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Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct

@erindwyer.bsky.social

History professor @ OU, views are my own. Author of Mastering Emotions, 2021. I write about slavery, emotions, & poison, I skeet about teaching, politics, & pop culture. She / hers. Proud union member. Live in Detroit but my heart is still in NOLA

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Finally, some good news on here.

09.03.2026 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I believe in you! Sickdaymaxx until you hit those forbidden final boss sick days!

09.03.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My partner and I once made a pact New Year’s resolution to take more sick days that year… we agreed to that on January 1, 2020. But yes, smoke β€˜em if you got β€˜em.

09.03.2026 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My department used to have an office administrator who never went on vacation or took sick days except she took the two days off after both time changes, every year, for decades. People in the department thought it was eccentric but twice a year I think of that queen and how correct she was.

09.03.2026 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Damn, reading me like a book.

09.03.2026 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't want a Lego printing press I want a functioning Lego guillotine.

09.03.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Four stills in order of Tina Fey as Liz Lemon in a rumpled suit in a scene from 30 Rock where she says, as subtitles explain, "Guess who's got two thumbs, speaks limited French, and hasn't cried once today? This moi."

Four stills in order of Tina Fey as Liz Lemon in a rumpled suit in a scene from 30 Rock where she says, as subtitles explain, "Guess who's got two thumbs, speaks limited French, and hasn't cried once today? This moi."

Who has two thumbs, already went for a run, and doesn't want to grade right now? This moi!

09.03.2026 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

FortheLouvreofgodMontresor

09.03.2026 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

[As my friend bricks me in in his catacombs] "Are you mad at me?"

09.03.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

My options right now are grade, go for a run, or doom scroll, this sucks.

09.03.2026 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Me: "$80,000, complimentary?"

Cory Booker: "$80,000 (derogatory)."

09.03.2026 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A friend once used the phrase "class dysmorphia" in conversation and boy does that explain so much of American economics and politics.

09.03.2026 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It's what the sea craves!

09.03.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's my fault, when the price of oil started to sky rocket I panic bought a bunch of toilet paper and aircraft carriers.

Every day a new article comes out trumpeting how few available military resources the country with the biggest defense budget on earth has, it's blowing my mind on many levels.

09.03.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really really hate how they’re spending more time manufacturing consent for a war on Cuba than they did for Venezuela and Iran combined.

09.03.2026 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Man who couldn’t define DEI under oath suddenly very confident identifying examples of it.

09.03.2026 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

A mom of four I know does precisely this move, don’t feel guilty.

09.03.2026 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re telling me I’m supposed to think it’s 8:10 pm not 9:10 pm? Cause it feels like it’s midnight….

09.03.2026 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you psychic? Cause I just made the kiddo a bowl of oatmeal as first dinner.

08.03.2026 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Well surely that will calm the futures trading markets, lolololololol.

08.03.2026 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175

Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

08.03.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5535    πŸ” 1956    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 82

Pouring cold beans over warm rice.

Current plan is to hope I can find a podcast so funny that it distracts me enough to cook.

08.03.2026 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I could really go for an infestation of some of those shoe cobbler elves to appear in our kitchen and make dinner right now, the combo of time change and a late night out has me on the ropes.

08.03.2026 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The last thing we need is a second Elissa Slotkin.

08.03.2026 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
sepia-toned black and white photo of a bookcover featuring a black woman wearing an elaborately fashioned dark colored dress juxtaposed against a color photo of 4 golden brown biscuits on a black castiron tray. white print reads "praisesong for the kitchen ghosts"

sepia-toned black and white photo of a bookcover featuring a black woman wearing an elaborately fashioned dark colored dress juxtaposed against a color photo of 4 golden brown biscuits on a black castiron tray. white print reads "praisesong for the kitchen ghosts"

congrats to @crystalwilki.bsky.social's memoir with recipes, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, having been added to the exhibits at Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture. πŸ₯°

08.03.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

You’re telling me a Streisand effected this?

08.03.2026 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fund the sciences so we can research why the Tuesday after time changes is when kids go into full melt down mode.

08.03.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

08.03.2026 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 11548    πŸ” 3279    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 21

Love that we put International Women's Day on the roughest Sunday morning of the entire calendar. Celebrating all the wonderful women in my life by questioning the concept of time.

08.03.2026 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

90% peace and quiet and 10% screaming at birds? The dream.

07.03.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0