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Megan S.

@allgreek2me.bsky.social

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I knit, I spin, I devour SF/F. I crochet (badly). Slogging through a Ph.D. Lifetime higher ed staffer - beware: here be OPINIONS. Two things: 1.) Be nice or leave. 2.) The institution will never love you back.

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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · Jul 15

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.” Will Durant, 1944.

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 4d

Wait, *specifically* for fondue? Is there a huge fondue-culture movement in the Southwest or something?!

(maybe some enterprising person found a way to increase their profit margin on stew beef 😂. My local grocery will probably take notes.)

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations!

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 6d

Have you been playing with the lathe of heaven again?

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 11d

“I am the lizard queen!”

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 11d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 11d

Monster!

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 12d

Where do mirror horrors fall on this scale?

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 16d

The level of churn in my particular higher ed institution is so awful to watch. As the experienced admin staff get purged or retire, so much institutional knowledge (and professionalism) is being lost. Admins will joke that staff are the wheels on the bus; what happens when the tires shred off?

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 16d

For me, it is one of the things I love most about your writing.

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 16d

Your rhyme, meter, and scansion are (as always) impeccable.

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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 16d

I have this issue, and today it is the theme music to Super Mario Bros - and I haven't even heard that since I was a kid!

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 17d

Good luck, horf!

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 18d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 19d

My high school chemistry teacher used to play episodes for us on days he didn’t feel like doing much 🤣

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 19d

Holy crap! Thanks for this.

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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 19d

I’m so glad she is home and recovering!

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 20d

God, yes. My second kid had periodic high fevers that were terrifying *with* fever reducing meds. I remember holding him in the middle of one night and thinking “if this were ‘back when’ I don’t think he’d live.” We take miracles for granted.

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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 20d

My google skills are failing me, could you spare a name or link so I can look this up? I need a rabbithole to climb down.

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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 24d

YES. But if I so much as mention I have a hangnail I will get 63 texts and ten calls a day to make sure I’m not dying.

It’s great.

Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 26d

Does that mean that sunscreen or iv clothing (as prophylaxis, not as treatment for an active flare) would conceivably help? [asking because I have weird issues that seem a bit like this. Maybe I need to up my sunscreen game]

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Megan S. @allgreek2me.bsky.social · 26d

Me trying to make myself do anything involving my PhD right now