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Patty Dignam

@pattydignam.bsky.social

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Faculty Affairs pro. Tedious Ulysses fanatic. Efficiency skeptic.

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Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 21h

Slam dunk.

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 2d

The amount of times he answers “I don’t know” is an underreported scandal.

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 2d

Agree! Have you ever read the Alice Walker essay “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens”?

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 2d

a man on a roller coaster wearing a green jersey that says " ng "

Alt: a man on a roller coaster

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Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 6d

Made myself a tee shirt. #absurd #drama #modernism #beckett

Black tee shirt with yellow text “be the godot you’ve been waiting for”

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Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 9d

Love you, Lady Dynamite!

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 10d

No Kings Boston #nokings #boston

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Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 15d

And a witch I guess?

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Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks and please keep pointing out this bs.

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 15d

“See now then, the dear Mrs. Sweet who lived with her husband Mr. Sweet and their two children, the beautiful Persephone and the young Heracles in the Shirley Jackson house, which was in a small village in New England.” -Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 15d

The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian & toast with cheddar and raspberry jam.

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Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 16d

JFC he gets worse at this by the day.

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 20d

Harry Belafonte's favorite song (written by Paul Brady about the Iran-Iraq war and the troubles) as sung by Aloe Blacc: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN3q...

Aloe Blacc sings Paul Brady's 'The Island' at the first memorial of the life of Harry Belafonte.

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Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 20d

Rickie Lee Jones, no contest.

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Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 20d

"'What is the nature of the search?' you ask. 'The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.'" -Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

the structural wood remnants of a pier heading into the ocean at sunset

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 24d

JFC I realize the brutality is the point. But also, how dumb are these soldiers?

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 26d

I think it must be the same (striped) because saltwater, though the mouth looked larger to me…

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 26d

But you do get bonus points for every head of an oblivious seat hog your work bag uses as a bumper.

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 26d

RIP, King’s Beach

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Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 26d

An elderly pug could take this guy.

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 28d

Apologies to the mentally ill. They’re a violent gang of bullies, cheats, and crooks.

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · 29d

That was worth the watch!

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · Sep 28

WTAF

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · Sep 28

It’s a cult of pragmatism that never pays off.

Patty Dignam @pattydignam.bsky.social · Sep 28

EK cannot admit to 1) being wrong 2) when someone else is smarter than him