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Megan L. Cook

@meganlcook.bsky.social

Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works

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Megan L. Cook@meganlcook.bsky.social · 2d ago

I know I'm a good five months behind the times, but I'm watching Widow's Bay and in addition to stellar use of character actors, I'm really enjoying the way it uses semi-obsolete technology (short-wave radios, answering machines) to advance the plot

Megan L. Cook@meganlcook.bsky.social · 3d ago

At the risk of sounding like one of those ideological indoctrinators, I love running into students whose self-presentation (including but not limited to gender) has shifted radically over the summer. Getting to work with people figuring their own selves out is one of the best parts of this job.

Megan L. Cook@meganlcook.bsky.social · 3d ago

Why spend Labor Day relaxing with loved ones when you could spend it making three trips to Home Depot instead? (I dropped a glass bottle in the bathroom sink this morning and broke it)

Amanda Wyatt! Visconti@literaturegeek.bsky.social · 6d ago

Libraries, DH centers, other folks w/printer access 🖨️ who can make a stack of free-zine copies: there's a "take one!" poster you can print to go alongside them on our zine page! zinebakery.com//homemade-zi...

Zine cover for "DIY Web Archiving" poster with additional text allowing it to be posted over a stack of the zines encouraging taking some. "Things disappear* from the internet. (*sometimes, are deliberately disappeared) Care about stuff on the web? art zines fan fic videos/tiktoks photo galleries social media hashtags departed loved ones' posts museum & archival materials that we have always existed what really happened cultural memory human rights resistance joy *YOU* need to act to archive it. Anyone can do it-this zine shows you how. Free! Take a bunch! Take more & share with friends! DIY Web Archiving Zine Daedel, Kijas, Kreymer, Walsh, Visconti
Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · 6d ago

DIY web archiving is way more doable than you think. Trust me, we taught elementary schoolers and retirees as part of SUCHO. Then we made a zine about it! Making time for web archiving things that matter should be like shoreline litter pickup or community garden weeding events.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

In July, a new ICE agent with a history of domestic violence and mental illness killed a man in Maine who even ICE admits posed no threat to him. Now we know that internal whistleblowers at ICE were sounding the alarm about the agency utterly disregarding normal hiring rules.

In the wake of a hiring surge last summer, an official in charge of evaluating new recruits to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a dire warning. The Trump administration, he wrote in a memo, was cutting corners, violating the law and fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency — and its law enforcement operations — to “grave national security risks.” Citing an “unprecedented lowering of standards,” the career ICE official said that “systemic breakdowns” had allowed applicants to receive job offers before they had passed basic fingerprint, identity or credit checks in a preliminary vetting process. Political appointees had unjustly skirted background investigations and received national security eligibility.
Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · last wk.

SCOOP: An ICE whistleblower report obtained by the NYT said ICE was cutting corners, violating the law and fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency to “grave national security risks.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...

Megan L. Cook@meganlcook.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think part of the reason the right is so het up about Abdul El-Sayed is that he sounds so much like your average college-educated dude from Michigan (cadence, accent, mannerism). Compensatory freakouts about his name and religion are because he comes across as blessedly normal and they know it

Megan L. Cook@meganlcook.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yeah, this is really good. I'm heartened, too, to see it being shared enthusiastically by folks whom I know take very different positions on AI from one another. We really, really need some solidarity-- inter- and intra-institutionally-- on this.

Josh Eyler@josheyler.bsky.social · 2w ago

Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/