David Anderson
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I teach @UofLEnglish. I love to post on African American and American literature, music, sea writing, and history.
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At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.
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Say what you want about Bluesky, but any social media platform the can quickly turn up knowledge like this is fine by me. Scroll up to see the music he's describing. It's wild (to my ears), beautiful, & had me completely baffled. The performance is stunning.
Her playing is killer! It's a traditional Bulgarian dance in 11/16. 2+2+3+2+2 if u want to dance to it.
December 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Say what you want about Bluesky, but any social media platform the can quickly turn up knowledge like this is fine by me. Scroll up to see the music he's describing. It's wild (to my ears), beautiful, & had me completely baffled. The performance is stunning.
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"Friedberg visited Rhode Island Hospital on Saturday night, where she said she spoke with her teaching assistant, who had traveled there to support several of their injured students." Wow, the TA was present at the shooting and then went with students in the class to hospital to support.
December 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
"Friedberg visited Rhode Island Hospital on Saturday night, where she said she spoke with her teaching assistant, who had traveled there to support several of their injured students." Wow, the TA was present at the shooting and then went with students in the class to hospital to support.
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Currently at the New York Young Republican’s annual gala, where the MC is 18-year-old streamer Matan Even.
Introduced as a “landlord activist,” he is singing the SpongeBob theme and bombing, to boos
Introduced as a “landlord activist,” he is singing the SpongeBob theme and bombing, to boos
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Live updates: Two deceased in active shooter incident at Brown University
Serving the Brown University community since 1891
www.browndailyherald.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure.
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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I am heartbroken for Brown and the students, staff, and faculty who have to get through this. I hope they have everything they need to navigate such senseless brutality.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I am heartbroken for Brown and the students, staff, and faculty who have to get through this. I hope they have everything they need to navigate such senseless brutality.
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If the well known men were the faces of the Civil Rights Movement, then Ella Josephine Baker was muscles, joints, ligaments, and electrical current that made it work.
The engine behind SNCC
You simply don't have the movement without Ella Baker.
Born 123 years ago today.
Happy birthday queen
The engine behind SNCC
You simply don't have the movement without Ella Baker.
Born 123 years ago today.
Happy birthday queen
December 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If the well known men were the faces of the Civil Rights Movement, then Ella Josephine Baker was muscles, joints, ligaments, and electrical current that made it work.
The engine behind SNCC
You simply don't have the movement without Ella Baker.
Born 123 years ago today.
Happy birthday queen
The engine behind SNCC
You simply don't have the movement without Ella Baker.
Born 123 years ago today.
Happy birthday queen
I just learned from my daughter that there is an active shooter situation at Brown University near Barus and Holley Engineering. I hope people there can remain safe. www.abc6.com/active-shoot...
Active shooter situation at Brown University | ABC6
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Police are currently responding to an active shooter situation at Brown University. ABC 6 News obtained a text alert sent to members of the campus community alerting them of ...
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December 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I just learned from my daughter that there is an active shooter situation at Brown University near Barus and Holley Engineering. I hope people there can remain safe. www.abc6.com/active-shoot...
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Just bought it on Apple Books - meant to buy it sooner. Get it now!!
If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone: 9780593237144 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark...
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December 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Just bought it on Apple Books - meant to buy it sooner. Get it now!!
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Charlottesville-area friends & all others who are in the holiday spirit, please join me in donating to help our neighbors in need, if you can.
(If you don't use C or Venmo, look for Paypal info in the replies to the original post.)
(If you don't use C or Venmo, look for Paypal info in the replies to the original post.)
Holiday Mutual Aid:
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! It’s time for YEAR 6!
With recent federal-level changes creating new challenges in our community, we’re prioritizing core necessities. We are still welcoming traditional gifts. More info below.
We take care of us.
To Give
C: $zyahnab
Venmo: Zbryant01
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! It’s time for YEAR 6!
With recent federal-level changes creating new challenges in our community, we’re prioritizing core necessities. We are still welcoming traditional gifts. More info below.
We take care of us.
To Give
C: $zyahnab
Venmo: Zbryant01
December 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Charlottesville-area friends & all others who are in the holiday spirit, please join me in donating to help our neighbors in need, if you can.
(If you don't use C or Venmo, look for Paypal info in the replies to the original post.)
(If you don't use C or Venmo, look for Paypal info in the replies to the original post.)
Already modifying my grading rubrics following this semester's group of AI-distorted student work.
December 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Already modifying my grading rubrics following this semester's group of AI-distorted student work.
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Raul Malo, lead singer of The Mavericks, has died at 60 l NPR www.npr.org/2025/12/09/nx-s...
Raul Malo, lead singer of The Mavericks, has died at 60
The son of Cuban immigrants, Malo and his band blended country, rock and roll, folk, jump blues, Latin music and Cajun rhythms into a distinct sound anchored by his unmistakable voice.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Raul Malo, lead singer of The Mavericks, has died at 60 l NPR www.npr.org/2025/12/09/nx-s...
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There is no ongoing threat to the campus, the university said.
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1 dead, 1 injured in shooting at Kentucky State University, suspect in custody: Police
The Frankfort Police Department said it responded to an incident on the school's campus Tuesday afternoon "regarding an active aggressor."
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December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
There is no ongoing threat to the campus, the university said.
abcnews.go.com/US/people-in...
via ABC News App
abcnews.go.com/US/people-in...
via ABC News App
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If I wanted to learn about how cotton became rags which then became paper in C18 and 19 England, what would I need to read?
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If I wanted to learn about how cotton became rags which then became paper in C18 and 19 England, what would I need to read?
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Ai school was the data science school was the entrepreneurship school was the consulting school was the…
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Ai school was the data science school was the entrepreneurship school was the consulting school was the…
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Good guy. Good politics. One of the unsung heroes of US diplomacy in Africa (under Democratic administrations). And easily the best congressional representative that my district has ever had. I'm very glad to see him in the race.
Former Rep. Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat who won his sole term in a huge 2008 upset, unexpectedly announces campaign against GOP Rep. John McGuire. Trump carried the current version of #VA05 56-43, but it could look a lot different if Democrats convince voters to approve a new map this spring.
Tom Perriello For Congress Launch Video
YouTube video by Tom Perriello
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December 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Good guy. Good politics. One of the unsung heroes of US diplomacy in Africa (under Democratic administrations). And easily the best congressional representative that my district has ever had. I'm very glad to see him in the race.
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Read more about the problem in
Barrow, J. T. “The Phantom Footnote: Misattribution in Early Modern Polemics.” Historical Textual Analysis 42, no. 3 (2018): 112–129.
Vance, A. “Recursive Fictionality: When Hypothetical Bibliographies Enter the Canon.” Review of Meta-Scholarship 5, (2022): 12–30.
Barrow, J. T. “The Phantom Footnote: Misattribution in Early Modern Polemics.” Historical Textual Analysis 42, no. 3 (2018): 112–129.
Vance, A. “Recursive Fictionality: When Hypothetical Bibliographies Enter the Canon.” Review of Meta-Scholarship 5, (2022): 12–30.
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Read more about the problem in
Barrow, J. T. “The Phantom Footnote: Misattribution in Early Modern Polemics.” Historical Textual Analysis 42, no. 3 (2018): 112–129.
Vance, A. “Recursive Fictionality: When Hypothetical Bibliographies Enter the Canon.” Review of Meta-Scholarship 5, (2022): 12–30.
Barrow, J. T. “The Phantom Footnote: Misattribution in Early Modern Polemics.” Historical Textual Analysis 42, no. 3 (2018): 112–129.
Vance, A. “Recursive Fictionality: When Hypothetical Bibliographies Enter the Canon.” Review of Meta-Scholarship 5, (2022): 12–30.
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
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Today’s Featured Poem:
“a holler hello / ymmv in Appalachia” by Bernard Clay from Southern Humanities Review, vol 58.1
Read here:
poems.com/poem/a-holle...
“a holler hello / ymmv in Appalachia” by Bernard Clay from Southern Humanities Review, vol 58.1
Read here:
poems.com/poem/a-holle...
a holler hello / <em>ymmv in Appalachia</em>
as warm as a Black Baptist church service
on a rural one-land road
on a sunday in may
poems.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Today’s Featured Poem:
“a holler hello / ymmv in Appalachia” by Bernard Clay from Southern Humanities Review, vol 58.1
Read here:
poems.com/poem/a-holle...
“a holler hello / ymmv in Appalachia” by Bernard Clay from Southern Humanities Review, vol 58.1
Read here:
poems.com/poem/a-holle...
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Tonight! Detroit Symphony. Free livestream. Bruch violin concerto, with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, & Brahms second Symphony, with the single most exciting measure in the classical repertoire.* livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv/live-broadca...
ROMANTIC TREASURES: BRUCH & BRAHMS - Saturday, December 6 at 8:00PM ET - Live from Orchestra Hall
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider performs treasures of German Romanticism, both as violin soloist and conductor. Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 is a virtuosic display that also wears its heart on its sleeve with ...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Tonight! Detroit Symphony. Free livestream. Bruch violin concerto, with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, & Brahms second Symphony, with the single most exciting measure in the classical repertoire.* livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv/live-broadca...
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
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Great @archive.org talk btw @samuelmoore.org + @hjoseph.bsky.social abt reimagining open-access through small, sustainable, scholar-led publishing (Heather reminds us that the commercial academic journal publishing market is an $11B industry, w/ 20-40% profit margins "because of the free labor")
Publishing Beyond The Market : Internet Archive & Authors Alliance : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Join author Samuel Moore in conversation with Heather Joseph as they reimagine open access through collective, scholar-led publishing.Resources shared:Chat
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December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Great @archive.org talk btw @samuelmoore.org + @hjoseph.bsky.social abt reimagining open-access through small, sustainable, scholar-led publishing (Heather reminds us that the commercial academic journal publishing market is an $11B industry, w/ 20-40% profit margins "because of the free labor")
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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
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This position is fundamentally segregationist—civilization is "erased" by the presence of people who do not share the ethnic background of the present majority—something ironically at odds with the history of Europe, which has been profoundly shaped by migration bsky.app/profile/matt...
All this hate for migrants when nothing transforms a culture more than capital. No amount of immigrants will ever change America, the capitol of capital, more than America transforms immigrants into American businesspeople, citizens of money.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This position is fundamentally segregationist—civilization is "erased" by the presence of people who do not share the ethnic background of the present majority—something ironically at odds with the history of Europe, which has been profoundly shaped by migration bsky.app/profile/matt...