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academic, knitter, neo-Victorian convalescent
The eternal conundrum: do I teach the Time Machine or War of the Worlds this semester? Cannibals or tentacles? Giant crabs or Martian kudzu? The horrors of reunion with one's wife or the heat death of the universe?
I love HG Wells.
I love HG Wells.
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 AM
The eternal conundrum: do I teach the Time Machine or War of the Worlds this semester? Cannibals or tentacles? Giant crabs or Martian kudzu? The horrors of reunion with one's wife or the heat death of the universe?
I love HG Wells.
I love HG Wells.
I'm looking for readings about tech billionaire accelerationism for my eco-catastrophe class this semester. I'm not having much luck finding longer essays or chapters.
Any recs?
Any recs?
January 6, 2026 at 3:40 AM
I'm looking for readings about tech billionaire accelerationism for my eco-catastrophe class this semester. I'm not having much luck finding longer essays or chapters.
Any recs?
Any recs?
A great thread on writing. We love to see it.
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A great thread on writing. We love to see it.
I'm teaching an English grad class for the first time since the ascendancy of AI plagiarism. I have a firm "no AI" policy that undergraduates routinely ignore.
What are y'all seeing in your grad classes in terms of AI plagiarism lately? How widespread is it? Any strategies for minimizing it?
What are y'all seeing in your grad classes in terms of AI plagiarism lately? How widespread is it? Any strategies for minimizing it?
December 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I'm teaching an English grad class for the first time since the ascendancy of AI plagiarism. I have a firm "no AI" policy that undergraduates routinely ignore.
What are y'all seeing in your grad classes in terms of AI plagiarism lately? How widespread is it? Any strategies for minimizing it?
What are y'all seeing in your grad classes in terms of AI plagiarism lately? How widespread is it? Any strategies for minimizing it?
People who are afraid that students can't take bluebook exams because of issues with handwriting are revealing their own technophilia and screen addiction.
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
People who are afraid that students can't take bluebook exams because of issues with handwriting are revealing their own technophilia and screen addiction.
Petition to throw the entire Clinton family into a volcano.
I think Republicans are overestimating liberals' emotional attachment to Bill Clinton.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Petition to throw the entire Clinton family into a volcano.
I am already dreading going back to campus in the spring, as I've dreaded going back to campus every semester since ChatGPT was released.
I can't overstate how much AI has stolen from me as a teacher.
I can't overstate how much AI has stolen from me as a teacher.
December 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I am already dreading going back to campus in the spring, as I've dreaded going back to campus every semester since ChatGPT was released.
I can't overstate how much AI has stolen from me as a teacher.
I can't overstate how much AI has stolen from me as a teacher.
When I started grad school in 2003, we were told that we had a 50/50 shot of getting a tenure-track job.
When I graduated in 2009, we were told, "basically, you're fucked. Publish more. Uh, good luck."
When I graduated in 2009, we were told, "basically, you're fucked. Publish more. Uh, good luck."
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
When I started grad school in 2003, we were told that we had a 50/50 shot of getting a tenure-track job.
When I graduated in 2009, we were told, "basically, you're fucked. Publish more. Uh, good luck."
When I graduated in 2009, we were told, "basically, you're fucked. Publish more. Uh, good luck."
I've been teaching for over 20 years. Most of my students have been good or downright great. I've also seen some weird shit.
When I see faculty rhapsodizing about teaching and idealizing students, I'm like "okay, but surely you've seen a lot of weird shit too, right?"
When I see faculty rhapsodizing about teaching and idealizing students, I'm like "okay, but surely you've seen a lot of weird shit too, right?"
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I've been teaching for over 20 years. Most of my students have been good or downright great. I've also seen some weird shit.
When I see faculty rhapsodizing about teaching and idealizing students, I'm like "okay, but surely you've seen a lot of weird shit too, right?"
When I see faculty rhapsodizing about teaching and idealizing students, I'm like "okay, but surely you've seen a lot of weird shit too, right?"
I thought I would work in bed, now I am a bed.
December 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I thought I would work in bed, now I am a bed.
I'm writing an abstract for a conference for a paper I haven't written yet. I'm not sure if the idea is smart or shit.
Am I going to kill it? Or am I going to panic the week before the conference because I need to make it work? Smart or shit? 😬
Am I going to kill it? Or am I going to panic the week before the conference because I need to make it work? Smart or shit? 😬
December 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I'm writing an abstract for a conference for a paper I haven't written yet. I'm not sure if the idea is smart or shit.
Am I going to kill it? Or am I going to panic the week before the conference because I need to make it work? Smart or shit? 😬
Am I going to kill it? Or am I going to panic the week before the conference because I need to make it work? Smart or shit? 😬
Après vous, le déluge.
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Après vous, le déluge.
there’s a monster in my closet halp
December 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
there’s a monster in my closet halp
There will be widespread celebrations, but I think at least one MAGA true believer is going to kill people, probably in a mass shooting.
I do not think the right is remotely prepared for the scale of celebration that we’ll see When It Happens
December 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
There will be widespread celebrations, but I think at least one MAGA true believer is going to kill people, probably in a mass shooting.
Some excellent niche content, as we think about Rob Reiner's work today: a meticulous breakdown of When Harry Met Sally as told through its knitwear costuming.
#knitsky #knitting
#knitsky #knitting
The knitwear of When Harry Met Sally: a deep dive nobody asked for.
YouTube video by Cinema Knits
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December 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The last few episodes of Breaking Bad are basically Jesse torture porn.
From Andrea's death onward, the showmakers seem more interested in vicarious sadism and abjection than his character. El Camino draws it out more, basically turning him into Reek from Game of Thrones.
From Andrea's death onward, the showmakers seem more interested in vicarious sadism and abjection than his character. El Camino draws it out more, basically turning him into Reek from Game of Thrones.
December 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The last few episodes of Breaking Bad are basically Jesse torture porn.
From Andrea's death onward, the showmakers seem more interested in vicarious sadism and abjection than his character. El Camino draws it out more, basically turning him into Reek from Game of Thrones.
From Andrea's death onward, the showmakers seem more interested in vicarious sadism and abjection than his character. El Camino draws it out more, basically turning him into Reek from Game of Thrones.
In Breaking Bad, Walter tells Skyler, "I am the one who knocks!" and people applaud, except...he doesn't. Jesse does. Todd does.
It's like the elevator scene in Mad Men when Don tells Ginsberg, "I don't think of you at all." Badass, right? But it's a lie: Don can't stop thinking about Ginsberg.
It's like the elevator scene in Mad Men when Don tells Ginsberg, "I don't think of you at all." Badass, right? But it's a lie: Don can't stop thinking about Ginsberg.
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
In Breaking Bad, Walter tells Skyler, "I am the one who knocks!" and people applaud, except...he doesn't. Jesse does. Todd does.
It's like the elevator scene in Mad Men when Don tells Ginsberg, "I don't think of you at all." Badass, right? But it's a lie: Don can't stop thinking about Ginsberg.
It's like the elevator scene in Mad Men when Don tells Ginsberg, "I don't think of you at all." Badass, right? But it's a lie: Don can't stop thinking about Ginsberg.
This is clown shit. Who could possibly take this seriously? Who thought this was clever enough to put on the cover?
Clowns, all the way down.
Clowns, all the way down.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is clown shit. Who could possibly take this seriously? Who thought this was clever enough to put on the cover?
Clowns, all the way down.
Clowns, all the way down.
On the bright side, Gen Z is going to get to see its first oil war!
*US SEIZES OIL TANKER OFF THE COAST OF VENEZUELA
December 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
On the bright side, Gen Z is going to get to see its first oil war!
"other people aren't accountable to the limits of your imagination"
I want to embroider this on a pillow
I want to embroider this on a pillow
The word you're looking for is "crux", Ciggy.
And yeah, it IS the crux of the issue, and if you can't help imagining everyone who chose differently than you as stupid marks, then I'm not sure what to say aside from: other people aren't accountable to the limits of your imagination.
And yeah, it IS the crux of the issue, and if you can't help imagining everyone who chose differently than you as stupid marks, then I'm not sure what to say aside from: other people aren't accountable to the limits of your imagination.
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"other people aren't accountable to the limits of your imagination"
I want to embroider this on a pillow
I want to embroider this on a pillow
Sometimes I'll spend an hour on Wikitree or Wikipedia writing paragraphs about historical figures who enslaved indigenous and Black people, but whose activities as enslavers are not well known.
It's a small way of undercutting the triumphalism of white histories and genealogy.
It's a small way of undercutting the triumphalism of white histories and genealogy.
December 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Sometimes I'll spend an hour on Wikitree or Wikipedia writing paragraphs about historical figures who enslaved indigenous and Black people, but whose activities as enslavers are not well known.
It's a small way of undercutting the triumphalism of white histories and genealogy.
It's a small way of undercutting the triumphalism of white histories and genealogy.
I'm having trouble finding a suitable picture of myself for my faculty profile. Do you think this picture of an Elvis Presley planter would work instead?
December 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I'm having trouble finding a suitable picture of myself for my faculty profile. Do you think this picture of an Elvis Presley planter would work instead?
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I started writing in games with enormous hesitation: I was an untenured faculty member during GG & all the attacks like it. I have watched colleagues lose their jobs. I took notes as Dorothy taught junior colleagues how to protect themselves. Not a day I write in public do I not imagine worst-cases.
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I started writing in games with enormous hesitation: I was an untenured faculty member during GG & all the attacks like it. I have watched colleagues lose their jobs. I took notes as Dorothy taught junior colleagues how to protect themselves. Not a day I write in public do I not imagine worst-cases.
I took 2 years of semester-long weekly pedagogical seminars when I was a grad student, including individual teaching freshman comp I, teaching freshman comp II, teaching grant writing, and teaching lit.
None of those classes covered material that would've helped me as a TA in a situation like this.
None of those classes covered material that would've helped me as a TA in a situation like this.
December 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I took 2 years of semester-long weekly pedagogical seminars when I was a grad student, including individual teaching freshman comp I, teaching freshman comp II, teaching grant writing, and teaching lit.
None of those classes covered material that would've helped me as a TA in a situation like this.
None of those classes covered material that would've helped me as a TA in a situation like this.
As someone who has had to sit down with admin with highlighted printouts, annotated screenshots, and, in one case, a fucking PowerPoint, to defend myself against bad-faith complaints, including being racist and sexist against white men:
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
As someone who has had to sit down with admin with highlighted printouts, annotated screenshots, and, in one case, a fucking PowerPoint, to defend myself against bad-faith complaints, including being racist and sexist against white men:
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.
Yeah, I want to talk about instructional design under fascism.