further down the GBV ladder, today listening to Roky Erickson’s ‘Gremlins Have Pictures’ (released 1986, but recorded ‘75–‘82. very good never would have chanced on this if Bob hadn’t cited it on a ballot of best rock albums.

COLONIAL NEGATIVES by Patricia Goldsworthy examines the intertwined histories of #French, Moroccan #Muslim, and Moroccan #Jewish photographers in establishing a #photography industry in #Morocco. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/ai0x50Yk7je

Future teachers appear to learn through observation and role modeling while still in school. Using teacher evaluations across generations, we show that transmission occurs through observable classroom practices but not written planning. 8/10

A teen (13?) is talking to his mum with UTMOST enthusiasm about recently seeing a bronze whaler shark while kayaking with a school group. In the face of Mum's horrified expression he says with painstaking patience: "Just because it's made of teeth, doesn't mean it's bitey." (4)

Last week I learned (from Tim Brennan’s biography) that Edward Said went to Mt Hermon for high school (same alma mater as my late friend Alan Young-Bryant) and get this: the principal/rector wrote him a letter of recommendation for his grad school application to Harvard English. Small world ;)

Great looking journal issue! 👇

I guess everybody better check any “Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf” files they have just in case.

Truly enormously excited for next year's cohort of GRI Scholars, particularly those on the theme of provenance www.getty.edu/news/getty-a...

they have to know that them learning is not a bother. we have to make sure

Rdg lots of stuff acknowledging mounting public *fear* of AI. Yes, I’m glad there’s more attention to the aversion — but it’s more than fear: it’s distrust, resentment, disgust, the Spectrum of Justified Bad Affect. “Fear” implies a phobia one can conquer with exposure, understanding, etc.

the sound of the future they are selling is this podcast generated from a blank pdf

#ICYMI "The revolution will not be televised (bc of the dildos)." Letterpress posters of antifascist quotes that @chebutykin.bsky.social remixed to celebrate the good people who've acquired cartons of expired dildos to throw at ICE. Various colors available, $5/print to MN mutual aid:

If these ideas are interesting and you'd like to know more, then boy, do I have the book for you! Along the way, you get to learn about some very colorful characters. Tomorrow, a little bit more about them... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

When our kids took school field trips to the pile dwelling settlements at Unteruhldingen they got to craft replicas of these knives. We still have them somewhere. Only drawback: the birch tar seems to ooze a bit over the years, so now we store them in a plastic bag. 🔪

“Cultural anxieties are often a privilege of the rich” —Mary Beard, SPQR

This is such a great conversation btw Gregory Sholette, Tom Finkelpearl, Tania Bruguera, Pablo Helguera, + Claire Bishop re: "how we study in public"; predictably, they focus on social practice art + say little about historical political education, etc — but still: lots of ⭐ institutional critique

There are so many great precedents + contemporary peers:

With permission from one of my habeas clients, I can share that the Bloomington Police Department is proactively cooperating with ICE to detain our neighbors. This is a screenshot of official ICE records which show that a BPD officer reached out to ICE to drop a dime on someone in local custody.

Wie eine Nachtigall mit Zahnschmerzen: my interview for WDR for Satie's 160th anniversary (I'm translated from English) is now available and is certainly a good workout for my German www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

On Vexations, written for today’s performance by Andrew Brixey-Williams in Ealing:

𝗠🅾️🅾️𝗗 ig: masquenpapiermache

Hoping to fill these in with one thinking prompt or fact per day, for June's Pride Month if I'm able to

“Custom floor-to-ceiling bookshelves line the living room walls, a feature he had installed to house his sprawling book collection . . . [T]he weight of his collection was so substantial that engineers were brought in to reinforce the flooring beneath it.” 📕 🍎 ❤️

This is a drop everything moment . . .

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

European here, what is tuition?

Delighted to say that my new album is released by @nmcrecordings.bsky.social today! Was incredible to work with @mknoop.bsky.social Plus Minus Ensemble, Spud Murphy & Andrew Weathers on this. Take a look see @cmcireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social seanclancy.bandcamp.com/album/se-n-c...

If you’re wondering why the mayor’s choice of Agape is so painful for those that know and love George Floyd Square. That’s who the mayor used to viciously clear it in 2021. sahanjournal.com/race/george-...

No pix of the helpers? “much of the tension was between government-backed marchers and members of a Jewish group, Standing Together, which had come to protect Palestinian residents from political violence…a record 400 volunteers had turned up in hi-vis vests” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

What a bummer, in 6 months, Northeast has lost Fair State, Headflyer, and Bauhaus.

i don’t take myself seriously, so my first urge is to make fun of the fact that i made the Time100 Philanthropy list. but i really am honored. not just to be on a fancy list (w/my buds Messi and Shakira) and have my work seen, but to have gotten to help people in the place i love so much

a kind bluesky patron offered to buy my flight to nyc for the time dinner…so I guess I am going to go after all 😭 probably still a pretty irresponsible trip with the quince 2 DAYS after but I feel like there may be dividends on being in a room of rich ppl that like to give their money away

Either all fx are special or no fx are special.

btw @ryancordell.org @literaturegeek.bsky.social (and others), I think this CFP re teaching presses is still open if you're interested link.springer.com/collections/...

This is shocking, solidarity with colleagues in Nottingham… www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Republicans removed every Black person in the Tennessee state legislature from every committee.

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Hey, Rebecca, do you know where I can get a copy of little known up-and-comer Friedrich Hölderlin's complete correspondence in English? SO GLAD YOU ASKED. Now out in paperback from @sunypress.bsky.social. 750 pages of translated epistolary awesomeness. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

OMG my Romantic Textualities special issue ‘Romanticism Goes to University’ is OUT www.romtext.org.uk/issues/issue...

FOIA Request Reveals Major Spike in ICE Arrests of Iranians Amid 2025 War on Iran “Many Iranians were arrested with little to no legal basis,” the report noted.

On radical Kant in the 1960s: "It's hard to conjure these leftwing students’ fascination with the arch-bourgeois Prussian philosopher except to say that theirs was no ordinary Kant, but the Frankfurt School’s Kant—a Kant mired in contradictions, whose unpacking promised to disclose something true"

Hard to pick one favorite but I really like JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound covering Wilco's "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK6V...

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI. That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself. I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student). www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...

the language of policy, testing, bureaucracy can obfuscate what’s elemental to public education—what adults owe children sometimes it’s important to put it plainly

Thomas Pynchon appearing on "The Simpsons" - BOTD

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...