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Poison Is Queen

March 18, 2026 9 Comments

And in questionable circumstances news:

A Utah woman was convicted on Monday of aggravated murder after poisoning her husband with fentanyl and then self-publishing a children’s book about coping with grief.

Today’s word is ballsy.

Prosecutors said [Kouri Richins] was $4.5m in debt and falsely believed that when her husband died, she would inherit his estate worth more than $4m. They also said she was planning a future with another man she was seeing on the side.

Richins was also convicted of other felonies, including an attempted murder charge in what authorities alleged was another effort to poison her husband weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day with a fentanyl-laced sandwich that made him black out. 

Apparently, the house cleaner was scoring the pills.

The internet search history from Richins’ phone included “what is a lethal.dose.of.fetanayl,” “luxury prisons for the rich America” and “if someone is poisned (sic) what does it go down on the death certificate as,” a digital forensic analyst testified.

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Academia Free-For-All

What Did The Lichen Say To You?

March 10, 2026 64 Comments

And in academic news:

A course… being taught this spring at the University of Virginia has students “listen” to plants and animals to better understand how “settler colonialism” and slavery “thrive off of the intrinsic interconnectedness between species.”

The class, since you ask, is Ecofeminist Poetry & Poetics. Taught by a Professor of English, Brian Teare, who will, we’re assured, situate relationships and encourage re-feeling.

Professor Teare will also reveal, in ways somewhat mysterious, how “chattel slavery, imperialism, industrialisation, settler colonialism, and militarisation” can be understood – and righteously tutted about – by listening to “birds, goats, willow oaks, and lichen.”

Those suitably intrigued will “listen across species.” Having forked over the suitable fee, of course.

In a “learning outcomes” section, the syllabus states that the course will introduce students “to ecopoetics as a literary tradition and ecofeminism as a critical discourse, and to facilitate an understanding of how they intersect.”

Because an intersection had to be mentioned at some point, obviously. One must be seen wearing that rhetorical jewellery.

Readers are welcome to ponder whether the anticipated insights on “slavery, imperialism, industrialisation, settler colonialism, and militarisation” – arrived at via ecofeminist poetry and listening to lichen, a lifeform with no sound-producing anatomy – will be in any way surprising.

Professor Teare, pictured here, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Not entirely unrelated.

See also, situated bodies and self-other paradigms.

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There Was An Attempt To Impart Information

March 4, 2026 83 Comments

To people of a progressive leaning:

These protesters have pitched a tent on private property over a city issue, and the owners called them in for trespassing. The “leader” tells the police she’s the liaison and they need to go through her so she can relay information back to them. The problem is, she’s not very… pic.twitter.com/MJNc7yxXeZ

— Suzee Q (@SusieM414141) March 3, 2026

“Like I said before…”

Having now seen many, many police bodycam videos, I can say with some certainty that I would not have a fraction of the patience.

Oh, and for those of you craving more of the luminous beings seen above, there is a longer video. It lasts for 16 minutes.

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And What was Your First Clue?

February 24, 2026 47 Comments

In educational news:

Following a complaint letter… on behalf of several parents, an elementary school in a district that serves military families in North Carolina has fired a teacher who identifies as a “trans wolf.”

No, wait. Let’s not rush to conclusions.

[Concerned parents] alleged the “male, trans-identified” substitute teacher/teacher’s aide had “engaged in disturbing behaviour” for about a year, which included wearing “feminine” clothes, a dog collar with “fetish tags,” and a tail.

However, I think we can walk towards said conclusions at a fairly steady pace.

The teacher also was accused of telling kids he “turns into a wolf at night,” that “he is ‘actually a woman’ who ‘likes boys,’” and that he required students to refer to him by some of his “wolf” names.

Since you ask,

“Roxxanne Wildheart,” “Captain Roxxie,” and “savagebeastqueen.”

Because naffly suggestive pseudonyms are exactly what you hope for at a kindergarten. In this case, at Mildred B. Poole Elementary School.

The educator in question, whose actual name has not been disclosed, took to social media to express his indignation at being asked not to wear his false tail at work. “People wanna be straight up pearl clutching bitches,” he said, in a teacherly manner. Among images of stabbed and bleeding teddy bears, and while describing himself as a “butt-sniffing wolf bitch.”

Parents also suggested that a cross-dressing kindergarten teacher wearing mini-skirts, a BDSM dog collar and black fishnet stockings was, all things considered, a tad inappropriate.

At the end of January, Poole Principal Lisa McGee allegedly told two parents she “can’t do anything about how [the teacher] dresses, because there is no official dress code and because he is ‘transgender.’”

However, despite this assumed imperviousness to normal consequences, the educator in question has since been removed from his paid proximity to children.

Previously in the world of suboptimal hiring decisions.

Because every parent wants their 11-year-old children conscripted into the cross-dressing psychodrama of a mentally unstable teacher, a man thrilled by the thought of children seeing him in various states of undress while discussing “kink” and sexual positions.

“I’m not a predator,” said the teacher, Mr Lamere. “I’m just a woman who happens to be super tall and hot.”

If the incident linked above isn’t sufficiently concerning, I do have more:

When not “feeling cute and beautiful” and exploring the possibilities of a “zero-depth vaginoplasty,” Mr Renczkowski boasts of “giving students a safe place.”

A safe place in which he threatens to shoot them. With his collection of firearms.

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Regarding Tattoos

February 17, 2026 119 Comments

Some theories, in a sequence.

First up, Dr Daisy Dixon, a philosopher of art at Cardiff University:

my theory is that a reason these men don’t like tattoos on women is because it’s an outward sign of creative agency and self-ownership – it signals that the woman’s body is hers and no one else’s – it aesthetically undermines and rejects men’s felt entitlement to our bodies 🖤 https://t.co/EwlxW9oxHQ

— Dr Daisy Dixon (@daisyldixon) February 15, 2026

Then, a less lofty and perhaps more plausible take by Tim Newman:

For me it reflects poor decision-making which is downstream of poor judgement. Not something you really want in a relationship. https://t.co/9U2u4Y2OG0

— Tim Newman (@whitesundesert) February 16, 2026

And Devon Eriksen offers this, which you may want to read in full:

There is a sort of woman who is deeply and personally offended that Men don’t like Thing.

And she always has Theory.

Theory is about how Men don’t like Thing because they are Bad. All of this is explained by Story.

Story might be plausible, and make sense, but it’s one of… https://t.co/ROC5Bab0wR

— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) February 15, 2026

I should add that there may in fact be more than one Daisy Dixon. But still.

And because you like footnotes.

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