DrNope

a cartoon character with red hair is standing next to a boombox that says triumph Alt: Emo cartoon dude flips his long bangs in an expression of jaded but cool irony

😏

I really, genuinely, appreciate your commitment to the bit.

Yes, but it was also kinda hot that you got me a book about economics in the first place.

Sultry red diaphragm.

Picture of a pie chart entitled “What I can’t.” The pie chart is entirely blue, no slices. What does the blue indicate? “Even.” Thus, this pie chart indicates that the poster can’t even.

GRANTIFA (!!!)

Likewise. But I’m thinking…learn a trade?

Am making a point everywhere I go to say, “yeah, not doing awesome, Elon cancelled my job.” Not as personal sadness entirely, but as a political “hey, this is happening to someone you know.”

Similar. ED contracts cancelled, jobs gone.

Yes, it is!

Oh nonono no.

Right? It’s like they’ve never understood how people work!

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison

THAT WOULD BE REALLY LOVELY, YES AND THANK YOU!

LITERAL spit take!!!

Ouch. (And also haha. But also ouch.)

I can dig it.

My favorite contemporary sociologist is back on bsky!

You’re back and I’m so glad!!! Thank you for your voice!!!

A former colleague once complained “why can’t it all go back to how it was on Happy Days?”

My dude. That’s a tv show, not the real world.

Do you think German has a word for the particular grief social scientists feel as they watch their work needlessly cut short? (This really sucks, and I’m so sorry.)

😲 when my economic understanding runs hard into their economic understanding

I’ve seen this phenomenon in which people mistake tv/movies for reality, as an accurate explanation of how things work. “Oh, so this is how law enforcement is,” or “I understand geopolitics because of (West Wing, 24, whatever).”

I’m getting a real Gray Panthers vibe!

Upheaval at Education Department office sparks concern about services for English learners The Trump Education Department says changes to the Office for English Language Acquisition will not affect funding or federal programs for students. But experts and others worry that the quality of their education and training for their teachers could suffer.

Trump Education Department decimates office serving 5 million English learners in public schools
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/21/trump-education-department-dismantles-office-for-students-learning-english/

And the Thomas theorem? Years ago re covid, I posted it…and got thumbs up from both people who thought covid was real and those who didn’t. And I realized, uh oh, this theorem cuts both ways.

Had a similar thought recently: “Oh crap, they’ve learned about social construction” (re laws not really serving as laws unless we think they’re real and enforceable).

As a contractor, I assure you that none of those folks are “radical Marxist leftists.” Like, this is a genuinely funny idea to me.

So true.