No matter what the historical conditions or the actual state of women's rights and status, at basically any moment over the past century and a half you could make a name for yourself as a writer or intellectual by saying that feminists were overwrought and annoying.

UIC English is hiring 3 NTT faculty, part of our United Faculty Union. professional writing, english language learning, literature/culture generalism. hmu w questions! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

i'm not saying the 9-1-1 franchise is out of ideas but i am saying that in the premiere of 9-1-1 nashville, someone gives a little girl a kite and then the girl flies away on the kite

About 60% of our problems are more or less "do you have a majority on the floor for that" (no) and the other 40% are "do you have a supermajority on the floor for that" (also no)

Being reminded that America was also f*cked up in 1969 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ok using your last words before you go around the far side of the moon to remind humanity to love your neighbors is goated

Delighted to see so many women in the science room at Houston CapCom 🥹 They are trying to drive us out of every job, but they can’t drive us ALL out

If the Nutella marketing team doesn’t come up with a commercial by end of this week to capitalize on this marketing opportunity they should all be fired. 😂😅

“Personality theory,” “personality testing,” etc. is clearly a limited set of categories But imagine what a leap it must have been over banal gender stereotypes! What if: a woman obsessed with order? A man, but better with feelings? 😜 What if they both, nonjudgmentally, had professional value?

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after easter some wear white shoes, and the Sauvignon Bloc permits political refreshment with the spritzer

It’s spring beauty time

I have Arlo Parks’s new Ambiguous Desire album 😊 do you? youtu.be/0zpKlmSevJs?...

🏔️🐴Oh great Tengri, show your favor to the illustrious Brad Underwood and his mighty band of giant Balkan Janissaries as they face down the dogs of puny Connecticut

For years I've been looking for the right guest to do a pod on this. The car-sales model that is dictated by law in the US -- you must go to a dealership & suffer for hours in order to buy one -- is one of the most nakedly anti-social special interest giveaways in history. Needs to be killed dead.

American religiosity has been in decline for some time, but the way some performatively religious people have accepted Trump will accelerate that decline significantly. It’s a mortal wound to the credibility of American evangelism.

🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke ponye girle Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keepe on daunsinge, Downe yn West Hollywoode' [LUTE SOLO] 🎶

Great talk here at UIUC by Jesse Oak Taylor of UWashington, linking the exposed elevations in Wuthering Heights to depictions of mountain topography in the Himalayas So much good work in Victorian studies lately on planetary/imperial ecology!

For those who are curious, this is where American Vandal will be (and has been) this season. Subject to change.

Keep ‘em coming

No matter how frantic you feel while doomscrolling You cannot beat the desperation of thousands of ants to come in my house when it’s raining out

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough

I kind of love the news that we're getting streaming series of both The Corrections and Bonfire of the Vanities. Both novels present (different) extreme adaptation challenges, but this has been a miserably risk-averse period for streamers, and I'm for anything that fights that.

Artemis crew dressed like characters from Severance 😄😅

Checking in on Pam Bondi:

Remembering Emile Zola on his birthday 🎂 A self-portrait from around 1900. Zola was a remarkable photographer, though I hear he also wrote a bit on the side :) "He was a moment in the conscience of Man." Anatole France

Portland! Good Enough Art at Reed College, one week from today events.reed.edu/event/good-e...

Just doin’ required Title 9/Clery training Did you know an abuser often seeks to maintain control in other ways, some of which are subtle and difficult to identify? An abuser might show up unexpectedly to exert control? (etc. etc. 😮‍💨)

Johnson and Thune agree to Trump's plan to do a dual-track funding plan on Homeland Security via appropriations and reconciliation. Trump called for a bill to be on his desk by June 1 It's hard to read this as anything but the Democrats won the DHS funding fight.

Wow that's crazy. That is unexpected.

I’ve done this too and it worked

This book is going to be incredible + open up an entire new field of research/inquiry for the literary & cultural studies discipline (grad students take note!). It models an entire new form of cultural criticism that combines close reading + historicism + theory + platform studies. Read her thread!

Magdalen College constructing teeny-tiny black holes in its ancient laboratories 😱😱 stop, for God’s sake stop!

Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026

Listening to the oral argument in the birthright citizenship case, and the government is cooked. Barrett is a no. Gorsuch is a no. Only real question is whether it's 7-2 or 8-1

Sewer socialism mentioned!! But 🤔 what came first, Milwaukee or Birmingham UK?

Mulder's favorite conspiracy needs to be the systematic destruction of the post office.

Great 2-year postdoc for a digital humanities/I school/computational culture scholar to work on computer vision + film/TV w/ great colleagues @ Distant Viewing Lab @nolauren.bsky.social (U of Richmond). These guys are doing cutting edge stuff, apply! richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...

basically none of the solar existed before 2020 and none of the batteries existed before 2024. biggest technological revolution of our lifetime:

This incredibly deserving U of Illinois English PhD student has a new job at the U of Tennessee Press 😁 utpress.org/news/ut-pres...

Whatever “the Dems” “anti-Trumpers” etc. “do” or don’t do next will be massively shaped by 2024’s crushing epistemic pessimism: the dreary discovery that people who don’t read are the ones who swing elections 😔

Me updating my annual report file

When you hit the vape too hard

Mars-cels seething while their bones decay and tumors grow as the Venus-Chad enjoys a mojito outdoors (with a breather mask) on the observation deck of the aerostat habitat.

Love to see a bite-size game

Well this was pretty exciting 😄

The vast majority of stories do not have morals.

First-wave feminism is … quite weird & amazing

i just read a story about a family that was able to deter gross behaviors (dumping trash, dealing drugs) near their house by installing a large statue of the Buddha in a shrine. neighbors began to take care of it and leave offerings and stuff and it made the space feel occupied

Happy happy Sunday listening youtu.be/YrVEgP0LkDA?...