snackowski
@snackowska.bsky.social
environmental humanities, urban / spatial studies, American studies, post-1945 literature. president of an imaginary Raymond Williams Fan Club
me, every spring: i'm going to get so much work done this summer!
weather: nope
weather: nope
July 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
me, every spring: i'm going to get so much work done this summer!
weather: nope
weather: nope
so tired of generational thinking. it's like it wasn't enough that people are divided into nation-states. we have to turn generations into nations too
July 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
so tired of generational thinking. it's like it wasn't enough that people are divided into nation-states. we have to turn generations into nations too
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"Thanks to AI we can finally automate the stuff teachers do and have them focus on what really matters, filling out compliance paperwork"
July 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"Thanks to AI we can finally automate the stuff teachers do and have them focus on what really matters, filling out compliance paperwork"
CBC is about to do a story about AI in education - about the "positive potential and lingering concerns." i bet it's gonna be an administrator's wet dream
July 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
CBC is about to do a story about AI in education - about the "positive potential and lingering concerns." i bet it's gonna be an administrator's wet dream
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This is the weird things that subset a white men ponder all damn day unprompted.
July 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is the weird things that subset a white men ponder all damn day unprompted.
the ridiculous humidity (it's adding 14 degrees to the base temp) plus the constant noise of window fans and the smallness of the room is starting to make me feel like i'm stuck in some terrible submarine
July 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
the ridiculous humidity (it's adding 14 degrees to the base temp) plus the constant noise of window fans and the smallness of the room is starting to make me feel like i'm stuck in some terrible submarine
move to Ontario only if you want to spend your summers feeling like the air is secreting some sort of sticky air mucous
July 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
move to Ontario only if you want to spend your summers feeling like the air is secreting some sort of sticky air mucous
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A lot of people in the US feel that as long as they can go on minding their daily lives of work and consumption that fascism has not arrived, but COVID, global warming, and Gaza has demonstrated that is precisely this desire to go on as if nothing is happening that drives contemporary fascism.
July 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A lot of people in the US feel that as long as they can go on minding their daily lives of work and consumption that fascism has not arrived, but COVID, global warming, and Gaza has demonstrated that is precisely this desire to go on as if nothing is happening that drives contemporary fascism.
if you hated Abundance and now you’re looking for something new to hate, may i recommend Stuck by Yoni Appelbaum
July 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
if you hated Abundance and now you’re looking for something new to hate, may i recommend Stuck by Yoni Appelbaum
i'm okay with not being good at success. but what if i'm not even good at failure
July 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
i'm okay with not being good at success. but what if i'm not even good at failure
i would like to thank all the people who wrote blog posts grappling with Henri Lefebvre, because they all do a better job of relating this weirdo than published academic works
July 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
i would like to thank all the people who wrote blog posts grappling with Henri Lefebvre, because they all do a better job of relating this weirdo than published academic works
too bad how, for five pandemic years, people have received expert-level training in how to fabricate a sense of normal as their world deteriorates
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
July 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
too bad how, for five pandemic years, people have received expert-level training in how to fabricate a sense of normal as their world deteriorates
never go into politics. legacy media will find some questionable essay you wrote in grade 6 and try to ruin your life
July 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
never go into politics. legacy media will find some questionable essay you wrote in grade 6 and try to ruin your life
the pandemic never ending and our near-total elision of it have been so demoralizing and demotivating. nothing ever improves on that front, and there's no sign it ever will. something about it makes me feel like i'm constantly dropping into inertia and it's harder and harder to climb out
July 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
the pandemic never ending and our near-total elision of it have been so demoralizing and demotivating. nothing ever improves on that front, and there's no sign it ever will. something about it makes me feel like i'm constantly dropping into inertia and it's harder and harder to climb out
are you a vegetarian if you have no dietary morals but accidentally stopped eating meat for a year out of sheer laziness
July 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
are you a vegetarian if you have no dietary morals but accidentally stopped eating meat for a year out of sheer laziness
books like Abundance and Stuck leave the impression that anyone who opposes new buildings is some racist HOA conservationist. this is convenient for supply-side libs, because it villainizes, by extension, anyone who stands in the way of "progress," including tenants fighting against demoviction
July 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
books like Abundance and Stuck leave the impression that anyone who opposes new buildings is some racist HOA conservationist. this is convenient for supply-side libs, because it villainizes, by extension, anyone who stands in the way of "progress," including tenants fighting against demoviction
[close reading] ha! i see what you did there
July 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
[close reading] ha! i see what you did there
it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, sure, but it's also pretty easy to imagine the United States sinking, Atlantis-style, into the sea
July 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, sure, but it's also pretty easy to imagine the United States sinking, Atlantis-style, into the sea
good evening to everyone except the sociopaths who designed the Arm & Hammer baking soda box
July 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
good evening to everyone except the sociopaths who designed the Arm & Hammer baking soda box
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Don't worry i am just having a slow, shudderingly violent aneurysm after seeing that *my own university library* is now pushing students to use AI for "brainstorming" & "writing models." They should "be cautious," though, if as individuals they "are concerned about plagiarism."
July 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Don't worry i am just having a slow, shudderingly violent aneurysm after seeing that *my own university library* is now pushing students to use AI for "brainstorming" & "writing models." They should "be cautious," though, if as individuals they "are concerned about plagiarism."
i should be able to consume irresponsible amounts of caffeine and suffer no adverse effects
July 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
i should be able to consume irresponsible amounts of caffeine and suffer no adverse effects
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We are drowning in tech created by men who are either afraid of women, despise us, resent us, or some combination of all of it.
Fuck their sauceless, wack ass "optimization"
Fuck their sauceless, wack ass "optimization"
July 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We are drowning in tech created by men who are either afraid of women, despise us, resent us, or some combination of all of it.
Fuck their sauceless, wack ass "optimization"
Fuck their sauceless, wack ass "optimization"
reminds me of those cases of children kept locked away from the world by their abusive guardians, in a state of deprivation so extreme they never truly developed language use
AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.*
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
July 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
reminds me of those cases of children kept locked away from the world by their abusive guardians, in a state of deprivation so extreme they never truly developed language use
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Why do universities hate grad students? Why do they despise the idea of grad students being able to pay rent? Do they think that if grad students can eat a healthy diet they'll do worse research? This is a single-digit percentage of Harvard's budget, but clearly this will solve all the problems.
Harvard, aka Resistance U, is taking advantage of the Trumpist NLRB to crush its grad student union by stripping it of 800 members.
Sounds about right.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Sounds about right.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
July 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Why do universities hate grad students? Why do they despise the idea of grad students being able to pay rent? Do they think that if grad students can eat a healthy diet they'll do worse research? This is a single-digit percentage of Harvard's budget, but clearly this will solve all the problems.