Been a while :)
05.03.2026 18:40
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Been a while :)
In retrospect the lists i assembled for comps were a) absolutely bizarre and b) absolutely vital for teaching me how to assemble a base for teaching, scholarship, and etc. My program changed to standard 'field' lists after i left. i understood the impulse but it was a real loss, imo.
Lots of people write about Richard Florida as if his argument is "cities should have more hipster coffee shops because Gentrification is Good" when the reality is that his argument is so much more insane than that
ernst tanner would have said so many things that still wouldn't have gotten him fired after watching that
And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12."
Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.
Bars from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social, found here:
www.welcometohellworld.com/the-least-hu...
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history
jfc
i don't know that there's any hope left here, but Hollywood and the guilds need to get extremely serious about finding a way to stop this transaction from happening
I know I’ve been asking for $ these past few weeks but in light of last night’s barbarism:
if you would like to help trans folks in Kansas get a ride to their nearest DMV + cover any license fees they can’t pay, please consider donating with the comment “TRANS RIGHTS”
donorbox.org/solidarity-w...
I keep reminding people that admins hate English departments because they are popular (read: inefficient), not because they aren’t. AI is in a long line of technologies that promise to solve that problem for them.
The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.
defunding the police is still a good idea
in a way i feel like he's a lot like nesmith was as a celtic - drafted as a shooter but found a way to the floor with energy plays. though nesmith was better defensively iirc and baylor is better as a rebounder. obviously if he became as good as nesmith has become that'd be a huge win
eugenics was "data driven" that's what the calipers were for!!!!
whoops, "pretend to be nice", but still
adam schlesinger writing this song *and* "three small words" from josie and the pussycats, what a legend
Oh yeah? The online rando says. You think every author has to read? Well, maybe you haven’t considered an author who gets caught in a freak basement explosion that lodges a rusty pipe from the boiler into their skull, which after being surgically removed leaves them unable to comprehend written words, and also they have a preexisting ear sensitivity that means they can’t listen to audiobooks with headphones—and before you ask, they live in a crowded home of screaming war orphans so they can’t play audiobooks on speakers—and even if they could still read, they literally do not even have a single free second of the day between work, cooking, cleaning, and posting on social media. Are you saying they can’t still be a writer? Huh? You’re saying a disabled war orphan caregiver with literally no free time because of late capitalism can’t be a novelist? You elitist gatekeeping @&%*#^$*! (As a side note, I’ve never seen a great term to define this common rhetorical move. It is a bit like straw manning, except you’re inventing an imagined exception instead of an imagined argument. And a bit like white knighting, though not on behalf of anyone real. I hereby propose “straw knighting” as the term.)
i always enjoy @thelincoln.bsky.social’s Counter Craft newsletter and i want to flag his coinage of ‘straw knighting’ because i hereby accuse yall of doing it all the damn time lol
countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...
we all love paulie primetime
Yesterday I wrote a short piece about the radical joy in Alysa Liu's gold-medal-winning skate and Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show and how art and joy is a threat to authoritarians. It's resonated with a lot of folks, maybe also with you. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
Come through bro the party is going off bro. The director of the FBI is here. We're gonna call the president on speaker.
i joke sometimes about how i was so naive when i started college as a marine science major, but for real, this shit is so cool
Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.
Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers
me when the students have done the reading
Oh man I'm going to have to do a lot of revision now, I have so many stereotypes against the Dutch already
🫡 you're also bad at penalties