drought’s over baby, let’s go buffalo!

“Scholars and publishers, along with librarians and other knowledge workers…have more shared interests and struggles than our siloed institutional locations, traditional professional roles and…notions of who and what count as ‘academic…’” Brilliant essay from @rcolesworthy.bsky.social (link below)

robert smith can play

from my not-online friend dave

when people say prestige television the scare quotes around prestige are implied right?

kant's description for his 1775 lecture on the difference races of men begins by saying the course will basically be a useful chat [nützliche unterhaltung] instead of a tiresome slog [mühsame beschäftigung], and, honestly i'm stealing this

Lol who pitches Javy inside? #Tigers

“say no to drugs” and “just do it” sent gen xers mixed messages

Many thanks to Carmine Starnino and the folks @thewalrus.ca for taking a chance on this sentimental carte de tendre.

can’t hear the middle part without singing “hi kids do you like violence wanna see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids”

Publication day! 🗃️ www.routledge.com/The-Metaphys...

Dr. Morrison saying the thing that must be said

this one waiter at a breakfast spot we go to just doesn’t like me and i’m just too fragile to be cool with that

neither awake nor asleep, a secret third thing (fog-tweeting)

“Two hundred Dalit workers, members of the [oppressed] caste in India’s rigid social hierarchy, came rom Rajasthan to New Jersey to work on the temple... Dalit workers are also purportedly not allowed to worship in these temples because of their caste ranking” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

i’ll be at asecs this year, if you see me say hi!

12:20, not tired, doing this again

that daredevil show is so poorly lit you have to rely on your other senses to know what’s going on

every death is an abrupt one, every cop is a corrupt one, without no cash up in a trust fund, every cat with a gat wanna bust one

everything is great april fools, everything you care about is dead or dying

show me a republic that *isn’t* bananas

A rare treat to have @benwurgaft.bsky.social on the site with this searing, well-done piece

wow, yeah, this is really good

prosopagnosia is my new favorite word, partly because i like the sound of it and partly because im relieved to know there’s a word for this thing i always thought was just a personal failing on my part

roty

i get irritated with posts that start with “hi, [academic specialist] here” even though i get the need to establish credibility in spaces where everyone just says whatever anyhow: hi, scholar of race here. iranians have never been considered unproblematically white. it is absolutely about race.

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

toshiro mifune was beautiful

For this piece with @voltaire.ox.ac.uk, we argue that French writers' use of names, including in abolitionist lit, mirrored the logic of slavery itself: authors liberally detached these names from the cultures in which they had originated, and turned them into markers for an undifferentiated "Other"

$27 y'all! Get it while the getting is good!!

every time i get an email from the american society for eighteenth century studies i remember that i joined the american society for eighteenth century studies

“freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose” said no unfree people ever

What is intellectual freedom? John Milton asked this in his Areopagitica, and Leo Strauss asked it in "Persecution and the Art of Writing," and in my new essay, "A Footnote to Milton in Strauss, or, Publicity as Precariousness" I ask it too - scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/milton-...

Still in disbelief that I got to have this opportunity, but honestly, getting to finally meet colleagues like @nathankhensley.bsky.social who model what I want to be in this profession is perhaps one of the greatest gifts of this brief visit. ❤️

always read tricia matthew

just read a great thesis proposal on looksmaxxing and enlightenment anthropology -- knowledge matters

mood

does anyone know of any good work on (or anyone working on) the history of English Institute, especially while it was at Columbia? I have early accounts of it and the selected papers, but would love to find some kind of historical account, even something brief as part of something else

"I mean, I guess I've got to start not sleeping before every game. Last night I barely got any sleep. I'm just happy we won. Looking forward to keep helping this team as much as I can." --Kevin McGonigle after his magical four-hit debut

tarik skubal cy young

Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social. Forthcoming, early 2027.

the cherry blossoms really are something

Happy Robert Frost Day, Tennessee Williams Day, & Vine Deloria Jr. Day! Ain’t that American lit? memorydaycalendar.blogspot.com/p/march-nomi...

if only muting the word “atlantic” filtered out screenshots

kurosawa complete oeuvre rewatch started a couple days ago with yojimbo, on to seven samurai

Has anyone yet written a cultural history of mooning?

the whole introduction of LYRIC LOGIC— titled "Philosophical Poetry"— is available to read via preview at @columbiaup.bsky.social 's site cup.columbia.edu/book/lyric-l...

This upcoming lecture from the inimitable Prof Rashid Khalidi in Queens' University Belfast looks brilliant: www.eventbrite.ie/e/rashid-kha...

fun fact: i’ve already read it and i’m teaching it tomorrow

i’m old enough to remember when i used to be able to remember things