Having gone to a women's college, I've come around on "alums." (I like "alumnae" too, but feel "alums" is more neutral without defaulting to masculine.)
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Having gone to a women's college, I've come around on "alums." (I like "alumnae" too, but feel "alums" is more neutral without defaulting to masculine.)
But no, apparently there is a celebration of Dickinson's 195th birthday that is simultaneously a celebration of Austen's 250th birthday. Quite confusing. www.folger.edu/whats-on/the...
The Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute: Celebrating Jane Austen at 250 | Folger Shakespeare Library
This year, our annual birthday tribute to American poet Emily Dickinson will also honor English novelist Jane Austen on her 250th birthday, with noted scholar Martha Nell Smith and romance author Nikk...
www.folger.edu
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
But no, apparently there is a celebration of Dickinson's 195th birthday that is simultaneously a celebration of Austen's 250th birthday. Quite confusing. www.folger.edu/whats-on/the...
Lol not a surprise that the replies on this text-based social media site are on the side of reading over video.
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Lol not a surprise that the replies on this text-based social media site are on the side of reading over video.
Yes! If something as straightforwardly non-violent as, e.g. occupying a campus building to demand your university divests from a genocide is painted as "violent protest," then non-violence feels like a synonym for easily-ignored and ineffective. We shouldn't accept that framing.
September 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Yes! If something as straightforwardly non-violent as, e.g. occupying a campus building to demand your university divests from a genocide is painted as "violent protest," then non-violence feels like a synonym for easily-ignored and ineffective. We shouldn't accept that framing.
You in ~50 years? (my dad and his cat.)
February 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
You in ~50 years? (my dad and his cat.)
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Both immigration bills will lead to many more people being detained without access to bond and will have a disproportionate impact on Black and brown communities as well as survivors of domestic violence.
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January 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Both immigration bills will lead to many more people being detained without access to bond and will have a disproportionate impact on Black and brown communities as well as survivors of domestic violence.
🚨Take action: contact your representatives regarding H.R.30: www.tahirih.org/action_alert...
🚨Take action: contact your representatives regarding H.R.30: www.tahirih.org/action_alert...
And, if some federal bureaucrat were to decide, "hey, maybe it's a bad look for us to deport this kid from a war-torn nation merely for taking a snickers bar," Ken Fucking Paxton could sue the federal government for not being inhumane enough.
January 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
And, if some federal bureaucrat were to decide, "hey, maybe it's a bad look for us to deport this kid from a war-torn nation merely for taking a snickers bar," Ken Fucking Paxton could sue the federal government for not being inhumane enough.
Politicians presumably support this bill as an easy "win" on immigration, because it's targeting "criminals," but it's so broad that, as the article says, it could be used to deport a refugee kid who steals a candy bar.
January 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Politicians presumably support this bill as an easy "win" on immigration, because it's targeting "criminals," but it's so broad that, as the article says, it could be used to deport a refugee kid who steals a candy bar.
I feel like it might actually be easier for Nanny Ogg? For Granny it would be an incredible feat of willpower, of which she's obviously capable, but for Nanny? It'd somehow turn out that loudly singing a dirty song off-key was ancient folk magic that protected her from temptation.
December 24, 2024 at 4:06 PM
I feel like it might actually be easier for Nanny Ogg? For Granny it would be an incredible feat of willpower, of which she's obviously capable, but for Nanny? It'd somehow turn out that loudly singing a dirty song off-key was ancient folk magic that protected her from temptation.
I didn't even notice this one!
![Picture of the duolingo owl facing away, with its small, shiny butt facing you, right below the avatars of me and one of my duolingo "friends."
Text says:
[Crossed out] was your bestie of the year! Together you slayed 16 Friend Quests.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zhjjmb7wzvon5njm5a7wq2wl/bafkreiclpivz6ajpvfebbedmz4qrwzne6b4k6lk6zizcg3p6pqwv6lvbrq@jpeg)
December 3, 2024 at 3:11 AM
I didn't even notice this one!
tangentially, I just now learned that aliyah (the creepy "israel is your homeland and you should move here" thing that birthright folks push) and Aaliyah the singer are not spelled the same.
October 8, 2023 at 9:24 PM
tangentially, I just now learned that aliyah (the creepy "israel is your homeland and you should move here" thing that birthright folks push) and Aaliyah the singer are not spelled the same.