15th century student: Professor, this printing press is going to completely change the way we read write and think Professor: don't worry, next academic year we will introduce authentic portfolio assessment method in which students have to produce print-looking characters on vellum

Oh this thread is so good.

The thing is, if (cis) men could get pregnant by (cis) women in one of these oft-proposed alternate universes, there would be an accompanying system of rampant oppression of cis men bc patriarchy and misogyny are deeply rooted in controlling reproduction. So.

I did a book quiz this week and one of my questions asked students to list 3 things (terms, ideas, etc) they had to look up while reading. One student asked if she could include the summary she used since she couldn't understand the book or finish it.

In the same way that I'm angry that Donald Trump will unavoidably be associated with events about the 250th anniversary of the US, even if some of them turn out to be laughable, so am I angry that Pete Hegseth is anywhere near a D-Day commemoration. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

I hate him and seethe with anger knowing that on D-Day this fucker would have been on the other side.

Truly this is how some of y'all sound. And you already sound this way about the 2028 presidential.

calling women who take allegations of domestic violence seriously “HR ladies” is a way to diminish the power we have worked so hard to gain and make women feel annoying for caring. i hope women in this category know it is never annoying to care.

complaining about claims of intimate partner violence being "uncorroborated" is how such behavior is excused, because corroboration can only come from the abuser and he certainly isn't going to admit it!

Five years ago, I made a meme I'm still mighty chuffed with.

LET WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

Y'all, I also wish I could live in ignorance about Spencer Pratt (as a reality tv hater I blame Go Fug Yourself circa 2009). But he is a candidate for mayor in the second-largest city in a country now run by a fascist who made his name by being a tabloid celebrity.

ok, this place has the juice

this is the type of shit that was kinda cute back in 2012 but absolutely does not fly anymore. stop treating the fascists like they’re your besties!

I can't stop mentioning that Marco Rubio was confirmed in a 99-0 vote that had a celebratory atmosphere and literally none of them have apologized, explicitly, for that vote

The people who wanted you to hate immigrants, Muslims and trans people will never be ‘happy’. There’ll never be a point where they say ‘great! The country is a perfect amount of racist and transphobic!’ They always require a scapegoat. It’s disabled ppl and Sikhs today. Tomorrow it could be you.

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

Read more: www.burnsnotice.com/the-gops-rea...

It’s so cool that our bodies work in such a way that you can accidentally brush your hand against the stove pulling a pizza out of the oven and have a mark on you for the rest of your life reminding you you’re too dumb to cook pizza

I do love my city.

If you're looking to donate to an enviro org, may I suggest the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which wants to expand observational research to cougars. The amazing Upper Peninsula is coming under increasing pressure from anti wildlife factions and VWP may be on the front lines www.voyageurswolfproject.org

“The Left needs to rediscover its patriotism” is corporate centrist speak for abandon any critique of white supremacist, patriarchal, colonist capitalism and embrace liberal mythologies that run cover for authoritarian exploitation here and around the world. In other words, stop being leftists.

Spencer Pratt’s mayoral candidacy is an ideal example of my theory that we shouldn’t show the faces or say the names of straight guys on (non-competition) reality shows. Nothing good comes from us learning who these guys are!

Congrats again to the elite Ivy Democrats who praised Bessent as a credible Treasury Secretary because he went to the right cocktail parties, had the right degrees, & it’s a Big Club

Back when i was an adjunct, i used to say that academic publishing was a scam & a racket. Now that I'm tenure track (& in the age of "AI") my perspective has changed somewhat, in that it's a scam, a racket, *&* fundamentally undermining the very knowledge production it was meant to safeguard & enact

“Content” also insidiously shifts significance and validity to the platform, not the substance — content is contained, what defines content is the existence and form of the container

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

This is Bodie. His presence indicates the beginning of Pride Month. May his whimsy and steadfastness bring joy and confidence to all. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)

Brandon Sanderson has a king character in the Stormlight Archive who has to take an intelligence test every morning so his council can determine what kind of decisions he's allowed to make that day. I think about that a lot.

Aww look hon, the hotel ice machines are celebrating pride

Repost the Leather Dachshund from Seattle Pride 1991 to be blessed this Pride Month!

We don’t talk enough about good things that are happening. I’ll start with one Henry Kissinger is dead as a fuckin doornail

I hear people banging on about rent, food prices, gas prices, the “affordability crisis.” The so-called “kitchen table issues.” Well, I have a kitchen table, too… and not being declared a second-class citizen and legislated out of existence is a pretty big issue for my wife and me.

I don’t believe surrendering my autonomy to some outside power is going to end well for me. If you do, then we’re diametrically opposed, and nothing you say is going to move me on this issue. So, why would I vote for you? You’re literally declared yourself my opponent.

Claiming that trans people are lying or deluded is nothing more than a way of discrediting us as a group, which only has one endpoint: extermination. Why would I vote for someone who, at the end of the day, would be just as lethal to me as their opponent?

I just saw someone use the phrase “Biblically accurate Helen of Troy” and I swear to Heracles the internet was invented to give me, specifically, hives.

The Lavender Scare was a bunch of 50s State Department guys with alcoholism so severe they legally weren't allowed to own a home with a fireplace going "the problem with homosexuals is they're susceptible to blackmail"

I guess students in the arts and humanities are like the ewoks?

Please share! I'll edit an academic article for $250 for anyone who could pay today.

Imagine being so unable to love your child that you set fire to the whole damn world instead.

yaaaay i get to post my favorite tweet

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

happy pride 💕

Living paycheck to paycheck is actively stressful in such a specific way and no one who doesn’t know that feeling should ever run this country again

Hey friends, could you please share? I'll even do some heavily discounted editing work for you over the summer if you can help out now.

Please share! I'll edit an academic article for $250 for anyone who could pay today.

They're blocking the straits for Pride

Hey friends, could you please share? I'll even do some heavily discounted editing work for you over the summer if you can help out now.