For folks who also dig mobile printing press setups: pink midcentury trolley w/integrated type* drawers & foldout drying rack, designed by John Conway to let folks in palliative care record feelings at the ends of their lives +
Wein even rhymes with Stein!!
Solidarity from someone whose surname is also routinely mispronounced
Caught the show today with my mom. Pure magic to see the man who shaped the sonic landscape of my childhood hold an entire concert hall in absolutely rapt attention. And the songs are all amazing-- All I Really Need was the special favourite today!
John Dury made a wish on an enchanted monkey's paw
Hey #skystorians, @barrytorch.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special edition of the Journal of Epistolary Studies!!
See Barry's post for the full details of the #CFP but also feel free to DM me for details or with any questions.
The cuts will be terrible for access, which is already a weak spot for a lot of archives, even with digital collections. They also will have a negative effect on employment in the sector, which will also affect access. Who is going to help you find things if there's just a cache of digitized files?
It strikes me as odd that we are cutting so much in heritage and culture when a big part of Canadians resistance to American annexation threats has been about asserting that we have a distinct culture, heritage, and identity.
We're so fucked
Most soups are bad
I've spent more than 400 hours listening to the audiobooks and I'm still enjoying myself mostly
Yes, if you're horny for ochre potsherds
Genre fiction has some of the gayest, most radical, most interesting people and writing in the world. And it also has a firm contingent of readers who define themselves as apolitical and are here for rock hard space math and, somehow, Paul Atreides.
I read almost exclusively science fiction and fantasy and have spent enough time in genre fiction communities to tell you that, yeah, he probably does.
"It's a bright spot on the moon"
I had a weird special interest in his organization before he stepped down and was sued for sexually assaulting a teenager. They had this absolutely bizarre fixation on cosplaying the Titanic as an example of chivalry.
To be clear: these parents know their kids have no interest in commerce (it's almost invariably commerce, occasionally it's compsci) but are using financial and emotional leverage to get their way.
I've gotten really good at explaining how minors work at my institution because so many undergraduates have come to me for help managing their parents' requirement that the major in commerce with their own preference for history/art history/English/sociology/etc.
A "general humanities" department cannot support students gaining actual skills and knowledge in specific disciplines. Also, unless you want that department to include hundreds of professors and thousands of courses, you will have to make cuts that affect the delivery of specific disciplines.
I know that Easter has historically been a tough time for Jews living under Christian hegemony, but I do want to note that Good Friday providing us with a day off to recover from the Pesach hangover is a positive sign that true interfaith allyship is possible.
In really fun news, I have 12 people coming to my house for a seder tonight and we just lost power for unknown reasons (second time in two days)
David Lynch as an FBI agent, seated and yelling. Subtitles in all capital letters read "fix your hearts or die!" Which of course is a slight variation from the original but it bangs
There was also the Irish social worker in BC who was arrested by CBSA (right before he was supposed to go work with kids in Tumbler Ridge) because IRCC decided he wasn't actually performing social work as his primary job and sent the letter demanding proof to addresses he no longer lived at.
This comes on the heels of a bunch of terrible IRCC stories including the British midwife in BC who faces deportation for not submitting proof of English competency. The portal did not allow her to upload the test results and the checklist made it seem optional.
So there's no way their legal advice signed off on this, right?
The 17th-century equivalent of the delete button.
Murdering children is bad, regardless of the teachings of Christ. Jews do not have a Christ. Please do not call Jews the Antichrist; this is antisemitism.
I found it extremely motivating to read this thread on the actual labour that goes into a project like this. Sometimes the work can feel really boring and grinding (some of my sources are lousy writers) but the point of doing it is to do it, because that's how new insights are made.
Obviously opposing genocide is not antisemitic. Spinning yarns about Jews as the Antichrist is antisemitic. And that's the specific behaviour I am calling out here. You keep bringing up other things that are adjacent to this point.
You keep bringing up oligarchs and the billionaire class, which is relevant to the broader issue but not at all relevant to the issue of antisemitic Christian eschatology that you espoused in this thread.
And you have participated in that strategy by using the language of Antichrist, with all its baggage, instead of actually just talking about a real situation. I don't think we are on radically different sides here but your use of language makes me think that you are not safe for me to organize with.