Organizing in the real world with real, flawed people is messy and if I were to give any advice it would be that sometimes it's better to complain to your real life friends (who are not directly involved) rather than process emotions online.

I understand him.

"Necropolitics" is such a cool title. It's a shame that, judging by the first three pages, I'm too stupid to understand it.

Three years into the genAI crisis I'm seeing my institution sponsor a pedagogy workshop focused on how to keep genAI *out* of the classroom for the first time. A breathe of fresh air. May the tides turn.

Want to get lost in thousands of geese, poorly panned, set to Nightwish "Wishermaster". Of course you do. Or not. Whichever. It's your 30 seconds. 🪶 Higher resolution: youtu.be/aLafbym3wlg

What difference does UVa delaying opening until 10am make if the high for tomorrow is still in the 20s?

begging people to learn what "anarchy" is

These albums are mirror twins.

Hey so this isn’t actually what anarchism is! Trump’s aggressively hierarchal, centralized form of government is diametrically opposed to anarchism, which even the worst definition characterizes as a *lack* of governmental authority, not an *excess* of authority concentrated on a fascist!

romanticize public transportation

You ever try to explain to a woman whom you love and admire that you kind of think Nietzsche is cool actually?

The Museum of the Palestinian People in DC. Highly recommend, along with the book store right next to it.

"haha, I'm probably just going to stay in and read tonight!" I text my friend before spending the next six hours bingeing Mormon Housewives

This is true and valid but does make me worry for people whose writing gets inaccurately flagged as not their own. I don't think we've figured out a good and fair system for this yet.

The new Knives Out movie is fantastic but like how did *no one* think to call the bishop at any point?

Sorry Judith, but maturing is realizing psychoanalytic theory isn't that cool.

I should get a hobby that isn't religion or politics.

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

PBS was one of like three channels we got where I grew up. It was a huge part of my childhood and learning to love learning. I want all the kids growing up like I did to have access to that.

It's very important that you befriend a talented portrait artist in your twenties.

*at a christmas party* oh Rudolph is your favorite reindeer? That’s cool yeah yeah he’s pretty great *in reindeer chat* BlitzenBoy92: at the work thinh. take a guess DonnerTime: buncha dolphies? VixenLover: fuckin lame bro just keep ur cool change the subject The Dasher Enjoyer: thinh

A student is...plugging their YouTube channel?? In their final???

bought a bunch of candy to put in my partner's stocking but I've already eaten half of it help

Curse you FERPA, my dozens of followers deserve to hear this audio recording of an undergrad reading out Sister Cindy quotes with a completely straight face.

so grateful to have another poem in nw{p} 💖 please support this awesome magazine!

Oh, so Religious Studies is impractical and unempirical but over in Economics they're labelling things "cursed" and still being taken seriously? Ok then.

Much like any species, given enough time, will evolve into Crab any immigrant from the Balkans, given enough time in the US, will reinvent Cincinnati Chili.

Going to celebrate this snow day by not checking my email and reading a physical book.

Everyone in this coffee shop has stopped working to watch a great blue heron fly around outside.

"Shelter me from having to live my life" is basically what techies want from genAI and it's just so sad.

Did you know that if you mull wine without any sugar it will taste bad?

Maine

at the yapping Olympics (American Academy of Religion)

Can news stop happening until this conference is over and I can log back in full time? Thanks

I mean she really just keeps on giving

Can't tell if I like the new Haley Williams album or if it's just earworm after earworm slowly colonizing my brain like a cat giving me toxoplasmosis.

Why do so many humanities academics insist on pretending that AI is an interesting topic of conversation?

Cauliflower is an underrated vegetable

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Not to lib out or anything, but it does somehow feel like it is actually possible to build good things.

Reading a Catholic colleague's work and realizing she's building a case against things I've said to her in conversation.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

Finally watched Death Becomes Her Last Night and let me tell you the absolute rage I have towards Earnest cannot be contained.

the Red Scare

could a depressed bitch do *this*?

My jaw bone is growing back. It's a not so much painful as disturbing and strange. A sensation I would wish on my low-tier enemies.

Someone should make a home alone 2025 where a little kid brutally tortures a couple numbskull ice agents breaking into his house