Niki Dolfi Hall

Any of you who are on Facebook— if you'd be willing to share the FB post www.facebook.com/share/p/1A3k... I would be suuuuuuper grateful!!

I really needed this distraction…

Andrew Greeley, a Catholic priest and sociologist, took it further with his theory of the “religious imagination” which he has alternatively called the “Catholic imagination”. Highly recommend God in Popular Culture & God in the Movies by Greeley.

It is really common for this pace, so I wouldn’t worry too much. My spouse is needing a 3rd cervical spina surgery. However, we decided to wait to see a different surgeon/facility who may be better skilled.

I’m so sorry, I completely relate. I have cried several times over the last several weeks bc of overwork. This reaction makes total sense. I’m working 70+ hours a week, but at least for me there is an end in sight as the semester is nearing the end.

An info-graphic explains how epistemology & ontology guides research. Positivism is to predict (positivism & post-positivism), constructivism & subjectivism can be used to understand (interpretivism: hermeneutics, phenomenology, & symbolic interactionism). Subjectivism can be used to emancipate (critical theory: emancipatory, participatory/advocacy, feminism) or deconstruct (post-structuralism & post-modernism). And finally it states that all approaches should be used to understand a research problem.

(TBC I’m a sociologist) Honestly, learning how we use epistemology and ontology to guide research makes so much sense to me. (I get being annoyed w/ using them interchangeably bc they really aren’t or believing the definition is diff, it’s not). This is my favorite graphic on research paradigms

It’s in a bunch of restaurants where there are large concentrations of Italians in America. My Italian great-grandparents came to Pennsylvania and it’s in all the Italian restaurants in the city my parents & I were born in.

The stripes are striking!

I watch a lot of British television (part of my research area) & every time, I’m like, what is the obsession with egg cups? It’s because we don’t generally do soft boiled eggs in America. We either fry, scramble, poach, or hard boil them.

The more British stuff I watch the more the slang creeps in, little by little over the years. I’m catching myself saying “ta” a lot now.

Sky Sports axes 'sexist' TikTok channel Halo after three days The female-focused TikTok channel was dubbed "patronising" and "sexist" by social media users.

Another possible “dumb shit people say” for use in my sociology classes.

Sexist and infantilizing, indeed. Def worth the read—cuz, woah the content was bad! It was only up for 3 days… before it got permanently 🪓

“I wool survive” ❤️

SSSR’s 2025 Distinguished Article Award for ‘Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey

Congratulations to @ienesatac.bsky.social & Gary J. Adler Jr, winners of the SSSR’s 2025 Distinguished Article Award for ‘Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey,’ published in @sfjournal.bsky.social sssreligion.org/awards-grant...

No, it doesn’t have the structure needed to keep the pastry together.

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Holy fuck, I did not know that was said on record.

I think trying to make us vs them distinctions in this way lessens the fact that all humans are capable of doing terrible things. It is an us/we problem that we need to address. Classifying as “them” makes us feel better, but racism is preventable & treatable, as is learning how to manage anger.

Ta makes sense now

I tried watching the new season of the Witcher… I gave up soon into episode three. There is so much I do not like, except Laurence Fishburne—how could you not love him in this weird character? Sadly, I don’t love him enough to suffer through the rest of it. Sorry y’all, I just can’t do it.

I feel like this is referencing something very specific, what item am I missing in the cultural lexicon?

I’m thinking of starting ALL of my units in my sociology class w/ dumb shit people say. Like, I used an X post to start our unit on racism to highlight how most racism is not overt & is intersectional. And this week I started our unit on gender w/ the Women Ruining the Workplace NTY headline.

Love Whole Spice! Im partial to the Moroccan collection. It’s the best paprika I have ever had. I will have to try this on my next order!

They were! It also had pickled tomatoes, cukes, green beans, cauliflower, but the beets were the star of the pickled show!

Sounds amazing

I JUST tried pelmeni it was served with a garlicky vinegar & sour cream and it was amazing! If you haven’t tried knafeh it’s a must

Sounds amazing!

100% if you ever have the chance to eat knafeh do it immediately

Weird INCEL culture not new to me, but kitchencel is definitely new to me and now I must know more!

I mean NoFap and self punishment is a real thing in INCEL culture, but whether this particular one is true 🤷‍♀️