Singing, Disney rituals, and a #RENTStory Sharing my latest musings open.substack.com/pub/faithind...

Time for all my friends to be spammed with this again.

Oxford comma or bust

Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Bereft. The best of the Buffy cast. Rest in peace Anthony Head.

David Bixenspan@davidbix.com · 2mo ago

"Buffy the vampire slayer but it's just Giles being sassy"

The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical

Jackie Kennedy sends her regards.

"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional

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happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

I am drowning in grading and generalized depression, but here is a cat, and dogwood blossoms. I am alive and as far as I know disease free (ptuey!) 8 years and 1 day after my 2018 cancer diagnosis. It’s a weird week always. I want to cultivate gratitude. guilt and fear are real. And loneliness.

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, classic Disney, etc.

a woman sits at a table with another woman and says you 're right

ALT: a woman sits at a table with another woman and says you 're right

media.tenor.com

A. M. Vincent@vincent.northsky.social · 3mo ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

There's no one thing called "religion."

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?

You can see her soul leave her body in that exact moment.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Trump: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

He also seems like a pretty decent guy

AAUP@aaup.org · 5mo ago

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

This is a gift link to Jenny Schuessler’s essential article about the DOGE assault on funded peer reviewed humanities research at NEH. And about the lawsuit by @historians.org @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social that is bringing the details to light.

Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Even an effort to catalog and digitize the papers of Thomas Gage, a British general in the American Revolution, was guilty of “promoting inclusivity and diversity in historical research.” + Important update on the lawsuit fr AHA, MLA, ACLS etc. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

💯💯💯 coalitions are about welcoming, not shaming. Change is hard and brave.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We need everyone we can get in this fight against a fascist takeover. If your first instinct to someone being politically mobilized by all this is to give them a sneering "well, what took you so long?" you don't actually care about our winning this; you just want to be able to say you were right.

It's hard enough to be Jewish in a place with few Jews even without violent criminals burning down your synagogue. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today

A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...

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GANDALF: Can you see anything? FRODO: There's nothing…Wait. There are markings. It's some form of Elvish. I can't read it. GANDALF: There are few who can. The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue it says, "Light the lamp, not the rat."

If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.

Sen Mon Mothma for PA 2028

Hey everyone! Can I get 50 reposts for this program? It would mean a lot! www.jccsf.org/event/michae... #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth

The Muppets Take Manet.

Ingrid Burrington@lifewinning.com · 10mo ago

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

#videogames #Zelda #LegendsofZelda #callforpapers

Call for Papers: Religious Emergence and The Sacred in Legends of Zelda

Volume Editor: Michael Barros This book will explore how religion and the sacred emerge from within the structure and narrative of The Legend of Zelda series, one of the most influential …

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“I am the OG vibe shift.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

mcsweeneys.net

Matt Walsh's imaginary professor: "good morning student-comrades. today we learn how to bayonet a white Christian capitalist while taking trans hormones" actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.

one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution

BIAJS is sadly saying goodbye to #Glasgow after three amazing, intense conference days at #BIAJS2025, organised by our president Mia Spiro on the theme of crossing borders. In this thread, some images from the week…