madelaine caritas longman

It's giving Buster Bluth from Arrested Development saying his stuffies are his awards from army.

i'm me

Being a professor is like Picture of Dorian Gray except it’s the students who stay young and full of life while you decay year after year in front of them

level of sleep deprivation where i write "pay bill" on my list only to immediately stare at it in confusion trying to remember who Bill is

hyper beam

pokemon

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

love this! beautiful work.

A rabbi asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and the day was on its way back. “Could it be,”asked one student, “when you can see an animal in the distance and tell whether it is a sheep or a dog?” “No,” answered the rabbi. “ Could it be,” asked another, “ when you can look at a tree in the distance and tell whether it is a fig tree or a peach tree?” “No,” said the rabbi. “Well, then what is it?” his pupils demanded. “It is when you look on the face of any woman or man and see that they are your sister or brother. Because if you cannot do this, then no matter what time it is, it is still night.”

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.

(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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YOU COME RIGHT OVER HERE AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE HAVING ANOTHER YEAR Dorothy Parker Telegram to Robert Benchley 31st December 1929

"Temporally and geographically expansive, 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦’s apparent digressions sediment into uncanny layers." Madelaine Caritas Longman in conversation with Stephanie Bolster. Read the rest at the link: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/long...
@effervescentvoid.bsky.social

edited big essay. possibly made it worse but oh well. a process has transpired.

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Just read Justin Torres' We the Animals. Love when a book is so good it leaves you thinking, "Oh yeah. This is why books exist."

"I’m renovicting all the sky" great line!

I would say it depends on the social norms within the group. Some social environments equate eloquence with status, while others treat it as a sign someone doesn't belong. Gender, race, class, etc also play huge roles in who is implicitly encouraged and discouraged from cultivating elaborate speech.

books i have reread most often:
short talks - anne carson
the vertical interrogation of strangers - bhanu kapil
god's silence - franz wright
stilt jack - john thompson

Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things

🦋 + 🦋 = romantic

(PS: Excited to read the book when it comes out!)

The most recent article I saw was "Social cognition deficits in borderline personality disorder: Clinical relevance" by Galvez-Merlin et al. (doi.org/10.1016/j.ps...). There's also some older work by Roepke et al. (DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00195) and Preißler et al. (doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00182)

thank you!

I understand the point about the importance of accurate diagnosis but have questions about the claim that "autism [contrary to BPD] involves genuine difficulty understanding social cues and communication." From my understanding, research suggests people with BPD show impaired social cognition.

Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing a screenshot of dunsparce and kids sitting on a bench looking a book

Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing a screenshot of a dunsparce picture book with text reading “In the morning, dunsparce eats breakfast and goes to sleep.”

Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing a screenshot of a dunsparce picture book with text reading “At noon, dunsparce eats lunch and goes to sleep.”

Screenshot of the Pokémon anime showing two kids reading the dunsparce picture book with text and the bottom reading “And at night, dunsparce eats dinner and goes to sleep.”

the life of dunsparce

"donald trump thinks he's oppressed for being blond" is an original take, i'll give her that.

Every 30 minutes I let out a long blood curdling shriek to keep my mind sharp

Very well said. Re: wondering about how speaking openly about suicidal ideation impacts chances of traditional publication, I think there's something thorny about publishers' demand for honest, vulnerable, relatable content while ableism still constructs whose experiences are viewed as "relatable."