Still waiting for the live cam of all the billionnaires packing up their NYC apartments to move to Ohio

For those wondering, The Mahjong Line is still just as bad as they were pre-apology 4 years back. Go look at their stuff. Yikes.

Everywhere it is machines...It reads, it writes, it grades and gives f***s...what a mistake to have ever said *the* id. Am I Deleuzian yet?

Dude YouTube KEEPS TRYING. Have Now What with Trevor Noah on in the background. Ad Breaks today: J0rd4n P3tes rants, Crusty Gnomes...what?

Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics. It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history. It corrupts our political system every day.

Got asked to submit my material requests for Spring, and I decided we're doing Race After Technology (Benjamin), Babel (Kuang), and Of Floating Isles (Kawika Guillermo). Media, Technology, and Society is gonna slay, y'all.

And from my experience as a Korean/American, I got worried about Yoon Suk-yeol as soon as there was talk of him relocating the presidential residence from the Blue House to next door to the Defense Department offices. That was like...the minute he got elected lol

I have worked so hard on making my "Book Voice" authentic and readable and not eye-bleeding to read, but now my "Journal Article" voice is sounding too Book Voice-y, which means the rigor police come out of the woodwork, and I'm meanwhile having a crisis over the Book Voice getting treated the same.

Brandon Graham coming out of retirement to rejoin the Eagles is getting covered as "wow Philly has no defensive ends so BLG is coming back" Y'all need to understand that he's one of the Five Sentient Blocks of Concretexodia. Hurts, AJ 'The Business Decision' Brown, BLG, Saquon, and Dickerson

The things I would've done to see Trevor Noah interview Bruno Latour...like, for all of the good and all of the horror it could give us

Current events got me shoving Swedish Fish and Dots pretzels in my mouth while I try to do my job normally today

I have achieved vibe, yes?

@aarontram.bsky.social and other Game Studies people -- the newest This Guy Sucks episode (see @ceaubin.bsky.social the host's incredible work) dunks on Gary Gygax is real good fun.

There were several arrests today all involving MAGA individuals who attempted to assault peaceful protesters. Arrests were reported in Michigan, Oregon, Florida, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Additional incidents remain under investigation.

I just read a student paper that was insightful & distinct but grammatically clumsy (a ton of sentences with coordinating conjunctions). my first thought was, “I can help them with this. no big deal.” grammar matters but if you grade for grammar I think you’re missing the point.

Corporate media are basically pretending none of this is happening, yeah?

I'm not sure ICE itself could have written a more flattering headline

So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group

Geez, my feed on here is already totally, unrecognizably screwed up. Algos amirite?

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers. The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

It wouldn't be a proper Rogers Park protest without blue skies and all of the dogs. This neighborhood is everything.

The Trump-Vance administration blocking Catholics from receiving the Eucharist. The Trump-Vance war on Catholics and Catholicism.

I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law. Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

Just feels like the Eagles' whole OL is playing hurt, they have no strong EDGE players left, their IDL rotation is cooked, and their secondary is melting. Not defending the shambles, but yeesh.

Did they just call Zack Baun "The Bald Eagle"?

Who's your favorite jedi? (wrong answers only)

Anybody have recommendations for good places to send public-facing essays about our current historical moment and historical regimes in other parts of the world?

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

People use fascism loosely to speak of that which they dislike, but the term has a meaning. Most reductively: cult of personality; nationalism; eroticized violence, internal enemies, purity myths, politicized gender.

Writing about media history that you are very much entangled with is fun because you can send lines like, "And then PSY and Faker screwed it all up for me."

A few friendly reminders about autism: - Autism is not inherently a bad thing. - Autism is not a death sentence. - Autism is not a pejorative term. - Autism is not a moral failing. - Autism is not something to shame or ridicule. - Autism is not something to hide. - Autism is not a crime.

This is...incredible?????

I think attacks on higher ed are predicated on profs being soft and squishy, but we're tough as hell. In HS football, my kneecap popped out of place in 3 straight games, and I pulled it back in, got taped up, and played the best games of my life. We're many things, but soft ain't one of them.

I submitted an article today despite getting some pretty concerning news this morning.

Also - I can't believe we let the worst comedians on the planet spend *years* defining Freedom of Speech as a moral obligation to laugh at their bad jokes, and not as a protection against government censorship. You've been crying wolf for a while now gang, and a real wolf just got here! SPEAK UP!

This number one tip on this advisory is to set public online profiles to private when facing harassment, which bsky does not allow, and which really should’ve been a feature implemented on day 1.

Just got my physical copy of my book...it's a real thing now!!

Being on the tenure track right now is basically the intersection of "I JUST have to finish anonymizing this article for submission" and "wow the bill of rights is having a tough time with this shadowban." Don't hate me I'm literally just trying to make it through the day.

I can't get over how whenever the camera finds Thomas Frank he looks like me right before the grin came on watching Cooper DeJean six the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.

Thinking tonight about how PBS preemptively fired its DEI staff to appease Trump, and they still lost their money. 

Trans rights are human rights. Either rights apply to all people or they apply to none.

Genre is inherently political. It captures the sensibilities of contemporary life and strategies for responding to the present that cultivate different futures Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social Out Jan 2026!

“What then is a ‘bastard’ for this audience...Essentially someone unstable, who accepts the rules only when they are useful to him and transgresses the formal continuity of attitudes” (Barthes, 1972, p. 24).

Finished the Trilogy. "Fix this."

Yeah dude, totally a Korean "dub"

I feel attacked by my profile on here saying I've made 116 posts. Like, I feel like I just come by to lurk and chuckle and occasionally toss a shit post into the sea lol

Spurs fandom really is karmic balancing for my Eagles fandom at its finest