I know Lena Dunham is probably not bluesky’s favorite person but I’m reading her new memoir and she is truly an excellent writer. This is such a good insider’s account of early 2010s Hollywood and an account of artistic processes

what's weird to me is how the argument for college was always couched in economic terms. But even when I was a kid in the 90s, unionized trade laborers were making BANK. I think really it was a fear of 1.) the body decaying and 2.) jobs being outsourced that led to college being over-promoted

Sincerely hope we never have to hear from the Nazi rapist Graham Platner again, but I know we don’t have that kind of luck

In retrospect, changing the Writing Center’s scheduling system the same summer my full-time Assistant who handled the schedule was laid off was a BAD idea

I'm thoroughly Catholic about forgiveness. Not only do I think people can change, I believe we owe them the space *to* change. The problem with Platner is he never showed any indication that he had changed. Y'all just liked him because he repeated things consultants told him to

Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated

Any journal editors following me here? How would you feel if a writer said "This peer review was clearly written by AI and as such, I do not feel I need to address its concerns"? Because a friend of mine (not in my field) is currently dealing with a clearly AI-written review with some terrible ideas

a thousand ships seems low

Well, that was the first soccer game I’ve ever seen from beginning to end. I *still* think it would be better if the players kissed, but I can concede that it was kind of fun to watch.

Pulisic is still sexy af. Idc if he’s injured

1.5 episodes into Off-Campus and I would bet any money that AI was used to write some if not most of this. This is turgid, even for Amazon. (I’m watching solely for Antonio Cipriano, a Broadway actor I like and who deserves much much better)

i'm just as shocked as the rest of you. i thought he was the good kind of Nazi tattoo-blackwater-rape victim-blaming guy.

Has anyone checked the politics of Erling Haaland yet? Bc I want to stan but he also looks like he could be Hydra villain

An American hero 🏳️‍🌈

working on a tenure statement/file is WILD business. Like, yes, this is my body of work. I HAVE a body of work to show, evidently. I'm not just the weirdo standing on the edge of the profession anymore. How that is possible when I am still a teenager, idk but we'll figure it out

Me re-reading the books I assigned in my fall Memoir class

i love wikipedia's "personal life" section because what do you mean the author of that amazing poem I just read in Poetry Magazine and had to immediately look up is the father of Dr. Will from Big Brother. Poetry + reality tv are literally 95% of my interests combined

Devil Wears Prada, the ultimate comfort film. (The original, not the miserable sequel)

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

just read an article where someone once again referred to Gen Z as digital natives and called them a tech savvy generation. Like, "digital native" is problematic for a ton of reasons, but I gotta say, if you work with Gen Z--as much as I love them--you'd know they are FAR from tech savvy

Best part of being in my late 30s is I’ve seemingly gotten rid of all the body dysmorphia I once had. Catch me in flip flops, 4” inseam shorts, and a tank top because it is one million degrees out. When I was 20, I’d’ve been in jeans, shoes, and a black shirt

Western Mass is 🔥 I love living in New Jersey but Western Mass will always be part of me

I chose Virginia Woolf and look at me now…gay English professor 😭

Neal for President 2028

This is one of the things I don’t miss about Twitter. I feel like people clutched themselves anytime someone made a joke during tense moments, as if the greatest comedy and satire in the world didn’t come from the darkest periods in human history

I wasn’t really feeling this new Madonna album at first, but halfway through and I’m getting it 🎶🎵 it would be fun to be very drunk and sweaty at a crowded gay bar with this as the backdrop

At some point we're going to have to reckon with the fact that part of learning, part of educating yourself, is figuring out how to deal with the friction between yourself and the world at the limits of your knowledge in ways other than retreating from it or making it someone else's problem.

I miss my dog terribly, and every day, but not having to spend the entire 4th trying to get her to swallow anti-anxiety meds will be nice. My girl HATED fireworks 😭

If you had told me a year ago that a dude named Bob from Chicago would emerge as one of the major intellectual forces in the anti-AI movement, I would never have believed you

I love my husband very deeply but he and I are on totally different ends of the “get places early” spectrum. We’re seeing a show at PAC-NYC at 7. It should take, at absolutely most, an hour and a half to get there. He had us leaving at 3:30 😭

for me, Toni Morrison put an end to the debate on aesthetics v. politics in literary studies. it's tiresome to see it continually hashed out, esp because the false dichotomy hurts marginalized authors & scholars who don't have the luxury of being apolitical by virtue of their very existence.

I think we are all going to start having more conversations about Jon Ossoff.

messages about the power of love seem cliche but remember some of our most radical minds—hooks, Baldwin, Laymon—are love theorists who write about exactly this: the power of love to heal, mobilize action, & create change. the more reminders we get to focus on love, the better.

one of the sillier arguments I've seen. Your kids are almost definitely not getting an athletic scholarship anyway (and if it is, it's probably for much less than you think).

I find it very embarrassing for our field that we've been having to repeat this about "AI" and writing instruction since I was one-year old (from an article by Fred Kemp in a 1987 issue of Writing Center Journal)

Actually got my shit together enough to submit my fall course book orders before mid-August! Only did this after learning through the grapevine that our campus bookstore (which isn’t really a bookstore but that’s a meter conversation) charges more than almost every other option.

Being in a small field is fun sometimes. Like seeing that I didn't get the job at the nice R1 I thought I was a good fit for stings less when I see they hired someone who's aggressively pro-AI. Like, OH. OKAY. I see why I wasn't a good fit now 😀 (no shade. I hope they're all happy together!)

Wish I knew the dog gets hurt in Super Girl before watching it 😭😭

Mbappé is kinda cute. 🥰 I think I like soccer now

Does anyone have a pdf of Jordy Rosenberg's "Gender Trouble on Mother's Day"? The link I used to have isn't working

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

elderly council of wizards mandates child gential inspections.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots, rejecting a challenge led by the Trump administration.

I’d say the hardest thing about being a writer is the writing.

Hot take, but sex scenes are awesome, especially if they're gay

This is actually, verifiably true. I've taught a course called Banned and Censored Books @ Muhlenberg for three years and in all my research/prep for the course, one truth has remained consistent: many, if not in fact most, book bans are initiated by people who haven't read the book they're banning