Work with me! The English Department at Davidson College is hiring a tenure line in Creative Nonfiction. The department is a thriving faculty and student community of critics and writers and weirdos like me.

If you're in Jackson, please join us for a great documentary on voting rights activist Vernon Dahmer, who died defending his family from the KKK. Afterward, hear from Dahmer's son, Dennis, who survived the fire, & filmmaker Charles Stuart. Starts at 10 am at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

Oh, shit. Seriously: oh, shit.

If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.

Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley! Born on this day in 1797 🫀

“She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy,” Jane Fonda writes about her friend Dolly Parton. “That’s something of hers she’d want us all to take with us.” "To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you.” www.justjared.com/2026/08/25/j...

Jane Fonda Pays Tribute to '9 to 5' Co-Star Dolly Parton, Sends Message to Her 'Gay & Trans Fans'

Jane Fonda is mourning the loss of her 9 to 5 co-star Dolly Parton. The 88-year-old actress released a statement moments ago after learning of the news of

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Here's another tenure-track job. This is for Canadian studies at Western University in London Ontario, the forest city. www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes. Not so hotte damne swyvinge evil.

Bluesky Users 🚩🚩🚩 DO NOT FALL FOR ENGAGEMENT BAIT 🚩🚩🚩

Any mutuals who do freelance graphic design? Looking for quotes for a small project.

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

every time i think i can't hate ai more it's like "actually you can hate us more, Preeti, you can."

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

I don’t know if it would help. But it wouldn’t hurt. And it would tell their communities that the upper administration would fight with them rather than betray them. And that would help.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.

Teams and sports are capitulating to Trump's sports ban threat left and right across the United States. Except for women's rugby teams. Even though they are attempting to ban trans athletes, several teams are not complying. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Defying Trump, Baltimore Rugby Players Refuse To Comply With Trans Sports Ban Demand

The Baltimore Ferals—and rugby players nationwide—are standing with their trans teammates.

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But to th’ goal

senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign

Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct@erindwyer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Time keeping is my passion.

People may honestly labor under the belief that ChatGPT is a search engine comparable to the Google of yesteryear. They're mistaken. That's not a difference of opinion. Calling it a search engine, shows you don't understand how LLMs work. ChatGPT is deeply flawed, often in ways invisible to users.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Used ChatGPT as my search engine” 👀 🫠 Editor-in-Chief of Science

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we do not neede no Gen A.I. tooles we do not neede no thoughte control

Title IX baby.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This feels like a good time to note that, indeed, USWNT is the winningest team in international sports history (win percentage: 84) the18.com/en/soccer-en...

dont ever come for the king

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Weird Al: "I said, ‘Oh well, yeah, sure, I could do that.’ And then a week before we’re supposed to shoot it, I find out this is AI. And I thought, ‘Oh no, I can’t be the poster boy for AI, forget it.’" variety.com/2026/biz/new...

Getting your National Endowment for the Humanities grant reinstated? Tell us about your amazing projects and we'll share your hard work here!

Lady Froldmagen (she/her)@zinelib.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My NEH grant was reinstated. Thank you to everyone who pushed back against the Trump administration to make that happen. When we fight, we win! zines.barnard.edu/news/neh-cha... When college presidents cave, we lose!

Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.

Mississippi Police Officer Shoots and Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Response to Shoplifting Call

A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart while responding to a shoplifting call.

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It’s Margaret Cavendish time!

James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.

Lecturer in English Literature University of Oxford - Oxford Lifelong Learning Location: Oxford. £39,424 to £47,779 per annum www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU210/d...

#earlymodern delighted that this is now out it has been a privilege to work with such fine scholars and a tribute to Betty Hageman who commissioned the volume