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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 1h

just go, dude! it will be life affirming.

aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

the student is alright: "I don’t wanna be like the woman Anne Lamott shamed in the excerpt. I want to promise myself...that I will always write the shitty first draft. I will always shit all over the page, just spewing out the worst shit imaginable, until I find what I’m really looking for"

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

dealing w this at our cc. The numbers do not make sense; they do not account for differences between disciplines. ALSO the state decided students only need 5 (not 10) credits of Engl, but dept's get to fight among ourselves to decide who gets the freed up credits. + Baby's first year on senate 😬😭

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

what someone you wanted to be a leader would do:

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

met sept. 10, 2016, married sept. 5, 2026. not grad school but i see you!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From what I've been told, it's hard to find an available digital copy of this book. Thank the gods. After teaching OER for years, I can't believe I'm saying this.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Technically they could use AI, but they still have to read the text to know what to give the AI. They may receive a definition or explanation of the text, but then they have to put it back into context, and no matter what, they have to record it. By December they will have finished the book. 2/3

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

as part of my new Engl101: "Humanism & AI," students read & annotate a print copy of Tony Davies' Humanism. They submit 14-15 notes (in the margins or in a notebook) each week. So far, I'm impressed! This an "AI-resistant" assignment. 1/3

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I feel like this is a very myopic Cassandra.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

is all this work in the service of one day doing nothing? really seems like i should be able to figure out how to do that sooner.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the trick is to only use ig for shopping. It's not a social network. It's an L.L. Bean catalog.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

signing off a little early today bc it's my birthday (45!) and I've got tickets to see Peter Hook and the Light! (first hour, New Order's Get Ready, second hour, all Joy Division). This is two years in a row I get to see Hook on my bday. Thank you, Peter!!!

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

just signed up for "AI Refusal Praxis in the Humanities CoP" put on by Washington State Board Community and Technical Colleges! Five 1-hour workshops in 2027!

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new senate rep here! about to start this convo w the union. we will need every prong.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I thought so! 😀 Cheers and thank you!

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

been offline for the last two weeks bc i married my beautiful partner of ten years (so our wedding was also our 10yr anniversary!). we did not honeymoon after...just bathed in post-wedding exhaustion...really hard to get up & face the world again.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

visited last year for the first time—incredible!

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

idk where you're at, but count me in! 😁

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i bet. but seriously. titles and sections headings—call me a sucker, but if they're good, they encourage me to read on and on (and i don't think i'm alone on this one). someone shoot me if I ever organize an article according to I, II, III, IV!

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I must have messed up and wrote on my personal calendar that opening week and classes started a week earlier than they actually do...I just realized, in fact, that I have another week of summer! This is like the happiest thing that's happened to me in...way too long! 😄😭

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have to teach an online asynchronous class fall26, but thats it. After this abysmal summer term, letting my chair know I can't do it anymore. Morale is terrible, trust is broken, and (bc I can see how many hours were spent in the class), it's questionable if anyone learned a thing. Thank you, AI.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

really lays bare the dangers of publishing pieces that are unsubstantiated even if not disingenuous all in the name of "balanced" reporting (which also feels more like the excuse than the reason, which seems rather to be click bait)

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I appreciate where this is coming from. but i feel like the more obvious rule is, you can't blame "wokeness" or "DEI" on why you didn't get a job/tenure. Not every tenured prof writes a book; not all universities are research institutions.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

the failure rate for my students this summer has surpassed 50% due to AI usage/cheating (call it what you will). I'm revamping classes; trying to adapt. but this is maddening. Despair is the word for what i'm feeling. and that this all feels like it is by design is the worst part.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

didn't read it until last couple years in grad school and i loved it! Many useful lessons for comp, lit, and (i would think) design students. (also, anyone reading this, check out Ong's book, Ramus. While known as a media theorist, he was also a first-rate intellectual history scholar)

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

that about sums it up. i've been teaching since 2008. I've never had thoughts like, "I don't know if I can do this anymore," until...2026.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

i think about this a lot as i am struggling with what looks like a lack of productivity on my part. but teaching 12-13 classes a year, none of which are on my research area...

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Marathon (Μαραθών): "a place full of fennel." 🤯

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

def top two best things of summer '26. Racoon might get first place.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

once at a bagel shop in college a group of 12/13yo girls were hanging out w their skateboards. I ordered a cranberry bagel & one of them said, loudly, "*cranberry*??? that's what my MOM likes!" multiple people, including friends, laughed heartily. Brutal. Ive never eaten a cranberry bagel since.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

i hope everyone shares this. even if you already know it, many people do not. we cannot look ourselves in the face in good conscience in state with concentration camps. be cynical if you wish. that is no reason not to be irate—not to demand an end to these inhuman conditions.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ha! We also went on a Monday afternoon. Scandalous!

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Nearly all concentration camp regimes involve the government making what were previously simple tasks of daily life unlawful or impossible for the group they’ve targeted for detention, bit by bit eradicating any possibility of public existence.

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ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)

Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/07/2026

The advocacy group Ohio Immigrant Alliance released a list of 59 active and former ICE and CBP agents charged with sexual and violent crimes between 2007 and 2026. Fifty of 59 cases the group documented were sex crimes, many of them committed against children.

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Report: Dozens of ICE and CBP agents have abused women and children

David Brouillette, according to Ohio Immigrant Alliance, is no outlier.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the Shane Hollander candle is kinda boring.

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

i'm glad that the author is not a young scholar. it gives me hope that not all philosophers get to a certain age and then transform into [insert your least fav reactionary thinker here]

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A good lesson in the dangers of impunity. I think many students this fall would be shocked to know just how rigged things can be. But it might also come as some relief to know that accountability is possible (unfortunately, it is also extremely difficult to achieve, if/when it ever is)

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ah, monarchs! could ye taste the mirth ye mar, Not in the toils of Glory would ye fret; The Hoarse dull drum would sleep, and Man be happy yet! Byron, "Childe Harold" (1.47.501-3) Replace "Glory" with "Gold" and it's 100%

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aaronottinger.bsky.social @aaronottinger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Was about to ask Bluesky if it's worth taking the time to write a letter to the editor or a lengthy thread in response to a certain, recent podcast...ahem. Instead, I guess I'll just hit the like button and get back to grading papers. :/

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

only baltimore's largest employer higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties; destroying universities is economic sabotage

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