In a world aswirl and aflame, how can you make sure your top priorities can get the necessary energy and time? I go back to my research, and keep asking the basic questions. It's my respite, and it helps! karinwulf.com/trove/how-is...

"The strike is mostly led by immigrant workers," union leader Kim Kordova says of the historic JBS strike in Colorado. "This workforce is made up of workers that speak around 57 different languages from all over the world, doing this really important work, feeding our communities."

sitze heute lange in der bahn, ich hätte also zeit, für jeden fav einen hot take rauszuballern

Perhaps most excitingly for me I am now on record — in a peer reviewed UP published journal — as saying that scholarly publishing is not SLOW but rather SOCIAL! Cite me! Put it in your email signatures! “As Rebecca Colesworthy argues…”

The essay is dedicated to Alan and to my mom and was revised in a fugue state after she died in August (still feels so unreal to write that--it can't be true). I couldn't not finish it and have exactly zero idea how I did quite frankly. It was the culmination of too many yrs of thought & frustration

Another reason I wrote it is because Victorian Poetry, the journal, was the home of the one essay published by my grad school comrade and friend, Alan Young-Bryant, who died far, far, far too young and is dearly missed by me and others on here (hi @yblent.bsky.social & @docsthilaire.bsky.social).

@rcolesworthy.bsky.social turns to the uni press, whose workers have a shared stake in fields like Victorian poetry. Discussing fantasies of crossover success & the little book genre, she attends to manufactured amateurism as struc condition & collaborative affordance. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

I made this stained glass window 32 years ago, thought that I had lost it around 20 years ago, and it just turned up in a buddy's attic in Kansas City last weekend.

More unhappy about this two days later. I really resent Her’s ultra-vague take-no-positions campaign. If she was going to be this kind of mayor, she should have said so and tried to get elected to do this. Mpls elected Frey knowing he’d be like this, but STP? www.twincities.com/2026/03/30/s...

Our office filed felony charges against two bounty hunters who terrified community members in Minneapolis. The videos of their conduct, especially in front of city hall, attracted widespread attention. We will hold them accountable. MN needs legislation to regulate the behavior of bounty hunters.

György & Márta Kurtág performing Játékok in IRCAM back in the day… youtu.be/KDgJuvGOqy4?...

Ouch! www.twincities.com/2026/03/30/s...

« Avec l’aide de Dieu, nous tuerons nos ennemis » : Israël instaure la peine de mort pour les Palestiens accusés de meurtre « terroriste »

this is how you know your neighborhood is gentrifying

When this is all over and we’ve had the trials and the sentencing this sacred bit of cardboard should be framed and mounted in the National Gallery of Art

Thanks for the memories, Taix. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

There's plenty to object to in the details if one is so inclined, but if we don’t like Kant’s plan for peace, and we’re not openly discussing the conditions we think WOULD make peace on earth possible sometime in the future, what are we even doing here?

🎶 Tomorrow there’ll be more of us 🎶

Happening now: a small protest at O'Hare is marching through terminal 1 this evening outside Chicago. ICE agents have been spotted inside the airport all week. Folks chanting, "ICE out of O'Hare! ICE out of everywhere!"

Nonprofit landlords who opposed temporary pre-eviction notice extensions are contributing to increased eviction filings in Hennepin County: Aeon & Alliance Limited Partnership (LP associated w/ Aeon) each filed 5 evictions yesterday. Appears they're responsible for ~41 filings in just March alone.

Gamifying sewer socialism.

wow turns out he was right, our apologies

Returning to this thread because I’ve noticed that when the titles of my articles are written by others, they make it about Gen AI or LLMs. But I research computer vision, and that’s what I write about. Not Gen AI.

Maybe they shoulda gotten Gibson to choose the colors. This looks like a very SoCal color palette. fristartmuseum.org/article/jeff...

Should we all reintroduce our baseball allegiances for a quick refresher? No explanation. 1. Dodgers organist 2. Arkansas Travelers 3. Mighty Casey

just one moment of celebration for getting a major donor to move $3 million dollars this week to rent funds now if only there were more than one generous super-wealthy person and the news hadn’t moved on from this entirely predictable crisis

This was fascinating. See Thomas Campion's "Rose-cheeked Laura": "ever in them- / selves eternal." I wrote about this in my last book. A student of mine just wrote his honours thesis on Creeley's hyphenated line-breaks. Please write an article on this.

John Hollander, '"Sense Variously Drawn Out": on English Enjambment' (reprinted in Vision and Resonance) has an example from Jonson: Where it were friendships schisme, (Were not his Lucius long with us to tarry) To separate these twi- Lights, the Dioscuri; And keepe the one halfe from his Harry.

I wrote about one of the most important questions of our time: what's going on when poets use a hyphen across a line break?

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Drop-in sign-making station for #nokings. Today 6-7:15 Thursday 4:30-6:00 Rome Ave at Howell Ave in St Paul (Highland). Posters and markers provided while they last.

Analogocentrism (vinyl, print, etc) is this anything

This typographic cover/homage to @uminnpress.bsky.social ‘s Theory and History of Literature series is 12/10. Congrats to all involved—look forward to reading this asap

After Corinthian College closed, we bought their entire debt portfolio — more than $13 million — for one dollar. Yes, a single dollar — because when borrowers are unlikely to pay their debts, that’s all these portfolios are really worth.

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

People are taking unusual measures to the thwart the scourge of AI

Don't leave Don't leave To come so close to offer this Don't leave, won't leave And the screen says, "Stay," every time The image it plays in my mind And we say Grace Every time we're in this place Is it mine in the mirror? Is it mine or the mirror that we make? .

it’s Frank O’Hara’s 100th birthday on Friday. What are YOU doing to celebrate???

It's not the icy bike chain rain of Portland, Oregon

Ne soyez pas découragé par la neige... le printemps va finir par arriver! Mais moi, je ne pouvais plus attendre, j'ai déjà chaussé mes sandales! 🩴😆

Hell yeah 😎

A federal judge has ordered the restoration of Voice of America and the more than a 1,000 employees who were fired by MAGA lunatic Kari Lake back to work by Monday after the judge ruled it was illegal. Another huge loss for the MAGA regime and a win for democracy.

Remembering Josef Albers on his birthday 🎂 📷 Yousuf Karsh, 1966 "He has come down in many art history accounts as a theory-bound puritan, but in reality he was a besotted lover, obsessed, as lovers are, by a single object of desire, which in his case was color" - Holland Cotter

Josef Albers teaches a class at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, in this witty photo by Genevieve Naylor. He taught there from 1933 to 1949. His students included Ruth Asawa, Ray Johnson, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Elaine de Kooning & Susan Weil. What a wonderful photograph!

Seeking recommendations for narrative theory by/about non-Western writers to fill out approximately 1/3 of a narratology syllabus. This is a huge blind spot for me, so no suggestion is too obvious (or too obscure). Any ideas? #narratology #academicsky

Textbook mission creep

The best thing I've seen in a while. Kinzie and Leamington, Chicago.