Mother I would like to go outside mother Mother it is raining MOTHER You have BETRAYED ME mother BETRAYED
Ann Tandy-Treiber
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Brit lit and death studies prof, proud mom of lgbtq+ teens, defund the police already for real this time, my dog is cute but doesn’t photograph well, she/hers
Hello yes hi who’s got two thumbs and is a Grown Up Dignified College Professor and got her shirt caught in a handle on the front podium (science bldng classroom) accidentally turning on a high-powered air jet in the middle of lecture…
Me, uncovering deck furniture and singing a little song to all the critters who scramble for cover Isopod Isopod Does whatever an isopod does Does it know I’m a friend? I guess not! There it goes Hey there Hey little isopod
My side-hustle is being a music librarian for a brilliant and eccentric church choir director. I get to giggle at titles (“what is this lovely fragrance” aka WHO FARTED) and composer names (Edward TITCOMB! Heinrich SCHEIDT!). Plus I totally get to yell at the tenors who don’t turn in their music.
SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · 2w agoHappy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."
Hey friends! I am seeing that a certain Awful Lady and her unbroken record of sociopathic harm is back in the discourse. And boy. She really sucks. But maybe we can take this opportunity to highlight and celebrate children's authors who AREN'T transphobic pieces of shit. Great. I'll start...
I would have been very happy to make extremely questionable decisions with Tim Curry. And every single one would have been the RIGHT decision. Dolly would likely not have made those same decisions, but she’d have my back for sure.
folks SAY they want kindness but this is not always the case. the most controversial thing that i ever post is 'the best way to make inroads in any creative profession is to be kind'. i get SO much pushback, because it is a scary idea for those who have trained themselves to be unkind as a defense
This thread will sneak up on you! And yes, it is about Dolly.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4w agoThis girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4w agoBy almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.
"Right-wing media is lousy w/depictions of Ds living better than — and therefore condescending to — their lessors: humble heartland Americans. Ossoff delivered this same appraisal of Trump in fewer words than a William Faulkner sentence. His quip was a Thomas Nast cartoon sketched with 4 sentences."
“Travel with Natalie”
How three words from Jon Ossoff prompted an epic MAGA crashout.
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Me: so you’re telling me my hips are mysterious, how interesting, tell me more My doctor: ma’am I said your hip pain is a mystery
When we analyze literature, we aren’t particularly concerned with what the author “intended.” Even if we know? We don’t have to agree with them.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · last mo.What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
DECK DRAMA Bianca (dog) just spent 5 minutes whining at me while refusing to make eye contact because the cat is in her (Bianca’s) spot next to me on the deck. She has finally settled down a few feet away, passive-aggressively ignoring both of us. Meanwhile, Endora (cat) does not give a fuck.
Okay okay okay so The Odyssey is truly amazing AND you are ENTIRELY NOT READY for how they handled the scene between Circe and the men. NOT READY
IT IS OFFICIALLY PEAK LEO SEASON AND I WILL GLUT MYSELF SILLY ON SWEET CORN AND HEIRLOOM TOMATOES UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY WHICH I WILL SPEND WITH MY FEET IN THE KIDDIE POOL EATING CHIPS AND SALSA
it’s my 45th birthday month and I’m excited to make everything about me for 31 days like a very small child hopped up on sugar
This, THIS, this is it folks, the sound of Peak Midwest Summer, of humidity and heat and decadence and everything ripe and glorious, sweet corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, feet in the kiddie pool, mint juleps, iced tea, baseball on the radio, and you’ve been sweating so long you no longer care.
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
There’s a lot that’s cringeworthy about this place, but picture 17 makes up for a bunch of it.
Jon Patience@smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 2mo agoPicture 17, everyone. You can thank me later. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
I have a joke about Euripides, but my mom says I have to Eumenides first.
Ward Q. Normal (he/him)@wardqnormal.bsky.social · 2mo agoI have a joke about the Fates, but it’s not really right for Bluesky. It’d probably do better on Threads.
“I note that you have requested answers to a number of questions about the basis for our strategic refocusing of the university’s workforce. How adorable, the humanities lecturers are going to play at statistics!” thesphinxblog.com/2026/07/16/o...
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Dear germs colleagues, I acknowledge receipt of your interminable diatribe letter. As your Supreme Plenipotentiary I am of course conscious of the anxiety that these entirely indispensable extermin…
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