This is how I get @slstalter.bsky.social to larp.

In case you're doubtful, there are quite a few entries at this level or below on the 2025-6 list.

Musicologist/cultural historian here to YES AND: Just as the future is neither inevitable nor fixed, culture—art, literature, tv/film, music—is not inevitable or fixed. Whether you are a creator or a consumer, you have more power over culture than you think. Never cede the power of your interests.

Mary Wollstonecraft’s reputation as a thinker among her contemporaries was nuked by William Godwin, who adored her but could not read the fucking room. Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is 1st on my “no one reads my memoir of my beloved the way I intended” syllabus.

The Forest app has been ridiculously useful for me! Highly recommend it for folks who need a bit of help with starting/finishing things because our phones are so easily distracting.

culture people! fave examples of essays / chapters in which a subgenre or microstyle is identified, named, and theorized, on the basis of a small number (3 or so) instances? (ala the excellent "The New Black Gothic" ( 1 film, 1 music video, 1 novel) by Sheri-Marie Harrison)

I can promise you there are things I *haven’t yet said* about COMMON SENSE that I will be saying tomorrow at this free webinar, hosted by @jcblibrary.bsky.social at 4pm EDT. Thank you to @kawulf.bsky.social for all this great series, “The Revolution is News,” which runs through September.

A resource series for 2026, Tuesdays @ 4, amazing lineup starts with @rezekjoe.bsky.social on the essential read for 1776 and 2026, T Paine’s _Common Sense._ Join us! jcblibrary.org/events/josep...

I’ve cited this book — or at least @meganpeiser.bsky.social scholarship on this — for eons, & I’m so unbelievably glad it’s finally out in the world — and you can hear all about the rise of novel reviewing in the 18th century in this great conversation with my aca-sib.

I’m about to start crowdfunding for a film I would like to make that’s an improvised comedy à la Christopher Guest/ Mike Leigh. I’m gonna be mildly annoying about it but only because I’m extremely excited about it and unfortunately Hollywood is dead seedandspark.com/fund/treasur...

Game workers do not receive any residuals/royalties on shipped titles and shipping bonuses are increasingly rare. There's also no guarantee that your name will even be in the credits if you leave before ship, and studios will use this to keep you compliant. All of this can and should change.

To learn more about Avril and her place in computer and video game artwork history: scanlineartifacts.co.uk/2024/09/30/t...

college professors are actual human beings with feelings and needs and not education-dispensing automatons who hate students and live to see them fail

Hey, if you work in food (media, restaurants, cooking, bev, broadcast, science, academia, biz, nearly anything), & you're an immigrant to the US, & you're under 38 years old—you REALLY ought to apply for the Vilcek Foundation’s Creative Promise in Culinary Arts prize! vilcek.org/prizes/vilce...

I just chipped in to keep the lights on at Electric Literature and you can, too, if you have some extra. They put in good work and are worth supporting!

Where even the azaleas are bright orange.

James Baldwin said “the human responsibility” is “to love each other.” it’s through love we learn how other people suffer. it’s through love we learn humility. it’s through love we grow up. & it’s through love we fight for justice. we need more love theorists.

I'm a big fan of the genre "what academia / libraries could learn from other communities" and this is a lovely example of thinking through a different kind of pragmatic metadata schema.

@ava.foxfort.net and I will be recording a new but why vikings this week. We would like your convention related questions please. We had a great time at Airecon but what pitfalls are there to be avoided at such events?

This is an invitation of sorts for other profs/teachers: what is the line between helping struggling students and being strict about deadlines because in life, there are deadlines. I always wrestle... and what is fair for me/us? Large intro classes with 500+ assignments (no TA)= no extensions.

huge shoutout to the folks and companies I've worked with who don't do this shit, but the fact that this is the norm is Bad!!

Spring is Coming — time for tiny boxes & transforming leftovers! Read all about it in the latest update from @friede.bsky.social in her latest update where she speaks her truth about #Desperation. #TTRPGs #RPGs #games www.patreon.com/posts/spring...

Gooooood god. I'm not familiar with the underlying defamation allegations, but if you ever get this settlement offer, you take it and run (and then maybe hide in a hole for the rest of your life). Also, lol to anyone who said Ai would make lawyers unnecessary.

This is also a correct take. The Big AI industry writ large did very much bring this PR clusterfuck upon themselves.

For @jitp.bsky.social issue 29, we welcome submissions that rethink making in DH through reflections on bodies, lands, and infrastructures both implicated in and impacted by making practices and as discourses on labor, power, and colonial oppression among others: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

I feel this hard — there’s so much temptation to say “when XYZ is over it will be different” — but the work expands to fill the time you give it. (This also applies outside of academia, but in different ways that I think about a lot)

Friends who might have experience with this kind of tech: what's your preferred method of getting open-ended feedback from audiences/students during a presentation? Looking for something that's phone based, obviously. Would prefer browser based, not an app, but who knows if that exists.

For whatever reason this post has flared my recurrent itch to just do a thing (essay? book? miniseries of some sort?) where I sit down & talk to people I know about the nature of God/divinity in the games they play.

I should probably wait until the weekend is over to post this, but I've been reading a lot of 19thc printer's manuals lately and they say surprisingly little about how copy text was marked up for the printer (beyond complaining about receiving awful manuscripts) — does anyone know about this?

i think this is exactly right and it is part of what i was trying to get at last week when i wrote about the narcissism of the president and his allies. they fundamentally do not believe other people are real, and do not understand the decisions they make.

The thing about education is that there’s very little universal agreement on ANYTHING Ask a group of five teachers what the purpose of grades is, and you’ll get five different answers

There you have it: St. Bonaventure is paying a new coach half the amount it paid previously so it can spend on players instead. This is proof of what we've been saying for years: coaches have been the direct beneficiary of the exploitation of campus athletic workers. www.espn.com/mens-college...

Women have always been artists. The reason you don't learn about them in high school is because they got overshadowed by cishet white male artists. Women historically got pushed to the background. People are shocked when they learn of Judith Leyster and what happened, while it was hardly uncommon.

this is the actual and IMO very good reason why social media platforms usually avoid edit buttons

Being a physician was not really a well-respected profession in the U.S. (the way it is now) until the mid-to-late 19th century (and not really until the early 20th).

shoutout to @friede.bsky.social for having many long conversations with me about the function of companions in this game and for the many people who have helped me hone this concept. i think its an important part of the core argument of the game — what about the wizard's wife?

Just to be clear: if you come in my replies & I see that you’ve decided to adjudicate who gets to be called “Dr”I’m generally going to assume you’re: - spoiling for a fight - willfully insulting me & my colleagues & I’m literally not here for either.

I’m now also: - Liles Prof of English - 26-27 @folger.edu Public Humanities Fellow - under contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for my next book on the history & making of Actual Play (performance of TTRPGs) - work ahead on why/how we play, tied to ideas about community, story, fame, & friendship

We’ve been playing a lot more RPGs with the kids. They’re already coming up with solutions to problems we’ve had since the 80s.

I dropped the ball on this, but had promised - a couple of weeks ago, ahhh! - to share this #CFP for a workshop in #HistoricalGamesStudies in Durham on the 01 May 2026. The deadline for submissions is tomorrow (31 March 2026)!

This feels timely on the eve of what may be my last teaching observation.

We don’t know the names or locations of the gospels’ authors

While I’m rec’ing things, I want to mention a cool show at the Polonsky Shakespeare Theater w a short run: Theatro de Plaza’s Hamlet, performed in Spanish (with subtitles) by a troupe of actors with Down Syndrome. I was worried it might be preachy or pretentious, but it’s NOT —it’s exhilarating

Seeking suggestions for panelists!🎙️✨ May's #TTRPG panel will be on 🏠 long-term home games 🎲: how to start, keep it fresh, & keep it from fizzling out. I want to talk to ttrpg creators who have experience both succeeding & failing keeping an unbroadcasted game rolling for the long haul. (cont-)

The humanities are absolutely vital to a functioning democratic society.

Iowa made it to Elite 8 before falling & I have asked whether we get an additional boon. (I have nobly refrained from taunting the Dukies in the group chat)

Sometimes the zeitgeist kinda punches you in the face

Speaking as someone who’s recently been given a writing grant for the first time ever, I can say that the amount of breathing room it’s already given me to focus on my work has been incredible.

You have 2 days left to get this essential book for all ttrpg players. (Maybe we can make Graham frown again.)

I have no idea if they made No Kings line up with Palm Sunday weekend intentionally but the Franciscan at my church took it as an opportunity to go hard.