“We can disagree and still be friends.” Yeah, about whether pineapple belongs on pizza. Not racism and homophobia.

People saying that users prefer the bubble of BlueSky to the feral viciousness of Twitter - well...yes. In the same way I prefer a restaurant where the staff are nice and the food is good over one where they stab you with forks while serving bowls of cold piss.

🔥 @repcohen.bsky.social : “Don’t tell me, John Roberts, The Supreme Court is not political. It is an arm of the White House. 🇺🇸 is being destroyed from within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” #Memphis #JimCrow #RacistRedistricting

Calling all #WGS baddies at #RSA2026 in Portland! @wgssouth.bsky.social

About to find out if all these #plant instructions were lying to me. If I come back from being out of town and everything is better off, I’m gonna be pissed.

Never realized before this game ad that you can’t spell #teacher without the word “ache.”

Accurate

Looking forward to reading this—it sounds like a great text to work into my current syllabi.

Actual goddess

Your time will come. 🗃️🎓

Buffy is never not relevant!

Oh wow 🤯

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: Did you know that in early 20th-century Florida, bloodhounds could legally “testify” in court when Black people couldn’t? It all started with The Maroon Wars in Jamaica and fucking Zachary Taylor…”

In a shocking turn of events, I unfortunately know who #SpencerPratt is… Sure, I can’t remember most of my 20s, but no one can forget that small, fragile man.

Spotted on Tumblr…

The kind of news I want to read. Yogi Bear that shit

Thomas Stockett's Baltimore Afro-American cartoon on the Voting Rights Act, August 1965.

That feeling when you’re making great progress grading final projects, but have to stop to work on your #simplesyllabus 😭 #highered #edusky #academicsky

Without naming a slew of political yearnings? Skating parties

In the last week, I’ve introduced the kids to #TheNeverendingStory #SisterAct #ReturntoOz #LadyMarmelade and #Kidcudi I might be deficient in some ways (I’m not making my small children do homework), but my kids will know pop culture, have rhythm, and have excellent vocabularies. #MothersDay

Packed lunch for the kids and thought others might appreciate these throwbacks. #vintage #nostalgia #materialculture

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.

Girl, look out for a baby! Dutch booklet printed in 1945 when a lot of very dashing lovely allied soldiers were turning the Dutch girl's heads! Some interesting advice, let's read it.🧵

Just showed my kids The Neverending Story, and at the end scene where the Childlike Empress is telling Bastian that the audience is part of the story, my 5 yr-old asked in all seriousness, “Does he know I’m not wearing a shirt?” #80s #filmsky

Love the Wayback Machine? ❤️ Here’s your chance to stand up for it 📣 When news can't be archived, we all lose part of the public record 🕳️ Tell major publishers: keep journalism in the #WaybackMachine. ✍️ Sign here: www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders Campaign is a project of @fightforthefuture.org

Be still Ben Franklin’s heart

It's awesome when you finally read a book that you knew it was going to be great, and it is just as good as you expected it to be. Isadora Mota's "Freedom Horizon" is definitely one of those. Extraordinary archival research to recover Black resistance from 1848 to 1870 and many wonderful stories!

Shout out to Jane Fonda! While Nine to Five is obviously a huge touchstone for people, I usually associate her with The Dollmaker (1984)—one of the first movies to make me sob uncontrollably. Probably because I was five and it was traumatizing.

Apt simile

I need all of these things on a regular basis.

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials. @samleecole.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

Return to Oz

A student brought boxes of homemade cinnamon & chocolate rolls to class today. Bless her, her spouse, and their children for this bounty. #teaching Also, the homemade icing is made with homemade butter? Meanwhile, I sent my kids to school yesterday thinking it was “pajama day”—it was not.

Evergreen

Women’s history for (US)Mother’s Day on May10th. Material culture off my shelves at home version.

Jaws is never not relevant

I’d buy an old warehouse in South Atlanta and convert it into a multi-use space: coffee shop, beer garden, playground, vintage sellers and crafters, and community event space

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No men in women’s sport you say?

I mean, I was trying to watch a different episode of #Buffy but if this site wants to jump me into Dark Willow, I won’t complain.

Damn! Now I have to try this next time I’m in my office. Inevitably, a student will show up stressed out and there I’ll be, making a Penguin penguin.

Jaws forever

Periodical reminder to a few of my colleagues who said I was overreacting about AI taking faculty jobs: told ya

You wont be laughing when an English major is your fn BOSS

Just taught They Called Us Enemy—can’t wait to share these stories

Goddamnit

If we treated poor people as full humans worthy of dignity, we wouldn’t spend so much time policing them in the first place…

Bring some joy to your final dept meetings!