Welcome to "I've suddenly started caring about this class" season to all who celebrate!

What we’ve seen in other countries is the violence of the state is directly proportional to the weakness and, often, illegitimacy of the regime in power.

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

There's Austen discourse and I don't need to add evidence to her greatness EXCEPT no one has observed: she offers the wittiest most biting funniest narrative voices ever to narrative voice. I mean, I am cackling!

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Never forget:

this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its own ways of making people disappear. -Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These #everynightapoem it's necessary to talk about trees.

Reservations are in an hour and a half so I am pre-eating to ensure no lives will be lost. 😋

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future We neede artes and humanityes artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...

If there's a thing I love it's paintings inside other paintings. 🖼️

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Appropriate times to use the word impactful: 1. Describing the manner in which a heavenly body struck the Earth. End of list.

So a big part of the Project 2025 goals hinges on forcing women out of the workforce. The Heritage Foundation knows that women voters hold the most power in terms of sheer numbers. If they can push you out of the workforce, they can push you out of your voting rights.

There's a lot packed into this about the idea that women and girls are objects to be desired and used, not people

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Me when I see the phrase "can be seen" in an essay:

Just throwing this out there for reasons apnews.com/article/2022...

Since 1965.

Just a reminder that most of you don't hate Daylight Savings Time, you hate Standard Time. We witches welcome the dark. 🖤 #KnowWhatYouHate

All tango programs - regardless of discipline - must win out over any other programs, sorry I don't make the rules. #GrandPrixCanada ⛸️

Happy "had to turn the heat on even though it's not November" to all who celebrate! 🍁🧡🤎🍁

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown. The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files. They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

In celebration of Bakshi's 87th birthday on Oct. 29th, we are happy to announce that Bakshi Productions will be offering 25% OFF everything on our ebay and website shops for 24hrs! www.ebay.com/str/bakshian... www.bakshistudio.com

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

I don't know what they call me, but my cousin's kids are my nieces and nephews.

Spotted Thunder super fan and our good luck charm at Will Rogers today @threecone.bsky.social :

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans. (Published July) By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

Iconic.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act. I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

Absolutley iconic!

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

@beccahdavis.bsky.social email me when you get a chance - looking for help with an adjunct needed for SP26!

Have you ever considered:

4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

The polio immunisation program started in the USA in 1955. Look what happened next.

Heartening to see so many students sign our open letter openletter.earth/open-letter-...

My students were surprised that “medieval people were funny” so I simply assigned The Miller’s Tale. Still slays. Had them cackling.

Office hours cancelled in mourning for one of the peak 70s hotties:

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

This DIVA is SERVING

Tickets for the 60th anniversary re-release booked:

people who don’t like think for you machine are probably lazy, says think for you machine CEO

They are one and the same. 14/10 Elizabeth Regina 💫

I’ve been recommending this book on several peer reviews recently so sharing here! For those interested in how Tolkien adapts women from medieval texts into his own work, please read this: vernonpress.com/book/1702?sr...

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