TT job in open field of Indigenous Studies/Literatures, St. Thomas More College, USask: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

skater boys doing blood magic with each other's scrapes

My institution:. It's funny how you're always supervising grad students Me: have you considered hiring another queer and/or disabled faculty member Them:. Haha never but keep supervising half a dozen theses per year!

If the FBI designates all trans people as domestic terrorists, and we return to the "pink scare" days of the fifties and sixties, I hope that means we get to have gritty queer bars again. If I'm a terrorist, I want more blackout rooms and bathhouses where we can have lunch and listen to music.

Chair in Trans Studies, UVic: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

AI asking me if I want a summarized copy of a liteary journal--in which my friend's poem appears--because it's "quite long." It's 30 pages, including images. You actually have to clear the AI screen before you can read anything. AI is poison for our sense of attention. Also, Lilac Journal rocks!

Maybe universities shouldn't hire GEN AI Engineers and pay them $120,000 a year while gutting arts programs..

I Hate Parties is a Lammy Finalist! The virtual ceremony is Oct 4th at 5pm ET. If I win, our cat will be a bona fide supermodel.

Very proud of this translation of my favorite passage in Marie de France's Lanval with a maritime flavorL

Best queer and trans films of 1991-92: Go!

Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about. What's yours?

2 TT jobs at UVic--Scholars of Color and Indigenous Scholars: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Absolutely cool that a marketing/design job for the cops pays $100,000 while every arts organization struggles to even pay $50,000

When will the KPop Demon Hunters song be out of my head

Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman? The paperboy? Evening TV?

this just in: writing is hard

Great! As long as you only have an emergency during business hours we should be fine! Plan ahead!

Is the "design suggestions" feature in PowerPoint powered by AI? Is it separate from Copilot or some kind of "Copilot Lite?"

LLM companies are beta testing experimental products our children, and educators are facilitating it.

TT job in 18thc lit/rhetoric, MSVU: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Just saw an academic job in Quantum Finance, so I guess that's how things are going

NYU: universities should go medieval on students using AI Medievalists: *screaming*

Any time someone mentions how composition courses are being "dumbed down," be suspicious, because there's ableism and racism at work there. We must craft comp courses and design syllabi that de-centre English reading practices. We must think deeply about translation, borders, and pedagogies of care.

No, AI isn't "the same as Blockbuster becoming Netflix." Blockbuster didn't threaten the global power grid and water suppy while also demolishing higher education and the creative sector. It's not "inevitable." It's tech by capitalist shithawks who think learning/making anything is beneath them.

Dalhousie teaching assistants, part-time instructors approve strike mandate | CBC News share.google/SoQUXiQerz7Z...

It's wild how supporters of AI want a future based on the Star Trek computer voice but haven't actually watched any of the numerous episodes where technology threatens humankind and people need to have difficult conversations about the ethics of AI.

Dalhousie University union rejects arbitration offer share.google/7qMr9oBpVdZL...

Mounting layoffs at B.C. schools creating 'biggest crisis in post-secondary ever,' faculty association says | CBC News share.google/lyGXW2hWhrWA...

Well shit. Prairie Dog magazine has been getting by as a newsletter for a while now, hoping to regroup & bring the print edition back but it's official, Regina's free alternative newspaper is packing it in after 32 years. Here's one my more favouriter covers. It's a Dakota McFadzean joint. #yqr

I led a “punk science” activity for our incoming freshman biology majors at our orientation event. They made zines and fliers on any topic they chose. Here’s a sample:

2 positions (tenured and TT) in Indigenous Literatures: Search Jobs - University Affairs share.google/fXg5GJ8jvuAT...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

One of my favorite recent reviews: "Stupidest book I've read in a long time. I never want to hear another valkyire whining about colonialism."

"Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality" is a sentence I can immediately recognize as something that will be seared into my brain forever

I’ll tell you this. A favorite campus dining spot closed last semester, with almost no notice. It’s been replaced by a fully automated kiosk. The kids are pissed. Asking all the right questions about labor and human contact and sociality. Some of the kids are alright.

I’ve been trying to put my finger on Trump’s specific style and interior design aesthetic and it finally clicked that it’s 1990s Televangelist.

*pop!* 🌈✨🦄

Danny DeVito was a hairdresser in his sister’s salon for two years where he was known as Mr. Dan and in fact only ended up in an acting class because his sister sent him to NYC to learn to do makeup. Which means in an alt universe there is an 80-year-old Danny DeVito doing updos in Asbury Park.

I mention this only because (a) the encampment protesters are incredibly courageous young people still facing backlash for their actions even though everyone seems to have forgotten about them, and (b) free speech matters, especially when it's opposing genocide, and that fight is important.

If Gene Roddenberry was still alive and running Star Trek, I guarantee we'd be getting thinly veiled allegories about anti-vaccine bullshit or xenophobia. It would not be subtle. It would hit reasonably hard. People would complain endlessly that Star Trek had gotten too progressive.

Sure would be cool if we lived in a world where poor and working-class people ever got a real, genuine chance to devote themselves to their art practice, their studies, and—frankly—their own lives

Just a fun publishing note that presses can acquire/support stories by midlist authors, and not only 1) NYT bestsellers or 2) breakout emerging writers. There are authors who’ve written multiple books/series who didn’t actually dematerialize after their first book.

Absolutely fuck Air Canada, solidarity with everyone on strike, this is such an appalling state of affairs. I thought I had a working understanding of the grievances & demands but it’s so much worse than I thought.

The leadership of the Democratic party is not anti-fascist. I think that it's helpful to keep this in mind at all times.

Can folks recommend South Asian writers who do middle-grade? I know Roshani Chokshi’s work but would love more suggestions.