Techbro speedrun instructions: 1. Find an industry where people make a living wage 2. Put a stop to that

Here's a fresh look at my new graphic memoir, IT RHYMES WITH TAKEI! For the first time, I'll share the full story of my 68 years in the closet, my decision to come out and join the fight for LGBTQ rights, and how that moment changed everything. Learn more: ow.ly/rEO750VEuxt

The Brain Raccoons are stomping around and saying mean things and I feel exactly like this Charles Darwin quote.

Go see 1536 because I can’t!

Yes! Let's shine. Don't let the bastards get you down!

Publishing this month, Joan of Arc by Deborah McGrady traces contemporary and later reception of Joan of Arc, examining how cultural beliefs and conventions have shaped her story. Discover more of our newest books ➡️ buff.ly/YOwy3nL

Grok servers are basically poisoning the people near them in Memphis because they haven’t fitted required pollution control filters that are in use in every other gas turbine in the area - he believes he’s above the law arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Hello fans of #Madonna, I am doing a research on your community. Could you please answer this form and spread it ;-) docs.google.com/forms/d/11ei... cc @fanstudies.bsky.social @gerfans.bsky.social

9 Weeks. So they want to keep her on life support for another 27+ weeks? This is.. seriously, like Bene Tleilax Axlotl tanks. It's absolutely horrific.

Burn it down and salt the earth

last thing for the day before I log OFF but i keep thinking about the (bad) argument that genAI is good for disabled people, but ime true accommodations for disability are external. I don't need a tool to make me go faster; I need a society that gives me space to go slower.

A principled student said in a grad speech that the “only appropriate thing to say in this moment” is to acknowledge the “atrocities” currently being committed in Palestine. In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”

It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”

My feeling about any corporations using AI in place of creative work by human beings is the executives and promoters and enablers who foisted this on us should be driven out and never work in those industries again.

International students are seeing their records terminated and visas revoked across Minnesota: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0... Basically: ICE deletes the record in SEVIS, and then uses that deletion as a basis to claim the student's visa should be terminated and the student deported.

I was right! (But I can’t tell you what I was right about before April 9th.)

February’s too short, so each day in March, a C21 book on Black histories. The reason Jennifer L. Morgan’s Reckoning with Slavery won such praise? It is *that* good. Early enslaved women’s lives, capitalism, the Middle Passage: required reading on so many issues. www.dukeupress.edu/reckoning-wi...

Je profite de la journée internationale de la visibilité transgenre pour vous recommander ''Les Genres Fluides'' du médiéviste Clovis Maillet. Cet ouvrage sur la fluidité de genre au Moyen Âge s'était attiré la moquerie de la droite française, spécialement de MBC qui ne l'avait évidemment pas lu.

Caught sight of a lone campaign poster on my way back from the airport and really hoped it was a remnant of the last one. I leave the country for less than a week and elections are called? Can I not leave you lot unsupervised for a few days?!?! #canada

Absolutely spectacular! Hilarious and then moving and then hilarious again. An absolute highlight of a fantastic #Shax2025.

Miles Grier’s “I want to get to the thing I don’t know so I won’t be bored by my talk” is a perfect motto for this conference for me. #Shax2025 #RSA2025

Friends, does anyone have access to Shakespeare Studies 52 and would be willing to send me a pdf of my article? They published my NextGenPlen paper on "personation" from two years ago and I'm keen to relive those glory days! #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 #RSA2025

I ran over to the book exhibit, and I’m too embarrassed to sneak into one of those tiny seminar rooms mid-way through, so instead I’m doing… nothing. That’s a good use of my time for sure. #shax2025

Between me, @ehxlibris.bsky.social, and @undomielise.bsky.social, we have created our own #RSA2025 and #Shax2025 bingo after discussing it during dinner. Download and enjoy! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you're at #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 and interested in writing a Performance Review for @shaxbull.bsky.social, please feel free to come and find me over the next few days and say hello. Really happy to work with both experienced and first-time reviewers at any stage of their academic career ✍️🎭🙂

For any of the #Shax2025 & #RSA2025 folks who might find this useful, here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...

Damn it, I keep getting the hashtag wrong! It’s #shax2025

Got through airport security and customs, so can now officially say I’m on my way to #saa2025! (If there’s nothing wrong with the plane, which is always a ? because… Air Canada.)

I’m at a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the program says something along the lines of « this play is still relevant despite being written more than 500 years ago ». Math isn’t my forte but… somewhere in the 1590 to 2025… that’s not over 500 years. Not even close.

B&L is starting a search for new general editors! Please share widely and reach out with any questions. The editorial team will be at #shax2025 and happy to talk about your vision for this amazing journal.

@susananderson.bsky.social @harrymccarthy.bsky.social and I are excited to announce a CfP for Shakespeare/Movement for the Arden Shakespeare Intersections series. More info attached but if you'd like to grab Susan or me for more details or to discuss ideas @saaupdates.bsky.social then please do!

Friends, I won't be at #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 after all. However, I would love to talk to you about your book MS for my series! Contact me or the acquisitions editor, Tyler Cloherty, to talk! #EarlyModern For books in the series & the description, "Late Tudor & Stuart Drama." wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

What a title

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

I know they’re not very good at history, but tell them to google the war of 1812. They had the same discourse back then. Spoiler alert: it didn’t end too well for them.

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.

One day I will learn to write transitions that will not feel like anvils being dropped on my readers. Today is not that day.

The last iPhone update did something (this is the extent of my iOS understanding, it did *something*) and now I’m stuck with only French quotation marks. I used to be able to switch from French to English by tapping in the little Earth icon but now it only says « English & French ». 1/2

Why is it that people have a noticeably different voice speaking in different languages? I was in the theatre last night and realized I’d only ever heard François Arnaud in The Borgias and Midnight, Texas so I was taken aback by his « original » voice.

The Shaw festival has in its ensemble this season one Cosette and one Eponine. I don’t know what to do with this information.

Rich People: Can you start $$endowing$$ some faculty positions in Literature, Gender Studies, History, all the humanities?? Start w/ state uni’s that provide social mobility for first gen students. Please, while people still know why “books” exist?? 🙏🏻

What the fuck is the point of being registered as a PhD student so that I can have access to a university library to continue doing research if said library never has access to anything I need!?! Yes, I’m the dummy who registered at a university without an English program, but still!

We’re off to see the revival of Cabaret this afternoon nice to have a Broadway show to distract us from all the oh wait

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

It’s probably not a great measure of where I am mentally/emotionally that I lost one mitten yesterday and I’m much too upset about it. If I didn’t have to be in the office for no good reason several days a week, and lug my laptop, lunch, coat, etc. it wouldn’t have happened.

Several theatres around me have open calls for new artistic directors and I’m regretting all my past career and life decisions because I am absolutely not qualified to apply to any of them. At least offers a small distraction from the dumpster fire out there.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Actual pro tip: the best way to break into any creative profession is by helping to support and advance other creators. Your peers are not your adversaries. They are your support group.

A new year love letter to our artists: May you stoke the fire that fuels your art, and may you fuel the art that sets your soul aflame. 💫🔥 Here’s to new beginnings in 2025 from BMHF. All the love to all in our community. 💚