Michael VanCalbergh

NAWP is just wonderful. I hope i can make it tonight ❤️

Transformers AutoBook Club episode 20 | "Dis-integrated Circuits!" YouTube video by Transformers AutoBook Club

In this week's Transformers AutoBook Club, comics scholar and all-round nice guy @mvcpoet.bsky.social and I carefully navigate the... complicated debut of Circuit Breaker, with a healthy dash of comics related chat as well for our longest episode yet! youtu.be/KqFyvNev2bc

Support The Troops! (Unless they speak against the Empire)

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.

Transformers AutoBook Club episode 20 | "Dis-integrated Circuits!" YouTube video by Transformers AutoBook Club

Hey all! @clarioncomicsjp.bsky.social and I had a wonderful chat about a Transformers comic and Circuit Breaker!!! Please take a listen!

I can't express how wonderful it was to chat about this comic. What a lovely experience. Would do it again!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFy...

I wish the tagline were better but agreed lol

Today I feel like I need to curl up into a ball and just decompose until I can bloom into something more green, more resistant, more full of life.

Instead I went to work.

I havent read this yet but am aware of moves the fed government are making in prisons and its going to cause so much death and violence and if you ever thought prisons were for reform looking into this briefly will change your view forever. The terror here is wild.

Im literally listening to this because you posted about it and have been very happy. Thank you for putting this on my radar.

Shit I just wrote some poetry drafts after not for a long while and I realized its because I havent wanted to explore anything inside myself and yea poetry is something else. As so much else is terrible this thing is not. I feel grateful.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Our writing department has been so intentional about discouraging students to use the melt your brain plagiarism machine that if I saw this i would, as you suggested, think about starting over completely.

Im so sorry and hope that things get better ❤️

This is my nightmare.

YESSSS!!! Congrats!

More books!
More employment!

This is real. I'm not sure I have an answer as much as I have solidarity from a stranger who sometimes feels this way too.

Oh i hope you have fun! My suggestion is to just take it one step at a time and do the parts that are fun for you ignoring the rest lol

The community by me is kind and patient with me so I hope they are by you too.

I find it fun to figure out who else is playing as opposed to just existing lol

My kid and I are going out this weekend too! If you need friends for gifts Ill DM you my friend code :)

Is this the first time playing or are you returning from a long break?

I want to tattoo this into my bloodstream. Have we invented that technology yet?

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

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Until this country reckons with police and policing, nothing will improve.

One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.

Alright im sold on the book. Love when I see book recs on here. Makes me so happy.

Hey what's going on with people getting arrested for trying to block AI data centers all over the country

It's almost like the AI industry and fascism have the same goals in mind IDK IDK I'm not a doctor

I think about this all the time with my kid. The support, the strategy use, the time management, the good work that teachers are putting into my kid's school is so far from the (granted, pretty solid schools) I attended as a kid.

New teaching strategies = tech to me. I love it.

This is absolutely a disgusting practice. I think that these digital tags are absolutely a small evil that will fuck people over intensely.

Add on that all coupons are behind an app.

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WIRED did a piece on these schools in October of last year. They are a fucking educational dystopia.

The subreddits about these schools are also pretty awful.

This is what capitalists want: education divorced from humanity and fueled by hypercompetition

www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

Yeeessss! I bring the worst poems Ive ever written on this show to relive the shame of early writing mishaps. Gosh do we have a good time.

I encourage you to listen and support this gorgrous, Minnesota based podcast.

I think I need to reread some Karen Russell because I'm teaching Vampires in the Lemon Grove and that first paragraph is *chef's kiss*