omg this book (Upton Sinclair World's End) just got to the formation of the college board and establishment of standardized tests. This book is like an encyclopedia.

I hate most Easter candy. HOWEVER...

Y'all be like oh my god, these writers won't shut up about their writing! NO! We won't. Make us.

A wee bit burnt out on grading 😂 and there are still hundreds of items to go before the end of the semester

12 hours into World’s End, a theory that WWI was also about British Oil (just as like… everything else is)

more illustrated stories for adults, please! 🌟

Do your summer plans involve making significant progress getting your book off the ground? Would a running start on it help? I've got 2 NEW programs this summer for first- and second-book writers. 3 days a week, 3 hrs each, 4 weeks. End with major clarity on your argument, parts of your proposal,

8 hours deep into Upton Sinclair’s “World’s End.” WWI is starting. The protagonist’s father is an American arms dealer. It’s very interesting.

On the sea of heaven the waves of cloud arise, And the moon’s ship is seen sailing To hide in a forest of stars. -Hitomaro, Manyōshū (Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai translation)

By the River Uji The inlet of Ōkura is echoing; To the fields of Fushimi The wild geese are passing. -Hitomaro, Manyōshū (Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai translation)

So this is my 5th(or 6th?) year of teaching gender studies, and I have a unit about gender and sports, and I think this is the first semester that students haven't had a meltdown defending how men are just better at sports b/c they're naturally bigger and stronger.

Amazon thinks I want this octopus caftan, and I don’t *not* want it (I’m not going to buy it but good guess?) a.co/d/08tV0eSj

Met with my advisor and he had no issue with switching to an article-based diss, so that’s good. I expected some pushback but there was none. I would still like to see samples of article-based diss prospectuses (humanities/social sciences) if anyone has one they can share with me …

Original paintings of butterflies and moths from an album by Mary Anne Burges (1763–1813) titled 'Lepidoptera of the British Isles,' c1810. Yale Center for British Art. #MaryAnneBurges #LepidopteraoftheBritishIsles #hernaturalhistory #butterflies #moths

Bit by bit, putting it together...

Since I now teach 100, 200, and 300 level classes, I see how students flounder when 100-level teachers let things slide, such as not teaching what a peer reviewed source is. I teach a quick reminder of this but I feel like 300-level students should know this. I don’t blame them, I blame us.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... “The isolation of this bunker world,” Speer recalled, “surrounded on all sides by concrete and earth, ultimately sealed Hitler’s isolation from the tragedy that was playing out outside under the open sky.”

Priorities, people! After all, using billions of tax dollars to bomb Iranian civilians & their homes is way more important than using a measly million to help protect Americans from the deadly horrors of rabies & pox.

This is bonkers. So the current administration can do what it wants, and there will be no records of what they do.

‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Pretty sure we'll see this more frequently www.wsj.com/us-news/main...

finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

For any writers who use the English language, the Barbellion Prize is open for entries. There is no fee for entry. Please share with others who might be interested. barbellionprize.org

They think the purpose of college is to get a degree and the purpose of a degree is to get a job. They can't imagine someone wanting to be educated.

they hate us so much because we help young people learn to think critically. that's the job. and the kids have fun for a few years before they settle down. Those marriages tend to last longer (in general!). We teach kids to think and to see real sources and encounter a variety of voices/identities

Share one of your favorite musical performances from a film 🎥 🖤🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbp5...

Once in a while, I see a redneck sign on some student apartment balcony, like a Trump flag (more rarely than you might think, it being Alabama). But just now I saw a flag with a picture of Epstein that said, “this flag did not hang itself.”

lol i’m reading Upton Sinclair‘s world‘s end, which is the first of a multi volume series about a boy growing up in Europe during the world wars who also happens to be the heir of an American arms dealer. The aristocracy is sexually abusing the children and scared of the Democratic socialist.

One of 3 new exhibitions that have been installed here this week: Kathy Bruce and Alastair R Noble, books and objects, Thurs 2nd April* – Sun 28th June 2026. More info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/brucenoble/ *The college will be closed for the holidays from Fri 3rd April – Tues 7th April inclusive.

Tonight was a good reminder for us all to read books. Please, for humanity, read books. Read lots and lots of books — especially ones you disagree with! - Prof. Laslo

Started reading Upton Sinclair’s World’s End, and just met the main character’s mother, who’s a trip

If you missed the moon launch today, go to about 5:45 here: youtu.be/qcyZ70tO9-Q?...

None of us in the world are free under the American empire except a teeny tiny bit of white men who are sucking blood from everybody else according to tiers. If that clicks for you it affects how you move.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

These comments made me feel better about how anxious the launch made me. I was in kindergarten. But what may have been even worse is later, as a teen, I was volunteering for the local science museum and they asked me to go through a bunch of old video tapes to see what was on them...

The clouds today are like “we weren’t sure what we wanted to do so we just brought a little bit of everything”

Hey, does anyone who did their dissertation by article (preferably in a humanities or social sciences discipline b/c I’m in Comms) have a diss prospectus I can look at? I have some examples but they’re for traditional disses If you have one you can share please DM so I can give you my email!

I don’t think people should have to pay for parking when they are a patient or with a patient at a medical facility of any kind. This is one of those American things that we take for granted but is actually bullshit. It’s bad enough that we have to pay for medical care (AND insurance AND copays AND)

"Woman who wants to be a tradwife" literally means "woman with internalised misogyny." "Man who wants a tradwife" literally means "man who hates women but wants to own one."

At the last minute they should change who they send to the moon

There's a reason that "may you live in interesting times" is a curse.

Seems like a bad day to be online

Let's take a bunch of stressed out, overworked kids probably away from home for the first time ever and give them each their own free personal psychosis machine! This cant end badly at all!

This is NOT what college kids want. They want it to be easier to make IRL friends. They’re still traumatized from COVID isolation and it can be hard to make new friends in college. They need SMALLER, FACE-TO-FACE CLASSES. .

Lorine Niedecker

Just finished "The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone" by Edward Dolnick (2021; audiobook). Took me about 1/3 of the book to get into it but then it got really cool. If you like anything related to how language works, you'd probably like it.

Niche question for librarians/artists? I’m trying to take archival quality photos of an archive I own. Sometimes in digital archive photos I see a little ruler along the bottom of the picture that also has a color gradient, both v useful for context. WHAT IS THAT THING CALLED? I need one.

What a fantastic resource at the intersection of medicine / medical history and graphic novels / comics www.graphicmedicine.org/essentialgm/