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I am incapable of hearing fighting words without thinking of this Simpsons bit www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6qq...

After you read McSweeney's read Langston Huges www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...

Are any historians of #C18 London familiar with Thomas Phillips' lock-up house on Gray's Inn Lane? Although Phillips died in 1770, I believe this is where Jacques-Pierre Brissot was briefly imprisoned in 1784. I would love to know more about it. Thank you kindly!

Reading about how Lenny Bruce was prosecuted to death alway makes me sad.

On to Chaplinsky v New Hampshire, millennarianism, and fighting words! Still no Carlin.

I'm giving a talk on "profanity" in general, and yet I find myself stuck at the Proto-Indo-European for far too long. I have to get to the nineteenth century fast, and then to George Carlin.

And this is why antibiotic resistance is so scary. And why we need to find more sources for antibiotics.

An old idea, but a good one.

It's probably my dust allergy making me tear up but a student from 25 years ago thanked me for being such a good writing teacher.

Repost, please, so people see what's going on every day of their "Fall of Icarus" lives

Dispatch from court observation at 26 Federal Plaza: only one person detained, but one is too many. Swarmed by 10 masked agents without showing a warrant.

Truth

Fill this in: A day without cat hair in your food is a day without __________.

Repost, please, so people see what's going on every day of their "Fall of Icarus" lives

anyone know if @theul.bsky.social access to the #ODNB is down? I'm clicking institutional access/ library card etc but am not getting anywhere. #academics

Dispatch from court observation at 26 Federal Plaza: only one person detained, but one is too many. Swarmed by 10 masked agents without showing a warrant.

I just started to type a response to someone's post here on Bluesky. Then I thought, 'Hang on, I don't actually know anything about that subject,' and deleted it. Pro Tip: You can do this!

I am, once again, asking for your palaeographical support (especially from #C18 Francophone friends). Any thoughts on the two words underlined in yellow? Merci!

True story! Has there been a better year to talk about history & journalism? A year long project that begins this evening with @jamellebouie.net. Will I get to even half the questions I want to ask?! Unlikely! Hope you'll join us & share -- registration info to join the webinar ⬇️

Wondering "how to get the best out of introverted & shy #language learners"? Check out Northern Association of Teachers of #English to Speakers of Other Languages' talk: 'Teaching the Quiet Ones" w/ Michelle Worgan 🗣💬 online Thurs 26 Feb 4-5:30PM www.natesol.org/event-detail... #teaching #ESOL

Puerto Rico x Bad Bunny: Beats & History | Events | Chicago Public Library share.google/RQJ6gfbeoDda...

Yes, "shoetree"

You guuuuyyyys, Reading With The Burneys got reviewed in Women’s Writing! “A fascinating micro-history in the print ecology of the long Romanticism, reconstructed with critical acuity…a useful lens through which to reinterpret an entire cultural landscape…” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Here's the abstract for my talk in two weeks at Columbia U's linguistics department on profanity and what it's good for. It will be, as always, very fun.

Here's the abstract for my talk in two weeks at Columbia U's linguistics department on profanity and what it's good for. It will be, as always, very fun.

Now Garbage, on the other hand . . .

It turns out I cannot write while listening to Hole.

#Legalsky, is there such a thing as a paralegal degree that gives credit toward a JD?

Dispatch from 26 Federal Plaza today: Judges telling people to either self-deport or suffer pretrmission to Ecuador or Honduras. No Uganda.

#Legalsky, is there such a thing as a paralegal degree that gives credit toward a JD?

@uupinfo.bsky.social, PSC, @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social, and @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social, together representing more than 80,000 academic workers, today issued a call for an end to the brutal treatment of immigrants and those peacefully demonstrating against actions by ICE. psc-cuny.org/news-events/...

Today's Discourse™ reminds me of FDR's misunderstood response to a U-boat firing at the USS Greer: either the U-boat saw the clearly US-identified destroyer (bad) or it didn't (worse: indiscriminately attacking ships is piracy) 🗃️

Dispatch from 26 Federal Plaza today: Judges telling people to either self-deport or suffer pretrmission to Ecuador or Honduras. No Uganda.

To Teach (and Reach) English Learners, Center Their Identity

Come and talk Lit in the Lang classroom with us in Nottingham! @baal-linguistics.bsky.social @palapoeticsling.bsky.social @lagbling.bsky.social @iatefl.bsky.social

Besides having appropriate equipment, my number one piece of advice to anyone going to anything like a protest is to know in advance what lawyer you're going to call

People often don't like lawyers until they need them. And then they don't like needing them.

This premieres tomorrow. I got filmed for hours for it and did my level best—as I’ve been trying to do for years—to push back on sanguine and self-congratulatory narratives of natural Black-Jewish affinity. Quite possible I’m mostly on the cutting room floor!

I would love to see you at Politics & Prose on Connecticut Ave. this Wednesday at 7pm as I discuss my new book, THE CROWN’S SILENCE, and the response to its release in the UK 🇬🇧 with historian @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social —Join us! politics-prose.com/brooke-n-new...

Huge thanks to @joeinaustralia.bsky.social for amazing editing and suggestions to my abstract but for also Englishing my text.

"Shapiro" is as "Hebrew" a name as "Miller"

The 2025 charts are in! 🏆 Robin takes the top spot in UK gardens; woodpigeons have soared to #4. Meanwhile, greenfinches and starlings have dropped out of the Top 10. Want to help track these changes? Sign up for the BTO Garden BirdWatch, says Susan Jones.

ICE in the Jersey City Heights Feb 1 ICE Emergency Community Meeting. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/feb-1...

Every Friday after I get home from 26 Federal Plaza I'm infuriated by the casual cruelty of ICE and some security guards. I hope after this is over that we remember who were the collaborators.

Who wants to check an abstract right now I'm submitting to a lexicography conference (because of being two days late)?? It's on the term (not the thing) "antisemtism" as an example of an early modern "hard word."

CFP: CUNY English Student Association Graduate Conference on Beauty, Pleasure, Value. Proposal deadline 2/20.

ICE in the Jersey City Heights Feb 1 ICE Emergency Community Meeting. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/feb-1...

Mary Wortley Montague spinning in her grave, Thomas Malthus feeling vindicated, and Charles Darwin saying "I told you so"

Who wants to check an abstract right now I'm submitting to a lexicography conference (because of being two days late)?? It's on the term (not the thing) "antisemtism" as an example of an early modern "hard word."