the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

Part of EUphoriaCon! @bratapfel.bsky.social presents her research into TTRPGs in the GDR, or East Germany. How did roleplaying games get beyond the wall. Who played them? Was there a scene? Jasmin interviewed people from East Germany and will present this intriguing slice of cultural history!

I agree with the growing chorus championing the applied liberal arts degree as a response to AI, but I also want to point out that the value of the liberal arts degree this is not new. This is one of the 1st things I wrote for @insidehighered.com in 2013. www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-v...

I've been quietly removing tech from my school library since I took over 6 years ago. I thought people would be annoyed, but it's been great. Adults have barely noticed, and the students have responded well.

This is propaganda.

For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

This is like a Beavis and Butthead joke.

Very cool and not concerning at all that the technology that the worst people in the world want to proliferate into every facet of our lives and is boiling the oceans and ruining the lives of vulnerable people carries the same warning as Psychic Readers Network commercials from 25 years ago.

MY BODY: hey do you wanna know the score ME: no I’m busy MY BODY: ok sorry ME: MY BODY: we’re losing btw

A UW iSchool student was abruptly deported yesterday with his son. There’s a GoFundMe to support the family while they try to get them back to Seattle: www.gofundme.com/f/9wup9u-hel...

No, dipshit, this is proof that AI slop is pervasive and preys on neurodivergent people and newer gamers who need help but aren’t sure who to ask. Game guides have been MASSIVE in Japan for decades and used to be in the US. You’re supposed to be a “journalist,” do some research. End of discussion.

So if we can automatically register people for selective service with no ID issues, why can't we do the same with voting?

I was invited to give a campus-wide keynote at a flagship university for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I was offered a speaker’s fee of $150 and parking validation. These schools really let us know their values based on where they spend their money.

Malicious compliance is the best kind of compliance.

of the two articles currently circulating about Sheri’s Ranch which feature Jupiter Jetson, this one is way more worth your time. there is a fascinating and important story in the unfolding workers’ rights movement in Nevada’s legal brothels that will resonate with anyone who’s been a contractor

I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.

Looks like AFT is receiving $23 million from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to push AI onto educators via "trainings" apnews.com/article/arti... news.microsoft.com/source/2025/...

hmm, what if i told you that it wasn’t

Tell darth about your book so I can order it.

We can hate him for more than one thing, I assure you.

I don’t know how this happened but… last night, Iggy came in from the yard wearing a wreath.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

If only you knew someone who could help.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

I am extra cranky today because my insides wanted to be outside again. I’m sure it’s aggravated by stress.

This is so useful, thank you!

This isn’t like pocket calculators, children are actively harmed by this garbage.

a consistent feature of these guys is that they go “I have an amazing idea nobody ever thought of before” and the reason nobody ever thought of it before is that is astoundingly world-historically stupid and evil

Man if I was in their situation I’d 100% say I was going through a tunnel and about to lose service.

lmao this one is incredible. “Head of product at X condemns quote-tweeting” my brother in Jira you’re the shift manager at the quote tweet factory

Listening to a thing I put out last year and realized I don't hate it anymore. Yay!

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.

Sunday Scarys are active so please enjoy my cats, sitting in sorted laundry together.

please my rational actors, they are very sick

Somebody had a conversation with their spouse today that included an exasperated utterance of "IT'S EASTER"

No Right Is Ever Safe – but Progress Is Possible The outrageous assault on birthright citizenship should prompt us to reflect on the fragility of democratic progress - and our own responsibility to defend it. Some thoughts from my new piece:

This image details the aesthetic requirements for achieving the “Ideal English Rabbit”, the benchmark of perfect (yet seemingly impossible) markings for a particular breed of rabbit first developed in the middle of the 19th century: publicdomainreview.org/collection/i...

The higher ed thinkfluencer-industrial complex churned out thousands of pieces just like this one

Absolutely incredible. How do you argue against birthright citizenship in front of SCOTUS and *not know* to avoid the thing that will set Gorsuch off every time. Just the most rake stepping move possible here.

OH HELL YES. NEIL GORSUCH, THE LAST JUSTICE OF THE MOCHICANS, ASKS "Do you think Native Americans are citizens of the united states." IF YOU TRIP GORSUCH'S NATIVE AMERICAN WIRES, YOU LOSE. GOOD DAY, SIR!

We're already on round 2 of questions and Brett hasn't spoken yet. Somebody get that man an Alka Seltzer and a bump so he can tell us how he's going to vote.

this whole day is gonna be like this isn't it. thank you, everyone with the fortitude to cover the most garbage argument ever.

Looking forward to this plenary discussion on cybersecurity for libraries given my own writing around this subject: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #UKSG2026

"Shocking increase in girls being diagnosed as autistic since we admitted girls can be autistic".

Today is going to be just as frustrating because birthright citizenship is not actually a "both sides" issue or terribly nuanced. It's right there! Number 14! Not a whole lot of ambiguity there.

was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please

Was trying to figure out why my shoulders hurt and apparently it's the full body clench I've had over SCOTUS rulings all day.