dr.joan
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I keep coming up w more chapters of the dissertation I successfully defended 18m ago. It’s called:
“The Use of Feeling: Case Studies of Empathic Communication, Civic Imagination and Popular Culture”
But that subtitle needs revising so for now let’s just call it:
“The Use of Feeling or (TUoF)”
“The Use of Feeling: Case Studies of Empathic Communication, Civic Imagination and Popular Culture”
But that subtitle needs revising so for now let’s just call it:
“The Use of Feeling or (TUoF)”
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1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care.
“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."
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“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."
Subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...
“We’re taking this to court”: Doctors Are Fighting New Zealand’s Puberty Blocker Ban
“Only a small number of young people in Aotearoa are prescribed reversible pubertal suppression, but for those who need it, the negative impacts of this regulation will be huge.”
www.erininthemorning.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care.
“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."
Subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...
“These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence."
Subscribe to support our journalism.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...
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I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"
The hilarious thing to me about this image is that this character is based on The Smoking Man from the X-Files, which makes this even more apt.
EA isn't being sold to a "consortium" of investors, it's being sold to Saudi Arabia, new filings reveal: https://kotaku.com/ea-saudi-arabia-ownership-trump-jared-kushner-2000649726
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The hilarious thing to me about this image is that this character is based on The Smoking Man from the X-Files, which makes this even more apt.
Tbh I actually don’t care how it’s defined. However you define it. I just think that version is more likely to produce what I’m thinking about
#MixedRace friends (and in this instance I mean no more than 50% of your dna comes from the same continent) do you have any weird genetic or body quirks?
For example, I have mismatched ears. One matches mom, one matches dad. Can wiggle mom ear. Can’t wiggle dad ear.
Mom = 🇳🇬
Dad = 🇺🇸 ( 🇮🇪 🏴 🇮🇹)
For example, I have mismatched ears. One matches mom, one matches dad. Can wiggle mom ear. Can’t wiggle dad ear.
Mom = 🇳🇬
Dad = 🇺🇸 ( 🇮🇪 🏴 🇮🇹)
December 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Tbh I actually don’t care how it’s defined. However you define it. I just think that version is more likely to produce what I’m thinking about
#MixedRace friends (and in this instance I mean no more than 50% of your dna comes from the same continent) do you have any weird genetic or body quirks?
For example, I have mismatched ears. One matches mom, one matches dad. Can wiggle mom ear. Can’t wiggle dad ear.
Mom = 🇳🇬
Dad = 🇺🇸 ( 🇮🇪 🏴 🇮🇹)
For example, I have mismatched ears. One matches mom, one matches dad. Can wiggle mom ear. Can’t wiggle dad ear.
Mom = 🇳🇬
Dad = 🇺🇸 ( 🇮🇪 🏴 🇮🇹)
December 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
#MixedRace friends (and in this instance I mean no more than 50% of your dna comes from the same continent) do you have any weird genetic or body quirks?
For example, I have mismatched ears. One matches mom, one matches dad. Can wiggle mom ear. Can’t wiggle dad ear.
Mom = 🇳🇬
Dad = 🇺🇸 ( 🇮🇪 🏴 🇮🇹)
For example, I have mismatched ears. One matches mom, one matches dad. Can wiggle mom ear. Can’t wiggle dad ear.
Mom = 🇳🇬
Dad = 🇺🇸 ( 🇮🇪 🏴 🇮🇹)
Please interact with this thread or I will probably cry about it. Just stating facts.
I keep coming up w more chapters of the dissertation I successfully defended 18m ago. It’s called:
“The Use of Feeling: Case Studies of Empathic Communication, Civic Imagination and Popular Culture”
But that subtitle needs revising so for now let’s just call it:
“The Use of Feeling or (TUoF)”
“The Use of Feeling: Case Studies of Empathic Communication, Civic Imagination and Popular Culture”
But that subtitle needs revising so for now let’s just call it:
“The Use of Feeling or (TUoF)”
December 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Please interact with this thread or I will probably cry about it. Just stating facts.
I just want to play dress up and make cool stuff with cool people. That’s all.
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I just want to play dress up and make cool stuff with cool people. That’s all.
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Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder
Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...
www.alternet.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...
IT IS YOUR F-KING JOB TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEWS. JESUS H CHRIST!
I can’t stand this reality. Someone please open a portal and send me back to the Faewild.
I can’t stand this reality. Someone please open a portal and send me back to the Faewild.
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
IT IS YOUR F-KING JOB TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEWS. JESUS H CHRIST!
I can’t stand this reality. Someone please open a portal and send me back to the Faewild.
I can’t stand this reality. Someone please open a portal and send me back to the Faewild.
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what if what if what if
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
what if what if what if
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I keep coming up w more chapters of the dissertation I successfully defended 18m ago. It’s called:
“The Use of Feeling: Case Studies of Empathic Communication, Civic Imagination and Popular Culture”
But that subtitle needs revising so for now let’s just call it:
“The Use of Feeling or (TUoF)”
“The Use of Feeling: Case Studies of Empathic Communication, Civic Imagination and Popular Culture”
But that subtitle needs revising so for now let’s just call it:
“The Use of Feeling or (TUoF)”
December 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I keep coming up w more chapters of the dissertation I successfully defended 18m ago. It’s called:
“The Use of Feeling: Case Studies of Empathic Communication, Civic Imagination and Popular Culture”
But that subtitle needs revising so for now let’s just call it:
“The Use of Feeling or (TUoF)”
“The Use of Feeling: Case Studies of Empathic Communication, Civic Imagination and Popular Culture”
But that subtitle needs revising so for now let’s just call it:
“The Use of Feeling or (TUoF)”
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If you’re so inclined;
I haven’t had time to set up my Patreon yet. Hopefully I’ll get it sorted in time for a New Years launch.
In the meantime here is my kofi—
By tipping me you are supporting independent scholarship!! It’s a pretty exclusive club! Not many people do!
ko-fi.com/drjoan
I haven’t had time to set up my Patreon yet. Hopefully I’ll get it sorted in time for a New Years launch.
In the meantime here is my kofi—
By tipping me you are supporting independent scholarship!! It’s a pretty exclusive club! Not many people do!
ko-fi.com/drjoan
December 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you’re so inclined;
I haven’t had time to set up my Patreon yet. Hopefully I’ll get it sorted in time for a New Years launch.
In the meantime here is my kofi—
By tipping me you are supporting independent scholarship!! It’s a pretty exclusive club! Not many people do!
ko-fi.com/drjoan
I haven’t had time to set up my Patreon yet. Hopefully I’ll get it sorted in time for a New Years launch.
In the meantime here is my kofi—
By tipping me you are supporting independent scholarship!! It’s a pretty exclusive club! Not many people do!
ko-fi.com/drjoan
On the other hand, if you believe he’s petty enough to go to war on the country that is the home of the person who won the prize he wanted…
If you believe a president who pardons drug dealers is fighting a war on drugs I don’t know how to help you…
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
On the other hand, if you believe he’s petty enough to go to war on the country that is the home of the person who won the prize he wanted…
Anyone know anything about how film clips get selected for late night guest appearances? I’m very curious. Are the production teams offered some selections to choose from or do they just match one clip to one performer and have them do the same one each show?
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Anyone know anything about how film clips get selected for late night guest appearances? I’m very curious. Are the production teams offered some selections to choose from or do they just match one clip to one performer and have them do the same one each show?
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Chiming in here as your Friendly Neighborhood NTT, but NTTs, grad students, and other instructors of varying levels of precarity are often the ones on the front lines here. Our tenured colleagues keep talking about tenure as an umbrella or shield, and it would be nice to see those actually deployed.
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Chiming in here as your Friendly Neighborhood NTT, but NTTs, grad students, and other instructors of varying levels of precarity are often the ones on the front lines here. Our tenured colleagues keep talking about tenure as an umbrella or shield, and it would be nice to see those actually deployed.
It has occurred to me that if we recruit a fourth corgi (maybe a Cardigan?) we could have the four corgis of the dogpacolypse.
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It has occurred to me that if we recruit a fourth corgi (maybe a Cardigan?) we could have the four corgis of the dogpacolypse.
The TV was lagging when I tried to turn it on so I tried to use the voice command feature. This happened and I… have questions.
December 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The TV was lagging when I tried to turn it on so I tried to use the voice command feature. This happened and I… have questions.
I stg the next time I see someone say Cynthia Erivo is a lesbian imma burst into a belt:
BIG NEWWWWWWWSSSSS
SHEEEEEESSSSSS BIIIIIIIIIIIII
THE WITCH OF THE WEST IS BI
SHES DATING A GIRL BUT SHE STILL LIKES GUYS
PLEASE DONT ERASE THAT OR I MIGHT CRY
SHES BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
ITS TRUEEEEEEEEEEEE
🧙🏽♀️
BIG NEWWWWWWWSSSSS
SHEEEEEESSSSSS BIIIIIIIIIIIII
THE WITCH OF THE WEST IS BI
SHES DATING A GIRL BUT SHE STILL LIKES GUYS
PLEASE DONT ERASE THAT OR I MIGHT CRY
SHES BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
ITS TRUEEEEEEEEEEEE
🧙🏽♀️
December 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I stg the next time I see someone say Cynthia Erivo is a lesbian imma burst into a belt:
BIG NEWWWWWWWSSSSS
SHEEEEEESSSSSS BIIIIIIIIIIIII
THE WITCH OF THE WEST IS BI
SHES DATING A GIRL BUT SHE STILL LIKES GUYS
PLEASE DONT ERASE THAT OR I MIGHT CRY
SHES BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
ITS TRUEEEEEEEEEEEE
🧙🏽♀️
BIG NEWWWWWWWSSSSS
SHEEEEEESSSSSS BIIIIIIIIIIIII
THE WITCH OF THE WEST IS BI
SHES DATING A GIRL BUT SHE STILL LIKES GUYS
PLEASE DONT ERASE THAT OR I MIGHT CRY
SHES BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
ITS TRUEEEEEEEEEEEE
🧙🏽♀️
Hey #academic sky! #academicsky? Anyone have good article recs on the way Late Night TV shapes public discourse?
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hey #academic sky! #academicsky? Anyone have good article recs on the way Late Night TV shapes public discourse?
It’s giving… Tuesday.
December 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It’s giving… Tuesday.
🎼let’s eat gyoza together and pretend the world is not falling apaaaaart🎶
🎶 I got a pocket, got a pocket full of gyoza🎶
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
🎼let’s eat gyoza together and pretend the world is not falling apaaaaart🎶
Debating whether to audition for local comm theatre prod of JCS. My Cynthia Erivo hyperfocus is not helping with this.
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Debating whether to audition for local comm theatre prod of JCS. My Cynthia Erivo hyperfocus is not helping with this.