This is how the guy who bought a jpeg NFT for $69 million in 2021 enjoys his purchase. www.cnn.com/2026/03/17/s...

Without the Biodiversity Heritage Library, @biodiversitypix.bsky.social would not exist.

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

Work with me! Late-breaking opening in the English Department at Davidson College. We're hiring a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor of post-1800 Brit Lit.

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

Can't believe I missed the the North Georgia Bigfoot Conference and Comicon. There's always next year.

They kindle a culture war because they're afraid of a class war.

A remarkable and frightening look by @robertdownen.bsky.social at the unhinged anti-Muslim hate entrenched in the Republican Party in Texas.

This month I gave the keynote at Carleton College's Day of DH. I walked through the past 30 years, stopping every 5 years to talk about my own journey and the broader field at each moment: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021, 2026. I don't end on a high note. Let's try to make it to 2031.

This month I gave the keynote at Carleton College's Day of DH. I walked through the past 30 years, stopping every 5 years to talk about my own journey and the broader field at each moment: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021, 2026. I don't end on a high note. Let's try to make it to 2031.

Spotted in @sharangbiswas.bsky.social’s NarraScope keynote on speculative TTRPGs: @ckunzelman.bsky.social’s The World Is Born From Zero

I know “yes, and” is the golden rule for improv, but don‘t discount the creative potential of unrelenting “no, but.”

Invariably when a presenter at a conference says, “I don’t need a mic, I can project”… 1. They do and 2. They can’t

Saidiya Hartman would like a word

Man overboard!

We've all heard the saying that every billionaire is a policy failure. It's also an ethical failure. A moral failure. A spiritual failure. A criminal justice failure.

Paging John Kenneth Galbraith: why do we expect a public good like the U.S. Postal Service to be profitable, while we're fine with flushing billions of dollars down the drain for a privatized resource with seriously questionable use value and which has never shown a profit?

No need to visit this page frequently. The answer is going to be the same well into the future.

I've got most of these already, but this Humble Bundle of Inkle's entire catalog would make a great gift for the narrative nerd in your life!

Sad you're not going to NarraScope in person? It's not too late to sign-up for online participation. All talks will be streamed and there are special Discord channels just for you! Registration closes in roughly 6 hours!

Nothing like herbmaxxing down by the old Gothic temple of energy

Someone help me please. Am I hallucinating? A made-for-TV movie in the late 1970s in which the DJ Wolfman Jack was an actual werewolf?

I saw something strange in the sky like nothing I have seen before.

Tomorrow I'm hosting a pre @narrascope.org workshop on "Teaching Narrative Games and Game Design in Divisive Times." 12pm ET over Zoom. Open to *all* Narrascope attendees! You'll find the deets on the NarraScope Discord channels!

Are you attending Narrascope this year? Tomorrow at 6 PM US EDT, @judithpintar.bsky.social and I are presenting a workshop on making Twine imitate Inform and vice versa. Open to all attendees through the Discord, whether you're going in person or online, and at no additional cost!

The sky above the drone port was the color of television, tuned to FOX News.

They can have my MLA lip balm when they pry it from my cold, dead hands

I have a year of missing time,care to help me find it?.

Been sitting for a while with this line from @lmsacasas.bsky.social: "the arc of AI bends toward demoralization"

All absolutists are wrong.

Miriam's new book can't come out soon enough. Must-read material!

Tired of working 16 hour days? My new digital poem "Work" is sure to get you to slam your laptop screen shut...

A fantastic new issue of Taper is out. 21 new works of digital poetry, prose, and viz, each one under 2KB of code. taper.badquar.to/16/index.html

Royal Flush Game Jam! Starts May 31, an online creative preamble to @narrascope.org (June 12-14 in Albany)! The time has come,' the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings #narrascope #gamejam @judithpintar.bsky.social

Huh, romantic-circles.org seems to be down. Anybody know what's up?

Lots of university president comings and goings recently. New prez for Emory, I see.

Such is the state of things that when I teach an encyclical issued by the pope and a 2000-year-old institution the reading will be deemed by many to be “woke.”

For reasons, I dug up this 2012 NYT op-ed by Stanley Fish, where he quotes @kfitz.info, @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social, and myself on blogging and the digital humanities. Which, he DOES NOT LIKE. And why? 🧵

For reasons, I went looking for the original job ad for my first academic position. Found it! Hard to imagine, but the department was hiring *three* tenure lines that year (2003).

Stephen Colbert used to follow my @mobydickatsea.bsky.social bot back when both were on Twitter. I always secretly hoped he might reference the bot one day on his show. Now that’s never going to happen.

The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation—runners of @narrascope.org and stewards of Twine—is seeking new board members. Deets: blog.iftechfoundation.org/2026-05-21-i...

This is obvious horseshit, but I think it's useful to put numbers to this stuff sometimes. The Warren wealth tax would raise $16.5b from Bezos alone in the first year, which amounts to $4k for every teacher in the US, roughly a 6% pay raise on average. Bet that *would* help that teacher in Queens!

It turns out ERs don’t like to use anti-venom on mild copperhead bites because the side effects send you to the ICU. Don’t ask me how I know!

New Yorker articles are like ChatGPT conversations. Impressive when they’re on a topic you know nothing about. Incredibly facile when they’re on a topic you’ve devoted years to studying.

"the collective’s survival requires the participation of those who might survive on their own anyway" - a typically brilliant piece by @kfitz.info about solidarity and the future of academia

“I'd like to believe that engaging seriously with a new technology—including being willing to be wrong about it—is itself a humanistic act” - @foundhistory.bsky.social on the defensive stance many humanists are forced into for believing that AI is something they cannot ignore.

The Fits on a Floppy Manifesto: “Software should be as small as it can be. Not as a gimmick, but as a discipline. The floppy disk is the measuring stick: 1.44 MB.”

I'm just like my dad. (stormed out of a car dealership just before signing)

Great to see @aaronareed.bsky.social's Subcutanean and my own Subcutanean Variorum in this week's edition of @clivethompson.bsky.social's Linkfest! buttondown.com/clivethompso...

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.