When life closes a door, it opens a window. And if the fall is too steep, use the fire exit. Run to the roof -- you always have that airship on the dock. The most important thing is to keep moving. Keep dreaming.

Her Le Monde obituary at least seems to be about her as a person and an artist. How lucky we were that she gave us what she could. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

I can’t understate what a loss this is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

my mom is finally getting pet scan she needs that was originally supposed to be in Feb 2026.. we are paying out of pocket bc insurance keeps denying it (she is in remission but has been having more health issues) — I’m drowning in cc debt so every bit helps + available for WFH ko-fi.com/michiums

surgery recovery update: with the rain I got a massive wind of the scent of rain and GREEN THINGS this morning, so I finally managed to take a (brief) walk to my beloved local heath between the rain showers

sometimes you're doing something to coordinate some outreach/volunteer work for your rowing club and it becomes SO clear you are a humanities major who ended up with a spreadsheet job

heatwave has finally entered its sunset, so I am knitting and listening to On Being in the near-dark, I’ve never been happier

I’ve been for the last year getting flashes of wanting to write Essays again and now they’re back again. UGH. I wish I did not find this impulse in me so off putting

I am recovering from some wonderful gender affirming surgery and boy am I SO grateful to have had it but jesus CHRIST is recovery boring

Happy beginning of summer to all who celebrate

i cannot cope with the stress the red sox are putting me through this season

I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.

🧵 Saving local news also means saving archives 🗞️ Not just physical photos, clips & recordings, but digital reporting too 💻 When archives disappear, communities lose memory, identity, and their only reliable record of change. More 👇 www.poynter.org/reporting-ed... @poynterinstitute.bsky.social

UK-based artists! The British Library is offering a funded opportunity to do creative work using their Amazon related materials! Share widely! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

L7 SET ??? L7!!! archive.org/details/ajc0...

omg omg someone digitized their entire life’s collection of concert tapes archive.org/details/@aad...

I have accidentally over committed this week in a fit of “the sun is back!” optimism and now I am in Suffer City

honored and delighted to join @drdomdavies.bsky.social and Kremena Dimitrova in the Journal of The @britishacademy.bsky.social, documenting our exhibition at the Academy’s Summer Showcase last year representing @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/14/...

one of the joys of #BAAS2026 is getting very excited about scholarship again, post-PhD. another is that Glasgow is beautiful

Black Sinners fans, please consider submitting all of your brilliant essay ideas to this call for abstracts by Friday, May 15, 2026, as this looks like it will be an amazing Sinners Reader: The Blues, Black Horror, and the Jim Crow South anthology, as edited by Black English prof, DuEwa M. Frazier!🔥

some personal news

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

HAPPY RED SOX OPENER TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!! i may have the flu again but i’ve taken my nyquil and i’ve got the game on let’s gooo

"I think I don’t really want to change the world anymore. I am just happy to be able to do a little good." Good blog about doing, not just saying, from @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social: aftermath.site/woke-2-woken...

Going after desalination is closer to nuclear war than anything else weve ever seen there is no world if this is done there is just no world left after the horrors this will unleash

Life is short, friends. Spend as much of it as you can loving people.

what does grief look like today, Reed? it’s always having some sliced crusty bread in the freezer for scarpetta

REALLY enjoying this interview on American culture and comic books with @julianchambliss.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4Ish...

how’s post submission going? well i am currently re-watching the 2004 world series just to feel something

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, ”At stake is not only how we fight to win, but also how prepared we are for victories. Prepare to win means be ready for the morning after.” Stay ready for victories!

crushing realization that the 50 cent x alex g mash up is going to end up in my Top Listens of 2025

first really chilly, blustery, and gray autumn day alone in my flat, it is customary to spin Rooms of the House spotify.link/9lvyswRhHXb

PAIN THRESHOLD - Dance till you drop. Dance till you die, if you must.

I have finished the manual edits on my thesis

‘“A hundred and fifteen years that they haven’t been here, and they still have that GPS unit inside of them,” said the visibly giddy Klamath Tribal Chair William Ray, Jr. “It’s truly an awesome feat if you think about the gauntlet they had to go through.”’

an impromptu D’Angelo memorial in Soho, London caught me very emotional coming off Dean St (thinking of @theferocity.bsky.social and @zachstafford.bsky.social’s discussion on Vibe Check this morning while listening ❤️)

finally he does something other than punch people

absolutely predictable and frustrating that as soon as I started doing manual edits, I was able to crack a bunch of issues in the dissertation I couldn’t wrap my head around. once again, doing things without the computer… good

this is tomorrow 💀🤡

Also - I can't believe we let the worst comedians on the planet spend *years* defining Freedom of Speech as a moral obligation to laugh at their bad jokes, and not as a protection against government censorship. You've been crying wolf for a while now gang, and a real wolf just got here! SPEAK UP!

yesterday i sent my phd out for a mock viva

Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

*Every* single time a politician uses the phrase "Jumping the queue" with respect to migrants as James Cleverly has just done they should immediately be asked "What queue?" and the journalist should insist on the details of how people can join this queue.

There is NO way of doing a meaningful conversion therapy ban in the UK in 2025. Conversion practices are fundamental to the NHS under 18s healthcare service. Criminal ban on medication + Transition denied + Search for alternative cause + Mandatory identity investigation = conversive practice.