The sound of their wings when they are flying is one of my favorites, unreal, like a small engine.

Dang. I keep forgetting to make workplace disagreement acceptable by prefacing it with "I just want to push back on that."

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

morning commute

Musk is working on replacing contract workers in the Department of Education with AI chatbots, aiming to use generative AI to handle student and parent inquiries.

From WHAT IF THE INVADER IS BEAUTIFUL by Louise Mathias

The first-year writing class is a house haunted by the five paragraph essay, and I grow weary of its shenanigans, but I still get a little uncanny thrill every time a student starts talking about their "three bodies."

After Sobriety, Chasing Goosebumps Instead of Highs “I have never, at any point in my life, been someone who liked a thing moderately.”

This interview with Kaveh Akbar was good company this morning: slate.com/podcasts/dea...

lawyers: your bat signal has been activated

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

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Yasmin Williams: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Fixing my heart this morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6-z...

Harvard Divinity School punished students for having a PRAYER-IN last semester. I absolutely understand why students have decided to change tactics.

When you tell people to stop protesting genocide, it absolutely impacts how they respond to your shouts about fascism. Everything is connected.

Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.

southernequality.org/tyep/

Almost none of my first year students have any idea what’s going on, and I feel like the harbinger in a horror movie every time I walk in there.

My staff is hearing reports from Head Start programs in Oregon that they're still locked out of federal funds. My office is doing everything it can to get more info and get funds flowing before providers have to start closing their doors.

fy writing students are researching important problems in their communities while largely not following current events; timeliness is always a thing we have to work on, but it's so demoralizing to have to keep telling them "actually that thing is even more fucked and complicated right now..."

problem-solving and self-care strategies I am engaging with this winter = strong pu-erh tea.

Hearts of Space's tribute to David Lynch is a very good soundtrack for catching up on the essay grading that you are very, very behind on because everything is currently terrifying and insane: www.hos.com/this-week/pr...

Really developing an appreciation for that part of the evening when it's too late to expect any more work will happen but still early enough to feel really optimistic about the work that'll get done in the morning. I'm waking up early, y'all.

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The Law Is Very Clear on Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze Why trampling the impoundment control act this brazenly is a very big deal.

slate.com/podcasts/ami...

Amicus podcast’s emergency episode this afternoon helped me get my brain around this current funding freeze fuckery; on Molly of Denali right now, children are making necklaces with glass beads and fish skin.

The four year old and I took the bus to the grocery store today. The past few months, college students regularly offer me their seats on crowded buses. We had to wait for eggs because a woman blocked them, telling an employee about the wise president and “Mr. Musk.” It is winter, I am 45, the end.

Major personal accomplishment of 2025 so far: cooking the foods in the freezer before they become ancient & ice-bearded-

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From SIDEWALK NATURALIST by Sue Landers (above/ground press)

The four year old has discovered Molly of Denali, and watching it with her turns out to be very good for the soul, especially when I need to step away from the news.

Bright blue winter sky w dark clouds lit around their edges by sun

It was 35 degrees so we went outside & glowed some

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