Lorien
@lorienlakecorral.bsky.social
I will mostly be posting about Maine, teaching sociology, our Anatolian Pyrenees, Chloe, and the feral pansies that live outside my front door.
A student just cited the “Anal Review of Sociology” in a paper and now I’m never not calling it that
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A student just cited the “Anal Review of Sociology” in a paper and now I’m never not calling it that
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“One person is an autocratic president of the university for decades” certainly wasn’t a flawless system but it’s clear that “admins hop from job to job scaling the career ladder by filling their CV with ‘accomplishments’ that are expensive burdens to the schools they leave behind” is even worse.
The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“One person is an autocratic president of the university for decades” certainly wasn’t a flawless system but it’s clear that “admins hop from job to job scaling the career ladder by filling their CV with ‘accomplishments’ that are expensive burdens to the schools they leave behind” is even worse.
Thanksgiving leftovers Day 3:
Stuffing and green bean casserole fried rice with general tso’s turkey breast
Stuffing and green bean casserole fried rice with general tso’s turkey breast
December 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Thanksgiving leftovers Day 3:
Stuffing and green bean casserole fried rice with general tso’s turkey breast
Stuffing and green bean casserole fried rice with general tso’s turkey breast
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We keep adjusting our goalposts, trying to meet students where they're at--but for some, that place is a kind of non-place, where they don't complete any work or engage with the class, but still receive a high grade. Emails are ignored. They can't meet a deadline or keep an appointment.
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
We keep adjusting our goalposts, trying to meet students where they're at--but for some, that place is a kind of non-place, where they don't complete any work or engage with the class, but still receive a high grade. Emails are ignored. They can't meet a deadline or keep an appointment.
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The only way to argue against this is to imagine there are voters who will walk into a polling place one year from now with “the Democrats ended the shutdown last year and saved my Thanksgiving travel plans” at the forefront of their minds, which, I’m sorry, is not a real thing.
This is why you DON'T stop the shutdown. Clearly the voters know who's responsible for the shutdown and now it's gonna be even worse. Since the news isn't willing to be honest with Americans about what Trump was and is, this will have to do so they can get the message.
U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE 10% CUT OF SCHEDULED CAPACITY AT 40 MAJOR HIGH TRAFFIC AIRPORTS STARTING FRIDAY -- SOURCES
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The only way to argue against this is to imagine there are voters who will walk into a polling place one year from now with “the Democrats ended the shutdown last year and saved my Thanksgiving travel plans” at the forefront of their minds, which, I’m sorry, is not a real thing.
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It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.
The comments and reposts on this are making my nerdy night
And we have now progressed from data analysis to policy recommendations.
I told her that we'd calculate the cash value of her candy haul, that I'd ask her to raid her piggy bank and donate 1/3 the candy cash value to a local food bank, and that I'd add on a 5X match.
I told her that we'd calculate the cash value of her candy haul, that I'd ask her to raid her piggy bank and donate 1/3 the candy cash value to a local food bank, and that I'd add on a 5X match.
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The comments and reposts on this are making my nerdy night
“Any idiot can post something offensive and get a reaction. What’s hard is actually governing…they’re desperately trying to convince everyone that this performance is actually a demonstration of strength rather than an admission of complete incompetence at the actual job.”
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Trump’s Government Of Spite: Political Performance Art For Assholes
A couple weeks ago, as millions of Americans took to the streets in what may have been the largest single day of protest in U.S. history, the President of the United States responded by… posting a …
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November 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Any idiot can post something offensive and get a reaction. What’s hard is actually governing…they’re desperately trying to convince everyone that this performance is actually a demonstration of strength rather than an admission of complete incompetence at the actual job.”
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Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
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DHS often say assaults against ICE officers have skyrocketed, but fails to provide real data to back that up.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
DHS often say assaults against ICE officers have skyrocketed, but fails to provide real data to back that up.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.
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Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
The feral pansies are still blooming, even after a couple frosts.
And yet, they display more backbone than most of the establishment.
And yet, they display more backbone than most of the establishment.
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The feral pansies are still blooming, even after a couple frosts.
And yet, they display more backbone than most of the establishment.
And yet, they display more backbone than most of the establishment.
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Dan Pfeiffer
For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the hell the Senate Democrats are doing in Maine — the most important Senate race in the country. Their decision to back Janet Mills suggests they have learned no lessons from our loss in 2024.
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For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the hell the Senate Democrats are doing in Maine — the most important Senate race in the country. Their decision to back Janet Mills suggests they have learned no lessons from our loss in 2024.
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Are Democrats About to Blow It in Maine?
By backing Janet Mills over a grassroots outsider, party leaders may be repeating the same mistakes from 2024
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October 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Dan Pfeiffer
For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the hell the Senate Democrats are doing in Maine — the most important Senate race in the country. Their decision to back Janet Mills suggests they have learned no lessons from our loss in 2024.
messagebox.substack.com/p/are-democr...
For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the hell the Senate Democrats are doing in Maine — the most important Senate race in the country. Their decision to back Janet Mills suggests they have learned no lessons from our loss in 2024.
messagebox.substack.com/p/are-democr...
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AI is like a Trolley Problem for media CEOs, except they don't realize the options are actually "stop the trolley" or "the trolley runs me over six months after I let it run over my employees."
October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
AI is like a Trolley Problem for media CEOs, except they don't realize the options are actually "stop the trolley" or "the trolley runs me over six months after I let it run over my employees."
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The entire debate over whether or not protestors should use violence comes down to the fact that the definition of “violence” is applied unevenly to different groups on the basis of power.
If you’re attempting to upend the status quo, someone will always call something you did violent.
If you’re attempting to upend the status quo, someone will always call something you did violent.
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The entire debate over whether or not protestors should use violence comes down to the fact that the definition of “violence” is applied unevenly to different groups on the basis of power.
If you’re attempting to upend the status quo, someone will always call something you did violent.
If you’re attempting to upend the status quo, someone will always call something you did violent.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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This is it. Trump is not a historical aberration; Trump is a reminder that after decades of comforting platitudes about the arc of history, something approaching actual democracy in this country is barely 50 years old.
For diff reasons, there are people who say if u look at the grand scheme of American history, Trumpism isn’t all that divergent from what America is, and yes exactly that’s why it’s so titanically bad
October 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This is it. Trump is not a historical aberration; Trump is a reminder that after decades of comforting platitudes about the arc of history, something approaching actual democracy in this country is barely 50 years old.
I assigned a thirty year old 552-page ethnography over the first four weeks of my online sociology of education course.
We’re two weeks in and over 1/3 of the class has already read the entire thing and are enthusiastically discussing it on the discussion boards.
Maybe the kids are alright?
We’re two weeks in and over 1/3 of the class has already read the entire thing and are enthusiastically discussing it on the discussion boards.
Maybe the kids are alright?
September 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I assigned a thirty year old 552-page ethnography over the first four weeks of my online sociology of education course.
We’re two weeks in and over 1/3 of the class has already read the entire thing and are enthusiastically discussing it on the discussion boards.
Maybe the kids are alright?
We’re two weeks in and over 1/3 of the class has already read the entire thing and are enthusiastically discussing it on the discussion boards.
Maybe the kids are alright?
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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I refuse to deplore "political violence" when it is made so explicit that it is the adjective, not the noun, that troubles the people so openly weeping and rending their garments right now. Either we all have a ticket in the Victim of Gun Violence Lotto or none of us do.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I refuse to deplore "political violence" when it is made so explicit that it is the adjective, not the noun, that troubles the people so openly weeping and rending their garments right now. Either we all have a ticket in the Victim of Gun Violence Lotto or none of us do.
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Everyone should be deeply concerned, just like everyone should’ve been deeply concerned when they woke up this morning and didn’t know this would happen.
We do not have to overreact to these people overreacting though. Histrionics are what they do.
We do not have to overreact to these people overreacting though. Histrionics are what they do.
September 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Everyone should be deeply concerned, just like everyone should’ve been deeply concerned when they woke up this morning and didn’t know this would happen.
We do not have to overreact to these people overreacting though. Histrionics are what they do.
We do not have to overreact to these people overreacting though. Histrionics are what they do.
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It's wild how politely asking grown ass adults to wear masks and stop coughing on produce was the second coming of Stalin. But military takeovers of cities based on who they elected is totally cool patriot freedom USA.
September 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It's wild how politely asking grown ass adults to wear masks and stop coughing on produce was the second coming of Stalin. But military takeovers of cities based on who they elected is totally cool patriot freedom USA.
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September 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
August 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.