#kentucky kid

[sempredomingo]

[yeoldenews]

(source: The Maysville (Kentucky) Daily Republican, December 21, 1887.)

[queenlua]

The crisis of the last year with student protests has made even the richest institutions aware of how much of their presumed wealth can be yanked away from them by a donor class who are increasingly inclined to exert their influence and authority in openly oligarchic ways. The obsession with safety—and the contradictions of that obsession—is as much about financial management as anything else. But that also is a wider sociocultural formation: the American upper middle-class is generally an asset class now who think about safety in the same way as universities both because all institutions with asset-based wealth have to and because they personally have to safeguard their assets in the same fashion, and face some of the same risks from liability exposure. [. . .] Moving away from the caretaker era can’t just be a matter of exposing students to risk and dismantling systems that make safety the mandatory product of an intrusive regime of surveillance and correction. If the people in charge inside the university and outside of it aren’t equally exposed to the natural consequences of their actions and decisions, all this means is forcefully communicating to students—or perhaps all young people—their relative powerlessness and vulnerability. It means deciding that the lesson you really want to teach is that it’s bad to be powerless and thus you should strive in life for power and wealth in order to be beyond consequences. Arguably, if the caretaker era and the bystander era were both aligned with a wider social ideology that was broadly shared across a generation, then this in fact the new ethos of our time—that there is no safety but in power, and that where power believes people are not being sufficiently punished for the things that power disdains, it will find a way to make consequences where there have been none.

bleak essay that nonetheless collects a lot of idle thoughts i've had in one place & puts them together with more coherence than i've ever managed

[boanerges20]

Nicky Hayden † "The Kentucky Kid"

[transformationsproject]

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[danketsuround]

the other day, one of my students called me over during their independent work and said to me, "i really want to eat a Costco hotdog right now." i was like... "yeah, me too."

[doueverwonder]

just found out one of Virginia's state nicknames is 'mother of states' in part because 8 states have come from territory that was claimed by the state of Virginia at one point. and a couple of wttt ideas popped into my head but the one that made me laugh the most was

Massachusetts, talking about Maine: Being a single dad is just so hard

North Carolina, talking about Tennessee: preaching to the choir on that one.

Virginia, thinking about Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, & West Virginia: .............

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

by Michael Gryboski | Kentucky has become the latest state to ban puberty-blocking drugs and body-mutilating sex-change surgeries for youth younger than 18 after lawmakers overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear...

[dabid-motozalea]

“ THE KENTUCKY KID” Nikki Hayden

“IL DOTTORE” Valentino Rossi

Puras leyendas

[yeoldenews]

I will be the goat.

(source: The Breckenridge News, December 19, 1917.)

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

I'm back to my thoughts on motherhood and I've come to the conclusions that 1) I will absolutely not be squeezing anyone out of me ever that sounds horrible I want tubal litigation asap 2) if I decide to buy a two bed home home off in the distant future and if I have a loving and stable partner that shows that they can take on a far share of the housework I would like to be foster parent to older children that are a few years away from aging out so I can make sure at least 1 teen has a place to stay whilenon break from college or can get help while finding a job and give them some money to help set them up with an apartment (I would save the child support checks for them) and they can come visit on holidays help them navigate the system so they can get therapy and doctor appointments and whatever else they need I would like to make it easier on someone that's been through so goddamn much that's why we're alive to just make life easier for someone every now and then

[boanerges20]

Nicholas Patrick Hayden "The Kentucky Kid" †

[transformationsproject]

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[nappingpaperclip]

seeing so little about the recent shootings. Please repost this, we need to pay more attention. schools in Kentucky have been closed all week due to the I-75 shooter being on the run

[antlersofthevoid]

This but doesnt come in until much later in the story, but god have i mentioned how much I love writing for Junebug's experiences in parenthood?

Because when you create a completely new life off of a single strand of mixed codes from you and your partner, give it time to stabilize itself and then put it in an empty body, you dont know WHAT he truly inherited from either of you until it starts to show.