Oh my god, of course! And Debbie Reynolds

I completely agree, same for George Michael. All three of them iconic in ways that’s unlikely to be replicated

I know the 2016 trend is because 1) nostalgia, 2) the people who yearn for it were children at the time, but 2016 was just a warm-up for the horrors of 2020-onwards

incomplete list of things that happened in 2016:
- Victoria wood died
- Prince died
- Bowie died
- George Michael died
- I had to live with a pick up artist who was also my boss
- stayed in a hostel that had bedbugs
- Trump elected
- long recovery from viral meningitis
- Brexit

Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

dear mr rihanna,

on "Helicopter", A$AP Rocky states that people will "do anything for a blue check", forgetting that anyone on Twitter can buy one if they have cash to spare, which makes the clout-chasing aspect of the bar less impactful. I hope someone has made him aware of this and proposes edits.

bonus points if they make it seem like watching a cartoon or slightly embarrassing internet personality made them lose their minds

every YouTube video is now called “the rise and fall of bluppy mcfart” and it’s 2 hours of someone summarising a tv show you’ve never seen

friday mood courtesy of my lecture on makeover body horror

and the market is *so* crowded that every needs their own shtick to try and stand out. You've got, what, half a second to grab someone's attention as they scroll? How are you supposed to establish rapport and get something worthwhile when you have neither the space, time, nor budget?

people are discouraged from engaging with things critically, opportunities for people to develop within traditional media outlets have vanished, and everything is advertising. Why bother with the pretense of a critical voice or interesting question when everyone's there to sell?

@manilazic.bsky.social wrote this 3 years ago about influencers taking over the critic space, and the same thing has happened with interviews www.theguardian.com/film/2023/au...

have you considered that, instead of wasting your time with “nature” or “friends”, you could be increasing shareholder value?

pretty much all technology that has increased productivity and connectivity has been used to make people work more, not less. The idea that businesses will suddenly find sufficient goodness in their heart to allow for more leisure time is nonsense

Someone has to be happy, but it should be pretty much anyone but Lauren Sánchez Bezos I’ve been thinking about plastic surgery, specifically Mar-a-Largo face, itself a mutation of Instagram face. Over the past decade, the preferred look of the surgically altered has changed from discre...

Some bedtime reading for you: Someone has to be happy. It should be pretty much anyone but Lauren Sánchez Bezos

Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow

we’re just taking a rest year before coming back bigger than better than ever… probably

I know!! next year maybe? are you and Kev back in the summer?

all my socials are full of people having fun at pca/aca 😭 I have intense conference fomo

Text of a drop down menu on my site Resources First Gen Academics Independent Scholar Resources Job Listing Sites Pitchables

So many resources! But we can always have more!

On blackwhiteandread.com, we now have resources for first gens like me (finding cfps & orgs), independent scholars (open access libraries/archives for unaffiliated researchers), job seekers, and public scholars looking to pitch work. Check it out!

global leaders are underestimating the power a new Solange album could have to help heal the world. getting her back in the studio is an imperative.

if I were in a liminal space I would simply go somewhere else

office siren or call centre middle management? who's to say!

hypothesis ep 20 - A Feminist Makeover with Dr. Clementine Vann-Alexander YouTube video by Ira McIntosh

my episode of Hypothesis is out! I had a great time talking about my research with Ira 🙂‍↕️ available now wherever podcasts are

when I try to remember the name of the podcast with guy who slept in people’s homes and grace campbell’s dad:

broadly, cooking is advertising and gender. gooseberry crumble specifically, however, is mostly advertising with some gambling sprinkled in

name anything and I will tell you which category it fits into

my current theory is that everything is advertising, gambling, gender, or some combination of the three.