rip to your land war in Asia but I'm different

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

A freylekhn pesakh! Today the @UCLAIRLE Memory Work Research Initiative is officially launching our new and improved public history website, "Power from the Past." In the spirit of liberation, I want to share some highlights from the project here: 🧵

hooray, it’s here!

Amy is a lecturer at UC San Diego. Check out her hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

i have a calendar with different inspirational statements for each month, and i’ve been adding the welsh translation or equivalent to the best of my ability, but the april one is “mind over matter” and i really don’t know how to get that into welsh without being too literal or just nonsense

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

why are you posting screenshots of terfs and nazis when you could be posting screenshots of absurdist YMCA parodies

based on this photo, how would you attempt to open this door?

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Amy is a lecturer at UC Irvine. Check out her hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Carter: Colonel! O'Neill (p90 pointed offscreen): come on, Daniel, what does it say? Daniel Jackson: well if Im reading this right, they worshipped a being named "Miette", who had the power to imprison you for... one thousand years... Teal'c: I believe it would be most unwise to awaken this "Miette"

Erika is a lecturer at UC Davis. Read her hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

Sometime in the future, when I’m feeling despair, it will help if I can remember that somewhere there is a warm and humorous woman who possesses institutional knowledge on the best ways to feed baby beavers.

i haven’t figured out the rest of the verse yet but “beavers are turning rivers into powerful carbon sinks” absolutely fits into the tune of the battle hymn of the republic, and there might be something there

Not now, millions of scorpions. www.newsweek.com/millions-of-...

the jungle book (1994) by basil poledouris

Cam Clark is a field work supervisor at UC Berkeley Law and serves on the UC-AFT Unit 18 contract bargaining table team. Read Cam’s hopes for a new contract below.✊ #WeTeachUC weteachuc.org

This new rural Knives Out movie looks like fun!

why does this pardon parchment look like it’s about to ask to be moisturized, is my question

If you have a couple of hours for some theatre and queer joy, go watch Ncuti Gatwa in The Importance of Being Earnest. Today’s the last day you can see it free on YouTube. youtube.com/watch?v=obX-...

Oh look, it’s what we put on my dad’s funeral invitations. (His birthday is in 2 days, he would be turning 79.)

By popular demand, here is the full, glorious message from Aberystwyth University Library, on their blog: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/librarian/?p... Hat tip to @walkyouhome.bsky.social for prompting me to realise it was a blog post, and thus available to you all ❤️

that cartoon meme of the guy in the corner of the club, but it’s me on the bus, thinking “they don’t know i’m [listening to the original film soundtrack of chitty chitty bang bang]”

The English lit class I wanted to take was full, they told me to take intro linguistics instead “because it’s basically the same” - then @bobksb.bsky.social blew my mind teaching about [pʰɪt] vs [spɪt] on day one! 😂

bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

don’t worry folks, i figured out my cardigan was inside out a full bus stop before work

"Your steadfast commitment to our strategic mission, despite the multiple tramplings, maulings, and other encounters we shall henceforth refer to as 'terminal networking opportunities' has not gone unnoticed." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...

I’m just saying, Castro/Castro 2028 would actually rule so hard

i saw this and unprompted my mind provided the opening chord, extremely (internally) loudly

Your wish is our command. 🪄 Aquarium of the Pacific 🐋 Does Parker's rendition of Van Gogh's Irises get your seal(ion) of approval?

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to the incredible women of the Aquarium of the Pacific! Your contributions are essential to our mission and are reflected in every facet of the Aquarium, from education and conservation to research and guest services. Thank you for all you do!

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

the bus driver saw me running and waited!! that hasn’t happened on this line (for me) in so many years that i almost didn’t bother! how refreshing

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

why is my library suggesting i might like to borrow a 22-hour long audiobook of the malleus maleficarum

One was a marine corps radio operator, then a rocket scientist The other was a family practice doctor

A great way to get around this is 🐠 Fishy 🐠🐠🐠 Fishies 🐠🐡🐟 Fishies

Pact - RS Thomas Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus...

more than a few students are out with various respiratory viruses, there is a test today so more people than usual will be in this room and sometime between tuesday and now, someone has SCREWED ALL THE WINDOWS SHUT

The best one page ghost story ever put to paper.

the feminine urge to miss your bus by almost a whole decemberists album because you decided to sew a belt for the pair of pants you were already wearing instead of either 1) not doing that or 2) wearing different pants!!!!

who in the year 2026 is still leaving chick tracts at bus stops?!!?

Post a banger that isn't in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU-w...

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

Erin's filling in CHE's holes again and collecting adjunct pay info. Drop yours at the form.

dear people who write copy for boxing gym websites: i do not want to “get fit while having fun”. i want to hit things.

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods “It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”