Michelle Martin
@michellemartin.bsky.social
English educator. Ph.D. in theory/Am lit. Small-time farmer, sometimes banjo-picker, and Appalachian native. Lover of sci-fi, film, high modernism, and goats. Political junkie.
Picture, if you will, a world in which Kamala Harris was elected and dropped an f-bomb on camera.
June 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Picture, if you will, a world in which Kamala Harris was elected and dropped an f-bomb on camera.
A polyphemus moth my daughter found this evening.
June 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
A polyphemus moth my daughter found this evening.
Doris Lessing, from Memoirs of a Survivor.
May 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Doris Lessing, from Memoirs of a Survivor.
Books I've started and subsequently neglected during winter semester (well, a few of them were started before that). Time to get moving on summer reading.
#booksky
#booksky
May 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Books I've started and subsequently neglected during winter semester (well, a few of them were started before that). Time to get moving on summer reading.
#booksky
#booksky
May 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
One goat away from opening a portal to another dimension.
May 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One goat away from opening a portal to another dimension.
I have full sympathy for typos bc they happen to the best of us, but this one made me lol.
![Screenshot of the linked article with typo circled:
"Kids should avoid AI companion bots - under force of law, assessment says. Withinput from a Stanford Lab, Common Sense Media conclude the AI systems can exacerbate problems like addition [circled typo] and self-harm."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gz3mperfzbqk6b5ghoasjvsm/bafkreiejhs46hbmyjx3an4o5fmkoavjb5tvrlgk5dvqforfjjvxbhrejba@jpeg)
April 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I have full sympathy for typos bc they happen to the best of us, but this one made me lol.
If you see this, post a robot.
April 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If you see this, post a robot.
End of the semester here. In my composition class, there's an Appalachia unit, and we cover the opioid epidemic, including the shameless swag pharma gave doctors to push pills. Today, a student surprised me with a gift when he submitted his final portfolio - an OxyContin plushie.
April 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
End of the semester here. In my composition class, there's an Appalachia unit, and we cover the opioid epidemic, including the shameless swag pharma gave doctors to push pills. Today, a student surprised me with a gift when he submitted his final portfolio - an OxyContin plushie.
Paying citizens to snitch on members of their communities is horrifying. The fact that they'd sell out their neighbors for crypto is pathetic.
We apparently learned nothing from the McCarthy era. It is the smallest of comforts to know that history rarely looks back on snitching culture favorably.
We apparently learned nothing from the McCarthy era. It is the smallest of comforts to know that history rarely looks back on snitching culture favorably.
March 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Paying citizens to snitch on members of their communities is horrifying. The fact that they'd sell out their neighbors for crypto is pathetic.
We apparently learned nothing from the McCarthy era. It is the smallest of comforts to know that history rarely looks back on snitching culture favorably.
We apparently learned nothing from the McCarthy era. It is the smallest of comforts to know that history rarely looks back on snitching culture favorably.
One of my favorite fun little ironies from literary history to tell my students about is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creative imagination behind Sherlock Homes, our cultural epitome of logical reasoning, fell hook, line, and sinker for the Cottingley fairies hoax.
March 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
One of my favorite fun little ironies from literary history to tell my students about is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creative imagination behind Sherlock Homes, our cultural epitome of logical reasoning, fell hook, line, and sinker for the Cottingley fairies hoax.
We added a cover to the hay feeder to stop this doeling from jumping into it. Clearly, she thinks we added it to help her jump higher....
The mountain goat tendency is strong with this one.
#goatsky
The mountain goat tendency is strong with this one.
#goatsky
March 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We added a cover to the hay feeder to stop this doeling from jumping into it. Clearly, she thinks we added it to help her jump higher....
The mountain goat tendency is strong with this one.
#goatsky
The mountain goat tendency is strong with this one.
#goatsky
Just finished this little sci-fi gem by Fred Hoyle from 1957, a very methodical (but well-paced, nonetheless) account of the discovery of a black cloud that will soon obscure the sun. Moderately steeped in hard science, and ~90% of the book is dialogue among astronomers, a feat in itself.
#BookSky
#BookSky
March 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Just finished this little sci-fi gem by Fred Hoyle from 1957, a very methodical (but well-paced, nonetheless) account of the discovery of a black cloud that will soon obscure the sun. Moderately steeped in hard science, and ~90% of the book is dialogue among astronomers, a feat in itself.
#BookSky
#BookSky
I don't know that it's widely considered bad (cult classic, maybe?), but it's so cheesy and I love it.
February 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I don't know that it's widely considered bad (cult classic, maybe?), but it's so cheesy and I love it.
![“[W]e, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gz3mperfzbqk6b5ghoasjvsm/bafkreihigofaz7bqfgay2vs6jgyk37kvgokg3uf2lemt3dtaz27obpcaf4@jpeg)
