Pam Mack

Phantom Pains [winner] - The Georgia Review Before the amputation, the doctors warned me. My memory might recall my absent limb after the surgery, and I might experience these recollections as physical sensations. I pressed for more specifics a...

"transforming pain into self-cherishing"--what we can learn about living in a wounded environment www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/phanto...

Fired Clemson faculty member wins settlement after being fired for a Facebook post about Charlie Kirk - ACLU of South Carolina Clemson University has rescinded its firing of an assistant professor who shared another person's Facebook post via his personal account that was critical of the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk.

Clemson Professor Joshua Bregy has won his lawsuit after being fired for a Facebook post about Charlie Kirk www.aclusc.org/press-releas...

Bad Creek Hydroelectric Station - Wikipedia

Also this one in South Carolina, built in conjunction with a nuclear power plant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Cre...

A white woman with pulled-back grey hair wearing a shirt printed with realistic fish and a plastic realistic duck on her head. Her left hand holds a phone to take a selfie in a mirror. The photo has been photoshopped to make the duck more visible by increasing the brightness only of the duck.

I'm going to my building's Halloween party as a duck pond

Donate to Defend Academic Freedom: Help Dr. Bregy, organized by Steven Lam My name is Steven Lam, and I am a proud alumnus of Clemson University. It breaks my… Steven Lam needs your support for Defend Academic Freedom: Help Dr. Bregy

Gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/defend-aca... and www.gofundme.com/f/support-dr...

Donate to Defend Academic Freedom: Help Dr. Bregy, organized by Steven Lam My name is Steven Lam, and I am a proud alumnus of Clemson University. It breaks my… Steven Lam needs your support for Defend Academic Freedom: Help Dr. Bregy

The other professor: www.gofundme.com/f/defend-aca...?

Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

No, not that I noticed

Donate to Support Dr. Melvin Villaver's Fight for Free Speech, organized by N Snee I am writing this on behalf of Dr. Melvin Earl Villaver, Jr. Melvin was… N Snee needs your support for Support Dr. Melvin Villaver's Fight for Free Speech

I haven't stayed closely enough connected to the Clemson Univ. community to have detail about the professors being investigated and fired for exercising their free speech rights. But I contributed to one GoFundMe for legal costs and would be glad to know of others. www.gofundme.com/f/support-dr...

I did not have my usual high fever, but I have still had a day of feeling sick. So my experience is maybe half the reaction with mNexspike as with Moderna in previous years

However there are two versions of the 2025-26 Moderna, mSpikevax and mNexvax

I will report tomorrow. The past Moderna and Pfizer both gave me a day of fever, I haven’t tried Norovax

St. Louis COVID-cautious folk: I got the Moderna mNexspike COVID vaccination today at the CVS in the Target at 900 S. Grand. I am over 65 and had an appointment but I asked for my son and the pharmacist said they would give the shot to anyone who asked for it. Check their limited hours.

Program on neurodiverse faculty and staff in academia

https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/kJPSyXOHRCyRKYA-C5OpBQ

Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...

I was talking to a friend about the midwest and suddenly put together a reason for the progressive/democratic traditions that have surprised me in St. Louis (eg. the zoo is free, the art museum is free). He said: "after 1848 we got the good Germans."

Today I was able to make an appointment to get the new COVID vaccination Sept. 6 at a CVS

Flowers in memoriam to Elisa Kay Sparks I could never think of Virginia Woolf and flowers without thinking of Elisa Kay Sparks, who died Aug. 16 in Seattle, Washington.

A memorial to Elisa Kay Sparks, with links to some projects https://bloggingwoolf.org/2025/08/17/flowers-in-memoriam-to-elisa-kay-sparks/ She was a key leader of women’s studies at Clemson

the deep is inviting

A cartoon showing a tombstone for Tom Lehrer with the dates 1928-2025 and three pigeons among breadcrumbs, one dead with its feet in the air.

The reference is to: tomlehrersongs.com/poisoning-pi....

August 2025: planting seeds for the next world — shea in the catskills planting seeds for the next world Where life is precious, life is precious. — Ruth Wilson Gilmore   I was having a moment recently with a comrade + conspirator where I shared how pointless it...

august 2025 offering is up

"I used to think + talk about Judgement as a call to live one’s life so we might die with a light heart. I don’t believe that’s possible anymore, + probably it was never possible."

image from @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social's Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot

#tarotsky

I’m sad to learn of the passing of Margaret Rossiter, a key pioneer in writing the history of women in science. It took a MacArthur Fellowship for her to get respect from many men in the field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_W._Rossiter

I knew this was coming—97!—but it hits hard anyway. So grateful I got to take “math for tenors” from him at UCSC. And grateful for all he left us.

Tom Lehrer, master satirist of Cold War era, dies at 97 In song, he brilliantly skewered clichés about romance, patriotism and small-town life.

Gift article: Tom Lehrer obituary https://wapo.st/3J6GVeA

You Need 5 Hobbies The first time I saw this “You Need 5 Hobbies” forward on LinkedIn in November 2020, I was instantly fascinated. What this meant was that the hobbies should serve some “purpose&#8…

source for the image achuthkamath.com/2021/03/28/y...

Poster with a gold hand that reads: You need 5 hobbies: -one to make you money -one to keep you in shape -one to keep you creative -one to build knowledge -one to evolve your mindset

I'm not a believer in monetizing hobbies, but I thought this was interesting because I never thought in terms of having multiple hobbies for balance

Andrea Was Waiting To Give You This Poem “When Death Came to Visit”

"Andrea has said many times, 'I write so much about my diagnosis not to remind you that I am mortal, but to remind you that YOU are mortal.'

My hope is that this poem doesn’t make you sad or worried, but invites you—like Andrea invites us—to 'raise what will end you, with love.'"

JESUS CHRIST 😭❤️‍🔥

A cake in the shape of a smooth cylinder. Along the bottom of the side is a skyline with a church, with purple, yellow and blue swirls above it. The top has a white cloud and "day to dawn"

A beautiful cake for my 70th birthday from Key Cakes and Confections in St. Louis. The top has a quote from Thoreau: There is more day to dawn

Discussion: Arts Based Research as Collaborative Practice — What A Shrink Thinks

Next community discussion on Arts Based Research as a Collaborative Practice:

With @feelingndealing.bsky.social

July 13th

A photo of a stage set with a youngish African American man painting a canvas on an easel. Around him is a somewhat Victorian house and clutter

"This House" at Opera Theater of St. Louis was intense! Photo taken during intermission