Ever get your period and then spend a week being mad you can't just summon a pile of shredded meat to appear on a plate in front of you whenever you want?
Patti Poblete
@voleuseck.bsky.social
PhD, feminist, social justice warrior, rhetoric & writing program admin scholar, composition teacher, pop culture enthusiast, wanderer, using she/her pronouns. Mostly Filipina and an ex-pat Canadian. pattipoblete.wordpress.com wisdom-is.blogspot.com
I full-body walked through a spiderweb in the park today. Nowhere to go but up.
"Maybe I'll spend three days in Chicago," is a thing I can say during this, my summer of a ridiculously unplanned road trip.
if someone is cooking something and they seem excited about it and you think it's unhealthy ... the place to stick that opinion is up your own ass, follow it with your head, and shut the fuck up.
#CWPA Closing keynote time with Mark Blaauw-Hara! "A WPA's Hierarchy of Cares," because there are many things we care about, honestly.
I'm sorry I was almost late to the roundtable; Hudson Williams was in South Korea yesterday.
Denver, if you're free on Monday, a mountain of free spuds awaits:
‘We genuinely have too many potatoes, I cannot stress enough’: 42,000 pounds of free taters headed to Denver
Twenty-one tons of potatoes are up for grabs at Potato Palooza on Monday.
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If you're an @ncte.org member who gave them your credit card number and told them it was OK to auto-renew your membership, go delete your credit card now. It's the only way, at the moment, to be sure they won't just keep rolling you over.
NCTE: We look forward to continuing to involve the composition, rhetoric, and writing communities as we move forward. The Entire CCCC Membership: new Cs who dis
Sea(n) Otter 🦦@seemtoggle.bsky.social · 2w ago
NCTE has just summarily killed a 77-year-old organization that has shaped how writing is understood, taught, and learned, in higher education in particular. No member involvement. No transparency. No process to speak of. With friends and fellow educators like these, I guess who needs enemies.
Kendall Gerdes 📚🦕@kendalljoy.bsky.social · 2w agoHere it is, folks. @ncte.org Executive Committee votes to "de-charter its special topics conference CCCC," i.e., to shitcan the Cs. mailchi.mp/ncte/ncte-up...
Well, it's official: CCCC has been "de-chartered," WHATEVER THAT MEANS. mailchi.mp/ncte/ncte-up...
NCTE Update, Decision by NCTE Executive Committee
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Below is the initial public statement on NCTE’s intention to dismantle our organization written by the CCCC EC, which includes one rep each from the “cultural identity caucuses,” including ours. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
CCCC EC Quick Response July 23
Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...
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The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), a major professiounal organization, ys about to summarilye destroy anothir vital professiounal organization, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), which thei are supposed to safeguard. What horror nonsense ys thys?
Requesting your library acquire copies of a book is one of the best ways to uplift the authors you love.
Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you want to read a book and your library doesn’t have it, it is truly a massive favor to an author to request that the library acquire it. It really and truly is
yeah, I mean, there's a reason the Niemoller poem has "first we came for the communists" in there. and a reason that that is the line that is rarely if ever quoted.
max asher miller@maxashermiller.bsky.social · 2w agoMy great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.
sedevacantist monks providing more plot elements than anyone strictly needs this morning
Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 2w agoexCUSE me??????????? I take a week off and there’s a KIDNAPPING?!!?!????????
we didn't know what we had in Nigerian Prince till Claude started asking for money
Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 2w agoReally missing the artisanal feel of pre-AI email scams
The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."
CCCC EC Quick Response July 23
Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...
docs.google.com
A new avatar and a new Ebenezer Scrooge have emerged. Check out every trailer from this year’s San Diego Comic Con.
So You Want to See All the Trailers from SDCC 2026?
A new avatar and a new Ebenezer Scrooge have emerged. Check out every trailer from this year’s San Diego Comic Con.
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Okay, here's a joint statement from the CCCC executive team on what they're currently doing in response to the NCTE presidential team's nonsense. It may not be satisfying, but it's public and officialish: www.facebook.com/share/p/14oD...
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A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.