So impressed with (most of) my students.

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

Hypothesis: All the least problematic presidents were only elected for one term.

This is embarrassing and infuriating on so many levels

They're gonna release 'ai' 'footage' of him doing stuff so they can pretend he's not dead.

I’m reading these John and Abigail Adams bios and they’re like “no, brother in law, I know you’re highly qualified but I can’t just appoint you to a government position, that would be corrupt”

The more I think about this, the more I love it. I don’t go to many conferences these days, but I’d be willing to spring for a bear costume for someone at the next one I attend if they’ll do this!

Guys they made babies perform oral sex on them and studied sucking responses and starved them to they would suck harder and then they ate them How is this real

Yes, I'm crazy but at least I'm trying

I feel like I am letting all my friendships die off b/c I’m too busy with school/work/parenting and I’m sick and I’m mentally overtaxed by the news… if you’re my friend and I’m neglecting you, I’m sorry! I love you! I’m just dead rn

Took one of those combined covid/flu tests and it says I’m fine 😆

‘An Illustrated Natural History of British Butterflies and Moths’ by Edward Newman. Figures engraved by George Willis and engraved by John Kirchner. London, c1870s. #insectart #naturalhistory #publishersbindings

I need a therapist specifically to help me live through the abusive relationship we're all in with the President.

I’m still quite sick and the work just keeps piling up like America isn’t being run by the world’s largest child sex trafficking ring

Taking an anti-vaccination stances against a treatment that saves the life of ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED KIDS and has no verified deaths involving healthy recipients is not just anti-science and anti-logic, it's evil. I have studied this disease too extensively to soften that word. It's just evil.

ICYMI: In 24 years, only 77 “illegals” have voted — representing 0.00000764% of total votes… And the research comes from the far-right Heritage Foundation electionfraud.heritage.org/search?combi...

From the excellent "Chess & Literature" exhibit at the World Chess Hall of Fame: - a "man vs nature" Moby-Dick set - a Master and Margarita set - Nabokov's chess novel and his book combining poems and chess puzzles - T.S. Eliot's travel set and puzzle notebook, both treasured heirlooms from his dad

For someone as concerned with being a manly man as Putin is, poisoning seems a strangely effeminate choice of taking care of his adversaries

Future officials at the Nuremberg Trials to each other: "So what did you do?" "Before this?" "Yeah." "I was a nurse." "Cool. I taught middle school." "Jan over there was a PTA volunteer, I think." "Oh, Jan. Yeah. Jan's good people." "Yeah." "So we're doing this at dawn?" "Yep." "Too long a wait."

PSA - I requested a certified copy of my birth cert to update my passport. My birth state had no record of me! When they finally found it, my name was wrong. A completely different middle and last name but tied to my parents. Women get your records now. Especially if you have a different last name.

Manhattan adorned in Valentine pink.

President Obama said aliens are real today, and hardly anybody is talking about it.

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵 academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

So basically, the Epstein Mafia will just kill you if they find you problematic. Or kidnap your mother.

There is no ethical use of gAI in public libraries either pass it on.

So yeah if you’re questioning whether you really want out of an unhealthy situation because you worry you’d be lonely on days like today, just remember that there’s actually love everywhere and that post-divorce life can be so much happier than pre-divorce life!

"...The [current presidential] administration has discontinued collection of or cut off access to an estimated 3,000 data sets." americanlibrariesmagazine.org/latest-links...

I know John and Abigail Adams had a relatively equal relationship for the time period but it sucks that for most of his children’s early childhoods, he was away while she raised small children and farmed. He came home and impregnated her at intervals.

Bill Siemering, founding program director of NPR, author of its mission statement, has asked me to inquire if any profs might be interested in a Zoom class visit? No honorarium necessary. Bill founded All Things Considered, Fresh Air, won a MacArthur, etc.

Guys what is going on with this brand design

“You’ll need a passport to register to vote. No. You can’t get a passport.”

The machine, in “organizing” your work, will impose a hegemonic structure on your work. It will literally force you into the paths of thinking and writing that are preferred by a power majority.

Assuming a machine trained on a massively cultural database shot through with inequality will not reproduce that inequality is magical thinking on a level that I’ve rarely seen.

"Made from thousands of recycled CDs that are wrapped around steel supports and placed on concrete plinths, these swirling, reflective spires directly reference skyscraper architecture." www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/tara...

The Boston Public Library unwisely made a wager with the Seattle Public Library over the results of Super Bowl LX. Now, thanks to the Seahawks’ win over the New England Patriots, Boston readers are getting a dose of Seattle culture.

This GFM is closed now. +1M for Renee’s wife & son. But you MUST read the letter from her wife. It is a beautiful tribute to Renee.

This week, I was like, "wow it's cold outside but my house is so warm, that's so weird" but today my fever broke and it actually is cold. It wasn't warm. I was warm. Life hack: get the flu, save money on the heating bill?

This is bad However All the billionaires moving from CA to FL to escape the billionaire tax can now get measles! Or eaten by alligators or snakes! And they have all conveniently bought houses on the same island.

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

AI in education is like hey, all these people are jumping off a cliff, don't be scared, don't get left behind, be a leader And I'm like no thanks, I'm good, I have different ideas about leadership

HASSAN: DHS officers have killed two American citizens in Minnesota this year. What were their names? LYONS: Renee Good and Alex Pretti HASSAN: I'm glad to hear you say their names. Because so far this morning, as well as in 3 hours of testimony Tuesday, you failed to say their names a single time

I want to read another John Adams bio to see if I still feel this way, but after the McCullough bio I feel like Adams was redeemable, even admirable, which is odd given the time period. I think his biggest blind spot was his friendship with TJ, who was an absolute piece of shit.

“Having failed at nearly everything he ever tried, he had lately been elected to Congress.”

The house passed the SAVE Act last night. If you need to know more about why that’s bad and why we need to stop it in the senate, let me explain it to you (in comic form)! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act

On this Darwin Day, check out notebooks in which the theory of evolution was developed. Scans of the B notebook at the University of Cambridge Digital Library: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DAR-... Transcript of that notebook at the American Museum of Natural History: www.amnh.org/research/dar...

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Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you