LA County Supervisors have more constituents than the governors of a dozen-plus states. Mamdani has more than anyone in the House and a lot of the Senate.

Could one of you please use your remaining grant funds to invent a time machine? I grow weary of being governed by memed out edgelords

MIT closing three of its four libraries is shocking and appalling and underscores that the source of so much of the crisis in higher education comes not from attacks from the far right or the collapse of public trust, but rather from the university administrative class itself.

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

my professional verdict on this as a musicologist is that it is very funny that they booked the remnants of C+C Music Factory, a 90s club act whose biggest hit wouldn't exist if they hadn't ripped off iconic vocalist and LGBTQ+ rights activist Martha Wash

this is not even a little surprising if you have ever met a republican in texas. they do not believe vegetable without cheese exists

what must it be like to be a humanities prof rattling on about freedom and the western liberal tradition from a perch created as a wedge to destroy the discipline to which you once belonged along with the careers of your erstwhile colleagues

this is the biblical hermeneutics I come to Bluesky to see

fellas, is it trans masc to love Jesus?

hello, this dog birthday party is currently cleansing the IRL timeline at my wife’s workplace (tag yourself, I’m the blonde who needs some personal space)

It really is not weird that, in a time of apparent ethical collapse, some people might be interested in hearing from a highly visible moral authority, whether those people are Catholic or not

timeline cleanser check out this mini Quran I saw yesterday

without §, why live?

I had the privilege of being editor-in-chief of the first fully digital-only musicology journal and I endorse this message.

Biggest comeback in history? 999: Icelanders convert to Christianity & ditch Norse myth↩️ 1200's: Snorri Sturluson uses the power of euhemerism to make Norse myth biblical↩️ 1930's: a very Catholic Norse scholar pilfers the edda for character names↩️ 2026: Pope quotes a character called Gandalf 🇮🇸👑

the new york times, after downloading the PDF for magnifica humanitas

Please pray for me: I have been coerced into watching the new Wuthering Heights.

hello, it's me, I am daughter

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

Dear committee members, I am writing to apply for the position of Assistant Professor of English Nostalgic Cattle Ranching at the Ivy League University at State Campus. I am a medievalist specializing in the literary history of Anglo-Norman and Latin pastoral lyric poetry of the thirteenth and fourt

A great way to reduce grade inflation is to ensure that faculty are fully protected from grade-grubbing and harassment by students and bad-faith agitators. You can accomplish that by protecting professors' academic freedom, which is the exact opposite of what this op-ed is suggesting.

“Please let us record your tiny children, it is for the good of all humanity not you though”

Did The Onion also acquire the NYT in the InfoWars deal or what?

Allez Victoire, allez les lesbiennes et les autres femmes queer, je vous aime

POUR LA VICTOIRE ‼️ THE MONTRÉAL VICTOIRE ARE THE 2026 PWHL WALTER CUP CHAMPIONS! LA VICTOIRE DE MONTRÉAL SONT LES CHAMPIONNES DE LA COUPE WALTER 2026 DE LA LPHF!

VICTOIRE VICTOIRE! Montreal wins the Walter Cup!

ARD shut out! PLEASE. (I'm sorry, Ottawa) #pwhl

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️. ABBY ROQUE 🕯️ HAT TRICK 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

Very much agree, but most importantly, universities are very hierarchical places where faculty have a lot, some, or no power. Students, however, always have power, and they need to use it to defend the integrity of their education and their diplomas.

The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.

hello, women's hockey fans, it is time to cheer for the Wifeline

Last I checked, CU Boulder was notorious for inadequately funding graduate students, but sure, why not spend $2 million on Sam Altman's shitty app

college budgets are for college learning! college communities want to learn together, not steal from themselves for grifter welfare and epistemic warfare.

wait wait you guys can't do medieval peasantry discourse without me

I'm trying to track down a copy of a book I've only seen mentioned in the advertising wrapper of an 1881 Burke's Peerage, but please enjoy some of the other things they have for sale.

I try not to harbor resentment or regret that my academic training did not lead to a faculty position, but I always feel a little twinge when this comes up. Because it reminds me that I really liked teaching, reading, writing, and even service. It can feel like the jobs go to people who don't.

Well here we go. End of Humanities provision at an institution that championed the value of Humanities even when it was a 1950s Tech College. CP Snow was a fan and wrote in his famous "Two Cultures" (1959) that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" rested on Science and Humanities.

how is this not 27 different metal bands' logo already

call me crazy, but it's almost as if those viral videos of fresh-faced college graduates booing pro-AI commencement speakers are evidence that their professors have already figured out how to teach them to interact with LLMs properly

I was at home on a reduced salary using my laptop to teach dozens of students while this guy was collecting book royalties checks

you should know that it is a violation of the european human rights convention to require me to check my email in order to poast

This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.

the fan doing Cheryl Pounder cosplay at PWHL Finals is sending me, I need to befriend her

My campus just had to make across-the-board 7% budget cuts (after making cuts last year as well) yet UMS found $1.39 million for a 2-year contract with OpenAI.

It's interesting to me that so few "serious" political strategists seem to grasp that popular culture is an avenue for soft power beyond "Joe Rogan of the left". I suspect that's because the "popular" is so feminized in their minds that it doesn't register as significant unless women/queers have it

Some of the worst political influencers and people who get paid to shill pseudo journalistic political content online got their start smearing women like Amber Heard and Blake Lively and were largely ignored by mainstream media as they built massive audiences off misogyny. Pop culture matters!

Something occurred to me this morning. I apologize if it has already been pointed out. With Abby Roque and Jocelyne Larocque in this final, we will witness the first Indigenous player to win a Walter Cup. #PWHL #Playoffs