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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times? (mine’s a tie)

Screenshot of letterboxd entry for the movie Ikiru.

Screenshot of letterboxd entry for the movie The Red Balloon.

Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

joined a book club reading this book. i recently taught my intro sociology course the “linguistic relativity hypothesis,” which states that language shapes our experiences & perceptions. this is a lovely and important example. our world would be so much different if we regarded it in this way.

Cover of a book with a gray and yellow bird on a branch with green leaves snd red and purple berries.

The cover reads:

THE
SERVICEBERRY
Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
AUTHOR OF BRAIDING SWEETGRASS

A picture of a page from the book. The full paragraph on the page states the following with the last sentence circled:

In the Anishinaabe worldview, it's not just fruits that are understood as gifts, rather all of the sustenance that the land provides, from fish to firewood.

Everything that makes our lives possible-the splints for baskets, roots for medicines, the trees whose bodies make our homes, and the pages of our books—is provided by the lives of more-than-human beings.

This is always true whether it's harvested directly from the forest or whether it's mediated by commerce and harvested from the shelves of a store—it all comes from the Earth.

When we speak of these not as things or natural resources or commodities, but as gifts, our whole relationship to the natural world changes.

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i covered the concept of “social constructions” in my intro sociology course yesterday. i used a few examples to try to drive home the point of ideas that have no objective basis like beauty standards, and false claims that become socially accepted like race as biological…

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

found a new friend under my car after work

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

second of the semester 🤷🏻‍♀️🙃

a screenshot of the left side of a email title which has been filled in three rows deep

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i DID end up mentioning Maury Povich (unplanned!) i brought in a clip about the practice of fraternal polyandry (brothers marrying the same woman) in Himachal Pradesh. interviewees in the clip said that when children are born from this union, it doesn’t matter which husband is the bio father…

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

prepping a lecture on culture for my class tomorrow realized if i mention The Jerry Springer Show most of my students probably won’t know the reference

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

gonna be a blue book afternoon

A stack of about 30 blue book exam books that need grading.

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

for context, between my full-time paycheck AND the second job i had, i was not making this much 😭 of course location matters. but i just want to be able to pay my bills and be able to go out to eat or go to a movie every once in awhile.

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

spending the afternoon applying for second jobs, as the one i had has (hopefully temporarily🤞) gone away. i’m grateful to have a FT Assistant Professor job, but the unfortunate reality is that the pay is NOT good so: putting it out into the universe that something that pays well will work out! 💫

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

think about this clip every day

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

an added perk of going all handwritten this semester - stickers!!! (idc that they’re college students, lol. even adults like stickers)

A handwritten “Great job!” in the corner of an assignment. There is a silver star sticker on the paper as well as a sheet of different colors of star shaped stickers on top of the paper.

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

that student stayed after class yesterday. he asked if i could re-explain some things, as he is still struggling with his memory post-concussion. he mentioned this is his fourth concussion. FOURTH?!??? yes, fourth. and he is only taking one semester off from football. HOW is this allowed?????…

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

randomly posting for a good september :)

An old school coffee maker, in a collection of coffee makers on shelves at a coffee shop, but with an odd looking skeleton attachment on it.

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

our HR person/my current student emailed me to say she’d fixed the issue for my insurance. and then emailed me to say she’d missed that an assignment was due for class this past week and asked if i’d re-open it for her. this is so bizarre. lol

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

y’all. i just heard the same person say the following to a class. a grown man ranting about “women’s time of the month” to a room of 18-20 year olds (and in a class on deviance 🙃). WEIRDO behavior. not to mention the biological essentialism and heteronormativity 🥴🥴🥴

A screenshot from the notes app which says: “If you're a man, you may not know yet, that once a month, women get moody. They may get angry. They may be both. For those of you who haven't been in a long term relationship with a woman, you will learn.

For a few days every month, they will be tearful. They will get snippy at you. And then they go back to normal. It's their body chemicals, their brain chemicals. They can't help it.”

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

a student came to my office hours today. i asked her what i could help her with and she said, “Nothin. I just wanted to hang out with you.” lol. she’s a junior and she’s making a point to visit her professors during office hours to get to know them outside of class. we had a nice chat 🙂

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

WTF universe. this back to back is too much

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i used the covid pandemic as an example in my intro to sociology course today - i asked my students what grade in school they were in spring 2020 and most of them said 5th grade 🫠🫠🫠 that feels like it should be mathematically impossible

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

just got out of class. heard some chatter in the hallway - “she died!” - and i was completely unprepared to see who it was ☹️

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i just received an email from a student that comprised of a very long subject line and no additional content. lol.

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

not me having to call my insurance company because of a denied claim and when i told them my birthday, they’re like “that is incorrect” 😶 TURNS OUT my employer incorrectly entered my birth year so now i gotta reach out to the HR person - who is also currently my student! - to fix her mistake 🙃

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

hell yeah!!! i’m also going all in-class hand written homework and blue books this semester!

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

yooo. one of the HR reps from my school is taking my Intro to Sociology course. 👀 (i actually remember meeting her during my interview and her telling me she was taking courses.) i dunno how i feel about her taking my class though (it is an online class btw.) guess we’ll find out! 🙃

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

how is it already sunday 😩

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ugh. any potato is good. but if i had to choose, HOME FRIES

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

omfg - i got a second notice for another student today! that’s TWO students already with concussions and it’s only day one of the semester. (and that’s just out of the students in my classes). smh

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

survived day one! 🎉 (even though i still don’t have all my syllabi done, lol) had my intro class today - they were rowdy! but it went super well (just had to stop a few times to bring them down) but compared to my intro class last fall that was CRICKETS every class, i’ll take rowdy over silent.

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

school year doesn’t even start til tomorrow. and already a student concussion.

Text conveying a student has sustained a concussion

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

last year, getting ready for my first year as faculty, i bought a dressier pair of docs. decided to make new shoes a back-to-school tradition. look at these pink platforms i found! 🤩 (perhaps pushing boundaries of professional 🤷🏻‍♀️ but i found em used at a great price and could not, not get them!)

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

two done 🎉 three to go 😭

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Star keeping me company as i finish writing syllabi

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

one syllabus done and moodle course ready. four to go. by tuesday 🫠

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

survived day one of all-day faculty meetings 🙃 got day two tomorrow 🫠

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the semester starts next week and i don’t have any of my syllabi done yet 🫠

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

watching a live performance of OK Computer i found on youtube. phew. probably my most listened to album in high school, bringing back some memories

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

i generally find the population of months-too-early holiday stuff in the stores ridiculous buuut, this might be an exception! a Monday evening cheers with Ommegang’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Stout: All Hallows Treat 🎃 👻 #BskyBeer

A can of beer, largely orange with Halloween themed images, next to a glass of dark beer.

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