I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

ICYMI: "I have to peel back the layers of where my consciousness blended into the night, reach back to the scene where it all disintegrated into nothingness." @noahspringer.com recounts his experience of falling asleep to The Fellowship of the Ring:

"I have to peel back the layers of where my consciousness blended into the night, reach back to the scene where it all disintegrated into nothingness." @noahspringer.com recounts his experience of falling asleep to The Fellowship of the Ring:

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What a title!

It turns out that @noahspringer.com's titular dark secret is as good an explanation as any I've seen for why Sam Altman always seems damp. tinyurl.com/5eu6hrmx

I could spend an hour or two breaking my brain on this. (Some will remember that the NMR focused on reprinting historical documents, as opposed to collecting essays and scholarship.)

Are you teaching courses that use the current edition? Would you be excited to adopt a new edition for your course? This is a very low-fidelity survey, but I'd love to hear from you if you have thoughts

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I got seven stitches in my index finger when I swiped at a fly on my basement’s drop ceiling. The fly lived

I'm quite curious to hear responses to this.

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The first two hours this morning

Dril will be the final good account on Twitter, and I hope he never stops posting

The look I’m trying to bring into being as I enter my 40s this year, but maybe without the priest collar

How I’m walking out of 2025

found a comic i drew in 2015 when i was in college and i STAND BY IT

Falling asleep to Bad Sant on Xmas Eve as god intended

Is Life a Form of Computation? Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same. by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social

Oh right, having the flu sucks

If we get 100 new subs by the end of the year we'll be adding at least one Final Romantasy fan fic into the Final Fantasy x Politics issue courtesy of @derekkinsman.com. Make him regret it folks!

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ICYMI: "[W]hy, if some of my favorite bands from the 1990s (and beyond) are so influenced by Minutemen, had I never listened to them?" @noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:

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My confession about not knowing about Minutemen until about two months ago, but learning about how much they rule has been awesome!

My confession about not knowing about Minutemen until about two months ago, but learning about how much they rule has been awesome!

"[W]hy, if some of my favorite bands from the 1990s (and beyond) are so influenced by Minutemen, had I never listened to them?" @noahspringer.com explores the connections between his favorite music and Minutemen:

In "Time by Design," @dawnaballard.bsky.social applies her expertise in chronemics—the study of time as it is bound to human communication—to illustrate how effective individuals, teams, and organizations routinely communicate slow to go fast. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255270...

In "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay," Daniel Gardner demonstrates how a series of interfaces and other elements on the edges of gameplay are more central to gaming than we realize. Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255358...

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If animals think instinctively and humans reason logically, how did we evolve to gain this capacity? French cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber called this evolutionary puzzle "the enigma of reason."

Me, Sunday morning, 30 years ago, thinking I’m sneaky in church

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@penguinsolution.bsky.social is helping #PenguisSavingPenguins at #SC25!

@ibogost.com feels like something you’ve noticed too!

Greetings from @mitpress.bsky.social at SuperComputing 2025! This one’s a little outside my normal purview, but it’s in STL, so it was only a 30 minute drive. If you happen to be at #SC25, stop by booth 6352 and say hi!

Implication that Muggsy Bogues will be forgotten to history? I’d never accept that erasure

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This mood is just - really strong right now.

Dear premium TV shows: please stop pushing your official podcast on me. I will listen to a podcast about your show like I’m supposed to: 5 years later and three hours devoted to each episode with hosts who I have chosen over a squad of other lesser options

We have a cover! Coming soon and OA too! Based on the Rethinking Sexualities project with the always brilliant, always beautiful, always kind @susannapaasonen.bsky.social and @jenmadelene.bsky.social Steered through the editorial process with ease and competence by @noahspringer.com at MIT Press

Thanks @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social, @noahspringer.com, Alyssa Napier, & Sara Cohen for a great book proposal webinar on a cold rainy Monday. As writers and editors we often work alone. Don't underestimate the power of connection (even virtually) and enthusiasm to maintain your energy. #Academicsky

ICYMI: "A green, velvet texture rippled across the yard, in all directions, but mostly towards the southeast corner. And the corner waved back." This Halloween, @noahspringer.com comes across a horror in his backyard:

The doctors said I got some pretty nasty poison ivy over the summer, but I wasn't quite convinced of their diagnosis

The doctors said I got some pretty nasty poison ivy over the summer, but I wasn't quite convinced of their diagnosis

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

This is one of the most interesting writing experiments I’ve done. I really like how it turned out, and I hope you do too!

An updated story of fatherhood: For sale Baby crocs Never worn Child is fine, just grew so fast we needed to get a new set of crocs before he ever wore the first pair

Just saw someone reposting starter packs, and remembered mine! Check out some @mitpress.bsky.social authors here