i chose my grad school because it was named after the color of my skin

me: can you keep it down i can't focus w all this noise family: keeps it down me: comes up with new post

i chose my grad school because the local coffee shop served coffee in glasses rather than mugs, and it seemed so cultured and fanciful. hot glass, you may know, hurts your hands and so in practice that meant i was constantly burning myself with the future i had imagined for myself. apt.

I cannot keep up and what is more I refuse to try.

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

ironically the name of the rose is sledbud

Don’t make me tap the chart

had a nightmare that i was in a museum trying to demonstrate the difference in styles of relief sculpture in the Renaissance, but all i could find was photographs of the brooklyn dodgers

In this airport, instead of the news, the TVs are playing an evangelical preacher talking about the apocalypse. Huh.

They've streamlined re-enrolling in insurance with a website called a Journey. The Journey is 13 steps. Rather than writing new content, each step links out to a different pre-existing document, which has its own structure and therefore its own steps. Each of these substeps is made out of tasks....

I know, girl. I know.

Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 2w ago

I know, girl. I know.

the hips, they nothing affirm, and therefore never lieth

So after this, is Messi going to give Yamal another bath?

alternatively, give everyone else a ghost dad, too.

Liana Krissoff@lianak.bsky.social · 2w ago

Confidential to Kit Connor: When you do Hamlet, pls edit out the ghost. It hasn’t worked in at least a century.

Not killing my darlings, just moving them to different locations.

why couldn't england play this well against their historic enemy, argentina

Brushing up for a new class and it really is remarkable how much the Anglophone historiography of North America has been transformed by something as simple as “more people learning Spanish”

writing a book proposal is the absolute worst. i'm a literary scholar because i like playing with other people's legos, but APPARENTLY i cant just say that.

Any ideas for great undergraduate-friendly scholarly readings to be paired with Midsummer Night’s Dream on an introduction to the major course? (So a course not terribly historicist in general bent…) Also welcome ideas for fun theory readings that can stand alone to get prospective majors excited?!

if you know someone who constantly talks about boethius, a good strategy is to yell BOETHIEEZE NUTS. they very seldom have much to say in response.

Karl Steel@karlsteel.bsky.social · 3w ago

reading 1.34 of Boethius's Music treatise for what he says about reason. The practitioner is inferior to the theorist, he says, just as the mistress is superior to her slave, or reason to the irrational. Look at monuments! The names they bear are the leaders, not the workers who erected them

current strands in k-12 education: Texas teachers are encouraged to (a) get students to use ai, and (b) teach the Bible. very excited to see what happens when these two trends intersect. it's undoing the reformation!

thinking about how editorial work can be a kind of care that feels to the person being edited as aggression.

Yes, some skills are now automatable. Eventually we’ll figure out which are crucial enough to test in person, and which can be replaced by new topics that used to be out of reach. But individual faculty can’t revise the curriculum, so meanwhile, they’re placed in an untenable position. +

keep coming back to this interaction between Liam Gallagher and Jon Savage. ‘Oh, I look like a bird?’ ‘Yeah, you have elements of femininity within your masculinity.’

dan ozzi@danozzi.bsky.social · 4w ago

when i interviewed scott mcclanahan last week we started talking about music books. he rattled off so many books that i made an entire post about his favorites: danozzi.substack.com/p/scott-mccl...

i cannot believe the summer is already basically over. trying to redesign three syllabi in the last few days before courses start again in late august

amused at the ads that are like 'ai can tell you what soccer is'. what would we do without this newfound technology?

Hey kids, let me tell you about the greatest rapper of all: William Shakespeare.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4w ago

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP?

Anywhere that sells gingerbread men or chocolate bunnies should offer to kill them painlessly on purchase. I hate taking the first bite and would appreciate a quick decapitation.