If you bought nothing on #BlackFriday you get an extra #caturday

If your Black Friday tradition isn’t blasting the Nutcracker Suite and cleaning out your inbox are you even living

OK, who narced?

Thanksgiving lost & found drama happening

Don’t rread this without eyeball bleach or the shores of Lethe nearby

Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.* So many forget that last part.

The old craft brewing industry is dying, and the new craft brewing industry struggles to be born; now is the time of Monsters.

Our cat is absolute AI slop

If AI generated a picture of my cat sitting in my child’s lap, probably

Racism is so powerful in America it’s our greatest intellectual export

12yo watching The 6th Sense: “I see Deadpool”

Madonna Filippa (Decameron 6.7) really deserves to be seen in color. Who’s really on trial, the adulteress or the cuckold? Ludovico Ceffini sees how it is

Very excited to see the print edition of my essay on Boccaccio's Madonna Filippa and the real medieval Italian women working in law. Come for the saucy prose, stay for the consent of the governed #Boccaccio #Decameron #SixSeven #Medievalsky works.hcommons.org/records/cwa8...

I just followed the money

I’m howling.

Indeed who WOULD want to call sublime such things as shapeless mountain masses piled on one another in wild disarray, with their pyramids of ice, or the gloomy raging sea

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

First-year writing, esp in the age of AI, is hard but teaching my How to Read a Book class is satisfying in a specific way. The assignment I'm grading now asks students to design a new course unit, and so many are about reading as a means of cultivating attention in a world designed to fracture it.

One counter AI-strategy is working in my Dante class: choice between creative and essay projects, PLUS essayists are required to do an oral defense (worth 1/6 of essay grade)

Reminder: the INTERNATIONAL BOCCACCIO EDITION, launch event, Berlin, 21 nov 2025, 14:30-16:30 CET To participate online, write to [email protected] @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @fidromanistik.bsky.social www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/italienzentr...

PSA for anyone out there rawdogging Dante. The Douay-Rheims Bible is the one you want to have on hand

Most woke opinion: since incorporated bodies are people & you’re eligible to run for president of the USA if you were born here OR if you were here when the constitution was ratified, Canada can & should run for president of the USA. Native & First Nations tribal gov’ts can too, also Lake Michigan

ouroboreos

Hate to see Dante in the Epstein emails. I’d say he got the circle right though

There’s a Berlant for everything. Here’s one for another Lauren B #situationroom

“The situation…a genre of social time and practice in which a relation of persons and worlds is sensed to be changing but the rules for habitation & genres of storytelling about it are unstable, in chaos.” -Lauren Berlant (Cruel Optimism p. 6)

Has Boebert been seen since entering the situation room

Do I have it right that all of these new epstein files are not THE epstein files? How much further into the plot of Salò are we going

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

How their circle treats women should have been disqualifying ... but it was not and what you won't condemn ... you condone.

the president admitted to sexual assault on camera and it didn't matter

Dipping back into Lauren Berlant’s intro to The Inconvenience of Other People and once again astonished at they somehow always speak directly to my experience of this present moment, both public and private. Not sure what your heart needs right now? Maybe it’s Lauren Berlant

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Illustrator's toddler had tripped while escaping bath earlier in the day

A scorpion sitting atop a frog sitting atop Lucy's football

antifascism good, antisocialism bad

❌ cancelleresca ❌ mercantesca Must be Italianists

When I said my best writing was fueled by spite,

[Goose meme] Ruin the workplace for who RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????

Hahahhahaha

🚨SIX SEVEN🚨 Just got the pre-prints for my new essay “Representing Gender in Court: Juridical Women in the Time of Boccaccio’s Madonna Filippa (Dec. 6.7)” Kindly request that grown-ups slow the killing off of #sixseven so I can one more swing on publication day in a few weeks #medievalsky

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I know, I know, media is DYING right? But LOCAL media is still out here doing the work, showing up, donning masks to breathe in fewer petroleum fumes and delivering the information our communities need. Allow me to demonstrate.

Behold the advent of #libbingout

If you’re not recruiting students to the MEMS minor are you even living #UNC #medievalsky

Manifesting a democratic future #vote #electionday