Scully let's split up. I'll interview this beautiful botanist and you go check out the sewer system full of human bones
Kirk Schlueter
@kirkschlueter.bsky.social
St. Louis-based writer and teacher, doing poetry and horror stuff. www.kirkschlueter.com
The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:
Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?
“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”
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The Pitt, but crossed with Night of the Living Dead
For poetry makes nothing happen. It survives In the valley of its making where executives Would never want to tamper, flows on south From the ranches of isolation and the busy griefs, Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives, A way of happening, a mouth. (Auden on Yeats)
Achilles Micawber@achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 8mo agoWhich lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.
Me as I dip a madeleine into tea in front of Marcel Proust: “oh I’m sorry, does this TRIGGER you????”
Teacher Asks What First Graders Want To Be Once Child Labor Laws Repealed theonion.com/teacher...
Teacher Asks What First Graders Want To Be Once Child Labor Laws Repealed
LIBERTY, MO—After reading aloud a picture book about a puppy that works in a coal mine, local first grade teacher Brianna Montgomery asked her students Thursday what they want to be once child labor laws are repealed. “I want everyone to grab some crayons and draw a picture of what you want to be once […]
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
Making pancakes on a snowy Sunday is just enough to believe in love and good things