This is a great essay on academic publishing... I shared it with my colleagues at Minnesota and encouraged everyone to read it.

I've been having a blast this winter taking a nostalgia trip through Azeroth via WoW Classic, but that seems to be coming to an end, as the guild I've been running with transitions to Kara prep. I am too old to be assigned a raiding slot in a spreadsheet by strangers.

My thirteen year old cousin was struck and killed by a drunk driver when I was a kid. This shit enrages me. Elliott Engen must resign.

elliott engen must have been drinking all day ahead of his DUI earlier this morning. redditor caught him and walter hudson drinking at 2:30pm

*My niece, after leaving me on read for 24 hours*: haha yeah

*Me, in a panic, texting my 14 & 15 year old nieces*: I'm not chopped, am I? Am I a chopped unc???

ICE agents should be fired, not deployed to airports.

Weird to say, but these days finding the occasional typo doesn't bother me at all (perhaps that's partly what comes with 20 years working in typoland), but a typo reminds me that humans made this, the author, but also copyeditors and editors and proofreaders. Wonderful humans.

Mark Griffiths shows how the infamous Checkpoint 300 embodies larger geographies of Israeli control — reshaping a once-vibrant commercial strip in the West Bank. nextcity.org/features/che...

Conferences in spaces like the Hilton Union Square can be disabling events for people with metabolic disorders. I’ve packed my luggage with fresh fruit, granola bars, and nuts.

Super excited to be heading to (balmy) San Francisco today for the #AAG #AAG26 meeting. We have a stellar lineup of new works in geography. I am so excited to showcase a 20th anniversary edition of Katherine McKittrick's (@demonicgrounds.bsky.social) field-defining DEMONIC GROUNDS.

Is it just me or do resorts catch fire in the Lusten area an awful lot?

To the taconite mill!

Have we tried queering it?

Kristin Bluemel is the author of the new book "Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain," published by @uminnpress.bsky.social, www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477... She discusses the contributions of artists Gwen Raverat, Agnes Miller Parker, Clare Leighton & Joan Hassall.

If my Grandma Wilson were still alive, she'd describe the weather in Minneapolis today as "Windier than a hoot."

Me to all my colleagues in scholarly publishing:

I hope I live to see the Whipple Building torn down, its rubble crushed into fine powder.

This is going to be a super stellar symposium.

All this talk about AI writing better than Cormac McCarthy or whatever reminds me I really need to write the essay I've been meaning to write on how the longer I work in publishing, the more I've come to love typos.

Last night I learned about the "[blank]mogging the [blanks]" meme and so I tried it out on my 14 year old niece and she's left me on read for going on three hours now.

Corporate execs: "Pay me 1 billion percent more than the employees I manage" Also corporate execs: *typing* "Claude, how do I make my company make more money?"

Punk rock show tonight at Moon Palace Books - a fundraiser for rent funds. Sensor Ghost (from D.C.), plus locals Time Room and Makin Out. 7:30 doors $10 - $20 suggested donation

💜 💜 💜

Have heard this song WAY too often on a certain Twin Cities station.

Totally agree here.... demands on time, attention, and wallets should mean shorter, better-written nonfiction books and far fewer 120,000 plus word monographs.

The sudden and shocking closure of Boynton Dental yesterday was so ill-planned, patients are left in the lurch. The website page informing me the dental clinic has closed suggests I consider "telehealth" for my needs. For dentistry.

I have been a patient at Boynton Dental for decades... since I was a student at the University. They provided quality care. To shutter suddenly with no warning to patients or staff, leaving both in the lurch... What is going on at the U of MN?

What the actual fuck?

I can't believe anyone is taking that THE article seriously. Built around an unnamed one-sided account, it's also full of errors.

And then there was that moment in 1989, when reading books, free PIzza Hut personal pan pizzas, and Back to the Future II glasses intersected. Peak Childhood.

A smalltown Pizza Hut on a winter weeknight was a magical place. It smelled so good, and we played arcade games while our pizzas were cooking.

NANCY MACE: What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson? WALZ: I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be a prop for your obsession.

Am I listening to someone being interviewed on NPR from a diner? Love it.

This kind of sums up working with first time scholarly authors.

So many great books (w/fantastic covers) coming out this spring. I'm thrilled to see Matthew I Thompson's @quickpickles.bsky.social On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s & Lisa Nakamura's @lnakamura.bsky.social The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet!

Nick Shirley is the anti-semite that Minnesota Rep Pete Stauber brought to the State of the Union as his honored guest.

This reminds me of ZZ Top's cameo in Back to the Future III

A true publishing event... The collected writings of the esteemed Katherine McKittrick, out now from the @uminnpress.bsky.social. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791706...

Doggo begged and begged to get up on the chair with me and sit in my lap. As soon as I relented and she jumped up here, she puked on me.

No budget for rent and small business assistance but plenty for a billboard?

How disappointing. Stop giving money to billboard companies and bring back Open Streets you ghouls.

We help us – and we’re not gonna stop any time soon. Please help us document this moment by calling 1-844-WE-HLP-US to share your story of mutual aid in Minnesota 💚

You can argue about draw-down numbers, but even if zero agents remain in Minnesota by Monday, the damage, economic and psychological, the fear, the apprehension, and mistrust, will take years, if not decades, to repair.

"I'll rip the secrets from your flesh!"

Coming after your classroom litterboxes...

"God, I feel like a character in Heated Rivalry" (I'm wearing sweatpants from Roots)

Anyone out there love Theweleit's Male Fantasies? I'm looking to pick someone's brain if I we can DM.

For those looking for a greater understanding of the Twin Cities and the histories of race, citizenship, and immigration in the US that have led to this moment, the university of minnesota press is sharing this list of books for greater understanding, some of which are open access.