Writing/rhetoric prof in PA. Write about higher ed labor. Fan of: sportsball; sci-fi/mystery/horror fiction; gleefully furious music. I don't chat via DM if I don't know you. Big Brother says to tell you I don't represent my employer.
This is good news. Hooray @propublicaguild.org!
ProPublica Guild Ratifies First Contract — ProPublica GuildMembers of the ProPublica Guild, which represents more than 150 workers across the nonprofit investigative newsroom, overwhelmingly voted to ratify our first contract on Friday, exactly three years si...www.propublicaguild.orgFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - Dave BowmanAlt: Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - Dave Bowman flying through the portal opened by the monolithstatic.klipy.comDarin SelfFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli
Working construction (dad's side) or on a printing press (mom's side).
RevanEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
To which I'll now add, forming a "transition team," even led by somebody I like and trust doesn't fix a thing about this.
Seth Kahn (he/him)To say it clearly as possible: I do not want to be an NCTE member. I don't want you to count me as a member when you announce how big and representative you are. At least as long as the current leadership structure exists, I don't trust you with my money or professional well-being. 3/3
Along with which, if you think democracy is a good idea, that entails trusting other people to be capable of making good decisions. That's challenging sometimes, for sure, but you can't claim to support democracy and also think everyone you don't already agree with is stupid and dishonest.
John ScalziI've said before, there are 330 million people in the US, and that means you can trust that at least some of them are going to focus where you would like to but can't, so you can pick one or two you *can* focus on and do your best there.
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Rising, by Shrubs23 track albumshrubsusa.bandcamp.comOn a lighter note, this song just popped into my head for the first time in about 30 years. A forgotten favorite from college days.
StrayYouTube video by Fetchin' Bones - Topicwww.youtube.comAgreed. And "If you don't mean it, don't say it."
Rebecca Rauber“I think a lot of reporters hear [Trump threaten war crimes] and say, he won’t do it, that’s a lot of bluster. But I don’t think that’s the right way to react. We should be saying, it’s unfathomably sociopathic that he’s even considering it, and an American president shouldn’t be talking this way.”
What @marisakabas.bsky.social said. To borrow a concept from @sanders.senate.gov, we have to stop the dying.
Marisa Kabasmy feelings on this are pretty straightforward: if you have a problem with poor people having greater access to less expensive food then you’re a fucking psycho.
I'm glad I noticed Spurs' preseason game was on TV or I'd probably have been watching this. Maybe the worst of "centrists" who believe that refuse to do anything somehow represents the moral high ground. Maybe not the worst, but really bad!
Mark JacobMS NOW's "Morning Joe" has Joe Manchin on the show this morning because some producer apparently thought the network was under its quota of shitty politicians lately. @ms.now
Sending vibes to @janerosenzweig.bsky.social. What an appalling decision.
Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard CrimsonThe Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...www.thecrimson.comOh, dear Jeebus, I'd missed this. She really has no clue that Opinion Writer and Journalist aren't the same thing. I could have just stopped at "clue" and the meaning wouldn't change much.
But she would Douthat - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyOut with several accomplished television journalists. and… Ross Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, is leaving to join the CBS News program “60 Minutes” as a correspondent, the show’s...www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comElon was happiest when he could believe the small bubble of Muskbros who love him unconditionally weren't outliers. Once he got famous enough for not-awful people to find out about him, most of turn out to loathe him because he's a bigot and not very smart. Success hurts, don't it?
Kai TechnoLust (he/him)I have been depressed lately and I have to say knowing that every day I (and other woke people like me) exist makes this idiot miserable gives me strength to carry on. Imagine losing SO BADLY that you have to pretend the world is stacked against you. Hard to play the victim when you’re the villian.
For folks interested in the de-chartering of #CCCC and whatever comes next, Traci Gardner (Ten Grrl) is doing heroic work compiling/archiving materials and maintaining a working FAQ doc on this website.
CCCC-L – Community for College Composition and Communicationwww.cccc-l.orgToday's manuscript prep soundtrack: Philly-area art-punks Mesh. Brand new stuff, like just out on Friday of last week. Less garagey than earlier EP but the same energy.
No Fun At All, by MESH11 track albummeshphilly.bandcamp.comIs she a human being allowed to have human relationships with other human beings? Yes. Do I question her ability to challenge vicious bigots if this is how comfortably she socializes with them? Also yes. tl;dr If you like Stephen Miller, there's something horribly wrong with you.
Keith EdwardsNBC's kristen welker was caught laughing it up with Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller who architected the family separation policy. Stephen Miller who pushed the Muslim travel ban. Stephen Miller who oversaw the killing of Americans by ICE agents. This is why independent media is crucial.
