If you haven't read this yet, you really should.

A truth about me: I can hoop w/ my local old heads.

We thought we could master language and that hubris has destroyed all that was built of it

Students have such fascinating things to say about this novel of technophile chaos, geopolitical destabilization, censorship, class war, & misogynistic backlash. I wonder why.

"constitutional conventions have been abandoned. What if we decided to take tools out of toolbox on the 250th anniversary for 1 purpose: addressing challenges AI poses to fundamental law, consent of the governed, equal rights, life, liberty+the pursuit of happiness?" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

This is it. Today I start the last section of my last chapter of the #megatext book. It's focused on #Krakoa. I've been reading for this for six years. Let's go. #XMen

It feels like there should be something interesting to say about the constellation of Trump, Kimmel, Idiocracy, and The Man Show, but what that is, is beyond me.

Repealing the Endangerment Finding means declaring greenhouse gases harmless—despite what years of science and evidence show. I’ll keep fighting so our children inherit clean air, not pollution.

CW Job 👇

Robert Glück, pictured here, says "the history of arts organizations is so ephemeral." The new archive at Small Press Traffic, arranged for public access in the Mission, materializes the literary organization's history in Bay Area small press publishing. www.smallpresstraffic.org/archive/arch...

honestly i'm getting more convinced by the day

My latest book Mutations is out now from C22 Press @c22press.bsky.social! A collection of experimental prose pieces and stories. Read for free or buy in print! c22press.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/m...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

In denial of everything else that is happening, and/or to counter it, can we take a moment to reflect on how an awful situation (teaching remotely because of covid) left behind a WEALTH of resources online that continue to be amazing to use? Thank you everyone!

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Reading books is becoming an act of resistance.

today in faculty work under authoritarianism: not one but two meetings on same day w PhD students about their departure, emigration, exile from the U.S., how to finish dissertations, how to never return, how to renounce citizenship, how to mourn student visas, how to find a life elsewhere

"It’s all right there: a metastasizing security and surveillance state that transmutes suburban boredom into organized sadism; a predatory platform economy that produces nothing but data deliveries for the repressive state while making life unaffordable...." brooklynrail.org/2025/09/fiel...

Reading well is extremely difficult. It's too bad we're abandoning our collective faculties for doing it!

In the denouement of my biopunk novel, the evil tech billionaire falls into a plastic remediation tank and is eaten alive by millions upon millions of wax moth larvae. www.wired.com/story/could-...

Sure.

Quick reminder: Writing is labour Rewriting is labour Editing is labour Reading is labour Teaching is labour Syllabussing is labour Thinking is labour Academic work is labour

Writing the last chapter of my megatext book on the X-Men and now that I have the first two out of four sections complete, it's gonna be sweet smooth close reading sailing from here. The most enjoyable kind. X-Cutioner's Song and Krakoa. IYKYK.

Presented to full faculty & academic affairs staff today on the subject of private equity takeover of our LMS. There were some mildly conflictual moments, but great discussion. Every institution is different. A large gathering like this isn’t always realistic. But we need to have these convos NOW.

Reupping my favorite thing I've ever written, a 20K-word prose poem at @alwayscrashing.bsky.social! www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

hopefully of use in this time suck against-a-i.com

We're also funnier and better dancers, and have a pleasing natural odor share.google/ZQAeU29ypR4B...

Wow, thanks MLA: Thursday first thing AND last thing Sunday.

This piece thrilled us from the moment we opened it. This is the sort of huge, fantastic ambition and brilliance we're always hoping for anytime we dive into the submissions pile. We want to be blown away, and this does it

"There were reasons. Now we have space for it." >>> NEW TODAY AT AC >>> A wall of text for a wall of sound, Bradley J. Fest's (@bradleyfest.bsky.social) massive, sprawling, architectural poem "Postrock"

Today's AC email edition features new work by @bradleyfest.bsky.social, something from the archive by Dana Raja Wahab, updates on Javeria Hasnain, @badbadpoet.bsky.social, @neonpajamas.bsky.social alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com/p/depart-and...

It would only be possible to describe @bradleyfest.bsky.social's Postrock as "epic," both in its scope but also our modern sense of GREAT. I've gotten to spend some good time with the poem/ms this summer and am very excited to see the poem out in the world! www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

I am beyond delighted that my long poem, “Postrock,” is now in @alwayscrashing.bsky.social. I am forever indebted to @inauthenticity.bsky.social and the other editors of AC for their ongoing support of my work. www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

Criterion invites me to their closet. I walk in and, winking to the camera, pull down on a director's cut, R-rated copy of Three Ninjas. A secret door slides open, and I step through into the darkness. The shelves slide shut. I am never seen again

I wish books would become the fashionable thing all the young people are into.

Trump says he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever. (video: @factpostnews.bsky.social)

This academic year, call out tactics from the CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual each and every time someone attempts one in a meeting✨

Super important.

If this catches on the whole thing falls apart.

This whole website is making me feel less alone in my resistance to AI in my classroom. This page in particular is legitimizing what was previously feeling like a personal rant I was going to make my students sit through… against-a-i.com/first-day-sp...

Corporate AI “Expert”: Our chatbot has a PhD in everything & by 2027 will cure cancer, end war, & replace workers in every industry! Non-Profit AI Expert: If we don’t regulate this chatbot now, it will kill us all by 2030. The Chatbot: The butter is a spoon. Kneed it. Now add motor oil. Enjoy!

post-apocalyptic scholarship would have so many gaps in the literature

We’ve already surpassed our entire 2024 total sales, and it’s only mid-August 2025. Thank you for helping us grow faster and further than ever before. Every repost, every conversation, every poem you share makes this possible. 🖤

"It seems to many professors of the humanities that 'fiscal crisis' has become a pretext for far-reaching changes that are not necessary so much as desired by university leaders... 'Even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power.'"

A rational response to AI might be—we can’t anticipate what the market or its necessary skills will be in five or ten years, so we ought to ensure our students are capable of thinking critically and developing the lateral thinking that will enable success whatever comes, rather than blind acceptance

Reading and thinking about the Krakoan #X-Men a lot and so am revisiting this thing I wrote years ago on Jonathan Hickman's Th Manhattan Projects. bradleyjfest.com/2013/12/20/i...

the costs are immense, and the promise is asinine