Back in the print shop! Credit card from M (1931), laser cut on bamboo (with help from @literaturegeek.bsky.social) and printed on the Vandercook.

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

🚨 Join us next week for a conversation with the amazing @zoeleblanc.bsky.social. Have you been wondering how we can pair big DH datasets, translation and AI? She has a great example of that mix 🍲 🗓️ Wednesday, April 22nd at 12PM EDT Register at tinyurl.com/dla-leblanc #DigitalHumanities

22 Short Films About Springfield first aired on 14th April 1996, making Steamed Hams thirty years old today.

understand why students might think this is a rebuke of the UVA Board shenanigans but absolutely humiliating to see the whitewashing of a man who unashamedly lied about students & called in state troopers to brutalize them as an quixotic demonstration of why harvard should take him back as prez

Some bird photos from a recent bird walk at Ivy Creek Natural Area in beautiful Albemarle County.

Go home GI, your edgelord era got indexed by the Wayback Machine and a grad student is writing about you Your girlfriend started following Hasan Piker, GI GI, your meme coinS dropped 80% in value because the president’s son rug pulled you GI

Amazon: we have lost $100 billion creating Amazon Flame, the Breado knockoff that serves you ads and tells the police about you.

Cursed thought: Roottrees but it’s Elon Musk

lol NYT trots out the “did not comply” boilerplate for Ruben Ray Martinez despite the “secret execution” context of his death.

Remember how the bipartisan effort to transfer control of TikTok to right wing oligarchs was sold through the idea that Americans’ privacy rights had to be protected from the Chinese?

first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed

Not accusing anyone upstream of doing this, but I feel like AI-critical digital humanities folks are going to carve out an exception in the criticism for AI-coding, fundamentally because most of them don't think that coding is intellectual labor.

lmao NYT publishes this fluff piece about how cool this image their photog captured is and doesn't comment at all on how the cop looming over the center of the frame has a big tear in his pants crotch. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Half the countries that just sent troops to Greenland (specifically, UK, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark) were part of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, so there’s definitely a limit to how outraged I think they’re entitled to be.

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

one member of the board (douglas wetmore) walked into the meeting, noting the large crowd of protestors. his response: "ego and pride are terrible"

and as a video

Ask not what your representative will do for you (nothing), ask how you can make your representative so miserable they quit their job

I realize now I may be the only humanities person who is mad at the assumption we have bad math scores.

I’m enjoying this Fuchsia Dunlop book about Chinese food, in part because she’s so openly good-natured and also inexplicably hostile to Daoists. Just like “this dish is indescribably delicious and beloved by all under heaven except those goddamn Daoist monk jackasses.”

The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

The Bluesky Discover tab: not even once

Letterpressing

ex-CIA instinct to depose presidents will take over, we're in the clear

They need to go full Louis XVI

Rocky snow day

also a quick shout out to some recent @assignedmedia.org reporting about FIRE continuing to make common cause with the right

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

New free zine by me & @shane.logoff.website: "Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts"📚🎉 34-page square meal of Absolute Unit letterpress type, blocks, press eye candy (ft. a Very Good Hog print courtesy of @ryancordell.org) & 6 mini-essays on neat measurement history+current facts

Something that now occasionally comes to mind, as a 40 year old man who grew up and went to school in Texas: which peripheral weirdo from my past will end up in the Trump admin?

Strong floor, no ceiling

"strong floor no ceiling" describes a pit

Coming this week(?), a 20-page zine w/Rad Measurement Fact/history mini-essays by @shane.logoff.website + Absolute Unit letterpress eye candy collected by me.

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

This is just the latest turn in long-running and bipartisan campaign of Sinophobia. The Democrats are just as much to blame as the Republicans.

no money for politicians

"What was the point of the shutdown if the Democrats are just going to cave for nothing?" The point was to do what everyone wanted for only as long as it took to win an election and then immediately betray them. The election was 3 days ago! The disdain they hold for us is majestic.

And fuck them all unless they do

Dems are turning an issue that they’re both winning and right on and making it a defeat that people should rightly blame them for. Amazing political acumen. Four dimensional goddamn Russian roulette.

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

They should make telescoping flagpoles so I can fly the flag at double mast when people I don't like die.

but to offer a concluding thought, the real problem with "we need a new renaissance" is that a "renaissance" is created not by doing fundamentally new/ better things but rather by demonizing people in the PRESENT as "backwards" and hence enemies to be vanquished 9/

There is no bigger disconnect in politics right now than the difference between what Zohran says he's going to do and what his opponents say he's going to do

"pretend a right-wing activist is just a Concerned Citizen" is the go-to move for crypto-reactionary NYT people. Jeremy Peters did this for a militia member at Charlottesville, I pointed the error out to him on Twitter and he blocked me." theracket.news/p/how-the-ne... bsky.app/profile/ryan...