"I open my jaw wide, rub my arms until the friction burns, let the heat down my throat like molasses. I begin to cook myself, until I can only be caked off the road with a spatula." mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas... @mrbullbull.bsky.social

so grateful my CNF piece on misery and snaking skin in North Carolina heat finally found a home!! mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

turns out writers love it when your hair harmonizes with your lit mag

poetry matters more than ever and Ada Limón's warmth and wisdom was a joyous gift

REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration. So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY. Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.

now that I am safely away from Los Angeles I would just like to say thank you to all the hot men who came to AWP, your aesthetic service was deeply appreciated.

easy to want to hate on #AWP25 or find it cringe but unfortunately it is a fucking delight every time. I just got home, it's 3:10am and I left my airbnb at 9am and nesrly ever minute fed my soul

I want to note that the database used to train Meta AI included books on every topic you could ever think of, my mother’s monograph of her architecture was in the database, so were articles my aunt wrote 20 years ago on South American economies. This is not just a problem for novelists.

My dad was a contributor on NPR for over 30 years and I remember like 10-12 years ago, he commented on how much more pushback he got on the content he wanted to talk about, how much more “careful” NPR was about having “measured” responses. He found it infuriating.

online leftists think the worse possible thing that could happen to them is someone calls them a democrat or a liberal

update: 5calls reported over 100,000 calls through their app alone

so many people have called their representatives today that many phone lines calls are distorted and garbled. 💓

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

I encourage Minnesotans to give Sen. Klobuchar's office a call: 202-224-3244 Let her know what you think about her strategy of finding common ground with the Nazi authoritarians currently dismantling our government and attempting to disappear trans & intersex folks and immigrants.

Please hit share #3E #USprotest #endimpunity February 5th - Your State Capitol

I am sure it will bode well that airlines are upgrading their wifi to use starlink systems

Michigan Quarterly Review having a contest for AI generated/LLM texts isn’t surprising but it’s still disappointing. Claiming that you want people to subvert expectations through using software that is unethical is not subversion.

badly planned my reading week—I do not recommend reading these in a row if you’re feeling powerless against the structures of society

maybe I will just make this the front page of my syllabi from now on

It seems like ADL forgot to unfollow us.

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials

interesting that the breaking news ecosystem of Twitter is rehoming itself on Bluesky and feels largely absent on Threads

reunited with my best bud after 11 days apart 😭

nothing is more destructive to the cause of leftism in the US than online leftists—grateful to the IRL radicalized community for the work they do, the way they continuously educate me and the community resources they provide

Special Counsel Jack Smith said in a final report that the evidence would have been sufficient to convict Trump in a trial, had his 2024 election victory not made it impossible for the prosecution to continue. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

trying 2 forget I’m flying back to the US two days before inauguration

I am continuing to be a menace every day on Threads

Israel has burned northern Gaza’s last remaining hospital. And kicked out its patients, including neonatal and ICU patients. I picked a western news source since y’all seem more likely to believe those. I don’t know how else to get people to care. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/h...

up at 5am thinking how the people who receive the most government assistance are all billionaires

maybe the world would be better if doing a month-long stint of undercover boss was in the contract of every CEO

to any of my fellow teachers: I am the faculty advisor for the undergraduate lit magazine at my school and we are open for submissions! Please share this with your students and encourage them to submit their art, fiction, non-fiction, and their poetry! sites.uwm.edu/furrow/submi...

taught DFW’s “Shipping Out” today and it kind of makes for the perfect teaching essay– so many different points of focus, always something new to talk about

through faults only of my own, I’m now managing like 2 to 4 social media accounts that aren’t mine and I forgot how much I hate pretending to be other people or brands online

We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening. From Charlotte Kilpatrick: newrepublic.com/article/1887...

seeing one of the worst stories I encountered in a workshop get a pushcart nomination………..lol ok

of course this sets a terrifying precedence but also the comments were so innocuous! nothing compared to what you might hear at a Trump rally, conservatives are such thin-skinned snowflakes.

The most valuable digital resource is the @archive.org, I literally would not be able to do my academic work without them

Mary Shelley’s mother was Mary Wollstonecraft???? how did I not know this!!

learned today my students quite literally did not know the initialism FAFO

I think I have typed punctuation goes inside of quotation marks maybe 100 times this semester to my students so I think we are having a formatting quiz on Wednesday?????

reading for my preliminary exams is a continuous exercise is being forced to finish books that I do not want to keep reading

I got a bagel four times this week and it was #1 thing that helped my mental health

you shouldn’t body shame but outfit shaming is ok. delicate line to toe tbh

there are simply too many emojis

I have a guy friend that I’ll see once a year for 3 days in a row and every time by the end of the third day, I have such a crush on him! then we don’t speak for another year, the crush dissipates and it’s my ideal relationship tbh

ahhh just blocked my first person on this app because I remember disliking them on Twitter, feels good 😌 😌

why do I always need 2.5 hours to decompress before falling asleep but after socializing?? it’s now 2am

new indiana jones whipped ass, greatly improved my mood 🙏🏻🙏🏻