Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born Brancusi's "Bird in Space" (1924), which was the subject of a fascinating legal case about whether it could be considered art.

Kid wandered in half hour late, looked totally surprised that we were taking the final. Can't wait to grade his. #academia

You will be visited by three spirits

i quit smoking back in March for the first time since then, i really want to start again did i mention it's about to be finals week? #academia

Who has made this 🤣

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

i nodded and said "oh yeah?" as a guy badly misexplained Grant's generalship to me and i hate myself for it

I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

In case you missed it: My new video about the wonderful queerness of Oz is now live! youtu.be/n9IXq5MwG5Q

The Gerald Locklin poem never fails to make me tear up. This one, on the other hand...do I ever feel like it? Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae. (by Robert Florence)

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This is in fact the material point: “The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.

@moggerb.bsky.social has informed me that Steve Jackson Games is releasing a new edition of "Toon" so at least *some* good things are happening

Girls being girls is begging your best friend to be gentle & kind to herself, when you are never gentle or kind to yourself. It's ok. We're still learning. And while we work on it, we will be that for each other.

Executive c-suites, especially studio execs, are basically a cargo cult worshipping success with no notion of how it’s actually achieved.

when i was a young and in college and first read ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM i was a little surprised by just how much contempt and disdain arendt had for the intellectuals of her generation, especially when compared to the actual perpetrators of the atrocities, but now substack exists so i get it

they hate us just for existing

🎬 "Excalibur" gets a LE 4K Blu-ray from Arrow, Feb 24! ⚔️ Theatrical cut in 1.66:1 with new 4K restoration & DTS-HD MA 5.1 TV Version in HD w/mono Extras: NEW commentaries/interviews/featurettes + 2 documentaries & booklet, poster & 6 art cards! 📚 Pre-Order! bit.ly/4oCk3CO #FilmSky

Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day!

Flash Gordon was released 45 years ago today! "A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth."

i lived in Nashville til i was 32, but i haven't lived there in almost 20 yrs, and i don't think i could ever call it home again, since @moggerb.bsky.com was ever there with me. no place is home without them.

i realize this is far beside the point of everything that is happening, but i wish all the non-Okies would stop referring to the University of Oklahoma as "Oklahoma University"

This glorious part of a glorious thread.

Squeaky Fromme, Bashful Fromme, Sleepy, Happy Fromme, Grumpy Fromme, Doc Fromme

I feel like every "How much does it take to be financially comfortable" discourse is designed to give me, a state employee in the American south, an aneurysm.

Strong men create good times. Good times create decadent art. Decadent art makes strong men uncomfortable because it does not satisfy their naive expectations regarding melody, plot and figurative mimesis

Being Werner Herzog must be strange. Everything he reads is in Werner Herzog's voice.

You all know about Evil Hat Productions (evilhat.com), makers of fine roleplaying games and accessories, of course. Did you know that starting today they're running a 20%+ off everything sale? So BLADES IN THE DARK, MONSTER OF THE WEEK, THIRSTY SWORD LESBIANS, & all the FATE products are on sale!

Release the SPAWNIMON! Oklahoma historical horror author and comic writer Jeff Provine has created a card game combining the #mythos #horror of #Lovecraft with the collectable cuteness of fighting pocket monsters! www.kickstarter.com/projects/851...

Every version of Batman moans "Justice" as he cums except Batfleck who just sobs.

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky We've hit peak Psychology Humour

They should do MyChart Wrapped

Beware the SPAWNIMON! Oklahoma historical horror author and comic writer Jeff Provine has created a card game combining the #mythos #horror of #Lovecraft with the collectable cuteness of pocket monsters! And guess who he commissioned for all his card art? www.kickstarter.com/projects/851...

Aristotle when an object doesn’t behave as it’s supposed to

Stravinsky (may have) said "Vivaldi didn't write 500 concertos. He wrote the same concerto 500 times," and boy I wish he'd listened to some Aaron Copland (don't come for me, I like Copland, but you definitely know when you're listening to him)

death never cares how hard you love so love harder

Not sure if any single part of academia felt more like a weird cheat code than Interlibrary Loan. Like, I just say a book I want, basically any book, and this crack team of experts just *get it*????

i just don't think Lana Del Ray's music is very good stand back, more hot takes from 15 years ago coming

Last shout on this, and then I'll try to rediscover some chill - at least until I have a copy or it's publication day, whichever comes first: 10 hours to go on the sale

In philosophy, something is considered "self evident" when everyone agrees that it is true, but no one can figure out why.

I'm delighted we got to do a deep dive Sunday into the 1E Players Handbook's final advice for "Successful Adventures". It's been on my mind a lot lately. We didn't agree on everything! But glad to air it out in the modern era. #dnd #players #adventures www.youtube.com/live/qiqah7q...

Watch out for SPAWNIMON! Oklahoma historical horror author and comic writer Jeff Provine has created a card game combining the #mythos #horror of #Lovecraft with the collectable cuteness of pocket monsters! And guess who he commissioned for all his card art? www.kickstarter.com/projects/851...

seen on Tumblr: #NotAllMen... but somehow always a man

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

thank goodness there are no months after this one

Aching for that trans instructor at OU, betrayed and vilified by her own university. What must she be feeling right now? May those decision-makers live to regret it.

The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?