Jen Wunder
@jenwunder.bsky.social
British Romanticist & expert in cultural/political influences of 17th-20th c. secret societies (no tin foil hats, please). Still trying to make academia better for academics and students and still working on all the rest.
Sending very good Karma and her favorite sock monkey!
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Sending very good Karma and her favorite sock monkey!
She photoshopped the serving utensil in the green beans but thought everything else looked great? How … why… what?
November 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
She photoshopped the serving utensil in the green beans but thought everything else looked great? How … why… what?
My mom called them patrician potatoes and they’re fluffy, tasty twice baked potatoes that, bc they’re cooked, cooled then cooked again, they’re doable for folks who need to manage their blood sugar levels. And they taste great with additional ingredients for creative variations, too.
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My mom called them patrician potatoes and they’re fluffy, tasty twice baked potatoes that, bc they’re cooked, cooled then cooked again, they’re doable for folks who need to manage their blood sugar levels. And they taste great with additional ingredients for creative variations, too.
darth this is Karma enjoying some warm blankets
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
darth this is Karma enjoying some warm blankets
The blankets are warm from the dryer for these kinds of situations
October 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The blankets are warm from the dryer for these kinds of situations
When it’s the first cold, rainy day of fall and you just cannot
October 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
When it’s the first cold, rainy day of fall and you just cannot
Looks completely normal from our angles on the couch
October 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Looks completely normal from our angles on the couch
Just in case anyone needed something good today. Karma had a fine walk.
October 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Just in case anyone needed something good today. Karma had a fine walk.
Klein himself has grown comfortable with the outright racism, bigotry, misogyny, and calls from MAGA and the rightwing for political violence and retribution against anyone they dislike. It’s the party platform and he gets it! So, those of who are targeted (and not comfortable white guys) should too
September 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Klein himself has grown comfortable with the outright racism, bigotry, misogyny, and calls from MAGA and the rightwing for political violence and retribution against anyone they dislike. It’s the party platform and he gets it! So, those of who are targeted (and not comfortable white guys) should too
Someone posted Pyle’s cartoon the other day and damn. Yep. Yet again.
September 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Someone posted Pyle’s cartoon the other day and damn. Yep. Yet again.
For example, you may be unaware of this but you can also encounter people, “verbally abusing people and threatening violence” or “exposing themselves or groping women,” in rural areas and suburbs. Often, in fact.
Why aren’t you insisting their safety be ensured?
Why aren’t you insisting their safety be ensured?
August 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For example, you may be unaware of this but you can also encounter people, “verbally abusing people and threatening violence” or “exposing themselves or groping women,” in rural areas and suburbs. Often, in fact.
Why aren’t you insisting their safety be ensured?
Why aren’t you insisting their safety be ensured?
He just posted this reply.👇🏼
We weren’t talking about coding, or tests, or using AI to cheat on tests up thread from this. Not even remotely.
If he’s writing these replies himself, he’s a walking poster child for why companies might want to hire an English major nowadays.
We weren’t talking about coding, or tests, or using AI to cheat on tests up thread from this. Not even remotely.
If he’s writing these replies himself, he’s a walking poster child for why companies might want to hire an English major nowadays.
![Screenshot of the latest reply to me from the ITEC dude bot.
Me: Again, you’re posting some really odd replies here, [ITEC dude bot first name], that make me think you either struggle mightily to communicate well with others or a human isn’t writing your replies. Why are you pretending that students who graduated in 2015 would be uniquely exempt?
Him: I guess everyone can just use AI to cheat on the coding test.
Added Note: We weren’t talking about coding, or tests, or using AI to cheat on tests. Not even remotely.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aahhenopqrxf4qsohs645pvz/bafkreic6tdopw7wwgjzpduacnsxxjfxwqizhq2mpsnjai4chylehdx74cu@jpeg)
July 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
He just posted this reply.👇🏼
We weren’t talking about coding, or tests, or using AI to cheat on tests up thread from this. Not even remotely.
If he’s writing these replies himself, he’s a walking poster child for why companies might want to hire an English major nowadays.
We weren’t talking about coding, or tests, or using AI to cheat on tests up thread from this. Not even remotely.
If he’s writing these replies himself, he’s a walking poster child for why companies might want to hire an English major nowadays.
I had an odd exchange about this piece with a guy who majored in ITEC & now works as a technical product manager for AI platforms (his description).
It was a struggle for him to even imagine, much less understand, why humanities majors might be good hires.
It went downhill from here.
It was a struggle for him to even imagine, much less understand, why humanities majors might be good hires.
It went downhill from here.
![Exchange between me and another poster.
Him: hirable for what?
Me: Well, because those graduates [who majored in fields in the humanities] generally demonstrate better reading, communication, and critical thinking skills as well as open mindsets and higher emotional intelligence, they’re often hired for a wide range of positions across fields. (See decades of research by the DoL and Bureau of Labor Stats.)
Him: I don’t think being a bad student at hard sciences makes you any of these?
Me. Okay. Why are you assuming that students who graduate with degrees in English, history, etc. perform poorly in courses associated with so-called hard sciences?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aahhenopqrxf4qsohs645pvz/bafkreibxldidi6lltuni2urpo3u4q6xw7xqab45gn7nqhhzchfom2cinp4@jpeg)
July 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I had an odd exchange about this piece with a guy who majored in ITEC & now works as a technical product manager for AI platforms (his description).
It was a struggle for him to even imagine, much less understand, why humanities majors might be good hires.
It went downhill from here.
It was a struggle for him to even imagine, much less understand, why humanities majors might be good hires.
It went downhill from here.
I loooved tearing around the house on my inchworm lol
July 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I loooved tearing around the house on my inchworm lol
Honestly, the table is sure that the waffles are great — it’s just still stuffed from the big dinner the night before.
July 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Honestly, the table is sure that the waffles are great — it’s just still stuffed from the big dinner the night before.
To be fair, I imagine being met by a conference table like the animated furniture from a French enchanted castle would lead to some unfortunate language choices.
July 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
To be fair, I imagine being met by a conference table like the animated furniture from a French enchanted castle would lead to some unfortunate language choices.
It occasionally occurs to me that although we’re now more than four decades out from whomever first made the mistake, bureaucratic inertia and friction means it probably never get fixed until something happens that crashes the whole system.
XKCD … always right. Sigh.
XKCD … always right. Sigh.
![[Cueball sitting in an office chair at his desk typing on his laptop. A person addresses him from the left:]
Off-panel voice: What are you working on?
Cueball: Trying to fix the problems I created when I tried to fix the problems I created when I tried to fix the problems I created when...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aahhenopqrxf4qsohs645pvz/bafkreidv6bhuhrd2cl6hnqt6zihsxuzupmgu57irfqizrdpvlxy67nnziq@jpeg)
July 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It occasionally occurs to me that although we’re now more than four decades out from whomever first made the mistake, bureaucratic inertia and friction means it probably never get fixed until something happens that crashes the whole system.
XKCD … always right. Sigh.
XKCD … always right. Sigh.
Given this whole exchange between Musk and Rogan regarding empathy, irony is still dead.
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July 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Given this whole exchange between Musk and Rogan regarding empathy, irony is still dead.
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This is Karma (always, always good!)
June 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is Karma (always, always good!)
Yup, you’re absolutely right — Only a really mean person would keep you from baking that black fur in the sun on an hour long hike when it’s only 95 degrees with ridiculously high humidity.
June 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Yup, you’re absolutely right — Only a really mean person would keep you from baking that black fur in the sun on an hour long hike when it’s only 95 degrees with ridiculously high humidity.
See, that’s a nice pull
June 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
See, that’s a nice pull
Just saw your post and sending very good Karma and Kismet your way.💚
June 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Just saw your post and sending very good Karma and Kismet your way.💚
I know this trustee type. He likes to say the university is a family — specifically, one in which he’s the patriarch to whom you must pay respect; faculty/staff/students should be seen, not heard; and employees are expected to sacrifice their time, labor, money and more for “the family.”
June 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I know this trustee type. He likes to say the university is a family — specifically, one in which he’s the patriarch to whom you must pay respect; faculty/staff/students should be seen, not heard; and employees are expected to sacrifice their time, labor, money and more for “the family.”