Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!! Just the one!!

Do join me and @callanid.bsky.social to talk buck baskets, feisty wives and small town Tudor life👇

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1st ed. (London, 1813), at Christie's, New York (est. US$120,000-180,000 - but will go for more). Long #c18th #c18 #18thc

So many women have been talking, writing and warning people of the dangerous ideologies and biases of tech in Silicon Valley, for decades, and it’s so infuriating that so many men (not OP here) just flat out ignore it and act surprised at the technofascists infecting it now

So, this just got a whole lot more real...☠️⚔️🌹

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Meanwhile…

Three people are in critical condition after a shooting at a high school in Evergreen, Colorado, according to St. Anthony's Hospital. Evergreen is 28 miles southwest from Denver. Read more: https://cnn.it/3VvN47r

📖 Concurrent Printing, Watermarks, and the Print Run of the First Folio 📖 Learn more in Pervez Rizvi's article in the September 2025 issue of *PBSA* Read the full article in our latest issue: Link in Bio🔗 🔍 DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736969 #BookHistory #Bibliography

Wait what?

Slightly diminish a book The Decent Gatsby

otherwise known as my and dan’s 10th anniversary party 🔟 🎉

this should be the attitude of almost anyone in a public role - including faculty at universities

I just found out that REFUSE TO BE DONE is going into its 8th printing! I've heard so many stories from writers whose projects have been helped along by this little yellow book over the past three years. Nothing makes me happier!

The damaging effects of experiencing or witnessing domestic violence reverberate in multiple directions, often passing down from generation to generation. Domestic abuse cannot be explained away as a “little fight.” Everyday this man telegraphs to the world just how vile and disgusting he is.

The latest issue of Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was guest-edited by ASU English professor Ayanna Thompson & includes contributions from ASU President Michael Crow + other writers, artists & scholars. Learn more: ow.ly/63XX50WRASB #ASUHumanities @acmrs.bsky.social

I will be asking students these questions from now on.

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

Not in Phoenix. It is almost always summer in Phoenix.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - who would have predicted the Guardian to have a view on Christopher Marlowe?

The Gilded Rage

By being on vacation?

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege

Cancer: Spend some quality time with Mother Nature so she can remind you of how small and weak you are.

"There are more than 19 million college students in the US. Most are well removed from corridors of wealth+power..43% of undergrads attend community college. 25% live with their parents." a listicle for everyone, especially for the NYT editors themselves to learn www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

I taught the first Shakespeare class of the semester @asuenglish to 40 students and we talked about how “It [reading Shakespeare or any literature] is that deep.” So we are embracing that working with this playwright and puzzling over these texts is a great use of time!

Students are being asked to labor on behalf of these companies to create better generative models? That’s exploitation, not ethical practice.

This is just like VR.

For those of you going to Denver’s SAA, please consider joining @roaringgirle.bsky.social and me to talk about the importance of public libraries, Shakespeare, and other early modern literature. There’s so much to consider in our current political climate:

[bunch of guys who haven't read a piece of fiction in 20 years] my feeling is the kids don't read anymore

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

Correct. This is the failsafe for court decisions. Gang tactics because they work…for the gang.

For ARTnews, I looked into the four artworks by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Diane Arbus now being auctioned online by the US government with connections to the 1MDB scandal. Three were gifted to Leonardo DiCaprio by Jho Low and one was forfeited by a producer of THE WOLF OF WALL STREET.

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

@sfmontgomery.bsky.social Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sarahfawnmontgomery with a poem about chronic pain in the Indianapolis Review Spring Issue theindianapolisreview.com/chronic-pain... #poetry #chronicpain #poem #poetryjournal

I can’t stand it!!! Here we are @natewolff.bsky.social. In PRINT

*taps sign*

It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.

The print-run of my 2025 @calrbs.bsky.social Descriptive Bibliography syllabus is done, with all copies stab-stitched and ready to go. The variants are even crazier than they were last year. How many issues of the edition are there? Variants? What’s an ideal copy? What the hell is the format?

A book called Dark Renaissance that’s about Christopher Marlowe? Count me OUT.

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

The so called male loneliness epidemic could be solved with having these guys care for a pet and then having them talk about said pet. A cat, a dog, a rabbit, whatever!

"The Mellon Foundation today announced the appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as a senior fellow." bit.ly/3GxwShQ

has anyone read anything good on....... stickiness

Shakespeare and his works often end up in places where folks don’t know or care about their context.