Ben Wetherbee ⚓❄🐝
@wetherbeephd.bsky.social
❄ English prof & WPA, Northern Michigan U
❄ rhetorical theory & history, writing, film
❄ review ed., enculturation
❄ aspiring Yooper
❄ union thug
❄ he/him
#teamrhetoric
❄ rhetorical theory & history, writing, film
❄ review ed., enculturation
❄ aspiring Yooper
❄ union thug
❄ he/him
#teamrhetoric
Tell me, tell me, tell me how you eat that tick ...
- The Cure if they were guinea fowl
- The Cure if they were guinea fowl
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Tell me, tell me, tell me how you eat that tick ...
- The Cure if they were guinea fowl
- The Cure if they were guinea fowl
Unfortunately, I think the demon from The Exorcist is really funny.
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Unfortunately, I think the demon from The Exorcist is really funny.
Update: TIL she actually thought my name was Jon.
An FYW student named me Dr. John Wetherbee in the corner of the paper. I wonder if this was a test to see if I even read the MLA-style corner-matter.
October 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Update: TIL she actually thought my name was Jon.
October 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
An FYW student named me Dr. John Wetherbee in the corner of the paper. I wonder if this was a test to see if I even read the MLA-style corner-matter.
October 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
An FYW student named me Dr. John Wetherbee in the corner of the paper. I wonder if this was a test to see if I even read the MLA-style corner-matter.
Got some good news last night about an article I've been trying to publish (in some form or another) since 2018.
a man in a suit and bow tie is sitting at a desk with a national geographic poster in the background
ALT: a man in a suit and bow tie is sitting at a desk with a national geographic poster in the background
media.tenor.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Got some good news last night about an article I've been trying to publish (in some form or another) since 2018.
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Perhaps related. Sharon Crowley writing in 1990 about how current-traditional pedagogy does not so much teach writing but rather conformity to prescriptive essay forms.
#genai+writing #writingstudies #teamrhetoric
#genai+writing #writingstudies #teamrhetoric
September 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Perhaps related. Sharon Crowley writing in 1990 about how current-traditional pedagogy does not so much teach writing but rather conformity to prescriptive essay forms.
#genai+writing #writingstudies #teamrhetoric
#genai+writing #writingstudies #teamrhetoric
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Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
September 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
Just talked to an FYC student whose paper is theorizing a distinction between meaningful and meaningless "yapping."
Teaching writing rules.
Teaching writing rules.
September 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Just talked to an FYC student whose paper is theorizing a distinction between meaningful and meaningless "yapping."
Teaching writing rules.
Teaching writing rules.
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guys, we have a tone shift
September 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
guys, we have a tone shift
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Just for fun, I'm going to give you some clips of the hate mail I got from being placed on Kirk's TPUSA Dangerous Professor list. Buckle up:
September 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just for fun, I'm going to give you some clips of the hate mail I got from being placed on Kirk's TPUSA Dangerous Professor list. Buckle up:
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"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see
September 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"this silksong boss is so hard" and a pic is posted and this is the boss i see
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An interesting thing about Silksong is the way that it combines elements of the classic Metroid and Castlevania games. Could this be the start of a new genre?
September 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
An interesting thing about Silksong is the way that it combines elements of the classic Metroid and Castlevania games. Could this be the start of a new genre?
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"legally untested"
Breaking News: The White House is moving to cancel $4.9 billion that lawmakers approved for foreign aid programs, using a legally untested maneuver to slash spending without congressional approval.
Defying Congress, Trump Moves to Cut $4.9 Billion in Foreign Aid
The White House notified Congress that it plans to use a legally untested maneuver to circumvent lawmakers and claw back more money for foreign aid programs.
nyti.ms
August 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"legally untested"
Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Trailer
YouTube video by Team Cherry
www.youtube.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Experimenting with "integrated courseware" for the first time this term, and I'm already very annoyed and teetering on the edge of "never again"
August 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Experimenting with "integrated courseware" for the first time this term, and I'm already very annoyed and teetering on the edge of "never again"
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Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
tenbluelinks.org
August 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
Last Book: Tactics of Conquest by Barry Malzberg
Current Read: Gather in the Hall of the Planets by Malzberg, Kill the Dead by Tanith Lee, and Naming What We Know by Stephen Neaderheiser (ed.)
Last Added to TBR: The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
Next: Cross of Redemption by James Baldwin
Current Read: Gather in the Hall of the Planets by Malzberg, Kill the Dead by Tanith Lee, and Naming What We Know by Stephen Neaderheiser (ed.)
Last Added to TBR: The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
Next: Cross of Redemption by James Baldwin
Last Book: Struggle for the City by Derek Handley
Current Read: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin and More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
Last Added to TBR: Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (s/o @rangedtouch.bsky.social)
Next: Empire of AI by Karen Hao
Current Read: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin and More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
Last Added to TBR: Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (s/o @rangedtouch.bsky.social)
Next: Empire of AI by Karen Hao
Last book: Foundation by Asimov (technically a reread, but I'm counting it since I was 12)
Current read: The Origins of Critical Race Theory by Aja Martinez/Robert Smith
Last to tbr: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Next: Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Current read: The Origins of Critical Race Theory by Aja Martinez/Robert Smith
Last to tbr: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Next: Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
August 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Last Book: Tactics of Conquest by Barry Malzberg
Current Read: Gather in the Hall of the Planets by Malzberg, Kill the Dead by Tanith Lee, and Naming What We Know by Stephen Neaderheiser (ed.)
Last Added to TBR: The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
Next: Cross of Redemption by James Baldwin
Current Read: Gather in the Hall of the Planets by Malzberg, Kill the Dead by Tanith Lee, and Naming What We Know by Stephen Neaderheiser (ed.)
Last Added to TBR: The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
Next: Cross of Redemption by James Baldwin
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Gorgias, Hollow Knight, Octavia Butler, A Tribe Called Quest, the Oxford comma, and RoboCop.
August 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Gorgias, Hollow Knight, Octavia Butler, A Tribe Called Quest, the Oxford comma, and RoboCop.
Props to *Weapons* for getting George Harrison's "Beware of Darkness" stuck irrevocably in my head for what I assume will be weeks. What an amazing song with inscrutably beautiful chord changes and even better lyrics.
August 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Props to *Weapons* for getting George Harrison's "Beware of Darkness" stuck irrevocably in my head for what I assume will be weeks. What an amazing song with inscrutably beautiful chord changes and even better lyrics.
My school has asked me to sit on an interdisciplinary panel about generative AI at new faculty orientation next week, and I just want to express gratitude for @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's Substack.
August 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My school has asked me to sit on an interdisciplinary panel about generative AI at new faculty orientation next week, and I just want to express gratitude for @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's Substack.
Saying rhetoricky things tomorrow about two of my favorite writers
📍ISHR 2025 in Copenhagen
📍ISHR 2025 in Copenhagen
July 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Saying rhetoricky things tomorrow about two of my favorite writers
📍ISHR 2025 in Copenhagen
📍ISHR 2025 in Copenhagen
My most masculine quality is how much I love little collectible lighthouse figurines
July 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My most masculine quality is how much I love little collectible lighthouse figurines
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I try to live by a few straightforward principles in times of upheaval, when those in power try to confuse and daze us with endless cruelty. One of which is 擇善固執: choose what's good, and be stubborn about it.
June 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I try to live by a few straightforward principles in times of upheaval, when those in power try to confuse and daze us with endless cruelty. One of which is 擇善固執: choose what's good, and be stubborn about it.