disney” by Emily Rose Aguilo-Perez #Disney #MAPACA2025

I am at #MAPACA2025! First Disney Studies panel, 1st paper is on how the Army Leadership Requirement Model is demonstrated in Marvel’s Thunderbolts with Evelyn Burns. #Disney @drtares.bsky.social