no one talks about how difficult it was to ride a horse considerably smaller than oneself

This all is really pushing the utmost limits of the truism that “denial is not an admission of guilt.”

THOSE APPLES ARE SO PRETTY

the ‘eye’ reflections in that first image are absolutely HAUNTING

certainly the least important part of this all but that's an image of the cover of an edition of the odyssey?

oh thank god it’s been partially restored

my dumb ass: “advertifement”

look for my upcoming article “queering straights: non-normative heterosexuality and the …” actually you know what let me not joke about this lmao

I'm reading Lydgate's Siege of Thebes for a class and there is something very funny about medieval notions of research and narrative responsibility. On the subject of king Polibon's adoption of Oedipus: "And where that he had a wif or noon; I fynde not and thefor lat it goo." (I.465-6)

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

I'm sure there are some departments that have been denied hiring lines that would have something to say about this.

inside us there are two wolves

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

the portrait between the two first ladies' portraits is so weird

This is why teaching the history of science is as important as teaching science.

Tree stars could fix me.

i put more effort into the name plaque outside my office than this then again, i’m proud of my job and care about how i perform

New York famously known for its lack of immigration or whatever.

taking my grad students to a nearby university's special collections to view their medieval manuscripts and early modern material it's a field trip!

[Exit Clown.]

i'm a little rusty on my anesthesiology but my middle english is pretty solid

"What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut With diamonds? Or to be smothered With cassia? Or to be shot to death with pearls? I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits [...]" - the Duchess in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (IV.ii.240-4)

Something is fundamentally broken with these people.

Wow, that’s the contempt for poor people continues to surprise and depress.

I was under the impression that corporations are people and can do whatever they want in the ~free market~ but ok

Well, whether it's Fitzgerald or Tolkien, you an count on the right's incredible ability to misapprehend meaning and willfully twist narrative to their end.

well no one came by for candy last night which means i’ll be eating a lot of candy in the near future

If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years

oh

it's incredible the lack of taste the wealthy have

This will kill so many people.

I mean, trans people are a part of the conversation, though—so we cannot ignore the implications of asking the to vote for “the lesser of two evils” when both evils are denying basic rights based on one’s belonging to a specific demographic.

I know this is a social media platform and nuance isn’t necessarily the point, but there are plenty of valid reasons someone might abstain from voting. ‘Lazy apathy’ describes left-center politicians, not their voters.

well that is genuinely horrifying

“We don’t mean any harm to anyone.” It’s so fucked that she even had to say something like this. Thank you for being who you were, Lia.

so he’s not a democrat and certainly not a progressive

ALL ROADS LEAD TO AFFECT THEORY

What are you being paid for if not to be prepared? Christ alive.

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

when i tell you i HOLLERED

Basil is very smart and very kind so you should read their work

Maybe I'm naïve, but asking democrats to abandon the very platforms that differentiate them from republicans sounds like you're just asking for everyone to move further right. Which is not a strategy for winning; it is giving up.

Man, sometimes I really miss my mom.

methinks the gentleman doth protest too much

sorry i wasn’t aware i had adopted a meerkat

A good note here. In our co-authored paper (now in pre-print), Kenney and I wrote “The National Education Policy Center argues that the promise of genAI is currently supported only by 'commercial marketing claims' (...) and not by peer-reviewed evidence.”

Imagine not going to work for several weeks just because you don’t want to (nevermind, the real reasons they’re refusing to reconvene). You and I wouldn’t have a job.

and i’m done watching arkansas actually painful to see in real time every week

oh he’s making sure that playoff spot is secure