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Calling all #kidlit authors and illustrators! We’re awarding a $4,000 fellowship for you to come and spend time with incredible archives to inspire your next work. Richard Scarry, Esphyr Slobodkina, James Marshall… our holdings are outstanding. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
December 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Calling all #kidlit authors and illustrators! We’re awarding a $4,000 fellowship for you to come and spend time with incredible archives to inspire your next work. Richard Scarry, Esphyr Slobodkina, James Marshall… our holdings are outstanding. Apply! Repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
Have to say, the genre of music I dislike the most is when a composer takes an existing song and puts Christmas lyrics to it. Heard an atrocious Christmas rewrite of Nina Simone’s “Feelin’ Good” today
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Have to say, the genre of music I dislike the most is when a composer takes an existing song and puts Christmas lyrics to it. Heard an atrocious Christmas rewrite of Nina Simone’s “Feelin’ Good” today
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I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
December 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism.
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count.
If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
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The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
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You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
I haven’t spent as much time with Stoppard’s work as I should, but Enigma is one of my favorite movies and this is why: a clever film about clever people, it’s really about fighting and dying for the most meaningful things on earth (companionship, love of country, a future without fascism)
Stoppard always feels clever in a way that so so many writers mimic, but everyone else copies the surface. the Stoppard magic is that the cleverness is impossibly thin, basically transparent, and there’s this unending well of feeling on the other side
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I haven’t spent as much time with Stoppard’s work as I should, but Enigma is one of my favorite movies and this is why: a clever film about clever people, it’s really about fighting and dying for the most meaningful things on earth (companionship, love of country, a future without fascism)
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Here’s the thing about settling to keep the government grant $ flowing: this administration is actively trying to destroy state capacity to fund research at anything close to its current scale. If they’re successful, the entire model of the research university is dead.
Who is supporting these settlements? It’s generally not faculty or even long-time university administrators, it’s university boards and interim administrators who they’ve installed after admins with more of a fighting instinct have been forced out. There’s a playbook here.
@mbkplus.bsky.social and I will have more thoughts on the podcast, but it's no coincidence that the two most draconian settlements were signed by *interim* university presidents.
November 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Here’s the thing about settling to keep the government grant $ flowing: this administration is actively trying to destroy state capacity to fund research at anything close to its current scale. If they’re successful, the entire model of the research university is dead.
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Dr Pepper is a woman, thank you and goodnight
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Dr Pepper is a woman, thank you and goodnight
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society are pleased to announce a joint symposium, to be held June 24-27, 2026, on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Read the complete CFP on the Sedgwick Society website and circulate widely
2026 Joint Symposium
Call for Papers for a joint symposium to be hosted by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and Lydia Maria Child Society Williamsburg, Virginia June 24-27, 2026 The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society…
cmsedgwicksociety.org
November 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society are pleased to announce a joint symposium, to be held June 24-27, 2026, on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Read the complete CFP on the Sedgwick Society website and circulate widely
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The English Department at Virginia Tech is hiring a Collegiate Assistant Professor to teach courses in literature and creative writing. Please forward the listing to qualified candidates in your networks.
Details | Collegiate Assistant Professor | Careers | Division of Human Resources | Virginia Tech
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November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The English Department at Virginia Tech is hiring a Collegiate Assistant Professor to teach courses in literature and creative writing. Please forward the listing to qualified candidates in your networks.
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My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
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Details - Assistant Professor - History of Art & Architecture | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
In text messages to a convicted pedophile, Larry Summers referred to the Chinese woman he was sexually pursuing as “peril.” I’ll let y’all connect the dots on that slur. What a pile of hot, fetid shit this man is and has always been.
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
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November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
In text messages to a convicted pedophile, Larry Summers referred to the Chinese woman he was sexually pursuing as “peril.” I’ll let y’all connect the dots on that slur. What a pile of hot, fetid shit this man is and has always been.
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
Smart professionals fix a problem
Mediocre man gets better
Hot people pretend they dislike each other
Tom Cruise runs
This romcom is really about female friendship
Smart professionals fix a problem
Mediocre man gets better
Hot people pretend they dislike each other
Tom Cruise runs
This romcom is really about female friendship
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
Smart professionals fix a problem
Mediocre man gets better
Hot people pretend they dislike each other
Tom Cruise runs
This romcom is really about female friendship
Smart professionals fix a problem
Mediocre man gets better
Hot people pretend they dislike each other
Tom Cruise runs
This romcom is really about female friendship
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OJO Obrero (ojonc.org) is now available. This website features information about confirmed ICE operations in our state to help parents and workers get to school and work safely. OJO Obrero only features sightings that we can confirm involve federal agents, rather than crowdsourced reports
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
OJO Obrero (ojonc.org) is now available. This website features information about confirmed ICE operations in our state to help parents and workers get to school and work safely. OJO Obrero only features sightings that we can confirm involve federal agents, rather than crowdsourced reports
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Okay, it is still open enrollment and i am still trying to convince you to go and sign up for health insurance. I know it is expensive and scary. But you can do it. The thread embedded here is a tutorial on how to understand and make that decision. I will now write a quickie version.
It's open enrollment time so here's a convenient peg to hang a little tutorial about how to choose your health insurance.
Most of the advice you get is bad. Most of your instincts are bad. I however used to work for a health insurance company and I do arithmetic for a living so I can help.
Most of the advice you get is bad. Most of your instincts are bad. I however used to work for a health insurance company and I do arithmetic for a living so I can help.
Personally I think it's great that my company's HR sends out an official looking tool where they even ask you to pre-populate your healthcare providers and instead of being the actual insurance enrollment process it's just some bullshit checklist to try and convince me I actually don't want a PPO
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Okay, it is still open enrollment and i am still trying to convince you to go and sign up for health insurance. I know it is expensive and scary. But you can do it. The thread embedded here is a tutorial on how to understand and make that decision. I will now write a quickie version.
I have arrived in Philadelphia for #SSAWW2025. Love Philly, love this conference, can’t wait to see wonderful scholars and friends
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I have arrived in Philadelphia for #SSAWW2025. Love Philly, love this conference, can’t wait to see wonderful scholars and friends
If a woman providing unpaid labor to support her husband’s career is a scandal, let me introduce you to the history of agrarian civilization
[the NY Post scrambling to make a last-ditch scandal:]
"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If a woman providing unpaid labor to support her husband’s career is a scandal, let me introduce you to the history of agrarian civilization
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Go vote, America! 🗳🇺🇲🗳🇺🇲
If you run into any issues at the polls, call our Voter Assistance Hotline at (833) 336-8683.
If you run into any issues at the polls, call our Voter Assistance Hotline at (833) 336-8683.
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Go vote, America! 🗳🇺🇲🗳🇺🇲
If you run into any issues at the polls, call our Voter Assistance Hotline at (833) 336-8683.
If you run into any issues at the polls, call our Voter Assistance Hotline at (833) 336-8683.
The English Department at Virginia Tech is hiring a Collegiate Assistant Professor to teach courses in literature and creative writing. Please forward the listing to qualified candidates in your networks.
Details | Collegiate Assistant Professor | Careers | Division of Human Resources | Virginia Tech
careers.pageuppeople.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The English Department at Virginia Tech is hiring a Collegiate Assistant Professor to teach courses in literature and creative writing. Please forward the listing to qualified candidates in your networks.
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society are pleased to announce a joint symposium, to be held June 24-27, 2026, on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Read the complete CFP on the Sedgwick Society website and circulate widely
2026 Joint Symposium
Call for Papers for a joint symposium to be hosted by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and Lydia Maria Child Society Williamsburg, Virginia June 24-27, 2026 The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society…
cmsedgwicksociety.org
November 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society and the Lydia Maria Child Society are pleased to announce a joint symposium, to be held June 24-27, 2026, on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Read the complete CFP on the Sedgwick Society website and circulate widely
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Our culture: why are Gen Z poors buying a coffee every week?
A healthy culture: why are the rich taking a private jet ride every day?
A healthy culture: why are the rich taking a private jet ride every day?
October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Our culture: why are Gen Z poors buying a coffee every week?
A healthy culture: why are the rich taking a private jet ride every day?
A healthy culture: why are the rich taking a private jet ride every day?
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again a reminder that the NYT leadership supports Cuomo *because* of his record of sexual harassment, not *despite* it. they have a strong interest in making sure that they and their friends can never again suffer the indignity of being held accountable by their inferiors.
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
again a reminder that the NYT leadership supports Cuomo *because* of his record of sexual harassment, not *despite* it. they have a strong interest in making sure that they and their friends can never again suffer the indignity of being held accountable by their inferiors.
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When I was a kid the Black Panther Party sustained me with kindness and free bag lunches over one dismal, hungry summer.
I'm white. I was almost as nervous as I was hungry the first time I stood in line. I'll never forget that gentle man's smile or his friendly "See you tomorrow". 😭
I'm white. I was almost as nervous as I was hungry the first time I stood in line. I'll never forget that gentle man's smile or his friendly "See you tomorrow". 😭
October 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
When I was a kid the Black Panther Party sustained me with kindness and free bag lunches over one dismal, hungry summer.
I'm white. I was almost as nervous as I was hungry the first time I stood in line. I'll never forget that gentle man's smile or his friendly "See you tomorrow". 😭
I'm white. I was almost as nervous as I was hungry the first time I stood in line. I'll never forget that gentle man's smile or his friendly "See you tomorrow". 😭
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net