The incomparable Dr Matthew everybody, from the introduction to her new Penguin Edition of Pride and Prejudice ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Patricia A. Matthew explores class, leisure, and the historical context of Pride and Prejudice. lithub.com/what-pride-a...

I made this well, technically, still making. Needs final assembly and finishing

I do not appreciate that several SPIDERS have evidently chosen to weave COBWEBS in a variety of corners in my office. I am literally here EVERY DAY.

Currently swapping out some semi-colons for periods. Shorter sentences, why not. Help the tired reader.

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

American Studies at BU has an incredible affiliate faculty drawn from more than a dozen departments across several divisions and colleges. And! they are a renowned and prestigious group- Adriana Craciun, for example, is at the Radcliffe Institute for 25/26. Read more here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

In better news my book is coming out in paperback next March (pre-orders now available)! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Today I looked at the New York Times homepage a couple of times. And then I hung out at the Brooklyn Book Fest and saw thousands of people out and about and talking about books. Sometimes it’s much too easy to forget how many of us there are.

So they’re entirely untrustworthy, then

Spent the weekend in NYC with my best friends from college. A wonderful time that included taking them to their first gay bar and drag show, a candlelight concert, eating every dessert possible at the Feast of San Gennaro, and hanging out in Dumbo until 2 am.

Did Trump’s DOJ shut down this bribery investigation? Was it Attorney General Bondi or FBI Director Patel? The act was caught on camera. The administration must turn over the tapes to Congress. Every decision made by Homan must be scrutinized for possible corruption.

in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement against-a-i.com www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

Murphy continues to be a really clear voice

I hold out hope that after this experiment with a radical new political order the vast majority of Americans will fight for the restoration of a normie democratic (small d) order, following the constitution, etc., w the belief we can be a regular flawed nation again. I choose to hope.

It has been brought to my attention that not everyone knows about Ben Franklin's virtue-tracking app

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

We picked 100 apples today and after the kids go to bed I will polish them exactly as if the world isn’t ending.

3rd grade music teacher has announced that they are ready to start practicing the recorder at home. Mind you, we have twins.

You’re not going to *believe* what I’m listening to at the gym (you will believe it)

Somebody just liked this old tweet, presumably because of the urgency of the question

Ben Franklin:

I fucking love printing. That is all.

No benefit in looking away www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

One advantage parents of grade school kids have rn is understanding that the soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters is f’ing *AMAZING*

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

It is very hard for me not to cut and paste passages from my book into posts at this point. I have been told by my editor not to give away the goods. That said. The difference in scale of outrage between Attiah’s firing and Kimmel’s suspension proves a whole point about canaries and coal mines.

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

One advantage parents of grade school kids have rn is understanding that the soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters is f’ing *AMAZING*

Last night was the 90th anniversary ceremony of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. I can’t think of a more relevant time to reflect on books that help us understand race and human diversity. Grateful to the jury led by the brilliant Natasha Tretheway and to the Cleveland Foundation.

Maybe if I bring my laptop closer to the wireless printer it will work better.

This. No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued. This process takes at least a couple of years.

My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.

It’s Saturday so me and the 8yo are tooling around! Weekend is happening!

Please just launch all the LLM servers into the sun

I just put a long paper definitely 100 per cent written by a human into the first stupid AI detector on Google search and it said it was 97% AI. Absolutely ridiculous situation all of us are in.

office door material right here

I just put a long paper definitely 100 per cent written by a human into the first stupid AI detector on Google search and it said it was 97% AI. Absolutely ridiculous situation all of us are in.

Only 3 more days to submit to the roundtable on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century that @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social and I are organizing for the 2026 ASECS. Your abstracts have to go through the ASECS portal, but please reach out to us individually if you're thinking of submitting & have any questions.

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Never forget

every gay academic

It’s Constitution Day 🪦

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.