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ISLS 2026 Extended Deadline Reminders: ✨This Thursday✨ December 4, 2025 🔸 Workshops & Tutorials 🔸 Interactive Tools & Demos 🔸 Doctoral Consortium 🔸 Early Career Workshop 🔸 Mid-Career Workshop 🔸 Arts Gallery & Performance January 20, 2026 🔸 Alt-Academia Career Workshop 2026.isls.org

My brain is fried and my anxiety is talking shit about me. Time to go home!

“It’s just a tool; it can be good or bad depending on how you use it” is the thing you say to sound smart when you haven’t done the reading. This was said over and over again in my applied ethics of ed tech class, and it was always wrong upon scratching the surface 1 millimeter deep.

So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors. This is…

would be a real service for someone to maintain a university grudge list for those of us who need help keeping track of universities to not visit or volunteeer service for

Night library vibes.

I’m old enough to remember… oh never mind. These hypocrites don’t give a damn about their hypocrisy. They spend years falsely accusing various members of “the left” of doing what they have absolutely no problem and no shame doing themselves. The “censorship industrial complex” scam.

Yes, and also that man has chemistry with everyone just saying

Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:

Who’s your favorite goat professor and why is it Dr. Peter Dinklage

fuck you the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh

Pocket full of leaked gherkin brine on the transit ride home from the cheese shop

Reinstate Dr. McCoul. Now.

I don’t understand how this latte art is even possible

This is horrible news. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

It’s noteworthy that ChatGPT “fills in the gaps” in obviously delusional belief systems, but over the long term it’s not necessarily better that it also fills in the gaps in *plausible* or widely shared belief systems. In neither case is the necessary thought or criticism going on.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

"The Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika as a hate symbol. "Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines. "The new policy similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag." Free link wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

Buying tickets to Wicked: For Good as mental health strategy

1. Texas A&M has voted that Professors must seek out official permission to talk about trans people, sexuality, or race. One of the professors said that the new policy would make routine lessons on things like the Holocaust impossible. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Out here in York, PA where @sbworkersunited.org strikers are BLOCKADING the largest Starbucks distribution center in the country to demand a fair contract!!

Alongside Dr. Jill Hermann-Wilmarth, I am co-editing a special issue of The Reading Teacher. Our topic, LGBTQ+ Literacies: Affirming Identities, Advancing Justice w/ Pre-K-6 Learners, is sure to be of interest to many & is SO NEEDED in these times! Manuscripts are due January 15, 2026! #literacies

Missing Rainn today

Sometimes the rains just feel right

Headed back to work for the first time since …

🚨 New Robyn single 🚨

Only 1,700 people follow the next Mayor of Seattle on Bluesky. @wilsonkatieb.bsky.social

Earlier this week, we said goodbye to our dear friend Rainn. I’m so grateful to have been his guardian for most of my adult life and to have been shaped by him as I grew. 1/

Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.

They are proud of their wisdom and moderation It is not moderate to allow millions to go off health insurance in the middle of a cost of living crisis It is not moderate to allow damage to our institutions and rights—some unknown amount of which will become longterm to permanent That’s extreme.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

On the “strategy” of scholars changing language they use to get around censors: You will never win. They know where the ideas they hate hide, and they will take the next word and the next word and the next until you are left with the most impoverished language for the world’s most complex problems.

I have slept worse and worse every night in this hotel 😵‍💫

Powerful people are working overtime to keep poor people from eating.

100 people. One hundred people. In this economy. You have got to be kidding me, this is some [signal drops]

So excited to try to fly home tomorrow.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

As if the SCOTUS decision wasn't bad enough, the 6th circuit said "hold my beer" and explicitly created a constitutional right to bully trans kids who are already at tremendous risk of self harm and suicide. These judges want dead trans kids.

Must-read report from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on today’s SCOTUS order allowing the Trump administration to implement its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Wearing black and navy together, just as God intended

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Two men who had acquired high-powered weapons and practiced at gun ranges were scouting LGBTQ+ bars in suburban Detroit for a possible attack, authorities said Monday in filing terrorism-related charges against the pair. https://to.pbs.org/47pesux

Just saw a truck driving around the U District in Seattle with a loudspeaker reminding people to get their ballots to a drop box.

LRT: obviously overstated for effect, but not entirely wrong!

New awareness campaign

🙄🙄🙄 #WorldSeries

I blocked someone for saying something rude about the mariners

Guys. Don't dress up as ICE agents tomorrow. It's not cute, funny, edgy, satire, etc. Just don't