Reposted by Rachel McKinney
Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
February 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?
the baby bunny eater
August 1, 2023 at 11:01 AM
the baby bunny eater
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
What is insanely Kafkaesque about the A&M suspension of a health professor is that she was publicly censored and suspended within hours - but no-one can specify what comments she made that were offensive or wrong. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/
July 25, 2023 at 2:16 PM
What is insanely Kafkaesque about the A&M suspension of a health professor is that she was publicly censored and suspended within hours - but no-one can specify what comments she made that were offensive or wrong. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/
incredible
twitter sign change isn’t going well. Building management called cops
July 24, 2023 at 11:43 PM
incredible
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
It’ll help me finally quit Twitter when the icon on my phone becomes the international symbol for “don’t do this”
July 24, 2023 at 11:42 AM
It’ll help me finally quit Twitter when the icon on my phone becomes the international symbol for “don’t do this”
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
https://programmablemutter.substack.com/p/fully-automated-data-driven-authoritarianism?sd=pf Fully automated data driven authoritarianism ain't what it's cracked up to be.
July 24, 2023 at 8:59 AM
https://programmablemutter.substack.com/p/fully-automated-data-driven-authoritarianism?sd=pf Fully automated data driven authoritarianism ain't what it's cracked up to be.
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
How are there not 10 seasons and 3 spin-offs of COUPLES THERAPY?
July 13, 2023 at 10:32 PM
How are there not 10 seasons and 3 spin-offs of COUPLES THERAPY?
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
when you’re a kaiju at work and you dissociate for a sec
May 29, 2023 at 3:06 AM
when you’re a kaiju at work and you dissociate for a sec
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
this piece is definitely on to something https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/10/christine-emba-masculinity-new-model/
July 10, 2023 at 5:46 PM
this piece is definitely on to something https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/10/christine-emba-masculinity-new-model/
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
Why aren’t we calling him Myannmark Zuckerberg
July 8, 2023 at 1:06 AM
Why aren’t we calling him Myannmark Zuckerberg
Sous les pavés, la gabe!
July 8, 2023 at 12:59 AM
Sous les pavés, la gabe!
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
Wait, holy shit.
(Via Short Circuit IJ.)
(Via Short Circuit IJ.)
July 7, 2023 at 10:00 PM
Wait, holy shit.
(Via Short Circuit IJ.)
(Via Short Circuit IJ.)
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
We have not responded to any major disaster in the United States for almost two decades without twitter and I do not want to know how a response would go without it.
July 1, 2023 at 11:46 PM
We have not responded to any major disaster in the United States for almost two decades without twitter and I do not want to know how a response would go without it.
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
"If sustained, this onslaught threatens the very survival of meaningful higher education in the state, with dire implications for the entire country."
Yesterday, on the eve of DeSantis's campaign launch, AAUP's special committee on Florida [on which I serve] issued a preliminary report: "an ideologically driven assault unparalleled in US history" https://www.aaup.org/news/florida-higher-ed-faces-ideologically-driven-assault-unparalleled-us-history
May 25, 2023 at 2:34 PM
"If sustained, this onslaught threatens the very survival of meaningful higher education in the state, with dire implications for the entire country."
This is not a serious document.
May 26, 2023 at 8:24 PM
This is not a serious document.
Reposted by Rachel McKinney
Umar Khalid (writing from prison) on Ranajit Guha: "At a time when the discipline of history itself is under probably the most crippling siege in our country, it is imperative that we commemorate one of its finest students."
A people’s historian
A tribute to the recently deceased Ranajit Guha, one of the most magnificent historians of modern India who will be remembered for pioneering what came to be known as subaltern studies
www.telegraphindia.com
May 14, 2023 at 11:08 AM
Umar Khalid (writing from prison) on Ranajit Guha: "At a time when the discipline of history itself is under probably the most crippling siege in our country, it is imperative that we commemorate one of its finest students."