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Kudos to U of Arizona for getting ahead of fraternity felonies. I don’t mean to minimize the horror of Cornell, but I did get the giggles at Sigma Tau Gamma being suspended for making freshman drink large quantities of alcohol (unfunny and dangerous) and live

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Swarm of Goldfish

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watching Outlander Season 4 episode 2. Jamie and Claire have saved slave Rufus from execution. Reminds me of Christa Pike. Execution fails. She is in medical care like Rufus. If the hospital lets her die or hastens it, is it murder? Looks like Claire is going to sedate Rufus & give him up to the mob

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Football 🏈 report. Another mixed week. Brockport won the Courage Bowl 38-28 against St Joh Fisher. Don’t ask why it’s the courage bowl. I do not know. Bye weeks for OR and MS. Two losses. One good, one bad. Sadly, my cousin’s team Purdue took out my Alma mater Illinois😭 That’s Altgeld hall where

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Illinois Basketball: Alma Mater Statue Masked

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Susan @smocarski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Go, go, White Sox! How 'bout that Grant Taylor, huh?

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Chicago White Sox Win

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At work, writing a lecture on autism (what a mess!) and watching the Sox Guardians Game. So far so good! The reflection on my picture of Comiskey reveals the President’s house and a beautiful fall day

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What’s trippy about Cornell is that it is both an Ivy League school (meaning private) and part SUNY (State University of New York). The premier parts are SUNY (ag school, vet school, human ecology, industrial and labor relations).

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We are all Jane Doe until none of us are.

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So proud of my home state!!!

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My house number is 86, just saying. If Only I had that moon water….

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🏈 report. This was way more fun last year when all my teams won all the time. This year it’s much more random. Among the losers: Illinois, MS, and PSU (but remember PSU is the villain—On Wisconsin!!!!) Illinois lost to Ohio State and does that even count? Can we say inevitable? Speaking of not

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The faeries (e.g. partying college students) stole my moon water last night.

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Moon Night Reflection

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So this happened yesterday and today: the universe winked at me. Sat is my 50th HS reunion. An acquaintance who I have not talked to since 75 invited me to Brunch next Sunday. Not retired, MWF teaching schedule in NY not gonna happen. But it’s nice to be included. Of course I texted my HS besties

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Susan @smocarski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Stop what you’re doing and listen to this! youtube.com/shorts/-lzra...

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Wake up America! We are better than this!

YouTube video by Knights of Molino

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🏈 Report from all 6 of my schools. Illinois 48-10 over S. Illinois, Indiana 38-0 over W KY, OR 84-0 over Portland State, Ole Miss 24-7 over LSU, PSU 55-13 over Buffalo (UB. Currently sitting with 2 UB grads), Brockport 45-10 over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Homecoming) All is right w the world

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Happy Saturday Frog

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Book Review: Russians Among Us: sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and The Hunt for Putin’s Spies by Gordon Corera. #Booksky. This was part of my summer’s book haul from St Luke’s. Episcopalians are readers. It starts with Russia’s illegals program where they planted real spies with elaborate back

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You like me you really like me. Yes always

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am saving The Pit for a special occasion. But I have watched all 14 Seasons of ER. Noah is in my Moral Development lecture. Big fan!

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John Carter's Awkward ER Snack

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Rn I am streaming Ally McBeal and Shrinking. Sorry Harrison didn’t win. (Also sorry Michael Urie didn’t either-back in Twitter days he’d chat with me). But it was great to see them

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Watching the Emmies. Did Jean Smart really not thank Hannah Einbinder who had just lost? Really? How very Deborah Vance of her

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Jean Smart Exercising in HBO's Hacks

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I miss pre-Musk Twitter. There was this woman who? She was from Norway. Who was obsessed with Mariska. Who is she and where did she go?? She hated 2016 Trump. She had an eating disorder, married her g/f and went back to school.

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Football 🏈 Report. The odds defying magic football has run its course. My 6 teams were 3/3 today. Illinois lost to Duke 27-31, OR lost to OK 31-39, and Brockport lost to Hobart and Wm Smith 14-27. But IU trounced Howard 55 zip, MS beat Charlotte 27-3, and PSU beat Temple 27-9

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rochester Red Wing. No outs bases loaded time for a conference

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Why did Michael Cohen go back to Trump or what is wrong with him that he got sucked in not just once but twice? Thoughts?

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|Between The Lines| @frankjones25.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On this Labor Day, please remember Sherrod Brown. He has spent his entire life helping working families. He is running for US Senate this November.

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As I tell my students I like to use all my words. One of my favorite usually muttered or thought expletives is OMFG. Let’s all agree to change it to OMFT.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/09/2026

Haha yeah that potassium is gonna confuse the MAGA.

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

OMG It’s time for my football report. I am an academic nomad. For some reason excellent psychology programs of yore correlate with football success now. I did my undergraduate work at UIUC 76-80 and they beat Alabama Birmingham 42-23. Then I was a duck 🦆 for a year. But OR was too broke

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Big trouble in little China (Brockport) 3 police cars flashing in front of town hall

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reading @nytimes.com which I feel sugar coats and minimizes daily horrors. And yet my experience of being here now is of being impaled with a filthy rusty blade and whimpering get it out, get it out now.

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Book Review: My Struggle Book 3 by Karl Ove Knausgaard. The man wrote a 6 volume memoir. Thematically rather than chronologically organized. Thank goodness his is an easy prose. Book 1 is his coming to terms with his complicated grief over the death of his father. Book 2 relates the challenges of

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Susan @smocarski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you have an iPhone, go to Apple maps, type in “Lake Ontario”, when Lake America appears, click on it, swipe up on the name bar, click “report an issue”, then click “name is wrong” and enter “Lake Ontario”.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So he bankrupted the military too?

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Melissa @nymelb86.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 5 acts you’ve seen live. John Prine John Denver Elton John Jethro Tull Marshal Tucker Neil Sedaka Little River Band Emerson, Lake, and Palmer James Taylor Fleetwood Mac Billy Joel REM (at the Bluebird Bar) John Mellencamp Lyle Lovett Rusted Root Bare naked Ladies

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026

Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🚨🚨🚨🚨WHAT THE FUCK‼️‼️‼️ #Yosemite

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