Hey Chuck, I know the Baileys. They are solidly on board with abolishing ICE at this point. Eileen is driving her friend Luisa's mom to chemo and calls me up to say she's just aghast at how scared she is.

Today’s the best American holiday. Overly larger rodents predicting the weather is perfection. It just needs a traditional dessert choice to go with—snow cones, perhaps?

Hope, not optimism.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Every month, the most optimistic email I get is my credit union inviting me to a home buying webinar.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, took the midnight train going anywhere

Argus had it easy.

Happy Birthday to Jane Austen—you would have loved reading the latest tabs from The Cut, and its British equivalents.

Is adjuncting a Springsteen class your chance at fomenting a general strike? njit.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

the comments on reddit for this video were like “this squid isn’t that giant” and discussion about how a 40 foot squid is not that crazy or scary and I spent all morning upset about the lack of respect

What does is it mean that the Seattle tech 4 housing group picked Caltech colors rather than MIT or UW? The least engineering oriented of all the schools…

Pardoned turkeys are Gobble and Waddle this year. Our finest American tradition. Maybe the East Wing can become a turkey petting zoo.

Listening to the Shoot Out the Lights album while reading Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Priti is always right.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Come be dazzled by all the cool approaches to poetics! I promise to weird you out about the nature of time.

It feels like maybe if we embraced baseball we could also find our way to a parliamentary system somehow.

the dumbest person you know is being affirmed by Chat-GPT right now

Photos in ProPublica. A mail service that helps people regain their footing—hard to get a job, hard to deal with the gov, hard to pay your bills without a stable address. Many of the folks we spoke to _used_ to be unhoused & attributed part of their current situation to the aid they got from K2C.

In the middle of all this the inflatable costume crowd has arrived and is throwing a rave? Mosh? At the end of the free speech zone closest to the ICE facility.

Working on job materials when I could be sitting in the sun reading Susan Stewart and thinking about birdsong and poetry

life is better in a union! celebrate and organize today "68% of U.S. adults approve of labor unions. This is the fifth consecutive year that approval of organized labor has been in the 67% to 71% range, a level last reached in the late 1950s and early 1960s." news.gallup.com/poll/694472/...

This is too easy engagement bait. However, I bet very few of you close the term by telling students, “If you take a class that’s weirder than this has been, please come tell me.”

Seattle: You are an ignorant worm for requesting a bag, even one made of recycled paper. Where are your 10 zillion organic cotton totes? Texas: We only have the big plastic bags.

I came to a place where there was lots of chips.

We've been posting CfPs on our website again! Check it out for links to exciting 2026 conferences on Tennyson and Hopkins. victorianpoetrycau.wixsite.com/poetrycaucus...

🚨 JOB ALERT-The Curran Index is hiring! Editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social + Lars Atkin seek a Research Assistant to conduct archival research on /Fun/ housed at the Huntington Library. Stipend available, with applications accepted through Aug. 20! More details on our website: rs4vp.org/curran-index...

I’ll never forget all the times I saw the Quilt throughout my childhood, and volunteered to send out panels so others could too. An exposure to collective grief, love, and action that all should experience.

There’s a certain press imprint out there getting academics to write forewords to books while having some of the worst book design I’ve seen lately, including absolutely no room for notes in the margins

As usual, a fabulous time was had much learned at #RSVP2025. Next year can soak it all up (the “knowledge”) with brown bread and butter everyday.

@francescac.bsky.social found (imagined?) over 90 reprints of Christina Rossetti's "Song" (starting with "When I am dead, my dearest") in American newspapers. She zoomed in her presentation on the Colon Starlet printed in Panama, "The oldest paper in Colon printed in two languages." #RSVP2025

In her work @francescac.bsky.social focuses on the very short period of time between opening a (Victorian) newspaper and spotting a poem. Periodicals are good at *training* (keyword) readers at identifying both lyric and poetry. #RSVP2025

Marie is one of the most generous listeners that you can have at a conference—and she creates an incredible record of @rs4vp.org talks!

It's a pity that if you have enough money, your brain just legitimately melting and running out your ears is apparently not fatal.

Taking off my earrings as I enter a fight with consciousness… but there is no winning against the sunny summer afternoon nap

why did we let anyone other than the engineers of the noble honda civic even attempt building for space flight www.theverge.com/news/689183/...

My dissertation defense is on Thursday—and I just realized that means I have reading homework (who wrote this thing?)

I have always used em-dashes and I refuse to stop to distinguish myself from the machine

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

I find this easy to understand—after all most Americans never grow out of enjoying tater tots

Come on Knicks, if you’re going to let the Celtics walk away with this one, I have to go back to doing my dissertation edits. Double misery.

Hope in Work & Joy in Leisure

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

BREAKING: The State House just voted to increases the cost of a Discover Pass from $30 to $45. This is yet another instance of the legislature finding small, annoying ways to nickel and dime working people instead of taxing the rich

So long to Papa Francesco, who had the best name of any pope.

As a humanist I feel (and have said) that the over Stem-ification of our lives comes in part fr the over stem-ification of higher ed. But the govt is not a "donor" via those grants. It make a pact that universities would do powerful research **in the national interest.** 7/

Time to resurrect watching Powers of Ten in class to demonstrate the levels of harm to science done in just a few months. There’s long been a false rosiness and security about STEM funding. But just as NASA finds new worlds so does the NEH—don’t put up with leaving either out of the conversation.

They will keep making P&P until the sun explodes and still give not ONE deal to an 18th century novel by another woman writer who inspired Austen WITH - old lady racing - wig snatching - actual London season you Bridgerton bitches are obsessed with - a monkey in a full suit biting an aristocrat