"The great thing about leaning into joy is that joy never pushes back."

No one

“I want our students to know, I want our alumni to know, I want the people of Texas to know, that we’re still here doing the work day after day, and we take our duty to our students and to the people of Texas seriously.” I’m never giving up on UT 🤘🏼

It’s times like this that I miss UT so much 💔 Feeling homesick for undergrad and wishing I had gone to the Plan II alumni week

Sowing fear of "ICE at the polls!" could do more to suppress votes than any actual ICE at the polls. Here's an explanation of the right's strategy on this, along with my recommendations for what to do instead of playing along. katestarbird.substack.com/p/effective-...

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It's so striking to me all the essays about the death of the humanities and who and what to blame and blah blah blah and the answer is pretty much the undergraduate business major and everything it represents.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

good news. she was under her box

Some personal news: our cat went missing. Can’t find her anywhere 😣

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CHOTINER: I just need you to talk about anything at all so I can set the levels here on my audio recorder... Can you tell me what you had for breakfast? GUEST: In 2011 I spent six weeks serving as special DOD liaison to Pakistani intelligence in Abbottabad. We knew where Osama was the whole time

here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam

Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do. #BlackHistoryMonth

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Looks like the guy at the end has frost bite :) enjoy the pain, and maybe lifelong pain or necrosis as a souvenir :) I have a feeling he got his numb hands, nose, probably feet nice and toasty in the hotel before going back out, making the situation so much worse :) :) :)

I said what I said about the silly people who say, "But there has to be a path back for MAGA folk!🤡" There has always been a path back. It's never been an issue at all. Many anti-MAGA folk spent some part of their life on the hateful side. But the path back involves repair. Undoing harm. Like this.

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. — W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

i am not a feelings expert, but i think there are different angers. there is the anger that makes you lash out. there is the anger that eats you from the inside out. those are fear-based angers. then there is the anger that is focused and oddly calm. and that is the anger that terrifies your enemy

year six of the phd program, and i just realized that i can remember how to spell "neuphilologische" because it has "lol" in it

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

Singing

It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...

these temperatures are actually normal for this time of year. people here are used to it. it's not strange for someone to go outside in a t-shirt when it's thirty below to check the mail. so I could do with less of your judgement and with more of your help getting my penis unfrozen from the sidewalk

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

I feel like we need a documentary crew in Minneapolis at this point doing ride-alongs with Stancil and others. Someone get on this.

THREAD of offers of guest lectures (via Zoom) for Minneapolis-area classes so faculty can offer their students a top-quality education while dealing with other crises Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact

Redoing my resume in all emojis in an attempt to stay relevant

“fandom pages for all of the academic jobs” could be a line in We Didn’t Start The Fire [higher ed edition]

i admit to being slightly annoyed that "chatbot psychosis" is becoming accepted terminology for something that isn't really psychosis in the sense that we've used it to describe an organic medical condition prior to this. i feel like we need different terms for cult/groupthink/chatgpt/etc delusions

my favorite jwst images from 2025 🌌

i'm truly an Easter Guy, but you don't get the catharsis of Easter without loving the lil baby wrapped in a blanket that everyone's gotta take care of

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."

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This entire weekend

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

People are going to die because of the pending insurance premium hikes. I know the terrain of discourse is inconsistent and goes through a tumble cycle every 24 hours, but I really think we need to hone in on this reality and drive it home for people.

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

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Olivia Nuzzi won't see this, but your friends who look like Yassified Lord Farquaaad will.

go birds!

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Puffins have returned to Northern Ireland’s Isle of Muck (seriously, that’s its name) for the first time in at least 25 years. Tales of puffins on the island “felt more like folklore,” said nature reserves manager Andy Crory, but now they’re coming back. buff.ly/oBQlH6r #ShareGoodNewsToo

nose down ass up that's the way we cyberstuck

Your education cannot be social media. If you're not reading, you're not learning. Podcasts can be educational when they have scholars, authors, etc who actually have expertise on a topic. Reading is essential. When Kendrick said "turn the TV off" it was more than a metaphor.

It's easy to see shoddy research as a bad actor problem. But if AI slop like this can make it through editors and peer reviewers, it means there are systemic problems at work. And I'd argue that at least part of the problem is the overwork culture in academia-- pressure to do more while caring less.