We've lost the plot, I fear

the Cocodona 250 livestream is getting me through this last week of instruction (maybe someday?) Also, always excited to see Courtney Dauwalter and Rachel Entrekin in the same race again www.youtube.com/live/0AKDZ_b...

happy chungking express day 🍍

Missing the May Day march because I have to attend a non optional AI event and department meeting really sums up the academic labor experience, doesn't it?

Wrote my first @leaflet.pub post: A brief assignment description for SJSU's Teaching with AI Faculty Showcase veelawson.leaflet.pub/3mklvbt2qkk2p #ainglish

#Caturday morning cartoons

The most recent meme in your camera roll describes your current mental state

May 7! Join author @hellobrittparis.bsky.social for a discussion of her book “Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up” with Mizue Aizeki, exec director of the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, and D&S's @anthrotechana.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/what-...

if I can't shoehorn another PCT attempt into the next five years, I'm going to go actually feral (I've been watching this year's thru-hiking vloggers again)

I've been trying to figure this out in my social media/digital rhetoric classes esp. as some students are shifting to radically anti-tech positions--it's hard to imagine feminist (in our case) tech futures together in class

Join us Wednesday for the first @folktech.bsky.social Showcase! Featuring amazing projects such as Roundabout, Semble, Mirlo, Flotilla, OpenHaven, Spacious, The Protopian Prize, Moss, Inkverse, The Governance Memory System, and more! Hosted by WorkAdventure. Register here: luma.com/h0o701wf

New for @404media.co - On Trans Day of Visibility, I went to an OpSec party that teaches trans people how hunt down their old data (to be less visible online) 🫥

I'm in an AI training and learning that some doctoral programs are shifting the weighted emphasis from written dissertations towards the oral defense in order to ascertain candidate's true understanding of their field. Plato vindicated after all?

From the CSU's systemwide survey on artificial intelligence: "About 80% of student respondents are not comfortable submitting AI-generated work as their own." But at the same time, "More than half of faculty respondents use AI to develop course materials" blogs.sjsu.edu/newsroom/202... #ainglish

find someone who looks at you the way Mushroom looks at a concrete balcony

Recently, I became the AI Ambassador for my department, so I made this @surf.social feed to curate news, research, & media about AI as it relates to writing I'm keeping it limited to orgs/institutional sources rather than individuals, but hopefully it's helpful to folks teachingai.surf.social

Alas, another day, another grant rejection 🥲

taking way too much psychic damage today [logged into LinkedIn]

Tapping the sign

A spring break project: using through my fountain pen inks sending notes to seniors through LettersAgainstIsolation.com. Today's ink is Ambiance, a mid-orange with chameleon shimmer, from the Teal Diamine Inkvent calendar.

"Print lasts, and in many cases lasts longer than the file formats of digital media. ... I’ve started my own cardboard box of trans zines, saving print ephemera from this time as an act of faith in the future of trans life." electricliterature.com/the-renaissa...

According to this, Canvas's IgniteAI Agent will handle "low-value" tasks: "The new technology...can automate 'low-value' tasks for faculty such as rubric generation, content alignment and discussion reviews." Those are not low value, they are essential pedagogical choices that define a class. (1/3)

I've been reading more horror books as a nice respite from The Horrors, & @steelhester.bsky.social's The Faceless Thing We Adore is possibly my favorite of the past year--cosmic queer horror & I couldn't guess the ending www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for...

Love to be surveilled while walking on campus 🥴

I stumbled across this talk/blog by @aendra.com on @leaflet.pub this morning, and this is exactly the kind of work I was trying to get at in my #4C26 talk--how do we build better, more resilient social media that can support us (esp. trans/queer people)? atprotocommunity.leaflet.pub/3mh7xu63f2c2...

So… I've been writing for about 18 years on the idea that if you somehow manage to make meaningfully conscious machine minds & then you treat them as tools, then you're enslaving those minds, and that's pretty messed up. And this ties into something else I've re-upped recently: LLMs can't say "No."

There are still some free books and stickers left to claim! ☺️ #4C26

Quote tweeting this from a conference in Ohio where I can't even check my DMs without verifying my age

I miss California already* *I'm aware of the Digital Age Assurance Act, but I think it's going to be impossible to enforce + is already receiving heavy criticism

Welcome to #4C26 and our first-ever CFSHRC Bingo! 🌈 Complete a full row, column, or diagonal to win 🌈 When you have a bingo, DM us here or on Facebook to claim your prize! (Read on for prize info!)

The Greatest Films of All Time (According to Trans People)! I polled more than 40 transgender and non-binary filmmakers, film critics, and cinephiles to find out which films trans folks connected to most. Check it out below!

The first PCT hikers of the 2026 season set off today, and I'm so excited to hear their stories + also so jealous. Record snow levels ended my 2023 thru hike early, but I genuinely think about that trail every day

DIY Methods, our little conference-by-zine about unconventional approaches to research, rises again! Maybe you'd like to make a zine on your weird/cool approach to methods, and receive a bundle of similarly weird/cool zines in the mail? Pitch submissions are due April 20th. diymethods.net

Just ordered some cookies to help Scouts from Ohio travel to Washington to hike the national parks 🏳️‍⚧️🏔️ As a former Seattleite and Girl Scout, I hope they have a great time www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans...

The clear answer here is papaya: it smells and tastes like a sweaty mango.

Calling all researchers. If you’re working w/ social media data, see what’s coming next from @Communalytic.org, our no-code research platform for collecting and analyzing discourse across networks like Bluesky, Reddit, Telegram, X & more. communalytic.org/2026/02/18/c... #academicsky #PolCom #PhDSky

Meanwhile at the #bm100

The 2026 Barkley Marathons began with one of the strongest fields ever. The starting field came from 15 Counties as well as 15 States, and included ten women. The course seemed not to care. Over 70% of the field is done. #BM100

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 6:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

seems a bit ghoulish to hijack an email thread about saving First Monday in order to promo your AI-reviewed "journal," but maybe that's just me

Pinging the #TeamRhetoric channel: Does anyone have an accessible reading about digital blackface? This is for a team of undergrad social media interns navigating meme culture.

1. History of Quantitative Thought (co-taught by a mathematician & philosopher) 2. Science & the Imagination (co-taught by a physicist & Romanticist) 3. Intro to Illustration <3 4. Methods in Biotechnology (made glowing, amoxicillin-resistant 🦠, very fun) 5. Also History of the English Language!

Boosting my own Feminist Connections ad with no shame--Anyone interested in a virtual writing group? 🧑🏼‍💻 (Google Form to share your own ad is in the quoted thread!)

Point Lobos shot in LomoChrome Turquoise looks like it belongs in ST:TOS

Today, I would like to present a deep dive into feminist history that got away from me. Like, really got away from me. It is about the futility of a politics of appeasement. It is about the unburial of a neglected feminist history. But most of all, it's about lesbian feminism, and sins unforgiven.

Bringing some #bloomscrolling to the feed with this rose from the community #garden plot.

I cried a lot playing @sunsetvisitor.studio's 1000xResist so it's a complex kind of joy, but it was also an incredible game/narrative. I've genuinely never played anything like it store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/...

Every year, I plan to knit holiday gifts for family and think "Surely this time I will have them all finished by November!" but, it's one week before USPS's ship-by deadline, and here we are, so this is my knitting update thread haha