This article is how I learnt that the right is using the term "red-green alliance", not to refer to eco-socialism, but to a supposed (nonexistent) leftist/Islamist axis. I am so very tired!!

Soave sia il vento

there is nothing they could have gained materially from this (they already have employment elsewhere), I read it as academics identifying overmuch with their work

I mean, no, but there are lawns and steps and whatnot

Nigerian Woman with white head covering with subtitle “Frankly, I cannot marry a man who will not buy me a bicycle.” Picture below shows a person on a bicycle with a yellow cooler bag on the back rack

From BBC Africa via IG.
FWIW, I picked up my Tern on my birthday but ordered it weeks earlier.

Can you imagine
a) asking your fiancé to get married at work
b) accepting your fiancé's request to get married at work
c) no one in your wedding party objecting to having a wedding at work
d) no one suggesting, like, a nice garden, or someone's back yard
e) displaying your marriage cert at work

I have a horrible story. A recent PhD of an adjacent department just got married to his now-husband in the department's seminar room. Their marriage certificate is still there. Can you imagine, I ask you!

Also when I say "getting married", please note that they, as a couple, marry fire. They are already married to the moon, the sun, the Earth, a lake in Finland, the Appalachians, etc.

פֿרילינג איז אײַנגעקומען אין באַלטימאָר און דאָס קעצל װיל אַרויסגײן אין דרויסן כּדי צו עסן גראָז ביז דעם װאָס זי ברעכט אָפּ🤮

PRAYER FOR BURNT FORESTS — JULIE WEITZ

It also features one of my favourite performance artists, Julie Weitz, who reanimates as a golem to learn and practice wildland firefighting www.julieweitz.com/artwork/pray...

PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY (Trailer) - Frameline49 YouTube video by Frameline

Watched Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stevens's new film about the 2020 California wildfires and companion animals and labour and art and getting married and I cannot recommend it enough. It's fun and funny and kitschy and moving and deeply serious

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W3G...

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

I wrote about AMOC newrepublic.com/article/2091...

*psychologically but why not both

This is petty and not important in the grand scheme of things, but it would actually help me a lot, psychically, if some people in my life (aunts, former comrades, members of the Corporation of Haverford College) would apologise for defending or equivocating on the genocide

writing this skeet is how i learnt the yiddish word for bugs is "zhukelekh"

דאָס קעצל האָט שטאַרק הנאה װאָס די הויז איז פּלוצלינג פֿול געװאָרן מיט זשוקעלעך, קאָן זי זיך שפּילן דעם גאַנצן טאָג לאַנג יאָגנדיק זשוקעלעך

(2) university admins have not deescalated since 2024; the university where I work, for instance, has since introduced a private armed police force (which TBF was already in the works, lmao)

(3) protest that is pro-union, pro-Palestine, anti-police, anti-deportation, etc, is also anti-Trump

Opinion | Why Aren’t the Kids Out Protesting Against Trump?

Sorry to be the kind of person who responds indignantly to NYT op-eds, but As A Youth At A University, I suggest an answer not considered here (the NYT thinks it's AI?):

(1) there was a mass youth protest movement in the summer of 2024 that was violently crushed

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

itsmissing on tumblr ice cream truck blasting gymnopedie no. 1 while a bunch of really forlorn children chase after it

It's striking, too, that his example of their dialogue comes only *after* the political victories of the Civil Rights Era—like even in this absurd example, it's political struggle that enables later "dialogue", not the other way around

I am doxxèd!

I think we're at 3 now?

Was at a conference with some friends this weekend and Gayatri Spivak was very rude to one of them, please take note in re your impression of Gayatri Spivak

Every year, like clockwork, the University of Michigan sends me an acceptance letter to an MA programme I have never applied to in my life, followed by a hasty apology for the error a few hours later. Thank you once again to the University of Michigan

LRT: I've been feeling for a while that the time is ripe for a new generation of weird experimental colleges, who will fund/join me

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

Thanks for the reviews! I'll give Marge Piercy prime spot on my TBR :) Also, I'm (probably) going to a talk about Edward Carpenter this Friday, so I might get a chance to ask for recs on good secondary literature about him

As Anatole France said: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread"

I hate him he is my enemy