Tbh I would rather lick a rusty railroad spike than incorporate generative AI in my freshman composition courses

Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt. View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve 📸: Malcolm Glass

My 10-year-old: I've eaten many ants in my time. Some were on accident. And some...were not.

Just spent 2 hours donating platelets because it's a good thing to do but ALSO because I wanted this ridiculous shirt

I had some dental work this morning (fixing issues with a couple of old silver fillings). My husband's take:

Sleeping dog on my legs = unfortunately I only exist to be a pillow in this chair and will never move again

Great poetry still exists

Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.

(poetry) rejections are never easy to receive but I am watching a weird, chunky cardinal munch on sunflower seeds outside my window and this bird just looks SO DUMB so everything is not actually terrible!

Needed this reminder today.

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Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”

Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...

At work early-ish on a Saturday morning and it's really easy to be jaded in academia, but I still love seeing all of the freshmen heading our way each fall.

"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought: You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another thought… the process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts" - Lynn Hunt

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” - Mister Rogers 💛 The human world, it’s a mess ❤️‍🩹💚🌎

Just a general note - call it a life hack, if you will: If you ever find yourself thinking something along the lines of "The librarians are a problem, we must do something about the librarians!" then stop, look in a mirror and realise YOU are the problem.

Just bought myself a reward plant (pink princess philodendron, not potted yet, don't judge me) for Not Crashing Out About the Atypical Mole the Dermatologist had to Remove Pt. 2 because a treato really will make it better.

It's possible that Grammarly has lost it's damn freaking mind. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky

With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/

There should be an anti-AI country song called Goodbye, URL

Poetry is where the real sickos are at. The ones who truly dgaf yet simultaneously g the most f

Maybe this is my reward goal: answer email within 48 hours of receipt this June and July and I can buy this game in August? (I'm going to buy it either way)

What causes the cycle of email avoidance -> person avoidance -> turning into a little gremlin in a hole -> sending the "so sorry I didn't reply to your email for a month" messages and why is it always ADHD

applying for jobs again

Nick Saban could do the funniest thing right now.

Just checked out of my writing retreat. This week's poems included topics like: - the tornado that almost hit my house (thanks, Tuesday) - the almost (maybe?) extinct Alabama sturgeon, thanks to OLLI poets yesterday - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show, not movie)

I went to Auburn for a writing retreat this week and then a tornado went through my neighborhood and narrowly missed my house (& husband & kids). What even

One day I will learn that when cinnamon is listed with the other coffee syrups it is always a lie and never a syrup.

"A week or so after passing a bill to make it easier to fire librarians, the Alabama House of Representatives passed another naming Little Bluestem the state grass." From @pamelamanasco.bsky.social in @identitytheory.bsky.social

I love that there is peer reviewed research calling ChatGPT bullshit so much 😭

You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.

Jesus to Mary Magdalene

Whose idea was it to have the tornados today? I just want to talk

The “blood worm moon,” so named for the reddish hue of its glow and the time of year it’s occurring, will be visible in every U.S. state.

Dear July '24 Pam who thought she had finalized the order of her poetry manuscript: you were so hopeful and I love that about you. You were also dumb.

Well, now I’m just sobbing. Thank you Laura Gilpin. You are missed.

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apparently I am in the only-write-erasure-poems stage of whatever this is

Every single day fighting the battle to sound like a normal human being in emails and failing horribly