This is a FANTASTIC piece about fandom, about books and authorship, readership, and how consumerism is doing all of us a disservice. #fanstudies

Senators Hassan and Shaheen, what, and I cannot stress this enough, in the ACTUAL FUCK are you doing??

I took a class on War & Peace as a first year undergrad and my prevailing opinion is that Natasha Rostova can do no wrong and she and Andrei should have ended up together. Also if you can make it past the opening scene and keep the names straight, you’ll be fine.

As she so often does, @kjcharleswriter.com says it perfectly.

As it happens, I do expect authors to check every citation for accuracy. That is an integral part of the research and publication process. If you can’t do it yourself for some reason, hire a professional editor to check them. You are responsible for the integrity of your work.

It's almost as though there's been a thorough and systematic transfer of resources from humanities departments (who value critical thinking and diversity of opinion) to corporate administration (enrich top shareholders at the expense of everyone else). Just appalling.

I did not know this history of Mothers Day in the post-Civil War peace movement.

Today's petty grievance: I own a perfectly functional 2012 Kindle Paperwhite, and I love borrowing ebooks from the library. Later this month, #Amazon will stop supporting it. God forbid people keep devices they like instead of upgrading. If they force me to replace this one, I'm switching to a Kobo.

in the united states, taxpayers who aren’t billionaires are increasingly subsidizing those who are, and it’s not sustainable.

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

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What’s so brazen is that the subhead literally spells out the travesty. It says that tech industry lobbyists have convinced congress to pay for their products to be made a compulsory part of public education so that when the industry wreaks havoc on American workers it can be blamed on educators.

The only AI thread literary studies needs

Fantastic essay about Syril Karn's role in #Andor as a kind of audience surrogate. Spoilers, obviously.

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

Sometimes our covers offer reprieve from an ambient heaviness; other times, they're a call to skip brunch and take to the streets. And sometimes, they're just a rattlesnake. As Editor-in-Chief @gusbova.bsky.social explains, with our May/June 2026 cover, we're planting a flag:

9/11 was the defining event of my adulthood. I was just about to start my second year of college, and I sure as hell noticed a difference in how I was treated as a brown woman in the Midwest.

I'm not even Christian and I find this sacrilegious.

Explore Henry VI, Part II with Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social & Dr Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social in our next OWC #Shakespeare webinar! Shakespeare webinar on Henry VI, Part II 🗓️4 May 🕐6-7.15pm 📍Online via Zoom All welcome! #HenryVI #ShakespeareSky #Theatre #Booksky

Fun with literary devices. This kind of reversal can make someone think twice about the point you are making.

[Enter Rumor, painted full of tongues.]

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

Found this last week at my local library and it's just delightful. Can confirm both my 7yo child and my 73yo mother enjoyed reading it. #Shakespeare

Watch how swiftly fake quotes get attributed to “S. Drimmer” now. Thing is, this is exactly what ChatGPT was designed to do. Namely, jackhammer the grounds of truth beneath our feet. Whether the product is “good” or not is irrelevant. Its purpose is to remove people from acts of discernment.

Imagine asking Washington D.C. for permission to read a book. Hard pass. Sign the petition against the Federal Book Ban Bill. buff.ly/W1YsomE #library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #politics #breakingnews #author #authors #government

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

@kvmfinn.bsky.social looking forward to this!

Thank you, state attorney generals.

#fanstudies crowd, new collection just dropped with an excellent group of contributors. #academicsky #mediastudies #fanfiction

If we released the Epstein Files, Putin will no longer have control over the US. The victims deserve justice.

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

It never fully sinks in until you're holding the copy in your hands... Thank you to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for trusting me with the introduction! I’m quite proud of how it turned out. 😄🍾📖 #Shakespeare #EarlyModern

You all saw this, right? www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

It took less than 24 hours before ICE agents at airports violently brutalized a woman in front of her daughter. Republicans need to fund TSA and other essential functions and get ICE out of our communities. We must abolish ICE and dismantle DHS.

On March 17th, a House Committee voted in favor of H.R. 7661, a book banning bill using a vague definition of “sexually oriented” materials. Tell your Representative to oppose H.R. 7661 and support the right to read: https://app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-page?cid=KOQDC08atRCJ0J1U6j3C5&lang=en

My kids tried to convince me their friends were getting $20 per tooth. No way!!

Toss-up between 3 Henry VI and Richard III. Historical fanfiction in the best sense of the word, you get four* queens for the price of one, plus the incomparable Richard, and they are SO AMAZINGLY EXTRA. Hon. mention to Romeo and Juliet, which sucked me into Shakespeare at age 9.

Child, BAFTAs edited everything BUT the racial slur.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

WCK Founder José Andrés sat down with @npr.org to discuss what it means to serve 1 million hot meals each day in Gaza and why increased aid is urgently needed. Listen: www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n... #ChefsForGaza

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

This is a fantastic essay on parasocial relationships, creativity, social media, and ethics, all rolled into one. For those people seeing certain unwelcome names in the news again.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

“Education is for the student’s benefit, not for the benefit of their future employer…students go to school not merely to acquire skills but to develop an entire social and intellectual life: to have something good and to have it forever” @thepointmag.bsky.social thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

Everyone should be putting up NO ICE NO CPB NO FEDERAL AGENTS GET A JUDICIAL WARRANT OR STAY OUT signs everywhere.

Hey y'all! While the fight in Minnesota is FAR from over, I have been keeping an eye on Maine as well. I connected with the awesome folks over at No ICE for ME and got some links to share! The biggest one is the Maine Solidarity Fund. They are doing EVERYTHING right now. We just sent them $1000.

Dear Adobe, No, I don't need the AI to summarize. No, I don't need the AI to help me search. No, I don't need the AI to help me resize the margins. No, I don't need the AI to do anything. What I need is to hit the print icon without your product crashing from all of the AI popups.