The comments are 🔥🔥🔥 but this one took the cake. A literal lol.

Sign the Petition Save the UConn Conifer Collection!

An online petition against UConn’s golf facility, for those interested…
#nutmegsky #UConn

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a man in a suit and bow tie holds his hand to his forehead in front of a chalkboard that says subject Alt: Jack Black giving a very aggressive salute

Saw a lone elderly man, holding a flag & a sign that said

DEFEND DEMOCRACY.
IMPEACH TRUMP.

on a small patch of grass at a medium-busy 3-way intersection on my commute this morning.

That’s his Wednesday morning, in Nowhere, CT & I respect that.

Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2025, despite making $5.7 billion.

This Tax Day, remember that you have paid more in taxes than a multi-billion dollar company—all thanks to corporate tax breaks from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.

Guys. Check your speaker volume. No. Not the microphone. I can hear you. The speakers. Check your speakers. I’ll put it in the chat.

I’m so sorry, Jeremy.

Po-Ca-Hon-Tas by After Robert Matthew Sully (1803-1855) circa 1844

Close up of Po-Ca-Hon-Tas

Close up of Simon van de Passe engraving “Pocahontas” from 1616. Does not really look like the lithograph from 1844.

The text associated with the lithograph that contains the picture of the engraving.

Learning lots at Connecticut’s state art museum (The Benton at @uconn.bsky.social ). Looking at an 1844 hand colored lithograph of Pocahontas. Did you know there is only 1 surviving image of Pocahontas made during her lifetime (a 1616 engraving by Simon van de Passe)?
I wonder what she looked like

a man in a black robe with the words you will not stop me written below him Alt: Death sidious in a black robe with the words you will not stop me written below him

No lies detected and yet…

a lion from the wizard of oz is crying and says i haven 't any courage . Alt: The cowardly lion from the wizard of oz is crying and says i haven 't any courage .

I thought I could do it. I started to but then quit. Like a coward. Because I’m curious but also afraid. And yes, this is about banana flavored coffee at Dunkin. It sounds like something from The Bad Place pretending to be The Good Place. I must know how terrible it is. But today was not the day.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Where are you @repjoecourtney.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @blumenthal.senate.gov
WHERE ARE YOU #nutmegsky

a woman holding a microphone with the words " i knew that " above her Alt: Hannah gadsby holding a microphone with the words " i knew that " above her

I realize they got to these conclusions because they talked to people but I don’t get why UConn couldn’t talk to its own people without them? Everyone is saying/screaming the same things. Not exactly in this management-industry language but like: duh. Duh to all 4 of these.

The decentralized nature of the work results in administrative inefficiencies and limits opportunities to leverage economies of scale. Burdensome processes and disconnected systems are increasing administrative burden.

Uncertainty is negatively affecting morale, including concerns about transparency and communication. There is a need for clearer strategic direction and stronger alignment of organizational priorities.

UConn spent $400,000 to hire the Segal Group to help launch “an organizational assessment of our decentralized business & administrative support, along with marketing & communications functions”. They’ve just released their first findings - “four overarching themes”:

ah. i guess i was misinterpreting! this new information makes me want to see this graph for other industries. how frequently do people stay in a career they've only been in for 0-4 years (with or without having a baby!)?

So the actual interpretation for x=3 is "3 years after childbirth, ~70% of mothers in this study were employed by a university"?

So how do they control for just......regular sexism? (I tried looking at the paper too. It did not help me very much - so thanks for your thoughts!)

… at x=-3? Two years before they have a baby EVENTUAL mothers AND fathers are ~15% less likely to have a research job?

Do I have THAT right? How does that factor in to the parenthood penalty? What does it meeeaaannnn???? Or did I totally misinterpret?

Thanks in advance…

Look. I give up. Can someone help me interpret the x<-1 portion of this graph?

I get that at (e.g.) three years after having a baby, x=3, mothers are ~30% less likely to have a research job than other women (and fathers have a ~10% penalty).

Do I have that right? So then…

FYI Dan Toscano’s email didn’t work for me (?) so I used boardoftrustees@uconn.edu.

Anti golf facility flier with more info about the project and who to contact (which will be in text on next post)

UConn is planning on clear cutting a local tree preserve to build a golf facility for exclusive use by the men’s golf team (9 members & 3 coaches, IIRC).
Email your opposition to the following:
#nutmegSky

Great question. Thanks for asking….

Ian Dan, Project Manager (Ian.dann@uconn.edu)

Sean Vasington, Director of Planning, Design & Construction (Sean.vasington@uconn.edu)

Katy Dykes, DEEP Commissioner (deep.commissioner@ct.gov)

Dan Toscano, BOT Chair (Daniel.toscano@uconn.edu)

Radenka Maric, UConn Pres. (radenka.maric@uconn.edu)

Anti golf facility flier with more info about the project and who to contact (which will be in text on next post)

UConn is planning on clear cutting a local tree preserve to build a golf facility for exclusive use by the men’s golf team (9 members & 3 coaches, IIRC).
Email your opposition to the following:
#nutmegSky

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Text of email. “Files are permanently removed from the online recycle bin 93 days after they're deleted Hi Hird, Sarah, We noticed that you recently deleted a large number of files from your OneDrive. When files are deleted, they're stored in your recycle bin and can be restored within 93 days. After 93 days, deleted files are gone forever. If you want to restore these files, go to the recycle bin. Select what you want to restore, and click the Restore button. Ignore this mail if you meant to get rid of these files. Learn more about deleting and restoring files.”

“Heads up! We noticed you deleted a large number of files from your OneDrive”

Who & why are they doing this to us. MFer I know what delete is.

“Ignore this email if you meant to get rid of these files.” Or - leave me alone & don’t send brainmelting garbage emails no one wants.

Time for a break

You know what all teams in the men's Final Four (and both women's teams in so far) have in common?

HERBARIA.

UConn is threatening to cut the staff of our nat history collections (plus many other awful budget cuts). If only we cared as much about biodiversity as we do about buzzer beaters!

Is it though? Our non-birthing parents only get 30 days (6 work weeks) and it looks like your 50 days applies to all parents.

Yeah. Me too. And sorry for those who don’t!

Our union has negotiated for 12-14 weeks paid leave for birthing parents and 6 weeks paid leave for non-birthing parents. For each, 6 weeks can be converted to 12 weeks at 50% effort.

How does this compare to your university??? I wanted more but considering we had ZERO until now it feels …ok?

Dunkin put 3x the sugar I requested in my coffee today & my god, it’s a liquid candy bar. Apologies to everyone who has to deal with me at any time today. LFG. #dunkinchronicles

Attn @uconnaaup.bsky.social