Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 4hOoh, this is one I can't recall if I posted about when I read it: The main character in The Seventh Veil of Salome orders a Sprite at the commissary 4 years before it was invented. 040
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 8hNotes from academic user interfaces: when I want to schedule an upcoming meeting in Zoom, what button do I hit every single time? 000
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 9hI think of them more like Oscar acceptance speeches. 130
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026And Hathitrust for the win once again! NY State Penal Code of 1905 has a section about Religious Liberty that should help a bunch. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ny...babel.hathitrust.org 000
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Looking at the New York State penal code c. 1905 and trying to figure out what the exceptions were for theatrical performances on Sundays. I know classical concerts, some dance, and benefits were all allowed on Sundays, but I don't know *why* or where that was written down. 010
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I am happy to report that this week in 1975 the Billboard Top 40 included both "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain" (Willie's chart debut!) and "Born to Run." 030
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The one for Lincoln in the Bardo is good and has a big celebrity cast. 130
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'm giving three books to my eighth grader so he can pick one for independent reading in the next nine weeks. He read Lord of the Flies for the first nine weeks. So the choices I'm trying are: A Wrinkle in Time The War of the Worlds and Slaughterhouse Five. Which one do you think he will pick? 210
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Public without an L: the funniest typo? 210
Reposted by Countess of Monte Fistoweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers. 66116962330
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Happy birthday, Mom. Love you, miss you, think about you every day, hear your voice come out of my mouth when I call my kiddo "sugar." Love to anyone on here missing a parent who has passed. 140
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Report from the higher ed professional development trenches: I've tried to log in to linked in learning upwards of six times over the past two days and cannot get in. Password changed multiple times. Video about developing a service mindset still unwatched. 000
Reposted by Countess of Monte FistoInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026 159371237
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That picture is so lovely I just made it the lock screen on my phone. 220
Reposted by Countess of Monte FistoNeil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"No fat plumbers, no shy guys, no birdos, no goombas, no turtles, no cloud boys throwing eggs. Just Warios." 19416
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I saw someone in the thread who mentioned Watership Down, but I had to add an example. This is not even the freaky ghost rabbit that did the most damage, but it makes the point.static.klipy.comWatership Down RabbitAlt: Watership Down Rabbit with bloody mouth leaving a rabbit corpse in the cave 020
Reposted by Countess of Monte FistoRoger @rogger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Mrs Dalloway and Piranesi? Has the RSC got a bet on with a Beaujolais producer about who can get the most of my money? www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/o...theguardian.comRSC embraces ‘hugely challenging’ task of staging Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs DallowayThe Royal Shakespeare Company announces ambitious adaptations of novels in season that includes Elizabeth Debicki as Richard II and Damien Molony as Coriolanus 041
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ok y'all,I need to stop freaking scrolling, I have the new Emily St. John Mandel ebook from the library. 030
Reposted by Countess of Monte FistoMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now 56099121499
Reposted by Countess of Monte FistoSpecial Interest Group on the Design of Communication @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We'll be highlighting all the generous SIGDOC conference sponsors over the next few weeks. Today, a shout-out to Auburn University's Department of English, Master of Technical and Professional Communication (MTPC) Program! See the attached flyer for more about this program: 033
Reposted by Countess of Monte Fisto🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Oh my God Taskmaster has hit Hulu. I repeat all seasons of Taskmaster are on Hulu. If you've never watched Taskmaster go start watching it literally right now 29670108
Reposted by Countess of Monte FistoChris Cantwell @cdc29.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Our students are interested in doing a symposium on music & resistance in America's pasts & presents. My familiarity is with the folks who wrote on labor songs, but most of them have moved on. Who would you recommend my students consider as participants? Who is working in this space? 🗃️ 111916
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's good! I get the impression her earlier stuff is mostly focused on women, and this is from the POV of a dying old man. Super interesting stream of consciousness. 010
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026They're making an animated film, or at least the company that did Kubo and the Two Strings bought the rights to develop it. 010
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I have only edited Wikipedia maybe a dozen times, but I always find it super satisfying. This has mostly been correcting citations in entries about American drama and popular performance. And one class where we wrote a plot summary for Chain-Gang All-Stars. Fixed a Fred Thompson citation yesterday. 030
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I know NYC was so excited when the Knicks won the championship, and I know that sports stars are generally not great at hosting #snl. But Jalen Brunson is bad. 050
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Is that some kind of anti-AI term like "clanker"? 010
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wrote another blog post on Hippodrome-adjacent topics. This one's for all my Nashvillains and people whose Roman Empire is the Columbian Exposition. Fred Thompson was such a world's fair guy! www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome/2...sunnystalterpace.comFred Thompson at the Tennesee Centennial — Sunny Stalter-PaceI’m taking a break from the book chapters (4 down, 17 to go!) in order to write a conference paper on Thompson and Dundy’s involvement with world’s fairs. Fred Thompson was a true exposition fiend. He... 020
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I do love that I've reviewed enough on net galley that publicists email me about new stuff that I didn't even know about. Hey do you want to read the new Emma Cline? Then it's nominated for the Booker. Just now found out Leslie Jamison has a novel about the Minotaur. 120
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wow I'm glad we didn't see Toy Story 5 in the movie theater. That was some smug, saccharine, nostalgic inanity. 020
Reposted by Countess of Monte FistoMisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Jennifer is an idiot. 2474728
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I can get on GS directly, but I get a similar error when I click on GS links from Gmail. It's some kind of broken attempt at protection from bots I think. 011
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026As an Auburn professor, I feel obligated to share this. 060
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Organizers and higher ed advocates, any guidelines on writing public comments for maximum impact? I definitely got some inspiration from @matthewcort.land already. 000
Reposted by Countess of Monte Fistovictoria @vashetc.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026is anyone on my skyline a power chair user? i'm sitting here sobbing trying to go back and forth between the DME company and medicare and i'm really struggling. could use advice if youre open to a quick phone chat. 11215
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hope your reaction's pretty mild. I got slammed around dinnertime the day after I got my double vax. So grateful to have them though, obvs. 130
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Fred Thompson's pall bearers included George M. Cohan, Sam Harris, the doctor that ran the incubator show for premature babies, and the guy who write the play of Brewster's Millions. A showman to the very end. 030
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Wanting to go outside, thinking I'm a mean mom for not letting her go. 111
Reposted by Countess of Monte FistoRick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Academic peeps: reply with any institution who has a shared governance model that you like. Pacific and Willamette are merging (not an acquisition) and I am on a combined committee charged with designing a shared governance model for the new University. (pls repost) #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky 🗃️ 31413
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Do one or the other with slightly lowered expectations, or at least established expectations. Preset guidelines about time with each assignment or a set number of comments, a sense of what you'd like to get out of each work session. But I think staying on top of one and then the other is good too. 011
Reposted by Countess of Monte FistoAnya Jabour @herstoryprof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And pre-order here! nyupress.org/978147983886...nyupress.orgMatters of SexChronicles the pioneering reformer whose 1920s study of female sexuality ignited America's first sexual revolutionDecades before Alfred Kinsey released his f... 131
Reposted by Countess of Monte FistoPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again. 3768365