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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 1h

Currently trying to figure out if shou sugi ban would be a safe way to finish wooden beehives for fungal, pathogen, & mold resistance while also improving humidity & winter insulation, but the only discussions I can find are how pretty it is & how it lessens maintenance time & y'all. We need to talk

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today's lore drop: This was prompted by telling a friend that I was the first person in my high school to ever come out & then 2 years later another girl came out & she got put on the cover of Houston's gay magazine for it, and I was soooo pissed. Also my lesbian "grandmother" was Morgan McFarland

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Polarization is not the problem. The problem: ethnonationalists threatening vulnerable citizens' rights. "The people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists." @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes people disbelieve me when I tell them the most simple thing about my life and I am unexpectedly reminded that, contrary to my own experience of my day to day, my life has probably actually been really fucking weird

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today I read that every generation in the US is drinking less than they did in the past, except for Gen X. Yeah. This tracks.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The teacher was a no show, so I guess I get a week reprieve to cram and try and remember everything I forgot.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ugh, I haven't looked at Greek in months during summer break and it's going to kick my ass when class starts again tomorrow.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Honestly think I just need to be on here less.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Christ, I live in WALES & I have heard this song while out shopping in public. I cannot fathom declaring with my whole chest that I am this averse to existing alongside other people, & everyone proudly reskeeting this to brag they have never heard it should be embarrassed if not downright ashamed.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Academics and scientists, wringing their hands: we don't understand the loss of faith in science! Leadership selling scientists' platforms under a patronage system:

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI propagandists are more willing to believe a computer program feels pain than a woman or black person.

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Logandria @logandria.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At long last, the Artemis silk scarves are here! logandria.com/collections/... Artemis is a goddess of paradoxes and extremes; but she offers us uncompromising clarity of self, and an example of what it looks like to fiercely maintain one’s boundaries and bodily autonomy.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's been too long since I shared bee pics, so please have this picture of what is not actually a bee at all enjoying the beginnings of the ivy bloom.

A picture of a creature that looks very much like a bee on a yellow ivy blossom. It's actually a fly that mimics bees.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With all love to my old friends down the road, it sounds like the military research arm school is *checks notes* doing military research.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Without weighing in directly on the lesbian bar discourse, I'll just say that any of y'all asking in honest confusion "what happened to all the lesbian bars, anyway? where did they all go?" were never lesbians, and we can all tell.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just found a "scientific" book in an academic library that was published by a known vanity press with a mile high stack of criticisms from librarians for its lack of quality, failure to engage in peer-review, and its use of plagiarized public domain sources, and just...what are we even doing here.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'll take a dumb appliance over a smart appliance any day of the week.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In today's version of clever shit ancient people did, please enjoy Columella's advice on how to find a wild swarm of bees to make your own🧵 1) starting a couple of hours after daybreak, find a nice cool spring or stream. Bees like to get drinks and hang out here.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gavin Newsom proudly did a PR piece throwing away homeless peoples' belongings with his own 2 hands. He is a craven opportunist with zero moral compass & there is absolutely zero reason for you to believe he will be less corrupt than the other sociopathic craven opportunists currently running things

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've been beekeeping wrong this whole time.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The small pleasures of historical typography

When they fhrit take up their Habitation in a Hive, they employ themselves for feveral Days in bringing unfavoury Herbs, and fuch as are moft bitter, with which they plaifter and line the Infide of the Hive, and mixing it with the Juice which they fuck from Wormwood, they daub it about

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fun fact: I am possibly about to develop an entire research project around a piece of scientific knowledge that was lost, not because it was wrong, but because it became unfashionable. If follow-up proves my suspicion right, this missing information underlies a contemporary research problem.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Remind me why I thought learning Welsh and Greek simultaneously was a good idea.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Email is so stressful. Like existentially stressful.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Once upon a time, I could have used an internet search engine to discover which ceramic glues are also food safe.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The whole thread, but especially this 👇. Teaching is not simply content delivery, and almost none of the "let's put AI in education" discourse acknowledges that fundamental reality. Probably because it's emanating from everyone except actual teachers.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: Being struck by lightning and losing one eye because of being struck by lightning Ants Rollercoasters

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Good ol' wind up clocks are looking real good these days

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Perimenopause is turning my hair into trash and now I understand why all the old ladies of my grandmothers' generation were obsessed with silk pillowcases.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just read that the Romans believed Alexanders, taken as a liniment and drunk, could cure rabies. I wonder if the one good thing modern medicine could get out of anti-vaxxers is, if they refuse modern medical interventions, to convince them to be test subjects for ancient medicine.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You know what I would like us to remember about 9/11? That before that date, news was on a daily cycle and the ticker tape at the bottom was only for breaking emergencies.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just want my UK and European followers to see this, so they can slap other Europeans upside the head when they inevitably pull out a bunch of ignorant, snarky platitudes about Americans having actually voted in free and fair elections for *waves hands*

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

my bff wrote a book about AI becoming sentient and I blurbed it because it was AMAZING and it’s called THE ENDED WORLD and it comes out THIS WEEK and I am absolutely screaming at the timing @thelibbiegrant.bsky.social

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm not sure I would refer to "the ocean eroded the cliff underneath a house perched on the cliff directly where the ocean crashes against it" as "a sinkhole opened under the driveway," but what do I know. Rich people's relationship to the world is not like ours, and I am ignorant of their geology.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When your abusive, coked-up drunk uncle who spent the milk money shooting craps in a back alley tries to convince the family that Alma left him because she's a hateful, evil crone.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

anyway, yeah, there’s a lot of reasons people don’t trust doctors; MAHA may be a whole invasive weed, but the ground it grows in is fertile

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I dare every chud who thinks the Romans represented the pinnacle of human knowledge to read Aelian.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I am not a classicist, but I find it useful as a historian to read ancient scientific texts because it really makes it clear how badly people read things historically, and how much of our "knowledge" of the ancients is based on dipshit readings by dipshits who didn't know how to read. E.g....

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There are historical experiments in which LSD was given to: Dandelions Cats 5 y/o autistic kids Rita Moreno Hydras Spiders Clare Boothe Luce Schizophrenics US soldiers Prison inmates Andre Previn Psychics Alcoholics Divinity school students Marjorie Cameron Henrietta Lacks' cells Horny guinea pigs

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It is so important for people who are rightfully skeptical of western medical and scientific practices not to get pulled down the far right rabbit hole through that skepticism. Be clear about WHY you are skeptical, what needs scientific practice isn't filling, what world you DO want instead.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just walked past a Welsh old-timer on the street who was dressed exactly like Jed Clampett.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is the Bad Place that you end up in when you make iconoclasm and "edginess" your entire identity.

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do I know anybody in the UK doing history, communications, rhetoric or theology of contemporary witchcraft?

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I see we are once again having debates about the intellectual canon.

Things keep getting better meme:
1. Ancient Greek philosophy & history is canon for a reason
2. Yeah. Racist reasons. Abolish the canon! Read outside of Europe!
3. You can't understand Arabic contributions to modern science and philosophy without Aristotle.
4. Ideas are slutty, go mix mix

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