He is not helping me with my writing or marking or household chores, but I appreciate him tackling the to do item “nap” since it otherwise wouldn’t get done today

They had me from the opening line 🦃

For my American friends and family: Happy Thanksgiving! For all of my Canadians friends and colleagues: Happy Thursday in late November very close to 1 December deadlines and the last week of fall term classes!

Time to disseminate my most firmly held food opinion to folks in the US prepping for Thanksgiving: you ought to serve sauerkraut with your turkey

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Too many smart people have impostor syndrome and too many dolts have columns and podcasts and it's basically this

Before AI, we linguists used large scale corpora to study relationships between words and all sorts of other things. Some of them are at risk of going down because of reduced interest, including the most used (COCA), so I bought it. I also added five of old and middle English. Alpha test, fiddling

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Help me share to 100 (big number!) You know you want to 😀 #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth youtu.be/G71MZynajjQ?...

#Latin #Medieval

🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'The Git Hoan Dancers (People of the Salmon) fr Metlakatla/Seattle r known for their theatrical performances and put on incredible shows during #Celebration in Juneau, AK. #Cele' (FB Reels: #Tlingit & #Haida. June 12, 2024) #GitHoan #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

“I look ridiculous.” “I think you look adorable.” “I won’t be made a fool, Steve.” “Just one more picture.” “Fine, but after this...” “I know, I know. Nevermore.”

I'm sorry, WHAT?! A new piece of the Bayeux Embroidery has been found?! OMG!

I'm incredibly patriotic, which is why I teach all the ways America has failed to live up to its ideals and promises and dreams, in hopes of inspiring the next generation to do better, to be more, to make America a place that may one say be great.

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

Casually hanging out with my absolute favorite portrait of #AnneBoleyn, hoping she’ll reveal all her secrets… #LoveMyJob

Cogito, ergo sum. Cartoons by Grant Snider

Microvolunteering opportunity! On Douglass Day, February 14, join a transcribe-a-thon to be part of a group working together to transcribe items in the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress so that they can be more searchable and accessible. douglassday.org

Langston Hughes

For troublesome priests, we give thanks to the Lord.

Elon is a N4z1. Elon supports Poilievre. Vote for the candidate in your riding who has the best chance of beating Poilievre. That's it. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli #Canada #CanadaSky #abpoli #Alberta #ableg #yyc #yeg

The first finished copies I've seen of More Than Words arranged as artfully as I'm capable of doing. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...

David Lynch? Even before he was born, his way of seeing was part of America, and his sense of our world as wild at heart and weird on top is exactly right — so how can he have died?

YES Another example from a librarian I heard this morning: the patron who came in with a list of ILL requests, half of which were unfulfillable because the LLM they queried MADE THE BOOKS UP 📚

I also really want to point out: if you see this and are wondering, that Highlights? Yes! That Highlights!

Admit it, it's cute

A Mexican magician told his audience he'd disappear on the count of three. He began counting: “Uno… Dos…” *POOF* He disappeared without a trace.😀

The reunion performance of Six the Musical’s original cast is to be screened in cinemas this spring 👇 www.thestage.co.uk/news/six-hea...

Been doing some research into Cornelis Schoon’s Neo-Latin school plays of Bible stories. They widely circulated under the title “Terentius Christianus”—The Christian Terence—from the end of the 16th cent through at least the end of the 17th. Despite S’s Catholicism, English teachers were big fans.

“new year new me” i say after waking up as a giant cockroach

Happy New Year from Dorothy Parker (and me).

What a year! ✨ Reframe loading with the next one 🥳 Definitions of success & failure are different for everyone. Honestly approaching failure is how we recognize the reality of wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain triumph in our future 💚

Everyone knows about North Carolina's annual Sexiest Collard Farmer Contest? The 2024 winner is Patrick Brown of Brown Family Farms. There's a calendar too, apparently. www.collardsonly.com gardenandgun.com/articles/mee...

*Christmas Eve service* Person: *shakes my hand* Peace be with you. Me: And also the flu.

there are two wolves inside you and they're both wearing adorable matching holiday sweaters aww

*gets my hopes up* Hope: "put me down"

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Upcoming this December 2024: Look for issue 27.2 of Early Theatre. We’re featuring two Issues in Review sections comprised of exciting new research, one on queer and trans issues in medieval drama and one on dramatic works by George Gascoigne

We can’t wait to share ET's upcoming Issues in Review section on Queer and Trans Issues in Medieval Drama edited by @jeffgstoyanoff.bsky.social. Look for this work in issue 27.2 of Early Theatre by the end of the year!

*Seeing someone do something modern, incredibly modernly, and in fact protestantly* What are we? A bunch of MEDIEVAL PEOPLE?

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?”

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

I am visiting the assisted living facility my 90-year-old father has moved into, and there is a group from a private high school performing songs from the Golden Age of Broadway. Whoever decided a 14 year old Catholic boy should sing “If I Were a Rich Man” has a peculiar artistic vision

The “big data fantasies” are so numerous and so anti humanist. It’s too bad because data and its mining viewed as a tool or assistance to human intelligence rather than replacement of it might be useful. Instead we’re beset by a cult of too rich eugenicists trying to make AI fetch happen.

Very pleased to receive this advance review on More Than Words from Kirkus that really seems to get at what I'm trying to achieve with it. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

John’s new book is not only about AI and writing, but about the urgent need to stop making students write like machines in the first place

In case someone is Secret Santa for @celinecamps.bsky.social and unsure what to get: www.mckittrickrarebooks.com/pages/books/...