It would still be ridiculous and indefensible but I really do wonder whether she thinks that 50 years ago was 1950

Finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness a couple weeks ago and still thinking about it, and wanted to draw one of my favourite quotes. #art

If you, a tenured prof, forgot to find a discussant for the speaker you invited to come a week from now, would you: 1) Find a discussant, a week is actually plenty of time 2) Refuse to try to find a discussant, blame a grad student, berate him over email, and try to get him disciplined?

I may (or may not) be in Durham, NC for a few days in April. What is to see in Durham, NC in April

just talked to my mom and my (parents') elderly cat is starting a medication that is cheapest to import from Vanuatu??? I don't think I've ever once heard of anything being imported from Vanuatu?

Netsuke of a hare. Artist : 'Ranko', 19th century, Japan

I don't think I've ever, not once in my life, accomplished anything between the hours of 2 PM and 5 PM. Absolutely wretched hours of the day, better I should sleep through them

**It is important to understand that cultivating a class of intellectually powerful scientists who are given lots of cash and little social accountability is a structural feature that Epstein was taking advantage of, not inventing.** 🧪🔭⚛️

Photography can still bring you to your knees.... Awesome work by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Yo Harvard's being a little shit and trying to axe its Yiddish programme + refusing to bargain in good faith with the union. You can send a letter of support here (maybe edited a bit) saveharvardyiddish.org #yiddish #harvard

i thirst for coffee

trying to matchmake for a friend, if you know any single men who dig women, are roughly 25-35 years of age, read, are leftist, and live in the Denver area lmk she is a labour lawyer who leads a very cozy life. must be compatible

Nobody: The piccolo at the emotional climax of Siegfried Idyll for some reason: WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.

The boyfriend is (keyneynhora) nearing the completion of his phd in astrophysics and has decided he doesn't want to continue in academia (very sensible; also there are no more science jobs on account of Trump) +

I went to a quiet little Quaker college for undergrad, but our two most prominent alumni are [checks notes] Alex Karp and Howard Lutnick, so, uh, yikes

Guys I'm making this tonight. Watch this space. (Sorry I've forgotten which one of you shared it a few days ago!) www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...

Not sure who needs to hear this but having opinions about other people's opinions of other people's opinions is a really tedious form of expressing your actual political opinions

[me on my way to pilates] you wouldn't pontius a pilate!

I think about Alex Karp alot, mostly to stay humble and remind myself that a robust humanities education can't fix everyone

I've been Annoyed at a good friend (and former lover) of mine who had abruptly stopped corresponding with me a few months ago, but today learnt that he's running for city council in [REDACTED MAJOR CITY], so, you know, not still annoyed but at least he's been up to cool shit

gem from a couple years ago

A banger that's not in English! Всё что я умею лежать и ничего не делать Я лучше всех умею лежать и ничего не делать "All I know how to do is lie around and do nothing I'm the best at lying around and doing nothing" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CroC...

Trump complaining about not understanding Bad Bunny led me to look up the history of presidential multilingualism. Unsurprisingly the presidency has grown far less multilingual over time. More surprisingly, seven presidents were fluent in Ancient Greek but NONE have spoken fluent Spanish.

Oh my god look what I found in a Little Free Library. Soon I shall be free

Dreamt that I clean forgot the contents of a presentation I'm to give tomorrow, so I improvised and called for Germany to annex Texas. "Make Texas German Again", I said. (The presentation is about Henry David Thoreau)

thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...

What is implied by the "also"? Also what? How does deporting a five year old non citizen flow from "thinking about" a five year old citizen? How are those two things plausibly related?

got an email blast from campus security this morning whose subject line was PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY: ASSAULT and it turns out the assault in question was Youths throwing snowballs. campus security reminds us to be vigilant and aware of our surroundings at all times

@harrietvane.bsky.social if you are still looking for a vegetarian borsht recipe, the Lithuanian food vlogger I follow and would trust with my life has a recipe: www.youtube.com/shorts/v04M2...

At home we never sang in Yiddish, that's something I chose for myself...maybe it's a kind of stubborn attempt to live like the Holocaust never happened, like the world was never destroyed, and people lived their lives in Yiddish, children laughed and played in Yiddish, young girls dreamed in Yiddish

utterly delighted by this dedication what I found in the used bookstore today. perhaps I too could become very fashionable by reading, uh, Corruptions of Empire by Alexander Cockburn

the internet has made me too aware of other people’s damn grocery stores. the wawa. the aldi’s. the giant eagle. the piggly wiggly. are they staffed by adorable mice pushing giant wheeled mushrooms as carts, where are you people even shopping

we are going to win but man it is going to suck

Hello I have something to say about Heated Rivalry. In episode 5, when Ilya is in Moscow for his father's funeral, the song playing in the background is «Журавли» / "Zhuravli" / "Cranes" by Mark Bernes, which is a long-time favourite of mine www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsWq...

turns out "The Gay Science" by Friedrich Nietzsche is not a science of how to be gay, 1.5/10 (points for aphorisms)

Oskar Herrfurth (1862-1934) - The Musicians of Bremen, German postcard, early 20th century

When you reply to this account this is who you're responding to, I've been a cat reading Das Kapital this whole time

been hearing some of the sentiment like "why can't we have what New York has" and while i trust that NY and NYC specifically has elements making it conducive to organizing (a history of militant labor, movement organizing, just lots of people, and high density) i think the lesson is to just start

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

my legend, my icon, my queen, her presence is a present

[everyone involved in this is queer] friend just called to ask if she can email my ex in a professional capacity (they are both in Quaker orgs) and I was like yes, we are friendly, but did you know that he was roommates with *your* ex until a year ago until they had a falling out and lo, she did not

that little girl has every right to be on the sidewalk of her own damn city. she lives here. i don't want to hear any shit about how she shouldn't have been down there. she is a citizen of portland oregon and she is entitled to use of our public sidewalks at all times

Immigrants used to be able to vote and had other rights. Those racially eligible for citizenship. Basically, mainly white immigrants. Hiroshi Motomura's book details this history. I first learned of this from Charles Barron's campaign for NYC immigrant voting rights. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Was at a protest in Balti today and I was struck by the disconnect between some of the rhetoric from the speakers—an AFL-CIO leader calling for body cams, e.g.—and the tenor of the signs ("Fuck ICE", "Abolish", etc)

I've been saying for a few years now that we need to DED "performative." It has outlived it's usefulness if it was ever useful. Because people LOVE LOVE LOVE performance. People flocks to theater and movies for a reason: PERFORMANCE, lol.

D’Arcy Winston Straub, you are the Mountain Loon of the Year, this is delightful.

Five classes I took in college: Medieval Women's Writing Oil, Culture, Power African Politics through Literature Animate Objects* History of Political Economic Thought *we read Marx and Mary Shelley and Ovid!