Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧 The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement. May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.

Serious @premeemohamed.com and @gianttourtiere.bsky.social vibes

This three day weekend thing is awesome. We should do this more often.

Gentlemen, Valentine's Day is tomorrow, so please be mindful of whether your lady prefers gold or silver. If she only uses silver and you buy her a gold amulet, she'll be forced to recalibrate all her alchemetrics before she can harness its arcane power

Watching women’s super G and I have two thoughts. 1. This is a bloodbath, more than half a dozen skiers have crashed. 2. The male commentators just described one of the later starts as having “a great personality” and sirs what are you doing.

I know Valentine’s Day is wildly commercialized, blah blah blah. But I’d still like to have the experience of being involved with someone who makes the effort. Just once. Glad it’s a Saturday this year. Makes it easier to hide from it all.

@premeemohamed.com is Franca a wizard?

Too tired to sleep.

What’s with all the figure skating music with words this time?

Catching up on the team figure skating. Love it when nations we don’t see on the Olympic podium as often get real chances at medaling! Plus, Georgia has a full-size bedazzled flag. Can’t be mad about that!

I wonder what the audition process is like for Olympics MCs/DJs.

Plato is one of the most famous ancient philosophers of all time. He also thought there were more than 2 genders & homosexuality was normal — that's why Texas A&M wants to censor him. "How can a serious research university, an R1 university, censor Plato in a philosophy class?" — Martin Peterson

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

Oh good the trembling is back.

Really proud of our young people yesterday. Check out this article from Reno Gazette Journal: Students across Washoe County walk out of school to protest ICE www.rgj.com/story/news/2...

Five classes I took in college: History of the Waltz Wagner’s Ring Cycle and Lord of the Rings Statistics for Humanities Majors (yes, really the name) Stuart England History of the Reconquista

“No”

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

20. You'll all be relieved to hear that students who served in the Korean War could count that as P.E. credits.

Just a reminder, for no particular reason, that DHS has only existed since 2002.

The U.S. has successfully convinced its people that “the humanities are frivolous and STEM is Important and Real” is basically a law of nature: this is absolute nonsense that we should stop putting up with.

Are the humanities the only disciplines whose classes begin with modules speaking to the importance of studying the humanities? "Why study the humanities?" and "Why the humanities are important" must be cliches.

How about a scientifically-minded doggo? I think @premeemohamed.com could use an assistant.

Both a favorite tv podcast and a fantasy novel by a favorite author blatantly referenced Derrida today and I am *outraged.* Is nowhere safe?? #AcademicSky

I’m watching the David Tennant/Cush Jumbo Macbeth. It’s really not properly explained why Lady M goes straight to “right, so *stabby stabby* as soon as she hears about the prophecy of impending royalty.

So many rabbit holes.

My mom should’ve been 74 today. I’m doing everything I can to avoid lashing out with the pain I feel. Grief sucks.

Documentarian: Roger Mortimer joined forces with Queen Isabella… Me: is *that* what we’re calling torrid adulterous affairs these days?

I’ve got a couple giant stitching projects that have been in progress for about a decade. I just replaced the grime guard and the change in color dynamics is weirding me out.

For all of their Nazi “memorabilia” it’s clear that ICE has never actually learned about the history they’re trying to reenact. If they had, they wouldn’t be trying to occupy a famously cold territory in middle of winter.

My article is now at 7,999 words and I still have two sections to write. Even the Dean’s eyes widened a bit when I mentioned the scale of this project. NGL taking some real satisfaction from that. #AcademicSky

The national AAUP, alongside AAUP–Penn, joined a coalition of Jewish students and scholars to intervene in a Trump administration lawsuit seeking the University of Pennsylvania to disclose the private information of its Jewish faculty and students. Read our statement below.

Writing an article that’s looking like it’ll end up at 9-10k words. I never want to write something this long again. How do doctoral candidates do this??? #academicsky

I said no to something today. Please clap.

Fascinating how on social media you can tell who grew up on AIM and MSN messenger, just by how they present their posts. Posting sentences separately rather than paragraphs, mostly.

one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is

I was *this close* to starting the work year in a good mood.

On a zoom call and boy do I look exhausted and puffy today. Not great for the brainweasels.

Dear local quilting store, I’d love to take some of your basics classes, since I’m teaching myself via YouTube and blogs, if they weren’t all offered 2-5pm ON WEDNESDAYS. You don’t get to complain about younger folks’ non-participation. Grumpily yours, Another Overworked Millennial

2026 reading. Can I maintain a thread all year? Let’s find out. 1/1 - Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin. 1/3 - The North Wind, Alexandria Warwick 1/4 - The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow

You want to know what I did in 2025? I survived. I struggled through overwhelming to-do lists at work. I stayed curled in bed until afternoon on weekends, just staring at the stuffed animals next to me. I ate bags of popcorners on the drive back from the market. I got through it.

@alexstandardpod.bsky.social @rankingpersia.bsky.social

I can’t productively avoid writing this article anymore. It is not coming easily.

Dear relatives sharing this bathroom at my dad’s house: the shower has had a hair trap for 20 years. It works best if you clean your own hair out of it after use. Why do we have this conversation EVERY TIME WE VISIT.

Some people yell at movie or tv screens. I yell at nonfiction books. YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HAITI WHY ARE YOU BRINGING UP POTSDAM. (Am reading “Silencing the Past” by Trouillot, and feel both bored and cranky)

@premeemohamed.com Christmas beetle for you! Thank you for your delightful social media presence, and your weird, compelling books.

This might be the first time nobody’s given me a book for Christmas. Interesting.

Hard for Christians and ex-Christians to grasp sometimes, but "secular" and "culturally neutral" are not the same thing. I can celebrate a secular Purim with just cookies and gift baskets and costumes. It's still *Jewish*.