Be the wrench you want to see in the works.

Someone explained Two Truths and a Lie to the the children and you really haven’t lived until you watch two autistic kids who have been together almost every minute of every day since the youngest was born try to lie to each other 🤣

I’ve been thinking about it all day and I’ve decided that the golden snake with golden eyes that can snap at cars and spit fire should be the symbol of New York under Mamdani

My number one piece of writing advice is: don’t do it if you don’t actually like writing

"I do not fill silence. That's not when I speak." why was that so hot 😭 #TheTraitorsUS

🐍🐍🐍 #TheTraitorsUS

My mother used to ask me why don't you just write things that people read? Because I am a Literary Writer, and we don't take the straightforward path. I choose the inscrutable one that will lead me to a niche corner of the internet where we scream

What if we just put up a giant sign that says Books

tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day. my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.

I have controversial thoughts about the state of higher ed & the ethics of keeping PhD programs so that research-active faculty can have cheap labor that enables their research programs (e.g., funding models that prioritize 'fit' w/ grant funded research rather then encourage research independence)

whoever called it a hurdy-gurdy should get to name more things

"It’s as though Kennedy opened a long-sealed Pandora’s box labeled “Antivaxxers & other perils to autistic people” and released all of the little demons contained therein. Hope lies at the bottom, awaiting resuscitation, one presumes." From @ejwillingham.bsky.social: buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.

Living Disability Justice and Fat Liberation in Such a Time As This I came to Health at Every Size (then body positivity, now fat liberation) in early 2013. I was in my first year of grad school - one of those rare creatures that lived on campus. I didn't realize it initially, but listening to the…

Absolutely no one: 14yo: “SCOOBY DOOBY DO” 11yo: “Bro, WHAT. It’s not the TIME to Scooby Dooby Do!” Me: “When WOULD be the time to Scooby Dooby Do?” 14yo: “When there’s a MYSTERY to be solved, DUH”

today’s tech barons get compared to the robber barons (I’ve done it myself) but it’s notable how the current generation has responded to the philanthropic and cultural legacy of Carnegie et al with their own campaign of wanton destruction of cultural institutions

This is what wokeness has caused

I'm impressed at how logistically, Sabrina Carpenter is like the perfect height to host the Muppets

“I learned to talk through binoculars.” Zac Oyama, the person that you are! @dimension20.bsky.social #D20Gladlands

The trajectory of me being an artist and buying art supplies: earliest: art supply store. Grad school: mail order from very specialized paint supplier. Post-grad: office supply store. Tonight: Dollar Tree.

Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.

This made me weepy

Wanted to add something: to me, this kind of emotional action is not shallow or weak. It’s effective activism bc it speaks to *anybody* who sees the video—it encourages bystanders who aren’t ICE agents to imagine themselves as part of the chorus, sharing those values, swaying others

There are certain people I’ve met in the disability community that as they’ve passed, the memory of their support, wisdom, anger, and love is placed on an altar in my heart. Molly is now one of them. Here’s to @mollyboom.bsky.social, Jesse, Erin, Tinu, Lily, & all the others who teach us 🥂

Supermarket cake is incredible and I will die on that hill

made a “we saw you from across the bar” joke while watching a show and my teenager almost fainted in shock. why does this child believe I don’t know memes when I have been on the internet twice as long as she has been alive

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u buy art I say thank u so much then u receive art and u say thank u so much doesn't that sound nice

“Even the pursuit of joy is a muscle that you have to learn to build.” - Aabria Iyengar 🪩💖

“The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn’t have a great name other than reading.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

*taps the sign* AI cannot write, because writing is more than stringing words together in a specific order. #AcademicSky

People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.

I would pay actual money to a charity or mutual aid org for Nicole Cliffe to start a Bluesky account and post her legendary prompt threads

thinking a lot about this woman I met at a protest last spring who was in SNCC with John Lewis, who said something along the lines of “there’s a reason the youth had a separate organization”

A student & I got a 4 page review on a manuscript we submitted to a peer reviewed journal. It’s hard not to suspect AI. But however this was generated, this line was so troubling: "There is mention of limitations to the research, which also undermines transparency and credibility of the manuscript."

I once attempted to explain Jorts to my non-online coworkers and I think that was a walk in the park compared to any attempt I could make to explain the role that St*ncil plays in the minds of people on this site.

There is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they never stopped to ask if they *should.*” —THE ACTUAL POINT OF THE FUCKING MOVIE THESE PEOPLE ARE DEBASING!!

Every university that capitulated to Trump’s financial demands looks so fucking stupid right now

This paper was just published in Academia Mental Health and Well-Being! doi.org/10.20935/MHe... with Katarina Grim, Shulamit Ramon #AcademicBluesky

What makes a good research supervisor? Many students start by looking for disciplinary expertise, and rightly so. A research supervisor should be able to guide your project forward, help clarify conceptual misunderstandings, and support the intellectual development of your research. #AcademicSky

Since I know at least one academic who appears in the Epstein files is reading my posts and maybe there are others: You did things you should not have done. All you can do now is take seriously apologizing and making amends to the victims, whose perpetrator(s) you cozied up to.

hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism

During one campaign reporting stop in Greensboro, I passed by the Woolworth's where the first sit-in took place. It really is one of those hallowed places where you feel the weight of history.

Cole Denisen’s article on “neurotypical perspectivelessness” is a must-read for anyone interested in critical neurodiversity. Denisen bridges the radical origins of the ND movement with feminist of color theories of flesh to contend with politics of knowledge. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #AcademicSky

Sofia Samatar’s The Practice, The Horizon, And The Chain is a brilliant provocation and intervention into the university as an institution of power, control, and meaning-making/-taking. #HelenReads

The Practice, The Horizon, and The Chain, by Sofia Samatar, is absolutely breathtaking. Really tight prose and an uncompromising look at how dangerous the university as an institution can be when it tries to uplift for the wrong reasons.

I was running a craft workshop at the museum tonight and a woman looked at my name tag and laughed, saying: "I bet when you were getting your PhD your mom didn't think you'd end up helping people cut out pieces of paper." Too many layers to unpack.