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?"

Did a double feature: "Sentimental Value" and "Hamnet." Folks, I'm destroyed.

My timeline is all pie and libraries. What kind of cozy-cottage-core parallel universe have I stepped into?

Clearly many White people are unfamiliar with desis who are good with their elders, even when those elders are hateful, angry, disgusting and vicious people Because at some level I can totally get this

I am hearing that following his meeting with Zohran Mamdani, Donald Trump received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

I’ve spent my career at public colleges where my primary job is teaching. Harvard and the Ivy League is a million miles away. Still I find Lepore’s whining exhausting. I believe that historians like her, occupying cushy spots at a tiny sliver of institutions, have no clue what I do for a living.

math textbook covers for some reason:

Updates from the Lonestar State @historyasif.bsky.social @estherlcuenca.bsky.social #RAdminSky

I am so close to asking students who complain about a professor's tone in an email or a grade that they have received to work it out in a remix with them, just like Charli xcx and Lorde.

Bill Belichick is literally breaking the spirit of UNC students…

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

I had a nightmare about incunabula. Woke up in a cold sweat. So I made an appointment with my doctor (aka the curator of medieval manuscripts here at the Huntington)

Thank you for this shoutout, @patrickhwillems.bsky.social. The paperback copies of my book are temporarily sold out on Amazon right now :)

Throwing the baby into the bathwater

1. At Charlie Kirk's vigil just now, DNI Tulsi Gabbard just invoked MLK Jr.'s line, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that." She insisted Kirk "lived" by that line. Unclear how Kirk would've felt about that comparison, since he decried MLK as “awful” and "not a good person."

Is the what to the what?

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

This is the person they are suspending people over btw

Charlie Kirk literally said that more deaths from shootings is the price he's comfortable paying and it seems like a lot of people think he didn't say or believe that

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

We have the brain processing power to be breathing right now

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." — Charlie Kirk, 4/2023 www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

When no laws are broken until the moment the trigger is pulled, that is a big problem.