Emily McConnell
@emilymccdesign.bsky.social
Costume designer, educator, facilitator, collaborator.
If you follow me and I can’t see any evidence that you’re not a bot, I’ll block you. Kindly :)
If you follow me and I can’t see any evidence that you’re not a bot, I’ll block you. Kindly :)
Kendrick Said He Is Not Your Savior
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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March 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Reposted by Emily McConnell
The Secretary of Agriculture says I should put chickens in my backyard, so first of all I need a backyard and second of all I need a few Republican members of Congress.
March 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Secretary of Agriculture says I should put chickens in my backyard, so first of all I need a backyard and second of all I need a few Republican members of Congress.
Nothing like emailing the same thing to a bunch of prospective students to encourage them to choose your program… and then realizing you spelled “education” wrong in ALL of them.
February 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Nothing like emailing the same thing to a bunch of prospective students to encourage them to choose your program… and then realizing you spelled “education” wrong in ALL of them.
Jellies appear to be back and of all the 1980s throwbacks we are currently experiencing, this one hits the closest to home.
February 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Jellies appear to be back and of all the 1980s throwbacks we are currently experiencing, this one hits the closest to home.
Feeling the crunch this week of chronic under-staffing. I’m 7 mos in to a yr of having 3 job titles, running a costume department supporting 200 students w/ 1.5 professional staff. I’m balancing running my own fittings, training student crew and supervising student shop labor. In short: I tired.
February 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Feeling the crunch this week of chronic under-staffing. I’m 7 mos in to a yr of having 3 job titles, running a costume department supporting 200 students w/ 1.5 professional staff. I’m balancing running my own fittings, training student crew and supervising student shop labor. In short: I tired.
The writers of “The Pitt” have successfully hacked binge-watching - turns out you don’t need major cliffhangers, just end every episode right in the middle of a medium-stakes conversation.
February 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
The writers of “The Pitt” have successfully hacked binge-watching - turns out you don’t need major cliffhangers, just end every episode right in the middle of a medium-stakes conversation.
I need someone to write some cultural commentary on the multiple Super Bowl commercials involving flying facial hair and the general rise of the mustache.
February 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I need someone to write some cultural commentary on the multiple Super Bowl commercials involving flying facial hair and the general rise of the mustache.
There’s a particular honor that comes with being one of the people that a child will fall asleep on.
February 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
There’s a particular honor that comes with being one of the people that a child will fall asleep on.
I needed this laugh today
An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
February 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I needed this laugh today
Is the current flurry of activity coming out of the Executive branch disturbing and dangerous? Yes. Are the blatant attempts to erase the existence and value of anything/anyone that isn’t white, Christian and cisgender pathetic and sad? Also yes.
February 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Is the current flurry of activity coming out of the Executive branch disturbing and dangerous? Yes. Are the blatant attempts to erase the existence and value of anything/anyone that isn’t white, Christian and cisgender pathetic and sad? Also yes.
A downside of using BlueSky to replace Facebook is that I feel like I’m supposed to post Important Thoughts here, or at least Pithy Observations. Can we normalize using this platform to ask for sympathy when we’ve stubbed our toe too?
February 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
A downside of using BlueSky to replace Facebook is that I feel like I’m supposed to post Important Thoughts here, or at least Pithy Observations. Can we normalize using this platform to ask for sympathy when we’ve stubbed our toe too?
I’ll throw this out there even though no one who matters will probably see it: I encourage the new DNC chair to not let go entirely of the stuff that made Kamala’s campaign joyful: celebrating a wide range of people is fun, and models of supportive masculinity are powerful. Inclusion isn’t a slog.
February 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I’ll throw this out there even though no one who matters will probably see it: I encourage the new DNC chair to not let go entirely of the stuff that made Kamala’s campaign joyful: celebrating a wide range of people is fun, and models of supportive masculinity are powerful. Inclusion isn’t a slog.
NOPE! I don’t understand how Dems don’t see that every time they aim for “the middle” they are getting rope-a-doped by the right. Stake out a strong stance on progressive issues, social AND economic, and fight hard for them!
"It is very clear that, if there is a middle of all of this hot mess of division, Americans want us to work together when we can and find common ground," Sen. Amy Klobuchar tells the Opinion writer Michelle Cottle.
Opinion | Amy Klobuchar on How Democrats Can Combat America’s ‘Hot Mess of Division’
The Minnesota moderate has thoughts on how her party can move forward.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
NOPE! I don’t understand how Dems don’t see that every time they aim for “the middle” they are getting rope-a-doped by the right. Stake out a strong stance on progressive issues, social AND economic, and fight hard for them!
Find your @indivisible.org chapter and sign up for their emails. Today I got one email listing both a national action I could take (thanking one senator and emailing the other) and a local action I could take to help with housing supply. No fear-mongering, just practical steps.
January 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Find your @indivisible.org chapter and sign up for their emails. Today I got one email listing both a national action I could take (thanking one senator and emailing the other) and a local action I could take to help with housing supply. No fear-mongering, just practical steps.
Please stop using the phrase “this oughta scare the crap out of all of us” when sharing anything regarding this administration’s actions. 10 days in, we are already out of crap - we are crapless.
January 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Please stop using the phrase “this oughta scare the crap out of all of us” when sharing anything regarding this administration’s actions. 10 days in, we are already out of crap - we are crapless.
The image that keeps coming to mind is a large ship on the ocean. When you suddenly hit the brakes, everything on that ship gets flung about and broken - deciding to start moving again doesn’t erase the damage done.
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Trump White House reverses course, rescinds freeze on federal grants — The Washington Post
The reversal followed criticism of the sudden freeze by the White House budget office.
apple.news
January 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The image that keeps coming to mind is a large ship on the ocean. When you suddenly hit the brakes, everything on that ship gets flung about and broken - deciding to start moving again doesn’t erase the damage done.
apple.news/ARM1-MTeLQ_a...
apple.news/ARM1-MTeLQ_a...
Federal workers discovering the empowering feeling of spite - I absolutely here for it.
This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.
From the fednews community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
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January 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Federal workers discovering the empowering feeling of spite - I absolutely here for it.
Reposted by Emily McConnell
CALL CONGRESS and tell them to OPPOSE cuts that are threatening to take away programs that millions rely on like Medicaid, rent assistance, nutrition assistance, and student loans.
SIGN: wfpus.org/cuts
CALL: Text CUTS to 30403 to get the script and be connected.
SIGN: wfpus.org/cuts
CALL: Text CUTS to 30403 to get the script and be connected.
January 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
CALL CONGRESS and tell them to OPPOSE cuts that are threatening to take away programs that millions rely on like Medicaid, rent assistance, nutrition assistance, and student loans.
SIGN: wfpus.org/cuts
CALL: Text CUTS to 30403 to get the script and be connected.
SIGN: wfpus.org/cuts
CALL: Text CUTS to 30403 to get the script and be connected.
No one tells you about the step in the creative process when you’re thinking, “Can I just go back to being a normal person without interesting ideas? This is exhausting!”
January 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
No one tells you about the step in the creative process when you’re thinking, “Can I just go back to being a normal person without interesting ideas? This is exhausting!”
I do love a syllabus…
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
drive.google.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I do love a syllabus…
I’m just so tickled by Little Marco Rubio finally getting his shot at some global influence, and his new boss just wants to start shit with Denmark and Canada 🤣🤣🤣
January 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I’m just so tickled by Little Marco Rubio finally getting his shot at some global influence, and his new boss just wants to start shit with Denmark and Canada 🤣🤣🤣
A bot is a bot, even if all the memes and links it posts are from left-leaning sources. Still gonna block it.
January 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A bot is a bot, even if all the memes and links it posts are from left-leaning sources. Still gonna block it.
This won’t be the end of this particular story or the bigger story. We’ve got to be ready for whatever the escalation looks like. I’m really grateful for this school’s staff, and hoping they can continue to hold firm.
January 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This won’t be the end of this particular story or the bigger story. We’ve got to be ready for whatever the escalation looks like. I’m really grateful for this school’s staff, and hoping they can continue to hold firm.
Reposted by Emily McConnell
This is nuts.
Breaking: DOJ freezes all cases in civil rights division. "It’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen this before at this scale with any transfer of power, regardless of the ideology of any incoming president or administration." Story w/ @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division
The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This is nuts.
Whoever coined the phrase “humans make plans and God laughs” probably was the parent of a small child who keeps bring fun viruses home from school.
January 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Whoever coined the phrase “humans make plans and God laughs” probably was the parent of a small child who keeps bring fun viruses home from school.