In Canada at #MLA2026 and just royally freaked myself out looking up the weather back home in upstate NY (it's gonna be -17 this week!) until I realized that the temperatures were displaying in celsius.

Looking forward to #MLA2026. I'll be speaking on a panel and a roundtable : session 52, "Comics as Physical Objects," Thursday at 1:45; and session 602, "Aesthetics, Politics, and Ecological Overshoot," Sunday at 10:15. bradleyjfest.com/2025/08/21/m...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

That shrimp scene tho… 🍤🍤🍤

KSR on "futurecide" and what comes after, climate counter-aesthetics, and utopian directionality note that Futurę Histories now has a new channel specifically for its English language episodes!

What amazes me is how quickly people are losing either the confidence or the willingness to complete basic human tasks.

This. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...?

Why has my feed been nothing but "this is how many books I read this year" posts for the past few days?

what a shocking turn of events who could’ve seen this coming

Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.

Really enjoying watching Stranger Things b/c it's nice watching teenagers and young people do something that isn't looking at their phones.

We really need to bring back a focus on reading comprehension

bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression

As 2025 draws to a close, I just want to reup the thing I am the most proud of ever writing: "Postrock," which @alwayscrashing.bsky.social published in August. www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.

This is one of our favorites!

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

It would perhaps surprise no one that I was raised with public radio as the background noise to my daily existence, so it was a singular delight getting to go on NPR to talk about Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol omny.fm/shows/in-the...

This summer, Sony Pictures Animation invites you go on an epic journey of NUMERIC proportions. Chris Pratt Tom Holland James Corden Sydney Sweeny And Jack Black Six Seven: The Movie

Continuing to stand by our self-description as "Not Paris Review, but close enough"

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

How to fix soccer: 1. The field is too big, shrink it. 2. Too many players on the field. Limit it to two. 3. Paint the field in a black-and-white grid. 4. The ball is replaced by pure positional advantage. 5. Pawns everywhere.

My gut says that this will go down with the National Geographic “the mixed races person of the future” cover as a regrettable artifact of limited imaginations.

Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand. Take notes, college presidents.

Doubly offensive because the architects are never the ones sitting out on the beam

I have learned this again and again over the past few years.

Give it up, Sub-Subs!

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

To review: Sincerely : formal Best : neutral All the best : positive All the very best : can we be friends??? Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee

This Saturday! With readings from Moni Garcia / @annekyoder.bsky.social / @neonpajamas.bsky.social + performances by Twilight Furniture / Jacob Stovall / Wolf3000

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

It sure is my favorite time of year: poetry rejection season!

BANANAS that academics make their single busiest month of the year (finals, grades, next term advance advising, syllabizing, letters of rec) coincide with the single zaniest month of the year for women-types (shopping, baking, gift wrapping, decorating, hosting). conclude fall term in january!

Who has made this 🤣

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/

Crooning: I'm . . . dreaming of a . . . Hare . . . Krishna, just like that one guy I used to know.

It's the year 2077. All movie studios belong to Netflix. Cinemas only play trailers for their streaming catalog. Every franchise is canceled after two movies/seasons, on mandatory cliffhangers. Nothing from before 2002 is available. Owning physical media is punishable by death. Netflix is love.

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high. This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.

Now that Netflix is buying Warner, I hope they finally open that water tower to find the bodies of all the Animaniac’s victims

This headline is the end of civilization.

I've seen "Children of Men" in a theater and 3-4 times again on smaller screens and no other movie has stayed in my dreams like that. I really think it's the greatest film of the century so far.

Reading Overshoot and goddamn is it depressing. Is there any way of changing anything ever? www.versobooks.com/products/313...

Also . . . the book is done. Hopefully more soon.

Mono's new live album is PHENOMENAL! @tempresltd.bsky.social Can't wait to watch it. monoofjapan.bandcamp.com/album/foreve...

I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that