I have never met him but I love him
02.12.2025 02:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@prairiedogking.bsky.social
Associate Director for Faculty Programming, WashU CTL. Sociologist of culture, cognition, religion, and other fun things whoβs out in the wild trying to help support teaching & learning. And also the Benevolent Overlord of Cynomys ludovicianus π
I have never met him but I love him
02.12.2025 02:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0For the record, this is the content Iβm craving
02.12.2025 01:44 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
01.12.2025 22:55 β π 2485 π 665 π¬ 22 π 14We're at the point that now when I see something like this I first check to see if it's someone I know
(it's not, although I know several OU faculty)
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
30.11.2025 20:23 β π 3032 π 790 π¬ 242 π 725The Norman Rockwell guy standing up to give a speech at a town hall meeting. He looks like a youngish Abe Lincoln.
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
25.11.2025 15:02 β π 23629 π 3050 π¬ 1 π 0Whatever happened to the Greenland subplot? The writers should give us an update next episode
25.11.2025 01:10 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
24.11.2025 15:39 β π 168 π 154 π¬ 7 π 8Clue is obviously the best game-into-a-movie adaptation
24.11.2025 23:47 β π 126 π 14 π¬ 7 π 3Sign on a library book drop sign requesting people to yell "NOT A SQUIRREL" to confirm they are human and not a squirrel trying to steal Keith's lunch.
squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
We don't take teaching seriously enough.
18.11.2025 12:14 β π 67 π 11 π¬ 2 π 1Bumper sticker that says your mom on board
Awkward
16.11.2025 18:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Eugene O'Connor Emails Reveal a Lost Birmingham || the controversial sheriff's recently released documents reveal a close-knit police community that wistfully evokes 19th century social customs
16.11.2025 17:45 β π 67 π 12 π¬ 2 π 0Yes I love 2-factor authentication
16.11.2025 17:01 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βοΈβοΈβοΈ
16.11.2025 00:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0why is the Oprah 30 Rock episode not streaming what did Oprah do
15.11.2025 00:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yes
14.11.2025 17:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration
14.11.2025 00:18 β π 1308 π 118 π¬ 59 π 15Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
What we're watching: A new take on "Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
08.11.2025 12:36 β π 8006 π 1235 π¬ 171 π 177BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
06.11.2025 19:27 β π 23117 π 5400 π¬ 1016 π 1446I could smell the mustard and the onions
04.11.2025 23:22 β π 63 π 8 π¬ 2 π 8Omg itβs real
But out of stock
look, people deal with trauma in different ways
04.11.2025 16:46 β π 19 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social β who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June β said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
Container of Betty Crocker Fusion Sprinkles
I like my sprinkles like I like my jazz and my cuisine
04.11.2025 16:11 β π 14 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0what a week huh
04.11.2025 02:31 β π 305 π 25 π¬ 35 π 1I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.