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Tori Hoover
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baltimore-based academic who’s just trying to get that rate my professor chili pepper
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inspired by recent events
i think about this all the time as though it would ever happen to me
January 23, 2026 at 2:01 AM
this reads like the first paragraph of a terrible 10th grade social studies reading response
President Trump’s actions today with Venezuela raise more questions than answers. Is America going to be involved in running and stabilizing Venezuela? Today's actions raise many questions about the stability of the region and our policy towards South America.
January 4, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Meanwhile in the actual historical documents…
December 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Shrek 2 okay cmon baby this is gonna be my freaking renaissance
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

Yikes
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

Yo.
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
kinda giving
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
apropos of nothing: they should sell bound versions of nora ephron’s screenplays, i want to be able to reference that dialogue in a paper version
December 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
cloud dancer: brought to you by corporate downsizing
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Too bad my dissertation has already been submitted because this list truly deserves some critical analysis.
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
take it from someone on the job market: they’re bad!
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Mixed feelings on this. I hate seeing these numbers — but as someone on the academic job market right now, it’s also hard to justify cohort sizes when the jobs we’re training PhDs for just do not exist.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
free idea: a satirically pro-tory drag queen named lauren order
October 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
October 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
chick fil a better be catering ALL the cbs events from here on out
October 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
ngl, continually getting rejected from jobs paying like $60k despite my phd is uhhhhh devastating
September 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’ll never forgive Netflix for what they did to Teenage Bounty Hunters
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.

What's yours?
September 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The people elected to serve DO have input! They nominate the Fed Board! Trump appointees already control the Fed!

Obviously Vance knows this, but he expects (correctly) that the average person does not, and wants to exploit that ignorance.
August 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
me every time baltimore gets mentioned these days
August 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
in college there were guys who would meanly say a kenyon 10 was an ohio state 6 as though every girl on campus didn’t know THIS was the true male kenyon 10
Must repost every now and then, and I certainly need it tonight before I go to sleep:
Paul Newman in his Navy uniform during WWII (1944-45?)
July 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Reposted by Tori Hoover
PhD stands for “posting here daily”
June 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
imagine having so few problems in life that you write a letter to the editor of the washington post arguing that the city where the anthem was written should stop doing its anthem-specific ballgame tradition
May 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Tori Hoover
April 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
xanax sounds like the name of a male hero in a romantasy novel
April 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
me playing barbie pet rescue on the family desktop at age 7:
Using my mouse cursor to pet a jpeg of a dog
April 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM