Jess
@mccqua.bsky.social
Generalist by trade, Early Modernist by degree, and lover of all Nerd Things by heart. I focus on feminist/feminism studies, graphic novels, video games, whatever else grabs me.
me, outloud, to no one: This is not healthy. I am not healthy. This book is not healthy.
me: *presses play on audible*
me: *presses play on audible*
September 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
me, outloud, to no one: This is not healthy. I am not healthy. This book is not healthy.
me: *presses play on audible*
me: *presses play on audible*
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Also too: if your school complies with white supremacist demands, you are not getting a good education. You are instead being indoctrinated into a white supremacist conception of the world, which will fail you because it is based on lies and bigotry.
August 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Also too: if your school complies with white supremacist demands, you are not getting a good education. You are instead being indoctrinated into a white supremacist conception of the world, which will fail you because it is based on lies and bigotry.
Well...that was cathartic.
I know lots of you have strong opinions on this topic, so I hope this will be of interest:
"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."
"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."
Romance and AI Survey
Survey of romance authors' and readers' attitudes toward generative AI
oakland.az1.qualtrics.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Well...that was cathartic.
Good day to the Oklahoma truck driver who blocked cars trying to cut the line as we merged and good day to that driver only 😁
July 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Good day to the Oklahoma truck driver who blocked cars trying to cut the line as we merged and good day to that driver only 😁
I want to really, REALLY second this point. And given that these bots will be ridiculously expensive, once again admin will spend money not on people to "help" people. Coming from our union I am extra disheartened.
Even the NYT knows this is a bad idea.
Partnering with these companies to ruin an entire generation of children is shameful.
Partnering with these companies to ruin an entire generation of children is shameful.
July 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I want to really, REALLY second this point. And given that these bots will be ridiculously expensive, once again admin will spend money not on people to "help" people. Coming from our union I am extra disheartened.
Anyone in the Philly area want to see Much Ado with me this weekend in doylestown at central park? It'll probably be so hot we can't breathe but we can bring our own drinks...
July 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Anyone in the Philly area want to see Much Ado with me this weekend in doylestown at central park? It'll probably be so hot we can't breathe but we can bring our own drinks...
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I'm so slow tp post but CFP! How Not to be a Misogynist, stemming from a wonderful SAA seminar run by the magnificent Lily Berberyan!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
June 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I'm so slow tp post but CFP! How Not to be a Misogynist, stemming from a wonderful SAA seminar run by the magnificent Lily Berberyan!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
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Calls for Chapters.
Shakespeare: New Voices [BOOK]
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2025
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/05/...
Contributors are asked to provide an Abstract (300 words) and an Author bio (150 words) by 30 June 2025.
Dr Ian McCormick
Shakespeare: New Voices [BOOK]
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2025
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/05/...
Contributors are asked to provide an Abstract (300 words) and an Author bio (150 words) by 30 June 2025.
Dr Ian McCormick
June 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Calls for Chapters.
Shakespeare: New Voices [BOOK]
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2025
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/05/...
Contributors are asked to provide an Abstract (300 words) and an Author bio (150 words) by 30 June 2025.
Dr Ian McCormick
Shakespeare: New Voices [BOOK]
Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2025
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/05/...
Contributors are asked to provide an Abstract (300 words) and an Author bio (150 words) by 30 June 2025.
Dr Ian McCormick
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Don't end Pride month without checking out some of these fascinating blogs and podcasts exploring queer Shakespeare over the centuries. 🏳️🌈
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
Artists and scholars on queer Shakespeare | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
June 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Don't end Pride month without checking out some of these fascinating blogs and podcasts exploring queer Shakespeare over the centuries. 🏳️🌈
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
This is a hell of a claim but I mean it sincerely: Superman & Lois may be the best on screen Superman since Christopher Reeve. And my boy Tyler turns in the performance of a lifetime as Clark. *cries in comic book*
June 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is a hell of a claim but I mean it sincerely: Superman & Lois may be the best on screen Superman since Christopher Reeve. And my boy Tyler turns in the performance of a lifetime as Clark. *cries in comic book*
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Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.
June 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.
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It's not just the raids--- people are dying while in ICE custody, and we need to pay attention to this.
A Haitian woman died in ICE custody in Florida in April. At the time ICE said her death was "under investigation".
www.ice.gov/news/release...
A Haitian woman died in ICE custody in Florida in April. At the time ICE said her death was "under investigation".
www.ice.gov/news/release...
Haitian national in ICE custody passes away
Consistent with ICE policy, ERO Miami notified the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Inspector General, and the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility via the Integrity Coordinati...
www.ice.gov
June 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It's not just the raids--- people are dying while in ICE custody, and we need to pay attention to this.
A Haitian woman died in ICE custody in Florida in April. At the time ICE said her death was "under investigation".
www.ice.gov/news/release...
A Haitian woman died in ICE custody in Florida in April. At the time ICE said her death was "under investigation".
www.ice.gov/news/release...
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Today we are launching the 2nd Ukrainian Shakespeare Festival in Ivano-Frankivsk, UA, with a series of open lectures, its own theatre studies summer school and excellent productions from all of Ukraine #ifahakespeareua
ifshakespeare.in.ua/en?fbclid=Iw...
ifshakespeare.in.ua/en?fbclid=Iw...
Shakespeare Festival in Ivano-Frankivsk
We invite the audience to discover the world of Shakespeare through exciting performances.
ifshakespeare.in.ua
June 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Today we are launching the 2nd Ukrainian Shakespeare Festival in Ivano-Frankivsk, UA, with a series of open lectures, its own theatre studies summer school and excellent productions from all of Ukraine #ifahakespeareua
ifshakespeare.in.ua/en?fbclid=Iw...
ifshakespeare.in.ua/en?fbclid=Iw...
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Just had a dispiriting conversation with a teaching colleague who has had students say to their face this year they don't want to read a hand out (dealing with a core skill of the subject studied).
Students sat in class with ChatGPT up, asking questions the handout answers.
In unconnected news:
Students sat in class with ChatGPT up, asking questions the handout answers.
In unconnected news:
Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
Researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University warn that the more you use AI, the more your cognitive abilities deteriorate.
gizmodo.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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@thehill.com Media never wants to call actual lies a lie, but quick to frame Harris’s predictions this way. I know y’all don’t feel shame, but be ashamed.
Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously
June 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
@thehill.com Media never wants to call actual lies a lie, but quick to frame Harris’s predictions this way. I know y’all don’t feel shame, but be ashamed.
I got excited at 10 am and now I'm cooking my whole family chicken parm for dinner and anyway this is why no decision should ever be made before your afternoon nap.
June 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I got excited at 10 am and now I'm cooking my whole family chicken parm for dinner and anyway this is why no decision should ever be made before your afternoon nap.
It is only when I must scroll through all the reels I sent in order to access reels from friends that I realize the sheer MAGNITUDE of nonsense to which I subject these people. But happiness is knowing that at any time, someone somewhere is rolling their eyes at me and heaving the deepest of sighs.
June 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It is only when I must scroll through all the reels I sent in order to access reels from friends that I realize the sheer MAGNITUDE of nonsense to which I subject these people. But happiness is knowing that at any time, someone somewhere is rolling their eyes at me and heaving the deepest of sighs.
I am somewhat notorious amongst my friends for my texting typos. That being said, "Y" is a ridiculous letter and if you choose to put it in a word then you can have rythym in your labryrynth because I am not looking up how to spell those words everytime I use them.
June 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I am somewhat notorious amongst my friends for my texting typos. That being said, "Y" is a ridiculous letter and if you choose to put it in a word then you can have rythym in your labryrynth because I am not looking up how to spell those words everytime I use them.
New way of doing basic tasks when my executive dysfunctions: narrate like I'm an Olympian.
"Folks this is AMAZING! She's put away laundry and now she is DOING ANOTHER LOAD."
"Did she...is she...is that...a vaccuum?!?"
*chariots of fire intensifies*
"Folks this is AMAZING! She's put away laundry and now she is DOING ANOTHER LOAD."
"Did she...is she...is that...a vaccuum?!?"
*chariots of fire intensifies*
May 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New way of doing basic tasks when my executive dysfunctions: narrate like I'm an Olympian.
"Folks this is AMAZING! She's put away laundry and now she is DOING ANOTHER LOAD."
"Did she...is she...is that...a vaccuum?!?"
*chariots of fire intensifies*
"Folks this is AMAZING! She's put away laundry and now she is DOING ANOTHER LOAD."
"Did she...is she...is that...a vaccuum?!?"
*chariots of fire intensifies*
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I know this feels right (and flattering). But that man doesn’t hate smart people. He hates people who won’t do what he wants. Smart people comply all the time.
May 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I know this feels right (and flattering). But that man doesn’t hate smart people. He hates people who won’t do what he wants. Smart people comply all the time.
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Don't miss our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinar on
JULIUS CAESAR
with Emma Smith and Brandi K. Adams
2 June
6-7.15pm
Online via Zoom
All welcome! Register via Eventbrite: shakespeare-webinar-julius-caesar.eventbrite.co.uk
#juliuscaesar #historyplays
JULIUS CAESAR
with Emma Smith and Brandi K. Adams
2 June
6-7.15pm
Online via Zoom
All welcome! Register via Eventbrite: shakespeare-webinar-julius-caesar.eventbrite.co.uk
#juliuscaesar #historyplays
May 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🔥 "Tonight, the people stealing from Americans are not folks with tattoos & hoodies.
It's people wearing suits & congressional pins.
Not in some random alley, wrapped in darkness. But in the United States congress, wrapped in the flag.
We will never forget this." - Congressman Maxwell Frost.
It's people wearing suits & congressional pins.
Not in some random alley, wrapped in darkness. But in the United States congress, wrapped in the flag.
We will never forget this." - Congressman Maxwell Frost.
May 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🔥 "Tonight, the people stealing from Americans are not folks with tattoos & hoodies.
It's people wearing suits & congressional pins.
Not in some random alley, wrapped in darkness. But in the United States congress, wrapped in the flag.
We will never forget this." - Congressman Maxwell Frost.
It's people wearing suits & congressional pins.
Not in some random alley, wrapped in darkness. But in the United States congress, wrapped in the flag.
We will never forget this." - Congressman Maxwell Frost.
When your computer won't wake up you either reenact this scene or you're disappointing your parents, your friends, and for sure the ghost of Gene.
May 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
When your computer won't wake up you either reenact this scene or you're disappointing your parents, your friends, and for sure the ghost of Gene.
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A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).
May 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).