Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Apropos of nothing, my go to meal in college, which had a killer calorie to dollar ratio, was a Totinos Party Pizza slathered in Srirarcha sauce. In those days (circa 2002) you could often get a pizza for well under a dollar. Sometimes as little as 50 cent, ircc!

It's absolutely an unpopular idea, but I distinctly remember discussing this in my high school government class. If you don't pay people in politics enough to get by, it incentives bribery AND keeps folks without generational wealth from running for office.

Reminder that from the beginning of next year I’m available for work! Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching. I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums

Excited to be part of this wonderful event organized by @yrhu.bsky.social! Looking forward to the panel discussion next Monday.

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

Digital humanities researchers often care about fine-grained similarity based on narrative elements like plot or tone, which don’t necessarily correlate with surface-level textual features. Can embedding models capture this? We study this in the context of fanfiction!

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

This is the kind of thing which makes me think better things are possible.

Honestly, folks. Today's electoral results are a referendum on fascism. Take heart, peeps. It's fuel to step up and keep going!

Definitively, the anti trans position is a losing one

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Feels like a nice night for a cocktail

Healing is a very strange thing in the way it can happen almost imperceptibly. It feels significant to me that, for the first time in the slightly more than eight years since it happened, the anniversary of my cancer diagnosis slipped by without me noticing.

the actual contrast is between spanberger/mamdani (focused message, vigorous campaigns) and sherrill (unfocused, half-hearted)

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today) www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit." This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...

I know this fascist shit is doomed when I see late 50s and early 60s white guys in their Costco Shopping Finest screaming ‘fuck you’ in DHS officers’ faces

Again, it's encouraging to see middle-aged white men screaming in the faces of these thugs.

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

Cornell Information Science is hiring a Teaching Professor! Apply this week for full consideration: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30763

I’m not freaked out, you’re freaked out!

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

The only acceptable performative bullshit I will accept is full-sized candy bars.

Y'all, as a kid who grew up food-insecure, plz don't do this. There is nothing more demoralizing as a little kid than being reminded of your family's poverty. We looked forward to Halloween bc it was the 1 chance to be like every other kid and get access to treats the food banks never gave out.

The most surprising thing about this is that they seem to be honoring the Wikipedia CC-BY-SA license

Won’t someone get wandering grandpa some hot milk? One of my in-laws suffered from dementia. Trump’s vagueness looks familiar. Shame that media venues like @nytimes.com that ran multiple stories a day about what deficits Biden might be suffering aren’t similarly serving the public interest now.

"African Languages in the Age of AI" returns! David Ifeoluwa Adelani (McGill, Mila - Quebec AI Institute, CIFAR) will describe different approaches to scaling evaluation to several languages. Join us on Oct 30! Introduction by @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social.

i hope that a governor spanberger and a democratic general assembly uses its authority to discipline the university for its capitulation and to remove these BOV members who have decided that they work for donald trump and not the people of the commonwealth

another year, another question in my mandatory state employee ethics training that seems *patently absurd* as our federal administration runs on bribes & extortion Oh no, did I accidentally eat *vendor supplied pizza*? Next time I’ll request a private jet to ensure I’m ethically above board

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

"The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content."

getting urinated on would be a less humiliating way to lose a rap battle

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

The full announcement is now up at this link. Deadline still 31 Oct.

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

Portland never stops being Portland.

Early history of the papacy a bit of a touchy subject in on Wikipedia, it seems

The next Historical Network Research conference will be held in Turin, Italy in July 2026, and submissions are now open. Proposals due December 1. Bursaries available for early career scholars. This year's theme is "Networks and their Sources." See you there! hnr2026.sciencesconf.org

The latest chalkboard design by one of our digital humanities center student workers 😍 #DHmakes

Devon Fitzgerald @devinfitz.bsky.social with the first talk at the Forms & Function symposium, talking about the Xi’an Nestorian Stele!

Become ungovernable

This is bound to be excellent!

i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long

Today in my crime fiction/ghost stories class we are talking about the Peony Pavilion. I absolutely love that the first scene just straight up gives away the whole plot. Essentially, Tang Xianzu is saying, "buckle up, this is what we are going to be talking about for the next 24 hours."