Seth Rudy
@sethrudy.bsky.social
18th-Centuryist, Associate Professor, Uncompensated Despairer
The ice recedes, but memories of puffed up birds in the backyard remain. #whitethroatedsparrow #bird
February 3, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The ice recedes, but memories of puffed up birds in the backyard remain. #whitethroatedsparrow #bird
Today in class I said “let’s cross the event horizon of Dickinson’s poems” and even I thought I sounded ridiculous but at the same time a little awesome but mostly not
February 3, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Today in class I said “let’s cross the event horizon of Dickinson’s poems” and even I thought I sounded ridiculous but at the same time a little awesome but mostly not
It’s 2032. Congress rewrites the entire criminal code to conform to the Epstein Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to have sex with or traffic minors ONLY if you have less than 100 million dollars. The Supreme Court upholds the law 6-3.
February 2, 2026 at 10:52 PM
It’s 2032. Congress rewrites the entire criminal code to conform to the Epstein Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to have sex with or traffic minors ONLY if you have less than 100 million dollars. The Supreme Court upholds the law 6-3.
It’s morning. Awake again. Yay.
Here’s ten seconds of a red-bellied #woodpecker and associate on our feeder. #birds
Here’s ten seconds of a red-bellied #woodpecker and associate on our feeder. #birds
February 2, 2026 at 12:40 PM
It’s morning. Awake again. Yay.
Here’s ten seconds of a red-bellied #woodpecker and associate on our feeder. #birds
Here’s ten seconds of a red-bellied #woodpecker and associate on our feeder. #birds
User: what’s the meaning of life
ChatGPT before ads: generations of philosophers, artists, and scientists have pondered this question for millennia
User: what’s the meaning of life
ChatGPT with ads: In The Republic, Plato identifies it as Doritos Twisted Quesos
ChatGPT before ads: generations of philosophers, artists, and scientists have pondered this question for millennia
User: what’s the meaning of life
ChatGPT with ads: In The Republic, Plato identifies it as Doritos Twisted Quesos
February 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
User: what’s the meaning of life
ChatGPT before ads: generations of philosophers, artists, and scientists have pondered this question for millennia
User: what’s the meaning of life
ChatGPT with ads: In The Republic, Plato identifies it as Doritos Twisted Quesos
ChatGPT before ads: generations of philosophers, artists, and scientists have pondered this question for millennia
User: what’s the meaning of life
ChatGPT with ads: In The Republic, Plato identifies it as Doritos Twisted Quesos
What are they using St Helena for right now? Is it available? Asking for a nation.
January 31, 2026 at 2:02 AM
What are they using St Helena for right now? Is it available? Asking for a nation.
We have lost a full week to the snow and ice. Ten days at home. With a five year old. I can see through doors. Through walls. Through time. The past is Mac and cheese. The future is Mac and cheese. Time is a flat noodle. With cheese. I am the walrus.
January 29, 2026 at 7:47 PM
We have lost a full week to the snow and ice. Ten days at home. With a five year old. I can see through doors. Through walls. Through time. The past is Mac and cheese. The future is Mac and cheese. Time is a flat noodle. With cheese. I am the walrus.
When they ask me to be the next dept chair
January 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
When they ask me to be the next dept chair
Don’t believe any reviews you read about Melania, they’re all lies because no one has seen it
January 29, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Don’t believe any reviews you read about Melania, they’re all lies because no one has seen it
Republicans declare Michael “domestic terrorist” for brandishing flaming sword in Eden; say “he was no angel”
January 29, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Republicans declare Michael “domestic terrorist” for brandishing flaming sword in Eden; say “he was no angel”
Day five of being snowbound. Cabin fever has set in. Food stores low. Teabags being reused. There are arguments about hedgehogs. Overlook
Hotel Index: 84%
Hotel Index: 84%
January 28, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Day five of being snowbound. Cabin fever has set in. Food stores low. Teabags being reused. There are arguments about hedgehogs. Overlook
Hotel Index: 84%
Hotel Index: 84%
“Two vast and trunkless legs of snow
Stand in the front yard. . . . “
Stand in the front yard. . . . “
January 27, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Two vast and trunkless legs of snow
Stand in the front yard. . . . “
Stand in the front yard. . . . “
With the Bond films on Netflix I’m thinking about how they misled us to believe that supervillains would be super intelligent…except for Joe Don Baker’s Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights, who is just a rich idiot who likes to play army.
January 26, 2026 at 12:25 AM
With the Bond films on Netflix I’m thinking about how they misled us to believe that supervillains would be super intelligent…except for Joe Don Baker’s Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights, who is just a rich idiot who likes to play army.
I…sigh. Just enjoy ten seconds of this yellow-bellied sapsucker in our yard.
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I…sigh. Just enjoy ten seconds of this yellow-bellied sapsucker in our yard.
The extent and intricacy of revenge I want on some people right now would make the Jacobean dramatists blush.
January 25, 2026 at 12:46 AM
The extent and intricacy of revenge I want on some people right now would make the Jacobean dramatists blush.
I’ve invented a machine that will notify you the instant it starts snowing, day or night. It’s called a five-year-old.
January 24, 2026 at 12:55 PM
I’ve invented a machine that will notify you the instant it starts snowing, day or night. It’s called a five-year-old.
Montaigne’s “On Solitude” is an absolute banger.
January 24, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Montaigne’s “On Solitude” is an absolute banger.
Sometimes I think that literary studies only has a few years left in it anyway so instead of trying to dediscipline myself with AI or DH or whatever I might as well spend the sunset just reading books and having thoughts about them with students. The end is making me want the silo more than ever.
January 22, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Sometimes I think that literary studies only has a few years left in it anyway so instead of trying to dediscipline myself with AI or DH or whatever I might as well spend the sunset just reading books and having thoughts about them with students. The end is making me want the silo more than ever.
We take a break from our regularly scheduled vitriol to ask if any #18thcentury types out there know anything about “Joan Plotwell” and The Ragged Uproar (1754). Esp. the scenes featuring the “a la mode system of Fortune-Telling."
January 22, 2026 at 6:06 PM
We take a break from our regularly scheduled vitriol to ask if any #18thcentury types out there know anything about “Joan Plotwell” and The Ragged Uproar (1754). Esp. the scenes featuring the “a la mode system of Fortune-Telling."
Wow with everything that’s been happening I almost forgot how much I also hate Jim Jordan
January 22, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Wow with everything that’s been happening I almost forgot how much I also hate Jim Jordan
Do you think Cruz still has to book travel to Cancun himself or do the airlines and hotel staff just check the forecast and do it automatically
January 22, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Do you think Cruz still has to book travel to Cancun himself or do the airlines and hotel staff just check the forecast and do it automatically
Tomorrow, Jack Smith will tell us what we already know in front of people who won’t do anything about it.
Imma still watch, tho
Imma still watch, tho
January 22, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Tomorrow, Jack Smith will tell us what we already know in front of people who won’t do anything about it.
Imma still watch, tho
Imma still watch, tho