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Rachel Ellen Clark (she/her)
@rachelclark.bsky.social
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English professor at Wartburg College in NE Iowa. Views presented here are mine, not my employer’s. Current research: Witchcraft and disability in the early modern Atlantic world. Research assistant: Jellybean 🐶
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Also good: abyssal comb jelly, balloon worm, fragile pink sea urchin, giant ostracod, midwater eelpout, predatory tunicate, vampire squid, wigdroid jelly (@montereybayaquarium.org has a great list here: www.montereybayaquarium.org/visit/exhibi...)
Screenshot of Ben Greene posting, “Real talk about doing advocacy without ableism: Why are we still body/disability shaming the far right when deep sea fish names exist?? Why would I fat shame (tired, hurtful, fatphobic) when I could call you a faceless cusk (devastating, confusing, no comeback) We need better insults!!”
May 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Congratulations to Ugg for achieving remarkable new heights in boot ugliness
UGG® Classic Ultra Ultra Convertible Over the Knee Boot (Women) $429.97 (28% off) $600.00 **** Brown Ugg boot with four additional zippered segments to extend the boot upward past the knee. Each segment gets progressively lighter, from brown to tan to orange to yellow to white. The effect is kind of like a candy corn. But uglier.
January 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025
Screenshot of the “customize” window for personalizing a gold fountain pen. The pen cap reads, in a font imitating Western-style calligraphy, “werewolf bar mitzvah”
January 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Guess what’s on my Magic & Witchcraft syllabus next semester
Image of text: "It's gone too far this time,” said a peasant. “All this burning and taxing and now this. I blame you witches. It's got to stop. I know my rights." "What rights are they?" said Granny. "Dunnage, cowhage-in-ordinary, badinage, leftovers, scrommidge, clary and spunt," said the peasant promptly. "And acornage, every other year, and the right to keep two-thirds of a goat on the common. Until he set fire to it. It was a bloody good goat, too."
December 19, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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They call this the Festival of Trees but there’s never any feasting. I think someone should eat the tree that was set up by the local “crisis pregnancy center” though
Seven or eight artificial Christmas trees are lit up in a dim indoor space. They’re colorful.
December 6, 2024 at 11:43 PM