Reb v. Wade
@rsl318.bsky.social
queer disabled feminist activist formerly known as 'the abortion musicologist' // teacher, writer, PhD candidate, peer counselor // Southerner by birth, Kentuckian by trade, New Yorker forever // she & they
i wonder if there's a correlation btwn having a vestibular disorder + having an affinity for drone music
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
i wonder if there's a correlation btwn having a vestibular disorder + having an affinity for drone music
this question might be too specific BUT does anyone have advice if, for instance, my apartment's crooked floors (which i originally thought were ~whimsical~) are getting drastically more crooked as the foundation of the house crumbles into the earth, severely worsening my vestibular disability?
December 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
this question might be too specific BUT does anyone have advice if, for instance, my apartment's crooked floors (which i originally thought were ~whimsical~) are getting drastically more crooked as the foundation of the house crumbles into the earth, severely worsening my vestibular disability?
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Karlheinz Stockhausen going with orange.
April 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Karlheinz Stockhausen going with orange.
*at least* 10% of my students genuinely believe they should get credit for the essays AI spits out when they tell it what they want; many of them don't even realize they are cheating
If you went up to a trained musician and said 'you should write a sad song about birds flying south for the winter' and then they made it would you think you made it?
Apparently, for like 10% of the population, yeah, they would want credit.
Apparently, for like 10% of the population, yeah, they would want credit.
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
*at least* 10% of my students genuinely believe they should get credit for the essays AI spits out when they tell it what they want; many of them don't even realize they are cheating
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Was fantasising about a brand new internet where I can go read things and it would have no AI or ads or influencers…and realised that is the library
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Was fantasising about a brand new internet where I can go read things and it would have no AI or ads or influencers…and realised that is the library
"Eno styled himself as a 'non-musician'; he even tried (and failed) to have that put on his passport as his profession." (from @3313books.bsky.social on "Low")
December 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"Eno styled himself as a 'non-musician'; he even tried (and failed) to have that put on his passport as his profession." (from @3313books.bsky.social on "Low")
i admire ppl for whom anniversaries are not a huge deal... today marks exactly 3 years w/out my grandpa and exactly 8 months w/out my grandma (and inexactly 17 years w/out my mom) and i'm feeling the grief in my bones
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
i admire ppl for whom anniversaries are not a huge deal... today marks exactly 3 years w/out my grandpa and exactly 8 months w/out my grandma (and inexactly 17 years w/out my mom) and i'm feeling the grief in my bones
not to be salty on main but i'm currently reading over galleys for my third (of four) peer-reviewed journal articles to be accepted after i dropped out of a toxic music PhD program
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
not to be salty on main but i'm currently reading over galleys for my third (of four) peer-reviewed journal articles to be accepted after i dropped out of a toxic music PhD program
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There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things
did some googling and discovered that he did indeed order the murder of 4 people today, bringing death toll to 87
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
did some googling and discovered that he did indeed order the murder of 4 people today, bringing death toll to 87
i was born in the wrong time period :(
December 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
i was born in the wrong time period :(
i'm not being melodramatic when i say that during the past 7 years of status migraine, there have been moments in which i'm glad i don't own a firearm
you can be the most reasonable, intelligent, measured person on the planet and 3 minutes of a migraine will have you looking longingly at a drill and considering whether trepanning was honestly that bad of an idea
December 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
i'm not being melodramatic when i say that during the past 7 years of status migraine, there have been moments in which i'm glad i don't own a firearm
money can't buy *happiness* but it sure can ameliorate chronic mental illness
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
money can't buy *happiness* but it sure can ameliorate chronic mental illness
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They should do MyChart Wrapped
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
They should do MyChart Wrapped
this is probably a skeet-and-delete but i'm having one of those days where the multiplicity and magnitude of awful shit happening has me feeling like **what is the point of trying to do literally anything?**
December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
this is probably a skeet-and-delete but i'm having one of those days where the multiplicity and magnitude of awful shit happening has me feeling like **what is the point of trying to do literally anything?**
not even a professor — a grad instructor (and btw we are paid poverty-level wages) who provided FOUR PARAGRAPHS of thoughtful feedback on an abysmal, offensive, poorly-written essay
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
not even a professor — a grad instructor (and btw we are paid poverty-level wages) who provided FOUR PARAGRAPHS of thoughtful feedback on an abysmal, offensive, poorly-written essay
my undergrad work-study job was in ILL and it ruled
A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
my undergrad work-study job was in ILL and it ruled
i really need to stop flying American Airlines once and for all
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
i really need to stop flying American Airlines once and for all
a few years ago i got summer research funding (aka didn't have to teach/work a side gig) and i did pretty much the same stuff i was already doing (repro counseling/abortion funding, writing my lil research articles & music criticism) but without the constant suffocating sense of precarity
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
a few years ago i got summer research funding (aka didn't have to teach/work a side gig) and i did pretty much the same stuff i was already doing (repro counseling/abortion funding, writing my lil research articles & music criticism) but without the constant suffocating sense of precarity
i'm sure others have said this, but for PhD students it is the perennial "how much longer do you have left?"
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
i'm sure others have said this, but for PhD students it is the perennial "how much longer do you have left?"
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If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
ok i have two questions for y'all: where are you from and what time do you eat yr thanksgiving meal
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
ok i have two questions for y'all: where are you from and what time do you eat yr thanksgiving meal
thanksgiving is a great time for us academics to check ourselves & make sure we can explain our research in a way that resonates with normal ass human beings
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
thanksgiving is a great time for us academics to check ourselves & make sure we can explain our research in a way that resonates with normal ass human beings
i know i'm still a new yorker in my bones because a friend i'm visiting here told me that she had just bought a used car and my immediate response was "congrats but now you have to deal with alternate side parking" 😬
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
i know i'm still a new yorker in my bones because a friend i'm visiting here told me that she had just bought a used car and my immediate response was "congrats but now you have to deal with alternate side parking" 😬
friend: this tweet made me think of u
me: omg that should be on a t-shirt
friend, one month later: happy birthday, here's a t-shirt
me: omg that should be on a t-shirt
friend, one month later: happy birthday, here's a t-shirt
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
friend: this tweet made me think of u
me: omg that should be on a t-shirt
friend, one month later: happy birthday, here's a t-shirt
me: omg that should be on a t-shirt
friend, one month later: happy birthday, here's a t-shirt