Finally home from #ICA2023! Huge thank you to Zizi Papacharissi @[email protected] #resist, Steve Jones | @[email protected] and Mariah L Wellman, PhD for making this conference so memorable & being incredible faculty. Even more pumped for AOIR this fall now that I have pals to see! 𝕕𝕣. 𝕜𝕣𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕚𝕟 (𝕤𝕙𝕖/𝕙𝕖𝕣)

Lots of questions about why the jokes were so prevalent during the submarine disaster. So let’s talk about internet memes and…*checks notes* Albert Camus. Basically, we can learn a lot about we we collectively respond to events with memes the way we do because of absurdism.

Justice Alito accepted tens of thousands of dollars in lavish vacation gifts from a billionaire who lobbied to cancel the student loan forgiveness. After the gifts, Alito voted to overturn. This SCOTUS’ corruption undercuts its own legitimacy by putting its rulings up for sale.

Russia killed six Ukrainians, including a child, in their homes in Kryvyi Rih today. More than seventy people are wounded. Russian missile struck a residential building in the city in eastern Dnipro region, president Zelenskyi's hometown 📷 Suspilne Dnipro

When somebody asks if you’ve figured out what you want to do after your PhD

My first journal article was published this week and is now available for download! 🥳 In it, I talk about the role of whiteness and intimacy in depicting desirable disabled masculinity in (mostly queer) fanfic. Plz take a look / share 💜 pij3.puntoorginternationaljournal.org/index.php/PIJ/…

Papelón’s final moments were filled with fear and agony, all while people cheered on 😢 He was an individual. He was someone. Help spare more bulls from this fate and demand an end to this slaughter: peta.vg/3xav

Trump: I didn’t cut Social Security, remember? (Fact check: Trump introduced a budget to cut Social Security and Medicare every single year he was in office. The reason it didn’t happen was because Democrats stopped him)

The Disinfo to Ethnic Cleansing Pipeline.

There were panics about refugees eating rats in the 1980s. These were quickly followed by hate crimes against refugees, spearheaded by white power activists but employing local communities incited by that rhetoric. (1)

So let's not get confused: the debunked claims that refugees are eating cats aren't just nonsense. They are the beginning of a wave of violence. The people spreading this rhetoric either know exactly what they're doing, or they should know. But violence follows. Every time. (3)

HE LITERALLY THINKS ASYLUM SEEKERS ARE PEOPLE FROM INSANE ASYLUMS

Yeah we do have "after birth" executions they're called school shootings.

This debate is a disaster. What the hell is Trump doing?! Dog eating? Really?

We are in a reallllllllll bad spot here. This is as bad as the infamous “stand back and stand by” in 2020. white vigilantes are going to target immigrants in the next few weeks. This is networked incitement, where online mobs are getting force fed dehumanizing lies.

Major weakness with the moderation. They’ve let Trump speak 9 minutes more than her — that’s almost 40% of her time so far.