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Medieval disability stuff. Modern disability stuff. Occasional humorous history stories. Queer, disabled, joyful. She/They
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Continuing (b/c I'm once more teaching my Austen class) my JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO FACULTY MEETINGS
“Now and then, they were honoured with a call from her ladyship . . .She examined into their employments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently ” –Pride and Prejudice, ch. 30
“Now and then, they were honoured with a call from her ladyship . . .She examined into their employments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently ” –Pride and Prejudice, ch. 30
A JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO FACULTY MEETINGS
(an intermittent series)
"He said it, she knew, to be contradicted"--Persuasion, ch. 7
(on the distribution of service commitments)
"Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female."--Northanger Abbey, ch. 3
(an intermittent series)
"He said it, she knew, to be contradicted"--Persuasion, ch. 7
(on the distribution of service commitments)
"Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female."--Northanger Abbey, ch. 3
January 28, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Continuing (b/c I'm once more teaching my Austen class) my JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO FACULTY MEETINGS
“Now and then, they were honoured with a call from her ladyship . . .She examined into their employments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently ” –Pride and Prejudice, ch. 30
“Now and then, they were honoured with a call from her ladyship . . .She examined into their employments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently ” –Pride and Prejudice, ch. 30
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The question should be “Mr. Speaker, were you legitimately elected in 2020? Do you know of any members of congress who specifically were not legitimately elected?”
These guys run every 2 years, and are involved in many many elections. He should be able to be very specific about “irregularities”
These guys run every 2 years, and are involved in many many elections. He should be able to be very specific about “irregularities”
WELKER: Is it healthy for democracy for POTUS to be questioning the 2020 election 5 years later with false claims?
JOHNSON: What's healthy i to be focused on election integrity
W: But that's not 'election integrity.' He's still talking about an election he lost
J: There was a lot of irregularity
JOHNSON: What's healthy i to be focused on election integrity
W: But that's not 'election integrity.' He's still talking about an election he lost
J: There was a lot of irregularity
February 1, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The question should be “Mr. Speaker, were you legitimately elected in 2020? Do you know of any members of congress who specifically were not legitimately elected?”
These guys run every 2 years, and are involved in many many elections. He should be able to be very specific about “irregularities”
These guys run every 2 years, and are involved in many many elections. He should be able to be very specific about “irregularities”
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I think a lot about how vile people were to both Monica Lewinsky and Chelsea Clinton.
We really have come a LONG way in a pretty brief amount of time as a culture on “oh, maybe it’s actually creepy and gross to incessantly perv on teenage girls everywhere all the time.”
there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
February 1, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I think a lot about how vile people were to both Monica Lewinsky and Chelsea Clinton.
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
I’m listening to this in my search to find a specific example of a positive use case for these LLMs (still searching!)…
But there is a great moment here where Mollick makes a Freudian slip and says GPT “helps me solve problems that I didn’t have”. Indeed.
I’m listening to this in my search to find a specific example of a positive use case for these LLMs (still searching!)…
But there is a great moment here where Mollick makes a Freudian slip and says GPT “helps me solve problems that I didn’t have”. Indeed.
An AI Expert Challenges an AI Skeptic, with Ethan Mollick
Podcast Episode · Factually! with Adam Conover · 12/31/2025 · 1h 29m
podcasts.apple.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:10 PM
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
I’m listening to this in my search to find a specific example of a positive use case for these LLMs (still searching!)…
But there is a great moment here where Mollick makes a Freudian slip and says GPT “helps me solve problems that I didn’t have”. Indeed.
I’m listening to this in my search to find a specific example of a positive use case for these LLMs (still searching!)…
But there is a great moment here where Mollick makes a Freudian slip and says GPT “helps me solve problems that I didn’t have”. Indeed.
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The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing."
They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.
They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.
Breaking MS NOW:
The Trump admin is now eyeing Ohio for immigration enforcement operations that could begin as early as next week.
The operation is expected to target Haitian immigrants — with temporary protected status for Haiti expiring on Feb. 3.
The Trump admin is now eyeing Ohio for immigration enforcement operations that could begin as early as next week.
The operation is expected to target Haitian immigrants — with temporary protected status for Haiti expiring on Feb. 3.
ICE eyeing Ohio next, where it is expected to target Haitian immigrants
An estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Haitians live in Springfield, Ohio, a community that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance targeted during the 2024 campaign, falsely accusing the community ...
www.ms.now
January 31, 2026 at 1:54 AM
The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing."
They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.
They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.
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So believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 6:31 AM
So believe me I understand this is deeply frustrating and unfair, but a march that does everything right and still gets tear gassed is a successful march that is winning.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
A lot of the strategy of protest is luring the authorities into engaging in obviously, transparently unjust uses of force.
The laws of hospitality and guest-right scream out in violation. This is one of the oldest and most sacrosanct taboos.
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
February 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
The laws of hospitality and guest-right scream out in violation. This is one of the oldest and most sacrosanct taboos.
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this is so good. read the whole thing.
February 1, 2026 at 6:51 PM
this is so good. read the whole thing.
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PSA:
Revving is a sign of comraderie.
Non-gearheads do not understand this.
Revving is only a threat if the vehicle is pointed at you. Bikers and Jeepers/off roaders rev in *support*. (Harleys and Jeepers also have a modified wave we do at each other, iykyk)
Revving is a sign of comraderie.
Non-gearheads do not understand this.
Revving is only a threat if the vehicle is pointed at you. Bikers and Jeepers/off roaders rev in *support*. (Harleys and Jeepers also have a modified wave we do at each other, iykyk)
During the anti-ICE ride thru Oakland we kept getting split by cars. At one light, a big dude on a motorcycle in full leathers watched us pass while revving his engine. We waved. He scowled.
20 min later we saw him again, scowling, blocking traffic for us as we turned down Broadway. Solidarity.
20 min later we saw him again, scowling, blocking traffic for us as we turned down Broadway. Solidarity.
February 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
PSA:
Revving is a sign of comraderie.
Non-gearheads do not understand this.
Revving is only a threat if the vehicle is pointed at you. Bikers and Jeepers/off roaders rev in *support*. (Harleys and Jeepers also have a modified wave we do at each other, iykyk)
Revving is a sign of comraderie.
Non-gearheads do not understand this.
Revving is only a threat if the vehicle is pointed at you. Bikers and Jeepers/off roaders rev in *support*. (Harleys and Jeepers also have a modified wave we do at each other, iykyk)
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Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
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In the south side of Minneapolis, community members have started setting up filter blockades- which are make shift roundabouts. The intent is to slow down the erratic ICE driving behavior among other things. Full report to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 6:52 PM
In the south side of Minneapolis, community members have started setting up filter blockades- which are make shift roundabouts. The intent is to slow down the erratic ICE driving behavior among other things. Full report to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social
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Worth bearing in mind that a huge number of people on the ground have been working tirelessly and for the most part thanklessly, for many years, to make it happen
I’m not actually expecting that the long-prophesied Texas flip is imminent, but y’know, it could be. It honestly fucking could be. It doesn’t happen until it does
February 1, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Worth bearing in mind that a huge number of people on the ground have been working tirelessly and for the most part thanklessly, for many years, to make it happen
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just decade after benighted decade of racists rebranding eugenics thinking as heterodoxy and people who knew better going along with it bc it’s so gauche to be angry all the time do calm down dear
February 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
just decade after benighted decade of racists rebranding eugenics thinking as heterodoxy and people who knew better going along with it bc it’s so gauche to be angry all the time do calm down dear
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Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
January 31, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
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The figures here also show that 7% of all child suicides were trans children. That compares with trans children making up only 1% of the population.
Trans kids are seven times as likely to die by suicide as cis kids and all this government can do is make things worse and cover these figures up.
Trans kids are seven times as likely to die by suicide as cis kids and all this government can do is make things worse and cover these figures up.
LGBTQ+ children make up 16.6 per cent of the children recorded as dying by suicide in England, QueerAF can reveal 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/one-in-six-c...
www.wearequeeraf.com/one-in-six-c...
One in six children who died by suicide were LGBTQ+, new data shows
Amid heated public debate about whether trans children are dying by suicide, campaigners say we need to "take the politics out of policymaking"
www.wearequeeraf.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:41 AM
The figures here also show that 7% of all child suicides were trans children. That compares with trans children making up only 1% of the population.
Trans kids are seven times as likely to die by suicide as cis kids and all this government can do is make things worse and cover these figures up.
Trans kids are seven times as likely to die by suicide as cis kids and all this government can do is make things worse and cover these figures up.
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On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville.
On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”.
In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.
On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”.
In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.
January 31, 2026 at 11:06 AM
On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville.
On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”.
In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.
On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”.
In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.
On my quest to finish my PhD I have had:
Running out of money x2
Undiagnosed learning disability
2 children
2 children with disabilities
Spouse with undiagnosed AuDHD
Homelessness
An Pandemic[tm]
Spouse with long covid
An abusive relationship
Cancer
Running out of money x2
Undiagnosed learning disability
2 children
2 children with disabilities
Spouse with undiagnosed AuDHD
Homelessness
An Pandemic[tm]
Spouse with long covid
An abusive relationship
Cancer
Because I saw this last night and cant let it go: if you are critiquing people for how long it took them to get a PhD, grow up. Getting a PhD is hard enough without also trying to please some arbitrary speed guideline. It took me a long time in part because of covid, partially because I had to work
January 31, 2026 at 7:37 PM
On my quest to finish my PhD I have had:
Running out of money x2
Undiagnosed learning disability
2 children
2 children with disabilities
Spouse with undiagnosed AuDHD
Homelessness
An Pandemic[tm]
Spouse with long covid
An abusive relationship
Cancer
Running out of money x2
Undiagnosed learning disability
2 children
2 children with disabilities
Spouse with undiagnosed AuDHD
Homelessness
An Pandemic[tm]
Spouse with long covid
An abusive relationship
Cancer
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remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
January 31, 2026 at 12:23 PM
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
Gordon Korman's "Bruno and Boots" series would be hysterical
Quote tweet with a Canadian book that would absolutely kill as a TV series.
I'll start:
RED X by David Demchuk
I'll start:
RED X by David Demchuk
The thing that bothers me so much about Carney's joke about greenlighting the Heated Rivalry show is that it furthers the narrative that it's a needle in a haystack. Anyone who reads Canadian books and watches Canadian film knows that we could have dozens more HRs with enough funding.
January 31, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Gordon Korman's "Bruno and Boots" series would be hysterical
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Medieval psalters be like
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November 9, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Medieval psalters be like
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ohhhhhh okay so what we've learned from the epstein mail drop is that the entirety of the fascistic culture war since the 2010s onward was basically wholesale consolidated through the anglosphere bourgeois old boys club network of pedophile rapists
So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 4:46 AM
ohhhhhh okay so what we've learned from the epstein mail drop is that the entirety of the fascistic culture war since the 2010s onward was basically wholesale consolidated through the anglosphere bourgeois old boys club network of pedophile rapists
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How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
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January 31, 2026 at 10:55 AM
NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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I was trying to think about what has shifted since I went to college 25 years ago. There was definitely cultural pressure to get "a degree would lead to a job" and intense mockery of liberal arts/"useless degrees".
What's changed is that now that mockery comes from the president, provost, & dean.
What's changed is that now that mockery comes from the president, provost, & dean.
I also think the drumbeat of anti-intellectualism/anti-academia a lot of these kids grew up with (along with changes in higher ed itself) has probably understandably made them more likely to go to college but see it as strictly transactional and not be particularly inclined to struggle.
January 31, 2026 at 3:50 PM
I was trying to think about what has shifted since I went to college 25 years ago. There was definitely cultural pressure to get "a degree would lead to a job" and intense mockery of liberal arts/"useless degrees".
What's changed is that now that mockery comes from the president, provost, & dean.
What's changed is that now that mockery comes from the president, provost, & dean.
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I’m no zoning expert but storing humans at a warehouse, a facility designed to store boxes of auto parts or dog food is not ok. Also it’s a concentration camp. Again not ok. The creep of normalizing the abhorrent is kinda getting on my fucking nerves
January 31, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I’m no zoning expert but storing humans at a warehouse, a facility designed to store boxes of auto parts or dog food is not ok. Also it’s a concentration camp. Again not ok. The creep of normalizing the abhorrent is kinda getting on my fucking nerves