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very small megafauna, very big potato. a luta continua. organizer @MimbresSchool. black studies at warwick. they/ele

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Joined May 2019
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i am just here to complain
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Some of my favorite poems are from the Song Dynasty. like half of them are written by bored bureaucrats and they’re all like Stacks of paper on a desk Why I wish to go be with the foxes of the field I want to cut the magistrates throat
reading anna kerenina for the first time and at the risk of making a ridiculously facile observation it's crazy the extent to which a nineteenth century russian novel is basically just riffing on all the same bullshit we're talking about in 2026
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OF COURSE HE IS THROWING HANDS… WHO DID YOU EXPECT? WILLEM DAFRIEND?
Willem Dafoe for Outlander Magazine (2026)
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Beaucoup de respect pour Bourdieu mais j'aurais moi aussi pu écrire que les classes sociales tendent à se reproduire si j'avais été le 7ème mec au monde à faire de la socio
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having failed to explain the academic conference to philomathes:
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nodding my head at saint augustine. just makes sense
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any mathematicians who can solve this equation
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what does it mean to divide practice by experience
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i mean the real trouble is this is no consolation. our students get good degrees from a respected institution, but that's not the same as harvard's imprimatur, which can be earned apparently by doing very little at all
looking forward to telling my students who are handling a 4-books-plus-articles/week reading load how superior they are to their peers at harvard
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just not possible to compete with an institution where the bit that matters is getting in
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looking forward to telling my students who are handling a 4-books-plus-articles/week reading load how superior they are to their peers at harvard
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finally mimbres gets some competition
Want to start a reading series where the point is that is not chic, nor edgy, nor sexy, it is a reading series for weird losers by weird losers
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turns out spending four consecutive hours teaching how racialist theories work claim by claim, move by rhetorical move, is fucking soul crushing
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how bad can next week be
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embarrassing for me that i would wear this outfit
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Meu pai perdoou a ex dele quando ela tentou matar ele, mas terminou imediatamente no dia que ela falou mal do Lula
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LULA
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assigning my students romanus pontifex 1455 so i never have to read another paragraph-long sentence
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He does not know how the chicago manual of style works
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why do people assume the inclusion of a text on a syllabus is necessarily laudatory
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