I can’t get above 40% with my behemoth humidifier on the first floor. The one in my bedroom is also struggling. Plugging in a third later today to try and help.

And should be understood as an attempt to use public pressure to get trans people out of public life. It’s not about rubrics, and the rubric isn’t the TA’s fucking fault.

But the precise mechanisms of pressure used here should be deeply concerning to anyone in academia or who cares about it.

So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.

This parade, annually, is such a bizarre mishmash. I wish I could have an edible - would make way more sense. Busta on the TMNT float! The janky Stranger things float with Foreigner!