Seth Rudy
@sethrudy.bsky.social
18th-Centuryist, Associate Professor, Uncompensated Despairer
New email auto reply this term: I will not be on sabbatical during the Fall 2026 semester. I will have consistent and ready access to email the entire time, but will get back to you as soon as I feel like it because honestly. If this is an emergency, no it’s not.
I’m afraid my kid won’t be very good at school and there’s no sign yet of her being an amoral sociopathic grifter so I don’t know how she’s gonna get a job in this country
Our faculty lounge was converted into communal space for majors to hang out but only so the raccoons and poltergeists wouldn’t have it
I am full of anger. But I have a camera. This hummingbird is full of nectar.
I'm not a sociologist, and I'm all for vocational training, but I'm not sure less higher education for young men is going to help solve our Nazi problem.
Billionaires own everything and no one can afford anything, everyone is scamming everyone else, they don’t want you to own the books you buy and soon you’ll have to watch commercials in the car you paid for, why are Democratic Socialists winning elections
You think the Odyssey discourse is hot, just wait til you see who they cast as Dulness in the adaptation of Pope’s Dunciad
Note from my wife during her live shooter in-service school training session in our very normal sane reasonable country
Too many systems failing today so here’s a hummingbird I photographed.
The dermatologist’s intake forms want to know if I feel like I’m a disappointment to myself or my family and I’m like, look, I already entered my profession
There is SO much money to be made by being an asshole and yet somehow I haven’t made any of it
Oh nooo it’s August and I haven’t been sufficiently productive, how will I get a better non-existent position or publish a book for absolutely no money now, oh nooooooo
For real tho I would watch a film version of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Anne Hathaway could be Life-in-Death
Now adapt Richard Blackmore’s 1712 epic “Creation: A Philosophical Poem”you cowards
My biggest objection to The Odyssey is that it made no effort to address the participation of classical epics in the history of encyclopedism via scientific allegoresis, clearly the most interesting thing about them and which I address in my first book, available for purchase in several places
Trump: Moon lizards of Klorbos stole the 2020 election NYTimes: Trump makes bold claim about election Fox News: Woke left accuses Trump of antireptlilism Twitter: mog the mammals by lizardmaxxing
Liberal Professors are Turning a Generation of Students Against Billionaire Fascists Who Explicitly Want to Replace Them with Robots and Immiserate All of Humanity Forever in Pursuit of Eternal Life on Mars or Whatever
A beachcomber gave this abalone shell to my daughter on our trip to the central coast. Nature is cool.
I have been asked to represent my institution at an Associated Colleges of the South roundtable on academic integrity in the age of AI.
Say what you will about Lindsay Graham, but he…uh…oh. Say what you will about Lindsay Graham.
People: we’d like to be able to have homes and food Tech bros: this generation of smartphones uses paypal to harvest poor people’s organs and our new pervert glasses can instantly make anyone appear naked Government: gotta side with the pervert kidney vendors on this one
I changed my phone wallpaper to a weather app thing for *one day* and when my kid saw it she asked why I didn’t love her anymore, nothing about modern parenting is right
I think instead of all the well placed thinkpieces trying to unravel the mystery of why young people are turning to Democratic Socialism we could just keep running one headline that says “look at the state of capitalism, fuckos”
On the one hand, a remastered version of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag seems an obviously superfluous money grab. But having published academic scholarship on the original, don’t I have an intellectual obligation to play it?
