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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just joined a queer marching band where I’m learning to play the glockenspiel. Keeping my brain and body busy doing hard things!

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My experience with TPL ticket ex events is that it’s very loose. Show up early and see if you can get in. I wish I could go!

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Bear Mountain Picnic @bearmountainpicnic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm not saying anything is goimg to happen with the Blue Jays this year, but nothing makes this team act like they're capable of something like sweeping the Yankees.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

static.klipy.com

Heathers Croquet Game

ALT: Heathers Croquet Game

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Absolutely. The PhD is no ticket to gainful employment

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I have a PhD in unemployment. Definitely not one of those fat cat Econ PhDs

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Econ PhDs still have pretty good job prospects, unlike most other PhDs.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This book, and Bruce La Bruce more generally, may have subconsciously influenced my decision to move to Canada from Southern California for grad school.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

What did you think of the game?

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Whoa we were also in 114. I’m sure I walked right past you and didn’t realize! It was a fantastic game! Can’t wait for more.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Right with you. Going to my first game this weekend! The energy so far this season has been so good ⚡️

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

not complicated

a beer on a bar facing outwards in a window

love walkable neighbourhoods so l can easily grab a beverage or a bite to eat.
No big conspiracy I just don't wanna go far for stuff.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It looks like a restructured pop can

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Weather so good we turned into Montréal!

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Tepary. Rancho Gordo rarely has them in stock but Tepary beans make a sublime dip when I can get my hands on them.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

An orange tabby cats rests his head on a red and yellow striped duvet. A Hello Kitty Squishmallow is in the background.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Have been saying this at work as the whole place gives in to AI as “inevitable”

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

That music class is still being offered. It’s actually called Music in American Cultures

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me 5 classes you took in college: 1. Intro Czech 2. African-American Art History 3. Physics for Poets 4. Mixed-media Art 5. Intro to American Music There was a lot of art in my liberal arts education.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

*potato chips! Edit button, where art thou?

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Toronto comfort foods: Covered Bridge potatoes chips and Jamaican patties

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 27/12/2025

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Baseball is mostly about failing more often than not and shaking it off. It’s why it’s the best sport for teaching you how to live

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I read the first bit and I am already hooked!

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Yes! I saw it for the first time a few weeks ago and found it fascinating.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I believe that’s called heat stroke. Hydrate!

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

If it weren’t 92 degrees with humidity here, I too would be on yet another mental health walk. I appreciate your reminders that we’re all suffering in this together

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now— —While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

In the meantime, I’d say you should come visit me in Canada but getting back in to the US might pose its own problems. It’s so upsetting to type these words

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I get that folks might want to replicate the primarily visual experience of instagram, but I think it’s worth exploring what a mix of text and visual content looks like. I like your thoughts as much as I like your images!

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Oh to be a fly on the wall of your mom’s ceramics class

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How can I comment if I don’t know your handle there!?!

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I was aware of the screenshotted person, but not of anyone else in particular. Who are some of the sources you find most credible?

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you were a local in So Cal, you had a Thomas Guide in the car at all times to help you find that exact venue in Irvine.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I’m also a fan of One Pan, Two Plates: Vegetarian Suppers: More Than 70 Weeknight Meals for Two by Carla Snyder

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Joe Yonan’s Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook has lots of easy recipes with interesting flavours

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Oh hi fellow lover of sunny reality tv! Let’s be friends!

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Maybe his name is Serge-François

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Exactly my type. I suspect you’d strike gold with that ad.

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

In the early 00s, drove 4+ hours across a border to see Mirah and Dear Nora at Bard College only to be greeted by hand-written sign: “Mirah cancelled forever and ever”

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Dr Jess, PhD @contrarywise.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

I think about this with AI being pushed as the answer to every problem. It isn’t labour-saving, it just reshuffles the work slightly differently

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