I learned about the @eotarchive.org project earlier this year thanks to MIT libraries. Turns out librarians have been on top of systematically backing up government websites before presidential transitions for over a decade! eotarchive.org

If you’re tired of seeing autoplaying GIFs from yesterday, you can it off under Settings >> Content and Media. You can also turn off trending topics (I did). This is your feed and we need energy to get through the next few years.

LARB and Yefe Nof are thrilled to announce our 2024 translation resident, Marta Gosovska. In her two week residency, under the advisement of acclaimed translator Boris Dralyuk, Marta will sharpen her translation of "Where the Sun Sets" by Olena Pshenychna. Congratulations Marta!

Free Disabled Radicals zine by the Disability Action Research Kollective : files.libcom.org/files/2024-0...

Now that thankstaking is over look ahead to this 🔥 discussion on Thursday about queer solidarity and settler colonialism from Palestine to Turtle Island @pepepierce.bsky.social @deescribed.bsky.social #CLAGS #queerstudies 🌈📚🎓🍉

“What is a woman?” Is a question I have been deeply invested in for as long as I can remember. This lovely thread unpacks among other things the grief of its co-opting.

We can’t do #Thanksgiving without farm workers: Make a donation during this season of thanks and giving and help fund change all year long. ufw.org/thanksgiving2024 or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate #WeFeedYou

Juan has spent 10 years harvesting sweet potato in CA. While the machine picks up most of the vegetables he often has to get on his knees and dig out the sweet potatoes the machine left behind. He does this up to 10 hours a day 5 days a week. #WeFeedYou

Yaaasss firing it up now

We can’t do #Thanksgiving without farm workers: Make a donation during this season of thanks and giving and help fund change all year long. ufw.org/thanksgiving2024 or paypal.com/paypalme/ufwdonate#Thanksgiving #WeFeedYou

Thank you @ufw.bsky.social for helping me know who sits with my family at the table today

Jovany was one of more than 200 workers picking garlic at peak season in Coalinga, CA. They started working at 5am and finished up their day by 11:30 to avoid the hottest part of the day - which reached 106°. They were paid around $3 for each bucket they filled.

Jesus shared this pic of the pomegranate harvest in Madera, CA. Jesus is paid a piece rate per bin rather than by the hour, so he works at a rapid pace to make ends meet. Thank Jesus for this beautiful fruit.

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

The way the world - hell, more than half of academia - has NO fucking clue there’s a whole field of scholars who study communication & media🙃

Assoc/Full Prof. of Design position at U Michigan apply.interfolio.com/159321?fbcli...

🐄🌬️ Our new paper on bovine #metabolism is out today in the new issue of Environmental Humanities! Adam Searle, Katie Oliver & I discuss how cows figure in metabolic interventions into the climate writ large. read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... @admsrl.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social

Another Lego octopus from the Great Lego Spill of 1997 has turned up. It was found by Constance Morris, founder of Grampus Campus. "Happy does not describe how it feels to finally find one of the famous Lego octopuses after all these years of looking," she said. Picture credit: Constance Morris

Don't be sad if your paper or panel was rejected from @scmstudies.bsky.social, just regroup and start thinking about your proposal for Console-ing Passions in Atlanta! Submissions are due December 10th! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So thrilled to be offering this panel at SCMS with @amyherzog.bsky.social, Valeria Sonna, Véronica Kretschel and Amanda Lagerkvist. Who am I gonna see in Chicago?

"The platforms themselves have the mass and scale that politicians and political discourse lack. This is precisely why we need to study the gravitational logics of platforms as bodies that attract and repel."

In a single week, #Argentina's government (1) blacklisted books that talk about #feminicides, (2) launched an SA-style militia, which (3) promptly assaulted geography students doing fieldwork in its anti-science crusade. So much for "they're anarco-libertarians not fascists..." tinyurl.com/ybb9a7dh

Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. Today we share resources on caring for others in uncertain times: read.dukeupress.edu/journals/pag...

Judging by its title and cover 🔥🔥

Tactile Research Group's annual meeting is Thursday in NYC, I'm keynoting on "Instruments & Instrumentalities of Haptics: An Inventory of Promises & Effects". Shaping up as a weird talk, doing media theory for exp psychologists. Registration required but cheapish. www.eventbrite.ca/e/tactile-re...

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

Really thrilled for this panel discussion on Wednesday with @slothprof.bsky.social. Disability folks and affect folks and really any academic folks should be reading her stunning Dear Elia.

We've added lots of great translation and global lit-centric presses and mags to this list since last week! If you think we've missed something, let us know! go.bsky.app/RPkPdAM

The Trans Youth Emergency Project provides information, medical referrals, and emergency grants for young trans people and their families. You can place a request for support if you are in need. And you can donate to support their efforts if you are able. southernequality.org/tyep/

For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence". The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them. Hope you will check it out! www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Mon Nov 25 4- 5 pm EST zoom: 1) Society for the Study of Affect (events, open positions), 2)Q & A around the 'Capacities To' against fascism book, 3) discuss publishing in the journal Capacious for folks who might be new and/or understandably trepidatious about the process. bit.ly/capacitiesto

Perfect illustration of the difference between "schooling" and learning. Learning is rooted in experiences. Schooling is about discrete tasks to pass an assessment. Students are starved for experiences. We should give them to them.

Can’t post much about the…[waves arms vaguely]…situation but I find more hope than I have in ages in this reminder of the power of “I would prefer not to”

1) Alt-text images (there's a thing in settings you can turn on to remind you) 2) Plz mind yr ableist language; as Lydia XZ Brown (not here?) puts it "Ableism is systematic, institutional devaluing of bodies and minds deemed deviant, abnormal, defective, subhuman, less than. Ableism is *violence.*"

Hello new followers! We release a new episode every month. Our episodes are stand alone so you can dip in and out, depending on your interests (but we’d love it if you listen to all 😉) Start at the beginning with @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social thedeathstudiespodcast.com/episode-1-dr...

academics are amazing because each of them, in getting a phd, wrote an entire book that nobody will ever read (their dissertation). you would think that would lead to total ego death but let me tell you buddy

Request: We've created what we hope will be an empowering survey about experience with chronic illness and medical care. If you have the capacity to participate or share it, it will certainly help! yale.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... For more context (with @rcart.bsky.social t.co/N0edbFJuom

Since I’ve put this in my bio I thought I would share again here my essay on containment and its discontents- very much the kernel of what I’m working on in my current book project. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

👋🏾I'm creating a #starterpack of #ReproductiveJustice folks working in/from/for/with the Global South(s)- broadly understood. Drop me a line if you work on/with these contexts - "work" is broad too (activists, organisers, researchers, dreamers [...]). Trying to move beyond the US/EU-centric RJ space.

This looks super cool

Very excited to join the brilliant Joy James and Lara Sheehi in conversation this Monday online. We will be speaking on “Revolutionary Care”. It will be broadcast here at 5 PM Eastern: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB24...

Zizek is, among many other things, a clown- but he may be optimally positioned (biographically and methodologically) to understand and explain the obscenity of this moment.

Much better than 2016’s viral poem, “Good Bones.” I don’t wanna sell my kids on this world.

I think I really thought so

I found this helpful. It's a searchable list of starter packs. blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

@cyreejarelle.bsky.social and I wrote this 18 months ago, everything and nothing has changed, the tips and analysis about how the fasc hates trans and autistic people because our bodies insist on being free is still spot on. brownstargirl.org/in-defense-o...

Yes my friend. Not three stooges nor five but a nonfinite number of stooges, a sufficiency. And I? I am the stooge beyond the final gate of time

I'd second this, fwiw. Every expert analysis I've seen of how toxicity spreads on X notes that any engagement with the toxin, even as rebuttal, ridicule, pillory, is just a variant of amplification. Block the bad, share the good is what works.