“I always retain optionality on anything!” I shout as I add a reading to the syllabus.

Was this because of the mustache? Is mustache the criterion?

Draft articles

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

I’m not following this Kat discourse but from afar man does it appear to be some kind of very Bluesky discourse.

A Christmas movie where the miracle is we *don’t* go to war with Venezuela. Along the way we also learn the value of love and community.

This is Reader 2. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/net...

Trump-Kennedy Center lololollllll

This reminds me of Spinal Tap.

Who needs “no room at the inn” when you can do “kneeling on pregnant woman face down in the snow, plus tasers.” Classic Christmas stuff.

Zeno’s shitty coffee paradox

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

Somebody recently in this elevator was wearing some COLOGNE

In the best totally not antisemitic tradition of Lord Balfour himself.

My brain is so cooked that i saw this and was so confused about how Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter and Jaco were gonna possibly help with this storm.

We stopped teaching students that intellectual curiousity is the most exciting and important part of college, stopped asking them to not just do the reading but seek extra books, music, films, shows, plays, art for context, stopped demanding not just looking for rubrics to check boxes but seek more.

Genuinely thought this said “The Presidential Waffle House”

Hang on wait a minute, zohran mamdani’s dad is Mahmood Mamdani? 🤯

Hail to the Thief isn’t the best Radiohead album, but apropos of nothing, it’s a very good Radiohead album.

HOY a las 19:00 (hora Madrid). ¡Ahí nos vemos! asociacion-cervantistas.org/2025/10/11/n...

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Assuming this will be the only campaign video anyone needs to run.

Raise your hand if you're really upset about the journalists being unlawfully and roughly detained footage. In case you were wondering...it's here.

I don’t think I’ll ever get over “Spanish (Traditional Sort)” as one of MS Word’s language options. Like “Garyd vos, ay yermanelas com’ contener a meu mali.” Like…. That?

I know zero about payroll but whenever I see graphs like this I immediately assume this is glucose and think like hey man get some sugar or hey man hit that with a bolus or like GET THE GLUCAGON or whatever.

The upside is that this thing is really inspiring some bangers on Bluesky today.

When I was an epileptic child, my parents would worry so much every time I got a virus or cold—because every time my body temperature spiked beyond a point; I could have a seizure. Have you ever seen a child have a seizure? Do you know how scary it is for them to have a seizure?

She doesn't look like a rat to me.

HAHAHA, my administration likes to murder people who work on fishing boats! HAHAHAHA, isn't that funny! Now WE are the party of the working class!

There’s a lot here but probably my favorite is “A couple of little edicts.”

SO sorry about the treatment your specialists and engineers received at the hands of our secret police goon squad. That's normally something we reserve for a different race of people who we like even less, hope you understand. Please come back

Call for papers for a two-part workshop on Early Modern Iberian Critical Race Studies, to be hosted at Holy Cross (spring 2026) and Johns Hopkins (fall 2026). Please share the call with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

Is it unreasonable to assume that this assassination will be used as a pretext for military interventions on college campuses? (And to be clear: murder is bad).

"The moment I hear Middle East I become upset, because this is colonial language." - Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer & activist

The deeper I get into the Womanly Arts, AKA sewing and knitting, the more I realize that misogyny has been a long con in every way. Both disciplines involve tons of math, precision work, mechanical parts, and gear. All things women are told they cannot do, yet have invisibly done for centuries 🤡

But what will I do without those sick sax solos? 😔🎷

Ah yes, the famously wonderful outcomes of the —checks notes— Vietnam War.

opening the word document again

“a tension in which”

SNL needs to bring back the Franco is dead bit.

We just got a box of Dex G7s…. In a cooler… on ice packs.

Using the 60,000 figure is, at this point, essentially genocide denialism.

I read this in like a Marxist materialist kind of way and thought man he’s even making pizza neoliberal.

Christofascism: everybody has to be Christian and if you aren’t we’re gonna destroy you. Christian pastor: [does a radical *Christianity] Christofascism: no, not like that.

All things aside, I hate the experience of doing things in canvas. Building classes, grading, creating assignments and modules, all of that takes 75 million hours and it absolutely feels like a burden layered on top of what actually matters in a class. Totally agreed, @sethcotlar.bsky.social

Well-played, play structure. Pretty representative of how things feel lately.

For the Pharoah Sanders fans out there.