Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her)

There’s no President Barack Obama without Jesse Jackson. It just doesn’t happen.

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing.

66 years old going 66 mph.

This Polish-American musicologist is flying back to school with her plush pieróg (pierogi is plural!) stuffed in the luggage and ready to go on display in the office, just in time to teach about Chopin tomorrow

And far less of what you say here about the invasive speculation on Heated Rivalry actors' own sexualities or the way they're imposing this narrative on female hockey players who are openly queer! Not that anyone should have to deal with toxic fandom, but it shows where people's priorities are

I really appreciated this article and how it shows the impact toxic fandom can have on a LOT of people. There's been an air to mainstream coverage of "these weird (largely queer) girls are HARMING straight conservative male hockey players and their good Christian wives" that really doesn't sit right

These are the LGBTQ athletes on Team USA in Milan - Outsports Team USA features at least 8 out LGBTQ athletes competing at the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics, representing five sports.

Lesbian Heated Rivalry wouldn’t work because they’d all be out and married by the end of the first season/book. www.outsports.com/2026/2/5/241...

Oh god, I haven't actually done that, but I bet it's infuriating in that special way that "imperialistic thinking by continental-Europeans that thinks it's actually progressive anti-USA thinking" is

a cartoon of a toaster with a face on it is plugged into an outlet . ALT: a cartoon of a toaster with a face on it is plugged into an outlet .

I would say my friendship with @composerose.bsky.social is based on the fact that one of her papers was on the OST to The Brave Little Toaster, which is objectively the best Disney movie.

Also she's a doctor which is cool too, I guess.

-Cricket is from and remains very popular in the UK, that's why I said "multiple European countries" - this is more about how continental Europe feels about it

-LA Olympics will have both of these sports, but they remain temporary ones that each country can choose or not to host. That's the issue!

I live in Oxford and that's the pronunciation they use for Tupelo

It doesn't matter that baseball is popular across North and South America and East Asia, or cricket in the Indian subcontinent, southern Africa and the Caribbean - and that all of this vastly outnumbers the population of Europe. What matters is how France and Germany and Norway feel about it

It is kind of funny how many winter Olympic sports are only big in like 3 European countries, but baseball and cricket are considered "not global enough" to qualify as permanent summer sports. IOC needs to admit their idea of "global" is just "do multiple European countries like this"

thank goodness it's finally Meat Day

Facebook and various private Discords. also Tumblr, but I think you follow me there already and I'm not interested in giving my Tumblr out here since i prefer to keep it anonymous

I realized I never posted here, but just in case anyone is following me here who isn't on other platforms, I got out of Oxford, MS on Monday. I'm staying with family in another state until school resumes on the 9th. My apartment in Oxford still does not have power! It's a crazy situation.

It’s too cold in NY even for penguins. The Long Island Aquarium brought 20 penguins indoors due to frigid temperatures. South African black-footed penguins prefer milder weather, so when temperatures drop below 30 degrees, they’re moved inside. (ABC News)

this one is especially encouraging because too few Dems have even been willing to acknowledge the all out Republican assault on higher education; going this hard on reversing the attacks on UVA immediately is extremely nice to see

The faux “poll observers” here are also, I’m guessing, largely suburban and exurban white people who have been trained to be existentially afraid of the city of Detroit since birth (having grown up there, I know the type)

"Worse than Bush after Katrina" is a polling benchmark that I thought that partisan polarization had made impossible

It’s weird how resilient “2024 election was a rejection of diversity so we must dial back on that” is even as co.s who do so keep eating shit financially (Target), even after the 2025 elections firmly disproved this, even as movies/shows with diverse casts and LGBTQ protagonists do better than ever!

Same article: “Some authors of banned books have reported spikes in sales in recent years, and at least one bookseller told The Hill that sales of queer novels remain steady.”

These publishers are, like many in power, so eager to bend the knee and take us backward even as actual buyers aren’t!

Trump’s idea that he can draw audiences in *Washington DC* by driving away all its traditional cultural institutions and also anything diverse (another reason WNO cites for leaving) and replacing them with pro MAGA performers sure is, uh… something

Saying the WNO leaving the Kennedy Center is due to “long term issues” is either cluelessness about opera (that’s been true everywhere and wouldn’t lead to a change in venue specifically) or Trump apologism. They’ve had a steep decline in the past year specifically due to the Trumpification of KC

I'm currently staying with my parents several states away, but one thing I miss about not being in Oxford while that game was airing was seeing the Ole Miss undergrad reaction on that very point. his leaving for LSU resulted in lots of expletive-filled banners in my apt complex

they should have to kill more pop tarts after every stage of the playoff

What a great last few days of college football this has been for Me Specifically! 😄

What To Watch with your parents this holiday season Shows are offset by threat level category Severe: High Risk Heated Rivalry Dying for Sex Shifty: Living in Britain at the end of the 20th century High: The Rehearsal, The Chair Company, Pee-Wee as Himself Elevated: Pluribus, Severance Guarded: Death by Lightning, Alien: Earth, Task Low: The Studio, The Last Frontier, The Pitt

remember, the holiday season primer is context dependent! if you have cool lib parents you can treat yellow and maybe even orange as blue. if you've got psycho evangelical parents seek supplemental material that covers Tulsa King and Yellowstone

A screenshot from the anime Skull-faced Bookseller Honda-san. Kamibukuro is wearing a Santa hat and looking dejected. A subtitle says: "Christmas: A demonic event that brings madness to all."

It is here. The most blessed of days.

Omg, we passed the halfway point of the fundraiser! I am very grateful this Christmas Eve, for the friends I have and that so many strangers have pitched in to help. I can't even identify who everyone is in the fundraiser, but as I'm run ragged on this cold, stormy Christmas night, I'm thankful. 🧵

YouTube video by Phil Lewis WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"

Watching the spiked 60 Minutes episode on YouTube, thanks to @phillewis.bsky.social. It's not like the Trump admin didn't have its say. At about 4:15 mark, there is footage of Trump saying CECOT was "great facilities, very strong facilities"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lenF...