Sociologist of law, medicine, and organizations | Birth doula | Dog rescue | Views are my own
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Update: it worked
19 Sep 2022
Finishing my PhD purely out of spite
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On this day in 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer was jailed and beaten for defying segregation on a bus and at a restaurant. ow.ly/ZpIW50Z90TF
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Rewatching “The Story and the Engine”
and I think it’s one of the most beautiful episodes of Dr Who ever written.
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Across Texas, there are growing concerns as more and more barbecue joints announce they are closing their doors amid rising costs. abcnews.link/0Z8FwUX
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The fact that SNL writers can continue to satirize the current news cycle without relying on ChatGPT is proof enough we need the humanities.
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Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter,
Happy Days 1, 2024 #WomensArt
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My golden retriever boyfriend drank half a gallon of iced coffee at 7pm the week I am trying to reset my sleep schedule. It is going just as well as you would think.
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You’re standing on a planet with molten lava at its core. Trees are turning sunlight into air you can breathe. Your heart is beating without you asking it to. There’s a moon in the sky and bugs that glow. This whole thing is absurdly beautiful. Don’t forget to notice it.
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May 13
Vitamin K is so crucial that researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1943 for discovering its ability to stop severe bleeding in babies.
But today, online misinformation is driving families to opt out of vitamin K shots for their newborns.
propublica.org/article/more-…
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May 12
Shout-out to my boyfriend for not breaking up with me after I turned the light on at 2am to explore my Tolkien encyclopedia while catching up on Rings of Power (he was dead asleep)
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Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.link/kfJxWVn
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David Attenborough, 'the voice for nature', has turned 100 years old
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You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. You reduce crime with universal healthcare, public housing, livable wages, and free college. You reduce violence by creating happy, healthy communities that aren’t constantly fighting over basic needs and material resources.
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May 6
New: Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. propub.li/42PRfyl
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If your job disappeared tomorrow and you couldn’t afford housing and no one could offer you a couch, would you still believe homelessness is about effort?
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The secret to a happy relationship is dating an older man. Even if he says he isn’t sleepy you can trick him into a nap by simply turning on a movie and waiting 10 minutes.
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Reminder: if voting requires a $165 passport, that’s a poll tax. We made those unconstitutional in 1964.
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Between the rampant bots/misinformation and the removal of dark mode, I think Twitter is finally dead to me. RIP.
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the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers
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