It seems to be an article of faith among a lot of people these days that the natural and preferred state of humanity is an endless series of armed autarkic ethnostates enforcing their borders with paranoid, homicidal zeal. Allow me to offer a rejoinder: Fuck that. It sucks and we’re not gonna.

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I hope so, though in a just world all of those men would be telling this to the cellmates, rather than a job interviewers.

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The number of actions that the iOS Bluesky app interprets as a request to scroll back up to the top of my timeline and refresh it so that I can never again find the post I was trying to interact with is almost refreshing: yes, app, I _should_ feel less of a sense of attachment to these things.

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Not only did I have the Riker beard, I started stepping over the backs of chairs for a while, and doing the "leaning on my knee" thing, while teaching classes. Occasionally, someone would notice and giggle, and that made it worth it.

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The Islamophobia being peddled by Republicans & some “Democrats” in Michigan is unconscionable. Purposefully breaking down public trust & social cohesion in order to mislead & misdirect voters is deeply immoral.

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