Audra Wolfe

Don’t discount the US’s rapid descent as permission structure/unacknowledged desire

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Hey the Soviets lied about economic data all the time and everything turned out fine for them

Foreshadowing

Though perhaps this is why I misread his post as referring to the “Commissar of Labor Statistics”?

I never thought being a historian of the Cold War would be such useful preparation for living with entirely fantastical economic statistics!

A mackerel tabby cat with a white shield stands with feet apart, glaring at the photographer for talking about her age on the internet

Feeling good enough to give me the stink eye, this is an improvement

I know academia will never love anyone back but my heart aches for what it’s become anyway

This is terrible, and also, you might enjoy Sloane Crosley’s amazing book GRIEF IS FOR PEOPLE

Cool study! I noticed that it assumes listeners are paying for audiobooks, or at least a subscription, but I only listen to audiobooks via the public library system

Not surprised but still appalled at how many Ivies accepted Thoughtcrime Commissars installed by the regime without even token protest

More yarn and woven thingies on my IG, @joyoffiber

Thank you! Pink is madder, yellow is marigold, multi is commercial

Three skeins of handspun semi-felted singles arrayed vertically on a white surface. L-r: melon colored worsted weight longwool + mohair, multicolored pink/beige/purple mystery yarn + mohair, yellow fat longwool

Everything is terrible, I made some pretty yarn

I think I might take up knife throwing. Professionally.

The only way I can wrap my head around it is that Trump, the fascists, and the oligarchs are all extremely hostile to the truth.

Their individual grievances are all a little different. But it started to click for me when I saw the hatred of science as an offshoot of the hatred of journalism.

Oh did you

A snoozing, elderly mackerel tabby lays on her right side on a couch. A white hand is scritching her chest between two extended paws. Pictures don’t have sounds but I promise you she’s purring.

This old gal clearly isn’t feeling well, am grateful she left the closet for some snuggles

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What's the book about? 🧵

can everyone sharing that Lehrer/NSA thread take a moment to reflect on what it means that the likely largest employer of mathematicians in the world has secret math research journals only viewable by a subset of US citizens

I have had this delicacy at a fairgrounds, it’s amazing

Wait, it turns out our AQI is currently 155! Maybe I don’t have a fair hangover, maybe I just am trying to breathe!

I’m nursing what feels like an awful hangover caused my a midway ride. Am not sure which is more appalling, that I have been felled by the Himalaya or that booze has the same effect on body and brain

Vague skeet revealed

Will releasing the Epstein files destroy any remaining legitimacy in evolutionary psychology? Hope springs eternal

TIL some of you have voluntarily signed up for push alerts from legacy media networks

Some sociological observations about who engages in care work and repair work surely apply

As we contemplate the demise of the university, I notice that the gender ratio of my clients has nearly entirely flipped.

The thing about agreeing to become part of a Vichy bureaucracy is that even if it passes and you'll get to go back to your old life, nobody will ever forget what you did.

Good morning to the administration and trustees of Vichy Columbia, Day One.

Hey JHUP authors, check your email. They are adding your work to AI unless you request and sign an addendum to your contract by the end of August.