I'm very much feeling end of the semester professoritis

Yes

The children don't know SpongeBob references 😔

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see

Me to undergraduate students in 2019: Don't depend on wikipedia for your sourcing.

Me to undergrads in 2026:

Big Yiiiiikes

Archives can't digitize everything because

understaffed
underfunded
undervalued
overworked
volumes of materials
pre-/post-processing costs
copyright
ethical concerns
digital preservation issues
environmental impact
[...]

Most importantly: information is not in the content but in the context!

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I want a slice o' that big cake, the one with sweet cream an' cherry conserve all over the top!

The Brave Fighter Of Sun Fighbird meme. People Who Willingly Post On LinkedIn / Bloatware / Is this the singularity? Is this what Isaac Asimov wrote about? Is this my friend? Is this my wife? Is this smarter than me? Is this the move I Robot Will Smith? Is this the Terminator 2? Should I feed my child to this?

It's really a treasure to get to teach August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean for the rest of my life. Every time I read this play, I end up filled with a strong feeling of wind.

Lunch was a fairly simple one: sliced fruits—apple, pear, greengage, and plum, some fresh-baked scones and gooseberry and damson jam, and plum cordial, foamy and cold from Corksnout Spikkle's vaults.

I did 😞

It says a lot about Sliwa that the only question he outflanked both Mamdani and Cuomo on was about parades

Education is so weird. What do you mean I've lectured to these kids for seven weeks, and then they write papers, and those papers say the things I said in the lectures? Wtf???

I feel you here. Whenever I get on here, I want to see ttrpg stuff and updates on some other sub-interests. But I have to scroll through a ton of posts about current events, which triggers the doom scroll effect for me.

The transition from TA to Prof means that I can no longer curse the lead instructor for making me grade so much. Now I am my own grading clown.

manadtory id cards? uh, wake me up when we get mandatory EGO cards!!

This is why I became a professor, all my friends just let me get very good at yapping while they did cozy stuff. To this day one of my favorite things to do is yap while my spouse puts a puzzle together.

I could listen to people talk about performance and improvisation of any kind for hours, and I have! I love absorbing the different ways people talk about freely creating and stringing together the internal and external.

I'm about to pick up a post-graduation bread machine hobby. We're talking milk breads, cheese breads, nut breads, goddamn raisin bread. The whole bread (machine) horizon is in front of me

The upside to having my students complete kinda complex reading guides before every class is that they do read and have very well put together thoughts for discussion, 10/10 would recommend. The downside is that I have to make those reading guides...

I'M NOT READY

I'm on it

So I can't claim Mainer... yet?? Ever?? But I can tell people I'm a... Maniac? There has to be an in-between that has a little bit more aura than "I'm from Maine." Maine-boi? I'm North-North? I'm your Maine squeeze? Maine protagonist? Mainely from Maine. Lobster-lander?

Whoa! I'm a doctor now!

My dissertation defense got me out here dressing unseasonably warm.

I did that

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

Dragons Love Tacos is always a hit with the kids