More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

Woke up thinking about Blue Prince puzzles again. Love/hate how easily my brain is nerdsniped by a good mystery.

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I have multiple cis-men in my freshman comp class arguing that Drake won the rap battle, which just seems culturally, socially, and literarily (and legally?) incorrect.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

"Bella Ciao" was also featured in Far Cry 6, in addition to Hearts of Iron.

Speaking of which, we never did figure out why the guy who shot at Trump did it, did we? Bet the FBI is working hard to clear up that mystery.

It's like we've all been preparing for the slow decadent decline of empire and not the swift violent collapse.

Read this whole thread because sometimes when folks hear “race is the key” they forget it’s how White people manipulate other white people

I keep saying this. The Right fundamentally are *not* hypocrites. They believe in double standards. For them, double standards are correct, inevitable, and desirable, because the idea that certain groups are better than others and should therefore have more rights is the basis of right-wing ideology

Coming back to teaching writing after a few years and my students are using AI for both the reading and the writing and don't think there's any problem with that. I don't want to set an adversarial tone by fighting them every day, but I also don't want them to fail to learn basic critical thinking.

In the years since I pulled my poetry book from that shady publisher I've seen so many other books from people I've worked with find good homes and acclaim. I'm happy for them, and also sad that I still haven't been able to do that for my manuscript.

This is appalling. As I've said before, giving DL control of an annual anthology for 35 years was a mistake. BAP is a deeply reactionary project thru which DL launders his ideology (& ego!) via a rotating cast of "ecumenical" editors. It's an unequivocal good that this year's edition is the last.

Four years after handing in my dissertation, I sent the second draft of my academic book, Epic Black, back to @dukeuniversitypress. There's too many people to thank on this journey so I'm just gonna go out and try to get some sun.

I've noticed a tipping point somewhere between 12 and 24 students where the vibe goes from an engaged and interested community to a group of suspicious and defensive strangers. Is this just a human thing or can something be done? #teaching

I spent the 2010's arguing with my white colleagues that we were facing a crisis in newsroom diversity. The smart, dedicated, talented cis white journalists I thought of as my friends didn't want to hear it. Most of them ignored me. At least one of them told me to go to hell.

Sounds like the real problem is pay and work

I'd like to thank the universe for dropping a new Goldfrapp album on my birthday 🎂

Back in the day I only used Steam to play silly coop games that cost ~$4. Then I bought Sunless Sea and played it for 150 hours.

As a scholar of contemporary lit I don't do a lot of archive work. But I do sometimes have to track down that one edition of that one book from a shady independent publisher that doesn't send copies to libraries, all because there's an essay in there by a critic who won't answer their emails.

Best part is, the gremlins aren't actually there to provide cultural enrichment. They're doing their own thing. And quite by accident, education.

Mebbe we... don't want robots? www.gc.cuny.edu/news/still-g...

Clair Obscur (2025) @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

Weirdest thing about finishing this academic book is thinking about how people are going to start referring to me by my last name. Maybe even making an adjective out of it. Shudder.

It's fine when nonprofits and lit mags seek un- or low-paid help but they should really feel more badly about it. I want to see open calls for interns or low-to-no-pay positions announced with some real shame and repentance.

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In going through my last notes for this book I accidentally started writing the next one. Help. #amwriting

I also played Clair Obscur every day this week but that is because I wrote every day this week.

I wrote every day this week. Lookit me. I think I have a solid pre-final draft of this manuscript. #amwriting

I shaved my chest for the first time in forever and now everything I do looks vaguely pornographic.

If I were a medieval serf I would feel zero responsibility for the sovereign's actions. But now, when my power and influence is 0.0001% greater, I feel intense guilt and responsibility. Our political system spreads out blame and culpability but not power.

This is “good girl” enablement 101. It’s not just fear, it malice and a crux of our past twenty years . This is someone who actually wants to see someone else suffer for being the way they themselves denied It’s a vicious form of respectability especially in immigrants And it’s violent

People keep saying "gamble" like there's an upside here. Like there's the possibility that Teflon Don will squeak a W out here like he does in court. Not thinking about the lives that will be lost. It's not a gamble. It's a reckless squandering of lives and material. And possibilities.

Some U.S. media (such as the Washington Post here) trace U.S.-Iranian animosity back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conveniently forgetting that the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected Iranian government in 1953, forcing Iranians to endure decades of the Shah’s brutal rule.

It would be so dumb to die in a retaliatory strike because the dumbest people in the world (rightly?) think they will never face consequences for their dumb actions.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

this is also not new. the Court's using the same argument for 'equal application' of interracial marriage bans then: *no* person can marry outside of their race, *any* person can marry within their race :) now: *no* kid can treat gender dysphoria, *any* kid can have hormones for other reasons :)

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

please someone make a No Tres Reyes poster with Trump, Bibi, and Putin.

I'm facing unemployment and losing my health care all while scrambling to finish an academic book that I have never and will never make any money off of. Things are bad for everyone, but it is distressing how academia was not designed for those without institutional or generational support.

In 2018, Donald Trump, then in his first term as US president, let Iran out of nuclear restrictions in exchange for nothing. Many people, very much including me, warned that he put things on a path with only two possible outcomes: large-scale war, or a nuclear-armed Iran. And here we are.

Trying to finish editing an academic book about protest while there's another L.A. uprising going on really encapsulates how pointless academia can feel in the moment. I'm trying to keep doing the work I can do, but it all feels so small and so easily coopted.

With the BET Awards happening in downtown LA, I was wondering who was going to say something first. Doechii really is that girl.

Damn #RIP "Sly Stone, the leader of the band Sly and the Family Stone, one of the most influential bands in the development of funk, soul, R&B, rock and psychedelic music, has died. He was 82." people.com/sly-stone-de...

AI is paying someone else to do your work for you, except now the techbros are paying for it, which somehow makes it seem ethical.

sure, jessica ramos went from calling andrew cuomo a sex past and calling on him to resign to endorsing him. but wouldn't YOU put YOUR soul on the line for the commissionership of the new york city department of health and mental hygiene or whatever

Happy pride! I just watched a guy in a black MAGA hat flip out on a hetero couple wearing rainbow gear for allegedly brushing past him too hard. Happy pride!

Sure Gatwa had two seasons but only 17 episodes! I feel like we got so much less of him than Eccleston even, who only had 13 episodes.