CFP is out for the #SouthernGothic Area at PCAS/ACAS in New Orleans! We'd love to hear about all your research on the Southern Gothic, broadly interpreted. Lit, film, TV, art, music, gaming--wherever the Southern Gothic manifests, we want to hear about it! pcasacasconference.org/wp-content/u...

The CFP for PCAS/ ACAS 2026 is now up! We'd love to hear all about your research on film, TV, literature, music, and culture! Check out the #CFP here: pcasacasconference.org/2026-confere...

Being deployed with improper training to indiscriminately detain people with different skin complexions & accents by any means necessary & being told they have absolute immunity while doing so is a powder keg waiting to explode. But hey. How much did people save at the grocery store this month?

Publication announcement! The two-volume collection on game genres is finally out today! Thanks to my co-editors @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social for all the work and friendship. Thanks also to our excellent contributors for their time and energy!

Thug watching John Wick rip through 40 of his buddies: “I got a good feeling about my chances!”

Finished The Lowdown. It’s good.

Academic conference proposal: Hey! Remember NFL Street?

Smaller pool for loans. Female dominated fields. Also Mandatory Reporters!

Looking to speak with academics/experts specializing in video games studies specifically ideas around conquest, environmentalism, and land for a piece. Please repost this or give recs.

One Battle At a Time

It’s Noirvember!!! That means @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social is on @letterboxd.social sharing some women-directed noirs “that run the gamut in setting from 1940s Norway to 1990s Chicago, and push at the boundaries of what can be labeled noir.”

Hot take. Sausage is better than bacon.

You’ve got blood on your hands Each and every one of you transphobic bastards have blood on your hands. The politicians, the ‘journalists,’ the ‘academics,’ the ‘concerned parents,’ the people with ‘legitimate concerns.’ You all have fucking blood on your hands

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know: help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/ tbsnetwork.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...

It’s worth noting that I’m pursuing freelance design full-time. If any cool people want to make cool stuff – comics or pop culture or otherwise – hit me up! I do good work and I have nice hair.

Genre is inherently political. It captures the sensibilities of contemporary life and strategies for responding to the present that cultivate different futures Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social Out Jan 2026!

Superman, Superman Does whatever a super can Will he snake Out your drain Patch the roof If there's rain Look out Can't find the Super Man

"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. … "That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."

My syllabi are in Arial, ThankYouVeryMuch. Plus I can’t wear Chucks anymore. Not enough arch support.

Just clicked. I wonder when the private prisons they’re building are also going to end up as agricultural facilities and factories.

AOC sums it up nicely. Gotta wonder what these Republicans are hiding...and who they are protecting.

Medical update: Good: procedure finished the original ablation. Bad: if swelling in foot & ankle doesn’t go down I’ll have to get procedure on vein in calf. Ugly: they told me to wait for sterile strips to fall off. Should not have done that. Now I have bruising in the shape of an asterisk.

Incredibly important piece on the current state of the race science and eugenics movement by @jasonaw.bsky.social, including definitively identifying Musk-favorite race science twitter account “Cremieux” as Texas Tech grad student Jordan Lasker.

Reporter: Why was the national weather service not pinging their phones before 7.. Was it a fundamental failure of the federal government’s responsibility to keep us safe? Noem: Trump is currently upgrading the technology in the national weather service..

If I did Wonder Woman ink I would have one of these on my body so quick.

PSA for everyone going to protests

The libs are like "You have to protest in a way that's inoffensive to people who perceive your very existence as a physical assault 😇" and the cops are like "pew pew eat led pinko" and the libs are like "ow a bad apple shot me in the dick"

Btw, the way this happens is someone sends you a comms memo with sample tweets that you are supposed to tweak a little and then post. (Source: me, I've written these memos for campaigns before) So they are all getting the same comms memo here, and I'm very curious who is sending the memo

*Goose meme* Who shot and killed her? WHO SHOT AND KILLED HER, MOTHERFUCKER?

Why isn't Trump's clear and open call for federal law enforcement to arrest a Democratic governor based on zero lawbreaking of any kind leading every single news site right now?

Rocks and other objects are now being thrown onto the abandoned CHP cars

Lmao

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

This is King Shit behavior. Much respect.

Heya folks, you can get the entire Warden Series (narrated by @lindseydorcus.bsky.social) on Audiobook for less than $20 on Audible www.audible.com/series/The-W...

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

ADVOCATE, Book 3 of THE WARDEN, narrated by the incredible @lindseydorcus.bsky.social is out in Audiobook today! www.audible.com/pd/Advocate-...

This is a hate crime and I hope it is publicized as such.

Just a reminder to the universe—and more specifically to all you #gothic scholars out there—that the deadline to submit for the #SouthernGothic area at PCAS / ACAS is June 15. We’d love to hear your work on film, literature, TV, music, & more! Full #CFP at pcasacasconference.org/wp-content/u...

Cut my snack into pieces This is my last dessert

This is unsettlingly relevant

Homeland Security revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students. Crippling scientific innovation and hamstringing the economy to own the neoliberals.

As someone who lives in Hurricane Country this doesn’t worry me at all. It’ll be fine. It’s not like storms are getting worse or anything.

Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman welcomed to Columbia College's graduation ceremony with sustained jeers and boos. Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud":

Among the many "are you kidding me" aspects of American politics is the rampant hostility in red areas to university funding and federal employees. I'm in the Philly area, we'll take a hit from those cuts, but we'll manage. A lot of local economies in MAGAland will be obliterated.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Fucking THANK YOU. Like, for real, I need a lot of you to dispense with the fantasies of objective, impartial tech. You are watching the intended purpose of this shit on display as we speak as Grok is hammered into compliance behind the scenes.