Reposted by Jenni HalpinClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23hI think it’s going to become increasingly important for cis queers to resist the nice man in uniform who is hustling us this way toward the lifeboats on the deck of the Titanic while explaining that trying to squeeze in the trans folks will just slow the boats down so jump now and don’t look back 1806134
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Last week student life solicited faculty to join them in a walk through the dormitories here at mid-semester. I'm new. I could make the time. I volunteered. So, for about 90 minutes this afternoon I and another new member of the faculty went through two dorms with a couple members of the staff. 100
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm in seat #7, obviously. Where are the rest of you? 110
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Early adoption of senior citizenship: I have become one of the ladies who quietly sings along at the grocery store and the laundromat, both of which regularly feature songs from my peak radio-listening years. 100
Reposted by Jenni HalpinGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203190835449
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's possible that I am sat on the front porch of the venue at which my new colleague has been advertised to be giving a performance in 4 minutes. Wherever I am, in the last 20 minutes I have seen only statuary and a hummingbird. The building's locked and I'm not certain this is the front porch. 020
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It is, apparently, Swedish flower day, if I correctly understood the young person handing out lovely flowers to passers-by. I've had a lovely stay in Zurich and would have liked to be able to explore more. 010
Reposted by Jenni HalpinFunranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 28/08/2026[sighs deeply] Before feeding any of your research into any LLM, please check your grants and institution's information security/academic integrity policies. You may be surprised how very little of your work are allowed to let anywhere near the Plagiarism Engines. 718883
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is me! That is, in class my students and I sit together around a table, me with notebook and paper, they with laptops. I think that I am o.k. being Big Bird in this scenario. 010
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Let this article become part of your framework for thinking about American politics. "Democrats are entertaining years-old complaints about the left, while daily political discourse often fails to register just how catastrophic, corrupt, and fascist the reigning politics of the moment have become." 011
Reposted by Jenni HalpinDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"this edible ain't shit" two hours later: 185182574357
Reposted by Jenni Halpinworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026the little legs kicking 16664911713
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026One of the best people I have ever known has died. She was an absolute force of nature, very quietly. And she made the paths of those of us in her orbit smooth. I'm lucky to have known her. 000
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Giving Star Trek: Enterprise a shot. I'm not sold on the dog. This doesn't bode well. 010
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Dinner tonight was a slice of toast with peanut butter and an inordinate number of cherries. Yay to past me for having pitted all those cherries! 010
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I've been thinking about this recently (last month the movers tallied my stuff at 5500 pounds). So...much...stuff. 120
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Making citation style consistent and doing so to a style sheet that doesn't _quite_ align with my default style, I have just relocated the page range for a article for the THIRD time. Hobgoblins of small minds, indeed! 010
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026(1) four per semester (2) planning on 6 hours per week, (3) in blocks around teaching (4) service, reporting/documentation, and institutional failure to value research (🤞for the last to be a past problem!) (5) benchmarks + defined next steps work better for me than word count target dates 141
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026For #WorldEmbroideryDay I wish to announce that I was only up to April in my #YearLongStitchAlong when my summer of relocation began. Today seems like a good day to try to get back to it! 020
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The Odyssey: Three hours is longer than I really want to sit still for a movie, but I don't see much that'd be obvious to trim from this one. Spent the whole time with Yeats and Tennyson haunting me. Nolan is at his best when he trusts the audience to follow along without extra help. Good time. 010
Reposted by Jenni HalpinTade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026You all need to hold on to whatever learning you have. You may need to teach your kids and grandkids yourself. Hold on to the literature and the arts. This systematic destruction is going to be a long, hard road. We'll need storage silos and stuff. You can learn a few tricks from oral tradition. 48028
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Join me in being charmed by this totally friend-shaped, grill-curious being, here. 010
Reposted by Jenni Halpinrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 03/07/2026People only ever use the first half of the quote: it's actually "my country, right or wrong: if right, to be kept right, and if wrong, to be set right". 7471102
Reposted by Jenni HalpinElizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Given today's desecration and appropriation of the work of one of the great antifascist artists of all time, I bring you his opinion on the topic. music.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wlb...music.youtube.comLeonard Cohen - The Future (Official Live in London 2008)YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO 713443
Reposted by Jenni HalpinIra Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I've got a new blog post on cognitive offloading. Storing our memories outside our heads. Googling things rather than trusting our knowledge. And a few words on the costs of using AI in terms of learning, ownership of ideas, and feelings of self-efficacy. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...psychologytoday.comThe Cost of Convenience: Calendars, Google, and AIOur memories aren’t contained just within our heads. We offload them to pictures, social media, and devices. But this offloading carries risks. 02911
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026June gloom exacerbated by a branch from a neighbor's tree. 320
Reposted by Jenni HalpinJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 30/05/2026It's Joan of Arc's feast day today. Here's a poem for everyone who needs to remember that there's more to life than the fight. 1228965
Reposted by Jenni HalpinLauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜 276189305169
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Today, the last day of my current contract, I filed all the grades for the semester, completed my annual assessment paperwork, and emptied my office. It feels good to be done. Exhausting, but good. Time to turn the page on this chapter and look forward to the new! 130
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026This evening is for sprawling out and reading the latest Murderbot book, my prize for making it through spring commencement this afternoon (a long ceremony that has become a lot less meaningful to me since we stopped graduating English majors). 110
Reposted by Jenni HalpinRachel Donner @rmiriam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Happy 9th anniversary to Tom Holland's performance of Umbrella on Lip Sync Battle, a pivotal pop culture moment in history! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...youtu.beLip Sync Battle - Tom HollandYouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica 9383186
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Have begun introducing friend to the glory that is the original V miniseries. All is therefore becoming right in the world. 010
Reposted by Jenni Halpinphillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Fifty years ago today, Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" was published in the pages of @newyorker.com. What a poem! 919564
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Off to a D&D session run by a pre-teen who increasingly grasps the mechanics of the game, character motivation, and plot structure. Game "master" still extremely overstates this young person's competencies. And all of the player characters have chaotic alignments. Wild and glorious day ahead. 010
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I'm also on Mastodon at Halpin.zirk.us If this "experiment" goes where I'd imagine, I'll be there instead of here. 000
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I get a small extra bit of enjoyment out of the equinoctal sunrises and sunsets viewed from my home, as the house is oriented pretty much along the north-south axis, which brings the sun to the horizon straight out the front and back windows. Simple pleasures of geometry. 020
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Like Cherie, I have opted out. In my case, the idea that my freshman composition students, using a tool I have told them to avoid in order to build their own skills, might encounter advice or review purporting to be from me...well, let's just say this was a sickening thought for the start of my day. 021
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026The nation of which I am a citizen is dealing death in multiple directions while actively working to dehumanize immigrants, trans people, and many others. There's a lot of work to do about all this. With many hands and a diversity of tactics, we can change the status quo for the better. 040
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Warehouses. As Terry Pratchett wrote: sin is when you treat people like things (Carpe Jugulum). I can't think of a more obvious metaphor than using warehouses to store/process people. ICE must be abolished. 051
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026This semester I am collecting a small report on the in-class work my students are doing, every day, as a basis for a participation grade. I give each student an index card for this purpose. My chair, observing my class, asked if I would give him a card as well. I guess he just wanted a souvenir? 010
Reposted by Jenni HalpinElizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor. 4946441810
Reposted by Jenni HalpinReactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Picard's defiant shout of “There are four lights!” is now a meme, but it's his quieter confession to Troi that makes "Chain of Command" into a metaphor for domestic abuse, offering crucial insight into the experiences of survivors: #StarTrekreactormag.comThere Are Four Lights: Star Trek’s Unwitting Allegory for Domestic Abuse - ReactorThe parallels are unmistakable, once you consider Picard's final confession. 616645
Jenni Halpin @halpin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026TECHNICALLY it's snowing, here outside Savannah, GA. Smallish flakes. Not very many of them. And, as yet, no accumulation. Still, it's been a while since I watched snow fall. 010
Reposted by Jenni HalpinTalis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 26/01/2026#Minnesota #MattMoberg #interfaith #protestsong #folk #songwriter I wept to read the Timberwolves' Chaplain, Matt Moberg's, statement today. Then I rewrote it into song-shape, to be SUNG (I hope to have tune in a day or 2). If of use to my friends in the US or beyond, with all love please use it 1/5 3268
Reposted by Jenni HalpinBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch. 1094384099483
Reposted by Jenni HalpinCallum James @callum-james.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Time again to share the incredible and poingant "Christmas Tree" by James Merrill. Written during what he knew would be his last illness as he was looked after by friends and family. 05211