It’s all fun and games until you have to grade the stuff you assigned.
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It’s all fun and games until you have to grade the stuff you assigned.
Hypothetically.
one of the principles of the university is faith that does justice — this is very disappointing
We can all admit that Pepys are the worst Easter candy
Blumenthal after getting briefed on Iran: "We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. There's also the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives ... China also may be assisting Iran"
ATLANTA — Democrat Shawn Harris and Trump-endorsed Republican Clay Fuller will advance to an April runoff in a race to replace former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.
Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.
expertoptout@superhuman.com
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the highest compliment paid to an academic is a student finding your work helpful.
The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects, including Egyptian temples, Greek oil flasks, van Gogh paintings, and cuneiform tablets. [thisiscolossal.com]
NEW: DOD employees are being pressured to volunteer to help with DHS's immigration crackdown. The work includes things like: “developing concepts of operation and campaign plans to execute internal arrests and raids as well as patrols along the Southwest Border”
www.wired.com/story/pete-h...
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
this one is an easy shot to take, i think youtu.be/tg51rOJS7n8?...
Portrait of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day (201 years ago), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)’s death date.
Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00026
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
It is really weird to me when people don’t like reading and books.
I get not having enough time to read. I get wanting to read more, but there are just too many distractions around you. Obviously, I get having disabilities that make it difficult to read.
But just not liking books? Who are you?
Eight people were killed by 18-year-old in Canada, who had described violent scenarios involving guns to ChatGPT
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.
--Derek Mahon
WOOOOOOOOT! This sounds amazing.
Ugh the Taymor version haunted me for weeks
So why is Coons on record saying he'd vote to fund this disastrous escapade in Iran?
BREAKING:
The DNC is suing the Trump admin to try to compel the government to say whether it is planning to put armed federal agents or military personnel at polling places and election offices this year.
Who put sad Cillian Murphy in charge of anything?
Modern Language Association Call for Papers. TEACHING DYSTOPIA IN DYSTOPIAN TIMES. This roundtable invites papers from educators at all levels who are working with dystopian texts or at restrictive institutions to share pedagogical, political, and interpretive strategies. 200-word abstracts due March 15 by email to alexander.manshel@mcgill.ca Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026
Call for Papers for MLA 2027 in Los Angeles. The session is titled "Literary Studies Beyond the Academy." What forms of literary study, critical inquiry, and bookish identity-making exist beyond university literature departments? How have readers in marginalized communities and the Global South developed para- or even anti-academic institutions of interpretation? 200-word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026
🚨Just 5 MORE DAYS to submit proposals for these guaranteed sessions @modernlanguage.bsky.social in Los Angeles!
(1) TEACHING DYSTOPIA IN DYSTOPIAN TIMES
(2) LITERARY STUDIES BEYOND THE ACADEMY
Please get in touch with any questions + thanks for sharing!
Dr Deborah Russell explains why 'The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne', Radcliffe's first - and often overlooked - novel deserves a resurgence of critical attention!
Listen to the full episode here: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/editi...
@angelawright1794.bsky.social @dalegothic96.bsky.social
Heads-up, Radcliffe / Gothic people: here’s the brilliant Deborah Russell on Radcliffe’s first novel, ‘The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne’ (1789). 📣
The lie here is "Pluralism is a lie".
IN 1900, the percent of Americans who were recent immigrants was only slightly lower than when Donald Trump began his 2nd term in office.
Those immigrants, back in 1900, did not "destroy`" the country; they helped make America the 20th Century superpower.
GOP congressman from Tennessee Andy Ogles posted on Ex-Twitter on March 9: “Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.”
“Pluralism is a lie”
That really is the consensus on the Right: It’s all a lie, no one actually wants it, it’s all just a conspiracy orchestrated by globalist elites, it destroys the nation.
It’s the one thing that unites all the factions on the MAGA right: A rabid disdain of pluralism.
Why do so many AI loving academics hate thinking?
