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Francesca Colonnese

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Lecturer in English Lit, focusing on Victorian poetry and the weirdness of subjective time.

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The Jungle, just so a new generation of undergrads can share my experience of being unable to eat meat for months afterwards

03.03.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And you will only have an umbrella on sunny days

28.02.2026 06:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This guy gets it.

23.02.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 23660 πŸ” 5747 πŸ’¬ 453 πŸ“Œ 805

Hey Chuck, I know the Baileys. They are solidly on board with abolishing ICE at this point. Eileen is driving her friend Luisa's mom to chemo and calls me up to say she's just aghast at how scared she is.

03.02.2026 23:05 πŸ‘ 2752 πŸ” 159 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 19

Today’s the best American holiday.

Overly larger rodents predicting the weather is perfection. It just needs a traditional dessert choice to go withβ€”snow cones, perhaps?

02.02.2026 09:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hope, not optimism.

22.01.2026 06:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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oh it's going to be a Recession recession

18.01.2026 22:56 πŸ‘ 16896 πŸ” 3431 πŸ’¬ 329 πŸ“Œ 476

Every month, the most optimistic email I get is my credit union inviting me to a home buying webinar.

13.01.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Even from way over on the US west coast, I’m looking forward to eating at this place again

13.01.2026 15:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A good resolution for 2026

02.01.2026 08:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I thought Asta solved all these mysteries?

02.01.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, took the midnight train going anywhere

25.12.2025 05:22 πŸ‘ 263 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 7

Argus had it easy.

25.12.2025 08:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Birthday to Jane Austenβ€”you would have loved reading the latest tabs from The Cut, and its British equivalents.

16.12.2025 23:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Been wondering who to send the ad to... At minimum, would commission a Public Books essay of anyone using the class to finagle a meeting with the man himself

09.12.2025 02:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Part Time Instructor - SPRINGSTEEN!! .

Is adjuncting a Springsteen class your chance at fomenting a general strike?

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09.12.2025 01:42 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the comments on reddit for this video were like β€œthis squid isn’t that giant” and discussion about how a 40 foot squid is not that crazy or scary and I spent all morning upset about the lack of respect

08.12.2025 06:36 πŸ‘ 260 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0

Guess some of you learned solidarity while finding out about singularities from Kip… at least until someone plays a certain bit of Wagner.

03.12.2025 06:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What does is it mean that the Seattle tech 4 housing group picked Caltech colors rather than MIT or UW? The least engineering oriented of all the schools…

03.12.2025 05:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Pardoned turkeys are Gobble and Waddle this year. Our finest American tradition.

Maybe the East Wing can become a turkey petting zoo.

26.11.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Listening to the Shoot Out the Lights album while reading Tenant of Wildfell Hall

25.11.2025 20:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Priti is always right.

18.11.2025 06:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institutionβ€”the term they tend to prefer is β€œelite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

08.11.2025 17:37 πŸ‘ 3955 πŸ” 1192 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 188
Crosstitch guide image reads β€œthis machine kills fascists” with clipart images of an onion, a sub and a bottle of mustard

Crosstitch guide image reads β€œthis machine kills fascists” with clipart images of an onion, a sub and a bottle of mustard

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

06.11.2025 22:06 πŸ‘ 5350 πŸ” 1235 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 32

Come be dazzled by all the cool approaches to poetics! I promise to weird you out about the nature of time.

04.11.2025 22:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It feels like maybe if we embraced baseball we could also find our way to a parliamentary system somehow.

02.11.2025 01:42 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

the dumbest person you know is being affirmed by Chat-GPT right now

29.10.2025 02:09 πŸ‘ 165 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 8

Photos in ProPublica.

A mail service that helps people regain their footingβ€”hard to get a job, hard to deal with the gov, hard to pay your bills without a stable address.

Many of the folks we spoke to _used_ to be unhoused & attributed part of their current situation to the aid they got from K2C.

27.10.2025 21:37 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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In the middle of all this the inflatable costume crowd has arrived and is throwing a rave? Mosh? At the end of the free speech zone closest to the ICE facility.

18.10.2025 22:54 πŸ‘ 1294 πŸ” 233 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 26

Working on job materials when I could be sitting in the sun reading Susan Stewart and thinking about birdsong and poetry

07.10.2025 21:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0