let's have a kiki

PhD candidate. Media scholar-practitioner. Documentarian. Drone pilot. Lover of fresh air, cats, hand-bound books, and tiny versions of larger things.

[let's have a kiki @meeshdre]

Why is @tiktok_us perma banning accounts/creators that haven’t done anything wrong? @TikTokSupport you’re messing with people’s lives and livelihoods here. @tiktokcreators like fitnesshippie deserve better.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW STUDY: Being in a union means a $1.3 million increase in lifetime earnings – larger than the average gains from getting a college degree.

[Saparmurat Niyazov @saparmuratfaux]

Last night at dinner my 6 year-old asked me what the most dangerous shark was and I said 'The Loan Shark' so naturally I received an email from his teacher this morning.

[let's have a kiki @meeshdre]

Please - if you love me - take a minute to vote for us. I really want this new car, y'all. It would be the best new years surprise! We're one of only twelve finalists so we could really do this! Please share widely! https://t.co/Z5vKHKPLEK

[Gravel Institute @GravelInstitute]

A Starbucks store in Buffalo just voted to unionize — the very first location to do so in America! Solidarity to every worker, may their union spread across the country.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Members of the popular subreddit r/antiwork are coordinating to flood Kellogg’s application system and thwart the company’s attempt to hire scabs to replace 1400 striking workers.

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

Now as #COP26  is coming to an end, beware of a tsunami of greenwashing and media spin to somehow frame the outcome as “good”, “progress”, “hopeful” or “a step in the right direction”.

[let's have a kiki @meeshdre]

Like I'm genuinely asking #AcademicTwitter - because I do need to know in the short term. But maybe we could also work in some clearer expectations in the long term. Gotta get the job first!

[let's have a kiki @meeshdre]

What are people actually looking for in academic cover letters? A checklist? Connection? I dunno man. How would it come off if I just made a bulletted list then was like, I know you're not getting paid to be on this search committee, here I saved you 5 min go hug your loved ones.

[let's have a kiki @meeshdre]

Do you want emotional appeals, or are those unprofessional? Unspoken rules have told me both. Unspoken rules, in fact, are kind of the bane of my academic existence.

[Dave Jamieson @jamieson]

A John Deere worker in Waterloo explains why workers are so determined to eliminate the two-tier compensation system that was instituted in 1997, giving new hires lesser benefits:

[Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF) @GTFF_3544]

admins when a professor wants to add an online option to their courses for students' and GEs' health and safety, vs. admins when a professor doesn't wear a mask in class

[Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF) @GTFF_3544]

first day back in pre-COVID capacity lecture halls

[Colby Gordon @badinfinity2]

Removing gender markers from ID would be great for a bunch of practical reasons, but also how much it would piss off the British

[let's have a kiki @meeshdre]

Hey @Gladwell, how you gonna ask folks to use their Discover card to book a tee time? After all we been through in Revisionist History re: golf? Betrayed.

[Tina Vasquez @TheTinaVasquez]

Any journalist worth a damn writes “pregnant people” when reporting broadly on reproductive health, rights, and justice issues—just FYI.

[let's have a kiki @meeshdre]

Are you kidding me with this?? You want to inspire people by minimizing family members' grief while focusing on the fact that the people we've trained as war machines were *delicately* walking "the cases" (note the dehumanization)!?

[let's have a kiki @meeshdre]

.@FrancoOrdonez as a past recipient of a 'dignified transfer' of a loved one killed by the US' colonial efforts, I'm deeply saddened by the way you used language in your reporting to soften the perception of how absolutely gutting, unnecessary, and angering this experience is.

[let's have a kiki @meeshdre]

.@UpFirst "You could hear some family members weeping as their loved ones were carried across the tarmac. It was really hard, but it was also very touching and delicate. The Marines...in their white gloves, walked so softly, toe to heel, carrying the cases across the tarmac."