Kat in her ✨Dissertation Era✨ 🇵🇸

A photo of the board game Thunder Road: Vendetta. There are five cars on the board, three are upturned in the middle of the road, while the other two are behind the wreckage. There are also two helicopters contributing to the chaos.

Some days, the only thing keeping me from falling into a pit of despair about the state of the world is doing silly things with the people I love. Anyway, today I taught the house Thunder Road: Vendetta and my brother lots two cars in one round and bounced back to win.

I came here to post this, and am so grateful someone already did this for me 🫡

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

Freedom is a constant struggle

Goal:
Crush universities

Need a policy tool:
Civil Rights Act Title VI gives tools to stop funding to universities if they violate someone's civil rights.

Need a violation to allege:
Use the Jews!

Using us as a wedge to attack free speech & inquiry does not protect us.
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My partner and I are both Vietnamese, and all of his extended family voted for Trump. So…possibly. Asians can be the world’s worst bootlickers if it gets them slightly more proximate to whiteness 🫠

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

I've bookmarked this (and the entire special edition) so that any time I feel impostor syndrome I can read this and realize that any slop I write will probably be better than this.

Looks like I can't DM you, but I can send you an email!

There's a journal I wish I hadn't submitted to and I found out later the issues I'd experienced were well known.

If you have a shortlist of do not submit to, would you mind sharing it and your reasons? It's helpful to have the knowledge somewhere because otherwise people experience the same nonsense over and over again.

Oh my GOD @jcsw.bsky.social informed me of this nightmare, I absolutely am losing my mind.

People who appease authoritarians always wind up being left alone after that, right? That’s how it works? You knuckle under once, and they don’t ask you to compromise your morals again.

I assume that’s what all of history and political science suggest, or why do it, right?

Thought I hated papaya. Turns out, I’d never had papaya fresh off a tree from Kenya 🤤

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm

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Lion dancers in bright colors stand on a stage in front of a crowd of people wearing áo dài. Behind the dancers is a large screen showing the image of a temple.

The world is on fire right now but look at these tiny lion dancers celebrating the Lunar New Year at the Vietnamese language school my mom built from the ground up 🥹

I recommend installing Revo Uninstaller (the free version) which lets you uninstall ANYTHING from your computer (including necessary files to make your computer run so be careful). Only way I could get rid of CoPilot from my computer.

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

We keep us safe. And as such we can be noncompliant with ice or other state agents & tell them they can’t come into our homes, houses of worship, or businesses without a warrant.

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al. What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe...

It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.

A corgi-Rottweiler mix is curled into a donut shape on the corner of a cream couch. There is a textured pillow behind him with his head on a green pillow with fringe, and a dark green blanket draped over the couch behind him.

He made a lil nest 🥹 #DogsOfBluesky

I lost my favorite earring and I’m going through the 5 stages of grief before replacing it 😭 #FirstWorldProblems

I actually responded to that thread, and overall it seemed like most people were pro-diversity, which was lovely and refreshing.

Wait, is that a hybrid of a philo birkin and a pink princess? 👀

No, it’s flowering which indicates it’s doing well in its current setting 🌸