My new Wretched & Alone game Blood In The Margins is out now! You killed someone on campus with your friends. Journal about the victim, the justifications, the investigation closing in.
https://loottheroom.itch.io/blood-in-the-margins
An image of a quotation from Marcus Aurelius' MEDITATIONS which reads: "52. You are not compelled to form an opinion about this matter before you, not to disturb your piece of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you." Beneath the quote, diagonal pink type has been applied which reads; Marcus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take
I keep seeing so many people on social media obsessed with having a take, in times of crisis. Hell, I've done it too. But remember: You DON'T have to have one.
It's ok to say I have no idea. Also, see image:
really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.
Apply to join my team by 3/16!
Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.
$78k-$88k in Richmond VA.
This is a really special map curator JOB working w/@en-dash.bsky.social at @bplmaps.bsky.social. Apply by March 30th. #glam #maps 🗃️
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You can read more about us in Mother Jones
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
And @thesicktimes.org
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Thinking about an earlier moral panic that trans-men would disappear butch lesbians. It’s like we’re playing a zero-sum game of identity categories.
Photo of Hayden, a white man with long brown hair, a scruffy beard, and blue nail polish. He is wearing hearing aids, eyeglasses, a white dress shirt, slacks, various silver and gold rings, and a wristwatch. He is holding an FM radio receiver, with coils connected to his hearing aids, wrapped around his wrist, and draped across his shoulders while he sits facing the camera, wincing.
People don't realize how an assistive device entwines with a nervous system, becomes an extension of the body, as much a part of you as your own tongue. Its interface, battery life, maintenance, malfunctions—even its obsolescence—are yours. You don't just wear the machine. You live its life.
there are two kinds of historians: historians who need to stop reading and write, and historians who need to stop writing and read
"But to characterize AI as outperforming social scientists is not only a bald-faced lie, but it exposes one’s own undervaluing of creative thought and inability to discern (or disinterest in discerning) quality writing that pushes the reader to reconceptualize politics, policy, and law."
A photo of a stack of off-white books with a char of colorful hashtags across the cover. The cover reads #HashtagActivism Networks of Race and Gender Justice SARAH J. JACKSON MOYA BAILEY BROOKE FOUCAULT WELLES FOREWORD BY GENIE LAUREN
It’s the 6th anniversary of the publication of #HashtagActivism. Much has changed about social media since @moyazb.bsky.social @foucaultwelles.bsky.social and I started researching the site formerly known as Twitter over a decade ago. Forever grateful we were on the ride together.
Yet again missing AWP this year, which is doubly sad with my debut collection and anthology having just come out. Please snap a pic / grab a copy if you see them out in the wild. My love to all the folks I don't get to see / have yet to meet.
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Black and white print of “Old Sarah,” the well-known hurdy-gurdy player
Me, registering as a poetry vendor with an institutional procurement system
In this week's episode on The Banh Mi Chronicles Podcast, poet @travisclau.bsky.social shares the fond remembrance of his friendship with the late Alice Wong, Chinese American disability activist, and her contributions to the disability movement. Link is in the comments!
Deck builders are meant to elicit a sense of snowballing strength. What if one used its mechanics instead to explore loss and grief?
@walshbr.bsky.social's debut on @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social is a banger.
Absolutely nuts. I fired up Google Gemini and asked it a bunch of questions about my own field — areas I know really well, that I write and publish in.
Literally the first paper that it told me about had a hallucinated author name
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
Writing is thinking.
Just worth pointing out that Dr Kustov appears to be posting his AI-generated blogpost on how AI can already do social science better than most professors with PHDs, to concern troll/cross post on Twitter.
It takes me entire books to express the combined sadness and rage I feel reading eugenicist, dangerous, dehumanizing nonsense like this (the WP article), after spending my day working with and parenting amazing, worthy, autistic people.
Sometimes, you meet someone for the first time, and it's like you needed to have that conversation for years. Thank you Randy Kim for holding a space for me on the @banhmichronicles.bsky.social to talk about so many overlaps in our experience and in ways so vulnerable. I treasure it.
Ugly to see ECRs pitted against established scholars. No doubt what IS imperilling disciplines is years of under-investment in universities, the huge waste of time and resources that goes into the REF, and the government's xenophobic attitude towards international students and scholars.
Everything is the worst rn. Work keeps on keeping on. Support research in feminist and ethnic studies (not necessarily mine). If you are inclined: PREORDER dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b... Discount code E26PINTO @dukepress.bsky.social
Flea as seen through a microscope, one of the many wonderful images from Micrographia (1665), the groundbreaking work of microscopy by English polymath Robert Hooke, who died #onthisday in 1703. Featured in our essay “Scurvy and the Terra Incognita”: publicdomainreview.org/essay/s... #otd
“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead…
“All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
North Devon Journal: WOMAN ATTACKED POSTMAN WITH SATSUMA.
Could we please clarify who had the satsuma?
My latest review for @bookforum.bsky.social is also out now. In it, I think alongside Namwali Serpell’s resplendently rigorous new book on Toni Morrison about the last greatest living writer’s legacy and how we’re meant to read her.
“Measles is the most contagious disease that we have, period,” Wallace said. “So as soon as we start to see measles, we know that the [vaccination] rates in that county or state are starting to drop, &so other diseases will follow on to that, but they just take longer to rip through the communities”
