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UW (Seattle) grad student in English Lit, focusing on Victorian poetry and the weirdness of subjective time. NAVSA Poetry Caucus grad coordinator if you want to read some poetry together.
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Hope in Work & Joy in Leisure

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I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

submitted 7 days ago • 173 comments

BREAKING: The State House just voted to increases the cost of a Discover Pass from $30 to $45. This is yet another instance of the legislature finding small, annoying ways to nickel and dime working people instead of taxing the rich

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

So long to Papa Francesco, who had the best name of any pope.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Time to resurrect watching Powers of Ten in class to demonstrate the levels of harm to science done in just a few months. There’s long been a false rosiness and security about STEM funding. But just as NASA finds new worlds so does the NEH—don’t put up with leaving either out of the conversation.

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They will keep making P&P until the sun explodes and still give not ONE deal to an 18th century novel by another woman writer who inspired Austen WITH - old lady racing - wig snatching - actual London season you Bridgerton bitches are obsessed with - a monkey in a full suit biting an aristocrat

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

So did calling it the omnicrisis start to feel redundant?

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Seattle seems to be out of Cadbury mini eggs?? How am I supposed to finish my dissertation now?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Increased cost of pastries will be cause for revolution. Bread and roses and good butter.

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Alert the tar pits!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

DLNK ruined (double lettuce, no kids)

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TNT advertising the French Open with West Side Story’s “Something’s Coming” is a CHOICE. Who snuck hints of racial violence into this tennis promo??

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“Okay, we admit it: We’ve never developed a digital personal assistant more advanced than Clippy—he does have way more interesting hallucinations now though and thinks he is an omniscient God because we give him access to all of your data. Also because he is on shrooms."

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You there, boy! What day is it?

submitted 32 days ago • 49 comments

And to think that some of you would prefer to read nyt op-eds

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The Virginia Enterprise, Minnesota, March 31, 1911

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Jordan Peterson Bursts into Tears, Cancels Climate Pledge Show After Seeing Female-Dominated Workplace: tinyurl.com/2zt6u5e3

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

Email conundrum: does this sounds cheerful or slightly manic or both?

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Mailman scrunched up all the junk mail but didn’t even gently bend this issue, in case one wonders if the humanities still have value

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Hot cross buns ordered so April will be a success no matter how well I wrap up this dissertation

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Being upset at players entering the transfer portal but not keeping the same energy for coaches leaving programs they are contractually obligated to - is absurd. NCAA athletes have a short window between 18-23 to make life changing money. Coaches can coach forever.

submitted 42 days ago • 52 comments

This how you do it! Dog photos and concerns of dog unemployment to get click-throughs to important news. Dog unemployment > doge unemployment

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Timely for finals week

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Worth calling your senator over, @murray.senate.gov

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Did a workshop for the writing center: the tutors are so good at understanding how AI use reflects other deep inequities and pressures at the university; they want peers to have time to think and explore and they understand that’s too rare in today’s climate.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out classical style was much more wearing bright colors and smelling like patchouli, no one tell the “western tradition” folks about these affirmations of white hippiedom (or tell the hippies)

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We have a beautiful new interface for the @laboraction.bsky.social map, including little picketers for pins. check it out: striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Here is the Application Cow for all your mathematical needs

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

Later. Later when we can breathe again, I will ask quietly why my colleagues in STEM never marched for devastating cuts to arts and humanities, disciplines that did not need the same recruitment of diverse populations already here. Now, I will march. Later, I will ask.

submitted 61 days ago • 8 comments

A reminder that The Conversation has huge revenues - $14.9M (2023) - and doesn't pay writers, including people who are non-tenured. You shouldn't write for them or share their work as a matter of labor solidarity with those of us who aren't fancy tenured folks. www.patreon.com/posts/better...

submitted 61 days ago • 10 comments

Reminder that you have approx two weeks to wait and then panic write an abstract as you eat leftovers over the sink at 11pm

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Endless need for vocational training in being the next Woody Guthrie tbh

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

As a serious academic, I have been too busy to watch these movies you all are talking about. Which is why I am here, posting at 1 am… hmm…

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent from @erikmbaker.bsky.social, makes me think of how speed reading becomes a subject of study in the 1890s, intending to empower superhuman productivity—but speed reading just produces more errors. And similar to the subject of the article, the scientists who studied it were eugenicists.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

That confusing bridge season between wool and cotton socks

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Excited to share our preprint "Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research” We're open to feedback—read & share thoughts! @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mmvty.bsky.social @docdre.distributedblackness.net @mariaa.bsky.social @jmjafrx.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @dmimno.bsky.social

submitted 67 days ago • 8 comments

And also, a too rare opportunity to be in a union-protected job

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