I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

I cannot imagine being a parent in this country good lord

Reporters doggedly criticized Kamala Harris in 2024 for a) not having any policies, and b) having too many details in her policies. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's signature policy proposals have always been vaporware and it's just been "Donald Being Donald." www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

NC friends! If you like literary pioneers, queer women, James Joyce, queer women helping Ulysses see the light of day, @adamm0rgan.bsky.social, hearing me ask questions, and/or supporting local bookstores/lit community, come hang at Flyleaf on Thursday!

North Carolina, come see me this Thursday at @flyleafbooks.bsky.social with @polkfiction.bsky.social !!! flyleafbooks.com/event/morgan...

“One way that being queer impacted the way Margaret [Anderson] operated in the world is that she was used to being in a minority and feeling like a minority. Because of that, she also had this deeply instilled confidence that the majority was wrong,” says @adamm0rgan.bsky.social.

a) this is very good and clever and fun b) and the translation feels effortless c) but now I want to read it in the original d) and also thank you for being in the top 10 best things about my hometown @deepvellum.bsky.social

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

One of the better interviews with me you’re likely to read. They gotta send me more grad student interviewers

Interviewed @themountaingoats.bsky.social about his new annotated lyrics for our local indie and realized in listening to the transcripts that I didn’t say the words the mountain goats a single time. God, writing, and mixed use affordable housing got a lot of airtime though!

My university has a multi-billion $ endowment and an on-campus food pantry for food insecure students AND EMPLOYEES. Honestly inexcusable to me.

Learning from history: In 1944 when Homer Rainey was fired, students went on strike and 8,000 of them marched in a mock funeral procession carrying a coffin with a banner that read “academic freedom” from campus to the Capitol and the governor’s mansion.

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Every single day Israel is slaughtering more Palestinians, and the most Western governments can do is talk about humanitarian aid. It’s not good enough.

people vote their values, not their material interest. and conservative values of deference to the wealthy, refusing assistance to the poor, refusal to invest in public good naturally demand the destruction of their own poorer communities.

Rereading Invisible Cities for the first time in years! Has anyone written anything essential about it? What am I missing?

So if this has been my reading list this year and I wanted to learn Even More about the US labor/organizing history for obvious reasons, where should I start?

Feels like a lot of the ai debate would be easier if people took process pedagogy seriously, but what do I know

It's critical to keep naming these losses, not in the spirit of "can you believe what they're doing," but to remember what's being lost. I've taught students from countries that erase the past, and they're stunned to learn of major events in their own countries. That's the fascist goal here.

Starting to think the dissonance I’m feeling as both a grad student paying attention to the world and a writer of chirpy b2b saas blogs (to afford said grad school) will eventually corrode my command of language entirely.

Everything sucks and life is hard! Here are some fun audiobooks I’ve listened to lately to take my mind off things: - Vulture Capitalism, Grace Blakey - Limitarianism, Ingrid Robeyns - We Refuse, Kellie Carter Jackson - How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr - The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins

haven’t sent a tweet I didn’t immediately delete in months let’s see how this one goes