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Carrie Shanafelt

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Assistant professor at Yeshiva College in #18thC & #19thC #Literature. #Bentham & #queer #aesthetics (wrote Uncommon Sense, UVaP 2022), national #debt and #slavery […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ c18.masto.host/@carrideen, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

The other major interaction on this train is one person who thinks someone else's baby is crying too hard too long and needs some advice about calming babies, which she is not taking kindly.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

The trains in NYC are all utterly screwy this weekend, with construction, emergencies, diverted lines, confused people, locals going express and express going local, packed cars, and then, blissfully, a dude in a hyperrealistic Ghostbusters costume getting absolutely grilled by a megafan about […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Betty Gilpin is giving a truly unhinged performance for the ages on season 2 of The Lowdown.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

But it is also the difference between an elective seminar, which that student took last spring with me, and a gen ed course. There is just some work that has to be done to get people on board.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I don't like succumbing to the argument that we let the losers fail and I devote my full attention to the students who care, because what makes me a good professor is that even students who struggle end up learning something valuable and memorable. But I also hear what my student was saying--he […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I was having trouble with a weirdly unruly class this term. The vibes are very cheerful and positive, but about 8/25 students cluster in the back and try to have their own conversation and private jokes and it's unbelievably distracting. One of the better students asked me to let them have their […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

If I were a business on this street, I would be petitioning Mamdani's office every day. So many empty shops on one of the most theoretically desirable shop rows on Broadway are just too depressing.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Since we are at the end of the line and near a big park, we do get quite a few disoriented, displaced, and desperate people in the neighborhood. In 2020, our neighbors put out a "Friendly Fridge" and now has a robust distribution network to get food to hungry people and match them with city […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

It has looked exactly like this, with an empty elevator shaft and a staircase with no roof, since May. The original staircase was removed when I was working at my previous job in 2023. Most days, nothing happens. A few days a month, guys are walking around teasing each other and calling the site […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

For 3.5 years, this is what our block of Broadway looks like as the MTA builds an elevator and replaces a stairwell at our subway station. The businesses all along the block are suffering and many have closed permanently. What used to be a big open plaza next […] [Original post on c18.masto.host]

A corridor of green plastic-covered fences with a massive construction site near the skeleton of an elevated subway staircase and an elevator shaft wrapped in plastic

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Trying to find peer reviewers for articles in fields that have not had institutional support in the 21st century is really depressing. Dead, emeritus, preacher, administrator, stock broker, internet shaman, crafter... (Sometimes emeritus profs are eager to review but if they've been emeritus […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@karlsteel.bsky.social My first-year students are already apologizing for writing too much and I am just so happy to see it still happens.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

This photo is like a Renaissance painting. It's Caravaggio in stadium lighting.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I wonder how many Yankees superfans have been banned for life from attending games. Hundreds?

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Just saving this tasty little morsel for no reason. (I don't waste any energy disliking the Yankees, but their fans in the stadium suck. I think after last night, most of them would agree with me.)

A news photo of fans reaching over the wall to catch a Yankee home run by Volpe that would have tied their playoff game against the Rays, but, as the story explains, due to fan interference, they lost and are out of the playoffs.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@VCP @karlsteel.bsky.social I would do movies with you!!

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@karlsteel.bsky.social @VCP We had no idea we would love it so much, and since then I have been grabbing people by their lapels like a crazy person LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS MOVIE

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@VCP @karlsteel.bsky.social I am so gratified that you enjoyed it, Karl.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@karlsteel.bsky.social They were a pop group and I did classical but the vibe is so familiar.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

getting stuck on a packed rush hour train with a high school glee club is payback for all those years when i was an annoying choir kid, i just know it

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Today in #VanCortlandtPark a very chill little chipmunk was peeping at us from his little tree stump hole.

A tree root among bright green leaves in a forest dappled with sunlight reveals a tiny chipmunk face timidly peeping from a recess in the wood

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

A bonus tidbit from reading JB's correspondence, in a pissy letter to a friend: "What made me write so foolishly? come—I’ll tell you: for I have made my head to screw off and on, and I can set it on my knee, and open it, and see what is in the inside of it. it was a few grains of ill humour […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@VCP The alternative is walking into the sea, which my spouse and cats have informed me is not an option today.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@VCP There are a lot of things people want me to say about Bentham that I have not said because it involves arguing from negative evidence--he didn't write about this, he wasn't interested in that--and I was finally cobbling together my definitive response on the issue and... Now I've rewritten […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@VCP I had just finished untying the worst and most horrible knot that I've been dreading untying for TWO YEARS and I can't remember how I did it. It is taking every muscle I have to avoid shrieking obscenities.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I would like to reiterate that email is a form of brain damage and should be illegal.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Oh my God, I just lost two days of work on an article because I kept getting blown up by a committee at work asking me to resubmit a proposal over and over, and I had a bunch of windows open and thought I was "Don't Save"ing the bad old proposal and instead I "Don't Save"d the article I've […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@coolhand.bsky.social It takes a bit to teach myself not to accidentally swipe out good progress with my dumb fingers. I wonder if there is a way to lock a completed row/column, maybe? And I look forward to more big non-symmetrical puzzles!

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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ok I think I've packed all I need for the voyage.

A black handbag with a black cat head poking out of it

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@coolhand.bsky.social So fun! I haven't done nonograms in a long time and this takes out the mildly fiddly aspect that made phone puzzles difficult.

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In my quest for minimalism, I have made a relaxing game of balance 🧘 Please try it and let me know what you think? It’s real quick, and I’m proud of this one.

A quiet black-and-white nonogram that starts at two by two and eases up to fifteen.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Aw, beans! It's October so it is finally time to rewatch Over the Garden Wall!

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

In researching current academic literature on Bentham, one of the things that cracks me up is how many scholars refuse to (or cannot) quote anything Bentham actually wrote, so they will just say "the likes of Bentham"--and sometimes "the likes of Bentham, X, Y, and Z." If you reference Bentham […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

(NYC people, does anybody know a guy?)

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

So I'm sitting here with an entire dang stove in a box in my tiny apartment and no idea how to navigate the wild and weird world of independent NYC handypersons to actually get the thing properly installed. Last time I hired a local person to help us move and wall-mount our TV, he spent the […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Six years after buying this apartment full of outrageously janky and poorly installed off-brand appliances, one failed, and I thought, I've got this. I've saved up enough that I can afford to get us a dishwasher. But in order to get the new dishwasher in, I had to catastrophically dismantle the […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Aurélie Knüfer (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry) and I are starting an online workshop on Sexual Nonconformity in Modern Philosophy (17-19th c) beginning in January. Our idea is that each hour-long meeting will focus on a shared text presented (10 mins) by a scholar, followed by […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I don't hate all olives, and have come to love some olives, but I have never wanted olives mixed in with other foods.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I have eaten olive pizza, which I hate, twice in my life: in 2007, the night after I saw Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, on a date with a lawyer who was trying to elicit a response of some kind by ordering a pizza I hate, and today, in 2026, after seeing Charles Burnett's My Brother's Wedding […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

My time on this earth is neither maxxed nor precious and I am not mad at anyone, but fall is a really nice time and I have loved ones I would like to see and plans I would like to make that I have to plan around all these meetings, so I don't plan them unless I know my calendar is clear. It is […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

This is not unlike people who are habitually late and then say, oh I thought you'd appreciate having more time, while I have been standing on a street corner like an asshole for half an hour. Why would I appreciate that? Just tell me a later time!

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Everyone who has cancelled has assumed I would be delighted to be released from obligation, but I would be far more delighted if I could have made plans to do something else with that time rather than stare into space and wonder how I can clear some future week for make-up meetings!

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I had one of those weeks when my calendar was a Tetris of meetings that prevented me from scheduling anything else, and they were all cancelled within an hour of beginning. It is all different people who all have different reasons, but surely some cancelling could be done in time to let a person […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I loved, loved, loved seeing the outpouring of care for this man. Students, faculty, and administrators formed a whole team of care and support, and not only got him healthy but helped him to form lasting bonds with people that have greatly brightened his life. I couldn't help but wonder, if it […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Free idea for biomedical research: Just look up every single study on human health, and replicate it with overweight people.

Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I have been thinking about this after watching what happened to two professors I know at the same uni who faced emergencies last year due to extreme loneliness and related medical emergencies. The man was surrounded by people bringing him food and comfort and conversation, helping him with his […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

As an overweight bisexual woman who has been lonely, one can start to feel very conspiracy-theoryish about why one is utterly invisible politically, medically, socially... And yet I would imagine there are quite a lot of us, just floating around irrelevantly failing to participate in whatever it […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I recently was hypochondriacally obsessing over that NYT report about iron deficiency (1/3 of people are deficient, most of them women, and the normal bloodwork will only show it if you're already fully anemic) and kept getting caught up by the caveat that all overweight people were excluded […]

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

We find out all the time that sociological analysis has just never looked at particular large groups of people, like the recent studies that found out bisexuals are assaulted by partners way way more than other sexual orientations. But this is, like, lonely women aren't interesting because […]

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