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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 3h

Is this much cuteness legal?

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 9h

Look at this very dumb flyer that I made for a very cool class!

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 15h

I might be old and still feeling the effects of a migraine, but at least I look cute

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fun new migraine symptom unlocked: having a whole conversation with my partner but having no memory of it at all

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's my birthday! In lieu of presents, I will accept praise and compliments.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I bought myself a (second-hand) slightly fancy automatic espresso machine for my birthday. I assume my whole life will change now.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Perils of living next to a school: I have a migraine and the marching band is practicing

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We can complain about students not showing up for stuff all day, but faculty are just as bad. Case in point: only 2 out of 5 faculty bothered to show up for our program meeting today.

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Wren @satanicwren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Drexel University in Philadelphia is trying to shut down the oldest Natural History Museum in the western hemisphere, privatizing its vast collection. If you care about natural history PLEASE watch this video that tells you how you can help. youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...

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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know that there are more important things to be annoyed about but why does every ignorant keyboard warrior assert that gender studies is a subset of sociology? I’ve taken one sociology course at a community college as a high school senior.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This picture of my dear departed Balrog showed up in my memories today and it’s too cute not to share

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our friend Nick passed away a few weeks ago. He was the 8th person in the world to have a Neuralink chip that enabled him to regain some communication as he declined. ALS is a cruel disease.

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Nicholas Logan Wray – BG Independent News

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wrote 3 pages. Sure there are two long block quotes but I’m counting it!

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s my parents’ 58th wedding anniversary. Which is absolutely nuts.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rewatching Battlestar Galatica and I have to ask: is Elon Musk Gaius Baltar?

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Station (aka Public Universal Floof)

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Webinar is doing an excellent job of comforting me while I’m sick

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ve got the Con Crud (I’m sick after DragonCon).

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My apologies to everyone else on this flight from Atlanta to Pittsburgh, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy was not a great choice for airplane viewing. So gross

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was delighted by this DragonCon cosplay (despite my terrible photo)

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Did you know that if your name appears in the New Yorker, people will email you offering their financial services? Too bad for them that I have no money to service.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s almost the best time of year: DRAGONCON!

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

These sunglasses might be a bit much even for me

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Not thrilled that my migraines now come with intense nausea.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The intoxicating allure of a new research project when you’ve barely started the one you’re working on

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Station is feeling better and is back to his old bullshit. And by bullshit I mean jumping on the kitchen counter and stealing the end of a yellow pepper.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A much needed statement in support of Cofnas’ removal.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Is it wrong that I’m secretly hoping that Trump says something wildly offensive about Dolly Parton’s death? It might just be enough to fully tip the scales against him.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My personal quest is to get higher ed faculty, staff, and admin to stop saying “grandathered in.” We don’t need to refer to the disenfranchisement of black people under Jim Crow when we could just say exempt.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Water is wet. Cats are cute. Hating one group of people makes a person more likely to hate other groups of people. Hating people leads to violence. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

abc.net.au

Misogyny identified as biggest red flag for violent extremism

A new study finds that violent attitudes towards women are not just a social issue but a matter of national security.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Spent 4 hours at the emergency vet with my Station. He wasn’t eating at all but was throwing up a lot. They think it’s a respiratory infection. Send good vibes to the fluffiest and sweetest cat there is.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I love that there are so many grad students who want me to be on their dissertation committees! But as a program administrator and non-tenure-track faculty, I hate that I have to turn most of them down.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I submitted the Spring 2027 schedule 3 days early, what do I win?

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Am I confused or is this job’s main function to match right-wing students with right-wing faculty? networks.h-net.org/jobs/70242/j...

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Johns Hopkins University - Executive Director | H-Net

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Kelly Watson @kellylwatson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Sometimes I imagine my cats as a family band called Silky Sister and the Fuzz Brothers

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