Unless you're like scrolling on your phone behind some giant book what does that even mean...how do you "perform" reading a book when reading a book = reading a book...Butler should be able to hunt people for what you've done to the performative

I have certain phrases that just rattle in my head like dice and today it's "performative reading"

idk as someone who's part Cambodian I'd rather not see them use as a cudgel for this man??

Computer angel pin that may help you to get online quickly and keep all the bugs out

has the dev team tried this

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

a sex pest real estate guy who lost money on his casinos got elected president twice because he played a deals man on tv and then he destroyed the global economy. baudrilliard would die if he wasn't already dead.

I honestly suspect that he vacillates like this in order to push what people will accept as a norm. The news cycle has moved on from him kidnapping the president of Venezuela, or threatening to invade Greenland, or colonizing Palestine or— it’s not distraction.

It’s abuser behaviour.

Thank goodness for anti-anxiety meds I guess

How do I work through this unprecedented time I mutter to myself for the 20th time this year.

All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

new yorker headline: THIS EASTER, AN AMERICAN POPE CONFRONTS AN AMERICAN WAR

*movie trailer guy voice*

it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

Two ceramic pigs labeled "pigs with no specific duties"

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

Papa! I’m stunting on them, papa! It’s ever so based

And if you say anything about it or even hint that people should talk about this suddenly you hate feminism and all women ever

billionaire being interviewed: i havent listened to a single note of music in 27 years. think about it, music was basically invented, what, maybe 50 years ago?

interviewer: this is really interesting

Art does not didactically convey treatises or tell you what to think. When I write fiction & poetry beauty of language, trueness to characters, play with form & structure, are my preoccupations, not preaching. But good art is always politics. There is no apolitical art. Art shows rather than tells.

simultaneously my most and least egghead academic opinion is that we have actual political treatises at home and we should simply let art be art

Michael B. Jordan as Wallace: “so how do you get to be the king?”

It's wild to me that higher ed leaders can tell themselves that institutional neutrality will get the job done and then you've got Hungarian ambassadors and Russian dissidents saying this is the way you aid authoritarianism

And what do we mean by “non-diverse participants…”

Blister City over here

@ohbtw.bsky.social

Talking about how “hard” it is to talk about the existence of gay people but nothing about parental death oh okay

Mind you no one saw this movie but also when was the last time a Pixar movie had more than one living parent quickly