Erin J. Beall

Talking with @erinjbeall.bsky.social
“We will get A job. I believe in the universe’s ability to force capitalism upon us.”

A perfect storm of digital library holds has resulted in my having thirteen (13) books checked out. I feel so rich and so underwater!!

I’ve attended a lot of sessions at #sblaar this year but the most surprising thing I’ve learned is that they play Kendrick Lamar at the after-hours parties.

(And there’s a dance floor.)

The Ones Who Stay and Fight - Lightspeed Magazine It’s the Day of Good Birds in the city of Um-Helat! The Day is a local custom, silly and random as so many local customs can be, and yet beautiful by the same token. It has little to do with birds---a...

NK Jemisin’s short story about the city of Um-Helat is the most impactful things I’ve read this year. It gave me hope, it took that hope away, and then it gave me courage.

You can read “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” for free here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

I've had the same number since I was 16, so I also get calls from every state my FATHER has ever lived in

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

a man with a mustache is saying is that Alt: Neil Degrasse Tyson asking, "Is that allowed?"

I'm currently toying with adding a "no thanks" section to my dissertation acknowledgments, in which I refuse to thank the partner who dumped me, the dog that died, and the crappy jobs that I held throughout the dissertation process.

It’s just not good for my body image to hear, “Erin is just so wide”— or for my sense of self to hear, “Erin could cause real damage”

I wish there were a way to enter "my own dissertation" to my book logging app. I keep rereading that thing to edit it, and it doesn't even earn me any points

Distinctly bizarre for this coffee shop in Colonial Williamsburg to be playing Ethel Cain

Hate to be that guy but as a student of languages, I not only know but have decently frequently used the word “loanword” #connections

I've been thinking about this for months it's horrifying

A major part of editing other people's work is phrasing comments so that you're being encouraging, like a coach, instead of coming off pedantic, controlling, or dismissive.

So I always go back and edit everything I wrote after I edit everything you wrote-- adds to the work but I love my clients!

Totally unrelated, but I'm suddenly finding the imprecatory psalms remarkably appealing for the first time....

Dissertation work feat. my favorite study buddy (and my advisor @wilgafney.bsky.social's fabulous Womanist Midrash Vol. II)

Some people can’t make it to a protest today, so here’s a script to call your representative.

I am a constituent calling to let _____ know that Donald Trump threatened to jail protestors today in a violation of the first amendment. I would like my elected representatives to take action to stop…

— Support any legal challenges or investigations into Musk and his organization's activity, (and)

— Conduct immediate oversight into DOGE’s actions, (and)

— Halt all work in Congress until the unconstitutional power grabs stop.

Thank you for your time and consideration. (3/3)

— Forcefully speak out against an unelected billionaire having undue influence on and control over our government’s data, personnel, and payment systems,

— Refuse to cooperate with DOGE, Musk's private enterprise masking as a government agency, (2/3)

Sample script for calling your congresspeople, adapted from @5calls.org:

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP].

I’m calling to express my outrage over Elon Musk’s unlawful and undemocratic takeover of the federal government, and I ask that [REP/SEN NAME]… (1/3)

Other activities you can do in all your free time not shopping today!
-delete your am*zon prime account (or look up when it expires and set a calendar event to cancel it the day before)
-export your goodreads account to the am*zon-free site @thestorygraph.com
-call your congresspeople. make demands.

Me eating chocolate:
But what we really need is a... an M&Momenon!
A what?
An M&Momenon!

You're welcome, Mars, Inc.

We would not know Bishop Marianne Budde if the church did not ordain women or gay folk. Consider the prophets your church has discarded. #Narthex

Actively trying to deconstruct how much of my overwhelming fear and worry right now is due to a lingering sense of American exceptionalism.
This has happened in so many places. Of course it could happen here. America is not exceptional. But the propaganda runs deep.

Feel. Then Do. our work in this new era

Today: On how all the normalizing is about (in part) fear of facing the grief & loss that this moment demands.

But people have been up against harder, and faced it down.

This is new terrain, but we can do this.

It's time for you to become the leader you seek.

We must figure this out together.

a woman in a blue jacket says " there 's a knife in my back " while talking to a man ALT: a woman in a blue jacket says " there 's a knife in my back " while talking to a man

Thrilling to be brokenhearted in 2025. In the old days the only breakup songs they had were Silver Spring and Un-Break My Heart, but now we have RAGE bangers:
-Poison Poison by Renee Rapp
-What is this Feeling from Wicked
-Conceited by Lola Young
-Karma by Chappell
-DENIAL IS A RIVER by Doechii...

Like for real spot the difference from this cider shirt or the oldest woven garment in the world, from fourth millennium BCE Egypt

Tell me why I spent all day yesterday and all day today researching ancient Egyptian linen clothing, which was apparently often white and sometimes pleated, and then this pops up as my first ad on insta?

I always swore I wouldn't be one of those people whose footnotes have paragraphs but here we are.

If technology is so advanced, why hasn't Google figured out that I have never, not once, wanted the NIV or Good News translation? It's. Every. Time.