Saw this fantastic production of Amadeus last week. The cherry on the top was how often the Salieri character shittalks Rossini. variety.com/2026/legit/r...

As an academic I have been silenced! Yesterday I taught three classes with a cold and now I have no voice.

Gorton and Denton? The Demon Barbers of Fleet Street? The No Win No Fee Workplace Accident Solicitor Firm? The scientific names for the upper row of teeth and the lower row?

A Taiwanese Lunar New Year dinner cooked by @fredchichih.bsky.social

Food prep for a belated lunar new year feast with @fredchichih.bsky.social

I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

jeans = 👖 genes = 🧬 Gene =

Just saw Hamnet. Give Jesse Buckley and Chloe Zhao the Oscar.

I'm just gonna leave this here. RIP to one of the greats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...

If you haven't seen this and need reminding of the goodness of people and the preciousness of ordinary life, please watch it #poets #documentaries

Holy hell, what an obituary

Or you can be remembered like this:

Just learned that most mulitigrain bread, rather than having as much wholegrain goodness as wholegrain bread, just in more variety, usually has less. Life is a series of small disappointments.

Reposting this because... yay!

Sitting in the dentist office. I already feel a whole lot better.

2025: anti‐pasteurization 2026: anti-pastoralism

First read of the New Year. Fierce and fearless.

Hubby @fredchichih.bsky.social has been baking for the neighbors and for a marathon mahjong game. He does the fancy French stuff.

2025 fiction reads and re‐reads, stacked roughly according to my level of enjoyment. Bainbridge, a delight; Murakami, not my thing.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

"while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid."

To new bluesky users:

Favorite Christmas Carol

Our jewishbuddhisttaoistatheist household takes Christmas very seriously. Happy holidays!

If this were the photo accompanying an article in the Onion, what would the headline be?

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...

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

#CompleteSibelius Op. 5, kuusi impromptua pianolle (1890-1893). Sibeliuksen pianomusaa ei ilmeisesti pidetä noin universaalisti erityisen suuressa arvossa. Mutta itse taidan diggailla. Onhan tämä numero viisi esimerkiksi aika pysäyttävä 3-minuuttinen.

Gillian Rose passed away on this day 30 years ago, at age 48. "[Rose] showed that philosophy could combine a search for the truth with the quest for a meaningful life." - Martin Jay

In the last week I've forgotten to do two fairly important professional tasks with embarrassing consequences and i really need this semester to be over

RVWs' second wife, Ursula, was a poet, writer, biographer and vital support to the composer in the years leading to his death. Her generosity paved the way for the creation of the Vaughan Williams Foundation. Find out more about her life & work here 👇

It's dire, but many students are skeptical of AI, resentful of the ways it has complicated their college experience, and frustrated by the mixed messages they receive from admin and faculty. Faculty should support students to resist the hollowing out of their education.

Orange is the new blimp

‘Posner and Vermeule argued that “public opinion” would act as the ultimate constraint on a wayward president. That seemed a tad naïve.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on post-liberal political theory. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Queen across the water

To celebrate the Supreme Court not taking that stupid case and also for the gays and the jews and the liberal intellectuals. Hit it, NPH. youtu.be/3BHyfYiBt5o?...

The reconquest is imminent!

#ResistanceRoots Dorothy Day was born on this day in 1897 in New York City. Day was a journalist and social activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement. She dedicated her life to serving the poor, advocating for social justice and pacifism and practicing nonviolent civil disobedience. /1

Govt: Tariffs are not revenue-raising. Best tariffs would never raise revenue because Americans would just stop buying foreign goods. Sotomayor: then why not just ban the imports, which govt clearly has the authority to do? 🤣

Says a lot when a self-promoting hack like Rick Grenell refuses to do interviews.

Tomorrow I'll be adding Frankenstein to the short list of movies I've seen on the big screen since Covid. The others are Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Poor Things. Cellphones in theaters have kept me away. Sad.

Rick Grenell and Bari Weiss - proof that being gay is no barrier to incompetence wapo.st/4oSB7VX

Just discovered these. They're very good.

For some reason I was reminded of this: youtu.be/gVfaf43W9cM?...

Just got to hear Gustavo Dudamel conduct Mahler's Resurrection symphony. Here's my favorite performance of my favorite part. Janet Baker mezzo, Bernstein conducting. youtu.be/K6MRfaA4n78?...

The great flapjack debate in which I feel deeply invested

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Shanah Tovah! youtu.be/0YONAP39jVE?...