My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.

The Independent@the-independent.com · 3d ago

ChatGPT down: OpenAI chatbot not working in major outage

get covered in poison ivy right before the first week of teaching A++ highly recommend

just thinking about how dolly parton, tim curry, paul reubens were all part of a v cool and weird 80s childhood. anyways, here is tim curry doing a video art homage to annabelle serpentine dance www.youtube.com/watch?v=K608...

The Worst Witch (1986) "Halloween Song"

YouTube video by harrypottersdaddy

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If I was walking around a museum and came across this I would walk out immediately.

it is that time of year again when i try to control the chaos of my life with new pens and stationary

shout out to the lady at the water company who wrote me a personal email to say *hey, your house is using a crazy amount of water you should check on it* and my water heater had broken down and she saved our house from so much damage. tricia, you are getting flowers, omg

21st century

lots of random weird people in charge of the whole world now

a friend was hired to replace a prof at cambridge who was charged with child pornography + allowed to quietly retire. when she took the job, one of her new colleagues told her that she would "have really big shoes to fill"

summer days

yes + "Our critics are really fucking stupid, and we’ve given them way too much leeway to conjure senile fantasies out of their own illiteracy"

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3w ago

predictably excellent from hollingshead, every word "Against the forces of antiintellectual fascists+AI tech lords, self-flagellating academics+immediacy fetishists alike, we need to champion the difficulties+pleasures of humanities scholarship with our whole chests." defector.com/humanists-ha...

The pointless National Guard deployment in Washington DC until January 2029 will cost approximately $1.4 billion. This amount could have funded the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endowment for the Humanities for almost 7 years.

Guard Deployment To Washington Into 2029 Will Cost Roughly $1.4B

Hawai‘i will bring home its 27 members later this month after the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.

civilbeat.org

that's a heck of a nyff poster

The summer issue of @culturalcritique.bsky.social -- on Marxism, Form & Futurity -- is live on @projectmuse.bsky.social!! muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283 @uminnpress.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social 📚‼️

"my teenagers had a good time" is just such a great line

Here’s the link for nominating: www.loc.gov/programs/nat...

How to Nominate Films | Film Registry | National Film Preservation Board | Programs | Library of Congress

We are accepting nominations for the 2026 National Film Registry.

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Back then we thought that these things would last forever.

kids saw meshes of the afternoon in a museum today. they were totally enchanted but had a few notes for deren. shadow hands should have been able to pick up things (weirder). also, def more orbs

i know every field is on fire rn but conference reports, wow, what a great thing that used to get published regularly. reading them from conferences in the 80s and 90s. just a dream resource, also v fun and gossipy. tell us the truth, grad students of the past!

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.

Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/

a local family wants to donate dad's antique cameras from ~1920s-60s. they sent along his fastidiously maintained excel spreadsheet with details on each camera and scans of original owner's manuals. so, psa, yes, we accept donations from your lovely cinephile dads with home archives and spreadsheets

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

Come and join us at UC Santa Cruz! We’re looking for an Asst Professor of Narrative Film and Media Production. We’ve got a great program on a spectacular campus in a beautiful part of the world. recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02112

Film & Digital Media: Assistant Professor of Narrative Film and Media Production

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucsc.edu

8yo: you know what the bad thing about watching movies at school is? the teacher never really lets the kids choose and she ALWAYS picks Air Bud.

please apply! come do something weird in the Media Archaeology Lab!

media archaeology lab@mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live! The theme this year is Creative Misuse - interpret as you will. Read the full prompt: https:// drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-7J4UoajGAooans30yEgQKlzys2hD/view Fill out the application: https:// forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyURiWJA