(I've made an amazing connection with a beautiful man during a trip, but as many an academic can attest, I'm limited on my location based on the university I work at. Someone hire me, please.)

I need to move to Chicago. Someone help.

Just delighted by the way @fordhampress.bsky.social came through with my book, Audiofuturism. Excited to be a Fordham author 💕📚

fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html #SFF

“By using GenAI:

I accept the models were trained on stolen data.
I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers.
I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models.
I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company.
I accept …”

Some folks in my department asked for some paragraphs about my book (and proposal) and how that's all going during my research leave. So I was sure to talk about how I've done 7 new course preps since starting and how it's really set me back as research faculty as nobody protected my time. ☺️

Love is dead (he has a wedding ring and is here for an interview)

Beautiful, gorgeous, tall Mexican man at the coffee shop I'm at to write for the next few hours AND he arrived at the same time as me. I do, indeed, foresee marriage on the horizon. ☺️

SAW THIS IN ATLANTA AND WHOO BOY. She's a performer on a whole other level. The girls are simply not doing it like her!!

(Despite constantly removing the start at log-in item from my system settings, the clunky little status bar app keeps opening and slowly trying to work but it can't because Dropbox is terrible)

Dropbox, you will be punished for your sins

I wrote this essay and a bunch of folks engaged, reposted, or blocked me, and so on - it’s so the point of writing etc and I love it.

People who use AI to “write” can never know this feeling… that something you write is being read by others …how incredible that is really

two graphics of the pink panther that reads "applications open. Apply now to join LPL as a 2026 summer fellow. This paid fellowship is for early-career researchers looking to investigate surveillance technologies. Your work will challenge Big Tech and how racialized capitalism underpins these logics." Link to the full proposal is https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/66045fc0d0be7536b4fb020a/69b1b8b1787cd413337973ba_Fellowship___Call_for_Applications.pdf

EXCITING NEWS: Applications NOW *open* to join LPL as a 2026 summer fellow. This paid fellowship is for *early-career* researchers looking to investigate surveillance technologies. Full details here -> cdn.prod.website-files.com/66045fc0d0be...

Booked and ready to spend some good time in Portland for RSA 2026!

Unfortunately, the only way to progress through this chapter is a crash course on medical sociology.

Well, the world keeps turning, divas

As I suspected, women, femmes, gays, theys, and especially academics of color have a lot to say about a certain book and thesis.

Also, the Gal Gadot of Rhetoric and Composition being in the book means I will be staying the hell away from that project.

Adequacy... Girl. Someone needs to stop these white gays lmao.

What happens when you speak for a bit too long at a city council meeting in opposition to a data center being built in your town? In Claremore, Oklahoma, a man was arrested and charged with trespassing.

Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/man-opposing...

Gacha mobile games 🙂‍↕️

So real and so terrible!

Microsoft AutoUpdate, you will be tried for your crimes

Anyways, working on my sample chapter for my book proposal, and I'm trying to fold together platform capitalism, affect, settler colonial biopower, and queer of color critique. I need a nap.

"These ideas came to me as I was writing my dissertation in Paris..." Yeah well I wrote mine in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which is like the Paris of Appalachia if you think about it really hard (or not at all)

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Dating a man who can’t read is WILD. Ain’t no dick that good. Lord have mercy. Now I’m gonna have to institute reading tests for prospects, SMHHHH.

Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.

First they said critical ICE detention footage was "destroyed." Then, lost in a system crash. Then, never recorded.

Now, in the latest court docs, it shows the federal government lost three hard drives it was supposed to put footage on in a case where ICE detainees say they faced inhumane abuse.

HEY. HEEEEY. We know your safety training is due in a week and a half, but here's a million reminders. HEYYYY. We know your course reading selections are due next month, but here's a million and one reminders NOW.

sigh

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/