Jenn Billinson
@jrbillin.bsky.social
Media studies prof in Rochester NY, studying digital culture and popular music and emotion🏳️🌈
Today is World IVF Day, and I want to share with you our daughter’s first ever photo💜 This was our one and only embryo, and we are going to meet her in September. This process is heartbreaking and impossibly beautiful and hopeful. I want everyone to have the access and choices that we did.
In which Stevie discovers the drive-thru ice-cream place and knows she’s getting a pup cup
You know the Pitt/ER lawsuit has no legs when you see the very different approaches to helicopter safety.
“Chaos and Uncertainty, All The Time” is a bold economic strategy
Good morning to Wisconsin, Cory Booker, and all the 80s babies who had crushes on Madmartigan
The other day I was teaching about music as torture and showed images from Abu Ghraib. My students-too young or not born at the time-were shocked that this happened. A reminder that one day we will all have to answer for the atrocities of our fellow Americans who were “just following orders.”
This April the fools are really self-identifying early aren’t they
For all of us who teach digital culture/media and tech and have to stand in front of a classroom of undergrads and refer to an important political player as “Big Balls,” we pray.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2y ago(Reuters) - The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters. #BigBalls
These guys 100% have another signal group chat about the original group chat
darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2y agowhat are the odds michael walz accidentally adds jeffrey goldberg to another signal group chat lol
I was taught not to discuss specifics of students grades over email because it could violate privacy, make me the Secretary of Defense.
Has anyone written a think piece yet about how the war secrets text chain was really just a cry for help in the male loneliness epidemic
4 of my articles were pirated, and 2 written by my (deceased) grandpa, who was an MD.
The Dunkin guy looks like he’s running from the US and honestly that’s fair
I have a theory that “The Giver” was automatically downloaded directly into the head of every queer lady, much like the U2 album and our iPhones, because why can I not stop singing it for the love of god
You complained last Monday that the time change was kicking your ass, I’m here complaining a whole week later that the time change is STILL kicking my ass. We are not the same (unless we are in which case can we cry together about this?)
A federal judge in NY has blocked any effort by the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil – whose arrest and imminent deportation Trump celebrated on Turth Social today — until further proceedings play out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
For the record I only want it back for sleeping purposes, I’m not trying to experience MORE of The Terrors.
Jenn Billinson@jrbillin.bsky.social · 2y agoI want. The hour. Back.
Give us hell, Canada. We’re a) rooting for you and b) already in it.
When we talk about this golden age of television (Severance, Paradise, The Pitt, White Lotus) don’t forget about Extraction on FOX, where loved ones watch on screens as their “survivalist” friend/family member drinks dirty lake water and do nothing to intervene.
I have never been more motivated to speak less English. This may as well be a partnership with Duolingo, because I’m coming back for you baby. trib.al/DbCxdTh
Trump Signs Order to Designate English as Official Language of the U.S.
The order did not require changes to federal programs but was a victory for America’s English-only movement, which has ties to efforts to restrict immigration and bilingual education.
trib.al
I still have hope. It might be the delusion talking. But I do and I’m clinging to it.
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
