I come from a long line of teachers, including my cousin Robyn. She's had a rough go lately, burying her father last week and finding a cancerous tumor on her pancreas this week. She's also got two adult children with special needs that require care. Anything helps! gofund.me/c7df5bd08

Hey fellow faculty, don’t write someone into your syllabus without consulting them! I’m on vacation this week and out of the office…but apparently am supposed to be checking grad student papers?!?! 🤷‍♀️ Shoulda asked me if I could. #NotAtYourService

This is the first thing I saw waking up today 🤣🤣 This is gonna be a good week!

Lindsey Graham has died. He is being remembered for the way he lived . If you do not wish to be mocked when dying , do not make your dying the only way vulnerable people can find peace

Ah yes, it’s still 70 outside but some privileged jackass in my neighborhood has decided tonight is the night for a bonfire! Just fuck all the way off with this. I don’t want to breathe in smoke while trying to get some sleep!

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

Happy to be in the low mileage club!!!

If Mitch McConnell had a functioning brain that could talk to people for 20 minutes, he’d be on tv doing just that.

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

Tonight’s #SmallGoodThing: we both heard the owl screeching out back just before bed. Not the nicest noise, but knowing it comes from an owl makes it better.

Two owls right outside my bedroom this morning, screeching their little hearts out! I got out of bed around 5 to sit and watch their shapes in the trees branches with my binoculars. I love a slow morning.

Having a dead guy in the senate feels like a metaphor for the whole institution

Whew, the forward growth of the fire has stopped. So grateful for the firefighters!

Welp, WatchDuty is reporting a fire just over 5 miles from my campus with immediate threats to buildings. NOT THRILLED about this development!

Community colleges are spending millions on AI-powered chatbots that students say often give inaccurate answers. Many might see upgrades this year.

Being a woman rocks because if you use AI you’re stupid and if you don’t use AI you’re dumb

If Merlin is correct, there is a great horned owl screeching its little heart out in the tree behind my bedroom. It’s not common here this time of year, but I’ve done the ID several times. We do generally have barn owls, so who knows. 🤷‍♀️

Tonight’s #SmallGoodThing: I had a great bike ride this morning! The roads were super calm, some guy walking his dog told me he liked my jersey (in a genuine and non creepy way), and I met a 13-year-old chow named Peanut Butter when taking a snack break in a park. Love the little moments.

Some more Coyote Pup footage from the other #trailcam. #mammals

One of the best things about using a RouteWerks handlebar bag is that I don't have to carry anything in my jersey pockets. This means that on a hot day like today, I can pour cold water on my head, neck, and back to cool down and I won't get my phone or my snack wet.

Same with these professional beggars! Those sad tortoise eyes don’t work on me!

If these dingus ducks think I am sharing my breakfast they have got another thing coming!!

This zine is an expression of free speech, which is a fundamental tenet to any real democracy. The zine is free for HUMANS to read and distribute; you just can’t make money off of it or use it for AI. Available at juliesetele.com/2026/07/04/f...

White noise is helping the dog, but I am not sure how to sleep! The fire risk is so high, yet these asshats are setting off fireworks in a densely populated area!!! Just the absolute worst people with no compassion or care for their neighbors.

Really hoping the white noise machine that I’ve set to “sandstorm” keeps the sky booms from bothering Gracie. Poor girl did NOT want her thundershirt on this year.

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

I don’t think these incumbents realize how brain-breaking it is to be flooded with five-alarm “fascism!!!” fundraiser texts on a daily basis, and then see the sender smiling and posing for Seersucker Day with “my friends across the aisle”.

Still life with bok choy.

If Mitch McConnell is still alive, I hope he’s feeling pain equivalent to that of a woman suffering complications from a pregnancy she is unable to abort. Something something reap what you sow.

It was a fantastic day to be at the fair! We saw pig races, livestock, the collections and student artwork. We rode the sky tram, the Ferris wheel, and ate some delicious food. Thanks for another outstanding trip to the fair, @fraction.bsky.social !

You guys, it’s not just about citation and we need to say it bluntly. It’s about money and labor and future sales and people buying something thinking it was an adapted version of a book they already knew and loved and taught. This is not just about fixing a bibliography or “credit.”

The America 250 stuff is sad to me because the idea of throwing a fun party to celebrate the country should be a slam dunk and we’re not going to get to enjoy it because the government is filled with incompetent boobs.

Tonight’s #SmallGoodThing: I’m taking tomorrow off to go to the county fair with @fraction.bsky.social. It’s a tradition for us and one of my favorite things. Must see things are the collections, table arrangements, a couple of rides, and the pig races. Have a great Thursday, all!

Reminder that the party parroting a mantra of waste, fraud and abuse is the same party engaged in so many grifts you should immediately assume ill intent upon hearing any of those three magic words.

A little bit of joy this morning. Our neighborhood owls are back! I heard them hooting back and forth to each other when I took Gracie out for her morning wee. It’s been at least 3 months since I last heard them. Welcome back, friends! 💚💜

AI may be making our brains lazy. When we outsource writing, summarizing, and evaluating to tools like ChatGPT, we skip the "depth of processing" that helps us actually learn and think critically—and those cognitive muscles can atrophy from disuse.

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

Every single publisher getting an AI payout from the LLM lawsuits should be paying it to their authors & making that author’s book open access—regardless of who own the rights. Most academic authors (ca. 80%) do not own their own publishing rights (especially first authors) & wont get checks at all.

Louder for the people in the back EDUCATION IS NOT A DELIVERABLE EDUCATION IS NOT A COMMODITY EDUCATION IS NOT A MEANS FOR GATEKEEPING OR A BASIS FOR SEGREGATION EDUCATION IS FOR EVERYONE, NO CEILING

Tonight’s #SmallGoodThing: pleasantly exhausted from a 35 mile ride (with loads of headwind and crosswinds) with my bestest @fraction.bsky.social. We got Mexican takeout for dinner from our favorite place and have had the best day!

If I never have to replace another Boa lacing system in a pair of cycling shoes again it will be too soon.

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

I am just a girl sitting next to a very gassy dog asking her to please stop farting so that I may read my book without my eyes watering. 💨💩

Today’s #SmallGoodThing: took the day off! Had a lovely way with Gracie in the morning, got a haircut, then met a friend for lunch. All told it was a solid day off!

Somebody should tell the influencers that lavalier mics are small so you can wear them unobtrsively instead of holding them in front of your mouth like you're telling it a secret

Finding out that one of my old connections and former IRL friend has gone full TERF is so disappointing. Not surprised with how self-righteous he could be and how confidently wrong, but still disappointed.

a giraffe disappears and tom kean jr shows up and we’re supposed to pretend these are two separate stories. wake up sheeple