It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

🚨Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department and AAUP UT Austin Chapter VP: “Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university, because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.” ⬇️

My brilliant colleague Iván Chaar López 's tenure denial is not only a threat to UT faculty, but to all scholars who research topics considered "controversial." His case is a model for how to deny tenure with zero justifications to him or his colleagues. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.

Issue 7 is here! Poems from @adamg.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social @carolee.bsky.social Jill Crammond @fakeourway.bsky.social & AJ Wright. Art from @robinturnerpoet.bsky.social and featured artist @thaddevassie.bsky.social asteralesjournal.com

#copyediting Word Pairs I Always Look Up to Be Sure I'm Using the Right One bail/bale plain/plane

Once more before Sunday ends, here’s today’s thread, my 284th! Please share if you see this & are able to help support all these folks & my work in collecting & curating them, & thanks! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Going to try something as a new year's resolution: to attempt, on a daily basis, to post a note of praise for something I've read/seen/listened to and liked that day. Not promising I'll do it every single day, but will see how it goes!

I wrote about the issues with this 6 years ago so I am excited to have to keep saying the same thing until I die www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

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July 12, 1926: Publishing houses Henry Holt and MacMillan have begun altering high school biology textbooks to satisfy Texas officials who regard Darwinian science as anti-religious. All references to “evolution” are changed ro “development” and mentions of human evolution are entirely removed.

okay fine i'll read the thing based on the first skim i did i'm not holding my breath, but since we're cited repeatedly i'll engage in good faith.

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The Overseer Class is now available wherever books are sold. To every soul who helped me write it, to every soul who pre-ordered, to every soul who *will* read and share it, to every soul who stands together in solidarity in these times, “all of us, hand in hand,” THANK YOU 🙏🏾❤️

We are very pleased to inform you that the Spring 2026 Book Reviews and Review Essays Special Supplement of Wordgathering is now “live.” Thank you to everyone who has made this third "special supplement" possible. wordgathering.com/vol19/issue2s/ @stevekuusisto.bsky.social @razubal.bsky.social

SpongeBob is a contraceptive sponge and you can't convince me otherwise A SPONGE that... Lives in "Bikini Bottom" Next to a "starfish" Best friend is a squirrel named Sandy Cheeks

AND THEY ARE WILDLY INACCURATE I repeatedly put warnings in my articles "If you watch the Zoom recording of the meeting, do NOT rely on the AI transcript..."

I think it's worth talking about how those book and their author are very often anti-indigenous though. It, like many westerns, is at it's core a hand-wringing justification and apologia for a genocide. it's depictions are of cruel mean scary men in skunk loincloths, a racial caricature

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

Click the link to read our first ever Book Talk! Book Talks include an hour of conversation between an author of a new book in Victorian studies with an interlocutor of their choice. Read the conversation between Nathan K. Hensley and Anna Gibson now! muse.jhu.edu/issue/57090

Tell the human authors in your life/social circles/fandoms when you like their work, y'all. Shit is DIRE out here.

"A recent survey published by Harvard Business Review points to an increased use of the technology in fan spaces, with “fan fiction [sic] and storytelling” as the fourth most common use case for AI." fuckin hell that's grim

When we say these people are just repeating the segregationist playbook, we mean it literally

The letter comes after the U.S. Department of Justice accused the Yale School of Medicine of illegally discriminating against white and Asian applicants.

TEXAS TECH CENSORSHIP UPDATE— The AAUP has officially filed suit against Brendon Creighton and his associates for abridging first and fourteenth amendment rights. The attempt by MAGA to erase marginalized folks from academia must end. Lawsuit filed in El Paso.

I refuse. Anyone who knows enough about me knows I despise AI & refuse to touch it. If the market decides the burden of proof is on me to convince them I haven't used it, the market can fuck off. I did indie press so I could decide how I do things. I will not bow to some variable judgment criteria.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Shared this earlier but coming back to note that academic freedom and freedom of speech for educators is actually quite murky form a constitutional perspective (where boundaries are, how it gets operationalized, etc.). This is absolutely a critical ruling.

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Meta is a staunchly anti-art, anti-artist company and has been showing you this for years with basically every product decision it has made with Instagram, and yet so many professional creative industries continue to rely on it. Spread the word on their latest attack on artists ⬇️

Anti-intellectualism is a bipartisan project and in both cases it’s basically market protectionism for one’s artisanal shoddy, boring ideas that cannot find an audience.

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

I wrote this essay in 2019, and I didn’t get to choose the title, which I think overpromises, but I what’s here is a checklist for writing fiction about people whose lives might be very different from your own. Three questions to ask yourself.

Here's the thing. If you feel like you need to make a movie (👀) or write a book about a marginalized group of which you are not a part because of some, "voice to the voiceless" delusion, take a time out to read @alexanderchee.bsky.social on the matter and then, maybe just don't.

Humans now being asked to use less electricity in favor of data centers. www.newsweek.com/teachers-ask...

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social on why we must defend public libraries: “There is a reason the culture warriors hate the library. It is the same reason that Americans should defend it with our rights. No political spin doctor can sell us what is freely given at one: the right to think for ourselves.”

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Sharing memes about Taylor Swift's wedding? Or the picture of the Madison Square Garden sign after the wedding? Or a screenshot of a social media post about it? Regardless of the image, don't forgot to add alt text. If you struggle to understand alt text or how to write it, this guide will help.

Fighting through Baroque's ever-shifting hallways as cherubic beings call for aid and you devour hearts to survive is an eerie, mesmerising, and unforgettable experience: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2020/10/21/s...

Meryl Evans' "Why and How to Create Accessible Social Media and Website Content" introduces content creators to basic accessibility considerations for links, hashtags, emojis, alt text, transcripts, and more. meryl.net/digital-cont...

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LGBTQ+ Pride Month is over but it is still Pride Specifically it is Disability Pride Month The perfect time to grab a bundle of 33 sci-fi, fantasy & horror books by disabled authors for $33 - that's just a buck a book itch.io/b/3751/disab...

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

If people read Black abolitionists and Black feminists more carefully and with the rigor that afford to white male theorists, then lots more things be might be clearer to them.

It’s astounding how much the functioning of universities depends on a significant fraction of faculty being workaholic people pleasers with poor boundaries and ADHD

"'250 Years of Cruelty' – Viet Thanh Nguyen on the ‘American Empire' and How to Save the U.S." The liberation of the American peoples cannot be achieved without the shedding of imperial weight, writes the Pulitzer prize-winning author for Zeteo: