I have to admit this is a new one for me.
I have to admit this is a new one for me.
Would it be week 10 of the winter quarter without a debacle involving spilled hair oil in the car that results in the appearance of having peed oneβs pants?
Sorry I now see Toby mentioned the hostage crisis lol.
The dog was kidnapped and ransomed multiple (three?) times.
Despite Portland State faculty & staff securing $311M in higher ed funding, reducing Oregonβs higher ed cuts from 5% to 0%, PSU admin move forward in enacting worst cuts in its history. Why?
@psuaaup.bsky.social
What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since
He loves a good nape!
Oh good gravy. Burke had thoughts on a lot of things, and they were mostly, at the end of the day, about boobs. Signed, an actual eighteenth-century scholar.
WWEB do β said no one.
Thanks @glavey.bsky.social for humoring / enabling me.
Itβs March Meowness in San Diego. Plz vote for my very cute dogs. Last but not least, Izzy. (Vote for them both, no need to choose! π) [Alt text: link to a photo of a lion-esque chihuahua wearing a periwinkle harness, walking along the shore β face is pure joy.] woobox.com/p5kg3p/galle...
Itβs March Meowness in San Diego. Plz vote for my very cute dogs. First up, Oona. (Vote for them both, no need to choose! π) [Alt text: link to a photo of a tricolor pup wearing a seafoam harness, her ears flapping in the wind β she looks like she could fly.]
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this is a framework for capitulation to fascism, with some fancy medieval citations thrown in to smarten it up and give it a gloss of moral seriousness
"Noise Up the World" is an exhibition exploring the archive of novelist, essayist, philosopher, and scholar Sylvia Wyntervwith special attention to her major projects on Man, and the Autonomy of Human Cognition.
Reception
Mar 2, 2026
Invocation: Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social
Send them yr proposals!!
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Thx Corbin, I am so excited for yr book!!!
Thank you Manu!!!! βΊοΈ
Snippet of publishing agreement with OUP for a book titled Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned β part of the Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures series edited by Patricia Matthew and Manu Samriti Chander.
All the things have been signed, so it is official: my book on lyric manscapes, planetary humanisms, & ambivalent reading is forthcoming in OUPβs Race in C19 Literatures & Cultures series! @triciamatthew.bsky.social & @profchander.bsky.social you are extraordinary editors, grateful for you. Woohoo!
your emergency moment of calm: baby opossum eating a grape
Thanks for humoring me, I realize it is a very stupid joke.
I am mad at myself for not yelling THAT WAS WILD(E).
Canβt wait to read!!!
In honor of the publication day of The Enclosures of Free Verse (uncpress.org/978146969306...), here's a little thread about what the book does and does not offer.
Ah I follow, yes, it was wild (har)!
Glad you agree this is an endorsement of my teaching. Clearly the hummingbird could not stay, a distraction from the sin of criticism.
None beyond that it was assigned today for discussion β happenstance!
Walked into my classroom today right after a hummingbird flew into it. A student and I were able to bundle said hummingbird up in her puffer jacket and transport it outside. Then we all talked about Dorian Gray. High point of the quarter.
A California agency received 20k AI-generated comments opposing heat pump rules. Staff called a sample to verifyβseveral said they never sent comments. Raises serious questions about the opposition campaign that helped kill the clean air standards, that would've prevented 1000s of premature deaths.
I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.