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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 1d

Almost all good undergrad teaching tramples on someone else's historicity.

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 3d

Can't wait to read another week's news justifying torture and genocide.

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 6d

Pull for prime always lands as such a roast. Love this.

Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 6d

Russel Hoban for ever.

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 8d

Final Boss of Both-Sides-ing

JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 8d

Remember "close reading is extractive"?

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 8d

The instant they remember you're there, they will forget it all

Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 8d

This is a terrific analysis. And from the point of view of my own expertise, some really impressive, sensible use of data viz to make an argt.

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

British Politics' Midlife Crisis

Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

benansell.substack.com

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 8d

Really interesting and I'm only mildly piqued that I didn't get book club scammed. But I get about two emails a month insisting I talk on WhatsApp about my research. Which... no.

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 8d

Baldur's Gate 2 erasure

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 9d

Never fear, the democrats would NEVER. Compromise is not in their vocabulary. Unlike capitulate, I guess.

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 9d

Not the best prognosis tbh

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 9d

I'm sorry we weren't ready when you were, Jonathan Swift

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10d

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Local News
Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 9d

@mayfly.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you xx

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 10d

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 9d

Growing up in England means that when I see Basel spelled like this I immediately hear in my mind someone shrieking "BA-SIL!"

An AbeBooks listing for a 1535 latin printing of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, printed in Basel; Basel is mis-spelled "Basil".

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 10d

Not that I had great or wild hopes for Ezra Klein, but what the fuck happened

Government Spookdown @untimelygamer.bsky.social · 10d

There are many revealing moments in the Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehesi Coates exchange, but Ezra saying "Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic" in response to Coates eloquently describing the violence that Black people live under is ... something

Coates: You would be hard-pressed to have a conversation with a Black person in this country who is a descendant of slavery and not have them be able to tell you themselves: Look, my uncle, my grandfather, my great-grandfather, they lived in a small town in Mississippi, in Tennessee, in Alabama, and they got into some sort of dispute with a white man. Either they were lynched or we had to run.

Political violence runs through us. It is our heritage. Is that good? No. Do we valorize it? Absolutely not. Do we minimize it? Absolutely not.

But a life free of it is not a thing that’s really in reach in my time.

Klein: Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic.

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 12d

I have even more trouble with Tan Lin and Tao Lin than I do with Nick Royle and Nick Royle

Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 14d

Hey University admins! Happy to see you. Just a quick tip-- if you visit a dept mtg to make an announcement about, really, anything, it would make a big difference if you carried a pen and paper up to the podium with you

You know. Almost as though you planned to listen to the questions you'll get

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 15d

Now Ive tasted how good ownbrand jaffa cakes are, I have to wonder whether mcvities are gouging or if they just have horrendous overheads

Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 15d

1) i absolutely feel you
2) i just rediscovered my commute as thinking time. I walk home talking into a dictation app on my phone

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 15d

YES! "He has paid in professional stigma, also acclaimed by popular vote"

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 15d

Counterpoint -- what if the rapture *is* happening, but no-one on earth is rapture-eligible?

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 15d

James Thomson erasure!

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · 16d

ugggh, solidarity.

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