Mik

Rhetorician; drug scholar writing about science/culture/expertise/boundary work/psychedelics. I only get on here bc my students found my twitter.

[naku @nakukinen]

ADHD is an extremely embarrassing disorder to have. Sorry I have the condition that makes me play games instead of doing work

[Eve @evek181818]

my psychiatrist: "so I just want to acknowledge before, when you said you were doing nothing with your life - you just earned a master's degree 3 months ago"
me: "yeah but any idiot can get a master's degree"
my psychiatrist (sighing): "no."

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[I appreciate you. @DeeLaSheeArt]

Why would I need AI to summarize my texts and emails?! I can read. They are getting so invasive and overwhelming with the AI shit

[Andy Staples @AndyStaples]

If you want a bowl game to mean something — the game, not the matchup — then you must do one of two things.

1. Play the game in Pasadena so the sun sets in the third quarter.

2. Ritually sacrifice an anthropomorphic breakfast pastry and let the winning team devour the corpse.

[michael @FilledwithUrine]

they should invent an election where you watch the results and don’t want to kiII yourself

[Nick Manes @nickrmanes]

CNN should let Anderson Cooper get drunk on election night

[Weigel's @weigelsstores]

Vandy, if you can finish this we’ll take back every roast we’ve ever sent your way and build a store in the middle of downtown Nashville.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Crucial reminder right now:

[Mik @mikknack5]

Georgia (where I live) is on fire and Appalachia (where I call home) is under water. Nashville (where I was born) is crushing under the weight of gentrification.

But alas, I’ll pay rent on the first or whatever 🙄

[Mik @mikknack5]

As with every time I get on here to bash the utility provider, I want to make one thing ABUNDANTLY clear—I have nothing but respect for the linemen, customer service workers, and all other frontline workers handling this situation. Georgia Power’s problems are in the boardroom.

[Mik @mikknack5]

Lost power here in Athens, GA HOURS before where #hurricanehelene made landfall because @GeorgiaPower is fundamentally incapable

[Michael Koch (WGW) @WeatherGoinWILD]

Power is now OUT in #Perry #Florida as the eye wall of #Hurricane #Helene pushes in!!

[Mik @mikknack5]

The roots don’t have to be yours for you to learn ‘em. But you do have to learn ‘em before you talk to the branches.

[Mik @mikknack5]

Heard country music is having a “resurgence.” To all you new listeners: let me know when you can do back to back karaoke of the Dolly Parton and then the Osborn Brothers versions of Rocky Top with correct articulation that isn’t insulting and doesn’t serve “fake accent.”

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

TIM WALZ: I'd put Bob Seger's catalogue up there against anybody else's.

JD VANCE: People who use libraries should be sterilized.

RFK JR.: Bigfoot is real and I shot him with a crossbow in 1997.

[The Sopranos Guy™ @uncle_june]

Me: "Who am I to judge?"

Also me:

[Mik @mikknack5]

Currently writing a paper about NAGPRA and I just want to say thank you to all the law review authors out there. Y’all write with so much clarity and precision about regulatory developments. Absolute lifesaver.

[Mik @mikknack5]

Answering emails like

“Sorry for the delay in response! I have a complete and total apathy for everything!

I don’t know what the point of any of this is! I don’t want to do it anyone!

Sorry for any inconvenience caused by you hating me, which you definitely do!

Sincerely,”