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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓

@surliertexan.bsky.social

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Taking the scenic route through life. Formerly: PhD in the history of science @Harvard. Currently: Foraging in the woods, tarot, & other historical shenanigans Tarot readings, historical research, writing & editing, tutoring, & consulting at drturners.com

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · Feb 4

Knowledge-keeping is subversive. Remembering the stories they want to rewrite, to take from schools, to make dangerous to say, keeps our ancestors’ struggles alive. Keeping those embers lit so they can be blown back to life with a breath is power. Memory is power.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 4h

That funny. I did a pull about you yesterday evening and it said the same thing.

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12h

Jealous

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 15h

Absolutely ZERO CHANCE of affording Sarah Lawrence otherwise lmao

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, I pretty much had a free ride plus special permission to work on campus 20 hours a week as an undergrad.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 15h

Tie at least a dozen useful knots.

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 15h

Who amongst us

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 16h

Worth a listen!

I was a Pell Grant recipient and this here is an affordable-higher-ed stan account.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

Listen to this episode if only for the discussion about the world-altering value of affordable higher education and Pell grants: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

'Dopesick' Writer Returns To Her 'Fractured' Hometown

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 21h

Like you know who goes to great lengths to NOT smell like human funk from 800 yards? Hunters.

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 21h

Prelapsarianism, except before the conquest

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 21h

Like who knows how this came about historically, but what if once upon a time native islanders actually bathed but Roman conquerors made fun of them for not bathing the same way, &, being the contrary but bootlicking fucks they are, they leaned allllll the way in but accepted the "devolved" premise

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 22h

Which is to say it's a culturally unique Britishism that projects its own nastiness onto a made up regressive Other in order to then fetishize and justify it as "authentic" and "natural."

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 22h

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this is a particularly gross manifestation of the noble savage imaginary that fantasizes historical people as upright, talking animals when in reality they tended to take pretty damn good care of things, hygienically and otherwise.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 23h

I can't stop looking at this

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

It's just boring

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

The timeline's gonna be extra tedious today huh

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1d

This post = Γκει

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 2d

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 2d

They were so disapproving of poor Nip lol

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 2d

There's an alcoholic bubble tea place I can get delivery from on Uber Eats, and I ALMOST want to take back all the bad things I've said about this extremely regressive country. Almost.

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 2d

There are so many influencers and politicians in the US who need this as a public service

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 2d

THANK YOU

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 3d

She's the head of ICE and an Ice Queen is a frigid bitch so

🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 3d

Ice Qween

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 3d

This test is also BULLSHIT

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