Erin 🍂
@erinpolisci.bsky.social
Future political scientist. Grad student. Occasionally I talk about politics. Mostly I talk about my cats.
Got switched from an RA to a TA for spring for some kind of data science (or maybe machine learning? It’s unclear) class and I cannot stress enough how I am the last person in the department that should be assisting in that class. I am full of dread.
December 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Got switched from an RA to a TA for spring for some kind of data science (or maybe machine learning? It’s unclear) class and I cannot stress enough how I am the last person in the department that should be assisting in that class. I am full of dread.
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Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
You know what pisses me off is that pre-Covid Kroger always has sufficient checkouts open for the number of people. Post-Covid it is ALWAYS two open at most. Two days before Christmas? Two. Lines down into the aisles. Exhausted workers. No matter, only gotta pay two of them!
December 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
You know what pisses me off is that pre-Covid Kroger always has sufficient checkouts open for the number of people. Post-Covid it is ALWAYS two open at most. Two days before Christmas? Two. Lines down into the aisles. Exhausted workers. No matter, only gotta pay two of them!
Releasing grades at 8 pm the night before Christmas Eve has got to be one of the most diabolical things a university has ever done.
December 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Releasing grades at 8 pm the night before Christmas Eve has got to be one of the most diabolical things a university has ever done.
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Lol hoo boy do I have a few. When I did my MA at Illinois, I GA'd in the Student Life & Culture Archives--probably the best collection of materials on US higher ed from a student affairs/campus life angle. My job? Process the 100+ cubic feet of a recently-donated national fraternity's archive
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Lol hoo boy do I have a few. When I did my MA at Illinois, I GA'd in the Student Life & Culture Archives--probably the best collection of materials on US higher ed from a student affairs/campus life angle. My job? Process the 100+ cubic feet of a recently-donated national fraternity's archive
Can’t believe in the year 2025 cuisinart still has not made a food processor that’s easy to clean.
December 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Can’t believe in the year 2025 cuisinart still has not made a food processor that’s easy to clean.
I think it’s funny that people like my mom (somewhat dialed in liberal but not online at all) had no idea who Bari Weiss was but know now and are disgusted. That new job is working out great for her!
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I think it’s funny that people like my mom (somewhat dialed in liberal but not online at all) had no idea who Bari Weiss was but know now and are disgusted. That new job is working out great for her!
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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thinking for no reason at all about my very first job, which was at a censored newspaper in Myanmar and seemed very distant from my life and my country
CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social
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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
thinking for no reason at all about my very first job, which was at a censored newspaper in Myanmar and seemed very distant from my life and my country
Bamboo. A renewable resource. Sustainable, unlike my relationship.
December 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Bamboo. A renewable resource. Sustainable, unlike my relationship.
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State TV shit
It's gone. This story is being memory holed as we speak.
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
State TV shit
As a general rule I subscribe to the idea that we shouldn’t make fun of people for things they can’t change HOWEVER that hair on top of that forehead is a choice.
it's unanimous: guys who look like they make you answer a riddle to cross their bridge aren't apologizing
December 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
As a general rule I subscribe to the idea that we shouldn’t make fun of people for things they can’t change HOWEVER that hair on top of that forehead is a choice.
Protip: if you like oatmeal cookies but want to make them ~festive you can just replace the raisins with dried cranberries and throw in some orange zest and you have an easy and crowd pleasing cookie.
December 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Protip: if you like oatmeal cookies but want to make them ~festive you can just replace the raisins with dried cranberries and throw in some orange zest and you have an easy and crowd pleasing cookie.
Oliver didn’t love his Christmas sweater, but I certainly did.
December 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Oliver didn’t love his Christmas sweater, but I certainly did.
Look, I hate the man but I do need people to know it’s Newsom not Newsome.
December 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Look, I hate the man but I do need people to know it’s Newsom not Newsome.
I am so embarrassed for these people.
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I am so embarrassed for these people.
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Hardly the most offensive thing here but “my family has been here since the revolution” people are so tedious. It’s like “okay?” My family has been here since the mayflower. It doesn’t make me special.
December 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Hardly the most offensive thing here but “my family has been here since the revolution” people are so tedious. It’s like “okay?” My family has been here since the mayflower. It doesn’t make me special.
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There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.
White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.
85% of CEOs are white men.
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.
I dunno if it’s part of the schtick or what but why write things you *know* are going to upset people if you can’t handle the result of it? I find it baffling how many people write reactionary takes and then get all offended when other people react!
December 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I dunno if it’s part of the schtick or what but why write things you *know* are going to upset people if you can’t handle the result of it? I find it baffling how many people write reactionary takes and then get all offended when other people react!
“Not all men” I guess but at this point it seems like it’s all men in a particular tax bracket.
December 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“Not all men” I guess but at this point it seems like it’s all men in a particular tax bracket.
I’ve made a lot of questionable decisions in my life but my decision years ago to not ever watch a Trump speech was not one of them.
December 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I’ve made a lot of questionable decisions in my life but my decision years ago to not ever watch a Trump speech was not one of them.
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wow that was stupid but i guess at least he didn’t declare war with venezuela
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
wow that was stupid but i guess at least he didn’t declare war with venezuela
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...