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academic, knitter, neo-Victorian convalescent
Famously known in their lifetimes for their love of techno-industrial capitalist oligarchs, if Fanon, Glissant, and Du Bois were alive today, they'd be driving cyber trucks, investing in Kalashi, and celebrating the democratizing, liberatory power of AI.
Opposition to AI slop is colonialism, but weaponizing Black theorists is completely fine and normal, apparently
February 6, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Famously known in their lifetimes for their love of techno-industrial capitalist oligarchs, if Fanon, Glissant, and Du Bois were alive today, they'd be driving cyber trucks, investing in Kalashi, and celebrating the democratizing, liberatory power of AI.
Reparations for women academics.
Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind."
This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students.
yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
February 5, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Reparations for women academics.
You guys, I finally watched the Wuthering Heights trailer, and I think it would be best if we, as a society, pretend this movie never happened.
February 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
You guys, I finally watched the Wuthering Heights trailer, and I think it would be best if we, as a society, pretend this movie never happened.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Southern Law
Southern Music
Southern Women's Memoir
The Southern Renascence
Southen Architecture
I double majored in English and Southern Studies, so I wrote papers on Elvis, Hurston, and shotgun shacks. It was awesome.
Southern Law
Southern Music
Southern Women's Memoir
The Southern Renascence
Southen Architecture
I double majored in English and Southern Studies, so I wrote papers on Elvis, Hurston, and shotgun shacks. It was awesome.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Early Modern Witch Trials
Religions of India
Feminist Science Fiction
Robert Louis Stevenson
Color and 2-D Design
Early Modern Witch Trials
Religions of India
Feminist Science Fiction
Robert Louis Stevenson
Color and 2-D Design
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
January 31, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Southern Law
Southern Music
Southern Women's Memoir
The Southern Renascence
Southen Architecture
I double majored in English and Southern Studies, so I wrote papers on Elvis, Hurston, and shotgun shacks. It was awesome.
Southern Law
Southern Music
Southern Women's Memoir
The Southern Renascence
Southen Architecture
I double majored in English and Southern Studies, so I wrote papers on Elvis, Hurston, and shotgun shacks. It was awesome.
Our faculty assembly just voted to prioritize merit raises over COLA raises, because the tenure track "fuck you, got mine" mentality has worked so well for us in the last decade.
January 30, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Our faculty assembly just voted to prioritize merit raises over COLA raises, because the tenure track "fuck you, got mine" mentality has worked so well for us in the last decade.
Cartoon Self Synthesis: 50% Daria and 50% Jane.
January 29, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Cartoon Self Synthesis: 50% Daria and 50% Jane.
The local iteration of this: "Is Louisville the South?"
Students always say no. No matter how much evidence I lay out, they really don't want the city to be southern.
Students always say no. No matter how much evidence I lay out, they really don't want the city to be southern.
Student: Professor Zimmerman, where does Upstate New York start in your opinion?
Me a Californian: The Catskills, I guess. What do you think?
Student: Anything north of The Bronx.
New Yorkers are ridiculous.
Me a Californian: The Catskills, I guess. What do you think?
Student: Anything north of The Bronx.
New Yorkers are ridiculous.
January 27, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The local iteration of this: "Is Louisville the South?"
Students always say no. No matter how much evidence I lay out, they really don't want the city to be southern.
Students always say no. No matter how much evidence I lay out, they really don't want the city to be southern.
Yeats--always Yeats:
"We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?"
"We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?"
Easter, 1916
I have met them at close of day
poets.org
January 25, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Yeats--always Yeats:
"We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?"
"We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?"
If you're a cop, you've got to have the murder sex to interrupt the banality of the domestic violence.
one of the most popular police training programs is called "killology" & the entire point is to remove the hesitation in using lethal force; it's desensitization to the point of dissociation with a side of eroticized murder
www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-wat...
www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-wat...
January 24, 2026 at 9:08 PM
If you're a cop, you've got to have the murder sex to interrupt the banality of the domestic violence.
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The public never learned which Kentucky National Guard trooper killed David McAtee.
January 24, 2026 at 6:54 PM
The public never learned which Kentucky National Guard trooper killed David McAtee.
The January 2026 Polar Vortex: draw me like one of your French girls
January 24, 2026 at 12:46 AM
The January 2026 Polar Vortex: draw me like one of your French girls
Flashbacks to 1990s women's magazines and cabbage soup mono-meal diets. When economic catastrophe meets 2020s retro-skinny, Vogue steps in....
January 23, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Flashbacks to 1990s women's magazines and cabbage soup mono-meal diets. When economic catastrophe meets 2020s retro-skinny, Vogue steps in....
"Are you prepared for the snowstorm?"
Bitches, I lived in Central Pennsylvania. I once carried an amp half a mile through knee-high snow to hear my friend's band play in a basement at 4am. Somehow, I'll manage this snow-pocalypse in my warm house with my snuggly cats and a fridge full of beer.
Bitches, I lived in Central Pennsylvania. I once carried an amp half a mile through knee-high snow to hear my friend's band play in a basement at 4am. Somehow, I'll manage this snow-pocalypse in my warm house with my snuggly cats and a fridge full of beer.
a woman with blonde hair is sitting with her arms crossed and making a funny face .
ALT: a woman with blonde hair is sitting with her arms crossed and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:23 PM
"Are you prepared for the snowstorm?"
Bitches, I lived in Central Pennsylvania. I once carried an amp half a mile through knee-high snow to hear my friend's band play in a basement at 4am. Somehow, I'll manage this snow-pocalypse in my warm house with my snuggly cats and a fridge full of beer.
Bitches, I lived in Central Pennsylvania. I once carried an amp half a mile through knee-high snow to hear my friend's band play in a basement at 4am. Somehow, I'll manage this snow-pocalypse in my warm house with my snuggly cats and a fridge full of beer.
Ken Burns has a lot to answer for.
some kid on my flight is reading shelby foote's civil war book and i want to tell him to throw that shit in the trash
January 23, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Ken Burns has a lot to answer for.
This may be a controversial stance, but: women named Mia are overrepresented in romance novels.
January 20, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This may be a controversial stance, but: women named Mia are overrepresented in romance novels.
I heard someone IRL use the word "unalive" to refer to a murder--as in, the murderer "unalived" the murder victim.
Remember when we thought the internet was going to make people smarter?
Remember when we thought the internet was going to make people smarter?
January 20, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I heard someone IRL use the word "unalive" to refer to a murder--as in, the murderer "unalived" the murder victim.
Remember when we thought the internet was going to make people smarter?
Remember when we thought the internet was going to make people smarter?
This is true. At the same time, I have an extensive family tree with custom tags that include "crime," "evil," and "murder." There's a Quebecois brothel madam locally famous for rejoicing at a gallows as a man was hung for stealing.
It's okay if you have shitty ancestors. The future is now.
It's okay if you have shitty ancestors. The future is now.
Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time.
Time to claim your true history.
Time to claim your true history.
January 17, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This is true. At the same time, I have an extensive family tree with custom tags that include "crime," "evil," and "murder." There's a Quebecois brothel madam locally famous for rejoicing at a gallows as a man was hung for stealing.
It's okay if you have shitty ancestors. The future is now.
It's okay if you have shitty ancestors. The future is now.
Take a break from your doomscrolling for this. It's mandatory viewing.
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
January 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Take a break from your doomscrolling for this. It's mandatory viewing.
there will prob be a global boycott of US goods by the end of his term
January 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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I think voting is incredibly important. This is why me and my friends have raised $1 million for voting rights.
I think if the ONLY THING you are talking about right now is people voting, you have lost the plot.
I think if the ONLY THING you are talking about right now is people voting, you have lost the plot.
January 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I think voting is incredibly important. This is why me and my friends have raised $1 million for voting rights.
I think if the ONLY THING you are talking about right now is people voting, you have lost the plot.
I think if the ONLY THING you are talking about right now is people voting, you have lost the plot.
It's gotten to the point that walking into the street and screaming "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" over and over and over again seems like a rational thing to do.
Apparently someone was singing Come Out Ye Black and Tans at an anti-ICE demonstration
January 16, 2026 at 1:08 AM
It's gotten to the point that walking into the street and screaming "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" over and over and over again seems like a rational thing to do.
ADHD is TFW you're mid-sentence with your brain racing through 10 different options for how to end it, all of which seem relevant (thanks, pattern recognition). Words seem to go nowhere, but they're going in very particular directions.
It's not inattention. It's competing hyperattentions.
It's not inattention. It's competing hyperattentions.
January 16, 2026 at 12:33 AM
ADHD is TFW you're mid-sentence with your brain racing through 10 different options for how to end it, all of which seem relevant (thanks, pattern recognition). Words seem to go nowhere, but they're going in very particular directions.
It's not inattention. It's competing hyperattentions.
It's not inattention. It's competing hyperattentions.
I am a southern studies professor with 25 years of study and research under my belt, so I say this with some authority: sriracha shouldn't come within a mile of a plate of chicken and waffles. It just ain't right.
January 15, 2026 at 1:44 AM
I am a southern studies professor with 25 years of study and research under my belt, so I say this with some authority: sriracha shouldn't come within a mile of a plate of chicken and waffles. It just ain't right.
There are so many problems with the idea of $3 meals, one of which is that executive functioning is not an unlimited resource.
On the $3/meal thing: I went through a weird period where I tried to be really frugal and would try to limit my grocery budget to $50/week. I am single and educated. It was really hard and ultimately something I gave up, because it made me miserable.
January 15, 2026 at 1:13 AM
There are so many problems with the idea of $3 meals, one of which is that executive functioning is not an unlimited resource.