Good point. Toon Town may have jurisdiction in this case.

If the Spice Girls taught us anything it was that 40% of women are named Mel.

Feeling inspired by #MLA26 #MLA2026? Want to propose an MLA volume on pedagogy, or a new translation? Post-convention meetings with MLA acquisitions editors are available at the Calendly link below. (And of course, you can e-mail us any time of the year.)

Looking to expand your syllabus? Come by PubCentral to browse our new and forthcoming titles. We’ll be at the booth from 9 to 6. #MLA26

Hi there #MLA26 #MLA2026, I'm looking forward to talking with you about your book proposals. Sign up at this link for an online meeting. The MLA books program focuses on edited collections about teaching, literary translations, and guides for students. calendly.com/jaimecleland...

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

#MLA26 #MLA2026 Sample some recent MLA teaching collections in session 328 on Margaret Atwood & 502 on the Arthurian tradition. Our Publications Committee is also sponsoring 572: Making Room for Understudied Texts, on works that should be taught more often. 502 & 572 are online; join from anywhere!

In the last couple of years, we have published collections on Dracula, teaching in prisons, Margaret Atwood, social justice, Yuyachkani's human rights theater, and much more. What teaching volume might you put together?

Getting ready for #MLA26 #MLA2026 and have a book idea to pitch to the MLA books program? Schedule a meeting with the acquisition editors (i.e. me and my colleague James) to discuss your project. We'll be meeting via zoom, both during and after the convention. calendly.com/jaimecleland...

At midnight today, it will have been 2016 for the past decade.

you will be visited by 3 spirits

Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer – That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils! Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter: allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...

THE SOLSTICE OCCURRED @ 20251221 10:03 AM UR ASTRONOMICAL WINTER HAS JUST BEGUN THO UR METEOROLOGICAL WINTER BEGAN 12/1 BUT UR DAYS WILL NOW BEGIN 2 GET LONGER CONGRATS U MADE IT

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

Do you teach Melville’s Moby-Dick in your classes? You can contribute to our latest volume in development by sharing information about your experience in a survey and by proposing an essay. Respond by 1 February: www.surveymonkey.com/r/YHK8VJ8

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

Methodology

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lol I fucking knew that little shit wasn't to be trusted. Avoid the new Vine like a plague, they just want a pure dataset to scrape.

Every ad now

Not only is Tom Hanks protecting his own health, by masking up he’s protecting everyone else on public transit. Many people taking the subway don’t have paid time off. They don’t have the good healthcare someone like Hanks can afford. Masking is community care.

New awareness campaign

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

Let’s find out what happens when they stop being polite, and start getting real …

Less than 20 minute wait at Early Voting sites across NYC today, according to the NYC Board of Elections Wait Time Map. NYC, have you voted yet? Early Voting sites open from 9am-5pm today/Saturday and tomorrow/Sunday. www.vote.nyc/page/wait-ti...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

This is just to say I have looked on the works that were in the desert and which you were probably thinking would still stand Forgive me they were trunkless so vast and so old

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

“…for an AI chatbot to generate an autopsy report, contract workers have to sift through thousands of gruesome crime scene images, a gig known as ‘data labeling.’”

Congratulations to the editors of Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons for winning the Teaching Literature Book Award! www.mla.org/Publications...

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me

the used copy i got from the bookstore paid off when i passed it around so everyone could see where the previous reader remarked about rochester, “he a bitch”

I submit for consideration: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longing...

Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.

FYI - if you are looking for the 2025-2026 vaccine manufactured by Novavax at CVS, ask them to look up the actual vaccine name: Nuvaxovid (They will not find it in their system if they look up “Novavax”)

People, hang on to your printed books. Really. Do it.

They've lost the 9yos

we should rewind the internet to when we all hung out on TWoP forums

“As politicians turn on this final tool, can we not at last agree that our government has no plan to control COVID-19? The plan is to offload the costs of this virus - of mitigation, of infection, of long-term damage to health, of lost wages- onto you.” www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-rfks-...

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

One of my best friends (and podcast co-host) teaches Philosophy at a university. I love his approach, which is essentially "If I'm asking questions that ChatGPT could answer then I'm asking the wrong questions." Obviously that isn't the solution for everyone, but I think a good guidepost.