bluebelletrist 📘🖌️
@bluebelletrist.bsky.social
Writer, former prof, sometime forest witch. Work in Blue Earth Review, Belletrist, Sierra Nevada Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, AJC. Books, coffee, & dogs.
Democrat, not a felon.
Democrat, not a felon.
Pinned
I think we're all feeling a bit like this little Jesus abandoned in the rec center parking lot.
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I talk to my students about this on the first day, and use it to discuss why they are in college in the first place.
December 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I talk to my students about this on the first day, and use it to discuss why they are in college in the first place.
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Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism"
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...
A low point
Things will get better....I think
billmckibben.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism"
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...
Dr. McMillan Cottom telling the truth.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dr. McMillan Cottom telling the truth.
Academic job-seeking 101: if you do not submit ALL the requested materials, your app will never make it to the committee. (There are no academic jobs now, so moot point, but still).
December 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Academic job-seeking 101: if you do not submit ALL the requested materials, your app will never make it to the committee. (There are no academic jobs now, so moot point, but still).
May everyone have a restful night like Poppy.
December 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
May everyone have a restful night like Poppy.
No man in a relationship should ask his person "what do you want for Christmas?" If you cannot make the effort to figure it out, why even bother?
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
No man in a relationship should ask his person "what do you want for Christmas?" If you cannot make the effort to figure it out, why even bother?
I've never understood why people stir scrambled eggs into overcooked little shreds. Big pillows are so much better!
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I've never understood why people stir scrambled eggs into overcooked little shreds. Big pillows are so much better!
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LEFT: Heartfelt condolences on Rob Reiner's death from a kind, stable person who should have been president.
RIGHT: Obscene gloating over Rob Reiner's death from a delusional sociopath who never should have been president.
RIGHT: Obscene gloating over Rob Reiner's death from a delusional sociopath who never should have been president.
December 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
LEFT: Heartfelt condolences on Rob Reiner's death from a kind, stable person who should have been president.
RIGHT: Obscene gloating over Rob Reiner's death from a delusional sociopath who never should have been president.
RIGHT: Obscene gloating over Rob Reiner's death from a delusional sociopath who never should have been president.
Decided to make it home before a snowstorm, so drove 17 hours through 6 states. Do NOT recommend 😭
December 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Decided to make it home before a snowstorm, so drove 17 hours through 6 states. Do NOT recommend 😭
As a naturalized citizen, my heart goes out to these people. It takes *years* to get to the ceremony. Fuck this entire administration and their racism.
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
As a naturalized citizen, my heart goes out to these people. It takes *years* to get to the ceremony. Fuck this entire administration and their racism.
It's going to take 20 fucking years to get back to where we were before this regime.
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
It's going to take 20 fucking years to get back to where we were before this regime.
I had to go to the mall and omg, Iowa people are the worst. Iowa nice? Nopenopenopenope.
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I had to go to the mall and omg, Iowa people are the worst. Iowa nice? Nopenopenopenope.
Fucking clowns.
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Fucking clowns.
Poppy says it's still snowing!
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Poppy says it's still snowing!
Southern friends, please note this pretend mac & cheese atrocity. Also, those rolls 😱
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Southern friends, please note this pretend mac & cheese atrocity. Also, those rolls 😱
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:
dolphin
antelope
buffalo
red fox
barred owl
dolphin
antelope
buffalo
red fox
barred owl
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:
dolphin
antelope
buffalo
red fox
barred owl
dolphin
antelope
buffalo
red fox
barred owl
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Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?
Never show respect for those who don't respect you.
November 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Never show respect for those who don't respect you.
It is gonna snow for 36 hours with 25+ mph wind. Anywhere from 10--16 inches of snow expected. I live in the polar version of hell.
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It is gonna snow for 36 hours with 25+ mph wind. Anywhere from 10--16 inches of snow expected. I live in the polar version of hell.
Breakfast of champions. My chocolate pie (new recipe) was an epic fail, but this is always perfection. (Except for the time I forgot the sugar.)
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Breakfast of champions. My chocolate pie (new recipe) was an epic fail, but this is always perfection. (Except for the time I forgot the sugar.)
I feel okay about this. Growing up with parents who didn't entertain/socialize, I always feel like I'm behind.
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I feel okay about this. Growing up with parents who didn't entertain/socialize, I always feel like I'm behind.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Jake is watching all the extra house-cleaning and other prep and he is worried.
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Jake is watching all the extra house-cleaning and other prep and he is worried.
Why not be whimsical?
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Why not be whimsical?
This. The rage I feel when those things start up all around me...
You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This. The rage I feel when those things start up all around me...