the pope is correct about the war bc he is correct on the merits and not because he is the pope likewise Trump is wrong about the war on the merits and not bc heads of state should never criticize religious leaders or engage in blasphemy which is actually fine thank you for coming to my ted talk
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Fire up your dirigibles and rev up your wind-powered gondolas: this talk in Duluth has been rescheduled for April 16 due to a blizzard 2 weeks ago. With mighty head nods to @njdames.bsky.social and @djbduncan.bsky.social and @melvillequotes.bsky.social #bookhistory #18c #c18 #vastearlyamerica
Me, after reviewer 2 gets done with my paper
Good bloople of bluesky, join me in Duluth! With more in the shout out vein to @adamwithbooks.bsky.social and Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Will Slauter. #bookhistory #18c #c18 #vastearlyamerica
bluesky's type case ran out of h's and o's and so belatedly i say xxly sxit ucxnn
Honored to be giving the Janofsky Lecture in Duluth at the University of Minnesota on April 2nd. Come hear about what I’m calling the modular turn in book history, with shout outs to Lucille Chia, Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, @jeffmakala.bsky.social, and @mlmcgill.bsky.social!
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I have The Perfect Joke, the set up is identical to the punch line the set up is identical to the punch line
good bloople of bluesky, give me some, i listened to all 78 minutes of that song by the necks last night
Go, Joe, go!
Happy birthday, what a glorious occasion!!! 🎉🥳🎂
This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.
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Pink text on a white background with information about the Queer Bibliography in the South hybrid conference from 12 to 14 March 2026
The BSA Events Committee is proud to support Queer Bibliography in the South, a multi-day conference including both panels and workshops. Both in person and virtual attendance is free, but registration is required.
🔗Link to the full program details and registration form in bio
Just a reminder that proposals for “Modernism in Ephemeral Print,” an MLA 2027 panel co-sponsored by @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org, are due by Friday!
brings new meaning to the term "hate-watch." all praise the mla for publishing these.
i’ve read five and you can’t go wrong, but this one is this mix of e. m. forster and mike leigh and it’s so good
Yeah, sure. Blame your daughter. Joe, it’s bad enough I use this bit in college classrooms and monographs and cocktail parties and elevators and road trips and salary negotiations, but your pandering to third-graders, yeesh.
Joe.
“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“
A double-tap strike on little girls at school.
an early jacket design for the novel A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK by elizabeth taylor. it features hand-drawn letters for title and author as head and foot of a larger image of two branching trees. between the two trees, a much smaller scaled couple walks.
how much good could a good book do if a good book would get read
i spent 23 minutes explaining the plot to partner & she couldn’t get past face trade while i couldn’t get past emergence from coma
the pleasure of thinking about rewatching *face/off* was so much better than the actual rewatch, the memory of the flipped performances way outweighed the actual performances, esp travolta, i rec this practice of thinknotwatch
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When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $
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#BlackHistoryMonth #c19 #19c #NoKings #letterpress
In 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a speech to an antislavery society in Rochester, NY, commonly known as "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
it slays
guys i need physical therapy for my physical therapy
won’t be around and publishers will have grown dependent on LLMs rather than the human skills of author relations, taking chances, growing knowledge. And right, that version of the profession won’t be around; and right, what are the methods of critique.
