fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

Y’all I’m so mad, I biked to the train this morning at 54F and now it’s snowing

I think I may have cracked it

I am a dedicated bike/transit commuter but for four years my child's daycare was 7-10 minutes by car, 55 minutes and a ton of whining by bus. Be real.

I genuinely enjoy TRACKER and also I completely believe it's that popular. Profoundly inoffensive, tons of narration so you can follow it while looking at your phone, etc.

Can this be a solution?

Moose and I went to the Fells for the first time since the snow!

I was listening to Kelly Hayes’s podcast the other day & I can’t recall if it was her or her guest (was it the one with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò maybe?) & one of them said, “People want hope like they want a pizza delivered.” I was running & meant to write it down when I got home but forgot…until now.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

I think I picked the wrong size bed but Moose is going to make it work

“The actor—whose grandmother, mother, and sister were ballerinas—is currently nominated for his performance in Marty Supreme.” In an Instagram post, New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns wrote, in part, “Show your mother the respect she deserves.”

I could absolutely roll with this if it happened in class

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

in equally important news, here is Moose wearing a winter beanie.

This morning I got up early to form a shiva minyan for a stranger (directly before a dentist appointment!!!). I am SO tired but also, this is the kind of thing that makes me feel like people are good and neighbors matter. Maybe the first time I've been one of exactly ten? ❤️

Update on the ARC giveaway: I have mailed off my signed ARC, and together (including the presumed match on about half of what was donated) you raised over $22,000! THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED.

When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...

Here’s the pitch: woman goes home for the High Holidays, has to go to services at both her parents’ synagogues, meets potential partners at both synagogues and has to keep them from finding out about each other. Spoiler alert, the two synagogues wind up doing a joint break fast.

Okay actually I WOULD be a wolf 🫐

Total eclipse of the full blood moon is tonight, in case you haven’t checked in on the doom portents lately.

Reminder:

Sure the world is bad but on the other hand, my dog is snoring

So @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social has added a pre-release copy of her amazing new book WHAT WE ARE SEEKING along with a paperback of the reissue of her legendary 1996 Cyberpunk novel THE FORTUNATE FALL to the giveaway, and I'll be honest, that's probably cooler than what I'm offering!

I talked with @ziibiing.com about Stand With Minnesota, keeping neighbors housed during ICE escalation, and directing generosity where it’s actually needed.

She’s been released 🙏🏽

Holy SHIT this man is extraordinary

HEY DON'T FORGET I'M DOING ANOTHER DRAWING FOR A SIGNED ARC AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS DONATE TO A MINNESOTA RENT FUND!!!!!

One of my grad school classmates is trans and grew up in Kansas. Although he lives here in MA, he can no longer go home to visit his family. This is some of the most Nazi shit I have ever seen in this country

Imagine having enough money to keep every family in Minnesota housed. Could there be a greater joy than doing it?

Even if ICE pulled out, fully, tomorrow, there are thousands of families that were not able to work in February because of their presence and their threat, thousands of people who are not going to be able to pay their rent on March 1st.

HEY, I AM DOING ANOTHER FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS! AND GIVING AWAY ANOTHER SIGNED ARC (Advance Review Copy) OF OBSTETRIX!!! YOU COULD GET TO READ IT EARLY (it doesn't come out until June) AND HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES STAY HOUSED!!!!

HELL YEAH (from the Boston Globe)

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

"This is as bad as I've seen it," Healey said, adding that she is not comparing it to '78, even though her birthday party then was canceled, because she was 7 and everything seemed big.

The sequence of dogs you can see here is: Moose goes out. Jolene hesitates, and then goes out. Moments later Moose races back in. I doubt he got off the porch. (jolene did spend a moment bounding through the snow for, I think, a bathroom break)

As an architect, this is so fucking bleak. Someone in my profession is taking a hefty design fee to draw these plans. This is a modern day concentration camp and the design professionals involved should be named and shamed.

So this is a slave ship

An interesting side note to this story: According to this, this incident went viral because the kid who got punched was wearing Meta smart glasses at school, for which he (1) also got suspended and (2) made himself rather awkwardly famous.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

“The Pope therefore invited the priests to enter into real life” HOLY SHIT

AHHHHH YES!!!! Congrats Doctor!!!! 🥳

This is an incredible story of organizing. People are in motion everywhere!!!

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

My students starting singing “We’re all in this together” when they realized Ramadan and Lent are at the same time this year. 🤣😩

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧 The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement. May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.

Okay I actually did a tiny bit of research and “teeth” might have meant “toddlers during teething” (analogue to infants and chrisomes, age-based designations). That is FASCINATING.

It's easy to get clicks from telling everyone that stormtroopers are going to surround every polling station in America, but vital action now includes making sure: 1) Everyone is registered 2) they haven't been purged if they WERE registered 3) they know what ID they need 4) they can get that ID

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

#ICE comes for everybody, even in the Public Garden - photo by Bob Nilsson www.universalhub.com/2026/ice-com... #Boston #MakeWayForDucklings

The key thing here is that the local rapid response was able to figure out who had been taken, and make sure there was a lawyer working to free her. That makes a world of difference. Call if you see this happening, and join your local one if you're a citizen.