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colleen wood

@colleenwood.rocks
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I teach political science at a big community college in Minnesota. I study digital politics and authoritarianism in Central Asia. Opinions expressed here are mine; views do not reflect the state of Minnesota or U.S. government.

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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 01/09/2026
Y'all I got a 5th place ribbon at the Minnesota State Fair for my savory scones!! Finally got to wander through the Creative Activities building today to see all the the amazing things Minnesotans have made this year
Lady in a light blue sleeveless shirt poses next to a display case filled with scones and intricately decorated cakesA hand holding a golden (slightly singed) triangular scone in front of blurred background of blue and yellow flags, fluffy clouds, and crosswalk
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 24/08/2026
me picking up the copy of the power broker i abandoned this summer bc of the bqe video
still from Mean Girls where side character wearing a pink sweater + her hair half up says I saw Cady Heron wearing Army pants and flip flops so I bought Army pants and flip flops
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 23/08/2026
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“[T]hese guidelines afford students the freedom to think for themselves, to listen to one another without the cacophony of other (disembodied and non-human) voices in the room, to make mistakes, and to change their minds as they engage with thinkers of the past, with us, and with their fellow students in good faith, face-to-face,” the SSCD memo reads.
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 16/08/2026
Book cover for Kathy Cramer's The Politics of Resentment. Pastel yellow background. Two images nested in an outline of Wisconsin; top half is a red farm and cornfield, bottom half is a blue pinstripe suit with a red VOTE button
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 14/07/2026
yum town!!!! i think i might go for more frosting (or a thicker frosting? probably need to go to a special grocery store to get Smetana Smetana instead of sour cream) and am tempted to play with spices but pleased with the first effort
8 thin layers of golden brown cake in between white layers of frosting on a marbled blue/white plate in front of a shelf with tea cups and cocktail-making vessels
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 13/07/2026
it was 93 degrees today, we don't have AC, but for some reason i was inspired to practice one of my state fair bakes: medovik. absolutely melted for hours, but hoping it's tasty (it has to sit in the fridge over night so the filling can soak into the eight [8] layers!)
close up of a small pot filled with a golden goo and a whiskmarbled blue and white plate with a cake on top - cake covered in white frosting, chunks of golden brown cookie dust on the edges and top. potions of the caribbean cookbook in the backgroundtop-down view of a kitchen counter: half a metal bowl filled with whipped sour cream, half a teal kitchenaid, a blue and white marbled plate with a circular dark golden layer of cake and a spatula with a gob of the whipped sour cream
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 30/05/2026
love the plug for local fish markets and Soviet history
screenshot of google search result for "how many days of the week have a fish in them" with the answer saying Tuesday and Thursday *literally* contain the letters f-i-s-h. And a random plug on the right for Thursday being fish day in the USSR
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 30/05/2026
alright time to draft syllabus language instructing students not to use google for coursework
screenshot of a google search "how many days of the week have a fish in them" with the AI overview saying two days have the word 'fish' in them: Tuesday and Thursday
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 17/05/2026
It's not a new term, Levitsky and Way's 2010 book is named after an article they wrote in 2002. Competitive like "authoritarians hold elections and face opposition," just the rules of the game are stacked in the regime's favor
Book cover for Levitsky and Way's Competitive Authoritarianism with the title in white font over red bands + an image of a police officer with a baton standing over a protester on the ground and a man with a mustache holding back a younger man trying to intervene
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 10/05/2026
Real footage of me trying to explain this exact thing to a bar trivia host - the question was something about "what foreign food word means 'to spin'" and they didn't give points for döner. That man did not want an etymology lesson but boy did he get one (and I got $20)
meme of young woman with her arm around a young man's shoulder, her mouth open and gesturing outwards. man's face gives expression "i don't care"
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 08/05/2026
Zongker's Chicken Chicken Chicken leveled up
It looks like an academic article written by Doug Zongker but *EVERY* word is chicken. There's a graphic with arrows and boxes and every figure in the graphic is labeled Chicken
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 27/01/2026
double digit above-0 temps after days of double digit below-0 temps there was no sun, a real monday of a monday, the horrors are heavy, but dang: warm
freshly divorced nicole kidman greets the day with arms wide open
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 03/01/2026
There's a guy named STEVE G who does hints for Spelling Bee every day, I'm obsessed with him (well, moreso the rest of the Spelling Bee community commenters' obsession with him - Jan 1 was just people wishing Steve G a happy 2026). Steve G who are you??? Magazine profile of Steve G when???
Screenshot of posts from January 1 spelling bee "Community" page -- first comment is by STEVE G from Fairport, NY. He breaks down the words in the puzzle by first two letters of the word + number of letters in the word. He uses a diamond emoji to signify that the hint is "tough." The ones on the screenshot range from AN, AT, CA, and CLTwo people commented on Spelling Bee community page to wish @STEVE G a happy 2026. The first comment by Trudy from Idaho says her husband passed away 13 days prior + that Steve brought laughter back to her life today.
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 10/11/2025
a friend from college works on AI for education at google and every time i see stuff like this, i'm so bummed, because she had such a thoughtful, passionate approach to her education and has sold out for fancy clothes to hollow out young peoples' minds
ad on google with a picture of a triangle with a 56 degree angle and unknown x; text of ad says "get help with your toughest homework problems and more." a blue button says try it; a white button says not interested
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 12/09/2025
how the semester's going, end of week 3
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 12/08/2025
Timeline cleanse: my dearest dearest friend got married this weekend and I helped make her bouquet from flowers her housemate grew in their garden
An arm extended over a green lawn holds a bouquet with a sunflower in the middle, pink amaranth bending, and sprigs of dill flowers, tomato greens, and onion flowers extend above the sunflower
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 12/08/2025
The words NUR-SULTAN are in white as an installation in a park in Kazakhstan's capital. Two statues of women in traditional dresses flank either side
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 23/04/2025
All I can think when I see MAHA is Amanda Bynes
Boy with brown hair on the left, girl dressed as old woman with braces, blue hat, and pastel sweater with pompoms with her mouth wide open
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 07/04/2025
It's giving
Melania Trump in a beige trench coat stands at a podium in front of a large white sign that reads BE BEST in red and blue letters
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colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks · 30/03/2025
Me reading this essay about feeling haunted by paranoia that student writing is AI + giving shape to the spidey sense of knowing when I'm reading genAI text
Leonardo DiCaprio in a yellow t-shirt with a beer and cigarette in one hand gestures forward with his index finger
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