Reposted by ALTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The “literacies“ framework is as intellectually bankrupt as polarization right now. We will keep using it because when you’ve got one hammer and the NSF social science funding has dried up everything looks like a nostalgic managerial class nail. 4470103
AL @albb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026people were trotting out the same line in response to the fake news panic 10 years ago and it doesn't really seem to have worked 010
AL @albb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026google maps today started talking like it hosts call her daddy? anyone else getting this?? 000
AL @albb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026says the podcaster with a cautionary tale to tell about doing tv! 020
AL @albb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026personally i would automatically disqualify anyone with an unserious name like "Kai" 010
AL @albb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026an important thing to bear in mind about generation discourse is we did not used to talk about each other this way before we were all online all the goddamn time 010
AL @albb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026sorry but everyone defending the convention of job interviews needs to be reeducated 000
AL @albb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026i love that part of NY. if "retiring somewhere" was still a realistic thing that's where i'd want to go. 010
AL @albb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Annoying semi-coworker who's for some reason still working despite being my parents' age and in this particular job since I was in elementary school sent an email yesterday with high importance ❗ to let us know that Copilot is now available in Teams. 000
AL @albb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The Wrigley Slapper has inspired me to start the chud make-a-wish program, placing boomers in contrived situations to have their own Marine Todd moment before dying. 000
AL @albb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Every time you talk about traveling it makes me never want to do it - which is good because I can’t really anyway 021
AL @albb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Was really looking forward to USA winning and then acting like buffoons with Donald trump and everyone who’s been cheering them on being So Disappointed 000
AL @albb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026in my hometown there was a local eccentric (he’d probably be recognized as autistic now) who looked like a tall Elvis Costello and every summer at the Catholic Church festival would sing Elvis (Presley) songs in the karaoke tent 010
AL @albb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I'll never forget hearing a guy excitedly tell the stranger next to him in line that "bacon is very popular on the internet" while waiting at a Columbus food cart in 2010. 140
AL @albb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026You’re probably supposed to be wearing them at or above the navel 010
AL @albb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Went through the whole first half of a campus job interview today with my zipper down. 000
AL @albb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Whoopi Goldberg facing record-breaking backlash following stealing from ABC revelations?? 020
AL @albb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026The 200th anniversary is a nice round number and even has a special word for it. Making a big deal about 250 seems kind of tryhard in comparison. 010
AL @albb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026lol i saw Bradford Cox crash out at Deerhunter show at AS220 because a local critic called them "pill-popping Pitchfork darlings." i think they made it through most of their set before the venue cut the power because he kept trying to smoke. 110
AL @albb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The conservative equivalents of “libs” aren’t the ones funding conservative media. It’s the hard right wingers. There are no hard left billionaires. 020
AL @albb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Great news, my hillbilly neighbors installed a massive subwoofer in their jeep 000
AL @albb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026a student told my s/o the other day that the look for this summer is "villager from shrek the third" can anyone confirm? 000
AL @albb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026The clear highlight of the parade was retired pitcher Bronson Arroyo’s Pearl Jam tribute band playing on a the back of a trailer 000
AL @albb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Had no idea what a big deal the Reds opening day festivities were until I went to the 2+ hour parade and was later boxed in by a crowd to the point of retreat when trying to walk by the ballpark 100
AL @albb.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I was aware my congressman sucks ass but didn’t realize it was to an extent worthy of national attention. Kind of neat. 000
AL @albb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026afraid I’ve developed ibs due to one cup of coffee I had about 24 hours ago 010
Reposted by ALMax Read @maxread.info · 03/02/2026one funny consequence of educational polarization is that dems become the party of sober experts and GOP the party of wacky cranks. this has been electorally bad for democrats but crucially i think it's also substantively politically bad. many experts are wrong! many conspiracies are in fact true! 916816
AL @albb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026media.tenor.coma man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointingALT: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing 010
