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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If someone asked you on a date to go on a midday boat ride on Lake Lanier are you going or nah?

Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Jhene really said on that Ceilings (Freestyle), “And you’re the type of bitch only a mother could make when the daddy don’t stay.” If I were Big Sean I would get on one of them Bezos and go to outer space. Ain’t no sense in staying on earth bruv.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Later on he tells me that he is a recovering avoidant attachment style and I said “That makes sense.” So riddle me this, this is a man dating someone, right?

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Earlier today I was talking to a guy I’m curious about. As we catching up on what we’ve both been up to he mentions that he went to Cancún with someone. I said “someone like a friend or???” He chuckled and was like “it was just to celebrate some milestones.” I said “you are so mysterious”…

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Actually I confused Adults with Not Suitable for Work which is so similar but thank goodness they are different and we are more likely to get Adults back.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just finished watching Adults earlier and I’ve already started it over again because what a great show and what a loss! People wouldn’t know good TV if one fell from a window on their heads.

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Adults Adults Fx

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am happy to announce that after many days and nights of scratching my head, and trying to get my arm leg coordination together, I finally know how to do the Passinho do Jamal!!!

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m watching Obsession for the third time and this shit is scary like the first time. Whew! Imma have to watch a cartoon before bed

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Nikki from Obsession Walking Backwards

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I don’t know, I’m starting to feel like Melanie is the drama. She has heat for EVERYONE! #loveislandreunion

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Right! Maybe all the hair is putting pressure on her eyeballs? 😂

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm watching the Love Island reunion, and I'm not gonna front, I got kinda emotional watching them get their phones back and seeing how the world has been reacting to them. Even down to them seeing how many followers they got. Imagine going from being unknown to globally known #loveislandreunion

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’ll officially keep track because they will submit the relevant pages with their précis and midterm paper assignments but I’ll also do random checks via class discussion that will encourage them to return to the commonplace. I’ll also most likely have them write in it during class and process out

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fingers crossed indeed. I’m implementing it as well for the same reason and as a way to mitigate AI usage. The Commonplace is a part of “showing work” that I am requiring for their precis and papers. I really want to cultivate the more analog and reflective processing practices.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is what a friend sent me yesterday and I've been down a rabbit hole looking at how to adapt it for my class. It's essentially an ideas journal--not for lecture notes, not a diary, but where students process their thinking about readings academictech.uchicago.edu/2024/06/24/u...

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Use Commonplacing to Help Students Better Understand Difficult Texts: Habits of Mind Series, Part One | Academic Technology Solutions

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

BlueSky professor friends, do any of you use Commonplace Journals in your classes, and if so, do you make it part of the grade?

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In the year of our Lourdes 2026, it is privilege to read, think, and write in the spaces where you can still read the things that may be restricted or banned elsewhere. So I'mma assign the reading, the writing, and thinking like it could be the last time I get to and I hope they treat it like that

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm sitting here putting the finishing touches on the syllabus and worrying about assigning too much reading until I realized. Our ancestors would have loved to freely learn to read and think about what they read, and to write without fear of repercussions.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This new Erykah Badu is the medicine the people need.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Do I have any BlueSky friends with digital access to Catherine Cornille's book, The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue? I need a copy of the Humility chapter.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ciara is the fakest! Girl go get on Seeking Arrangements like a normal sugar baby. #libuk

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Shawn is the worst, you can see it in his eyes—and not just because the lens are hella thick and magnified. He’s a spiteful man with deep insecurities and I hope he tends to those before he goes back outside. #MAFS

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The check for $99,999 would feel like a hug, make it easier to go on vacation which would give me a break so, the 5 figure check for sure. Do we have a candidate out here running on a $99,999 basic income platform???

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I must go back to Grenada for Spicemas to play Jab again next year so I’m letting the universe know now, open the doors that need to be opened so someone can Grenada me please!

Picture of woman “playing ah Jab” in which she is covered in black oil and wearing a horned helmet

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wow, and adding 2 drinks per person for an extra $20 is practically giving the meal away

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Not Dolly Parton being made to put on her long white robe and cowboy boots to transition into working 9-5 in the next realm. Has the Grim Reaper no vision?!

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Also the best investment I made this summer was in an AMC A-List membership. Me and the movies been so locked in because the theatre is the only other place outside of mass where I can just focus on the thing in front of me. So I guess Nicole Kidman in her shiny suit was kinda right

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Another Monday, another AMC Scream Unseen and it better not be Buddy.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Bonnets and headscarves always wanna go missing when you are ready to go to bed 😤

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When the camera is not on her I’m like “what are we doing, the film is losing focus, lock in!”

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Watching Mother Mary and all I can focus on is the utterly striking beauty of Michaela Coel and how iconic a run of movies Anne Hathaway had this year

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Being in bed by 10pm is the most elite flex for an adult. Sincerely an adult currently in bed and about to go night night.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

They say men are not lonely enough, but I say we need to start making them feel loneliness acutely.

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Celie Until You Do Right By Me

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"In Seattle, you're a 10, but in NY, you'd be a 7." Shawn, the man who in both places probably is no higher than a 4. #mafs

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If Insidious: Out of the Further does nothing else it’s gonna keep people away from their routine dental appointments

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I found Eve's sitcom on Tubi, and I've been stuck ever since. This show was so cute.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

why come on the show? And maybe I am the prude or the problem here but this is literally a different circumstance. They are strangers who got married, it's not unreasonable that there is a warm up period and to suggest that marriage means full access feels like the beginning of a problem.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Recently, I was talking to someone about Married at First Sight's Shawn and Nikki, particularly about how freaked out Shawn is and how much I felt he pressured Nikki for physical intimacy. This person said, "They're married!" Meaning, because they are married, Nikki shoulda been ready or else...

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Black academics need to start taking our leave from the academy and leave the academy of whiteness to its own fucked up devices. I’ll be honest in saying, if y’all want to make the academy great again, you can have it. You cannot have another one of our lives in exchange for your toxicity.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It wrestles with our belief in recovery, redemption, forgiveness, and whether all we say about love is actually so.

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I don’t remember the reaction to this film but I can appreciate the moral complexity of it. If you found out the worst thing your soon to be spouse ever did was something reprehensible, yet they have never done anything like that again, could you still love and marry them?

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Like it should be an actual crime to have children act to simulate the most graphic means of death. It was sickening and midway I remembered Roth was the sicko who gave us Hostel. Ice Cream Man was so violent that it made no sense

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man was absolutely awful! I saw it through a Scream Unseen ticket where you get the ticket knowing it is a movie that has yet to be released but you don’t find out what the movie is until it starts playing. When Roth popped up and said “Ice Cream Man” I was pissed

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Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And by barely, this may be the only platform where it’s there and it’s because, to me, this is the only platform where that kind of makes sense since alot of the scholars are here. Otherwise, in other spaces, I’m my name or insert clever username

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

When did we start putting M. Div behind our names? I’m asking because I’m not gonna start if this is thing. I barely put PhD behind my name

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Tonight I am going to see the first Harry Potter for the first time ever and at Cosm Atlanta. Am I in for a total treat or nah?

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