NICHE TWEET ALERT It has been heartwarming and also depressing as fuck to see so many guys who competed on Boys Planet be publicly queer once they’ve left the idol scene. I’m happy that they’re free to live their truth but it also implies that there’s a critical mass of closeted people in k-pop 🙃

Oh I am OBSESSED with

Extremely enthralling day moving between a semi-comatose Wikipedia spiral in bed and a slightly more conscious state reading a book on the couch. Cats refuse to sit on my lap even though I have a fleece blanket. Everything hurts.

Humanities programs have ceded scholarship of the premodern to bad actors on the right. This is a serious problem, not only because it represents a loss of current and future knowledge, but also because it enables white supremacists and Christian nationalists to twist history to their own ends.

Afternoon boost!

"She helped to pass a fascist bill, which is 100% part of liberalism" is what he should have said, if he was being honest. Then he could explain how liberalism holds the door open for fascism, if he was being honest. See also: the Social Democrats, 1933.

In my convalescence I did finally finish this! I think next week I’ll have my year-end category winners too (because I can, even if literally no one cares!) www.mainewitchonpop.com/blog/2025-k-...

Vinegar and I refuse to be shamed for it

I would very much like to see Benoit Blanc's episode of The View

Exciting news: received not one but TWO “class was too woke” comments in student evals. Heartwarming twist though: one of them also said I was a good teacher despite the wokeness 🥹

Yeah we know, it's called "autism"

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Every once in a while I check in on Threads and it is consistently the strangest place on the internet to me. It’s the uncanny valley of self-identified liberals

What I really enjoy about these films is that they are NOT subtle in their messaging but they are extremely finely crafted and contain within the unsubtlely some genuine moments of humanity (spoilers for Wake Up Dead Man in alt text on image after description)

My greatest fear is that I gave it to my Nana on Christmas but after checking on her and my dad I’m pleased to report that they are feeling fine! Fingers crossed it stays that way.

God fucking damn it I’m sick. I did do an at-home Covid test (though it may have been expired — but apparently if the control line shows it’s probably still working) that came up negative & I have no cough or fever but…idk I have a Bad Feeling

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article !!!! And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY !!!!

Well cool it was invented before I was 35 so we’re all set, I’m still allowed to hate it. Also, Adams would’ve hated gen-AI.

No one has ever been Longer

Getting out of the car the other night at our parents’ house my sister paused, looked up, and said “I missed you” to the Milky Way. It always shakes me to remember that we’re the odd ones out in today’s world, having grown up where you can see it all on every clear night.

The answer to “not everyone has the time to be an artist,” isn’t AI. The answer to “not everyone has time to be an artist” is communism.

Just heard Duke Ellington use a magnificent phrase in a 1974 BBC interview with Stanley Dance. Asked whether he regrets never having received a grant to sit at a university somewhere and compose in peace, he says he has no interest in such a stretch of “ornamental stagnation.”

Third power outage since last Friday 🙃 A true Maine Adventure this year!

Have had to respond to two students with AI-hallucinated citations in their final projects who were confused by their grades; final grades have only been posted for two days 🙃

I would also like to plug my favorite Christmas tradition, the Lobster Nativity, which asks: what if every participant in Jesus’ birth were a lobster? Mary? Lobster. Wise Men? Lobsters. Sheep? Lobsters. Camel? Lobster. Everyone is a lobster and nothing hurts lobsternativityscene.com

So we once again do not have electricity because of a storm, but because they live in the middle of nowhere my parents DO have a gas generator which we’ve been running all morning. Just now I asked when it will run out and I got an “about half an hour ago” 💀

“help, I’m being oppressed” man writes in prominent article for prestigious magazine is an entire genre of article and really what the fuck are we doing here

I enjoy the 9 Lessons & Carols posting SO MUCH. It’s the second-best tradition I’m experiencing today, after this:

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

All you have to do is look at the ed tech pushed over the last few decades! Little of it worked, unless you assume the goal is to find ways to stop paying teachers and professors.

My brain remains too startled by my own actions and therefore I can’t sleep. Yay.

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

Bari Weiss is innovating entire new dimensions of failure. She's failing in ways hitherto unconceived of. A pioneer of failology. A faileontologist. Whole career is a Fail Mary. She's beyond the fail. The Daily Fail. She's on the quest for the Holy Fail. Making tomato and Fail Salad.

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Experienced Confrontation today so I had to cry several times and now I feel like a threadbare rung-out towel

Oh fuck yes

FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT

Purest example of Dudes Rock that I have seen in quite some time

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

Reunited with The Belly

My stepmom has by far the greatest no solicitations sign of all time imo. The neon pink printer paper. The friendly cartoon handwriting. The masking tape. The deranged smiley face. I’m obsessed.

Omg help this is the most wrong thing of all time. Mr. Darcy 100% should be an insecure emo weirdo, that is exactly what he is in the novel!

I listened to hours of podcasts while driving today and rambled extensively about them in voice memos to friends but the thing that stuck with me most was this ad I kept hearing where someone says “I always tell people to think globally but focus locally”

Chat GPT is very close to human consciousness because it complements me and is also a lady.

“Possibly” ugh I’m so mad that this is funny (but like, obviously not really funny but you get me!)

I am staying in a hotel tonight as I travel east and I tried SO hard to create the perfect sleeping conditions for myself only to wake up after sleeping for like 2 hours with a dry scratchy throat and I’d just like to say, RUDE

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

I may be on Bluesky, but my culture is still Tumblr. I want to find out through a Destiel meme as God intended.

I can’t even think about the Brown thing because it’s too fucking close to home, Australia is horrifying too, so my brain is somehow being broken by the Reiner news in that it’s all I can focus on for more than 2 seconds