The chemical tank has cracked. 😑

i'm not feeling great about the future of truth

Same.

We must not become less of ourselves in the face of annihilation. We must hold to who we are, hold tight to our joys. i came into this world dead, grey and silent. I shall go out of strange, full of love and wondrous curiosity. I shall go a fully-grown changeling with a kiss of intent on my lips.

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

Yeah I dunno but I wouldn’t claim to call myself a journalist and president of the WHCA while sitting next to the man who said Jamal Ahmad Hamza Khashoggi probably deserved to be dismembered alive by a bone saw. Just a grotesque group of people.

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

Hummers are here.

Still no hummingbirds but the feeders are full.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

well today fucking sucked

The word for the intended mass destruction of education in a specific place is "scholasticide".

Pretty soon they’re going to start releasing Epstein files to distract from the war

Happy Easter 🐑

The trout lilies are early this year.

The Meyer lemon is struggling. It dropped every leaf this winter and then put forth a crazy display of blossoms, which is a precursor to death. The two lemons are from last summer; they usually ripen in time to be used in my Easter bread, but these two are still green. Hoping for a resurrection.

Syracuse is named after a classical Greek city known for its practical and artistic ceramics, a city which is now in Italy. When we kill the humanities we kill self-knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

The spring ephemerals are here. It was a long, difficult winter, but spring feels tenuous. Flowers help.

Who profits from the university working at destroying its purpose, especially in fields like the humanities and social sciences. "Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of 'highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat.' (New Rep.)"

The humanities are absolutely vital to a functioning democratic society.

rueing the day I will have to explain to my daughter that, once upon a time before mobile phones, you simply had to agree to meet someone somewhere and then actually be in the place you agreed at the time you said you'd be there, and people actually made this work

F*&G^&* ProQuest

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

Ecocide often walks hand in hand with genocide. Make the land uninhabitable, unrecognisable, impossible to tend and nurture... that is part and parcel of destroying a people and culture.

everything being done now was test run by Republicans on the Humanities for decades and many of our STEM colleagues were silent

Earthshine for the equinox.

On this day last year we found out that my dad needed hospice and likely had 3 months to live. He died 133 days later. I’m back in TX helping my mom clear out his things and do general household stuff, and it’s still unreal that he’s gone.

My sister is Aunt Charlotte from A Room with a View. Sophie is Lucy Honeychurch. We’re all just living in EM Forster’s world.

Please stop using ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Grok for legal things. Please. It doesn't make you a good researcher to use them. They destroy the planet. They destroy the Global South. They destroy Black neighborhoods. They destroy water supplies. And they're WRONG.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “It is safe to say that no one anticipated the spontaneous upsurge of neighboring that exploded in the Twin Cities and eventually forced Trump into a humiliating withdrawal,” Thomas Friedman writes after time back in his old hometown, Minneapolis.

It’s so clear and warm here tonight.

Greening up in the arboretum. You can stand by this tree and pretend you’re in a cypress forest in Japan.

The world is on fire but spring returns in spite of our stupidity. #FlowerReport

I think of this speech, so often, too often, in fact. It is one of the most pertinent you could hear, today.

May Colson Hall be a queer space forever and ever amen.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

The calls for trans people to be quieter as we're wiped out are only going to increase, and you owe it to your sisters and brothers to get louder and louder.

36 hours in Brooklyn to see the kid and his girlfriend. Leaving at the break of dawn to get back through the mountains before the blizzard.

I'm listening to a talk by expert in rhetoric Jennifer Sano-Franchini ( @jsanofranchini.bsky.social ) about refusing generative AI in writing studies. She shared a resource for refusing genAI that might be helpful for other folks in academia: #academia #genAI refusal.blog

Come, good boy, the next way home.

I am caught in a grading vortex where no matter how many papers I grade (and I have graded dozens, maybe hundreds, who even knows?), I’m perpetually six papers from being finished. This can’t literally be true, and yet here I am, with six more papers to grade.

Beautiful blue-green late winter water through the melting ice.

"Be positive, an old friend tells me. I'm screaming. Silently." An update to @liznangel3.bsky.social's appeal on behalf of my wife and me. As the appeal nears its end and as we push hard to transition from sea-dwelling to settlement ashore, we really need your help, if you can give it.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social