if i had a nickel for every time a sitcom did a "we've been robbed" episode...

all my grades were turned in as of about 1:30 AM this morning, which means they were in two and a half days before the deadline am i even still a professor? #academia

Henry Ford HATED Jazz because too many Jewish & Black Folks were a part of it. He pushed the Department of Education to make square dance part of the curriculum to counter Jazz.

to quote @moggerb.bsky.social this movie is dystopian not the content the existence of the film itself

Oh my gawd I just found this barbarian woman photo shoot Katy O'Brian did a few years and again: her. Movie. With battle axe. Now.

i wrote the easiest final i could think of for one of my classes and the first one i grade got a 30% there's not enough candy in the world for me to deal with this right now #academia

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

zootopia is copaganda, change my mind

damn it, did they nuke @isuggestforcefem.bsky.social at Tumblr again?

Damn

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Sunday we had a great chat on Illusions in D&D across the ages. Hoo boy the rules in the early editions had some whoppers! #dnd #illusions #magic youtube.com/live/vVOcJ3r...

A Year Without Rain has been revised and updated! Check it out:

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

time for one of our favorite Christmas movies: "The Lion in Winter" what? it takes place at Christmas during a dysfunctional family gathering. bam, Christmas movie.

Q: "Why does Frankfurt think bullshit is worse than lying?" students uniformly respond with the definitions of lying and bullshit, rather than picking out the characteristic about bullshit that Frankfurt thinks make bullshit especially pernicious #academia

When I was starting out as an erotica writer, I hung out a lot with an older gay man who'd been writing smut forever. He told me that without straight women writing gay paperbacks in the 1950s, gay culture as we know it might not exist. He insisted gay men owed these ladies a huge unpayable debt.

except those who die young and able-bodied, we all become disabled eventually

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Trying to think of a phrase that sounds very initially exciting and is most disappointing when you find out what it is, and for me that's gotta be "passion play."

it never fails. if you ask the students "is x P or ~P?" a great many of them will answer "both" i swear, it's maddening

one of my absolute favorites. early Luhrman is a delight.

every correct answer on my Intro Phil final was said in class, repeatedly. written on the board, more than once. prefaced and followed by the words, "this is important!" the final exams are a bloodbath #academia

Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born Brancusi's "Bird in Space" (1924), which was the subject of a fascinating legal case about whether it could be considered art.

Kid wandered in half hour late, looked totally surprised that we were taking the final. Can't wait to grade his. #academia

You will be visited by three spirits

i quit smoking back in March for the first time since then, i really want to start again did i mention it's about to be finals week? #academia

Who has made this 🤣

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

i nodded and said "oh yeah?" as a guy badly misexplained Grant's generalship to me and i hate myself for it

I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

In case you missed it: My new video about the wonderful queerness of Oz is now live! youtu.be/n9IXq5MwG5Q

The Gerald Locklin poem never fails to make me tear up. This one, on the other hand...do I ever feel like it? Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae. (by Robert Florence)

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This is in fact the material point: “The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.

@moggerb.bsky.social has informed me that Steve Jackson Games is releasing a new edition of "Toon" so at least *some* good things are happening

Girls being girls is begging your best friend to be gentle & kind to herself, when you are never gentle or kind to yourself. It's ok. We're still learning. And while we work on it, we will be that for each other.

Executive c-suites, especially studio execs, are basically a cargo cult worshipping success with no notion of how it’s actually achieved.

they hate us just for existing

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Happy Clair Cameron Patterson day!

Flash Gordon was released 45 years ago today! "A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth."

i lived in Nashville til i was 32, but i haven't lived there in almost 20 yrs, and i don't think i could ever call it home again, since @moggerb.bsky.com was ever there with me. no place is home without them.

i realize this is far beside the point of everything that is happening, but i wish all the non-Okies would stop referring to the University of Oklahoma as "Oklahoma University"

This glorious part of a glorious thread.

Squeaky Fromme, Bashful Fromme, Sleepy, Happy Fromme, Grumpy Fromme, Doc Fromme

I feel like every "How much does it take to be financially comfortable" discourse is designed to give me, a state employee in the American south, an aneurysm.