Witch Cabell, PhD

same same

not to be that guy but didn't he take a bit part in the harry potter audiobooks. like, the new ones. recently. a bit part. like he did a few lines on the "i spend my immense profits on anti-trans policy advocacy" lady's latest project for the prestige

…am I gonna have to write the Tracker/Highlander cross-over fic I want to see in the world

(No, Colter is not Immortal. But those fucking weirdo wife kidnappers living off the grid in the Montana wilderness in season two sure were)

New syllabus statement just dropped

An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

Has anyone ever so succinctly captured why grading/giving feedback is hard

Hmmm, did he not hang out with other lawyers? I can’t remember ever thinking this about university professors, which I attribute to observing way too many of them at dinner parties throughout my childhood (plus my clever father’s frequent debriefs of Faculty Senate sessions)

lmaooooo sloppelganger

Most people don’t know this but this is actually what they gave Socrates to drink

I mean, pretty clearly these folks just don’t think of children as people, *even when they’re thinking of themselves in the past*

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

i appreciate this idea so much. what if we made my actual circadian rhythm the official timekeeping apparatus of the country. this would be convenient to me and the 500 other people who sleep exactly as badly as i do and nobody else.

Will someone please primary Tammy Baldwin. I am 110% done.

I have literally never wondered “what if ppl thought I was a boy”

a) They frequently did until I abruptly sprouted D cups
b) Across a WIDE range of self-presentations, I always felt v strongly abt being a girl
c) Are you JOKING? My mother damn near lost her mind over me wearing boxer briefs in HS 🙄

And I was like, sir. Are you, a PHILOSOPHER, asking me, a SOCIOLOGIST, to guarantee that had you grown up under ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES, you would have become EXACTLY the same person? 🤨

Like, what are you ACTUALLY worried about? That you weren’t a girl or that you might have been one??

I am again reminded of the time I gave a talk on supporting trans youth at the tiny college where I then adjuncted & a tenured gay man from the PHILOSOPHY department freaked out in the Q&A about what if HIS parents had decided his gender expression made him a GIRL, what THEN, you wild-eyed radical??

In Intro LGBTQ+ I talk abt McRuer’s “central question of ableism”: “Wouldn’t you rather be more like me?”

Parallel response to trans ppl is clear here:

“Very few people in this world actually want there to be more trans people… …they ask: ‘Wouldn’t it be better if they just didn’t end up trans?’”

Almost as if our rights our intertwined

It's actually profoundly similar to the way that eugenicist anti vaccine organisations worked to disrupt messaging around COVID (and previously MMR)

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

For example, do you think it's safe for our neighbors who look Hispanic or otherwise possibly immigrants to take public transpo or bike everywhere with ICE still here?
Or people who can't bus because their daycare closes at 6.
Or people whose job or home isn't near a bus stop.

One of the hardest discussions I ever had with a child under 5 was when B, age 3, learned about the K-Pg Extinction Event from parental comments on Dinosaur Train and, on further questioning, that “even the BABY troodons died”

I’ll admit I saved the “why adoption isn’t heartwarming” convo for later

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Re: last reskeet: we’re 18% of the way through 2026 and have already had 59% as many confirmed measles cases in the US this year as we did in all of 2025–1305 cases this year so far versus 2213 at the end of last year: publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/resourc...

So, like…the government is obviously seeing this data too. And they’re STILL letting RFK take this stance on vaccines.

And state leaders aren’t really doing shit either.

Which can only mean…it’s on purpose, right?

I mean this chart is a pretty glaring dataset. What else could it be?

This is what every complaint against queer rep boils down to

I’m 5’2” and my dad is 5’6” (tallest member of my family is actually my youngest sister at 5’8”). My college boyfriend was 6’3” and used to say that coming home with me was like visiting Munchkinland 😂

The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

THANK YOU

Well & the least threatening answer to “why isn’t this working the way I predicted” is “the patient is lying,” so…

(First doc I ever saw for anticoagulation had a nurse call & accuse me of skipping doses when my INR was too low—then I asked if he had literally ANY OTHER ideas & haha NO OFC NOT)