Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
Felicia Francesca, PhD
@feliciagabriele.bsky.social
PhD: c19th anti-slavery bazaars & exhibitions | material (culture) girlie | Lecturer @mcgillu | ✍ (she/her)
Rewatching Crazy Ex Girlfriend because I need bits and songs and crippling depression all mixed into one
July 4th 2026 marked the 250th anniversary of the United States of America's Declaration of Independence. Felicia Gabriele @feliciagabriele.bsky.social explores how she approached teaching it in a Canadian university classroom and shares some of her students' projects. Read it below!
Teaching in Interesting Times: America @ 250 in the Canadian Classroom
Felicia Gabriele The expression, “May you live in interesting times,” seems on its face, pleasant enough. Resembling a well-wish, its sunny exterior deftly cloaks the dark, cavernous depths within.…
activehistory.ca
For @activehist.bsky.social I wrote about what it was like teaching #America250 in Canada. But really, I just wanted an excuse to show off how brilliant my students are! Teaching in Interesting Times: America @ 250 in the Canadian Classroom activehistory.ca/blog/2026/07...
Teaching in Interesting Times: America @ 250 in the Canadian Classroom
Felicia Gabriele The expression, “May you live in interesting times,” seems on its face, pleasant enough. Resembling a well-wish, its sunny exterior deftly cloaks the dark, cavernous depths within.…
activehistory.ca
Jared Kushner in Venezuela looking for property.
Guilherme Briggs as Dracula
ALT: Guilherme Briggs as Dracula
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I dunno, maybe if the rest of the world also adopted historians' compulsive citational practices, and footnoted everything, we'd have a better information environment
The 250th anniversary of America is exactly what I thought it would be: with America losing wars constantly and the president arresting you for disrespecting his pool
“It broke me to realize that in the Hamptons, plants are covered for the winter while people are left outside in the cold with nothing.”
Where Billionaires Summer, a Gardener Died in the Snow
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I hope Elon celebrates his win as the first trillionaire by remembering how lonely he is and how much everyone hates him.
"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...
Intellectual Homelessness: The Adjunct and the Disappearing University - Working Mass
By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...
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I have enjoyed the met gala in the past, but am having a hard time connecting to the theme of let’s party while the plebes lose their rights
“Each of us here has a story of generational struggle. Amazon is trying to erase that.” Warehouse workers, delivery drivers, and software engineers are organizing against America’s deportation machine.
Amazon powers ICE. Its workers aren't happy.
Warehouse workers, delivery drivers, and software engineers are organizing against America’s deportation machine.
motherjones.com
The nineties were better in the sense of several extremely bad things not having happened yet
We’ll march day and night, by the big cooling tower. They have the plant, but we have the power. —Lisa Simpson
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez welcomed the ceasefire in Iran but clarified, “this momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.”
Spanish Prime Minister Welcomes Ceasefire in Iran But Rejects Praise for Trump
“The government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.”…
truthout.org
Today is Primidi the 1st of Germinal in the year 234. Germinal is the month of sprouting. Today we celebrate primrose. #JacobinDay More information on primrose
What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have. This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.
If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know? But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.
I think anyone with a heart would be truly against fuelling an economy of militarism and genocide if they actually understood the human and environmental costs of war.
Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
imagine being so rotted that Bruce Springsteen writes a brand new song about how much you suck shit and announces it by saying “by the way I’m so fucking mad that I banged this out in 24 hours” how are you still up and walking around after being slammed like that
A man told me yesterday that it was important to "take emotion out of the equation“ when analysing the situation in the US, at which point I told him very calmly that "a woman who disagrees with you is not necessarily emotional". Ladies, it was a breakthrough. I should have done this years ago.
Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil
We’ve got filibusterers, a POTUS attacking a Latin American country, agents of the state seizing Americans in the streets… hey kids, now you, too, can experience the joys of Antebellum America!
“We envision a resistance that is a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises.” Universities are racing to AI in FOMO-like fashion. @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social & @cnygren.bsky.social look at ways to resist.
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
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I watch a lot of movies, and I’m picky - I don’t like a lot of the movies that ppl rave about. But what I’ve learned is that to make one good piece of art is a miracle, and Rob Reiner gave us so many miracles. How lucky were we to have him. How lucky are we still that he left those miracles behind.