grateful that this dahlia plant just keeps on going

as I already mistakenly texted @rcolesworthy.bsky.social, my day’s brightened considerably by learning that Chekhov was hot.

Weird tablescaping heals me

finished my re-read of Giovanni’s Room for book club this weekend & it has to be top 5 for emotionally devastating novels

“outrage, a word that, significantly, in the period I study is also an archaic term for rape. But, like rape, this conduct is nothing if not predictable; one might say that Epstein and his outrages represent heterosexuality, as a sociosexual form…” read Greta! socialtextjournal.org/periscope_ar...

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence

The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.

thecut.com

say boo.

“Rule-breaking is the whole fucking point. It is not incidental. It is foundational. It’s why [frats] were created in the first place -- a secret place to break rules and then have each other’s backs to keep each other from punishment." (image from 1906) celestemdavis.substack.com/p/im-so-sorr...

officially more dahlias than I know what to do with — this is one plant 🌱

@ashleyrattner.bsky.social won an award tonight for her brilliant article about Benjamin Lundy in Early American Lit, but the real award was when she talked our septuagenarian & v cool tour guide into giving us a sneaky tour of the tunnels underneath the Oneida commune. He also let us into his apt.

Chittenango Falls, obviously very ugly

learning about complex marriage & funding your commune through flatware at the Oneida Community Mansion House

had my first authentic ny state chicken riggies, and I totally get it.

Controversial but I think this is peak magnolia season

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...

I quite like her (and will add an artist credit once I figure it out)

Professoring is so weird, like I took a bunch of classes in linguistics and then I taught a bunch of courses in linguistics and then wrote a two-hundred page thesis in linguistics and now like a quarter of my job is just making decisions about university and departmental curriculum

some Ana Mendieta, just because (Siluetas series, 1973)

I hope people can see that this is the logical end point of the "measure the value of disciplines by ROI were R is conceived solely in terms of $" thinking that has, quite frankly, been enthusiastically embraced by both parties, to the detriment of students, faculty, and democracy itself.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w ago

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

I cannot overestimate how auspicious an omen it is for Philadelphia that LeBron has chosen this year to go fully bald for the first time.

between this story & the one about Maddie Kowalski and the “burnerverse” a few weeks ago, it’s clear that frats remain among this country’s most cherished rape infrastructure (one type of infrastructure the U.S. loves to maintain)

Deb@sailebed.bsky.social · 2w ago

Update: abcnews.com/US/district-...

some Ana Mendieta, just because (Siluetas series, 1973)

clipping dahlias before the nor’easter

Our new issue drops today. It's a double issue focused on textiles.

minimalist fall florals

I'm late to the Dartmouth provost AI story. I'm very grateful to the student journalists who did the reporting and analysis. But I'm also wondering who has thoughts about the Pangram ed tech "AI detector"? Maybe @mattseybold.bsky.social ?

Thesis 4: “the tweet says that, whenever Christopher Nolan brags about not having a phone or an email account, all he’s doing is telling us that his wife raises their kids all by herself. Does this man have a ClassDojo account? Is he looped into the shared calendar?”

Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wrote about whether Odysseus is a *dad* or a *father* — and why Christopher Nolan should just get a phone and not be such a turd about it. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/the-dadyssey

one of my passions is making fun of Shoes Academics Wear, but I include myself as a target: I like that these look like something you’d find on a Bronze Age bog body

add in some cigarettes my friend bought w her fake ID and this is a significant chunk of my teenage years

jab lung@mobute.bsky.social · 3w ago

later on me and my friends are gonna stand around the haunted k mart parking lot and hate conformity