a woman in a black dress is saying flames on the side of her face Alt: A woman in a black dress says “flames on the side of my face”. GIF of famous Mrs. White monologue in the movie Clue.

Today is one of those days where it feels like absolutely everything is making me angry.

For an unlimited time, I’m offering to cover the ticket for one (1) free ticket into the sun for anybody who thinks autism needs to be “cured”

a million and one reasons to be furious about the autism/tylenol press conference but telling pregnant women they should really really "tough it out" rather than get pain relief is the one that's ... wow it makes me mad

I think the school phone bans are good. But politicians, journalists, and activists who are only focused on thumbs up / thumbs down takes on childhood “screens” are intentionally unprepared to deal with the complex and sometimes dangerous cultures kids actually interact with online.

We hired an internet culture reporter at Vox in 2016 (before the election!), and I remember the first thing they really brought to my attention was Harambe memes. I remember wondering if any of that shit mattered. Now I wish we had hired 10 internet culture reporters.

Nikki I’m so sorry! Sending big hugs to you and Graham. So grateful I got to meet this majestic lady. She was so lucky to have you two to take such good care of her and show her so much love.

Thinking back on it, my movie-watching habits seem to have declined precipitously around the same year I got my first smartphone. Coincidence? 🤔

Watched a movie last night that I could only watch on my laptop, and also accidentally left my phone on the other side of my room. Took all my willpower not to retrieve the phone, but it was worth it. Want to retrain my attention span to be able to just fully focus on movies again like that.

Want to go socialize in a bar? Honestly not really. Want to play a pickup game in the hotel lobby? Yes please!

What would you run instead?

Thinking I might start running little DnD one-shots at conferences. Y/N?

Book with plain black cover and white text. Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll.

Hey @jordanscarroll.bsky.social look what I found at SLSA! And someone already called dibs on the display copy!

Wrote and ran a DnD one shot tonight for my nephews (10 and 7) and had such a blast! We played Hero Kids a few years ago but this was their first taste of "real" DnD. They were such great players: creative, patient, collaborative, and clever. I'm so proud. 🥲

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Love how being better organized has helped me avoid completely rewriting things because I can find the thing I originally wrote! Who knew?

The biggest mystery of Severance is why are Devon and Ricken even together?

Been getting a lot of people asking about LA geography concerned that the images they see means the entire county is on fire. That's understandable.

But LA is a big place. So, to give an idea of scale it's time to cart this out again. It's a map of LA with other cities superimposed on it.

I did not make this image, but I would watch this movie.

A brown duck (female mallard) and black water fowl (American Coot) stand at edge of pond. Duck has orange webbed feet and Coot has black and green lobed toes.

Close-up of American Coot’s feet. Each foot has 3 long toes with several flat lobes, and 1 long rear toe without lobes.

Delighted to meet this patient
American Coot at the park today who let me get a shot of its feet! Did you know their feet are lobed rather than webbed? I’m obsessed!

Shoutout to fishing in video games

That shit rules

And I also want to acknowledge @mikebithell.bsky.social, @cyborgurl.bsky.social, @spenserstarke.bsky.social, @loottheroom.bsky.social, @wrenegade.bsky.social, and @tensori.fi whose wonderful (and emotional!) games we played. 🎮🎲😭😱🥰

Wrapped my Games & Emotion class today. What a ride it’s been! I learned a lot - hopefully the students did too! Shout out to @kcisbister.bsky.social whose great book we read, and big thanks to Amanda Cullen from Blizzard, and @plante.bsky.social who kindly shared their time as guest speakers!

Looking forward to chatting with UCI’s Digital Humanities Exchange about my research on ASMR, YouTube, and affect this Wednesday! Having fun this morning putting together a fresh PowerPoint and seeing everything come together. 📈👄👂🏼👩🏻‍💻
#UCI #DigitalHumanities

Mary Tyler Moore accidentally nailed a perfect trick shot in *The Dick Van Dyke Show* (1962)—on the FIRST take.

It was supposed to be done by a pro, but she shocked everyone and pulled it off herself. Absolute legend. 🎱✨

#ClassicTV #FunFacts

I ended up running a rock/paper/scissors tournament and they were even low energy for that! We are all so ready for a break.

I really want to see WICKED but I honestly don’t think I can handle the 2hr40min runtime. Why can’t movies have intermissions?

We will all be made so much weaker and so much stupider and so much less human in a world where only the offspring of billionaires are granted the leisure of thinking about anything more than survival

CamelCase (Capitalizing each word in a multi-word hashtag like #EduSky not #edusky) will allow screen readers to more accurately read hashtags and makes your posts accessible to:

- blind people
- people with partial sight
- dyslexic people
- people who enjoy using screen readers

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