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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 9h

I haven't stopped thinking about You Can See Everything since I saw it last night. I dreamed about it, woke up thinking about it, and am still thinking about it. Follow me on Letterboxd letterboxd.com/peachiesmeechie/

My Letterboxd review of the movie You Can See Everything. 5 stars. "I was on the edge of my seat! Emotionally, I still am. [two individual eyeball emojis above the lips emoji"

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm pleased to share "OnlyFans Digital Threats," my contribution to the Sage Encyclopedia of Crime and Gender about sexual, psychological, and financial victimization related to OnlyFans and challenges to prevention. 🤓 DM me if you'd like to read it, or you can find it at doi.org/10.4135/9781...

Cover of the Sage Encyclopedia of Crime and Gender

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September reading wrap-up 📚 Follow me on fable fable.co/fabler/rache...

Covers of books I read this month along with ratings out of 5.
Don’t Be Evil by Claire Stapleton (5)
A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper (4)
Strangers by Belle Burden (4)
Endling by Maria Reva (4)
Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash (3.5)
The Frenzy by Joyce Carol Oates (4)

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It’s really interesting! My dialect map shows I talk like people from the southwest, but it looks like other people from the little corner of Tennessee I’m from got the same result!

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

August reading wrap-up 📚 Follow me on fable fable.co/fabler/rache...

Book covers along with ratings out of five:
Such a Bad Influence by Olivia Muenter (4)
Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor (5)
Little One by Olivia Muenter (3)
Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper (3)
Land by Maggie O’Farrell (4)
The Book of George by Kate Greathead (4)

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

An update, since this is a longitudinal study.

Text written on the wall of a public bathroom. Much of the original text has faded. "What is the best sex position?" Options (with number of tally marks in parentheses): Backwards Cowgirl (1), Doggy (10), Cleveland Steamer (0), Mating Press! (2), 69 (0), Pegging (0), Lotus (1), Scissoring (0), Whatever Has Your Mom In It [smiley face]

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm pleased to share my chapter in the Handbook on State Criminality, “Digital Sovereignty, Material Atrocities: Social Media Corporations as State Criminal Actors." The topic feels more urgent and relevant today than ever. doi.org/10.4337/9781... #sociology #criminology @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

July Reading Wrap-Up 📚 Follow me on Fable! fable.co/fabler/rache...

Covers of books along with my rating out of 5.
The Adjunct by Maria Adelmann (5)
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (4)
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn (5)
This Land Is Your Land by Beverly Gage (5)
Brawler by Lauren Groff (4)

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Adjunct by Maria Adelmann tore out my heart, forced me to look at it à la "Clockwork Orange," then forced me to eat it.

Image of the cover of The Adjunct by Maria Adelmann, with my five-star rating above it.

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The person who chose the art for this DC hotel needs to be stopped. 🫣🤣

Photo shows a shelf wall full of odd art and objects.

Zoomed in photo of one of the artworks, which shows MLK in a sideways baseball cap with an earring and gold necklace…

Zoomed in photo of one of the artworks, which shows former president Barack Obama in a wifebeater tank top with a gold necklace and undercut dreadlocks tied up in a bun…

Zoomed in photo of one of the artworks, which shows JFK with a pencil-thin goatee and floppy Gen Z haircut

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Baby bear snuggling with her mama 😭 If you aren’t watching the @explore.org Katmai Falls livestream, what are you doing with your life? www.youtube.com/live/J7ZrIDv...

Yearling cub sitting behind her mother with her arms wrapped around her back in a bear hug

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

June reading wrap-up 📚 Follow me on Fable! fable.co/fabler/rache...

Collage of book covers along with rating out of 5.
Murdered Bimbo by Rebecca Novack (3.5)
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood (4)
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (4)
American Fantasy by Emma Straub (3)

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Blessed to live in Dolly Parton’s America 🫡🦋✨🎼💖

Three-tiered light fixture covered in colorful rhinestone guitars and banjos.

Art on the wall depicting Dolly riding a songbird while singing and holding a lasso.

Mirror selfie in the bathroom featuring photos of Dolly in the background

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

May Reading Wrap-Up 📚 Follow me on Fable! fable.co/fabler/rache...

Photo of each book cover with rating out of 5
Girls Play Dead by Jen Percy (4)
Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino (4)
Delusions by Cazzie David (4)
This is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman (3)
White on White by Aysegül Savas (4)
The Anthropologists Aysegül Savas (4)
The Sofa by Sam Munson (3)
Introduction to Sociological Theory by Michele Dillon (4)

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses Has Finally Come” by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social 🔥 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

Excerpt from the article: Witherspoon, Robbins and Grede are archetypes for dreams too long deferred.
Their brands promised us that in a scary world all we needed was a little bit more money to be less afraid. That message belies the truth that women can see with their own eyes. Once, women bought into their message. They earned educational credentials only to be told that they shut men out of schooling. They delayed childbearing to start competitive careers; now their political leaders are telling them that they're failing at making enough babies.
They started businesses and brands and built side hustles; now they're being told that they did not do it enough or the right way or for the right people.

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My spark bird was this Eastern Bluebird I saw back in April 2024. He landed on my driver's side mirror in the parking lot at work with a juicy grub in his beak, then flew into a nearby tree to enjoy it. ✨🐛🐦🌳💙 #birdsky

Photo of a branch, upon which is perched a brilliant royal bluebird with warm red-brown feathers on its chest. In its beak is a juicy grub.

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The Merlin Bird ID app from @cornellbirds.bsky.social has made me into a casual birdwatcher. 🤓 Today, this gorgeous American Goldfinch swooped by my car in a parking lot, so I pulled into a nearby spot, rolled down my windows, and tuned in to the birdsongs in the treetops. 🎶🐥🪹😌💕 #birdsky

Photo of a tree branch, upon which is sitting a small finch with brilliant yellow coloring, shiny black feathers on its forehead and wings, and a few white markings.

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

April reading wrap-up 📚 Follow me on Fable at fable.co/fabler/rache...

Covers of books I read in April along with ratings out of five.
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy (4)
Maame by Jessica George (4)
The Waterbearers by Sasha Bonét (5)
Gunk by Saba Sams (4)
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (4)

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

😙🤌 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/b...

Screenshot of the reader’s question and the first paragraph of the columnist’s response:

Ever since my 40-year-old boss discovered ChatGPT, he's running everything through it, even asking it to write drajts and analyze documents. I'm going on 60 and have spent my entire work life relying on my brain and bona fide resources to do my work.
Now, I'll write up a draft of something, and I'll hear, "OK, just run that through ChatGPT." Or "Can you ask ChatGPT if XYZ?" I've explained that ChatGPT is NOT always correct, and have literally pointed to specific examples. Also, I'll give him a draft of something that I wrote, and he'll revise it, via ChatGPT, and ask me to review an often completely inappropriate, lengthy off-point rendition.
Help!
Anonymous

A tragic fact about bosses is that many of them have never built up a natural immune defense to "stupid ideas." Because of this, a boss opening LinkedIn can be like a young child attending day care for the first time. An insufficiently immunized supervisor can send an entire business into a tailspin by merely glancing at a post consisting of single-sentence paragraphs.

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Finally, some serious journalism (non-sarcastic). www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Indeed, among roughly two dozen workers and regulars interviewed this week at Rome's three Waffle House locations, none said they were aware of anyone traveling to the 24-hour restaurants by paranormal means, despite their reputation as powerful magnets for the sort of idiosyncratic characters who tend to surf the psychic fringes of the American South.

Grant Sikes, 20, a student at nearby Berry College who hopes to attend an Episcopal seminary one day, said that divine power, from his experience, expressed itself in more subtle ways. He said he felt the presence of God at that moment, as he wrapped up a late, mellow breakfast with his grandfather, Larry Kellogg, 83.
Austin Spears, 29, a land surveyor, also found Mr. Phillips's story to be dubious. But he also acknowledged that all human lives are studded with little mysteries.
"I can say I've been drunk and ended up in a Waffle House," Mr. Spears said. "Don't know how I got there. But I was there."

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

A little public [bathroom] sociology for your feed, courtesy of students at MTSU. 📊

Text written on the wall of a public bathroom. “What is the best sex position?” Options (with number of tally marks in parentheses): Missionary (2), Cowgirl (1), Doggy (7), Other (Cleveland Steamer, Mating Press!, 69, Smooching, Pegging)

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

February reading wrap-up 📚📖

Book covers and ratings out of 5.
Awake by Jen Hatmaker (4)
The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto (4)
The Trees by Percival Everett (5)
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante (4)
Vigil by George Saunders (4)
Sam by Allegra Goodman (4)

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

⚠️ WARNING: Weirdly disturbing image. ⚠️ In case you’re wondering how things are going on Facebook, this just popped up on my feed against my will. For algorithmic context, I refuse to click on any reels, but it keeps showing me increasingly unhinged thumbnails in the hopes that I’ll cave.

Screenshot of my Facebook feed. Thumbnail for a reel depicting what appears to be an AI-generated, humanoid vulva clipping her (?) toenails in a spa, happy as can be.

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This is CRAZY. Very “99 Luftballons” coded. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

Screenshot of a NY Times headline “Closing of El Paso Airspace Adds to Tension Between F.A.A. and Pentagon.”

Description underneath reads: The Federal Aviation Administration is charged with flight safety, and the Defense Department with national security. Those missions keep colliding.

Screenshot of a paragraph from the article reading: But the episode turned bizarre when C.B.P. officials used the technology on what they thought was a cartel drone earlier this week but appeared to have been a party balloon, according to two officials. Defense Department officials were present at the incident.

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Tag yourself, I’m all of them 👹

Replica of a set of menko (OG pogs) depicting various yokai, or Japanese monsters, entitled “New Playful Monster Collection” by Haseg Konobu, from the Edo period or later.

Replica of a set of menko (OG pogs) depicting various yokai, or Japanese monsters, entitled “Great New Monster Collection” by an unknown artist, from the Meiji period.

Replica of a set of menko (OG pogs) depicting various yokai, or Japanese monsters, entitled “New Monster Collection” by Utagawa Kunitoshi (1888).

Replica of a set of menko (OG pogs) depicting various yokai, or Japanese monsters, entitled “New Edition Monster Collection” by Tsuyamaru, from the Edo period.

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Just got this incredible newspaper clipping from my dad of me and my sister 😂☠️🥛📰

Newspaper clipping of an old ad featuring a photo of my sister (left) and me (right) as children holding a wine glass full of milk and sporting barely visible milk mustaches. Text reads “Bank on Dairy. Dairy month June 1999. From the farm to the refrigerator, the dairy industry continues the tradition of building a strong and healthy America. Meigs County Bank joins with our community in saying thank you, not only during Dairy Month, but throughout the entire year. MCB, a Regions Bank”

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

January reading wrap-up 📚 fable.co/fabler/rache...

Covers of books I read in January along with my rating out of 5.
The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp (5)
Paper Girl by Beth Macy (4)
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang (3)
Discontent by Beatriz Serrano (3)
A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi (3)
After Purity by Sara Moslener (5)

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

“The culture war is an actual war.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Excerpt from the article: For years a certain kind of liberal has either minimized such culture-war
rhetoric coming from the other side or urged political actors of all stripes to ignore it in favor of "material" or "kitchen table" issues—as though the state regarding one's life as "garbage" has no tangible consequence, as if the terms of a fight can be determined by the person getting punched. But Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war. ICE, full of myrmidons of The Homeland, enjoys an $85 billion budget, a sum "larger than the annual military budget of every country in the world except the United States and China," as Caitlin Dickerson reported…

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Please enjoy this photo of a biscuit I made using my mamaw’s recipe. 👩‍🍳💕

Photo of a golden brown, flaky, multilayered biscuit

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Rachel E. Davis @redavisphd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

In a shocking departure from the hawk-like stance of former NYC mayor Eric Adams, who famously declared rats “public enemy number one,” the newly elected Zohran Mamdani has announced peace talks with the Rat King of the city’s sewers, potentially signaling the end of the costly War on Rats.