show said key chain being put on a much taller bookshelf she can't reach, all the while being told to stop getting into shit.
Her response? She basically threw a tantrum, then sulked in bed with her back turned toward me, which eventually switched to giving me stink eye.
β¦ yes, I have a calico.
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Honey realized she could get on top of one of my shorter bookshelves, which has a bunch of figurines and key chains on display. Well, she took particular interest in one key chain that she kept snatching off the bookshelf. It got to the point that I had to pick her up and the key chain,
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This post is brought to you by me rereading some Eavan Boland poems and then remembering the Irish poetry seminars (yes, plural, lol) I took in undergrad as an English majorβ
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Irish writers π€ Korean writers
suffering
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The whole martial law thing still remains one of the funniest/most ridiculous moments of 2024 lol
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in order: purchasing on bandcamp, streaming or purchasing from qobuz, streaming from most other platforms (apple music, tidal, deezer, etc.), or pirating (if financially unable to afford other options) are all valid alternatives to supporting the spotify corporation.
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If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
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Yes, hello! I can do my best to help!
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Picture of a cat shouting "WHY IS IT DECEMBER"
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Ahh, I love this short film so much and briefly covered it in my film music course!
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On behalf of the 2026 Conference Program Committee for the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, I am pleased to inform you that your proposal was accepted. Congratulations!
Title: Embodying and Performing Gameworld Sonic Environments
Pleased to say that I'll be at SCMS again next year, this time presenting on a panel with @kategalloway.bsky.social, @hoagietime.bsky.social, and @oscarmoralde.com!
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
More is more. Weβve got 380 (or so) of our favorite new books, right here:
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2 panels, David Lynch saying 1. good morning, everyone. It's... 2. What fucking day is it now?
happy whatever the fuck day it is
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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A slide that features an image of a prancing rabbit with a helmet on its head from Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 320 (Liber de natura rerum), folio 79v.
On the left, there is text that says: Week 8.
On the right, there is text that says: Some days, youβre just a rabbit with a helmet stuck on your headβ¦ fighting for your lifeβ¦
A person I just made up for the sake of this post: How have you been lately?
Me: I am here. (Yes, this is my title slide for class today.)
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I just want trans people the world over to be able to live in peace, and I don't think that should be an unreasonable ask or expectation.
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Thank you for reminding me to check and see if there's a good biography about him or something, because every time I learn something about him, I'm endlessly fascinated, haha.
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screenshot of a YouTube video still of a chubby baby seal laying on the snow with the caption "In the glittering backlight, a fat baby seal is doing nothing special."
This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.
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AMS Petition 2025
Petition to Restore Transparent Governance and Accountability in the American Musicological Society To add your signature to the petition, please fill out the following form: https://bit.ly/Sign_AMS_2...
I urge all of you, friends & colleagues, to please consider signing this petition to restore transparent governance and accountability in the AMS -- with this action, we can make our voices heard & remind everyone of our mission as a member-led society docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us
by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever
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Oh, I definitely do NOT want to know when "very recently" isβ¦
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I don't even want to know the logistics π«
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In the actual hotel rooms! π Apparently this was a thing thatβd just happen at conferencesβ
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If I were applying to jobs during this time and found out I had to do my interview in a hotel room, I simply would have quit.
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omg a faculty member in my department told me about this just a few weeks ago, and I was horrified at the thought of people sitting on beds while being interviewed???? π More seriously, though, I canβt even imagine how uncomfortable it must have been if you werenβt a cis white manβ¦
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
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