Kate Holland

Also congrats on getting tenure.

I grew up on the north east coast of Britain and I used to hear foghorns throughout my childhood. Now I hear freight train horns.

Erm ... black comedy? Dark humor?

An anti-capitalist vision for football.

Have fun in (my) old country.

The cutest GWR!

Followed this advice in 2025. Will try to do so in 2026.

Tourette’s syndrome tests the limits of acceptance – I’ve struggled with it for 30 years | Leyland Cecco The anger toward John Davidson’s racist Baftas outburst is understandable. But I’ve had to ask what I owe to others with the condition

Good and brave piece on Tourette's by the Guardian's Canada correspondent whom I have enjoyed for years and had wondered why he never does videos or interviews.

Years - 4
Victories - 0
Casualties - 1,260,000🌻
Coups -1
Ruble -💩
War crimes -♾
NATO -🇫🇮&🇸🇪
Goodwill gestures - 🤷
Warships -Submarines
Submarines -Sub marine
Aircraft - 🚀💥
Refineries -🔥🦩
Raccoons -1🦝
Tankies - 😭
Tanks -🚜
Red lines - ➡️

I remain a master strategist

Sorry but since you're shafting us in every other way currently, we can't forgive you this time.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

I bet you can make a lot of people mad by pointing out that the Ukrainians are fighting a deeply unambiguous anti-colonial war

You'll get though it and even sorta miss it. Solidarity!

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

Government Shocks Nation With Good Decision

This month Dr. Braxton Boyer joined CENES as a Postdoctoral Fellow on the “Computational Dostoevsky” project!

Read more here: cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-brax...
@katiabowers.bsky.social @fyodor76.bsky.social

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

Toussaint L'Ouverture by François Cauvin, 2009

Beauty is not a luxury; rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical art of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn, a proclivity to the baroque, and the love of too much.
—Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives…

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

I love what we made!

A Pick-up driver doing something dangerously stupid?!?!?

My god! /s

How Much Worse Could the Internet Get? Cory Doctorow’s “Enshittification” is premised on the idea that we created a technological marvel and then corporate greed ruined it. But what if that is not the case?

“Digital computing was an extraordinary invention; the constellation of technologies we now just call ’the internet’ even more so … But the question that Enshittification doesn’t ask, doesn’t want to ask, is what if none of this was a good idea to begin with?”

This is, of course, true, but Canadians managed it to a degree. Don’t buy Jack Daniel’s though, don’t visit the US, don’t fly on US carriers, don’t import direct from the US. Don’t use cruise ships registered in the US. Ban X. I’m an amateur astronomer & I wouldn’t buy a US made telescope now.

ASEEES 2025: Dostoevsky in the Digital Age The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. by Fiona Bell Dos…

Today on the blog! Digital #Dostoevsky: Fiona Bell recaps the 2025 North American Dostoevsky Society @aseees.bsky.social panel:
bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/16/a...

Our ASEEES panel in the spotlight! Featuring some stylometry work and visualizations from @fyodor76.bsky.social and myself (including this intense cloud of 19th-century author "neighbourhoods")

Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...

Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 27 | Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | Manifold @CUNY <h3>Edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh</h3> <p>“More students in a single classroom; fewer instructors to engage them. Extravagant AI co...

The whole issue is excellent, though! Check them all out here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit... with big thanks to the editors for their good work putting this issue together! :)

A Dostoevsky Laboratory: Creating a TEI Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students Using Minimal Computing | A Dostoevsky Laboratory: Creating a TEI Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students Usin... by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland

I keep forgetting to share! But @fyodor76.bsky.social and I published an article in the most recent issue of @jitp.bsky.social, a special issue on minimalist DH pedagogy. It's all about our wonderful undergrad TEI workshop from a few years ago! cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/a-dosto...

This is GOOD news. They will get paid for their content.