Jodi Beggs @jodiecongirl Twitter profile

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Jodi Beggs

8 years

My social media "strategy": Most social media: *considers frequency, tone, relevance* Twitter: "HEY INTERNET, I HAVE THOUGHTS"

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Jodi Beggs

@jodiecongirl

4 years

dear students: whistleblowing works, proceed accordingly

The Daily Beast

@thedailybeast

4 years

UPDATE: Georgia high school that went viral for photos of crowded hallways will go online-only Monday and Tuesday after six students and three staff members tested positive for the coronavirus

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@jodiecongirl

6 years

@okayplayer @tressiemcphd dear white people: the world is not obligated to be actively pleasant to you

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@Fahrenthold what if it’s not the social skills and instead it’s a lack of feeling of obligation to a company that probably treated them like garbage

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7 years

@kylegriffin1 This is such a weird version of "I bought her dinner but she won't sleep with me, that bitch"...

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3 years

@HeheWaitWhut ah yes this is also why we tell kids to go join gang...wait

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4 years

@wagatwe @sapphixy here just play this video loudly whenever Karen is around

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@jodiecongirl

6 years

sorry but literally the only person I will listen to on this issue is ms. lewinsky

New York Daily News

@NYDailyNews

6 years

Hillary Clinton: Bill's affair with Monica Lewinsky wasn't an abuse of power because 'she was an adult'

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@jodiecongirl

3 years

this is the best reverse causality meme

Si Fuller, a cautionary tale

@Fuller_Si

3 years

This keeps happening. How heavy are cats?

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@jodiecongirl

4 years

pretty sure this is what they would call a teachable moment

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

4 years

JUST IN: More than 40 South Bay school principals are in quarantine after being exposed to COVID-19 during an in-person meeting to plan the reopening of schools.

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@jodiecongirl

4 years

as an economist i will legit make this argument no question

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis

@RevJacquiLewis

4 years

Waiting 11 hours to vote is a poll tax

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@jodiecongirl

4 years

@feliciasonmez they won't even support climate change measures for the sake of younger generations but I'm sure this will be fine

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@jodiecongirl

5 years

@cmarinucci @pete @realDonaldTrump counterpoint: I’m his age and don’t have to google it, ignorance is not cute

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@jodiecongirl

4 years

also a culture that celebrates people “being a trooper” and coming in while sick

Alyssa Harad is at the sky place. DM for invites.

@alyssaharad

4 years

The biggest threat to America in a pandemic is the hourly wage with no sick leave.

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@jodiecongirl

4 years

wow I feel like we just learned something pretty important here

Brandon Wall

@Walldo

4 years

NPR internship applications jump from 2,597 last year to 20,520 and a spox credits it to internships being remote this year. Funny how that works out.

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4 years

@profmusgrave statue knew things were politically charged, why didn't it stay home?

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6 years

@PhilipinDC to be fair, it’s unclear whether this is a demand or supply issue

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7 years

@FastCompany @Dove So if CVS is out of "skinny bitch" bottles am I not going to be able to get clean? Not sure how this works.

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@jodiecongirl

5 years

that’s a weird way to spell linear algebra

WIRED

@WIRED

5 years

Stitch Fix is using something called eigenvector decomposition, a concept from quantum mechanics, to tease apart the overlapping “notes” in an individual’s style. Using physics, the team can better understand the complexities of the clients’ style minds.

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4 years

this dollar bill has been on the ground for 5 minutes in a room full of economists and my belief in efficient markets is shook #ASSA2020

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@jodiecongirl

6 years

@page88 this is where I grew up, and, given the stink we raised when a male student got suspended for wearing a skirt to school, I am not surprised by any of this :)

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6 years

@dangerfishback it's almost like the original explored important issues in thoughtful ways and the new one is garbage

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5 years

*whispers* yeah it would be economics, basically

Prof. Feynman

@ProfFeynman

5 years

Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had emotions.

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4 years

@chrislhayes I feel like this mindset popped up at almost the exact instant that the fancy people realized that the rules apply to them

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@jodiecongirl

7 years

I'm assuming the next sentence was "it's not on us if people just choose to buy food instead, after all that's what freedom looks like"...

Bradd Jaffy

@BraddJaffy

7 years

Q: How many will lose coverage under GOP health plan? Paul Ryan: “I can't answer that question. It's up to people.”

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4 years

@jessemckinley @NYGovCuomo I feel like this is well intentioned but I would be kind of pissed if I sent a mask to try to be useful and it ended up here rather than on the face of an essential worker

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@jodiecongirl

3 years

today in "unskilled" labor

Paul Rogers

@PaulRogers73

3 years

Incredible footwork 👋

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@jodiecongirl

4 years

@KirstiKarttunen @karenkho aren't the cops the ones whose literal job it is to know the rules

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@jodiecongirl

4 years

tfw you run your regression using raw levels rather than per capita

Charlie Kirk

@charliekirk11

4 years

The highest homeless population in the United States New York City 76,501 Los Angeles 55,188 Seattle 11,643 Washington D.C. 7,473 San Jose 7,394 San Francisco 6,858 Philadelphia 5,693 What do they all have in common? All have Democrat mayors All voted for Hillary by 80%

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2 years

@ACLU I'm as pro-choice as can be and...yeah, this ain't it

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2 years

ready for my most unpopular take yet? it's not really reasonable to expect asymptomatic people to hide inside for two weeks at this point

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6 years

student: I’m frustrated we’re not really making progress, in an hour we’ve only written a few lines of code me: I have some bad news for you about programming

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@jodiecongirl

4 years

see it’s funny because it absolutely is

Colin Browning

@ColinBrowning14

4 years

Absolutely disgusting service at Schiphol airport. 55 minutes we have been stood in the immigration queue. This isn’t the Brexit I voted for.

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@jodiecongirl

2 years

society: why aren't there more women in economics economists:

Bryan Caplan

@bryan_caplan

2 years

This book won't release for a few weeks, but I'm happy to start scheduling media for it. Just email me.

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5 years

@SenverDammy @cmarinucci @pete @realDonaldTrump I’m mainly mad that he didn’t simply respond with “What, me worry?” because that is obviously the correct move

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4 years

@PaigeanThem @amandamull poor cookie monster

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@TPCarney *whispers* you'd be a better dad if you voted for biden

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7 years

@blancpain @dog_rates don't know if you're aware but I'm like 80 percent sure that's not a dog. Maybe 70.

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5 years

the Uber IPO is basically a bet that they can figure out driverless cars before drivers figure out depreciation

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2 years

our post roe world is going super smoothly so far

MeidasTouch

@MeidasTouch

2 years

Breaking: The doctor who treated the 10-year-old rape victim has sent the Indiana AG a cease and desist letter after the AG smeared her and threatened to prosecute her, despite the doctor following proper protocol. The doctor is now threatening to sue the AG for defamation.

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7 years

@CarolineSiede @pashulman our president is being outclassed by someone who tries to lick random donuts...

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7 years

@davidfrum Please tell me he has an intern coincidentally named Frederick Douglass...

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4 years

data science prof: I’m guessing you have lots of R versus Python battles in econ departments me: HAHAHAHAHA oh honey I have some bad news for you

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4 years

@BrotiGupta @wmdecon it's true but thankfully idris elba pulled through

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3 years

@RubleKB so you're saying that lack of consequences leads to escalation

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@jodiecongirl

4 years

sorry poor kids, you can't use a test to show you can math circles around the rich kids anymore

Wesley Yang

@wesyang

4 years

Judge bars University of California from all use of SAT, ACT scores in admissions. "Nondisabled, economically advantaged and white test-takers have an inherent advantage in the testing process."

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@jodiecongirl

5 years

anyone who follows @bestofnextdoor knows this is a terrible idea

Bloomberg CityLab

@CityLab

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A proposed “citizen safety enforcement” pilot program would train 80 D.C. residents to identify and report specific parking offenses via a mobile phone app.

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1 year

taylor swift said her fans could do anything and then asked them to fix the egg price situation at the grammys, just saying

Justin Wolfers

@JustinWolfers

1 year

Egg prices are plummeting.

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@jodiecongirl

2 years

the CDC is actively trying to fool people with correlation versus causation and I'm pretty mad about it

CDC

@CDCgov

2 years

A new @CDCMMWR study shows that people who reported always wearing masks or respirators in indoor public settings in California were less likely to test positive for #COVID19 compared with those who reported not wearing a face covering. Learn more.

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5 years

@NateSilver538 the voters did decide, they decided to put in a house of representatives that would act as a check on the executive branch

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6 years

@amb573 @whjon @MattWalshBlog @TheOnion in the kitchen I'd venture to guess

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7 years

Trump surrogate: the media doesn't cover... @AriMelber : YOU'RE ON THIS SHOW RIGHT NOW...

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4 years

I’m trying to be open minded but, like, read a history book

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2 years

*whispers* if your turkey is so great why don't you have it the other 364 days of the year

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7 years

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will deplete a resource suboptimally bc Tragedy of the Commons.

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3 years

@OmariJHardy this is one of those statements that says more about you than the thing you're criticizing

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4 years

@thehill siri, show me how to vaporize every bit of goodwill I've generated in the last 60 days

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2 years

guys it's time for some game theory

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@JuddLegum are you sure this isn't an episode of arrested development

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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ | | just because your refund is | I smaller doesn't mean that | I your taxes went up | | ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　づ

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2 years

if history is any precedent we should be able to sign up to be mailed crack pipes in a few weeks

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4 years

I have some bad news for you about most economists’ position on the matter my dude

CNBC

@CNBC

4 years

Mnuchin says Thunberg can tell us what to do 'after she goes and studies economics in college'

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3 years

sorry everyone, if I had to look at this so do you

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6 years

I was told that tax cuts pay for themselves I would like to speak to a manager please

Sahil Kapur

@sahilkapur

6 years

NEW: In the wake of the Trump tax cut and recent spending hike, CBO says the 10-year deficit will be $1.6 trillion larger than projected in June.

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4 years

for all of your reverse causality needs

Mr Gee (Official Gag Thief)  𝕏

@ComedyGee

4 years

This is a picture of an asteroid crater in Arizona - Look how close it came to hitting the visitors centre!

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I’m gonna blow your mind here...what if we framed people paying for their own education once they become taxpaying adults, it pretty much renders this question mostly irrelevant since the ratio is roughly 1:1 by construction

Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist

@DeAngelisCorey

4 years

Should families with 0 kids pay the same amount towards public education as families with 10 kids?

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2 years

why is it that invoking econ 101 is pretty highly correlated with being wrong, even about what econ 101 would tell you

Bad Econ Takes

@BadEconTakes

2 years

From the @WSJ

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and here I thought the name of the publication would imply that they understand the concept of consumer surplus

The Economist

@TheEconomist

4 years

The USPS is viewed favourably by 91% of Americans despite billions in losses annually

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5 years

they must be evil geniuses because I still hate-clicked on the grounds that I’m pretty sure this is a raven

ClickHole

@ClickHole

5 years

ClickHole Is Experimenting With Non-Viral Content That Nobody Wants To Click On, So Here Are Some Pictures Of Unremarkable Crows

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4 years

@CBSNews like, how do I explain to you that other people exist

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@AlsBoy I’m clearly going to hell because the whole time I wanted grandpa to be like but I was just following orders

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@jodiecongirl

2 years

everything makes more sense when you consider that the russia-Ukraine situation is basically trump versus jon stewart

Karen Teoh - 🇸🇬

@cryptoecongames

2 years

Zelenski wrote and starred in a 2015 Dark comedy series as a history teacher improbably elected to the Presidency of #Ukraine . Life is stranger than fiction. n A comedian is now an inspirational war president who has defied both the US(Trump) and Putin

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7 years

@MichaelEMann @RepAdamSchiff Trump: can you adopt me? Putin: that's really not how it works

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@thegraceharding @okayplayer @tressiemcphd oh, so we *have* met :)

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@BraddJaffy by that logic, we'll never know whether Trump won the electoral vote.

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@RAGGEDYROYAL it simply reads "hope you're doing ok, also that is a ferret not a rat" so i looked closer and oh crap he's right, no joke i felt like a total failure for like a week

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@markknoller @zerohedge @JBA_NAFW He was totally watching Obama's speech and seething.

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5 years

@DanCrenshawTX I have some bad news for you regarding how Major League Baseball works

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@jodiecongirl

7 years

This is why Trump won.

Daily Mail Online

@MailOnline

7 years

Nutella to be banned from supermarkets 'because it could cause cancer'

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@jodiecongirl

2 years

fun fact: there are as many dudes named diamond who have won econ nobels as there are women

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@jodiecongirl

5 years

“your move, bitches”

ABC News

@ABC

5 years

WATCH AND LEARN: With the odds stacked against her, Remington the labrador puppy expertly pulled a block from the Jenga stack while her owner watched on in awe.

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I’m generally a fan of solar but this doesn’t say what you think it says

Sensible Moderate

@sensiblemoderat

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@ConorLambPA @BernieSanders @AOC It would create 40 solar jobs for every gas job destroyed; wind is somewhere in-between

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@jodiecongirl

3 years

econ 101 would like a word

Daily Wire

@realDailyWire

3 years

Psaki: It’s ‘Unfair And Absurd’ That Companies Would Raise Costs For Consumers Due To Higher Taxes

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4 years

there’s a joke in here about Austrian school economists being baristas but I need to workshop it a bit

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6 years

poor owls

The New York Times

@nytimes

6 years

Owls see the world much like we do

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@jodiecongirl

3 years

not to nitpick but how does one die twice on average

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@behindyourback @everywhereist on the plus side, they proved your point

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@disco_socialist not to nitpick but why would an $8 increase in the minimum wage increase the price of a burrito by $37? are burritos far more labor intensive than I had originally surmised?

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3 years

we have to increase the capital gains tax so that rich people have proper incentives to work, am I doing this right

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@chipspopandabar

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6 years

excuse me while I attempt to add some proper balance to Twitter for a moment...Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer Jane Mayer

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5 years

@hankgreen corollary: being a dick on the internet is not a personality

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6 years

cool you just invented stocks

The Economist

@TheEconomist

6 years

A fund that turns workers into owners of capital might appeal to workers without alienating powerful business interests

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@jodiecongirl

4 years

it's 12:30am and I just watched a drunk girl get taken away in an ambulance...my first thought was that I hope she's ok but my second was that she's gonna be so pissed that her deductible just reset and guys we're in a weird place here

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@ZackBornstein don't want to be too obvious about it

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3 years

just a reminder that incentives matter

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7 years

@yashar this is what happens when terrible people see Trump get away with things

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@jodiecongirl

5 years

thanks for making a great point about implicit taxes on women

Scott Walker

@ScottWalker

5 years

Getting my $26 (with tip) haircut.

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not sure if this is the correct coping mechanism for getting laid off is but i'm off to cancun

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@jodiecongirl

4 years

so I just got fired from teaching a course 3 days before the start of the semester so my (less tenured) male colleague could make more money for the same work, how hard do I burn this bridge

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