Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 08/10/2026yearning to no more live in fear of the one yoga instructor obsessed with handstands, i sign up for an inversions workshop. two days later, experiencing devastating delayed onset muscle soreness in muscles i didn't even know existed & boiling myself in the bathtub like a giant shiny red lobster 020 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026still holding out for an ai that can complete the system of German Idealism 050 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026delighted everything about august is done with for another year -- but for the peaches. in my typical hubris bought a few this week, hoping to mark the end of summer, but they are just a little pithy; their juice tastes like the memory of peaches. 030 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026learning to code in python, but in a "millennial getting into fibre arts" kind of way 020 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026exciting new alt-ac opportunity just dropped 120 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 05/08/2026guy in thé park chain smoking and blasting Patsy Cline from a tiny speaker. August crashout season has begun in earnest 020 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 28/05/2026it's academic manqué summer: i'm getting into meditation. i'm writing a novel. i'm buying leather pants and starting a noise project. 030 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 22/01/2026still can't run but i'm a cross-country ski guy now (went last weekend for the second time in my life, ever) and i am pleased to report that it has (mostly) fixed me 130 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 22/01/2026the "readings tbd" note in my syllabus under the heading, "The End of Human Rights?" looking increasingly ominous rn 010 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 03/01/2026making some last-minute syllabus emendations to the course on international relations and political theory i'm teaching this semester, might get a little topical with it 020 0
Reposted by Aberdeen Berryerinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 12/08/2025 the horrors persist, but so do the poor quality and unhinged nature of my Middlemarch memes 58219 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 08/08/2025immersing myself in the austere beauty of quantitative political science 020 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 30/05/2025my father is living out his retirement like a character in an eighteenth century novel of ideas, literally “tending to his garden,” cutting narrow pathways through the woods, cultivating a metaphorical balance between the chaos of nature and the order of reason— 110 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 03/04/2025the news is grotesque and terrifying, but panic isn’t going to make anything better. go volunteer to canvass or sth (this is what i’ve been doing) 000 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 03/04/2025flopping on the sleep, but the other part is going well. 100 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 04/03/2025exciting news -- now i am free to take the name of abrdn for myself. surely this rebrand will help me break into the academic job market. 0141 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 17/02/2025can’t run for the indefinite future due to injury but days like today i think getting a pair of cross-country skis would fix me. 040 0
Reposted by Aberdeen BerryJunch @junchgaming.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Amazing article. "More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media ... actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of ..fear and anger... instead of organizing against [our oppressors]." 2222541254 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 04/02/2025embracing a kind of hyper-pragmatism around current events where i sleep for ten hours a night and start getting more politically involved in organizations locally in a moderate, sustainable fashion. 120 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 05/01/2025screaming, crying, gnashing my teeth as i put all them all in the "supplementary readings" folder on mycourses that only i will ever look at 030 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 05/01/2025doing some last-minute syllabus trimming for my seminar that starts tomorrow and somehow there are now even more readings than before 020 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 20/11/2024hello to my dozens of new followers — you have revitalized my long-buried dream of becoming a niche internet micro-celebrity 140 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 07/07/2024at the noise show, feeling like a modern-day des esseintes as i fixate on the aesthetic experience of new sonic textures 020 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 09/06/2024the “A” in LGBTQIA+ stands for “Aesthete” 141 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 08/03/2024unlocked a new level of caffeine addiction where i am either drinking coffee or have a headache 000 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 15/02/2024passed my road test, can't wait to embody the toxic masculine archetype of ryan gosling in drive 120 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 26/01/2024consuming the nice wine at an academic dinner and suddenly i’m talking about fabric textures like the decadent antihero of a nineteenth century symbolist novel 010 0
Reposted by Aberdeen BerryJennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 18/01/2024Wobbly memes rule. 422252665 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 01/01/2024this is the ideal resolution: both concrete and achievable 000 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 01/01/2024my only actual resolution for 2024 is to be more reliable about bringing a bottle of wine for the host when i go to parties 120 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 01/01/2024starting 2024 on the right foot (pun fully intended) by going out for an early-morning run. this is the year where i lean in to virtuous smugness and become Worse in a nebulous but extremely real and viscerally irritating way. 110 0
Reposted by Aberdeen BerryPigeon Dreadful @pigeondreadful.bsky.social · 01/01/2024A favorite genre of vintage New Year greetings: Little Hungover Guys who absolutely wrecked. Plus one drunk moon. I'm guessing these are probably 1910s or 20s. Not sure. 614039 0
Reposted by Aberdeen Berrys. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/12/2023There's more than one way to make a family!aljazeera.comThe South Korean woman who adopted her best friendHow Korean women are rejecting marriage while reimagining what family means in an increasingly lonely, ageing society. 2326 0
Reposted by Aberdeen BerryAdam (human animal)🍉 @forcolumb.us · 19/12/2023Per Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, the only organization that seems to be estimating the number of murdered Palestinians left under the rubble, over 25,000 Palestinians have been murdered by the apartheid regime since October 7. 11310 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 19/12/2023I was in this enviable position until precisely fifteen minutes ago, when a van barreled down the street blasting “last Christmas” at full party volume. 010 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 18/12/2023buying giant glasses so you can have more of a 1970s-era john rawls aesthetic is all fun and games until you’re running in the rain and there’s nothing you can do to stop them from getting completely fogged over 010 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 18/12/20232024 we're getting back into grindposting on main 000 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 18/12/2023Hot Calvinist Fall shading into Hot Calvinist Winter, lfggggg 110 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 14/12/2023[david byrne getting mugged and dragged off into the bushes voice]: uh-oh! 010 0
Aberdeen Berry @aberdeenberry.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Really hope that having a decent amount of teaching under my belt has made me better at dealing with these kinds of issues if I ever have the pleasure of doing a job talk. 110 0