Poops, pursued by a bear

For St. Andrew's day this weekend, @edinburghup.bsky.social is offering a 50% discount on all available books tomorrow and Sunday. This includes my book, which is a perfect Christmas gift. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-poetics...

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The pizza place near me distinguishes between sizes by labeling them either “normal” or “American”.

this is literally never not accurate

Can someone explain to me like I’m a toddler why the “liberal” Supreme Court justice halted an order mandating that the federal government continue funding SNAP benefits?

All this for my birthday week? 🥹 aw shucks

I would get so much done if I didn’t get distracted by skateboarding videos that make me go: “ugh! Sick!”

If you oppose Trump's threats to destroy Mamdani's tenure as mayor, you should oppose America's historical record of doing the exact same thing to socialist states around the world, and you should always make a point of acknowledging that in any discussion of "the failures of socialism."

Watching the U.S. left debate whether or not to give a chance to ex-Blackwater operative with a nazi tattoo is so embarrassing living abroad. Can the left there try to be serious for once?

To the person who invented scented tissues: why would you do this to me?

The locations of each of the Anti-Colonial Week Lectures have now been announced and updated. Today, someone removed these posters from places I hung them up in my department (I promptly re-hung them), but please feel free to spread the news far and wide. faihs.univie.ac.at/activities/d...

Reaping rewards for cheering on genocide, for endangering Palestinian journalists, and for helping sabotage ceasefire deals to prop up Netanyahu’s criminal government

D’Souza with a classic “someone shit my pants and I demand to know who.”

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

I’ll be teaching selected chapters from Part 7 and 8 of Capital Vol 1 this week, and realizing that most of the examples I’ll use to explain concepts will come from my one year of working at Starbucks

It’s always risky and more work, but I do genuinely love teaching a topic for the sole purpose of making sure that I understand it and have an incentive to understand it VERY well.

Today when talking about the 19th century Corn Laws, I accidentally said “a tairiff on the import of porn.” 😅🔫

Goddamnit I hate when he’s funny

A Festival of Obsequiousness Trump at the Knesset and Sharm el-Sheikh gilbert-achcar.net/festival-of-...

Trump didn’t make the ceasefire. Resistance of the Palestinians ensured Israel couldn’t ethnically cleanse Gaza. Salute to the Palestinian people. Continue the struggle to end the genocide, the occupation, and the apartheid state. Let the Palestinian children thrive! Viva to Palestine viva.

Nesrine Malik is fast becoming one of the most insightful writers I’ve been reading lately

Sometimes I have to announce to my students that their instructor is, in fact, a dummy

LMAO the prize goes to the Maggie Thatcher of Venezuela. Clown show.

Trump deserves no credit for this ceasefire - even in a backhanded way. He could have stopped the war this entire past year. If you have to thank someone - and there is little to be thankful for given the ruins of Gaza - please thank the global protest movement.

Dear academics in Austria and/or Austrian academics abroad: a group of scholars and I have composed this open letter to Austrian Members of Parliament to take immediate action with respect to Gaza. Please consider signing it and passing it on researchers4palestine.org/initiatives-...

There is a slight satisfaction I feel when this happens

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.