Thread. This is it exactly.

On what authority did they adopt the bylaws though?

Bathroom reading at my parents' house. Tag yourself. I'm Prison Ramen.

Aggressively passive aggressive message we left for our lazy neighbours in NYC.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

With contributions from ASU English PhD student Amber Hedquist, an exhibit in the @asubeinghuman.bsky.social Innovation Gallery explores how people across generations have met water challenges using technology and social ingenuity. Learn more: ow.ly/JnrR50XJNtx #ASUHumanities

#18c folks, would you like to share your favorite critical/theoretical works from the last year or two? Thanks! [this is what used to be called a bleg]

He's a God and we got to be on earth the same time as him so show some goddamn respect

Its Malik Willis against the world.

Okay, is it Noah Eagle who keeps calling the defense "problematic" on this Netflix broadcast? I am not okay with it. Not. Okay.

The Onion Looks Back At 'It's A Wonderful Life'

I feel like this notion, the idea that readers wouldn't read about people who were not like them, kind of sprawled across everything. We all got fucked by it. It's a marketing notion, the notion of the un-weirding, the notion of the idea that you can only sell books about the familiar.

Mood: www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2025/12...

This is actually an important point in Byron studies. Irving is often quoted in scholarship as a neutral historical source. Source assessment (dependent on all sorts of knowledge for comparison and on literary studies work on Irving in this case) is a big part of actual research.

if you’re gonna pull off the onside kick and score a touchdown go for two to win, cowards

"'What's going to happen is I'm going to see a time when I'm going to take your soul and you're either going to give up or get knocked out.'" Need this cross-stitched on a pillow BRB

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

eighteenth-century burn!

Even mediocre scholars of piracy (c'est moi) will tell you privateering is an awfully reliable way to set up your own shipping for predation. x.com/senmikelee/s...

I know disciplinary standards differ, but I've been at this for decades and I've never cited a paper I didn't read. Didn't like, sure; didn't understand, often; kind of drifted off in the middle there, it happens. But didn't read at all? Nah. Come on.

PSA: Trader Joe’s lip butter balm gets the job done

It's also unclear that the Board even has the power to change the name, so.

Another thing about the Kennedy Center vote: it looks like quorum for the Board of Trustees is 12, but the Board itself is much larger than that--so it's possible there was a unanimous vote of those present that was still not really representative. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...

Thanks to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and @theferocity.bsky.social for launching the first-ever Bluesky Book Club in fall 2023—in which we read the very book this forthcoming movie is based on, "Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story," by Leonie Swann! 🐑 📖 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Wonderful new piece up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on Jane Austen at 250, spirited writing, fun facts, notes on an exhibition, something for ardent fans and casual readers of the novelist alike lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ... --by @sinsleyh.bsky.social

Also for the Austen 250th, @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social and I are thrilled our article about Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter is published today in a very special issue of Persuasions On-Line. Working on this exhibition was the highlight of my year. jasna.org/publications...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Older parents can we figure out the TV remote while the child is away at a sleepover challenge

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

We’re up! On NETFLIX! Please enjoy #WakeUpDeadMan at home or in theaters - we’re staying on 500 screens nationwide through next week. Theater finder link in my pinned post ☠️⏰🎄

Really good scholarship here.

Next Monday, 1–2 pm, our lecture series sets sail into climate history! Prof. Eleonora Rohland explores "DOLDRUMS" – how old ship logs reveal past climate patterns and the secrets of a unique windless Atlantic zone. Join us on Zoom – register below. #earlymodern #climate #maritimehistory #history 🗃️

Tomorrow - it's D&D Day for Creative Writing & English Literature colleagues 👇

Planning a monograph or collection essays on some aspect of #C18th #history & culture? If so, get in touch with @deborahsimonton.bsky.social or me about publishing in our series, Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies. #skystorians 🗃️www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...

Me: I need you. I can’t go on without you. Why do you want to hurt me? My lower back: Because you turned very slightly to the left.

DECEMBER 10 Sophie Ellis-Bextor dropping a dance club bop about how the most precious gift is just time with the people you love, on an album called "PERIMENOPOP"???? I would die for her. I was there when "Murder On the Dance Floor" was first unleashed and she's been my queen ever since

There is presently a coyote in my backyard eating a watermelon. Where in hell he got a watermelon is a real headscratcher. The corgis are hella pissed; unclear if it's more about the coyote or the fact that it's got a watermelon.

I ain't THAT Spartacus.

It’s important not to get caught up in pastoral fantasies that before various technologies we didn’t have many of the same struggles concerning power and equality, but it’s likewise essential to recognize that industrial “progress” involved an era of machines ripping off the hands of child workers.

"I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool." #barkfestclub

Thanks to the generosity of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social alumni Dominic Christian we are pleased to offer in 2026 The Dominic Christian #MaritimeHistory Scholarship to study for an MA in @ueahistory.bsky.social - further details & t&c here: www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a... ⚓ Deadline to apply: 8/6/26

I used to be a night owl, but as l've gotten older, l've become more of a person who doesn't function at any time.

We don't stream music, we play CDs, so let me see what Spotify Age ... ah, it's giving me "Witch-King of Angmar."

Coming soon: Disability and the Gothic: The Nineteenth Century. Cambridge Gothic Elements series. Publication date is 24 March 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

"I’m alive and I have an appetite / for longing. So let them all in: the birds, / the strays. Even the / things that buzz / in my ear. " From "Flight Path" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the whole poem @aaww-nyc.bsky.social The Margins: ow.ly/wgmy50XyqHe #ASUHumanities

Hey Team Rhetoric -- Bill Hart-Davidson Memorial Scholarship 2025 Giving Tuesday Campaign The scholarship requires $50,000 to be fully funded and start supporting students. As of 11/30/25, approximately $40,000 has already been raised. givingto.msu.edu/causes-to-su...

Here's a fun one I haven't seen talked about: If you don't have a meta glasses et al. policy in your syllabus, you might want to think about adding one for the spring. Also whether you're okay with them being worn during exams.