Kyle Stedman

And a MAP COLLECTION?! Y'all, I wasn't ready for this library.

Large windows show a city scape from 10 stories up, and indoor space shows 3 green, comfy chairs

Plus, the Stokes building has 10th-floor views, filled with comfy seats, books to browse, and informational plaques about the buildings you can see from up here. I'm freaking out it's so cool.

Long hallway in a classical library, with wooden tables, a painted ceiling, 2 levels of shelving, windows, and display cases

Hoping others at #4c26 will discover the beauty and wonder of the public library nearby. Especially excellent if you love Robin Hood, international chess sets, Superman. Special collections area is a museum, and the building is priceless.

Navy background with prominent microphone, and lots of text: "CAPTURING COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS: an audio storytelling workshop / Saturday, March 7, 2026, 2:00-5:00 p.m., Convention Center, Room 6, FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE, Hosted by the Sound Stiudies and Writing Collective

If you're hanging around #4c26 to the end, please join the Sound Studies & Writing Collective for a free Saturday workshop on audio storytelling from 2-5 p.m.

All are welcome, including BEGINNER-beginners. We'll walk you through recording a brief story of your own and editing in music.

WE'RE FUN.

Oh, that's the chair's address I needed. Listening to our students' music, their selves. Oh, yes. #4c26

I'm noticing that during the opening session at #4c26, my emotions and thoughts are being enlarged already, as I'm called to attend to the broader world of our field, beyond my little world on campus.

In writing, that doesn't sound very profound. But in my chest, my belly, it feels more so.

So glad we got to hear the scholars for the dream introduce themselves in their own voices, taking up the space they earned up front. Still a couple awkward moments, but at least it wasn't the MOST awkward part of the whole opening session, as it sometimes (usually?) is. #4c26

Apple and Sandwich on a plate, with bag of chips and instant coffee behind it

YOU: Since you're a full professor, Kyle, I bet you'll pay huge prices and stand in long lines to buy lunch at #4c26, right?

ME: lol no. #lunchpackinglife

It's hard for me not to have a little jolt of anger every time I stumble, trying to name what this little snippet of text actually is.

Congratulations to Alexis McGee whose book FROM BLUES TO BEYONCÉ has won the 2026 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award, presented by the @cfshrc.bsky.social

#WinnerWednesday #4C26 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/yc42spn6

#BlackFeminism #SoundStudies #RhetoricAndComposition

I forget which 90s song nestled deep in my memory includes the line, "Right ON, right on!" (probably many), but I heard it silently play in my ears when I read this.

PREORDERS available now - Digital Literacies for Human Connection: 25 Ways to Engage Students in People-Centered Digital Practices. @mettalrose.bsky.social @ambuck.bsky.social, Rich Shivener, and authors of 25 chapters have pour our heart and soul into this book. Check it out at #4C26!

Pretty sure it was Tori Amos, To Venus and Back, maybe the only CD I remember waiting in line for at a release party when it came out the same day as a new NIN album, my first year of college, what is time?

It finally happened: I was listening to a CD and felt a twitch in my arm to reach out and tap "like" in response to a particularly powerful moment.

Ask him about Bubbalou the pig.

Guitar!

Wait you know my college buddy Eric with whom I used to try really hard to play smashing pumpkin and radiohead songs without sounding too silly I love how small this odd odd world is

Plus, I've been dreaming for a while about a personal essay where I try to figure out why I like to DOCUMENT MY LIFE so much (Goodreads, Letterboxd, @1001albumsgen.bsky.social, etc.) . . . so documenting my conference in a semi-formal way might be a push in that direction?

Just watched the training video to be a documentarian for #4c26, and I'm weirdly pumped for reasons I can't quite articulate.

I think it's that it feels like a return to how I used to conference: documenting everything, tweeting, playing #cstheday. This will add a new/familiar layer of meaning.

If you listened to the trance channel of mp3 dot com circa 2000, it's probably important for you to know that trance[]control has a Bandcamp page and that yes their music will continue to get you through the 4pm slump just as well as it did in college.

An advent calendar where for 24 days in a row you open a little paper door to find another little advent calendar inside which also has 24 little papers doors and when you open one of the doors you find another adv

Where else do those extremes live in me at the same time?

As I get older, I increasingly wonder if any other piece of media works on me personally like Star Wars: Ep. 1.

I was 18 when it came out, after years of reading news, buying toys, anticipating. I love the soundtrack. And the art! The cast! It's a total dream.

But it's such a very, very bad movie.

College students are so great.

That's it; that's the tweet.

Shout out to anyone who listened to a lot of trance[]control on the old mp3.com circa 2001.

CD soundtrack to Alias, music composed by Michael Giacchino. Photo of Jennifer Garner and a white dude on the cover.

Look I know the world is falling apart in every way but can I at least be happy that this $2 CD has the magic ability to get me through the end of a long afternoon?

Woodhouse Mill, painting by Yorkshire artist Kate Lycett. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Almost posted this, figured someone else already had, opened the comments, and this was rightfully at the top. Well done.

so dishonored in the court

Microwaving leftover pizza is an act of cruel optimism. Eating cold pizza is an act of reasonably attainable vice.