Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.

100% accurate. My first week in my MFA program I was stopped after class by my professor who asked why I wasn't at the bar last night. I told her I'd been reading and she told me that interacting w/my peers & profs was just as important (or more so!) than anything happening in class.

Merry Christmas to everyone who took a shot at the title this year. #lethalweapon #80smovies #christmasmovie #Christmas

Not being able to watch NFL games on my phone while traveling is some BS.

MOOCs unite! Coursera and Udemy to merge: investor.coursera.com/news/news-de... #highered #edtech #mooc

We keep having these Scooby Doo masks off moments and the same kinds of people keep being revealed. #highered

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Honored to contribute a chapter to Supporting Military-Connected College Students: Applying Theory to Student Affairs Practice, a practical, evidence-based guide to help student veterans & military-connected students thrive in higher ed. Available now! #highered #studentveterans tinyurl.com/dyar847u

Texas is home to a number of world class public universities. Texas politicians seem hell bend on destroying them. You can't have elite postsecondary institutions under a subnational authoritarian system. Period. #highered www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

This timeline is desperately in need of new Rage Against the Machine.

How your email finds me.

I unabashedly love Stranger Things but there's no reason for Eleven to still not be using contractions when she speaks. It's a writing tic to show she's "different" but spending the mid-80s in an American high school would've fixed that.

In today's This is Not Normal: Before creating new degrees, Indiana’s public colleges and universities will have to explain to the state how they will promote "American values." #highered www.ipm.org/news/2025-11...

watching Florida football

A Man on the Inside (season 2) was grown in a lab to precisely appeal to all of my personal and professional interests. It's also surgically accurate in its portrail of higher ed in a very funny (and charming) way. 1/2

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.

along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president

GOTHLETE!

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hertling: "Our country endures not because of what we possess, but because of what we believe... The men and women who call themselves veterans remind me that a republic survives only when its citizens choose responsibility over indifference, sacrifice over convenience, community over isolation."

University of Nebraska is eliminating its Educational Administration program, one of the best in the country. #highered www.dailynebraskan.com/news/breakin...

Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...

Conservatives Don't Read part infinity.

#highered #ai

Researchers "found nearly 60% of teachers pick up at least one extra job outside of their primary teaching work" #k12 #teachers www.edweek.org/leadership/i...

It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie. An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough. So finish the thing.

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

You could do worse, especially if you are not a Southerner (or especially if you are a white Southerner) than reading @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and @jamellebouie.net talking about some of the adverse ways in which the white South is become America. (gift 🎁 link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at "A Thousand Young" by Andrea Pearson from the 2025 anthology TALES OF SHUB-NIGGURATH. deepcuts.blog/2025/10/18/a...

When we see mental disorders on BART we call the cops. When we see it in Cupertino we call it eccentric.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

My 12 year old just started playing Silent Hill 2 (PS5 remastered) for the first time and knows nothing about it. Going in absolutely cold. I'm so excited for her.

Sarah Mullally was named the new archbishop of Canterbury on Friday, becoming the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Church of England, and of the global Anglican community, in the church’s nearly 500-year history.

We collectively mistook the means of delivery for human communication for the connection itself. Soon, we will pay the price for that

The fact that this article on soy causing deforestation doesn't cover how all that soy is being used is a wild media failure. The vast majority (70-80%) is being fed to animals. It's not the "world's taste for soya" it's the world's taste for meat. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"Give yourself over to absolute pleasure"

Today's perspective: “I don’t like when people call us camp,” he says. “Camp means you don’t know you’re ridiculous, and we know what we’re doing. We’ve always known what we were doing.” -Fred Schneider, The B-52s.

Nebraska's move to cut their education administration department is part of a trend across universities, with colleges/schools of education facing severe program reductions or, in some cases, their complete elimination. #highered www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

It looks like one of my graduate schools, Queens University of Charlotte, is merging with Elon University, who will take over the operations of Queens. When this passes this will be the second university on my CV that will no longer exist. Strange times. #highered charlotte.elon.edu/elon-queens/...

Framing social media posts as representing just you instead of your employer used to generally protect you from sanctions, just like a DOJ leader does here. But that won't protect rank and file employees in 2025. Personal social media is no more. www.chronicle.com/article/clem...

There used to be a sort of social contract that the PMC classes had with red states that has been completely ripped apart and I honestly don't know how that's going to feed into housing market growth and corporate relocations.

‘ANDOR’ has won the Emmy for Best Writing in a Drama Series. See the full winners list: bit.ly/EmmyWins25