karina ripley last survivor of the nostromo

it's really difficult to communicate what it's like to be hungry and not be able to eat bc you have $4 left in your bank account. when there's literally not a single dollar to buy anything to eat. to sit and continue working while starving. to look forward to sleep--at least then you aren't hungry

YouTube video by Rad Retro Anything Can Happen on Halloween - The Worst Witch featuring Tim Curry (HD Remaster)

🎶anything can happen on halloween🎶

🎶has anyone seen my tambourine🎶

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Another great issue from the @contexts.org crew! Check out @kaareeenah.bsky.social's review of @karenlevy.bsky.social's Data Driven and Madison Van Oort's Worn Out! - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... - I really appreciate the part on moving from an either/or to a both/and approach to organizing.

over ONE THOUSAND undergrads, grad students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members showed up today and *made this happen*. it took a LOT of work. and we did it

U.Va. rejects Trump administration Compact for Academic Excellence The University has rejected the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which he received from the White House and Department of Education Oct. 1, according to a community statement rel...

we MADE them say no. hours and hours and hours of organizing over a very short period of time made this happen. union power ✊

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

prepping for class this week on race & tech. can't do last year's class without taking major risks. plan B was to ask students to use gov data to explore a particular issue, but can't do that either because datasets no longer exist/the shutdown means websites aren't working.

oh my goddDDDDDDDDDuhhhhhh

even after all these years of teaching, i still have not figured out how to teach ANT without boring the students to tears

one "little fight" i had with my ex husband involved him squeezing me until i couldn't breathe :) ya know, just lil fights

someone threw up the bat signal!! it's time for me to remind everyone that david brooks thinks poor people are too stupid to understand sandwiches.

hey #4s2025!

did you enjoy the panels on technonationalism and technofascism as much as i did? you might also like these panels on the 'network state' that i'm hosting today on tech billionaires' efforts to build successors to the nation state.

First @ 1:30, second @ 3:30. Sheraton, Jefferson B!

the music and sound effects are SO GOOD. esp the noises the shells and rosary beads make

my entire flight to seattle has been full of people hacking and coughing and wheezing

Virginia license plate. On the bottom is the phrase "internet capital" with the A being an @ symbol. On the right, there is a blue semi-circle with ".com" written inside.

registering my car in VA this week and i finally found the perfect plate

Here is the acting CDC director discussing health care in a seastead free market:

A statement to the presidential search committee from the UCWVA-UVA Chapter No number of “listening sessions” or other forms of outreach provide constituencies with the access, accountability and real influence that come with serving on the search committee.

The United Campus Workers of UVA faculty committee objects to the current presidential search committee, demanding a more representative and transparent process

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

UVA's wall-to wall union, UCWVA at UVA has joined the Faculty Senate, Student Council, Wahoos4UVA, Emeritus faculty, and others in expressing No Confidence in the Board of Visitors.
ucwva.org/who-we-are/u...

GERBER: A letter of suggestions for U.Va.’s interim president What follows are a few respectfully proffered suggestions that I think can help you try to restore the University to the greatness it enjoyed when I was a student decades ago.

i have said before that the fracas at UVA is a product, in large part, of a set of alumni who believe that the university was at its greatest when it was a segregated finishing school for white men. i was not exaggerating, as you can see here in this letter from Scott Douglas Gerber

EDITORIAL: Shared governance is dying while our Board prospers The self-serving actions of the Board are not just harmful to students and faculty today, but they are harmful to our institution as a whole and the future president who will be invited to lead it.

new from the editorial board of the cavalier daily!

Shared governance is dying while our Board prospers

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

Stanford to continue legacy admissions despite state ban Stanford will forgo Cal Grants to keep legacy admissions considerations in place despite California’s new statewide ban.

reminder to not fall for the bullshit. they don't give a shit about "meritocracy" or whatever the fuck

www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/11/s...

Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.

the most sf bullshit to ever bullshit

missionlocal.org/2025/07/phil...

Brown must give the govt
* Course evaluations that allege instructor antisemitism
* A big new student survey on antisemitism
* a detailed and not-meaningfully-anonymized spreadsheet about all reports of discrim on basis of "national origin, including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics[.]" 6/

Meet the out-of-state investors funding a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee For the politically connected investors behind the project, our NewsChannel 5 investigation has now discovered, it’s about business, power and creating an alternative view of America.

"Fundamentally un-American."

A group of VC-backed Christian nationalists seeks a theocratic haven in Tennessee. Political control, religious purity tests, talk of civil collapse — and they’re buying up land.

This isn’t a drill. This is the Network State.
www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

~10 years ago sjsu students staged a "faint-in" to bring attention to the fact that there was no air conditioning in the social science building

i remember sitting in a qual methods course at 4pm on an august afternoon. the prof had to end class early bc it was legit too hot to continue

"Other politicians might be skittish admitting a chatbot co-wrote their speech or that it helped draft a $5.6 billion budget for the new fiscal year, but Mahan is trying to lead by example..." 💀💀💀💀💀

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ChatGPT helps prepare this mayor’s talking points. Now he wants a thousand city workers using AI Other politicians might be skittish admitting a chatbot co-wrote their speech or that it helped draft a $5.6 billion budget for the new fiscal year, but Mayor Mahan is trying to lead by example.

🫠

www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/17/c...

our dog locked us out of the house. a new rock bottom

who in the world wants this !!

Inside the Conservative Campaign That Took Down a University President

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...