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Jillian

@nogoodwyfe.bsky.social

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Chaotic good w/ redneck roots. Medievalist/teacher/PhD candidate/worker/overexplainer/aspiring pícara. Personal account; loud opinions (which is all of them) my own. she/her 📍 North Carolina (in the woods somewhere instead of doing my work)

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · Nov 24

i patently refuse to intro myself or seek followers who I find can be more trouble than they're worth but if you're here know I post abt all of the following:
- snark re: everyday ableism & my grad program
- local NC & Norcal concerns
- photography & art
- naturalist stuff
- medieval studies (rare)

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 8m

wait my shirt is grape (kudzu flower) purple am I bringing this on myself

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 27m

yeah I thought about adding “for home/personal drinking water use”, obviously sometimes there’s an event or people are traveling or something!

Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 28m

figured out a secret hack for making my orthorexic-hippy-grandma’s recipes good (add butter)

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Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social · 1h

i need you all to post more daily life stuff. i know we're all here to stare into the void together but i want to know what you made for dinner and what you've been reading before bed between all the void-staring.

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 33m

buying flats of bottled water when the tap water is potable

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 38m

the south really picks and chooses its iconography. like why aren’t there country songs about getting a kudzu bug in your shirt/bra

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 1d

Give me more tests! What do you mean you hit 30 and there’s just no tests ever! I am good at ONE THING (okay 2 and the other is reading books which also doesn’t seem to be an employable skill)

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 1d

I was feeling sort of nervous about my French midterm but then I remembered I love tests but then I remembered this is almost certainly the last test I will ever get to take ever that will matter for my academic/professional life 😩😩😩

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Eateth Pilaf @johnnypi.bsky.social · Oct 24

There's nothing in the Constitution that says a dog can't be President

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 3d

I love building things. Taking an idea from spark through execution, putting something real into the world, whether it's a book or a painting or a garden.

What it means to live well is always personal but I don't get how chasing money as its own goal is real.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3d

I don't need expensive cars or a big house.

I need experiences and time with my loved ones. That, to me, is a mark of living well.

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 3d

I was using the mortality data last night for the social sciences unit I always teach & getting an ominous feeling about data delays since 2023 and a vague site banner about President Trump’s Executive Orders but didn’t imagine it was being eviscerated at that literal moment 😵‍💫

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 3d

“each can contains charcoal residue from at least 6 endangered species of butterfly and formerly diverse forest plants from centuries of indigenous stewardship!” “taste the heady spice of the highest carbon footprint meat that is ALSO actively reducing the world’s carbon absorption capacity!”

Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 3d

the fact that rate my professor—violently commodifying and dehumanizing instructors w/o their consent or ability to opt out— is the ‘benign’ comparison is really a sign of how deep we are into the danger zone

Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 3d

I enjoyed speaking with Juliet Schulman-Hall for @masslive.bsky.social about how the Professor Watchlist and Canary Mission get us farther from, not closer to, a free exchange of ideas on campus. www.masslive.com/news/2025/10...

This isn’t Rate My Professor: Explosion in watchlists brings new threats to academics

Online commentary used to be limited to sites like "Rate My Professor," which jokingly rated how "hot" a professor was. It's changed drastically.

www.masslive.com

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 3d

like replacing bad bunny with a senator’s cousin who goes to a local karaoke bar twice a year

Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 3d

no, of course not, that’s transparently obvious, but the academic equivalent is often that plus the mediocre white guy they select like hasn’t even stepped foot in a university since his parents paid for him to binge drink his way thru a lesser Ivy 30 years ago

Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 3d

usually when I cave & eat beef mostly out of a need for heme iron I soothe myself that at least it’s almost certainly US beef &
& while the footprint is bad it’s not like slash-and-burn-rainforest beef but I accidentally bought a can of food lion corned beef hash that is openly a product of Brazil 😭

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 4d

“The compact does require schools not to punish, intimidate or incite violence against conservative ideas.” What you describe as punishment, intimidation, or incitement of violence is most often “Hmmm, tell me how you got there. Where does the text support that claim?”

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 4d

My only quibble here is Lee Greenwood at least has experience in the vague same field of music

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Gabe Burgess @gabeburgess.bsky.social · 4d

Well he's no Lee Greenwood - Mike Johnson

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 4d

luckily I am too poor to go to the brain doctor and thus cannot be diagnosed with anything else, checkmate mental illness 😌

Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 4d

iiiiinteresting venn diagram between ‘things I have been characterizing as what happens to you as you become a full adult’ and ‘things described as symptoms of CPTSD in this academic research I just started reading’ lol

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 5d

this sucks ass, man. every day is such a huge bummer now. can somebody deal with the problems please

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 5d

people do not make $60k+ unless they are selling something unethical. that's not real. and you can't talk to older generations about this bc they're all residually making at least that much and they cannot comprehend that society no longer exists

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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