Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 17hOr putting some of us in a position to see what we want to see 100
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility is basically a sociopath. And she “wins.” She jilts Edward and marries the Big Money in the Good Family. No hesitation. No remorse. Austen understood that the Elinors and Edwards have to be happy in a world where sometimes sociopaths win. She’s so good. 3173
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My man looks like he can command all the meaner things, the rat, and the owl, and the bat, the moth, and the fox, and the wolf 1562
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If you want to know how his mind works or what he really meant, you might run an electrical current through a bowl of pudding and write down whatever the pudding says 030
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In the time it takes me to buy and receive this book, she will have written and published *another* book, so I suppose I’d best get started 151
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026About 25 years ago I enjoyably but unsuccessfully flirted with a person who I just learned wrote a recent episode of Slow Horses; apparently we both had good taste 150
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I need to grade but want to nap; I will ask the cat what to do 170
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The year is 2066. 99.8% of humans are now tradespeople who live in and maintain the five world-homes of the megatrillionaires, who bought and roofed over the continents. .01% are legacy media commentators who still write about how they weren’t wrong when they proposed this. 150
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026More and more watching the president is like seeing a possum out in broad daylight. 150
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026An acorn from our oak tree just hit my head, is there a culture in which this is an omen of something 130
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m angry all the time and have no patience for anyone but I met this goat recently and that was pretty ok 040
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why why why is it always the philosophers www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to. 170
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Found a 1965 edition of Tristram Shandy edited by Ian Watt; inside were two intercity rail tickets for Helsinki to Kuopio from 1996 1191
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Humphry Clinker implies the existence of Humphry Clink 040
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026When they say “college isn’t for everyone,” they mostly mean “the cost of college isn’t for everyone,” and mostly the ones who say it are the ones who decided to make it that way. 151
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Asked the guy at Best Buy if they had any DVD players and he said “good question, let me see” like he was going to have to go to the basement to check the occult section 480
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m reading them for the first time right now (I’m mid-Excession) and I think we’re currently governed by the Affront 010
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The thing about the iced coffee at the interview is that it doesn’t go hard *enough.* You rock up with an old school Italian steampunk brass machine on a cart and pull fresh shots for everyone in the room, you get the gig on sheer audacity. 140
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Seriously tho, why do kids like stickers so much, what did kids do before stickers 150
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So weird that the humanities are useless and don’t matter but people in power keep wanting to shut them down 160
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Screw you Bluesky, my Robert Browning poetry joke would have killed in a room of Robert Brownings 160
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is some serious The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church shit we’re going through right now #Browning 130
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Have you read the new book written ten minutes ago by AI-n Rand, really makes you think 010
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think because 1) my being *attributed* thoughts on the discourse is so necessary and 2) nothing is more important than 1) 100
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I never use the other settings on my shower head. Got like eight settings. One of them could open a portal to another universe. Transdimensional travel, built right into the shower head, two clicks past mist. I’d never know. I’ll never know. 250
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A fancy provost allegedly using AI to write papers and op-eds is a big problem, but a bigger problem is why we all have no problem believing a fancy provost used AI write papers and op-eds. I should find that hard to believe. I don’t. 2163
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Career achievement unlocked: my article, “Encyclopedic Divisions: Lexicon Technicum (1704) and the Gendering of ‘Universal’ Knowledge,” is now out in the Summer 2026 issue of ECS! Thanks to all who helped included those who helped by not helping. #18thcentury 185
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Rejection is a big part of academia, which is why I keep a true shadow cv with all the hexes, curses, imprecations, mysterious illnesses, crop failures, and barren livestock I’ve called down on people 050
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026People have been creating computer viruses for years, turnabout is fair play 1125
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trustees: what do you do Humanists: well, like all of us around here we make better people T: what’s the margin on those H: hey? T: what do you sell them for H: come again T: you said you make people, how much do they go for H: T: are you an idiot? H: T: ok program cancelled 0195
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026That part of the summer when it's always been summer and it will always be summer and there's no escape from summer 180
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026One thing I like about my job is that it gives me a reason—requires me!—to know stuff about other stuff. Not at expert levels, but with familiar curiosity. Literary studies is always already interdisciplinary. 1323
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Me, ten years ago: I’m terrified about the future of the world Me, now: oh wait ok yeah I was wrong, *this* is what it feels like to be terrified about the future of the world 070
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I submitted a thing I wrote! Now to slowly lean forward onto a needle pointed at my eye so I can externalize the experience of waiting 060
