Patty Dignam
@pattydignam.bsky.social
Faculty Affairs pro. Tedious Ulysses fanatic. Efficiency skeptic.
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seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com you guys really doing ads for WALMART?! JFC.
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com you guys really doing ads for WALMART?! JFC.
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Stop me if you've heard this before:
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Stop me if you've heard this before:
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???
They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
Oh, the delicious disgrace. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Email Cache Reveals How Former Harvard President Larry Summers Stayed in Jeffrey Epstein’s Orbit | News | The Harvard Crimson
A new cache of emails released by a House committee paints a vivid portrait of the relationship between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein. The ...
www.thecrimson.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Oh, the delicious disgrace. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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"Summers declined to comment on Wednesday beyond referring to previous remarks in which he acknowledged 'regretting my past associations with Mr. Epstein.' (...Summers is a contributing writer for The New York Times Opinion section.)"
They don't mention the IQ email
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
They don't mention the IQ email
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"Summers declined to comment on Wednesday beyond referring to previous remarks in which he acknowledged 'regretting my past associations with Mr. Epstein.' (...Summers is a contributing writer for The New York Times Opinion section.)"
They don't mention the IQ email
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
They don't mention the IQ email
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
“The mind I love must have wild places…. Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. -Katherine Mansfield
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“The mind I love must have wild places…. Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. -Katherine Mansfield
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Re-sharing because this guide has now been updated to include local restaurants offering free meals. Please share widely if you are in Northeastern Massachusetts!
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November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Re-sharing because this guide has now been updated to include local restaurants offering free meals. Please share widely if you are in Northeastern Massachusetts!
ne-arc.org/wp-content/u...
ne-arc.org/wp-content/u...
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This has flown under the radar bit, but this is great news and long overdue by the Massachusetts legislature.
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This has flown under the radar bit, but this is great news and long overdue by the Massachusetts legislature.
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
malegislature.gov/PressRoom/De...
Hey Wapo, maybe map that 25k per year onto billionaire tax breaks, and then you can shit on veterans www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
How some veterans exploit the VA disability system - The Washington Post
An investigation by The Post found that some veterans are taking advantage of the Department of Veterans Affairs disability compensation program. Today, how the system is being gamed and the attention...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Hey Wapo, maybe map that 25k per year onto billionaire tax breaks, and then you can shit on veterans www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
@pivotpod.bsky.social It’s MOM, DONNY. Please, could one of you pronounce Mamdani’s name correctly just one time? You may not be trolling him intentionally, but that’s a distinction without a difference at this point. At a minimum, his campaign has given you steady content for months.
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
@pivotpod.bsky.social It’s MOM, DONNY. Please, could one of you pronounce Mamdani’s name correctly just one time? You may not be trolling him intentionally, but that’s a distinction without a difference at this point. At a minimum, his campaign has given you steady content for months.
My dude did not flinch. At Lynn Woods Reservation.
November 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
My dude did not flinch. At Lynn Woods Reservation.
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Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty
Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years.
#AcademicSky
Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years.
#AcademicSky
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty - Nature Human Behaviour
Studying socioeconomic backgrounds and intergenerational transmission in the US academia, Morgan et al. find that faculty have a parent with a Ph.D. degree a striking 25 times more often than the gene...
www.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty
Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years.
#AcademicSky
Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years.
#AcademicSky
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Is there some reason the news is not covering the aftermath of Melissa in Jamaica? I am seeing nothing.
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Is there some reason the news is not covering the aftermath of Melissa in Jamaica? I am seeing nothing.
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I mean… it wouldn’t hurt to call them at this point.
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I mean… it wouldn’t hurt to call them at this point.
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“See now then, the dear Mrs. Sweet who lived with her husband Mr. Sweet and their two children, the beautiful Persephone and the young Heracles in the Shirley Jackson house, which was in a small village in New England.” -Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then
October 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“See now then, the dear Mrs. Sweet who lived with her husband Mr. Sweet and their two children, the beautiful Persephone and the young Heracles in the Shirley Jackson house, which was in a small village in New England.” -Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then
"'What is the nature of the search?' you ask. 'The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.'" -Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
October 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"'What is the nature of the search?' you ask. 'The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.'" -Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
RIP, King’s Beach
October 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
RIP, King’s Beach
Out here rapture preppin’. -Swampscott, MA
September 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Out here rapture preppin’. -Swampscott, MA