I would also like to be on your podcast I can talk about: fundamentalist christianity neonazis sandwiches gay romance polar exploration research methods/literary criticism whaling smut gender the normal stuff

i need a Catalán speaker to help me out with a few passages from a book I need translated no im not diving too deep into mayonnaise history shut up

The war in Iran can only be considered to be going well if you're a fucking idiot who has never looked at a history book or gas prices or listened to a politician speak or considered that there's a whole workd beyond the inside of your own asshole, where your head is clearly stuck.

We bombed an elementary school, Bret

(I got another research grant for next year and I am still flabbergasted and honored and so damn excited)

Matt Walsh is a racist traitor, as is everyone else calling to rehabilitate Robert E. Lee.

LIVER MUSH IS FRIED PATE, DON'T BE FUCKING ELITIST ABOUT FOOD

I'm doing a Shakespeare play (cameo role as a guest artist at my uni's production) for the first time since Tulane, when I did Cymbeline in 2004, and I'm feeling very, very nostalgic for that time and for all the people I knew in the theater department then...

Sometimes I forget how many people follow me and then I say something that becomes miniviral and then I remember.

...65k is what I'll make next year as an Associate Professor who is going up for full, teaching a 4-4 base load.

Why do people pretend to be stupid? I've never met someone whose job, generally and/or as intended, felt impossible to understand. This isn't a real thing.

Our (@mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and I) book GAME STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD is officially OUT everywhere in the world except the US for some reason. So here is an actual thread about why we wrote it and what we were trying to achieve with it.

I lost my jobs, my kids have measles, I can't afford steak, and gas is $5 a gallon. But at least now there's a statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House grounds.

Kids, did you know that before the internet, it was highly unusual to see a real person die on video? They used to have urban legends about it, they called them "snuff films." Now we get autoplay videos of exploded soldiers and bloody mass shooting victims beamed right to our pockets.

If you raised your child to order cheeseburgers at sushi places as a 20 year old, you're a douchebag. Why would you brag about being such an asshole that you replicated the douchebaggery?

If you are a Democrat voting for Trump nominees at this point, you are a Republican.

#MedievalSky I received a very important announcement today. Feminae, the bibliographical database on medieval women created and run by Margaret Schaus for the past couple of decades, is going offline as of 1 April. Download as much as you can ASAP: inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/Adva...

The best way to get good cheese in the United States is to board a plan and go to France and hop on a train out of Paris and stop in any town and ask at the first fromagerie you find what the best local cheese is and eat that.

What an incredible story: Meatpacking workers who speak 57 languages are ON STRIKE against the behemoth JBS in Greeley, CO. Reminds me of historical accounts of the Lawrence, Mass. strike of 1912, where workers spoke dozens of languages, and often sang to communicate.

*salutes beaver comrades*

In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University:

Basically the shifting goals means Iran won, and I don’t say this flippantly

this is going to be an evergreen skeet, isn't it

The blood of the US soldiers who will die in an invasion of Iran lie at the feet not just of Trumo but of the entire Republican party for having surrendered governing for the sake of cowardly sycophantism to a degenerate king.

Gambling website ads make me ready for Western civilization to be ground into the dust of history.

This shit basically makes them the Phoenix University of chasing a career field to create a reason for a degree. Abolishing Fine Arts in favor of a BA in Influencing is gonna make me The Joker.

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

Historian here with some basic facts for Lindsey: The US suffered almost 29,000 total casualties at Iwo Jima; Japan almost 20,000.

....everything feels like its on fire most days, but the last couple weeks have had a series of professional successes. I wish my dad was still here so I could tell him about them, but I can hear him laughing delightedly in my head, and I know how incredibly proud he would have been.

I already have 4 books projects lined up but the desire, every time I'm invited to give a formal talk on my public writing, to write a book on how the contemporary Christofascist movement is just the sequel to @kathleenbelew.bsky.social 's brilliant Bring the War Home, merely post-9/11, is strong.

While I'm trying to say something about DHS Instagram posts that isn't simply "what the actual fuck," what's your current guilty pleasure music?

Trying to write about Christofascism in DHS while high on allergy meds is a TIME.

Is the first slide in my talk this week the Pepe Silvia meme? Yes.

What if my sinuses wouldn't see nice weather and decide I must die rather than experience it?

I am baffled by the people who are saying this would be hilarious and that he should do it. Did you read it? Do you think ICE agents harassing brown and Black people at airports would be fun and funny? Because I don't. We shouldn't be intimidated by his threats, but we shouldn't be callous either.

People were fired for being insufficiently mournful over the death of a man who built an organization specifically to get them fired. The President can cheer on the death of civil servants and everyone will act like it's fine. Foucault may have been a douchebag but everything IS power dynamics.

Man, Donald Trump sure is exactly who he is, huh?

Please kill me

re: chuck norris

Still figuring out what’s next. But I will say: To any candidate who wants help setting up a new style of campaign, who needs advice on integrating mutual aid in their operations, who has questions about any weird, fun, unconventional part of our race, I would love to talk. Let me know.

I need to finish this chapter draft today so I can finish next weeks talk tomorrow so I can perform in a play next weekend so I can do a manuscript review by the last day of the month.

I continue to be mad about how video games mistreat the Haudenosaunee: an essay.

this is particularly egregious because first and foremost, mullin really *is* dangerously unqualified for this job, but also because fetterman was the deciding vote, rand paul wanted to nuke mullin from orbit and would have done it

Bush sr literally threw up in the Japanese PM’s lap and it wasn’t as bad as this.

It's a writing day with @tlecaque.bsky.social which feels like a good reason to also make corned beef reubens with malt vinegar chips. At some point we'll break out the whisky, but we have to hit some word counts first.

Sometimes I get very focused on my day to day problems and then I poke at the government accounts and remember that we're being run by the Second Klan.

In case you haven't experienced it lately, I'm rereading @jeffsharlet.bsky.social 's Undertow and I'm getting to experience what a good writer he is again, and you should give yourself that treat.