You know what else is exhausting about teaching writing in the age of AI? Everyone who doesn't teach writing wanting you to have a hot take on it.

Today my voice to text invented a word: homeowneroticism.

In her house at R'lyeh, dead Morton Salt Girl waits dreaming

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

Prepping for Dragon Con with my annual July covid booster. Hooray for vaccines. Boo for today's headache and general fatigue (so much better than covid!)

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Never fold for a JKR or a Trump or any of these types. Nothing fills their sucking void of a personality. How dare you ever spoke about them! They will just keep coming for you.

Holl🌞@willows-song.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

And another Judge Jeanine case goes up in smoke -- just like you knew it would. After all the grandstanding by Pirro during the press conference announcing the charges, and all the Truth Social posts by Trump about the radical left sabotaging the reflecting pool, this case goes out with a whimper.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

Elon Musk will be spending $100 million to get republicans elected in the midterms. We need to get money out of politics. No one individual should have this much power and influence. Also, tax the rich.

1.) Iran has not apologized to this man. 2.) Donald Trump, no matter what he is talking about, sounds like he is talking about rape. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "We're gonna hit them very hard. I can actually say that because there's very little they can do about it. They've already apologized. But we've gotta smack them a little bit."

Twas it brillig? Twas it really?

We are mostly alphabetical by author regardless of genee. The theory is at my work office. The Holocaust lit is in the guest bedroom (behind a bookshelf with a door so I don't spook the guests), poetry and trade paperbacks are also in the guest room.

Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough of the horrors and doom scrolling. Let's talk about something fun. How do you arrange your books?

I feel attacked #booksky

Jon Ossoff is so relentlessly on message that even his response to a question about his strong 2028 presidential polling turned into an attack on Mike Collins and his ties with a prominent neo-Nazi

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

Wait, but really tho

troyliss@troyliss.bsky.social · 3w ago

The only good thing to come out of the dipshit Odyssey discourse is that at one point I commented “if we’re worried about accuracy, then Jason Mantzoukas should be playing Odysseus,” and now I can’t get it out of my head 😄

The Odyssey (2026) dir. Christopher Nolan

Is there a worse intersection in Atlanta than 14th/Hemphill/Northside? It's truly the most dangerous garbage.

Ready to do a new Prohibition on this specifically

Sean Connery in The Untouchables

Alt: Sean Connery in The Untouchables

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Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social · 3w ago

More than a quarter of American adults have a daily gambling habit, 42 percent of bettors have said they spend more than they should, and a majority of men ages eighteen to forty-nine have an active account with an online sportsbook.

11:44 PM Depeche Mode videos = it's been a good night.

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10 years ago Netflix pushed a preview for a show called Stranger Things. 8 years ago, in a "new book" project about friendship, I presented my first paper on it. That book has morphed and changed from friendship to portal fiction to now "just" Stranger Things. Research is weird, y'all.

I know this ship has sailed, been smashed to bits on the rocks, and the crew all eaten by sea monsters, but just imagine what would be happening right now if President Obama had just paid $5.6 million to a woman he raped.

BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.

Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 3w ago

So Lindsey Graham is really dead?

Creepy girl summer starts now with Matheson's Hell House. I just finished the most boring romance novel and I need something to shake things up.

Especially egregious in light of WVU’s recent cuts to real academic programs: “Lawmakers’ move to mandate the Washington Center followed a high-profile $45 million budget shortfall at WVU. It resulted in the axing of 28 academic majors and hundreds of jobs, including faculty members.”

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

Only one student enrolled in West Virginia University’s new Washington Center after GOP lawmakers mandated the creation of the program Lawmakers allocated around $3 million to the program in the last two years

Good golly miss Molly. Sometimes you really make spice too much. Then you swear and exclaim and cry through dinner even though it's FUCKING DELICIOUS.