GSG

going absolutely buck wild over here this weekend

Dr. Chew is incredibly supportive and generous, I'm so happy to see this in her honor!

nothing says Liberty like "you MUST be aligned politically with President Trump and his administration"

avalon was always a little cheesy to me, but this morning I let my inner middle-aged KLOVE mom freak flag fly, treble up, bass down, and blasted this song, tears streaming down my face thinking about my gay best friend from youth group. now there's a sentence no one has ever said before

"My inspiration, Amy Grant, she heard the song yesterday and sent a message to me that it made her smile and put a little lump in her throat because she was so proud." 🥹

hope cornyn goes scorched earth now on trump, honestly it could only help him at this point may he be as tough as his christmas eve brisket

JUST IN: After months of anticipation, Trump endorses Ken Paxton over John Cornyn.

I am so confused on why Microsoft insists on trying to make this happen we want comments in footnotes, that's all we've ever wanted

just hanging out on the forums and posting my thoughts hope you see this Bill

what is RICO for if not this

I love that people are talking about him, i tell anyone who will listen to me that james mcmurtry is the Homeric bard of West Texas

If you use Workday for your job, ponder that many of us professors now have to use it for college courses, too. This helpful Workday Student message from this morning explains that 27 grades have been approved for my class of 27 students, and 27 students still do not have an approved grade.

"Honestly, how hard is it to be perfect in a precise, scientifically calibrated way designed to be 100% infallible without ever being exhausted, needing a break, or losing your cool for a single second from the time your children are born until each one goes to college?" buff.ly/yiV5KNc

don't buy flowers and jewelry. this is what she wants for mother's day

"St. John’s acquires names of CLT test-takers and sends them emails and advertising for the college... Accepting students who take the CLT is one way the admissions team at the college promotes viewpoint diversity, Baum noted."

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

Hacking canvas? What do they think this is, the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in 1990.

“With access to real names, email addresses and even teacher-student messages, the next wave of phishing will not be generic. It will reference real courses and real conversations, which makes it far more likely to succeed.”

All these "We Need a Greater Diversity of Viewpoints at Universities" ass clowns suddenly get real quiet when: Rutgers cancels graduation speech over speaker’s pro-Palestinian posts | US universities | The Guardian

on the one hand it’s clear that “The Odyssey” will continue the long tradition of projecting modern ideals of character and value onto an ancient text whose ideas about these things are in fact quite different. on the other hand, lol you guys don’t even know that’s Odysseus, he’s gonna kill you all

i had to take a moment after this: Over the next few years, as the denominational turmoil exploded into all-out war—what became known as the Battle for the Bible—Pressler commanded his movement like a seasoned general. “It was like Gettysburg,” he said. “But this time the right side won.”

I have a Serbian colleague who told me that when professors teach overloads there they get paid more, as though it is overtime...

Et tu, Giroux?

Ovid, Tibullus, Propertius

Ovid, Tibullus, Propertius

cool, we have to rely on infighting among oil barons for democracy to have a tiny chance to function

No Texas politician understands our education system better than @ginafortexas.bsky.social. She is just so good at this.

So it turns out that verbal developmental leaps in reading and expression also entail leaps in the ability to sass

“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

Worth noting: in an ecosystem like this Khan-TED-bs, students can't build cultural, social, and political capital like when they become part of a community at a college or university. Always acting like that community doesn't matter is a neoliberal logic that will almost always deepen inequity.

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

It’s not a classics flavored revolution of the education system. It’s not a return to a romantic/mythic past of learning for learning’s sake. It’s a product. It’s market share. It’s an astroturfed movement built on dark money, status resentment, and AI Greco-Roman slop aesthetics.

Equal parts funny & absurd that the rhetoric of CLT tests is “learning all that’s good beautiful & true” posturing, but the reality is it’s a mass produced standardized test made by a for-profit company that has longer excerpts and more questions per excerpt than the SAT & CLT. Oh, and older books.

🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺 my Hungarian grandfather is singing the anthem from beyond

Rosemary parmesan sourdough loaf for this week

I got to see Jeff Hiller at San Antonio Book Fest today #tinyjoys

Boomers in my life have been shocked when I told them that people had objections to the Kennedys' Catholicism

We didn't deserve this day.

So much this today. Also, SBOE members Hall and Pickren went downstairs to attend the anti-sharia protest, missing testimony.

The first cuneiform text found after George Smith's decipherment of the Epic of Gilgamesh's Flood Tablet in 1872 was a literary text called šarru ana dīni lā iqūl, or 'The King Does Not Regard the Law'. 'The King Does Not Regard the Law' concerns rulers who act out in a state's self-interest:

wow

The cultural impact of Amish romances among evangelical women cannot be overstated

Nolan's unconventional Odyssey marketing has made it to the preschool set. "Noah," (4 y.o.) had me spell his name on the board... he spelled out "N," "O," and then he just held up a finger and said "1". Humiliating.

Most people use "Christian nationalism" as a catch-all, as if there was one united movement aiming for Christian power. But there are actually 3 distinct movements competing for power in Trump's America — with different theologies, different strategies, and real tensions between them. My latest.

"Supposing the life of X were linked to our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless, without lying, we can reply "yes," then we have the right to kill " --Simone Weil

y'all these people are unserious

The Texas Board of Education will be voting on a required reading list next week. If you want to testify, need to register in advance. You can submit an informal comment, but I think they are under no obligation to consider those.