this has no meaning to anyone on here, but today is a beloved friendsgiving potluck & Dom is making his meatballs & that’s very exciting stuff!

My friend is starting a book club tonight and I’m going. I’m bringing a bottle of wine that I drank a glass of yesterday. Also I didn’t finish the book.

We need new sources of news, reporting, and analysis in higher ed full stop.

The women & girls passed around in their orbits were fundamentally disposable, if not disposable jokes, to the whole lot of them — Harvard poetry podcasts & elite university think tank grifters very much included.

far from the point but why did he type like that

the 3 load-bearing pillars of my teaching life

UP Chuck’s Kenton, MI

I’ve been terrified of the Veiled Prophet since I learned about that whole scenario prob 10 years ago. But also this looks great!

the whole essay is full of KO’s: “What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be.”

the leaf stalker

There’s absolutely no reason this isn’t currently the Rockets logo. The 25-26 Rockets uniforms look like the jersey a famous player would wear in an insurance commercial that didn’t clear the rights. Or the opposing team in Teen Wolf 3. RETVRN, Rockets! 12/x

Japanese maple glowing

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

My biggest conference win? Two people told me I smelled really good when I hugged them yesterday

“are you a Jackie or a Marilyn?” is so played out. We all really want to know if you’re a Lucretia or a Sarah Josepha? Love the ssaww swag this year 💕

if you’re looking for a social science read that’s v good, v depressing, and v infuriating may I recommend Jessica Calarco’s Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net

I feel like I am a professor in the same way that a dog is sometimes the mayor.

Wait why did the R candidate guy wear a red beret??

Congrats to Chuck Schumer on demonstrating pretty conclusively that his support and endorsement are completely irrelevant.

As the statement notes, learning management systems are a form of instructional infrastructure, and we know that the infrastructure and the environments in which we teach have directed impacts on learning. Every day, these virtual infrastructures slip further away from our instructional control. +

“Large Flowering Sensitive Plant” (John Thornton c. 1800) cracking me up as a title

at least four hilarious quotes in this piece

Decided: my winter 25/26 vibe is John Malkovich in this designer’s ad campaign

I’m sick so I missed my usual hike today, but some recent color show pics

This is literally just the ad campaign Ginsberg and Don Draper come up with to win the Jaguar account.

one nice thing about the scarlet letter is that it's not a story by an algorithm specifically for one child

Rumi braids, show out

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trick or treating with kid was cute, but I ended last night with my actual favorite Halloween tradition

Halloween ‘88, perfecting my Care Bear stare. The baby is my little sister, and today is her birthday!

a coke nail but for parmesan cheese

had to rush out of one thing on campus bc I wasn't prepped for class, except then I realized I locked my keys in my office once I got back to it, and this realization was accompanied by me spilling an entire cup of coffee on myself and the wall. It's going great.

And they're fucking dope. No reason for them to go this hard.

Pepita content

this morning I learned that Ethan Hawke directed Lisa Loeb’s video for “Stay”. Did everyone know this 90s lore?

very autumnal up in here, including a new kitten named Pepita

The old enchanted milk pail trick. Nice.

Good morning! The story of suffragette violence is wild, but very few records remain from the actual bombing campaign

the way I keep excitedly checking if this is out yet & have been since last winter (late November fyi)

I had a proud moment at a recent conference when, because I am always a woman with many large & brimming bags, someone asked me if I had ibuprofen because “it looks like you would.” And I did. also: band aids, bobby pins, tampons, sunscreen stick, hand sanitizer, paper soap leaves, etc etc

Thrilled to collab with @shoutyourabortion.bsky.social and the Hydra Mutual Aid Fund on this! If you live in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, you can visit this shiny new billboard (live on US-41 outside of Marquette), see a primetime ad right on your tv, and check your mail for a postcard from us!

all of the clothing being marketed to me rn looks like maternity clothing that I’ve seen photos of my mother in law wearing in 1981

new volume of College Lit, housed at WCU English

If you liked "S03 E02 | Wives and Their Authors: Elizabeth and Herman Melville, Literary Labor, and Women's Work" back in the day, you should read @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social's essay in the latest issue of @j19journal.bsky.social!

Donate to the Abortion Fund of Maryland, IMO: abortionfundmd.org/donate/

I'm wearing my Embiid hoodie today. I am full of hope.

hell yes, I love getting parking tickets at my workplace when I have already paid for a parking permit and park in an empty lot behind a building with no university signage 😎

new volume of College Lit, housed at WCU English

Associate Professor Dyan Neary of West Chester University hosted, wrote, and reported “The Preventionist” podcast.

I'm wearing my Embiid hoodie today. I am full of hope.