Home inspection this morning 😳😳 May the “let gabby be able to buy the home she’s lived in for three years” gods smile fondly upon me 🙏

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

Does it make me a bad sister if my brother (who just moved to Madison and is staying with me for a while) is terrified of tornados so I told him about the siren warnings but didn’t tell him they’re testing them today at noon (every first Wednesday of the month)

There's just a certain fin de siecle absurdity of someone whose only achievement in life is having opinions on the internet ending the career of someone who managed to get into Kyiv in 2022 in the middle of the initial Russian invasion to interview Zelensky.

My manuscript readers wanted a preface in which I write about how I came to my topic, which means, finally, I get to tell the entire scholarly world about that time I fell into an open manhole while living in Siberia.

I love that there's incontroverible proof Talarico is straight in this picture and it isn't the girlfriend.

This is not only true, it only permits only one conclusion: the surviving member of Milli Vanilli must be made president of Columbia University

Heard this random clicking noise every ten seconds or so and could not for the life of me figure out what it was. I finally realized I wasn’t going insane when I found this little guy by my front door, which Google tells me is called a Click Beetle.

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

Older woman walking by just told me I was “very good at edging” AMA

happy memorial day

Living the dream

When a friend gives you several pounds of homegrown rhubarb, the only sensible thing to do is to make a bunch of strawberry rhubarb jam to can (I still have many pounds left!)

Tell me your mom never said “we have McDonald’s at home” without telling me your mom never said “we have McDonald’s at home”

It’s a pretty incredible predicament to be in to have multiple excellent leftist candidates running in my district’s state assembly primary this summer. Like, for once it’s actually a difficult choice!

A trick that got me out of poverty was eating one tiny but very dense bean for every meal

You either die a hero or live long enough to descend into total techno-spiritual psychosis

To be fair, I think Bezos is actually telling the truth here, since that dweeb pays basically nothing in taxes! The only path forward is to multiply his current tax rate by 90 or so (or ideally we’d just launch him into space with no way to return and nationalize his assets 🤌🏻🤌🏻)

Oh shit, just learning now that the Vatican’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale is inspired by Hildegard. Ten outta ten, no notes, way to go Chicago Pope!

Somewhere a university administrator is watching this wondering how they can steal money away from the humanities to endow a professorship in autonomous car studies.

Kind of incredible that the entire opening bit about kamikaze military dolphins from the most recent John Oliver episode is basically a chapter in my next book. Hey @lastweektonight.com, hmu if you wanna know more about how the soviets used an experimental synthesizer to decode dolphin language

Excited to be heading to the University of Oregon later this week to give a talk about my new project on the affect of nuclear destruction and ethics of listening in the Atomic Age! calendar.uoregon.edu/event/theme-...

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

God I love this city

I would like to wish everyone, even the haters and the losers, a happy Mother’s Day.

I wonder how many bold students are currently trying to explain to their professor that OF COURSE they turned in every assignment on Canvas, it’s just that the hackers clearly erased all their records

I think I picked the right year to get a research fellowship with no teaching requirements! Sending strength and the substance of your choice to those of you who are also at Canvas schools 🙏

Shoutout to @musicologyduck.bsky.social for teaching us all a very important, extremely captivating lesson about why trains are better than buses that one time

Faculty who mentor/advise graduate students: I’m compiling a list of expectations (for myself and my advisees), notes, and resources to share with mentees. What would you include in this list? Similarly, for those of you who are still grad students, what would you like to see? (Link to mine below)

God gives his pickliest beers to his bravest warriors 🤌🏻

"Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Starting to think I should have filled up my tank last night when gas here was THIRTY CENTS CHEAPER

ALERT ALERT ALERT The @dukepress.bsky.social biannual sale has started and it’s even better pricing than usual this time

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

We need to think creatively about how to get the boot out of this fucking congressperson’s mouth

Basically running an urban homestead at this point

Y’all, the call ins to CSPAN right now are truly incredible. Midwestern wine moms calling to say that the mentalist did it.

Wait what

This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

We all may be thinking it, but consider this your reminder to not put anything into text that you wouldn’t want read back to you at trial!

Shoutout to the most Madison car ever

To be fair, the only thing that could possibly make a Spirit Airlines flight even worse is the fear that you might get shot down by a foreign country because there’s a chance your plane is also transporting Patriot missiles www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/whi...

The problem is not that older faculty are sticking around - it’s that they are not being replaced. The argument of this piece is quite pernicious as it substitutes a class war btw workers and a neoliberal administration w an age war btw different ranks of workers

Very excited to be co-leading this new research initiative for UW-Madison faculty, staff, and students! Our initial gathering is today from 1-4pm in Memorial Library 224. DM with questions, and hope to see you there!

Shoutout to the colleague to taught me the law school will print course packs your students can buy so they aren’t on their computers in seminar! Also shoutout to my Type-A obsession with graphic design for leading me to this

Oh man, The Atlantic is BIG mad about microlooting and honestly, we should probably focus on stealing shit from those writers specifically

This looks pretty rough, but now that I’ve learned how to do some stained glass, you’d better believe my pro-craft-ination habits are gonna rise to an entirely new level

East Madison salutes the troops 🫡