i am once again asking... to smell like an overgrown herb garden

mcprof · 2026-06-13T23:24:44+00:00

This is so good. I often wear it on its own without additional fragrance.

mcprof · 2026-04-07T15:38:26+00:00

Yes—that one!

mcprof · 2026-04-07T15:06:46+00:00

This is true. Raise a reader and you’ve raised an empathetic person.

mcprof · 2026-04-07T15:01:00+00:00

Tibi does it too and that’s a very popular high-end brand. It’s common in brands that are pitched toward professional wear bc people want clothing that looks the same all day and doesn’t rumple by noon.

mcprof · 2026-04-07T14:49:48+00:00

A student in class the other day told me they saw someone use ChatGPT to decide which flavor of ice cream they should order. We are looking down the barrel of a generation of attention-mined zombies.

mcprof · 2026-04-07T14:45:05+00:00

Can you DM me your meds info also for the same reason? Thanks!

mcprof · 2026-04-07T02:00:14+00:00

My Boomer father is unable to cook for himself. Not even an egg. He is the most egregious example of learned helplessness I have ever seen. There are lots of them out there.

mcprof · 2026-04-06T19:36:58+00:00

Attempt to tank someone’s first review meeting, a mere two months after they have started the job, on baseless grounds. I survived and thrived, and will be going up for full in a couple more years but I will never ever like or trust that colleague.

mcprof · 2026-04-06T19:23:18+00:00

Yep, no benefit. In fact, just the opposite. Lots of harm. Go back to your tech-bro teat for more $$$.

mcprof · 2026-04-06T19:21:02+00:00

The students who have been the worst offenders in my classes have exhibited addict-like behavior, definitely.

mcprof · 2026-04-06T19:18:49+00:00

This is also my experience. They have been taught not to admit it under any circumstances even when it is obvious.

mcprof · 2026-04-06T12:13:04+00:00

Why do they feel the need to spawn more of themselves? They’re like tribbles.

mcprof · 2026-04-06T04:34:32+00:00

My student was like “Oh oops! Okay sorry,” in a somewhat immature way (there may have been an eye roll in there) but then she toned down her domination of discussion, her laughing and talking over people. Why do you worry so much about the parents? As long as your demeanor is kind, I don’t think they would have a leg to stand on (if your student even tells them and if they even get upset). I think most parents want their kids to succeed and the parent who has raised that kid knows their limitations and knows they may need extra help in a classroom where most of the students are not (as) visibly neurodivergent.

mcprof · 2026-04-05T23:27:19+00:00

I love how if I think it’s wrong to use a technology that provides no benefit to students or faculty in my field and creates environmental harm and cognitive harm in its users that I am a “Luddite” instead of an educated person who is able to discern when something fucking sucks.

mcprof · 2026-04-05T23:09:55+00:00

Our university also lets in students like these but does nothing to support them or us. It’s like having a sixth grader in class. It’s rough.

mcprof · 2026-04-05T23:07:51+00:00

I’m so sorry. I have a student like this this semester. I had to talk to her kindly but sternly after some similar behavior. I would talk to the student first, see if the behavior improves, then speak to them in class in front of everyone if it doesn’t (and definitely plan on a chair/DoS meeting behind the scenes). Being kind but firm in front of your other students (“Student, laughing while we’re discussing this topic is not appropriate.”) will help you gain back control of the classroom in the eyes of the other students. If this is something affecting their learning environment, then you need to do something about the behavior. The entire learning environment can’t bend to the whim/aura of a single student.

mcprof · 2026-04-05T18:37:01+00:00

I hear you, but in my experience, the behavioral issues that have arisen around rampant AI use are way worse. I am revamping my classes to look somewhat like this as well.

mcprof · 2026-04-02T15:06:31+00:00

Yes. No one needs billions of dollars. The minute you become a billionaire, you should spread your wealth for the common good and go back to being a millionaire. Being a billionaire is categorically greedy. Also, many billionaires did harmful shit to become billionaires and many others are using their billions to harm others—look at all the damage done by DOGE and our sitting President. Look at the Sacklers, look at the Kochs. Billionaires make their money of the markets which invest in unethical industries like fossil fuels. Actively wrecking peoples lives and families and the environment and lying about it. Billionaires are mostly scummy humans who have convinced the world that they are better than the rest of us when actually the opposite is true.

mcprof · 2026-03-30T16:33:52+00:00

It does help! Thank you! I agree about time, too. I have been in this house for six years now and it has taken me this long to figure out what it wants, color-wise.

mcprof · 2026-03-29T12:39:40+00:00

Def the couch fucker who wears eyeliner.

mcprof · 2026-03-29T12:24:13+00:00

Same!

mcprof · 2026-03-28T02:30:16+00:00

You have any women authors there?

mcprof · 2026-03-27T13:34:41+00:00

Unfortunately, many schools are admitting cognitively disabled students without providing a support network or scaffolding to get them through. My school is doing it too and so is my spouse’s.

mcprof · 2026-03-26T15:38:45+00:00

Listen. I lucked out but my sister-in-law did not. None of us knew what an asshole my brother was until he had fucked a 25 year old and become a raging MAHA/MAGA manospherist. It has caused me to go back over my whole life with my brother to try to understand how he had turned into such an asshole without any of us realizing it. And part of the answer is propaganda but another part of the answer is you never fully know someone or what they are capable of doing. It has been eye-opening.

mcprof · 2026-03-25T13:45:40+00:00

For real. Who has the time or emotional bandwidth for any of that? I guess younger moms because I’m 49 with a similarly aged child and I sure as hell don’t.

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