Beth Quitslund

This is your regular reminder that many different kinds of people live in every state and that death seems like a disproportionate consequence for being gullible in any case.

Omg. Please cabal me.

Friday night gin concurs.

That too

I am mostly amused that the General Assembly thinks that students complete SETs.

Therefore, as of June 27, Ohio law requires SETs to count for at least 25% of annual teaching merit evaluation at public institutions.

No, it is actually a way to assure that there will be no reports of antisemitism. Kind of genius.

Tbh, there were plenty of times I would have been grateful to be able to find their damn shoes.

Hello, I am a female academic expert in a humanities field in a film. I am 28 and I wear glasses and attractively high heels. I translate old manuscripts written in very clear characters. My classes do not meet at any time that interferes with the action, regardless of how long that takes.

Seems too subtle a payoff for this administration.

And, assuming Ohio is not an outlier, with counterfactual assumptions about how anything actually works on a large university campus.

The department chair is in, really

Kids seem to demonstrate this all the time.

Michael Roth has distinguished himself by speaking out, forcefully & publicly, again & again, against the authoritarian assault on higher education. The cowardice & silence of nearly every elite R1 president, in contrast, is striking & shameful. And it hasn't worked & will continue not to work.

Yeah, I was reaching back on that one.

It is baffling and infuriating to watch this happen. All I can say is that propaganda is most effective when it confirms a preference, like "I would rather drive to work car" or "I would be more comfortable if my sense of how my own gender works were to be unquestionable."

Or possibly a first -year grad student who needs an intervention

This

Who can hear when they are reading, really?

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

This one can only be considered trolling IMHO

For a sec I thought you were referring to @bencollins.bsky.social and even if you wanted to go after him, the choice of pejoratives seemed really weird

Long slow clap

To be fair, he seems to genuinely believe that. The one thing needed to convince Trump of the existence of God was for God to unambiguously acknowledge Trump's exceptionality.

So sorry about your puppy.

I live and work in Appalachian Ohio in an unrelated professional field and I know *exactly* where I was on Jan 6 as I desperately tried to find more immediate news. In fact, that is the day I became an active Twitter user.

Nazi

Democrats famously embraced Cain's message in 2024