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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

Political discourse has me dreaming of Miss Piggy. Speak out, piggy.

#DieMyLove was delightfully intense. Jennifer Lawrence created one of my favorite characters in film ever - for whatever that reveals about me.

A friend in Corvallis, Oregon sent me this one 🤣 #NoKings

Georgia Southern is hiring three new TT colleagues: children's lit/media, Shakespeare, and creative writing. Please share with your networks: www.georgiasouthern.edu/colleges/art...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

more important than ever to understand how with minimal energy people (and now things!) can easily persuade you to act against your own interests, if you aren’t familiar with their tactics and how your own damn brain works.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

At least there’s a reasonable explanation for why the one thing I had to look forward to doesn’t seem to be happening.

At the fabulous TBC5, where a presenter called attention to Lynch’s “dense atmosphere of pointlessness.” Suddenly claims that Lynch is a realist make so much sense, as I too seem to be mired in a “dense atmosphere of pointlessness.”

Take a break from doomscrolling to learn about stardom! Friday, online.

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Next Friday, we're hosting an author talk with Niamh Thornton! Register for the Zoom at tinyurl.com/5xkvenp6.

I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I love the new Cracker Barrel logo! 🧡 #EpsteinFiles

Please register and plan to join us for an author talk with Niamh Thornton about the book María Félix: A Mexican Film Star and Her Legacy. Olivia Cosentino will moderate. The talk will take place on Friday, September 12, at 1:00 PM EST via Zoom. Please register at tinyurl.com/5xkvenp6

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.

New in PN: The slide toward "competitive authoritarianism" "Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"

My article: “Not Only ‘Double Entendre’ but Outright Smut”: Some Like It Hot’s (1959) Code-Compatible Style www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... is open access this month! Check it out!

#MarilynMonroe passed overnight between August 4 and 5, 1962. She left behind a body of work that testifies to her as a comic genius as well as a talented dramatic actress.

I’ve reached that sweet spot of course prep and pre-teen girls listening to music in the next room where I questioned why the month of November was included in a fall schedule. 😬

Still working on my book amidst the collapse of society. Though my topic is Marilyn Monroe as an adapted character, I am making connections to the manosphere and government conspiracies-so even obscure and niche humanities projects are relevant!

The United States summed up in two headlines.

Q: “What keeps you up at night?” JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: “The state of our democracy.” 🇺🇸 😕

At the “I have no idea what the second half of this book is about” phase of proposal writing.

@scms-starperformer.bsky.social who wants to put together a panel on performance and stardom? #SCMS26 #SCMSconnect

Anyone thinking about #SCMS panels?

My nemesis.

Dog days of summer.

“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget. Republicans did it. Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate. Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due

The evil that men do lives after them

Future me will be glad I distracted from the current political crisis by making these lecture videos for the fall now, right? But what will distract me from the fall’s political crisis?

Notes on “how a nuclear attack on the US might unfold” just appear in my inbox, right in the middle of the day during a holiday week. Are we great yet?

Voters are watching.

Dr. Coni: One patient had been receiving treatment with eye drops, but then I didn’t see her for months.. I wondered what had happened to her. When she finally returned, she told me she had lost her Medicaid coverage and couldn’t afford her drops. As a result, she had gone blind in one eye.

Where are the bsky Georgia people? Who are the best coffee roasters in your state?

I have three hearings at three different courthouses today. At the second, someone was sobbing outside the courtroom. They'd asked ChatGPT what to say in Court. They believed what it told them. They lost because it hallucinated, and they didn't know there were no do-overs.

What advice would you give to first-year college students?

1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government. It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering." He was warned of arrest. They marched anyway. Subscribe to support my journalism.

A statue of George Washington. With a big black bird on his head. Symbolism noted.

The SCMS Performance & Stardom SIG is looking for a co-chair! @scms-starperformer.bsky.social Check your email for a message with details if you’re a SIG member!

So middle age is wanting to sit down but knowing my joints won’t tolerate it. (While all of this other stuff is going on.)

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again theonion.com/a-shatt...

“It’s true that narcissism is associated with more impulsive, error-prone decision-making. But … [w]hether consciously or not, narcissists hold power by keeping others in a state of psychological whiplash.“ www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...

Public pressure works! Keep it going.