19cprof @lauracstruve.com · 10/08/2026They all react like toddlers to basic health efforts—eat more vegetables =>“I’m eating fries made with tallow” get a shot=> “can’t make me!” Use sunscreen =>”no!” 000
Reposted by 19cprofAnnette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026August as an academic 82073290
Reposted by 19cprofBirds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I went Outside today and it was the worst thing that ever happened to me. Fuck the Outside. The crowning achievement of civilization was the invention of Inside and every time I go Outside, it insults the sacrifices of my ancestors 49416
19cprof @lauracstruve.com · 13/06/2026Seems timely to remember "it is plainly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that children should command old men, fools wise men, and that the privileged few should gorge themselves with superfluities, while the starving multitude are in want of the bare necessities of life"--Rousseau 100
Reposted by 19cprofLauren @philliesball31.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Thoroughly enjoying the Jaxson Dart hate. My QB would never. Actually, after winning superbowl mvp, my QB1 refused to go to the white house. Sucks to suck! 801513131
Reposted by 19cprofDr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!? 484112352256
Reposted by 19cprofMatthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Happy Mother’s Day to all the women in the academy whose work asks them to parent incompetent colleagues, innumerable students and advisers; to do the service work that is disregarded and undervalued. 1367
19cprof @lauracstruve.com · 02/05/2026www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... The sound of a thousand English teachers crying out in ragetheatlantic.comAnimal Farm Is Not for Kids but They Made It a Kids’ Movie AnywayThere are many more animated children’s films to be made based on dystopian source material. 000
Reposted by 19cprofDenice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Good Morning, World. 1461388
Reposted by 19cprofJeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891 1035020890
Reposted by 19cprofJason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 16/04/2026Stupidest. Timeline. Ever.cnbc.comStruggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot to AI, adds $127 million in valueAllbirds announced a deal with American Exchange Group to sell its intellectual property and other assets for $39 million in March. 151
Reposted by 19cprof👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant 84138983541
Reposted by 19cprofMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful! 28760783481
Reposted by 19cprofJessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity. 292444520
Reposted by 19cprofkelly @kickinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels 9981062103
Reposted by 19cprofClaire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 21/02/2026I hate feeling like I'm handing it to the pope but I do really love his hatred of AI 0136
Reposted by 19cprofOmg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue 5783269114042
Reposted by 19cprofSarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 25/01/2026In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram 98140192588
Reposted by 19cprofkarl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 24/01/2026It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites. 284023744
Reposted by 19cprofMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this 468116511987
Reposted by 19cprofIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years. 641371362
Reposted by 19cprofChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider 881687189
Reposted by 19cprofderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics. 1434413798
Reposted by 19cprofJoshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Week thirteen of the semester, every timeyoutu.beWile E Coyote Falls Off CliffYouTube video by Frankie Allen 021
Reposted by 19cprofSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 13/11/2025I just kind of think all these people should, after a fair trial in which they are zealously represented before a jury of their peers, be eaten 351775207
Reposted by 19cprofRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. When will party leadership learn this lesson? 1373193664641
Reposted by 19cprofKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss. ------------------------------------------------ "In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.' Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.' In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"mcsweeneys.netHi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum... 151856428
Reposted by 19cprofKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/10/2025"One of them told her he had consulted ChatGPT to find tide times before deeming it safe to venture out to the island early on Wednesday. He said: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was" The death toll from this tech is only going to riseuk.news.yahoo.comRestaurant boss saves two people's lives after desperately shouting for them to stopHe ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back 619568
Reposted by 19cprofMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/10/2025A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.... 367131556448
Reposted by 19cprofMarc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Some teachers are using AI to grade and few are talking about it. Scantrons are one thing, but automating grading, feedback, and assessing written work with AI poses massive ethical challenges and should not become the default or go to choice in education. 👇 in comments 1229
Reposted by 19cprofryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/09/2025“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”theonion.comIn Defense Of Mass CensorshipWhen The Onion’s editorial board convened to discuss the tumultuous events of the previous month, one conclusion became evident: The world stands at a crossroads. Two visions of our collective future ... 282217441
Reposted by 19cprofGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment. 12534758215085
Reposted by 19cprofRichard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Freaking the fuck out every day is fun, huh? 1315212
Reposted by 19cprofLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 31/08/2025If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists. 143141642783
Reposted by 19cprofBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Peterloo Massacre happened #OTD 1819, estimated 15-18 people killed. Came during turbulent period of explosive population growth, food shortages caused by climatic disruption after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, aftermath of war, stresses of urbanisation and industrialisation. 817454
Reposted by 19cprofThiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 14/08/2025As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08... 101566469
Reposted by 19cprofCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story. @nytimes.com #CPI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b... 10324351053