Erin 🍂
@erinpolisci.bsky.social
Future political scientist. Grad student. Occasionally I talk about politics. Mostly I talk about my cats.
My grumpy girl, but I love her so much.
December 31, 2025 at 12:39 AM
My grumpy girl, but I love her so much.
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The line in this courageous essay about her child not remembering her broke my heart. I hope she knows what an impact it had on so many people.
Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy, has died at 35. In November, she wrote about receiving a terminal diagnosis following the birth of her daughter.
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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December 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The line in this courageous essay about her child not remembering her broke my heart. I hope she knows what an impact it had on so many people.
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My cranky boomer take is that it was better when they included return slips with stuff you ordered automatically.
December 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My cranky boomer take is that it was better when they included return slips with stuff you ordered automatically.
In spite of being a good song “long December” is based upon the false premise that December is long when in fact on the vibes based metric (the most important measurement) December flies at the speed of light.
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In spite of being a good song “long December” is based upon the false premise that December is long when in fact on the vibes based metric (the most important measurement) December flies at the speed of light.
I’m currently laying on my bed completely frozen because Jack the (former) stray is leaning up against my legs and if I even twitch he’ll run. This is truly shocking behavior from a cat who runs if you look at him too long.
December 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I’m currently laying on my bed completely frozen because Jack the (former) stray is leaning up against my legs and if I even twitch he’ll run. This is truly shocking behavior from a cat who runs if you look at him too long.
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Living in the Midwest is going from 60 degrees to 20 in less than 12 hours.
December 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Living in the Midwest is going from 60 degrees to 20 in less than 12 hours.
The low-end version is called Gollum and it’ll accidentally sacrifice itself to save you from the high-end version.
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos | TechCrunch
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The low-end version is called Gollum and it’ll accidentally sacrifice itself to save you from the high-end version.
Finally got my flu shot this morning and had to listen to the nurse talk about how getting the Covid shot was unnecessary and instead people should just avoid sugar.
December 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Finally got my flu shot this morning and had to listen to the nurse talk about how getting the Covid shot was unnecessary and instead people should just avoid sugar.
The way I know I’m still pretty normal in spite of being somewhat online is that I have never been completely enraged by an innocuous skeet by Will Stancil.
December 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The way I know I’m still pretty normal in spite of being somewhat online is that I have never been completely enraged by an innocuous skeet by Will Stancil.
Because of plain bad luck I have never had a dishwasher anywhere I’ve lived in my entire life (no, I am not exaggerating) and I HATE it. My only requirement for my next place is that it has a dishwasher.
People who want to get morally superior about how they hand-wash everything really gotta reckon with the fact that machine dish-washing uses considerably LESS water and emits considerably fewer greenhouse emissions than standard handwashing practices do.
(And you save a lot of time...)
(And you save a lot of time...)
December 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Because of plain bad luck I have never had a dishwasher anywhere I’ve lived in my entire life (no, I am not exaggerating) and I HATE it. My only requirement for my next place is that it has a dishwasher.
Christmas dinner was cancelled on account of the host’s elderly and much beloved dog reaching the end of her journey so my mom had peanut butter and jelly and I had leftover pimento cheese dip for dinner. Honestly, the passing of sweet Libby notwithstanding, I’ve had worse holidays.
December 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Christmas dinner was cancelled on account of the host’s elderly and much beloved dog reaching the end of her journey so my mom had peanut butter and jelly and I had leftover pimento cheese dip for dinner. Honestly, the passing of sweet Libby notwithstanding, I’ve had worse holidays.
So evidently there are actual hockey podcast bros out there reviewing Heated Rivalry and in like a sincere actually enjoying the content way? This show is a marvel.
December 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
So evidently there are actual hockey podcast bros out there reviewing Heated Rivalry and in like a sincere actually enjoying the content way? This show is a marvel.
Got switched from an RA to a TA for spring for some kind of data science (or maybe machine learning? It’s unclear) class and I cannot stress enough how I am the last person in the department that should be assisting in that class. I am full of dread.
December 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Got switched from an RA to a TA for spring for some kind of data science (or maybe machine learning? It’s unclear) class and I cannot stress enough how I am the last person in the department that should be assisting in that class. I am full of dread.
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Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
You know what pisses me off is that pre-Covid Kroger always has sufficient checkouts open for the number of people. Post-Covid it is ALWAYS two open at most. Two days before Christmas? Two. Lines down into the aisles. Exhausted workers. No matter, only gotta pay two of them!
December 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
You know what pisses me off is that pre-Covid Kroger always has sufficient checkouts open for the number of people. Post-Covid it is ALWAYS two open at most. Two days before Christmas? Two. Lines down into the aisles. Exhausted workers. No matter, only gotta pay two of them!
Releasing grades at 8 pm the night before Christmas Eve has got to be one of the most diabolical things a university has ever done.
December 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Releasing grades at 8 pm the night before Christmas Eve has got to be one of the most diabolical things a university has ever done.
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Lol hoo boy do I have a few. When I did my MA at Illinois, I GA'd in the Student Life & Culture Archives--probably the best collection of materials on US higher ed from a student affairs/campus life angle. My job? Process the 100+ cubic feet of a recently-donated national fraternity's archive
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Lol hoo boy do I have a few. When I did my MA at Illinois, I GA'd in the Student Life & Culture Archives--probably the best collection of materials on US higher ed from a student affairs/campus life angle. My job? Process the 100+ cubic feet of a recently-donated national fraternity's archive
Can’t believe in the year 2025 cuisinart still has not made a food processor that’s easy to clean.
December 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Can’t believe in the year 2025 cuisinart still has not made a food processor that’s easy to clean.
I think it’s funny that people like my mom (somewhat dialed in liberal but not online at all) had no idea who Bari Weiss was but know now and are disgusted. That new job is working out great for her!
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I think it’s funny that people like my mom (somewhat dialed in liberal but not online at all) had no idea who Bari Weiss was but know now and are disgusted. That new job is working out great for her!
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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thinking for no reason at all about my very first job, which was at a censored newspaper in Myanmar and seemed very distant from my life and my country
CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social
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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
thinking for no reason at all about my very first job, which was at a censored newspaper in Myanmar and seemed very distant from my life and my country
Bamboo. A renewable resource. Sustainable, unlike my relationship.
December 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Bamboo. A renewable resource. Sustainable, unlike my relationship.
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