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Prof Christelle Vincent
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Math, cryptography, justice. No alt text = no engagement. Cis het white woman, québécoise, Canadian American, tired.

Profile pic: raised fist; banner pic: masked white woman giving a talk entitled “Introduction to cryptography”
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Because everyone should be able to read this, here it is again with alt text. SCOTUS is a disgraceful institution.
Black text on white: Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Kagan and Justice Jackson join, dissenting from the denial of application for stay and denial of certiorari. Take out your phone, go to the clock app, and find the stopwatch. Click start. Now watch the seconds as they climb. Three seconds come and go in a blink. At the thirty-second mark, your mind starts to wander. One minute passes, and you begin to think that this is taking a long time. Two... three .... The clock ticks on. Then, finally, you make it to four minutes. Hit stop. Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating. You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe. That is what awaits Anthony Boyd tonight. For two to four minutes, Boyd will remain conscious while the State of Alabama kills him in this way. When the gas starts flow-ing, he will immediately convulse. He will gasp for air. And… (text continues in next image) Black text on white, continuing from previous image: …he will thrash violently against the restraints holding him in place as he experiences this intense psychological torment until he finally loses consciousness. Just short of twenty minutes later, Boyd will be declared dead. Boyd asks for the barest form of mercy: to die by firing squad, which would kill him in seconds, rather than by a torturous suffocation lasting up to four minutes. The Constitution would grant him that grace. My colleagues do not. This Court thus turns its back on Boyd and on the Eighth Amendment's guarantee against cruel and unusual punish-ment. Because the Court should have instead granted a stay of execution and Boyd's petition for certiorari, I respectfully dissent.
October 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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My tropical life: there is so much beauty here, but one of my favorite little things is how beautiful the wild chickens are
A roster whose body is almost entirely white, with a black and green tail. The background is the outdoor dining room of a pizza place on Moorea. A roster that is almost entirely black, with a bit of green highlights on his belly and tail. The background is some grass near the university parking lot. A roster with more classical plumage: orange and white neck, black front of the body, orange back of the body and wings and black tail. The background is a yard with a fruiting tree and a flowering bush. A black mama hen with two dark chicks, with dark brown feathers but also kind of white dots, and two light chicks, with yellow heads and white bodies. The background is some grass and a utility pole near the research building at the university.
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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I put an empty box down so I’m able to confirm: the cat is a cat!
A striped orange cat sits in a cardboard box.
October 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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We got a cat carrier to take the cat to the vet and so far cat carrier training is going well! (He went in there on his own after getting treats in there twice.)
A striped orange cat lies in a small open blue cat carrier with a paw print motif and holding his pink cat toy in his front paws. It’s kind of a mess behind him, oof.
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Doing the thing where he’ll only eat if I’m petting him
A striped orange cat eats dry food from a bowl while a hand (mine) scratches his shoulders.
October 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Cat is up for adoption!
Facebook post in the SPAP Polynésie group reading “A adopter : Tigrou le chouchou. Ce chadolescent est un vrai loveur !! Laissé derrière lors d'un déménagement (encore et toujours...) ce minou cherche le contact humain. Tigrou est super câlin et adore être dans les bras !! Il vient quand on l'appelle et ronronne dès qu'on lui parle. Il est à l'aise également avec les enfants ! Ça serait un crime de laisser un chat aussi aimant et câlin dehors.” followed by contact information and four adorable photos of an orange striped cat being adorable.
October 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Also this meme always makes me laugh
A post that begins with black text on white reading “today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you” followed by an ad whose copy reads “buy now hummus and a wow extra large falafel meal for two” The ad has pictures of hummus, falafel, French fries and soft drinks. (The text is meant to be read to the tune of Wonderwall by Oasis.)
October 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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The cutest cat has adopted us!
Orange striped cat lying on an unmade bed. The cat looks so cozy and comfy. The same orange cat on the same bed, but now with a hand (mine) scratching his head. The cat is curled up and again looks so comfy.
October 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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2016: the flannel thong 😂
Reddit post in r/mildlyinteresting, featuring a picture of the box of a flannel thong (showing a woman wearing a flannel thong in black and white, and which reads “Vermont’s secret Vong”) and the title Vermont’s finest flannel thong, for staying as warm as possible wearing as little as possible
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Gubernatorial debate in 2018
A man and a woman walk away from a gazebo with two onlookers. The man is wearing a jacket and tie with a tastefully plaid shirt. The woman is wearing a plaid button down and a jeans jacket. The caption reads “Vermont Republican incumbent Governor Phil Scott, right, and Democratic challenger Christine Hallquist, center, walk from a gazebo following a debate at the Tunbridge World’s Fair in Tunbridge Vermont”
October 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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To wit, a Vermont state representative at work:
Picture of an older white women wearing red and black plaid but also jewelry (earrings, several brackets and at least one ring). The caption reads “Representative Mary Howard, D-Rutland, listens as the House General and Housing Committee discusses Governor Phil Scott’s budget proposal at the Statehouse in Montpelier on February 22, 2023. File photo by Glenn Russell slash VT Digger.”
October 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I just saw this on an official government website, I don’t even have words. This is so far beyond the pale.

www.aphis.usda.gov
Black text on blue background, following an “information” symbol (the letter i in a circle), reading: The Radical Left Democrats shutdown the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.
October 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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I’m sorry I’m going to be late to this remote meeting…
Close up of a striped orange cat getting pets on his head from a white person’s hand. The cat’s eyes are closed with contentment.
October 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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I have officially signed up to sponsor the cat for adoption, and given him his adoption name: Tigré

(Humane society asked if we had any photos of the cat… hmmm, yeah, I might have one or two… 😂)
A very cute striped orange cut lies on a white tile floor
September 30, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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After kicking him out of the house before going to sleep (at great emotional cost to myself!!) guess who was in my kitchen this morning?

(We left one (1!!) window open upstairs by mistake and apparently this good sir let himself in!)
A striped orange cat lays on the ground clutching a cat toy on a string.
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Tonight the cat came and meowed for dinner then left, and I was low key offended, but now he’s back for pets and cuddles and sleeping on our couch 😻
An orange striped cat lies on the arm of a couch with closed eyes, looking comfy cozy. In the foreground there is a white man’s foot and a stuffed purple Pokémon (unfortunately I don’t know its name).
September 29, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Tonight the cat was all cuddled up on the couch but it was time for us to go to sleep and kick him out 😭 It was so heartbreaking and hard, this cat wants a family and wants to live inside 😭 So I finally contacted the humane society for help finding him a home, and we will foster him in the meantime
A striped orange cat is laying on a couch, absolutely luxuriating in the pets he is receiving from a white person (me) holding the camera.
September 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Today’s French pastry: the cruffin (which I can only imagine is a portmanteau of croissant and muffin) This one has Nutella in the middle 😋
A white person’s hand holds a pastry over a white plate. A couple bites have been taken out of it, so it looks like a delicious blob, with Nutella in the middle. In the background are a laptop, a pen, and a pencil case.
September 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Cat immediately lost/got rid of his flea collar 😭 but at least he likes his toy
An orange cat plays with a pink and white cat toy on a string. The image is blurry because the cat is moving so fast! The cat no longer has a flea collar.
September 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Cat is a bit upset with us for putting on a flea collar, but hopefully the food will help him forgive us
Orange cat eating from a plastic bowl right outside a front door (shoes are piled on in the foreground). The cat sports a red flea collar.
September 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Did not find a scratching post or flea collar at the Carrefour but they did have food!
A small orange cat eats cat food out of a clear plastic bowl. There is also water next to him. The cat is just outside the front door of a house, there is a fake plant and some shoes behind him.
September 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Husband spoke to a neighbor and the cat was left behind when someone left our housing complex recently 😭😭

So now we have cat food, flea treatments and a scratching post on our shopping list
A white person’s hand (mine) scratches an adolescent orange cat. The cat is facing the camera.
September 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Today we closed the door so the cat couldn’t come in but he came in through the window. So we had to close the window 😭
A white man inside a kitchen smiles widely at a cat outside the window. The cat is a small, adolescent aged orange cat.
September 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Cat came back and let itself in the house
A small, maybe adolescent sized, orange cat on a white tiled floor. There are shoes strewn about.
September 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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They are finally teaching my child proper math (numbers start at 0)
Handwritten numbers, both in numbers and spelled out, in French. The first page has zero through nine, the next ten through nineteen, and the last has the numbers twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred and one thousand.
September 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM