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Jillian

@nogoodwyfe.bsky.social

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Chaotic good w/ redneck roots. Medievalist/teacher/PhD candidate/worker/overexplainer/aspiring pícara. Personal account; loud opinions (which is all of them) my own. she/her 📍 North Carolina (in the woods somewhere instead of doing my work)

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · Nov 24

i patently refuse to intro myself or seek followers who I find can be more trouble than they're worth but if you're here know I post abt all of the following:
- snark re: everyday ableism & my grad program
- local NC & Norcal concerns
- photography & art
- naturalist stuff
- medieval studies (rare)

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · Oct 24

There's nothing in the Constitution that says a dog can't be President

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 18h

I love building things. Taking an idea from spark through execution, putting something real into the world, whether it's a book or a painting or a garden.

What it means to live well is always personal but I don't get how chasing money as its own goal is real.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 18h

I don't need expensive cars or a big house.

I need experiences and time with my loved ones. That, to me, is a mark of living well.

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 16h

I was using the mortality data last night for the social sciences unit I always teach & getting an ominous feeling about data delays since 2023 and a vague site banner about President Trump’s Executive Orders but didn’t imagine it was being eviscerated at that literal moment 😵‍💫

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 16h

“each can contains charcoal residue from at least 6 endangered species of butterfly and formerly diverse forest plants from centuries of indigenous stewardship!” “taste the heady spice of the highest carbon footprint meat that is ALSO actively reducing the world’s carbon absorption capacity!”

Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 18h

the fact that rate my professor—violently commodifying and dehumanizing instructors w/o their consent or ability to opt out— is the ‘benign’ comparison is really a sign of how deep we are into the danger zone

Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 18h

I enjoyed speaking with Juliet Schulman-Hall for @masslive.bsky.social about how the Professor Watchlist and Canary Mission get us farther from, not closer to, a free exchange of ideas on campus. www.masslive.com/news/2025/10...

This isn’t Rate My Professor: Explosion in watchlists brings new threats to academics

Online commentary used to be limited to sites like "Rate My Professor," which jokingly rated how "hot" a professor was. It's changed drastically.

www.masslive.com

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 18h

like replacing bad bunny with a senator’s cousin who goes to a local karaoke bar twice a year

Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 18h

no, of course not, that’s transparently obvious, but the academic equivalent is often that plus the mediocre white guy they select like hasn’t even stepped foot in a university since his parents paid for him to binge drink his way thru a lesser Ivy 30 years ago

Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 18h

usually when I cave & eat beef mostly out of a need for heme iron I soothe myself that at least it’s almost certainly US beef &
& while the footprint is bad it’s not like slash-and-burn-rainforest beef but I accidentally bought a can of food lion corned beef hash that is openly a product of Brazil 😭

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 1d

“The compact does require schools not to punish, intimidate or incite violence against conservative ideas.” What you describe as punishment, intimidation, or incitement of violence is most often “Hmmm, tell me how you got there. Where does the text support that claim?”

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 1d

My only quibble here is Lee Greenwood at least has experience in the vague same field of music

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Gabe Burgess @gabeburgess.bsky.social · 2d

Well he's no Lee Greenwood - Mike Johnson

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 2d

luckily I am too poor to go to the brain doctor and thus cannot be diagnosed with anything else, checkmate mental illness 😌

Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 2d

iiiiinteresting venn diagram between ‘things I have been characterizing as what happens to you as you become a full adult’ and ‘things described as symptoms of CPTSD in this academic research I just started reading’ lol

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 2d

this sucks ass, man. every day is such a huge bummer now. can somebody deal with the problems please

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 3d

people do not make $60k+ unless they are selling something unethical. that's not real. and you can't talk to older generations about this bc they're all residually making at least that much and they cannot comprehend that society no longer exists

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 3d

you know how occupational/earnings by degree field numbers have a “over 25” breakout so you see the “non-entry” salaries? at this point we need an inverse category, “only what they’re paying people born in 1990 or later.” these income ranges might as well be fictional when they include Gen x/boomers

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Erin Siegal McIntyre @esmcintyre.bsky.social · 5d

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel
A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 5d

help a white boy in baggy jorts and chunky sneakers just skateboarded past me too fast and too close what year is it

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 8d

not a good lol at all mind you but an lol none-the-less

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 8d

my hell no on installing surveillance devices just keeps getting more emphatic

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

Ring founder: “I’m focused on: How can I get the highest density of camera coverage in a neighborhood matched with AI to make neighborhoods safer?…It’s not just hard crime.”

Just put this guy and the Flock guy on a deserted island together so they can surveill each other until the end times.

Ring founder 'backs the blue,' says AI is helping Amazon-owned doorbell unit fight crime

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to the company he founded in April to lead the business, which is part of Amazon's devices division.

www.cnbc.com

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 8d

*arguing not fighting I mean, I should not be trying to articulate things while brain fogged from cramps 🤦🏼‍♀️

Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 8d

no disagreement from me but wanted to note that this conversation started in the small humanities academia corner of bsky where we are all cursed to enjoy picking apart the semantics & symbolism of things that are not recent :) so more that than fighting! anyway I too wish everyone a good weekend

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like it all comes down to a shared experience of mom walks into the kitchen in the morning and you see her making a batter and the same batter could be either pancakes or waffles so the opposition is implied bc only one gets made. now I am also thinking too much about this lol

Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 8d

so the regional arepas types would kind of work but they’re both a main meal component so maybe in that sense not? I think the closest parallels would have to be opposing two side dishes or even condiments

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