There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

I've been on a single-author binge habit these last few years. 2024 was the year of @gradyhendrix.bsky.social . 2025 has been the year of @tkingfisher.com. What should 2026 be? (Though if the fifth Saints or Steel book drops, I might just have to stick with T. Kingfisher) #booksky

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

Honestly I always figured I’d want plastic surgery, but the older I get the more I like my face. It looks sad and tired and I am sad and tired, I feel like it’s really weird in the cursed year of 2025 to be getting surgery to make you look refreshed and happy, cult shit honestly

🚨 On Sunday, November 23, U.S. Border Patrol illegally entered the No More Deaths’ humanitarian aid station and arrested three people who were receiving aid, without a warrant.

Real loser shit from Ruben Gallego's leaked texts, and to think I was so excited to help elect him. 🫠 But I also would like to say that Democrats don't let their women be hot is a soup-for-brains take when we have AOC and they have Mar-a-Lago face.

As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.

Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.

I have been teaching college-level writing for 15 years, and this current moment has been considering using my QTR benefit to get a law degree and leave teaching entirely. I'm so tired of AI slop consuming so much of my time and energy. It has killed the joy of teaching and learning.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Please do not chatbot with AI Jesus, or Satan, or a dead relative, or a pretend lover. Nothing good can come of any of it.

Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

These days I am spending far too much of my one wild and precious life trying to hunt down hallucinated scholarly articles in my students' Works Cited pages. 🫠 #edusky

ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.

Blah blah blah men…Young women are ready to set the country on fire

Baseball is clearly an insane sport. I think I should get into it.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

#NoKings in #Tucson

Amen

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

Faculty Senate calls on President Garimella to reject deal that would 'endanger the independence, excellence & integrity' of University of Arizona

Our official statement on the University of Arizona's China microcampuses shutdown. You can read the full statement on our website at UCWArizona.org/our-statements, or at the link in bio.

As a "former gifted child" and a mother of a kindergartner whose dissertation work focused on the cultural anxieties invested in gifted children in America since the Cold War, there should be no testing, tracking, and segregating "gifted" children in kindergarten (or at all 😅).

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

👀

Trying to stop Tracey from going to a Saudi comedy festival is a solid 30 Rock B plot

I will take any excuse to pull up my favorite Phil Vischer tweet:

I am finally reading Paladin's Grace after trying and hating every other romantasy book, and hell yeah! I went from interested to All In the moment the female Bishop was introduced.

Gotta be honest today was the first time I've heard the phrase "ANTI-ICE". Typically leftists say things like 'fuck ICE' or "Abolish ICE'

I still have official antifa membership cards available at officialantifa.org . Become a card-carrying member today!

Instead of going to church, thousands (millions?) of Christians tuned into this message today... And they view us as the heretics.

Being sick or in pain while pregnant is a misery already because you cannot take *anything* but Tylenol. I can't imagine going without even that, and so much already gets blamed on the mother's choices while pregnant.

It’s cruel to women. Wildly offensive to people with autism. And generally offensive to anyone with a brain or a heart. He needs to resign or be removed immediately.

I did yesterday! Already worth it for the new members email I received.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

Holy shit. The comments that got him taken off air?:“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” That is chilling.

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

This. It's legitimately sad. Imagine living your life in this miserable way only to die anyways (as we all will). Truly a fate worse than death.

And this is why M.T. Anderson's Feed continues to be the most prescient YA dystopian novel I've ever taught and the one students consistently email me about years later.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

It really does epitomize the extreme degradation of his intellect and character that the man is incapable even of grief.

millennials are band directors now and I think that’s terrific

I know professors personally who have had their lives destroyed by being doxxed by the Professor Watchlist organized by Turning Point USA, for saying the "wrong thing" in class one time. I will not celebrate violence but I also will not pretend this is "practicing politics the right way."

What an expertly called shot

In response to the horrors, both professional (writing lecturer) and political (America), I've decided to get ripped. I'm deadlifting, I'm working on my pull up, I'm pressing and curling and dragging kettlebells in plank. I might even take creatine! 😂

This is gold. Emmy for Morgan Spector just for the pronunciation of "Cuomo."