Rolling into the Met Gala

The Indian elections—rife with intimidation, removal of eligible voters from rolls, possible fraud in vote counting— are the future for the US.

bolsonaro quietly seething that giuliani gets to be in the hospital

he's been rushed to johns hopkins landscaping

America's Corpse.

Traveling to North America is wild. It’s been Saturday for me for 30+ hours.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Canada! Here I come. ❤️❤️❤️

"Indiana Jones' Last Adjunct of Doom"

“Asked on Wednesday morning what he would say to Charles if they were to spend time together beyond the ceremony, Mamdani said: ‘If I was to speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond.’” [cue dhol, cue elephants]

I was spelling my address to the bank and said “new word” which apparently they thought was part of the address and not a spelling instruction.

Lookout HK. I got me a driving license (that I won’t use here)

I was not familiar with their game

More video games should have spin-offs where their characters race go-karts

I have been searching a primary text for a citation for something academics have been repeating for years. Guess what? One guy 70 years ago got a detail wrong. AI is going to keep repeating that mistake.

Men: you should smile more Woman smiles Men: look at this angry woman

I now require students to add a hyperlink to the actual article. Journals should be requiring this as well.

So who was Wolf Blitzer rambling about earlier? A secret security detail?

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

They caught us. We have the “cushy” jobs in industries that have been bleeding people such as academia, tech, and the public and non-profit worlds.

To be a member of the 1 percent in any state in the union, a person needs to clear more than $400,000k annually, minimum. So why does your story conflate 1 percentership with making a minimum of $100,000? The whole premise of your argument is ludicrously dishonest. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/i...

An already unacceptably right-leaning press corps is gearing up to go further right because a bad thing almost happened near them; they were in that position to begin with because they decided access to fascism is more important that accurately describing it

This headline makes me so glad I don’t have to read these reports from people who just tap out what other people say and have zero idea how to do actual reporting.

I never ever want to hear again about how right wing comedy doesn't exist

Lmao at weijia jang using trump's big dumper as a human shield as he falls & eats shit

Israel alone killed over 75 journalists in 2025, something many of the people I'm currently reading breathless posts from have still said nothing about.

The Access of Evil

That’s so frustrating! I learned to knit and crochet on YouTube by videos by sweet old ladies.

Overall, I think we should lean into more descriptive names for manuscripts! I'm currently teaching a seminar on British Library Additional MS 37049, a book that absolutely deserves a catchier title.

Hobnobgoblins

I was once in a hostel takeover. The Aussies threw a great party.

this post is warmly dedicated to everyone who bought an SUV 'for safety' www.transportenvironment.org/articles/eve...

I had always assumed the Mughal Empire’s emeralds came from Afghanistan and Pakistan since they’re mined right there but in fact they were importing them from the Americas!

Working on a last minute presentation on South Asian diamond myths for a conference in Canada and 100% working in the local angle.

I see a fuuuuuture where you will be wildly misinformed and thiiiiirsty from a lack of waaaaater.

Arrest men in flip flops

That's tens of thousands of authors whose submissions can be desk-rejected from here on out, leaving some more room for the rest of us. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In some Muslim-majority constituencies, almost half the voters have been deleted, including those who have documents to show they are born and bred Indian citizens and either they, or their parents, were on the 2002 voter roll, the cut off point for voter eligibility.

That’s a lot of money for a truly hideous chair.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

I want to do a brief 🧵 on my experience teaching a lot of conservative students at the university level. I am thinking about this issue as I am planning out the rest of the semester (ours runs well into June) My Main Point: It takes so much more work/delicacy to teach to conservative students. 1/

About 30 people clicked on this and for that I thank you so much.

What is your song when it happens?

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“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.” My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

Someone recently asked me if I would recommend doing a PhD in the UK. I couldn’t say no fast enough. It’s hard to meet people who want to become academics these days.

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.