Obviously I understand the no sick day struggle, but this is still very much an ethos when people have some agency.

Working while sick is something I’ll never understand, I’ll never be Protestant enough for that work ethic

One of *my extras, not sure where that extra word came from.

My favorite part was when he said he’d put one on, started rummaging through his bag, didn’t have one, AND THEN refused one when I offered one of my friends extras. All that for what?

Half a decade into COVID plus a swirling matrix of other highly communicable illnesses and masking in crowded public spaces for some is still contingent upon whether people are symptomatic or know/believe themselves to be ill.

Eyebrows are thick as hell but that boy is immaculately groomed and clean shaven. They’re not slick AT ALL

I can’t get sew ins because I would turn into an absolute my little pony menace with that hair

Of course I absolutely will, thank you so much for your warmth and encouragement. It’s felt and deeply appreciated.

Saw the IG post of someone who went to a museum of Danish resistance. Their last slide was about how, in the election immediately after WWII, most Danes voted the way they had before the war. Because of course they did.

We’re figuring out next steps for collective action, but perhaps consider sending an email to ACSA board leadership, which they even suggested in their statement (which was released without informing the journal editorial board)

www.acsa-arch.org/acsa-message...

It’s a disappointing cancellation, they always are. The ACSA board has been patronizing & awful to us as issue editors from before our CfP went live. And they’ve trampled on the dignity and academic freedoms of the journal board who endured awful treatment because they deeply believed in the issue.

We make constant historical references to terrifying authoritarian times, but persistently refuse the lesson that the glimpse of violent illiberalism is the moment to double down on protecting our collective freedoms. Useful, I guess, to remember some people have never had skin in any game, ever.

I’m unsurprised but astounded by the eagerness with which universities have dispensed of diversity and inclusion “commitments” and their belief that abandoning brief attention to racial justice will make their jobs easier. The Venn diagram overlap of cowardice and monstrosity in times like these.

Not a thought!

www.theguardian.com/world/2010/m...

Mnangagwa doesn’t have the same energy for lip service to Palestine as Mugabe’s performances of revolutionary discourse. This diplomatic move would effectively be full normalization. No more state investment in the patriotic histories of struggle (though compensating whites would’ve told you that).

Superficially, the African Union has called for an end to normalization with and prosecution of Israel because of its genocidal violence in Gaza and withdrew observer status AT THE SAME TIME that too many of these states maintain strategic relations with Israel

www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...

It supported Rhodesian and apartheid South African militaries with both tactics and weaponry, further alienating it from the continent because of support for liberation struggles AND decolonization era solidarities with the Palestinian struggle.

Being immiserated by sanctions and climate change-induced drought hasn’t been bad enough: now the state is opening our lands to the same country that sold weapons to the Rhodesians when we fought for our independence.

I’m so beyond unbelievably sad and angry about this.

This is a photo from the Twitter of Ronny Levi Musan, the Zim ambassador to Israel. I can safely assume he supports whatever Trump is doing with the Afrikaners, meaning a dispositional opposition to land reform — a support to keep paying back white farmers whose land was taken and reverse gains made