Herrific
herrific.bsky.social
Herrific
@herrific.bsky.social
Tired, caffeinated, feral, caffeinated, fed up, caffeinated. Entering my Crone Era.
Pinned
Just to be clear, I got my username by swapping out an O, not a T.
In the last half hour, admin let me know a student was falsely claiming I never helped them or responded to contacts and that I threatened them. Admin immediately went into my course, read emails between us, and went UH WTF student is 100% lying to try to avoid honor board and gave me a heads up.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Been grading all day. “Great start here! Simplify your thesis for clarity, please!Keep going with your analysis and synthesis, remember to support and cite, develop your conclusion further, four full pages…”

15 minutes after feedback, unedited 2-page first draft submitted as final draft. 😑
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I don’t really wanna do the work today,
I don’t really wanna do the work today,
I don’t really wanna do the work today,
I don’t really wanna do the work today.
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I see a lot of non-humanities academics telling my discipline to get on board with AI, that we need to embrace it, that writing is obsolete. Yet these folks are the ones who bitch and moan when their AI-powered students cannot write. Choose.
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 AM
We’re having a big problem with cheating in an online exam, so they found a solution: using a lockdown browser, but without monitoring.

Y’all, so, I know this is wild, but hear me out:

✨𝒫𝒽𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓈✨
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I have students who I dread interacting with, usually because they’ve cheated repeatedly. I know my role requires me to be professional and work with these students, but I wish we had a threshold for removal from class.
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I have to reply to discussion posts today in one of my sections, and y’all, I know students complain about having to make responses, but try doing it for five classes damn near every week. FOUL.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Dear lawn service,

If you knock aggressively and ring the doorbell repeatedly here, in a household with immigrants, we are NOT ANSWERING THE MOTHERFUCKING DOOR.

JFC this is a castle doctrine state have you lost your mind?
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Make being racist expensive.
#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy
News Flash - Racism can be very expensive.

Nazi Karen calls the police on the Boston Police Chief. Good for him for suing that racist. #DemsUnited
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Last night I dreamt that “it” happened. It was such a good dream, and when I woke up from it I immediately checked my phone to see if it was true. And of course there was no announcement, but I rationalized that it was four in the morning and they wouldn’t report until the morning news.

So… 🤞🤞🤞
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My mother wanted to know why I was so cynical about higher ed right now.

It’s because my colleagues and I are averaging five to ten repeat honor board cases per week. I have had that many in a day. I have been threatened, lied to, libeled, cussed at, and harassed.

I’m tired. We’re all tired.
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Teach? What do I teach? Nothing now; not really. I just decide when the AI slop my students turn in is too AI or too slop.

Most times it’s both. Anyway, another day, another semi-literate death threat.
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Just got a big chunk of chili pepper lodged up against my tonsil and good lord, do not recommend.
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Turned in my assignment 20 minutes late because I completely messed up and edited the wrong version. 100% my fault so I’ll take my lumps.

At least I turned it in, I guess. About 2/3 of this year’s cohort seem to have vanished since August. 😬
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Reposted by Herrific
BOOM! After months of the GOP kicking and screaming in opposition, the Democrats have broken Trump's Pedophile Protection program and sent a bill to release the Epstein files directly to the criminal President's desk.

#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I have paper revisions to do tonight, having graded all day, and then tomorrow it’s all honor board cases and document forensics, and then it’s back to grading.

But damn it, I’m taking Thanksgiving day off.
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I’m trying to recall the last time I had a full day off. Maybe August. It ain’t happening today, either.
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Write a list of bullet points, they said. It’s an outline, they said.

I’m sorry my outline is 18 pages, I said. That’s what it took to accomplish what the assignment asked for, I said.
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This homework is kicking my ass. My ass is not enjoying it.
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Wait wait wait is this why we have the term “head of state?”

(Sorry, I’ll see myself out.)
November 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Breaking News! Trump and Clinton in a physical altercation!

…they came to blows.
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I did not have Trump giving Clinton a tonsil teaser on my bingo card, like, ever.



Wow.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I had to write something, and the last paragraph had to say how I would do something I’m not really allowed to do. As a result, that paragraph is trite, overblown nonsense.

And when I ran it through an AI detector today as my non-AI control doc, the smarmiest sentence in that paragraph lit up. 😬😑🥴
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I was outside trying to see the aurora and someone inside my house knocked on the upstairs window to get my attention but I’m the only one home and I am going to YELL at that cat for nearly making me homeless ISTG
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM