I find out any of my colleagues feeds my tenure file to spicy autocomplete because they couldn't be bothered to read it, its gonna be swords at dawn. Hell, it might just be swords in the department hallway.

I'm pretty sure this is what I saw on a tree this morning. It was pretty!

There are robins bopping through the grass everywhere today, but I want to check my kiddy bird book for an ID on that one bird I saw in a tree: a little small, black and white patches, a red patch above. I don't think I've seen one before.

Does your local tech company understand consent? > Yes! > Maybe later

At least Clippy was cute and didn't actively steal from my friends.

why do all the apps now have to act like the creepy guy who interrupts you at the library to ask you what you’re reading, who wants this

Hey I dunno who needs to hear this but: if you want to paint your bathroom trim to match your cabinets, you can just contact the cabinet manufacturer, ask them for the RAL or hex code of the paint colour, and then get any major DIY store to mix the paint to match

Not owning a car is inconvenient sometimes, for sure. But I like using public transit. I like the little peaceful formulaic greetings and farewells with bus drivers. I like the walk and the wait (if the sun isn't bad) and the ride. Watching scenery pass by, reading books. It's just... nice. Calm.

[endless screaming]

It is possible that two rolls of 500 stickers each, with all the stickers being fairly realistic pictures of freshwater fish, was a bit much when buying stickers for class? Ah well. Back to slapping trout pics on these translation quizzes.

Just had a flashback to my entire class singing “ἄγω ἄξω ἤγαγον ἦχα ἦγμαι ἤχθην” to the tune of “Angels we have heard on high / Sweetly singing”

The endless challenge of early Latin instruction may be summed up simply with, "no, really, you need to learn all of those principle parts, you cannot guess them."

Gonna make my students chant "veni, vidi, vici!" until they can get the third principal part for those verbs* correct. We already chant "fero, ferre, tuli, latus" every time someone doesn't recognize fero or its compounds in the perfect system, so why not? (* All on their High Frequency list!)

I love the temperature drop this week, but the high humidity makes wearing a mask rather... damp. Clingy. Sticky. Tasting of sweat and sunscreen. Ugh. Well, better than suddenly being out sick during finals week with a virus that could give me permanent brain damage, eh?

Basically, ACAB except when you live across from the richest, snootiest, most racist country club in the state, in which case let's you and him fight.

Guess I'm working from home today

My cat Aster has recently turned two. She is a tortoiseshell. I was unprepared for the degree of attitude this cat is just casually throwing my way. Case in point, she stared me dead in my face while swatting my phone off my desk with her little paw.

*stares in historian*

What if we didn’t train people to be assholes in book reviews? (From 2021) www.patreon.com/posts/585362...

With permission from one of my habeas clients, I can share that the Bloomington Police Department is proactively cooperating with ICE to detain our neighbors. This is a screenshot of official ICE records which show that a BPD officer reached out to ICE to drop a dime on someone in local custody.

For complete whiplash, I have moved from Widow's Bay tonight straight into the latest Game Changer and... and... ....my god. It's /beautiful/.

Widow's Bay continues to be very good. Horrifying! But the kind of horrifying I want to keep watching.

One student to another, bested at a vocab drill: "I will kill you in your sleep!"* Another student: "Oo, Dr. Fade, did you hear that?" Me: "Hey! No murder in the classroom! Unless it's in Latin. We have plenty of words for that." (* A joke, if inappropriate one for the context. They're fine.)

Few things buttress my faith in humanity like this loathing. The fact that the AI overlords have so miscalculated what we would think and whether it would matter is fun too. A bit like the Trump Administration's miscalculation of how Minneapolis would respond to invasion by a thug army.

Adverb is old enough that he's been having issues jumping up on the bed. I got out the dog stairs, and now he's so insulted by their presence he'll just take a longer running start to make sure his jump is sufficient. Problem solved!

[Ted Danson voice] "SETH ROGEN figured it out? ROGEN?"

Evergreen skeet.

this is... close theonion.com/historians-a...

Me and parsing any dative that's not indirect object, agent, or object of a verb that takes a dative just to rustle our jimmies a bit.

Best news: He missed and the seal is fine. The locals even gave an “environmental activist” award to the dude who beat his ass. (Vid in thread comments.) I hope they throw the book at the attempted seal-assassin, and I hope the book is (a) really heavy and (b) about seals.

The train I'm on is stopping at the station where I used to get on and off ,and I can feel tension creeping from the pit of my stomach toward my shoulders and jaw. Like I'm behind on three deadlines and being judged for it by those I admire. I loved grad school but it sure did a number on me, huh.

A little essay on book discoverability, with some recommendations on where to find out about new books, and a little GenX/Millennial nostalgia. (Free for everybody) www.patreon.com/posts/when-r...

First Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg

i remember walking out of Force Awakens, annoyed with it. And there was a girl, maybe eight, with her mum. The girl was BOUNCING. "Mummy!! I can be an X-wing pilot!!" And THAT was the point i knew my opinion didn't matter for shit. i would die for the right of that girl to be an X-Wing pilot.

Justinianic, Heraclian, Macedonian, Komnenian, Laskarid, Palaiologian

Me, seeing John Travolta trending: Oh no! Me, checking the feed: Oh, it's fine, he's not dead or unusually horrible. He's just wearing a hat.

I mean, I'd love to think he watched a documentary on the Bugis of Indonesia (who have 5 genders) or the 7 genders of the Talmud (arguably 6-8), but, sadly, this is in fact way more plausible. My students loved this semester comparing the Bugis' categories to the Jewish ones, though!

"Having to regularly testify as a third party witness because the defendant claims they interacted with an old version of the post" is a bad position to put yourself in when you can avoid it by some careful design work at the start! Both UX limits and admin logging.

nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative

cambrian, ordovician, silurian, devonian, carboniferous, permian

Up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom.

A) Sorbo whining about desecrating Greek myth is indeed incredible. B) I remain very proud that he once blocked me for telling him that he seemed tense and watching Xena always cheered ME up.

google translate, u ok?

Widow’s Bay continues to be magic. The control of tone is unlike anything I’ve seen befor.

My students discovered that the tshirts for a recent event had AI art and half the shirts I saw for it were marked up with anti-AI messages in sharpie by the day of the event. I only got second period back on track by promising them we could discuss the issue more after the quiz.

look at this fluffy boi I just met at a coffee shop

Oh, there's the novel discourse. My novel discourse is that now that I've finished the excellent System Decay (Wells) and Radiant Star (Leckie) it's time to start reading the much-anticipated The Subtle Art of Folding Space (Chu).

So, true...but also yes I absolutely want to see a movie with accurate bronze age arms and armor.

PUMP IT INTO MY VEINS

"We have found considerable groupthink within the professoriate on matters that are otherwise widely debated. This academic monoculture stifles heterodox viewpoints on disputed questions such as the safety of vaccines, the square root of four, and the earth’s topology."