As an adjunct I refuse to do free advertising for the universities where I work when I’m speaking about anything having to do with the research I do totally unfunded. Sharing this new line in my bio—feel free to use it yourself if it applies to you. Solidarity with adjuncts.

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

great thread, a necessary intervention about the limits of the law (also defund the police was deliberately spurned)

twee are so back

best love song of 2026 just dropped

If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

A lot of anti-Indian hate in Canada right now, advancing through both national and international far right

I WOULD LIKE TO REPORT A MURDER 😂😂😂😂😂 www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

drink less water. clench your jaw. worsen your posture. this is the time of monsters

The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!

It is difficult to keep calm when reading outrageous speeches like these.

This is the way

You expect BIPOC to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like the Ninja Turtles sewer lair where I might get punished for being myself.

Any institution that sends violence workers because people are having fun in the snow needs a massive budget cut to pay for…literally anything else.

Actually, it is precisely the bourgeoisie that has always played the hypocrite by characterising formal equality as “democracy”, and in practice using force against the poor, the working people, the small peasants and the workers, by employing countless means of deception, oppression, etc.

when I started making music I dreamed of nobody even knowing what I looked like unless they'd seen me play live. I didn't put a single picture of myself on a record for 25 years. I hold the tyranny of the visual to be a general plague and the imperative to be seen in motion lest one vanish a loss

Very sharp analysis by @shaabiranks.bsky.social in @nplusonemag.com "Import the war, export the border: Trumpian foreign policy is less a mode of remaking the world than a crude (re)incorporation of the world, or as much of it as possible, into American dominion."

Very cool looking CFP for a special issue of Animal History on the intersection between African Studies and Animal Studies: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Made me think of Holly Lewis' polemic against transphobic uses of Marxism "The question then becomes: How do you respond to an intellectual facade? Since one can’t rebut a facade, the only option is to remove it to see what it obscures. Time to grab the sledgehammer."

The map's form: key-less It shows: scenic route Its purpose: to record animals

always funny seeing this one come up in the wild... i made this in the bathroom of my job in 2018. however it took me another 10 months to quit that job because it is hard to take your own advice

"I’m not just old. I am also tired. Tired of writing these rebuttals when it’s clear that many mainstream media editors couldn’t care less about the readily available facts and counter-arguments to anti-trans propaganda."

"Today, New York City’s rental market is defined by two colliding forces: tenants’ need for affordable rents, and landlords’ need to repay their creditors. Only public ownership offers an escape from the mounting pressure." Fantastic! @jwmason.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

if only we were a little more serious about defending and properly resourcing the healthcare system we love to wave in the americans’ faces

As soon as Learning Management Systems were used for strike breaking, we should’ve gone back to individual grade books. Now it’s the convenient Trojan horse for an infinite deluge of slop.

I feel like the climate is right for a Mouse & the Traps renaissance Also wow the singer is really just doing Dylan

Reading Playboy for the @jpbrammer.bsky.social cultural analysis

"The border is no longer just a geographic line, but has mutated into algorithmic systems... The frontier becomes diffuse, stretched across millions of screens ​​everywhere and nowhere, operating continuously, sorting populations by opaque criteria." theloop.ecpr.eu/transatlanti...

RED X is one of the definitive works of modern horror, and I was so unbelievably honored to be asked to provide a foreword. I hope I did it justice.

this novel haunted my nightmares in the best way as a queer man from Toronto

one day it will be my time to shine as one of the last people on earth to get a Certified AI Free English Lit degree...

"Maybe our influence is actually the algorithm. [Whole band groans] It's true, though! Jim O'Rourke used to not be on streaming, and I only have this album because I found it on YouTube."

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

‘Trainspotting’ hit theaters 30 years ago today… Did you know Belle And Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch is in it? Two weeks after the movie was released, he recorded the band’s debut album ‘Tigermilk.’

being at the age where everyone you know is having children

you can keep saying "inevitability" to me but i will not accept it

lol

I dunno how to explain to all these Americans out here dissing mango that they they have never actually eaten a mango

"AI" industry chases education because: 1. They want to create generations entirely dependent on their product--and are happy to destroy education to do so. 2. In education, unfortunately, we are led by people who do not listen to critical perspectives on tech, and seem motivated by FOMO/hype/greed

Opportunism means sacrificing the permanent and essential interests of the party to momentary, transient and minor interests.

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

if i was lined up with the losers after losing in the olympics and somebody gave me a stuffed animal i would tear it apart with my teeth and claws

They start with chin-scratching pieces from centrists about whether this marginalized group is really all that good after all, if maybe a *little* discrimination is ok. They don't start with horrors. They start with small things around the edges.

This idea of “inevitably” is a constant feature of all establishment discourse, and as such I think a refusal of the inevitable should be at the center of our political project. A collective “no” holds a lot of power.

top tier hating

...at least Mitch Marner (spits) lost

If you haven't been following the robo dog fiasco in India the last couple days you are missing out