A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

The @modernlanguage.bsky.social sometimes gets a bad rap (probably because of our collective job searching/hotel room interview trauma), but they, along with the ACLS and the AHA, went beyond statements and actually sued the Trump administration over the revocation of NEH grants and won.

"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

On Tuesday morning @nteunion.bsky.social's @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social came together with Alicia Payne MP, @davidpocock.bsky.social, ANUSA's Aurora Neumann, former ANU VC Ian Chubb, ANU academic Liz Allen, & Thomas Emerson MLA. United in calling for good governance, and protecting staff, at #ANU. ✊

Want to know what's going on at #ANU? We've got you covered. TLDR: the problem is ANU Council, not the IVC. #sackANUcouncil Join @nteunion.bsky.social today to stand up for better university governance at www.nteu.au/join. ✊️ youtu.be/Jn9DtvnjYNc

This is unprecedented. The regulator clearly does not trust ANU Council to pick Julie Bishop's successor, but the question remains - if ANU Council can't be trusted, why are the appointed members still there? @nteunion.bsky.social wants stronger #ANU governance.

“I am left wondering if we will ever see ANU Council and university leaders take responsibility and face accountability for what has happened.” @nteunion.bsky.social says time for #ANU Council to go. region.com.au/anus-125m-bu...

We're told that the reason to have a council full of bankers and businesspeople is to ensure responsible fiscal management of a complex university, but it turns out they got the numbers wrong by more than $100 million over two years. If I were this bad at my job I would have been sacked long ago.

Over two years, #ANU overestimated their deficits by $125m - and sacked hundreds. In 2024, they overestimated the deficit by $60m. Now, @nteunion.bsky.social has found they overestimated it by $65m in 2025 too. ANU Council must be accountable. #spillandfill

FDA Loosens Restrictions On Dousing Children With Synthetic Peptides Until Something Happens https://theonion.com/fda-loosens-restrictions-on-dousing-children-with-synthetic-peptides-until-something-happens/

How about I offer my university some strategic consultation for free right now? It's cheaper to just NOT DO STUPID SHIT than it is to pay for crisis PR.

It's not exactly fun when your university becomes the poster child for dysfunctional university governance, but this is absolutely critical reporting by the ABC.

Not to say "we told you so," but...

Looks like the @nteuact.bsky.social was right all along

I’m at ICE HQ

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

How exactly is this supposed to help livestock farmers? I can promise you the number of people who buy a vegetarian bacon substitute thinking it is real bacon is vanishingly small. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Tech bros have developed a technology that can do two things quite well: code and spout bullshit. Congratulations, you've invented Elon Musk! Now they're desperately trying to convince academics, writers, artists, etc. that it's going to make us irrelevant when really it's making them irrelevant.

Yesterday’s attack on Iran sends a strong message to would-be dictators who use secret police to murder protesters.

I’m still holding out for a crocodile-themed sequel to “Under Paris” set in Queensland during the Olympics. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-bad-bunny/

Macbeth: SHIT

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Leopards, faces, etc…

Australia, and Australians, sure are built different. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that the jackbooted thugs terrorizing immigrants, arresting US citizens, targeting brown people, kidnapping preschoolers, and indiscriminately killing protestors also seem to be antisemitic. Who could have seen that coming?!

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Gregory Bovino https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-gregory-bovino/

so cool how harvard attacked pro-palestine protestors because not liking genocide is antisemitic but also cancelling their yiddish program is somehow not

Perhaps the best ever version of this evergreen meme format. Watch until the end for the Bari Weiss joke.

"In the past, the university didn't always give some promising intellectuals the chance they deserved, thus unnecessarily driving them into politics." 🤣

Analysis | If European leaders don’t create a big gold trophy and give it to Donald Trump in a lavish ceremony replete with a parade, they will have the blood of Greenlanders on their hands.

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

An absolutely devastating read about the real, human cost of cuts to medical and scientific research led by Trump and DOGE. Can anyone tell me, are we great again yet?

Experts in authoritarianism and tyranny: "Fight them at every step. Do not give an inch or you will lose and they will kill you." Democratic Party leadership:

once again we are all tapping the sign

Erstmal zu Penny www.hr1.de/sendungen/sc...

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

Don’t be fooled by the whimsical headline and illustration; this is actually about the combination of two of the worst things: generative AI and the dearth of police accountability. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Five years ago.

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With the Senate report on university governance due this week, @nteunion.bsky.social's @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social writes on the current state of university governance. "It is now clear that university councils and their executives have been acting as a law unto themselves."

This asbestos metaphor is brilliant.

One hour on campus and I spotted my first roadrunner! Welcome to New Mexico!

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

The Chonk Ness Monster

Ah, the two 2020s theft joke templates side by side.