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@looseolive

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last of a ragged house long bereft of lordship. he/him.

Annes Harbor, Michigan
Joined December 2011
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@looseolive
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4 months
the only winning move is not to play
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Pall Mall'Dib
3 years
lumber inflation? oh, you mean change in log price
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3 months
protests are good unless they do anything in which case they are bad
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Pall Mall'Dib
2 years
this mf everywhere
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Pall Mall'Dib
7 months
my partner told me one of the top journals in nanotech is just called "small." meanwhile were stuck with garbage mouthfuls like "the quarterly journal of economics." shouldnt we at least have "money"?
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@looseolive
Pall Mall'Dib
2 months
objectively cool photo, according to top experts and algorithms
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Pall Mall'Dib
2 years
become insufferable
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Pall Mall'Dib
1 year
cool as hell
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3 years
wait did anyone else get this??
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Pall Mall'Dib
1 year
im at the evidentiary hearing against graduate students. im at the graduate student appreciation week. im at the combination evidentiary hearing against graduate students and graduate student appreciation week
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Pall Mall'Dib
3 months
my boss asked me to provide feedback on my boss' plan to extensively violate my first amendment rights, gotta respect the grind
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Pall Mall'Dib
7 months
lets be clear that @umich is cancelling a student body vote because they disagree with the content, not because of "election integrity." outside spending groups have raised tens of thousands of dollars to influence a fucking college election, and craven administrators caved
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Pall Mall'Dib
11 months
@UMPublicAffairs @UMich and are these 2000 replacement instructors in the room with us now?
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Pall Mall'Dib
3 months
i smirk and accept the sheet of paper. with my other hand, i slip a crumpled napkin into your pocket. you walk away, unaware that by accepting my napkin, you have agreed to a life long oath of fealty as my subject. checkmate, ono
@CKaremAlbrecht
Charlotte Karem Albrecht
3 months
The #UMRegents are implementing this policy early huh? Giving this message to speakers as they enter the regents meeting this morning.
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1 year
AND if we actually just pay grad students for THREE hours of labor their hourly wage would be $466.67 AND if we actually just pay grad students for TWO hours of labor their hourly wage would be $700 AND if we actually just pay grad students for ONE hour of labor their hourly wage
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@UMPublicAffairs
UM Public Affairs
1 year
. @UMich is ready, willing and eager to bargain with GEO over a compensation plan, but it requires movement from both sides. Real bargaining requires real compromise.
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@looseolive
Pall Mall'Dib
2 months
campus administrators arresting protesters:
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@thomasbirm
Thomas Birmingham
2 months
BREAKING: Police have flooded the encampment and given the warning, banging tents as they entered. Students have locked arms around the flagpole, signaling their willingness to be arrested. The crowd, several of whom are in tears, have begun singing “We shall not be moved.”
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3 years
my suggestion for incoming PhD students this summer is to learn how to code directly in the terminal window. it has no concrete benefits but it looks cool as hell.
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Pall Mall'Dib
8 months
- pothole repair: $25 - public transit: $10 - public housing: $5 - police armada: $15,000,000 someone who is good at urbanism please help my local government is dying
@nikeshdahal
Nikesh
8 months
Fascism is here folls. Cops in Ann Arbor at #UMich intimidating students peacefully protesting the genocide
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uni admin and trustees are down so bad lmao do u know how hard it is to get tt faculty to do anything
@mfsgottenshook
Luis.Documents🧢
2 months
JUST IN: Faculty members of NYU walk onto the encampment and begin forming a human chain. Palestine protesters erupted in cheers! Chanting “keep us safe! Keep us safe”. It now dawns the hour of this “unspecified response” by NYU admin but staff appears to oppose it.
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more importantly they unfurled a palestinian flag from the hotel where reagan got shot
@ChuckModi1
#StopCopCity
2 months
Crowd erupts as Palestinian flag is unfurled from Hilton Hotel outside of White House Correspondents Dinner #WHCD #FreePalestine
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@UMPublicAffairs @UMich using a sophisticated numerical method i cannot disclose for legal reasons i have calculated that most university administrators work 0 hours a week and have an infinite wage, which is approximately 4-5x the ann arbor living wage. care to comment?
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@looseolive
Pall Mall'Dib
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thinking about what happened the last time a habsburg came to the americas
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@EduardHabsburg
Eduard Habsburg
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Just in case you doubted I was really in California
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1 year
also lmao
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@oliviastowell
olivia stowell
1 year
well. @UMich has officially docked all pay but $100 for april from its grad workers, putting many of us in a position of dangerous financial precarity. friends/allies, please consider donating to @geo3550 strike fund at . we need all the help we can get ✊
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2 months
police at @UMich pepper sprayed a crowd protesting *outside* an event featuring publicly elected university officials. unacceptable and dangerous use of force--dont ignore it!
@NiMaitresses
natasha 💚 Palestinian liberation
2 months
Just a perfectly normal evening of a cop hitting me with a bike and getting pepper sprayed on the campus at which I am a faculty member.
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Pall Mall'Dib
3 years
me, reading my emails:
@FrogandToadbot
Frog and Toad Bot
3 years
'Please,' cried Frog, 'please go away!' But no one went away.
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Pall Mall'Dib
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oh, im sorry, did @umich get addicted to legal relief for labor disputes? did somebody get addicted to legal relief for labor disputes?
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Pall Mall'Dib
3 years
you want me to watch a video. the thing that killed the radio star.
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Pall Mall'Dib
1 year
GSRAs and fellows at @umich have received April paychecks today. I donated half mine to @geo3550 's strike fund at . Hope you all will join me (or pay what you can): it's only fair to help the folks who have lost their whole ass paycheck this month
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7 months
hope he replies
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im gonna email noam chomsky
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fine, i made one
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@RegentHubbard heres whats considered "normal" to regent hubbard:
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@economeager movies should just be some guy explaining a plot to me no music either
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1 year
@annabellehutch one of our regents just admitted he didt know we dont get paid extra for doing research work
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Pall Mall'Dib
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when @geo3550 went on strike last year, i learned that grade strikes r cool. universities need final grades for admin processes, and delaying grades is costly. the costs to students of receiving a *delayed* grade is (generally) small in comparison to the admin costs it generates!
@nicholasmcraig
Nick Craig
2 months
BREAKING: A professor at UNC Chapel Hill is apparently going to withhold grades from students if the administration does not unsuspend students who were part of protests last week #ncpol #ncga
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Pall Mall'Dib
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lmao they really thought the bad press was the signs fault
@mxmimosa
mrs. mothman
2 months
UT you’re an embarrassment
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attending normal celebrations is free speech. protesting is actually a violation of free speech. i am a university lawyer and i am very smart
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@fenwaygreg actually he was not this ballot
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i know a bunch of econ freshies are about to start math camp, so here's my tip: get really good at drawing mu. it's definitely the coolest one. dont worry about xi or zeta, no one cares about those, but we will judge you based on your mu.
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Pall Mall'Dib
3 years
i am pleased to announce that i am beyond thrilled to be humbled to become honored with this feeling of gratitude, which i attribute to being blessed with having begun a period of great thankfulness, which i am further pleased to announced
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Pall Mall'Dib
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if you arrest the faculty along with the students, you can repurpose all those low margin classrooms into more profitable franchise locations
@GwynneFitz
Gwynne Hogan
2 months
arrests begin, starting with line of faculty who had been protecting students
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Pall Mall'Dib
1 year
amazing solidarity from courageous @umich faculty. hope to see others follow suit so we can finally settle this thing.
@silkiestmaria
Silke Weineck
1 year
Big news out of UM History: faculty are collectively withholding grades in solidarity with . @geo3550 . Nicely terse statement here.
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economists have been largely silent on the bloodshed in gaza, a reprehensible position for social scientists. will they speak up now that their graduate students are being arrested and expelled?
@wawog_now
Writers Against the War on Gaza
2 months
@Princeton Hassan Sayed, a fifth year PhD candidate in economics, and Achinthya Sivalingan, a SPIA MPA second year, have been arrested, evicted, and permanently banned from the @Princeton campus, thereby preventing them from finishing their degrees.
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@UMPublicAffairs @UMich you also let me use the bathrooms for free
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I am thinking about how the UM School of Information refused to punish advisory board member Carin Ehrenberg who was caught on video verbally assaulting Arab and Muslim students on campus
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There's friends...then there's family...and then there's the anonymous strangers I play @EmojiTetra with
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i understand some people dont like this sort of tactic. be sure to ask yourself how you feel about the tactics of much more powerful people like acker. how do you feel about electeds ignoring majority opinions? about refusing to meet with constituents? about cancelling elections?
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not as much attention on state schools, but this is my hometown university, where many family and friends went to school. its coming to your hometown too.
@FordFischer
Ford Fischer
2 months
VIDEO THREAD: Police deployed tear gas this afternoon against a circle of University of South Florida students attempting to set up a pro-Palestine encampment on their campus, their second time trying in two days. Filmed by @davedeckerphoto for @N2Sreports
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jordan acker: i want you to think clearly about why the actions of the university you run surrounding the war in gaza makes muslim students feel like there is an increase in islamophobia on campus.
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Acker's claim that the "offer on the table" is $39k is misleading. Most of that raise is not covered by our contract. Pay out of the contract means we can't negotiate over it, and we have no recourse when it disappears. That's not a raise--it's union busting!
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dawg look at my democrats
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the university has a whole fleet of these monster trucks
@RyanCMcCarty1
Ryan McCarty
2 months
University of Michigan is cutting sections of gen ed courses, reducing grad instructor positions, and paying teachers in Dearborn & Flint less because of budget concerns, but there's plenty of money for campus cops surveilling students to leave their vehicles running empty?
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it is a good idea to hold leaders accountable when they have overseen major, long run failures. this is not controversial in most leadership roles, and dem leadership should be no different
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the last thing u see before ur charged with a felony for protesting a war
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@EliNSavit
Eli Savit
3 years
First day of class teaching “Progressive Prosecution” at @UMichLaw is in the books! Teaching with @VBH4Justice —just like working with her—is the best.
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on numerous occasions the guy at this hardware store looked at what i was buying, asked what i was trying to do, then laughed and showed me what i should actually buy. excellent store for determined but stupid shoppers, highly recommend
@j_e_n_a_b
Jena Brooker
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I’m at the combination hardware- sushi shop
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accidentally getting half a million views on my "im evil" post 👍
@UMPublicAffairs
UM Public Affairs
11 months
. @UMich officials have informed graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants that employees who participate in a strike this fall will be subject to replacement for the entire semester. Read more here: #URecord
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@MaryNissmax thank you mary dupree
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@JordanAckerMI what? the tweet you are quoting is explicitly making the case that your behavior as a politician, not your religion, is the source of their frustration with you.
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@JordanAckerMI hey man good tweeting today. its cool that youre the one regent that does this. probably unrelated to the variety of things occurring
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i pity all you losers getting burlington, honestly i do
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@DanielM03817250 thank you purple d
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while i disagree with sending police to maim my fellow students, these students also refused to adopt my bizarre list of extremely specific language requirements for their signs and slogans, so i simply cannot say who is more to blame. ive never been outside by the way
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notice how they keep needing to say vague shit like "what is happening at columbia," cant come up with like you know concrete incidents
@SecCardona
Secretary Miguel Cardona
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Antisemitic hate on college campuses is unacceptable. I am deeply concerned by what is happening at Columbia University. In November 2023, our Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation of Columbia involving Title VI.
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oh no, @umich president ono, that's not oberon!!
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5 years
me, before drinking the only glass of water i remember to drink all day, vs after
@jezicorivera
pizza totino's boy
5 years
Kids YouTube is fucking wild
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the economy is very simple. some people (geniuses) know how to turn dirt into vegetable. others like me (idiots) have to look at bad computer game all day so we can trade computer points for vegetable. some people (cheaters) have too many computer points
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@UMich now do wages
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keep tweeting sir!
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not enjoying grad school or quitting grad school but a secret third thing
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@looseolive
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unbelievable that an @JordanAckerMI , an elected MI democrat, thinks a living wage is a "cadillac" demand. paying my rent is the 2008 ford focus of demands
@RyanCMcCarty1
Ryan McCarty
1 year
@geo3550 @JordanAckerMI He replied to an email I sent and sounded like Trump: “As a lifetime supporter of organized labor, I . . . “ then he called your benefits “a Cadillac” setup. Clearly an ally. 🙄
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@RickFitzge do you have any more details about these alleged "dance parties"? i am worried about my children learning to "shake it" 🤢
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"review of economic dynamics" what are you even talking about
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@looseolive
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i am once again the face of the people
@michigandaily
The Michigan Daily
11 months
#BREAKING : After an August 2 contract proposal from the University of Michigan, the Graduate Employees’ Organization has announced it will respond by August 10, six days after the University’s deadline.
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@JordanAckerMI Offering most of our pay increase through funding outside of our collective bargaining agreement is union busting--do better!
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the other day i paid $26,075 for a cup of coffee: $3 for the joe and $26,072 for to waive my standard appearance fee
@UMPublicAffairs
UM Public Affairs
1 year
. @UMich is sharing a new resource with information about the Graduate Employees’ Organization labor negotiations. Learn more here:
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1 year
docking pay for future work. filing made up grades. no answers on summer funding. @umich is panicking--hold the line!
@oliviastowell
olivia stowell
1 year
well. @UMich has officially docked all pay but $100 for april from its grad workers, putting many of us in a position of dangerous financial precarity. friends/allies, please consider donating to @geo3550 strike fund at . we need all the help we can get ✊
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pitch in to help support UM students who participated in brave civil disobedience to send an important message: divestment now!
@JVPumich
Jewish Voice For Peace UMich
7 months
Donate to the legal fund for the 40 arrested UMich students here:
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i want to be buried with this course eval
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👀
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someone desperately needs to rescue higher education from the midwitted administrative juntas
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happy may day
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@RegentHubbard its a hedge fund 👍
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1 year
im at the strike authorization vote. im at the upset tummy. im at the combination strike authorization vote and upset tummy.
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[someone spits in my face after i insult them] thank you for your robust response to my call for feedback
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1 year
who IS he....?
@michigandaily
The Michigan Daily
1 year
#BREAKING : @geo3550 has announced that they are on strike as of March 27. The strike will begin Wednesday, March 29.
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@ChuckGrassley my dude you cant have a pre virus economy when there's still a big virus goin on that doesn't work
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2 years
Analysis: It's Time We Appoint a Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
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1 year
going to make some version of this joke one or two times a week until this strike is over. university can end this suffering at any point, balls in their court
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this dude is still one of my favorite dudes of all time
@brianjoralvarez
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tell Jeff I send my Beauregards
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@geo3550
Grad Employees' Org UMich
1 year
INJUNCTION DENIED
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i actually hate this
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1 year
u can always find me in the back of any room looking pissed as hell
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@geo3550
Grad Employees' Org UMich
1 year
Nearly 600 grad workers at @UMich vote YES to launch a strike authorization vote!!! #UMforall
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potted some plants today and drank a beer
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Pall Mall'Dib
11 months
im at the power outage. im at the non-essential water use restriction. im at the combination power outage non-essential water use restriction
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Pall Mall'Dib
1 year
i checked with my colleagues at the dairy council, and i can confirm that these are still, in fact, milk numbers
@geo3550
Grad Employees' Org UMich
1 year
HR says they heard our testimonials and our side, so they inched their compensation proposal closer to our ask for a living wage - with "generous" salary increases of 3%, 2.5%, and 2% for each consecutive year of our contract. Does this counterproposal address your concerns?
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1 year
a second umich article has hit the chronical of higher ed
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@DoctaValle
Melissa M. Valle, Ph.D.
1 year
Striking U. of Michigan Grad Students Aren't Submitting Grades. The University Wants Faculty to Fill In.
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Pall Mall'Dib
1 year
moved by @geo3550 's inaugural free jazz picket line outside mason hall this afternoon, exploring the boundaries of rhythm and tone in the chanting form. hoping for a call from @impulselabel soon
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@looseolive
Pall Mall'Dib
3 years
my retirement savings plan is to finally transfer my venmo balance once i turn 65
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Pall Mall'Dib
2 years
writing a standup routine in latex because ive lost control of my life
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