Had to sit in a seminar room with my ex for an hour and a half but I asked a smart question and the speaker praised me and all librarians and I look hot today!!!!! He fumbled so bad!!!!!!

Oh good it's a pedophilia/CSA day on the TL love that

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...

It’s called an Em dash bc it was invented by Emily Dickinson

"Religion is irrelevant" Oh yeah, then how come you give people a new toy and the first thing they do is MAKE A RELIGION WITH IT

VERY excited to hear that Atla's annual meeting will co-locate with AARSBL next year!!!! It is a perfect situation for me, specifically, and I appreciate it. www.atla.com/blog/announc...

I watched the Lonesome Dove miniseries over the weekend and I can't stop thinking about Robert Duvall

Do you think Hannah Arendt called it his Heidy hole

Guys I just had the craziest sensory memory. Do you remember when you had braces and the wire in the back of your mouth would like stab into your cheek and get stuck there??? Wow what a time

I've seen the word "goon" 3 times on the TL this morning and each time it meant something different I love language

Last Wednesday//Today

As we learn more and more about the costs associated with GenAI, I continue to wonder how institutions and their leadership decide that yes, incorporating anything OpenAI produces into the lives of educators and students is worth the harms.

WHY is everyone so into the Edmund Fitzgerald this year????

'It's a lost map!' 'Where did you find it?' 'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'. OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.

Just a reminder about this CFP for Theological Librarianship on AI authorship: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

After only crocheting for many years, I just finished my first knitting project!

Fellas, you’ve heard of sending a drink to the woman across the bar, but have you tried sending a book???

Love when I'm reading about something super obscure and then out pops a Vanderbilt faculty member!!!!! David Wasserstein mentioned!!!!

The thing about being a writer is you hate writing but you have to do it.

Homecoming update: There are a bunch of old men playing disc golf outside my office window 🥲

Looking ahead to the spring semester, I'll be -Chairing TWO library committees + including the one reviewing rank & promotion -Serving on the Div School's Academic Programming & Assessment Committee -Serving as Editor-in-Chief of an academic journal -Teaching the master's thesis writing course

It’s homecoming weekend which means FREE FOOD ON CAMPUS

Still thinking about Rama Duwaji and realizing I don’t even know the wife of my own city’s mayor

Hockey + knitting + pugs = The Dream

I am pretty certain that dating apps aren't for me, but the fact that Rama Duwaji was on Hinge almost makes me reconsider

This is a great picture of what librarians are dealing with on a daily basis. www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Asked if anyone had read Infinite Jest in a class talking about 12 step programs and no one had so I looked like an asshole!!!!!!

Between this "Women in the Workplace" article and a post I saw about it being 50 years since women could get their own mortgage, I'm struck by how privileged I am to live in this time and be afforded the ability to be self-sufficient, and ALSO

The first book to ever make me cry

A man popped out of a church as I walked by to say “Make sure you look at the moon!”

I only cried a little

Jessie's point about having to fight against the university in order to fight for the university is so good. Leadership should be fighting with and for us.

Silver Springs but it's me yelling "This is what democracy looks like!" while locking eyes with my ex across the on-campus rally

The Vanderbilt community says #NoCompact!!!!

Saving Mamdani’s speech to listen to later as a lil treat

Ezra Douthglesias is FRYING ME 💀

American left-wing patriotism is Jewish guys signing Christian anti-slavery hymns about the first Muslim mayor of New York and I think that’s beautiful

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

Mayor Cardamom lfg

This cheesin ass mfer 🥲

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

Oh no he's going to come to Nashville isn't he

If I delete my LinkedIn will they stop sending me so many fucking emails

Living in the South is fun bc when my employer switched to Okta for MFA everyone thought it was Okra for a minute

First commute home after DST ends is a special kind of hell. Why does everyone forget how to drive in the dark????

WHY would NPR publish a Tiny Desk Concert of my ex's favorite artist onto my feed??? DON'T THEY KNOW I AM SUFFERING

Capital doesn't want you reading things written by smart people. It doesn't want you writing your own stuff. It wants you hooked into a continuous feed of AI slurry, all the better to deaden and control all life.