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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 15h

This woman has more money than god. She could have made herself look like anyone or anything she wanted, and she picked Nosferfuckingatu.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 15h

I mostly avoid saying things about people's appearances, but I am absolutely HAUNTED by Susan Dell and I cannot stop thinking about why the fuck someone would make themselves look like Nosferatu on purpose.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 16h

I would just like the record to show that what she ended up doing actually looked very good and it is important to friendship to help your friends look fire when they go outside!

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 18h

This was what she did to it after my autistic comment

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 20h

Maybe I should start saying "it looks very 'French lady casual'."

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I can't tell if it is because Wales is "rural" (aka a 30 minute drive) or because every carrier in the UK sucks ass or both. I think probably both but

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Getting packages in Wales is like "your package has shipped! Delivery is estimated at 10am tomorrow! Please be present to receive the package" Three days later: package shows up three doors down, sitting on the stoop.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Greek class spent the whole first year mainly just learning grammar, vocab, and reading and we've only really started trying to speak and listen now, so we're being asked to recall like ten things at once

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yeah, reading, listening, & speaking are completely different and I am not a fan of only starting to speak and listen after you have a significant number of operations to perform. Like I can barely understand someone asking one question and you want me to have a whole conversation in 3 tenses?

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My brain has been wanting to use Spanish, which I learned 80 billion years ago, in place of Greek for the entire last year. But now that I'm learning Welsh and Greek concurrently it's like my executive function decided to get serious and it's cordoning much better.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It just occurred to me that a UK chapter of this is probably historically WAY less politically conservative than a US one lol

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fascinating observations from trying to learn two languages simultaneously: There is actually very little difficulty keeping them separate. Everyone in class seems to "get" material at roughly the same pace. Waiting to converse til significant grammar & vocab are attained sucks pedagogically.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm a huge fan of historical textbooks myself. Looking at the way that teaching has changed is absolutely fascinating

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Regretting my decision not to finalize my application lol

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I have the opposite problem and look way sexier and less nerdy than I actually am.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Don't say it don't say it don't say it don't say it don't s

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Mostly they try to do it in Not Summer, but there are definitely road projects happening in Summer.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Every season is un/desirable for different reasons, but there is no season where it is realistically off limits.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We have to talk about the weather in a city we know for Greek class today. So far for Houston I have "There is no spring and autumn, only summer and not summer."

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm sorry that you have muted this and the kid will probably never see Glenn Close's sweater in Fatal Attraction

Glenn Close wearing an excellent chunky 1980s green sweater

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Interesting. I joined the BPL and the Wellcome Library when I first arrived, but I haven't looked into that one yet. They do have a couple of solid libraries where I am, but I'd say maybe only 1/2 of the things I search for are to be had between them.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I was so spoiled at my school in the US and it is just such an adjustment every day

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I mostly love where I live, but getting consistent access to scholarly monographs in the hinterlands sucks.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Once you choose your own name you become a dude

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

No, clearly a trans guy who still hasn't quite realized he is a dude is still merely a Lebowski

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Both things can be true. Dems in the US soft float things so long that people get bored, the right hand plenty of time to develop a counter attack, and the window of opportunity passes by. Being too cowardly to move at an appropriate speed is a real thing.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This feels like a soft float to see how the public responds to the possibility

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I can't believe there aren't any gifs of lesbians eating fire. What do gifs even exist for

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Well at this point it's been like 30 years, but I always got a good reaction back in college when all us cool lesbians were eating fire

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I love how he's laying concrete in his leather work shoes.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It is insane to me that people cannot see this man for what he clearly is.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Like you didn't even have the dig to find that she uses a weighted blanket specifically. The original post you replied to said very clearly I WANT A DUVET

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

She specifically already said she currently uses a weighted blanket and she wants something different. So, no. Suggesting a weighted blanket is asinine, and you should read more attentively.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I would also accept refried beans in migas or huevos rancheros, which are merely variations on this theme.

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Beautiful plate, grim subject: parasitic castration of bees by Stylops, a genus of twisted-wing parasites. It accompanies French zoologist Jean Pérez's 1886 description of the phenomenon. 🐝🗃️ Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library #histbio #histsci #hstm #sts #nature #bees @biodivlibrary.bsky.social

Colour plate with 18 separate figures depicting different stages of parasitic castration of various Andrena bees by Stylops, a genus of obligately endoparasitic insects. Top left: an uninfected male Andrena trimmerana. Top right: an infected male Andrena trimmerana exhibiting external characteristics of a female.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The only style of beans that are allowed to be eaten for breakfast in this house.

Black beans mixed with skillet potatoes, eggs, and sausage, all topped with cilantro, onion, and chilies.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Using real linen for the duvet cover helps with thermoregulation.

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

On picking through it, I'm a bit worried that the drought we had this summer wrecked the berries. I'm planning to check out a second spot I know tomorrow and then turn them into jelly and see how it goes.

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

It's decorative gourd (and wild apple and berry picking season), motherfuckers!

Several wild foraged autumn delights on an olive board, including wild apples, rose hips, Hawthorne berries, and some rosemary I nicked from the neighbor's garden. Not pictured: rowan berries.

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

*wringing hands* I just can't BELIEVE that my AI got loose and deleted every gender marker for every American in every state and federal database, it's just TOO POWERFUL

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

Whoopsie, my AI bought off & forgave all US medical debt Oh no! My Claude accidentally went rogue and deleted every student loan file MY BAD, my Gemini hacked into every immigration database & updated the files so everyone is legal now What do you mean my bot deleted every GOP voter registration?

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

And I am saying this as an animist. I think rocks & the wind are fucking alive. You know what isn't alive? Things we killed in order to make tools. To the extent I am willing to entertain the possibility that a tool constructed from dead materials is alive, these assholes are necromancers.

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