#iu bloomington

[regicide1997]

So the state rep for my hometown is a transphobic nurse practitioner/psychiatrist.

[victusinveritas]

[symphonic-appliances]

currently reading:

the book of delights: essays by ross gay, educated by tara westover, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin reread

summer tbr:

beach read by emily henry, none of this is true by lisa jewel (my sister’s recommendation 🫶), tress of the emerald sea by brandon sanderson

i really want to buy an e-reader but idk which one to gettt. i’m considering buying an ipad mini and using that as an e-reader but i think the screens are a little bit different and the battery life is longer on an e-reader so idkkk. i’m so torn between kindle, kobo, and boox.

current playlist:

stephanie says by the velvet underground, jeremy by pearl jam, room temperature by faye webster, a werewolf by attic abasement

[philosoaper]

bell tower on my way back from an evening lecture. modern smartphone camera sensors will never cease to impress me.

[adnascent]

[mrjesselynn]

Indiana University

[elijones94]

This morning started off with donuts for breakfast and a bike ride with Alyssa around Ben’s neighborhood and a neighborhood across the road. Next, she and I took a walk around the Indiana University campus.

[trombonecock]

Palestine flag sky banner flying over Bloomington just in time for IU graduation. I think this is a local company, since they sometimes tow ads for businesses.

[fairuzfan]

I have friends at Indiana University and they've been saying there are snipers on IU Bloomington campus. And theres a bunch of cops everywhere. This is wild.

[raincliffs]

Audrey and Matt, Married

[regicide1997]

TW: discussion of transphobic bullying, attempted suicide.

Pretty fucking ironic that a university known for its school of medicine and its statewide healthcare system doesn't seem to actually give a damn about the health and safety of its most vulnerable students.

Remind me, how many years in a row has this campus earned a 5-star rating from the Campus Pride Index?

[yamimichi]

When will all this gun violence end??

IU was my college. And Bloomington is a special place for me.

I can't imagine how scared the students and faculty were. And I'm so relieved that no one was hurt. Thank the gods for that!

[gamma-xi-delta]

Zeta Beta Tau fraternity placed on cease and desist for hazing - Indiana Daily Student

[taviamoth]

Warning: police brutality

At Emory University in Georgia, police violently arrested a number of faculty protestors, including an economics professor and the chair of the philosophy departmen (Media 4 and 5), and they tased an on-site media (Media 8). They shot rubber bullets and tear gas (Media 6 and 7).

It should be noted that these tactics of repression and violence are exchanged between US police departments and the IOF in occupied Palestine, with at least 69 cop cities having been built since 2020 to teach IOF tactics, using IOF trainers.

Students are undeterred, having set up a number of new liberated zones and refusing to back down (FIT, IU-Bloomington, UCLA, UT Arlington, Cornell, UH, UPenn, PSU, Stanford, and more) bringing the number of ongoing encampments to at least 50.

[adnascent]

[ao3cassandraic]

Come to think, if your VPN has a Chicago site (mine does), that's a pretty good choice. Plenty of Indianans live within a loud shout of Chicago.

So, the state of Indiana has launched a "parental empowerment" web form allowing people to report whether children in schools are being taught anything about race/ethnicity or LGBTQIA2S+ issues.

Here's that form.

It'd be a terrible shame if that form were to be flooded with spurious reports, especially from Indiana residents (or anyone whose VPN has a site in e.g. Indianapolis).

Terrible, terrible shame. Yep. Just terrible.