Olga Nechaeva in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on the reception to 'Heated Rivalry' in Russia: "..when queer intimacy is routinely silenced, a story that gives equal voice to desire and sincerity can be quietly transformative.." lareviewofbooks.org/article/heat... #heatedrivalry

There's a tendency online for people to black out the names and email addresses of people who send them notes like this but I'm all for making it public.

Yes. I met and had lunch with Rubenstein in 2022 at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he is a big donor and board member. He's very serious about history and the arts and storied American institutions.

What’s to become of my medieval women class now that TAMU has eliminated the women’s studies program? I don’t know. The audit of my syllabus is not done but it’ll probably be flagged because it has J Bennett’s “lesbian-like” article. Students are aware that free speech is a thing of the past in TX.

This is correct. Also, I took 12 years and my heart was into it but …stuff happens. Also, lots of adjuncting

vance has to stay on the good sign of the teen nazis that are his primary constituency

Good piece by Adam Serwer. Love this part in particular. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A reminder that Liam Ramos, the son of legal residents in Minnesota, is still being held in a Texas prison. A five year old little boy - and America’s global reputation - now scarred for life. (📸 Ali Daniel’s/AP)

"Good tsar, bad boyars" has been a recurring theme of Trumpism every year the dude's been office. It's wild.

As seen on r/nursing Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him

when I talk about how this is truly the only show to have a romance novel structure, this is what I mean: every other romance adaptation turns the fundamentally, crucially narrow focus of a romance novel into a broader tv world. this show feels different because it does not.

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is 30 year old today. with an inception date of 26th January 1996. It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters. sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp

imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus

until recently, i was a dumbass. but no longer.

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

ICE delenda est

what do you mean 🧍🏽‍♀️

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm via hearts530

Now requires a disambiguation page

How many January 6 insurrectionists were armed? Is the position now that Capitol police could have shot them all? Just trying to keep up

Something I needed to write to a prospective author: "Let me contact you next week. There might be a hiccup: TX is expected to freeze this weekend. My hope is that the electric grid holds up. It didn’t in 2021 and it was traumatic (no water, electricity, etc.). So fingers crossed I don’t die? haha."

Had to bring this over for "rinses his ass" 🤌

“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

I had a dream that an article I submitted to the "Journal of Reassessing the Passion Narrative" got a good response from readers and that its publication was imminent. Paging Dr. Freud...?

This essay by @alexanderchee.bsky.social about Heated Rivalry is so great and I have a lot of thoughts about it I should not publish on Al Gore's internet: querent.substack.com/p/i-would-st...

Had a prelim job interview today with an a.i. chatbot

I found a HR soundtrack playlist on youtube and all the comments sections are full of people talking about heated rivalry except for the russian classical piece that plays during the funeral celebration scene because the comments are turned off on that one.

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

I had one manager who would say “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my morning coffee. My morning coffee is two rocks of crank.” He was later fired for playing American History X on the store TVs

“The women who are in it are all treated with respect. The men do their own emotional labor. It’s not on us to fix, defend ourselves, or worry. We, as women, can just watch this and relax.” THE 👏🏽 MEN 👏🏽 DO 👏🏽 THEIR 👏🏽 OWN 👏🏽 E👏🏽MO👏🏽TION👏🏽AL👏🏽 LA👏🏽BOR👏🏽

Again, all polls show that abolishing ICE is an incredibly popular position, completely in the mainstream center of American politics. "Centerism" has nothing to do with what's in the center, but is instead an absolute and radical stance against the idea of change

#heatedrivalry is actively destroying the american workforce (complimentary)

This cosplay rules #medievalsky

The two hottest shows in the country are about gay hockey players and a curmudgeonly lesbian in a situationship with eight billion people. If nothing else, we have that going for us.

Why Would Women Like Naked Gorgeous Men Talking About Their Emotions. Why Would Women Like Beautiful Sexy Men Yearning Sexily. Why Would Women Like Sculpted Butts And True Love. The Female Mind Is An Enigma.

Really proud to be part of this special issue.

Giselle took half of everything

After six years of working nonstop, publishing books and articles etc without ever taking a real holiday from my brain... the past three weeks of Heated Rivalry fandom has been glorious, wonderful, escapist brainrot. (Show is great too).

It's my favorite show this year. It's incredible.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.

I have about 3k words of a think piece in me on why MM romances are sustained by legions of heterosexual and queer women fans but sorry I'm just going to watch this episode of "Heated Rivalry" for the fifth time instead.

I've noticed that among movie lovers here, lately there's a renewed appreciation of the craft and polish of '80s/'90s studio movies--their pleasure and polish, their entertainment value. Rob Reiner's early filmography is such a good way to understand that. He knew how to deliver. A true craftsman. >

"Here’s the thing about pandering, explicitly or otherwise, to the MAGA crowd: they’re dumb and they don’t care about art. They only view pop culture as a thing to hijack and turn into a battering ram against whoever they’re mad at." gossipreadingclub.substack.com/p/sydney-swe...

Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI” Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages

"These policies should not change how we teach. No one advocates for changing genders or feeling guilty about one's race. But if teaching facts ('trans people exist' 'slavery was embedded in white supremacy' 'some women saints identified as men') is interpreted as advocacy, will we be protected?"