I've been saying since early 2025 that people were and are in motion... Some people have insisted that 'no one is doing anything' and they are wrong.

come on now. when they start quitting to study poetry?

The hardest part about this is learning people knew about the severe risks years before my mother bought it, then I did, and was popping 8-12 a day at 16. I could have died. It helped speed up the worst years of my EDs, not to mention it gave me a taste for hard drugs I didn't understand at the time

first time sitting by a table of stereotypical tech bros talking non stop about chat GPT AI Copilot I use it all day long 3 tabs open hiring faster it remembers me blah blah blah 30 minutes! they've said nothing fucking else

I've been doing lite research into family history for a while now and can confirm that even my grandfather just made up his name in different ways throughout his life. my mom still texts to ask WHAT HER FATHER'S legal name was

Minnie Evans (African-American, 1892–1987). Untitled (1945, graphite, crayon, oil on paper). 🧵 A self-taught artist, she had dreams and visions all her life, and she drew by inspiration.

If you wait for a better world to make art, you'll wait a long time.

Mary Ruefle

what I did today

Okay this made me laugh so hard

my fave genre to teach is their friendship poems

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make. The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression. They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

A perfectly joyous performance 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

wow

"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

gotta agree with this. at some point we all have to contend with what good faith is actually for and extend it accordingly

free them all

What a poem. From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke. #poetry #booksky #writing

May I suggest we all stop for a few hours, find this audiobook, listen to it fully, and begin again: www.pushkin.fm/audiobooks/w...

"I wouldn’t want anyone to actually visit my past, to walk right into it like a coffee shop, where the music playing is bad, where my mistakes are just happening for however long they take & my present self isn’t there to sigh, then say, Wait, please," @chenchenwrites.bsky.social !

"success" in a creative field for me means understanding more deeply what i want to do creatively—and getting to do it

This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

During a dive last year in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina, researchers documented a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen since it was discovered a little over a century ago. “There was a mixture of excitement and disbelief,” said one marine biologist. trib.al/HfkWfp4

It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances. What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.

They’ve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. That’s the plan.

Every elegy is two elegies. One for the dead; one for the living.

This is the pattern. Purchase/Take Over a media source that has informed the public. Then dismantle them to the lowest form: 1. Twitter 2. Meta 3. Washington Post 4. CBS-60 Minutes/News 5. Public Broadcasting 6. Tik Tok We are up to our necks in state run media.

I keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

Spent even more time looking through the most thoughtful integrations of AI into writing instruction that I can find, & despite the clear care and intention being applied to these projects, I do not see advancements in writing pedagogy. I see novelty injected into the production of written artifacts

Once all of the other, uh, things are settled we really need a serious public health campaign around everything involved in being part of a society.

"Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated. It is important enough that a federal cowboy kept one hand on his phone even as his other hand reached for his gun."

I've been thinking about writing, communication, and how hard I've worked to use language well enough to be taken seriously, let alone my students. Makes sense these guys who barely vomit clear thoughts, who pay to hurt children are the ones making the think-and-write-kinda-okay-for-you machines

"tired of some of their admiration for [insert lefty or left-leaning political and cultural figure]" explains a solid three-quarters of the last decade of american politics

Liam goes home… www.instagram.com/reel/DUOW4_E...

We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!

We've been right all along. Telling people for years. And before, we'd called out rape culture and abuse and get told we're too loud, too much. It's hard because I've been in therapy my whole life trying to be a person in a world that's told me I'm wrong, emotional, too angry. But we were right.

Years ago, a friend asked me why billionaires want MORE money when they could never spend the tiniest fraction of what they have. My answer is that they want immunity. The immunity to do literally any horrific they want without consequence. Nothing I've seen since has changed my mind.

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my hope is that the more they push AI-ified media & art, the odder, sillier, messier, more eccentric, & voicier independent art & other cultural production will become. we're chaosifying, we're gibberish maxxing, we're making up new words & shapes & sounds that the robot has no fucking clue about

Can’t literacy ourselves out of this one, I’m afraid.

so much going on but roads outside of Richmond still have several inches of thick ice on them so I've barely left the house. I might have grown up a bit because I have: caught up on work and teaching, revised a CNF essay that might become a memoir? Worked on the spec fic story revised poems quilted

Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids

Just found this tacked up at the college at which I teach, which has recently signed a deal with Anthropic, which stole 6 of my books and books by 131 colleagues.

Abandoned food carts. Buckets of flowers. Pick up trucks with engines still running. Lawn mowers roaring and manned by no one…

Great job, everybody in Hanover, Virginia! bluevirginia.us/2026/01/wedn... h/t @indivisible.org

Love and solidarity to all my trans siblings in Kansas right now.