Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

This photo goes unnecessarily hard.

Finally, Henry Ward Beecher getting some attention.

Then what the fuck is the point of you

Good news! The full table of contents for THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT, edited by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolommeo, is now available on the @sunypress.bsky.social website: sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-.... Follow the link or see next post for screenshots. 🤗

Moby Duck: How to Buy People have been asking for prints of Moby Duck, so I've prepared the following options, to gather everything in one place.

Folks who create videos about games on the internet: I have questions for you if you'd be so kind. I'm trying to determine the relationship between traditional media and those who create videos about games and have never worked for the games press. Sharing is appreciated! forms.gle/cG3BEkGqwuoh...

perfect. this is it. ai is a political project, arguing about its usefulness as an office tool misses the point

He's giving Sibrand energy. All the way down (up?) to his hairline.

America could use an organization opposed to antisemitism. You know, the sort of group that says it’s bad when the executive branch hires antisemites and the president’s biggest donor does Hitler salutes. We could call it the League Against Defamation, or something.

“Stay woke” was always used by black people to implore each other to be aware of our history and our rights, because our freedom has always been tenuous here. Judah is spot on about how its perversion in the mainstream is a spot on representation of our current moment.

It’s interesting how we are asked to justify why there is an English Department at a college but not why there is an athletics program I think both are valuable but it’s interesting which one is more likely to be on the ropes, again, at a college

Frame: this public service costs too much, it isn't making money Negation: it's actually very efficient and it could make more money Kirby: they are attacking the very idea of public services

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

i made a helpful reference

What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history? sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

For you, my beloved Bsky

People largely forgot about the Tree of Life pogrom. The shooter picked that target because they were Jews. And picked those specific Jews because their synagogue's charity worked helped local immigrants. The rhetoric of the president at the time inspired the shooter.

Austen folks - could you point me to work on Austen as a walker? Her bios mention it and I think Solnit touches on it in Wanderlust but I’m not sure if anyone has done a deeper dive

#tdih 1830 Forty African Americans, elected by communities in nine states, met in Philadelphia. They founded the National Colored Conventions movement. Read ⬇️, follow @ccp-org.bsky.social, and visit digital collection with essays here. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fi...

Happy 195th birthday to the Colored Conventions movement! The first convention debated whether this country would ever be a place for Black people to enjoy their full civil rights and citizenship. As those fights continue today, it is powerful reading omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/70

Another reminder that people around the world risk their lives for liberties that many Americans seem ready to surrender without a fight or even a lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

Pro tip: if you want to be remembered forever just go buy the single most practical, durable item on her wishlist.

A birthday present for Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s 200th: you can now read Chapter 1 of my new book Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction online for free for a limited time! Please share widely. Book info in the comments. Check out: academic.oup.com/book/60645/c...

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

Podcasts and "deep dive" media will try to convince you that you *now* know things, thanks to them. A PhD, especially one with archival, observational, or observational components, will definitely convince you that you know next to nothing, thanks to the available resources & one's predecessors.

I wrote a comic called THREE about the Spartan worker-class, the Helots, and talked to a bunch of PhDs in the field. My take-away was how unwilling anyone was to state something was true firmly. After that, I'm even more more wary of Hot Take History online. That you're sure makes me unsure.

I think about this a lot with teaching (it’s A Lot when students start having side convos but usually that’s where there’s juice)

So grateful to @mmagency.bsky.social, esp. @agentbal.bsky.social who helped me figure out this book (and how to not write like an academic!), and to @christofi.bsky.social at @torvabooks.bsky.social and @sarahhaugen.bsky.social at @harperbooks.bsky.social who are excellent editors. I got so lucky. 🥰

I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven

I’m a professor & was writing the same feedback on all the papers I received so I wrote a letter I now give students early in the semester with this feedback articulated. it’s made a huge difference so I’m sharing in case anyone wants to use or adapt it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is such a useful resource from @penamerica.bsky.social "What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist" Please consider letting others know that this exists. pen.org/what-to-do-i...

I really am a jack-of-all-trades regarding my skills; I can write, film, take photos, record audio--very much ready to take on any assignments. HMU! :D

Introducing Mocha-Dick.

Y'all. I'm just seeing the new Bluesky content guidelines and I can tell you with 100% certainty this is them preparing to monetize because these are the guidelines that banks and credit cards impose on companies/sites. Yelling at Bluesky is not as helpful as yelling at paypros here. yellat.money

You know, what with the current situation, it would be neat if there was a book about how people leverage martyrdom for political gain. As it happens, I wrote a book just like that. You can read it for free. collections.dartmouth.edu/ebooks/field...

Was at Cornell this past weekend -- giving a talk on Toni Morrison in the new *Toni Morrison Hall*. Pretty cool & a nice conference overall. I also drove down to Penn State for the Frances Harper 200 conference. A few highlights from both conferences here: www.electrostani.com/2025/09/two-...

posting extremely banned highly illegal depictions of non-consent on bluesky dot app

New Absolute Units is live! Join special guest @katrinanavickas.bsky.social as we delve into the commons: the history of shared resources, the historical forces that encroached upon them, and the fight to get them back. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Still haven’t checked out our podcast “This Ain’t It”? Well, you can now listen on Apple Podcasts. New episode drops Friday. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Why We Need Art! A few weeks ago, as I was scrolling through my social media feed, someone commented on Chris Smith’s Devo, a documentary on the Akron, Ohio band. The post pointed out that watching the band’s early performances during the 1970s really solidified them within the lineage of punk.…

We don't say sex work is work because it's a cute slogan. We say sex work is work because sex workers are left out of conversations around labor rights. Sex workers have the right to safe workplaces and legal protections. Sex workers shouldn't fsce discrimination because of archaic morals.

Your campus has squirrels and geese? That’s cute. MINE HAS KANGAROOS 😎

It is OK to call fascists fascists.

Thinking of something @prisonculture.bsky.social kept repeating at a workshop I attended last year: "Most people are not brave"

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

the fact that the entire world must deal with the United States having a temper tantrum over smut is ridiculous