@emilyphd.bsky.social
Embrace complexity, embrace humanity.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Embrace complexity, embrace humanity.
Agree! The history of this idea isn’t great, either—goes all the way back to Aristotle, and aligns with a belief in a “natural” aristocracy of white, male heads of households who, freed from “necessity,” can govern in the public interest. LMAO.
December 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Agree! The history of this idea isn’t great, either—goes all the way back to Aristotle, and aligns with a belief in a “natural” aristocracy of white, male heads of households who, freed from “necessity,” can govern in the public interest. LMAO.
When can we be done with polling? Haven’t the recent elections taught us how useless it is? Easily skewed, one-dimensional, endlessly spin-able. It’s a lazy tool.
December 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
When can we be done with polling? Haven’t the recent elections taught us how useless it is? Easily skewed, one-dimensional, endlessly spin-able. It’s a lazy tool.
I’m just a hopeless Gen-Xer but calling the outfits in the foursquare “modest” is hilarious. I grew up in the time of gunne sax and prairie skirts gworl get real
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I’m just a hopeless Gen-Xer but calling the outfits in the foursquare “modest” is hilarious. I grew up in the time of gunne sax and prairie skirts gworl get real
Eagerly awaiting the Nexon Playbook For Restoring Democracy. Do the list from your prior posts! Be nice to have a forward-looking game plan.
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Eagerly awaiting the Nexon Playbook For Restoring Democracy. Do the list from your prior posts! Be nice to have a forward-looking game plan.
Hi, GU alum here, JD 91, PhD in political theory 2008, adjuncted for y’all for four years. No longer teaching, but I think about you all every day and wonder how you’re managing. Love your posts here, wishing you the best.
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Hi, GU alum here, JD 91, PhD in political theory 2008, adjuncted for y’all for four years. No longer teaching, but I think about you all every day and wonder how you’re managing. Love your posts here, wishing you the best.
I wish more people understood how intense it is to teach research and writing. Rewarding as hell but also exhausting.
Hence the lure of AI, I guess. Sigh. Anyway, kudos to you and your students!!
Hence the lure of AI, I guess. Sigh. Anyway, kudos to you and your students!!
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I wish more people understood how intense it is to teach research and writing. Rewarding as hell but also exhausting.
Hence the lure of AI, I guess. Sigh. Anyway, kudos to you and your students!!
Hence the lure of AI, I guess. Sigh. Anyway, kudos to you and your students!!
Is it printed on copy paper wtf
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Is it printed on copy paper wtf
THIS!! My team sucks at this right now and I am genuinely flummoxed as to why. They ask me for money every 8 minutes but don’t pounce on this? Gtfoh.
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
THIS!! My team sucks at this right now and I am genuinely flummoxed as to why. They ask me for money every 8 minutes but don’t pounce on this? Gtfoh.
Not just big; presence in Portland ME has ratcheted up recently.
October 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Not just big; presence in Portland ME has ratcheted up recently.
Those of us over 35 are pilgrims in an unholy land. Gimme my hardcover book and get off my lawn.
September 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Those of us over 35 are pilgrims in an unholy land. Gimme my hardcover book and get off my lawn.
Hi birb! My African Grey parrot says “cheers!” when he hears the ice drawer anytime after 5pm. We may have a problem :)
September 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Hi birb! My African Grey parrot says “cheers!” when he hears the ice drawer anytime after 5pm. We may have a problem :)
All child molesters punished, full stop. It’s not that difficult, really.
July 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
All child molesters punished, full stop. It’s not that difficult, really.
I see the distinction you’re after, but is it really a difference? The ideal for both is full-time SAHM, the evil for both is mothers with ambition beyond motherhood. Left Hegelians and Right Hegelians both end up endorsing Spirit. Doesn’t make it real, tho.
July 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I see the distinction you’re after, but is it really a difference? The ideal for both is full-time SAHM, the evil for both is mothers with ambition beyond motherhood. Left Hegelians and Right Hegelians both end up endorsing Spirit. Doesn’t make it real, tho.
Omg thank you for this. We are going to need dozens of kinds of resistance. There is no one magic path out of this.
July 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Omg thank you for this. We are going to need dozens of kinds of resistance. There is no one magic path out of this.
Oh my goodness welcome! Journal of a Solitude got me through some rough mothering years in a suburb of DC, and The House By The Sea heavily influenced our later move to Maine!
July 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Oh my goodness welcome! Journal of a Solitude got me through some rough mothering years in a suburb of DC, and The House By The Sea heavily influenced our later move to Maine!
Ok I’ll make a note to disagree with you more often (respectfully of course).
July 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Ok I’ll make a note to disagree with you more often (respectfully of course).
I love this movie too but I watched it with my daughter who majored in film and she pointed out all the lens flares and now that’s all I see. They are in almost every shot!
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I love this movie too but I watched it with my daughter who majored in film and she pointed out all the lens flares and now that’s all I see. They are in almost every shot!
Goddamn that was horrifying to see in the replay.
June 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Goddamn that was horrifying to see in the replay.
Former college professor of political theory here. I’m on this hill with you!
June 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Former college professor of political theory here. I’m on this hill with you!
I cannot fathom what is going on? I knew WaPo was bought and paid for, canceled my 20+ year subscription there months ago but wtf??
June 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I cannot fathom what is going on? I knew WaPo was bought and paid for, canceled my 20+ year subscription there months ago but wtf??
This is such a good point. And on social media it is flattened and then molded into whatever shape any rando wants.
May 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is such a good point. And on social media it is flattened and then molded into whatever shape any rando wants.