I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

"Handwrytten" sounds like a hot new collab from Chaucer and Natasha Bedingfield

I’m pretty sure that some day we’re all going to look back and wonder why we drank all these foul flavored seltzers

The neurodivergent urge to feel like a cat in a bathtub with very little provocation

He sits here to keep the dog from going outside because he does not approve of it

People are talking about privately owned websites as “the commons” and it has me reflecting anew on what a terrible time it is to be alive and thinking words have meaning

The 5 authors 5 books thing brings out my inner mule so I’m just going to say Ann M Martin balefully

Oh ok in that case good for her

It's a neat argument because he's not leaning at all on the quality of the homily's prose or the creativity required to write it, but the intersubjective exchange it consummates.

Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU! Six tenured & tenure track faculty members were abruptly fired at Virginia State University without cause or any semblance of due process. Sign this petition to demand their reinstatement & a public commitment from VSU to honor tenure & end arbitrary dismissals.

I am “can’t remember the names of people I lived with in the 2010s” years old apparently

I have now seen The Bone Temple and I’m not yet sure what I think but it definitely didn’t all work

This guy talks like he’s in one of the lesser Oz books.

Update: despite having received NO SONG SUGGESTIONS from Bluesky the meeting was a success and our chapter has voted itself into existence! 🎉

If you really think college students need to learn to use AI (by which I mean LLMs), I suggest you create and fund a department of expert professionals who can teach them. The humanities professors are busy trying to teach those classic texts you keep whining about disappearing from the curriculum

I don’t want to be overly dramatic but I’m pretty sure the key to understanding our society lies in the fact that when I search “bridgerton trailer” in YouTube it suggests clips from God’s Not Dead 2

Caring about your content remains undefeated as a moral compass for pedagogy imo

There are all those jokes about how as kids we assumed quicksand would be a bigger issue in adult life but I contend that it IS an issue in adult life and it’s called stancil discourse

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

I’m sorry, I’m still on this. It’s crazy that ADHD care is rationed like this but you can lose as much money to a gambling addiction on your phone as you want

Reupping for the evening crowd

Maybe it’s the unaccustomed scotch talking but this seems like a real epistemological moebius strip to me

Look at all the free speech!

it's like the universe knew we needed this times have been rough and a new absolutely unhinged dinosaur could fix me

This is a real low point United States

If the writers of the Smile movies aren’t IMMEDIATELY incorporating this into whatever draft they’re working on then I don’t even know why we left the primordial ooze where presumably this was terrorizing our ancestors

OK so very important question: we are having our inaugural AAUP advocacy chapter meeting tomorrow, what should I put on the playlist for while people are walking in?

Hell yes

This one

Virginia Giuffre was a brave woman who did something almost no one in history has managed to do

Truthfully, I’m having trouble enjoying the Andrew news because I’m just so angry that we aren’t doing similarly in the US

Incredibly proud of my faculty colleagues in this moment. And especially proud of my AAUP chapter.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

personally ive learned to live with the feeling of being awake on an operating table as my organs are harvested

PSA: Faith outreach, for both Democrats and Republicans, often *isn't* about reaching the aisle — or not *just.* It's often about rallying the *base*, which very much includes many religious Dems — note that Talarico is making faith appeals in the Dem *primary,* and is seemingly doing very well.

I refuse to believe this isn’t a picture of a sea lion habitat at the zoo

These tech goons don’t just want our lives, they want our deaths. They want the grief of our loved ones.

I applied for an ADHD diagnosis before COVID happened and only had my appointment Oct last year. They still won't give me medication for most of a year despite coming to a conclusive decision that I have ADHD. The system is designed to force people out of it and push us out of society.

Someday I will understand why they hate us so much. But it is not this day.

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Welcome to Thirty Under Qwerty, the most promising people whose names can be typed without that troublesome top row

Anything involving IQ tests *in any way* is eugenicist pseudoscientific bullshit and should not be anywhere near anything to do with disability provision. Might as well base it on their Myers-Briggs type or their star sign.

UCLA faculty stopped a $1.2 billion ransom payment to Trump while their bosses hid in the corner

Bastard anglicana remains the funniest possible name for a widely used scribal hand.

This never occurred to me because I am slow, but from a Dantean perspective, is getting ordained on the internet simony?

Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me

Well this is a lot!