Yep, already dropped of my mail-in ballot in person and received an email from the county election supervisor that my vote counted 🤠

ive been disconnected. what happened?

exactly what i was thinking about. it was such a tense and shameful period.

You host a server from your own computer at home?

oopsies! 😬

From what I can tell, et al. is not about socio-political power*. It’s just a necessity for ease and efficiency. In-text citations need to be short to limit wasted space. Otherwise, we’d have lots of text dedicated to unnecessary names. An in-text citation that reads (Perez et al., 2023) is much more efficient than (Perez, Washington, Smith, Iwukuni, Johnson, Patel, Boofy, Yamirez, Tate, Hendrix, Apple, Man, & Gargamel, 2023).

Using 7th ed. APA, the citation entries in the bibliography/references include upto the first 20 authors, so contributors are rarely omitted.

• Perhaps being the first author is in many situations, but APA format can’t really address that.

I appreciate her openness, but it’s a confusing report to me. I’m wondering the intent/purpose of sharing that info because this seems like one of those things that I would likely misunderstand, then repeat and get into trouble fordoing so. What would likely be the point of the post? Relate with others, seek validation for her appearance, be funny, or something else?