You’re using ChatGPT to summarize a great work of literature. I’m using it to tell me how to call someone a miserable sack of shit in German. We are not the same.

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

Fine, you’ve convinced me. I’ll start brushing up on my German again so that I can establish a footing here and get my permanent residence. Anything to avoid going back to live in the USA. That place has gone officially down the toilet.

"Evaluations are also vulnerable to just about every bias imaginable ... students score male professors higher than female ones, rate attractive teachers more highly, and reward instructors who bring in cookies." #HigherEd #edchat #university www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Turns out he’s only guilty of being hunky

A genie appeared and told me I could have 3 wishes but warned me there are 3 rules, wishes that can never be granted: 1. No wishing for more wishes 2. No wishing harm on anyone 3. No time travel I wished for Chuck Schumer to be useful. Genie pauses and says: ok actually there are 4 rules.

Guy who sells doo doo (squinting wisely and doing visionary voice): We believe within 10 years the world economy will be almost completely powered by doo doo

She’s a ten but “doesn’t care that it’s Sturm season in Austria”

I don’t know why Alexander Pope needs to attack me like this: “There, dim in clouds, the poring scholiasts mark, Wits, who like owls, see only in the dark, A lumberhouse of books in every head, For ever reading, never to be read!”

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

Hi friends/comrades in Vienna, I’ll be leading a monthly Palestinian Literature reading circle, starting in November and going into next summer. All interested participants are welcome. Specific dates and location will be announced in due time.

cmon baby you know you want to hit this [me flirting with a bus]

Much to consider www.independent.co.uk/life-style/p...

It may be International Dog Day, but waffles never takes a day off from her royal duties

Happy International Dog Day from the dog international

Conservatives Liberals 🤝 Falling for astroturfed pseudo-controversies

Um, what?

The funny thing about Trump’s crusade against mail-in ballots is that absentee ballots in Florida quite likely solidified his electoral majority there in all three elections.

Do academics normally promote their own work to others via email? I feel icky doing it.

bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza - my latest @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel is starving Palestinians to death. Israel is assassinating journalists in Gaza with impunity. Israel openly plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Israel is openly planning concentration camps in Gaza. Israel kidnaps and targets doctors in Gaza.

What voters love - I mean fucking *love* - are candidates who talk like a corporate Chief People Officer, dancing around direct questions and just saying words in the hope that you’ll forget what the question was. People can’t get enough of it. I am smart and my consulting fee is $250,000.

“Proudhon certainly hears the bells ringing but never knows where.” -Marx, who can’t help being such a cantankerous grouch in The Grundrisse

Who wore it better ?

I can't believe that being angry all the time isn't the best way to fix everything.

The least surprising thing I’ve ever seen: a German ~feminist~ presenting on Sarah Ahmed at a conference with a keynote by an IDF “Chief Instructor”

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

remember to be kind to yourself fuckface

Happy to share my latest journal article, “Development through Dispossession: Ghassana Kanafani’s *Returning to Haifa*, the World-System, and Palestinian Belonging,” in the latest issue of *Coils of the Serpent*. coilsoftheserpent.org/2025/08/deve...

You’re not a person with dark-ish complexion in Vienna if you haven’t been called the wrong slur by a stranger

Being a lecturer in the age of AI, it's so refreshing to read inconsistencies, confusions, grammar mistakes, and jumbled explanations in a student’s paper. I see a human struggling to express themselves and searching for clarity. It's someone who cares and who, evidently, has a soul. And I love it.

As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel

“warm” “inspiration to women” “amazing light” is how their describing a senior executive at blackstone blackstone, who is buying up single family homes to drive up the prices in vegas? gave motel 6 guest lists to ICE? owned the slaughterhouse that got in trouble for child labor? that blackstone?

For decades, the German academic system has been characterized by structural problems that make the working and living situation of those working in it massively more difficult. 1/9

THE MIRAGE OF A PALESTINIAN STATE More countries recognizing a “State of Palestine” is symbolically positive. But under the present conditions, it can't be more than the vast prison within which the Zionist state confines the Palestinian people in the 1967 OPTs. gilbert-achcar.net/mirage-of-pa...

So many people have sent me that “Labubu at Marx’s grave” meme, and I’m here to tell you that I refuse to look up what a Labubu is.

I dream of a time when we elect leaders who are not genociders. #FreePalestine.

on the one hand we should want people to change their mind so we can stop what's happening now. On the other hand there need to be costs for the ghoulish behavior that got us here, as these people absolutely will do this again given half a chance

Book banning is horrible and silly, obviously, but in the grand scheme of things, I wish pernicious neolib “skills” training/AI-ification made us angrier. Didacticism makes itself look silly; real indoctrination happens when you control the systems of value in which education takes place

A student wrote the following reflection on my Palestinian Literature summer school: "no such course has given me as much hope and feeling of togetherness as yours. For the first time in a while, I have felt that I am neither weak nor alone." I could not have asked for a better outcome. 🥹

This was Germany today: police brutally beating up peaceful protesters against genocide in Gaza Imagine destroying your own democracy so that another country can continue to commit genocide substack.com/@tritaparsi/...

Good day, Your Royal Sleepiness 🫡

Columbia would rather destroy itself than tell these fascist losers no. what a fucking disgrace.

Spotted a guy in on the metro in Vienna today with a tote bag that said: "Adorno & Horkheimer & Marcuse & Habermas & Honneth"

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

In addition to speaking publicly on the genocide in Gaza, I’ve also been writing academic work on Palestine. Partially this helps me work through accusations that my engagement with Palestine is unrigorous. This won’t disarm colleagues’ vicious hatred of me, but I have to make peace with it.

you: please act normal you need these people to like you people: hello Ed nice to meet you me: Saddam Hussein anonymously published a smut novel in 2000