Dame Scott G . Fight Against Ageism/Hypocrisy
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Teach English/Religion. Opera. Single. 🌈 Hope to leave #UIC soon. Victim of unfair evaluations and #ageism. #boreout #ReneGirard #disability @UICUF @UICENGL
Chicago, IL
Joined August 2011
Tremble, for there is a God who punishes those who oppress the poor! This greedy nation has fallen to the new Nebuchadnezzars and Herods and Neros. Repent or all, yes all, will all be taken away like the besieged Israelites were in hooks and baskets.
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Did anyone know a great-grandparent when they were a child?.
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Wow, so many interesting, awesome replies. I can't keep up with the notifications so I am going to mute, but keep 'em coming.
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@davidlparsons I wasn't aware hugging persons in what looks like some kind of hardware store was a social norm pre virus.
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Why are some students learning in some high schools that they can't use "I" in academic writing?.
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@Happydog___ Sweetie. November 6 she will have been with me for a year. She is either 10 or 11 now. Semi feral. She was found on street with severel matted hair. Before I got her the vets at @PAWSChicago treated her for cancer surgery/dental issues. She now runs my home.
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@PAWSChicago I adopted Sweetie fka Bertha in Nov. 2022 who had also suffered much . oh I would take that sweet angel but I am not sure Sweetie would approve.
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So tomorrow my late partner would have been 61. He died suddenly in 2005 at the age of 45. Grief doesn't ever go away and some days will always be difficult.
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What if you woke up and it was 1453?.
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@dodo @ClassixPhoenix @CeliaHammond 😡😡😡😡 if you find yourself in a situation that you can't take care of animals, FIND A SHELTER. CALL THE POLICE. UTILIZE AVAILABLE RESOURCES. Do NOT just abandon them! YES I AM YELLING! 😡😡😡😡😡.
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@grubreport Please for the love of all that is good do a weekly serialized thread like this and publish in a book. It is just as funny if not funnier than the late great Erma Bombeck. 🤣🤣🤣.
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@ToomeyWright @slothanova @KylieLuka Moon landing 1969 too. Watched it at home on black and white TV.
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@suchnerve Adjunct faculty do most of the actual teaching in colleges. They usually have to cobble together multiple jobs and not just teaching ones, yet many still many live in poverty unless supported otherwise. In many cases, the "better" aka tenure track jobs don't exist.
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The Catholic Church has had no problem "accepting" gay men who can play the organ, direct the choir, and sing the Ave Maria at heterosexual weddings.
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@KellaHannaWayne @DangitBird @poeticambiguity So many people are chained to abusive work situations for this reason. Most persons have to live under autocrats even in countries that are ostensibly democratic. I can vote for in an election, but if I have to suffer abuse from an employer because if I don't I will starve.
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Spicy passed away about 8:30 am on my couch. More later.
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@JoshuaPotash Why aren't Americans marching on the White House? Not sure if this is a rhetorical question. One answer: many Americans don't have time to protest because of predatory late capitalism. They are working. Which is exactly the goal of our corrupt regime.
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Announcement: I am going to live the life I was meant to live. Going to New York City to see Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera on January 27. I have NEVER been to the Met. May be my only chance to go, and the sublime performance by @Alek_Kurzak motivated me to do this.
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@hunterw Born in 1962. Tormented from ages 14 to 17 especially. I didn't even come out until I was 26. It was assumed by most everyone I was. And thus deserving only of torment unless I changed my supposedly effeminate ways. Through the 90s I suffered housing and job discrimination.
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Sweetie went to the Rainbow Bridge. She was examined and the cancerous masses had returned. We agreed on compassionate end of life care today. @PAWSChicago had given her two years since Nov 21 when I got her. She almost made it.
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@keithgjeffrey Teachers have been abused because it is assumed it is a calling or vocation and thus do not need to be paid enough or work under the assumptions that suffering and sacrifice are required because it is a vocation.
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Today I am 60 years old. Well . I surprised I made it this far especially given what I've been through since 2015 especially.
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I will be on a Twitter break for a while for #mentalhealth and other reasons. I am not sure when I will be back. I will miss many persons. 💜.
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My mother is in the emergency room. Not sure what is going on. 🙏 please. Thank you.
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@BrotiGupta Gertrude Temple as definitely a stage mother, but not as predatory as some, nor as overall abusive as Judy Garland's mother.
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@RubyWaves_ Everyone buys french bread for every shopping trip and it sticks out obtrusively from a bag.
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@crushthebigots @TRUMANCAPOTE10 No one is safe anymore who is not white, straight, or subscribes to a specific form of Christianity. No one.
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@kpanyc I am single LGBTQ guy with two disabilities. Born 1962. Orwell said, paraphrasing by memory, hard to write wondering when your next meal is. Unable to participate in the get married/get supported in grad school in your 20s track (which usually meant women making the sacrifices).
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@maximillian_alv @DJAdequate And that's how most Americans have to live in their working lives. Makes democracy a sham if you have to be subjected to the whims of petty tyrants at work and dependent on them for wages and, and this is really the kicker, health insurance.
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What are some types of "old people" candy? You know, candy that Aunt Shirley used to keep in dish specifically for candy in the parlor.
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@biden_brigade The issue is not him being gay. It's him being gay and voting against LGBTQ rights. And supporting an administration that wants to erase LGBTQ persons in the interest of supporting evangelical theocrats.
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@Tranny_Oakley Years ago I bought paint from one, many cans, and the owner drove me home when he realized I didn't have a car.
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@katjiayan Having to go to a place outside your home to work for someone else so you can live in your home.
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@Distopos @drkateperry I gave them an assignment where they share organizational tips with each other on Padlet. The least organized students didn't look at the Padlet posts. Well, I tried.
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Just got vaccination number two. Whew!.
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@Angelaxg5504 @brenda_archer Lost friend of 30 years to Fox News. I think she fell for it but also chose to believe it because of her pathology of fear.
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@DawnofMercy @CDamianWrites @WordOnFire As a victim of clerical sexual abuse and the brother of Steve Grunow, I can't articulate what's going on in my psyche at the moment other than wounded outrage.
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@DearSplenda @erin_bartram Also I remember the panic about playing heavy metal records backwards would reveal messages from Satan.
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Well, the balloons came up for my birthday today on Twitter.
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@KarenAKeely @CathyMarksKrpan @MandyMathEd I consider participation much more than talking in class. I include online discussions, helping each other in groups, coming to drop in hours for feedback: people show their engagement diversely.
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@DearSplenda @erin_bartram Just taught a course on this topic. Got some papers on the more famous ones like Satanic daycare centers. One on the Dungeons & Dragons moral panics, how the game was a Satanic influence, causing suicides, etc. Important to distinguish between moral panic and conspiracy theory.
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Did anyone not go to Senior Prom? Not being judgmental or rekindling bad memories. I didn't go. No one to go with and no way of getting there; I was an outcast anyway.
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@MARspidermonkey @jenlmichaels I had the opposite experience. But then, I worked for lawyers.
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Doesn't anyone know about the deadly Our Lady of Angels fire? Why? Talk about one door for a school building? Because that fire killed 90 children fire codes were put in place. One door? This is madness.
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@Sarah_Smarsh @jakerr35 The working class is busy working outside their hones in a pandemic to fend off starvation. My first thought about the insurrectionists: don't they work? To be able to take time off in the middle of the week?.
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@lostblackboy I consider myself an eldergay and my few friends are survivors of the epidemic. Many are widowers.
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@AndreaChalupa @KatRussell12 The Nazis did this. They packed the courts in 1930s Germany. And persons wonder why I wept on Election Day 2016. I knew this was coming. Read Shirer. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
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I was nominated for an award, the Honoring Our Professors' Excellence (HOPE) Award. UIC Campus Housing recognizes how important it is for students to build a connection with faculty members. I feel like Rhoda Morgenstern finally winning the beauty contest after 30 years.
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Former student made a substantive donation to @UICUF strike fund. Follow each other on LinkedIn; told me if I had not noticed her in class, she would be "dead in a ditch" such were her struggles. Took me for 3 classes; publicized that I am her mentor. She now writes grants.
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I just got vaccinated. In post-vaccine waiting area now. A cute guy vaccinated me. .
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@mattdpearce @DaveDrolet What utterly miserable contemptible persons. Shows Trump is but one manifestation of an American pathology of avarice, envy, and intolerance.
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My mother slipped. In ER. Waiting for updates.
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My mother is on her way to the emergency room.
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@Literature_Lady You are not alone. Many of us are experiencing similar struggles. I am teaching one section with a couple of students who are academically and socially so troubled, and it is keeping me up at night because I pretty much want to give up, but cannot.
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@SGUYBRAY I had a friend who partner died of AIDS. Friend was HIV positive. He totally fell for that Course in Miracles Gnostic mumbo jumbo, and he was trying to proselytize. (He is now deceased, but it wasn't from the HIV. Turns out the meds were working; he died of something unrelated.).
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My mother was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. They are admitting her and will be doing a stress test. No other details yet.
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Those who proclaim that the laws of America should be "biblically-based" tend to ignore the Jubilee directives in Leviticus.
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@EGonzaba As late as the late 80s/early 90s I remember being told there was a place in what used to be the gayborhood in Chicago that would develop "dirty" pictures. I did utilize its services once. Once. Repetition intentional.
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@shockproofbeats My brother and I decided to make candles by melting box of crayons on stove. In ignorance, we decided to use Styrofoam cups as molds. The hot wax burst cups and spread over counter. We cleaned it up but my Dad came home and noticed a piece of wax on toaster. Lying was futile.
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@marcorubio After this logically fallacious statement, I would rather see the Bible quotes your intern or whoever is doing it tweet.
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My mother is moving into Saint Joseph's Home run by Little Sisters of the Poor tomorrow. This is a blessing as there was a waiting list and my mother has no money.
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The eye surgery occurs at 3 p.m. today. I cannot eat or drink eight hours before the surgery. I have not started the new diabetic medication so this low blood sugar will not be an issue (like it ever was). My brother is picking me up after the surgery.
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@TheLibertyAmb Objective ethical standards need not be based on one specific normative ethic that is based on the assumption that humans can't make ethical decisions for themselves.
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@GrimKim @WorkingPod Why we need unions. For everyone. Including white collar or pink collar workers.
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My godmother just passed away.
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18 years ago today I received a telephone call that my partner had died suddenly about a week or so after a hip replacement operation. He was Barry Stern, a renowned heavy metal drummer. I both far away and strangely close. (1).
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@CNAtoRN I stayed with my late cat The Honey through the whole procedure. I felt like I had to. I did't want her to die without me there. The vet told me her heart stopped (it took only a half minute). I kissed her and told her I would be seeing her later at the Rainbow Bridge.
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@el_antropoceno Please report this to the department head. And I assume other students may be upset too. They should also report or get everyone together and contact the head as a group.
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@GeorgeTakei Thank you Star Trek and thank you Lucille Ball who revealed the courage to approve the original series for release: the origin of a legend.
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Lizzo is a trained classical musician.
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I just found out that my friend in hospice passed away late yesterday afternoon. He has slipped into a comatose state. He had been concerned about the election. His niece and her husband told him that Biden had won, and he then took his last breath. Thanks for listening.
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Surgery went well. Cataract is out. New lense is in. No issues.
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@thistallawkgirl Person should not be wearing Wranglers. Wranglers on men are designed to show off something that person does not physically possess.
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Tulip has totally adjusted to her new home.
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What piece of classical music do you like to blast either at home or in a car? #classicalmusic.
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@sianoresist Yeah. It is an old story. But hypocritical behavior like this has become almost archetypal.
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A disconcerting medical issue has come up. Currently awaiting call from doctor on call. My GP is out until Saturday. Prayers needed. Thank you. 💜.
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I had to take a COVID test yesterday because it is required for the surgery. It came back negative.
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@jenniferejoness A long sleep. And a month away from anything related to the university. A complete sign off.
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@Helenreflects Why I found the Earthsea Trilogy so fascinating is that despite the wizards and dragons mostly not drawn closely from medieval Europe.
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@dowellml I teach mostly first year students, and many of my students are first gen. The pandemic in the last part of their junior year and their senior year in high school created many levels of psychosocial/academic disruption. We are still in triage.
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Past two days. Have felt a paralytic dread.
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Why did so many Catholic saints of come from noble, wealthy families?.
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Update on my mother: nothing found on tests. Low sodium level. Will be going home in about an hour. Whew. Thanks for 🙏💜.
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