Ashley Rattner
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social
Utopia enthusiast and former Internet personality
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.
![In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ty2kxmxjmtealqi2kc7f4pww/bafkreiej6o22cdapxm6lj3rgrrznhhijzm5kpcjmvscemg2g7vg4tzm7na)
the whole “institutions won’t love you back” thing remains true, but there have to be people in the institution fighting for their right to be there or there aren’t going to be humanities and social science programs at all.
Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2
Pleased to announce that I am wearing my Cloudbusting shirt today and the guy at the farmer's market selling sugar babies gestured to Kate Bush and was like "Is that you mom or your sister or something?"
I wonder what society would be like if large technology firms weren't iron-dedicated to making the working lives of teachers unbearable
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past
(ask editors for things the way you wish students would ask you for things)
Maybe the answer to daylight savings is to stop organizing life around work.
seeing an overwhelming number of dogshit headlines from the atlantic
This is probably my most important critical insight
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 2w agoIn “heated” (by 19th-century standards) letters, Herman Melville asked Nathaniel Hawthorne to “his cottage.” “Hawthorne seems to have pulled away,” writes @hesterblum.bsky.social, “in a Berkshires version of Heated Rivalry’s tuna meltdown in Boston.”
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago
Both critical for reaching our UN-agreed to climate change goals
Ashley Rattner@ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 2w agoA bunch of children on the MARTA platform started a GO SPAIN, GO SPAIN chant that caught on and then morphed into GO TRAIN the longer we waited
A bunch of children on the MARTA platform started a GO SPAIN, GO SPAIN chant that caught on and then morphed into GO TRAIN the longer we waited
Truly a crime we never got a second season of this show cc: @amybrown.xyz
Ashley Rattner@ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 3w agoYeah, I watched the Odyssey
the only correct post on this topic
Ashley Rattner@ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 3w agoYeah, I watched the Odyssey
Who am I missing? Cynthia’s wine bar Peter/Patricias nightclub Kandi’s TAGG Boutique Nenes Swagg Boutique Kenya Moore’s never-opened spa Kelli’s Nana Waffles Roswell Kandi’s OLG restaurant Pinky’s Slutty Vegan Kandi’s Blaze Steaks She By Sheree