Renee
reneemc.bsky.social
Renee
@reneemc.bsky.social
Galaxy brain who just wants to brunch
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I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Is the empire striking back? Yes.
But it is doing so out of desperation."

lithub.com/feeling-deep...
Feeling Deep Sadness and Anger For Gaza
I feel sad about Gaza. This is not a profound thought, nor an unusual one—especially in South Africa, where I’ve been working lately—or even a new thought for me. But it is an honest thought. I fee…
lithub.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Actual search in my field: Global Ancient Art, Architecture, and Material Culture, Assistant Professor (TT) Africa, Asia, the Americas, or Europe | Bronze Age (ca. 3000-1200 BCE) to around 400-600 CE or, in the case of a scholar of pre-Columbian art, up to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
I have so much empathy and solidarity for those struggling with the painful and structurally unjust academic labor market, but this racial grievance shit is simply not the way.
December 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Wait…omg…this entire anecdote I mean argument is premised on the experience of someone who DIDN’T EVEN ATTEMPT THE MARKET????

I literally applied to hundreds of jobs over seven or eight years before getting a TT job offer.
December 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I don't know about academia anymore but when I was on the job market one of my friends got a pretty good job and the white guy didn't and they opened a second line so they could also hire the white guy.
December 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Dems are like "it's with a heavy heart that I voted to codify trans segregation, but it had to be done so Pete Hegseth can keep murdering fisherman in South America."
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Gillibrand and Schumer must resign. We cannot wait for primary challenges that are years away. We need to start organizing for their resignations.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The list of things we are supposed to quit grows longer every day:

Alcohol
Sugar
Milk
Driving
Napping
Carbs

The only replacements being offered are weed, pharmaceutical and xenophobia/racism.
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
Gov. JB Pritzker signs 'right-to-die' legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
www.nprillinois.org
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I will say it once again: Mr. Rogers was talking to children when he said "look for the helpers." If you're an adult, you're the helper you're looking for.
December 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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My most fundamental belief is that we do not have to live like this.
December 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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linkedin job history

Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
December 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The world would be better off if the Palestinians just didn't exist, says former president of the United States
December 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Well, my cat died.
December 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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my apologies, he is actually on 3 blankeys.
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I started a post about how much I hated AI but then my cat who hasn't been well started eating and I gave her the meds she needs without drama and that's way more important.
December 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?

That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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just got a job as a disgruntled employee
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
In case anyone was wondering we are at day 8 of Vicky won’t take her pills and everyday I’m like ”so grateful for this medication that saves my cats lice” and then I drink 9 whiskies.
December 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This morning, upon being informed we overslept by 90 minutes, I asked if it was a school day.
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM