We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

loudon, rufus, martha, and lucy wainwright cover merle haggard's if we make it through december

christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)

Nine hours left to support Rowan’s Gender Affirming Wardrobe! Help us outfit our beautiful students!

my colleague: The end of the semester is so exhausting. Students are checked out. It’s hard to get them excited about things. me: Tell me about it. That’s why I save the erotic vomiting for the last full week of class. my colleague: what me: what

Oh, I didn't realize I have my very own special link that I'm supposed to share, instead of just the main big one. So if you haven't clicked through yet to check out the campaign for the Gender Affirming Wardrobe project, click through at giving.rowan.edu/project/4852... !

Far too many of these elite-school profs confuse hazing for teaching, and every opinion they have about students and learning flows from that.

If you're trying to ditch NYT Games, which you should be since their games singlehandedly prop up the entire dogshit rag financially, you should switch to Puzzmo. An annual sub is 50% off today for a crazy $19 and as a bonus doesn't enable the genocides of Palestinians and trans people

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

this is the thing. I DONT CARE if *some* students have managed to get accommodations by allegedly "gaming the system" or "doctor shopping" I DON'T CARE. Because my experience tells me how hard it is to be disabled in higher ed, as both a disabled student, and disabled faculty member now.

Friends! This week, Rowan's Gender Affirming Wardrobe project is running a fundraising campaign at giving.rowan.edu/project/48526. If you can, maybe toss in a couple bucks to help this project organize donations and buy things that don't/shouldn't get donated (like binders and makeup).

Friends! This week, Rowan's Gender Affirming Wardrobe project is running a fundraising campaign at giving.rowan.edu/project/48526. If you can, maybe toss in a couple bucks to help this project organize donations and buy things that don't/shouldn't get donated (like binders and makeup).

this one's hitting me hard. idk maybe I'm grateful that academia told me to go fuck myself in the conventional way (precarity + lack of permanent positions) before something like this happened to me

On this World AIDS day, learn more about the Church with AIDS, in Lynne Gerber and Siri Colom’s incredible podcast series When We All Get to Heaven. And never forget. @thislynne.bsky.social @sjcolom.bsky.social

Educators still using OpenAI products in your teaching: please read this thread and then tell me why it’s so important to maintain a relationship with this gross company and its leaders.

⭐️ From the AAUP Chapter at Texas A&M: “Reinstate Dr. Melissa McCoul immediately + Affirm the University’s commitment to its governing rules, ensuring that no faculty member is ever again dismissed without the due process mandated by University policy.” ⭐️

These people convert to Catholicism for the aesthetic and because they think it's Hard Mode compared to Protestantism. They think Catholicism is the Dark Souls of Christianity

Visiting Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at Lake Forest College. Deadline January 5, 2026. #AcRel www.lakeforest.edu/offices-and-...

I also am cursed to think about Ancient Rome every day (Seneca Epistle 27, Gummere's Loeb)

I left #AARSBL25, got on the train, and promptly fell asleep for two hours. Conferences really take it out of you!

“Ladies, we know you aspired to full citizenship and equality in the public sphere and the home alike, but unfortunately men are feeling a little blue so it’s time for you to get back in the kitchen again.” -an article, white paper, or book that gets published like three times a week now.

Bad news: The train to #AARSBL25 is delayed 90 minutes. Good news: The train to #AARSBL25 could have been delayed by so, so many more minutes than that.

Curry (a good dog) is bedeviled by mommies and their hideous habit of putting ribbons on him.

looking for some shorter, accessible reading for #AARSBL25 or holidazing travels? Or have you been curious about the Trans Biblical collection? Check out our recent contribution to The Revealer @therevealer.bsky.social therevealer.org/why-trans-in...

okay, friends, let's do something community-oriented and helpful. #sblaar25 veterans, drop your best conference advice for first-time attendees. be sure to signal boost so folks across bluesky can add on/peruse.

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org

excerpt from my forthcoming volume, "Seventy-one Haiku for the Worm that is Not a Worm"

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

After a break Black Lodge Press have just reopened their store with a whole load of new prints, tees, calendars, zines etc for those, like us, who like their work blacklodgepress.bigcartel.com

Texas A&M is no longer a "university". It's a Vacation Bible School with a football team and parking problems.

i said i wasn't going to repost this stuff but Tyler is correct. have been saying this offline for weeks: "You know who isn't in the Epstein files? 1,000,000 trans people." it's absolutely the media and the GOP doing the old magician's trick of making the country attack... us trans folks i guess.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

This is Central-New-Jersey-banquet-hall font. I can smell the carpet cleaner and lemon chicken from here.

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

Did you know that Westminster John Knox Press is already running their 50% off sale, now through December 31?!? Use promo code WJK25 for great books, including *Trans Biblical*, and if you order now, you won’t need to carry all of your books on your flight home from #AARSBL25! @wjkbooks.com

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

Don't mind me, just up hours past my bedtime, scrolling Bluesky and crying with relief that my wife, my friends, my students, and so many other trans people will not have to be governed by people who wish them dead.

wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱 www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...

American left-wing patriotism is Jewish guys signing Christian anti-slavery hymns about the first Muslim mayor of New York and I think that’s beautiful

NEW podcast episode: "Transgender Perspectives on the Bible" What does the Bible say about gender variation? @jamarchal.bsky.social & Melissa Sellew, 2 editors of Trans Biblical, discuss why some turn to the Bible for insights on trans people, especially today. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

or you could use that money to pay staff and faculty and provide actual, long-term services and support to your students

Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social. We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵‍💫 If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

What's more 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants, saying, "What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral." religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

just a genuinely wild experience to watch people with enormous amounts of power and wealth be like, "all right, human endeavor and experience, let's wrap it up! we won't need any of THIS anymore!!!"

what is the PLAN here, like, what is the vision for the future that these places have