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They are selling us out to MAGA billionaires and torching the earth. For their children’s sake they need to #stopPRGT stopprgt.ca

So great to have @fraass.bsky.social in as a guest speaker for my first-year composition class today! Though I was horrified by his saying a Caribbean volcano had erupted "in the 1900s": I thought he meant the 1990s eruptions, WHEN I WAS OVER 20, but nope, 1902. Safe to call that the 1900s. #uvic

One of those weeks: slowly re-reading @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social's ArborealIty to teach it again, which today means my eyes prickling unpredictably right through "An Important Failure." Wonder if I'll have to recompose in class! #envhum #climate #booksky www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...

This is going to be SUCH a fun event! Who knows what the heck kind of political environment we'll be facing by then, mind you, but I'll be there looking for fellow travellers. #envhum #envhist #climate #booksky

theresakishkan.com/2025/09/22/i... (Alt: brown coyote on green moss)

The Ohio State University is now requiring students to become "fluent" in AI. It's a perverse metaphor, and as always, the wisdom of Star Trek proves useful in understanding its perversity. sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...

Thrilled to read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's generous read of my novella! @palimpsestpress.bsky.social #ethelwilson #bcwriting #novella www.buriedinprint.com/summer-2025-...

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Today BC approved the Ksi Lisims fracked methane gas terminal, basically sacrificing BC children's right to a livable planet as it poisons the air, water & earth. Don't sell us out to a MAGA-backed corporation! Tell Premier Eby NO here: www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/eb... via @dogwoodbc.bsky.social

"All summer my hands have been waiting for time by the fire to sew, to think, to follow a length of thread as it inscribes its route on fabric. I was the one far out in the lake, blind to the way back."

Here's hoping you didn't stand, @wgreaves.bsky.social. Like @rachelgilmore.bsky.social said: it's possible to oppose political violence without lauding someone like Charlie Kirk. Indeed, we NEED to be able to object to someone's words, principles and actions.

On the plus side, maybe I've found the core issue around which to build tasks for my January course in environmental comms. #climate

Over the last few years several people have told me they've put #SomeOfUsJustFall on reading lists and syllabi but in classic brain fog way I can't remember the details. If you're teaching SOUJF - in any context - or know someone who is, could you let me know? Thank you! #BookSky #MedicalHumanities

I would sue if I found out my therapist was using AI during therapy. A total privacy nightmare. "Suddenly, I was watching him use ChatGPT,” says Declan, 31, who lives in Los Angeles. “He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT, and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.”

Feels like this is maybe a turning point, America? (The puns aren't good, even when they write themselves.) It's not a country, it's three billionaires in a trench coat featuring pockets full of gun enthusiasts.

Centrist democrats must understand that any support or leeway that they offer the Trump administration or the police in the wake of the death of Charlie Kirk will not make them safer. The entire apparatus of "law and order" will be turned against them as well as against those it has always harmed.

"Even without the (literal) Enoch’s hammer of the Luddites, I'll gladly raise my (figurative) hammer high if it means protecting the humanity of the students entrusted in my care. I hope you'll raise yours, too." Hammers up!

REALLY looking forward to this book, but the description? Someone needs to option this for a film - "The Art of Looking Back: A painter, an obsession, and reclaiming the gaze" #booksky

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Wall-E, but it's happening to brains rather than bodies. #againstAI

Doing this work — making sauce of tomatoes I started in early March, from seeds I bought in a Portuguese market two Februaries ago, dyeing old sheets and thrift store cloth (of unknown fibres) with indigo powder on a bench near the garden, shadowed by Steller’s jays — felt strangely companionable.

C'mon, Will. This can't go by without SOME kind of comment. @wgreaves.bsky.social

Um, what are your thoughts about this, local MLA of mine @wgreaves.bsky.social? Because I HAVE SOME IF YOU NEED TO HEAR ANY.

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

I know this essay works because everybody chooses a different pull-quote. open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

Oh hell, yes: "I ask my fellow educators to consider some measures for reducing our complicity in efforts to steal our students identities, attention, and right to education, even indenture them to train algorithms" #againstAI

Re-upping this post, just to make my feelings about AI unmistakeable. #noAI #againstAI boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/neig...

Uh oh, suddenly got a hundred new views today on this one blog post. Probably somebody, somewhere, is mad at my take.

"But they would still be mine, wouldn’t they? The women in their summer kitchens, fermenting tomatoes in big jars, the children gathering windfalls, the dogs asleep in the dust."

If a dude offered to help you write crappy memos and essays, and you found out they were also helping children kill themselves, would you keep working with that dude?

For the life of me I can’t figure out why anyone thinks people want this drivel. What a con.

I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.

Not making this up: these folks developed a way to deliver and grade 600 oral exams simultaneously, about all of which I have SO MANY THOUGHTS. #highered journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Writing during climate change: I struggle with Tim Lilburn's prose, no question, but for the right reader (ie, not me), he's got so very much to say. 1/4 #reviews #booksky #envhum #climate boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/tim-...

Not sure I've ever mashed the heart/like button with more fervour #againstAI

"So clear the tracks or wreck them. Brake the trolley or break it. Don't accept the premises and constraints of those who would tie others to tracks. Pursue options that a sensible and empathic person would pursue, and let others pursue other ones, so that we can pursue them all."

if we're gonna start having California-style fires here, we need California-style fire weather forecasts

Just like the time universities doubled down on Moocs at the exact moment it became clear nobody was finishing the courses and there was zero money in them. What clowns

Anybody else finding themselves reluctant to click links for things with dates in 2025, like for recipes etc? Hard to trust, frankly, and that's really what's being broken in all this. #againstAI #noAI

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Looking forward to reviewing this closely, through the stress sweat/tears obscuring my vision this month! #amteaching

Said it before but the worse things get it bears repeating. You are not a ‘creative’ or a ‘maker.’ You’re an artist, & if you choose to distinguish, a playwright, painter, whatever. These words have a lineage, they mean something. They’re politically important. Take responsibility.

Random, on #reading: I'm always keen to read Tim Lilburn, and/but then somehow the book does things I wish it didn't. Currently working slowly through Numinous Seditions. Feeling more frustrated than usual, so I'll have to sit with that. #envhum

Some things I've been working on as chair of my department - sharing in case anyone finds its useful. 1. A GenAI Framework for English Courses

This is exactly what I'm talking about when I worry that AI is corrosive medium.com/@cooperlund/...

"Claims of ChatGPT's effectiveness for learning are currently unfounded." Say even researchers who themselves conceive, build and evaluate AIED systems for learning... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...