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Yall. You are going to want to do this!! Virtual Smash Authoritarianism Summer Camp. One week. Evenings. Pay what you can. funraise.org/give/States-...

The PWHL expansion announcement is exciting (and I hope there will be more announcements soon), but didn’t answer either of the questions I have: what’s the team name and who’s the coach????

The Slightly Peckish Caterpillar 🐛

I’m not a Montreal fan, but I AM a Laura Stacey fan, so this is brilliant news!

AHHHH it's happening!

Damn.

Curriculum.

What started as a joke tweet became an AAR paper, and is now the most fun article I have ever written. Thank you @dialoguejournal.bsky.social for giving it a home, and elevating it with truly the most camp images. I am so excited to bring these glistening and brawny men to the queer studies issue!

All the players in the @thepwhl.com who rock up to game days with their biceps on display? Y’all are doing the lord’s work. Keep it up, besties! 🫡🫡

Found the buttons to disable generative AI in Adobe Reader (acrobat>preferences>generative AI) and the Adobe Chrome extension (three dots at top>preferences>generative AI). Now I no longer have to be annoyed at Adobe asking if it can do my reading and synthesizing for me!

Arthur's friend Buster has a King Lear lunchbox and I have.... questions

The Grand Canyon isn’t worth seeing. It’s just a big hole in the ground.

Faculty meetings are the deepest circle of hell; pass it on.

Of COURSE this game went to overtime. And OF COURSE overtime is going to a shootout. Let’s go, @newyorksirens.com!!! WEE WOO!!!

I’m just really excited to be watching the @newyorksirens.com play the @seattletorrent.bsky.social at freaking MADISON SQUARE GARDEN tonight!!

Can confirm that @pointslikeaman.bsky.social (and newly-minted Dr. @aelagrand.bsky.social, who created it) is excellent!!

Oop, casual inbox zero on a Friday!

High speed rail, the NEH, and a house with a secret bookcase-door-room situation.

So, um, I've just fully planned and prepped my first (of three) fall classes. 😬 To be fair, this is the class I've taught most often and I'm not changing much this time around, so recycling lectures and powerpoints is easy!

A thing I have noticed in the wake of the misogyny at the Olympics is that PWHL players are showing up at lots of men’s hockey games, usually with much fanfare by the hosting team. But what is NOT happening is men’s hockey players showing up at PWHL games.

Kelsey is my colleague! Look how cool and smart she is!

Clocking out for spring break and have also just achieved inbox ZERO. This is nothing short of a miracle!

This game is taking years off my life omgggggggg (I hope Canada wins!!)

Hey if your kid is taking an online class that uses Honorlock proctoring, please PLEASE complain to the school. It accesses the student's video, mic, and files, requires a photo of the student and A FULL VIDEO SCAN OF THE STUDENT'S ROOM for their AI. If the Epstein files teach you nothing else!

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Happy birthday Tula-Tu! This petite party pachyderm is 1 today 💖

Hockey hack: when you remember you own a hot water bottle you can zip into your jacket 💪🏼💪🏼

1. Intro to Chimp Behavior (Science) 2. History of Jazz & Rock (Music) 3. Comedy Writing (English) 4. Playwriting (Theatre) 5. Protest (PoliSci)

Perhaps lost in all the other terrible news: Today the United States formally withdrew from the World Health Organization.

Fucking HATE it when a transphobe scores the first goal of the night against my team. 😒

The national archives finally sent the requested paperwork, and now, THIRTY YEARS after she was buried, my mother’s headstone will bear her military rank. Fucking finally!!

First day of the semester so of course I inexplicably woke up at 4am. Sure.

Former SOUTH PARK writer Toby Morton got an angry letter from Trump’s lawyers because he registered the Trump-Kennedy Center domain names (check out www.trumpkennedycenter.org 😃) and his response is 100% Pure 2026 ⭐️

Only time I’ve ever needed stitches was because of a paper cut. 🤣

I served a cucumber sandwich to Krist Novoselic when I was ~17.

The Seattle-New York game has been thrilling so far and we’re only through the first period!

That Boston v Ottawa finish was thrilling!

Spending my evening as our lord and savior Christine Baranski intended, by rewatching all my gay hockey boyfriends and their gay hockey boyfriends.

Okay, all my spring courses are prepped, lesson planned, and powerpointed, which means! I can take a beak! Until next year! And then come back and finish revisions on my book before the semester starts!!

The inspiration ➡️ the result. Been thinking about this one for several years and hyped to finally have it!

Okay, fall grades are in and I have a complete syllabus for one of my three spring courses (women's resistance literature). Now I get to do the fun work of lesson planning and powerpointing that course before moving to the next one!

It costs so little to believe in one’s students. And when students feel supported and encouraged, they do magnificent work. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

I cannot believe how cool this blogpost is. This post will end all posts. Everyone can stop blogging now

I’m a graduate of an arts program here and am alarmed by the new president’s actions. Please read, sign, and share!

Started my disability lit course today with the news about Alice Wong. 💔