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She/they, English prof, queer ace spinster, early modern drama, NWSL and USWNT fangirl, ultrarunner *Views are mine, not my employer’s.*

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Also related: arguments about how it's our civic duty to expose ourselves to arguments with racists and homophobes for the sake of intellectual diversity, etc.

05.03.2026 19:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

anyway back to the mystery of male loneliness

05.03.2026 13:46 👍 323 🔁 57 💬 8 📌 0

No it’s THE BEST

05.03.2026 00:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“gavealittleproof” 😂

05.03.2026 00:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

01.03.2026 19:58 👍 3857 🔁 970 💬 140 📌 88

The girls are fightingggg

27.02.2026 15:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Text box over a picture of the Blue Crew section holding a sign that says Trans People Belong. Text reads:

We're disgusted, dismayed, and quite frankly, terrified by the actions of the Kansas State legislature over the last couple weeks, which has accelerated to a new frightening degree by the invalidation of driver's licenses and birth certificates. Trans people belong. Trans people have always been here. Trans people will always be here. We will never stop fighting for our neighbors, our friends, our community. 

We will share and amplify resources on how you can help the trans community in Kansas

Text box over a picture of the Blue Crew section holding a sign that says Trans People Belong. Text reads: We're disgusted, dismayed, and quite frankly, terrified by the actions of the Kansas State legislature over the last couple weeks, which has accelerated to a new frightening degree by the invalidation of driver's licenses and birth certificates. Trans people belong. Trans people have always been here. Trans people will always be here. We will never stop fighting for our neighbors, our friends, our community. We will share and amplify resources on how you can help the trans community in Kansas

26.02.2026 22:10 👍 171 🔁 55 💬 2 📌 3

I really like it, too!

26.02.2026 18:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 

The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

25.02.2026 05:48 👍 14997 🔁 2988 💬 194 📌 237

Oof 😓

25.02.2026 20:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m going to see Wuthering Heights tonight. Will that movie, which is based on a novel about the worst people in the world abusing each other and their children, have more or less gaslighting than the SOTU? Toss up? 🤔

24.02.2026 23:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m working my way through the Oscar nominated movies, but every time I consider watching all two hours and forty minutes of PTA’s “One Battle After Another,” I just feel exhausted.

And before you jump in the comments, yes, I’m sure it’s terrific.

21.02.2026 22:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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❤️

30.01.2026 19:57 👍 28072 🔁 9225 💬 362 📌 760

The Dems have “met the moment” of authoritarianism with strongly worded letters. Unsurprising but still disappointing.

30.01.2026 15:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

😰

29.01.2026 00:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Weezer and The Killers both have nonsense lyrics but The Killers get away with it because their lyrics are like “cigarette lady of my dreams, inhale the addiction of a queen” while Weezer is like “Japanese teenage summer, Godzilla atom bummer”

28.01.2026 15:01 👍 143 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 3

THIS

26.01.2026 19:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also important: the Stars have Taylor Wood (nee Malham) and Mackenzie Wood, so Mackenzie Malham competes the set.

26.01.2026 15:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

25.01.2026 01:11 👍 4835 🔁 1090 💬 31 📌 84

Thanks for speaking up about this!

25.01.2026 13:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vote to defund them, Chuck.

24.01.2026 21:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10 years of this shit

20.01.2026 22:44 👍 8245 🔁 1130 💬 167 📌 114

Omg we are cursed 😰

20.01.2026 16:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

21.08.2025 16:30 👍 14745 🔁 3445 💬 134 📌 83

This is solid! I also usually explain something about the syntax being just a little different than what they expect, re: the placement of adverb phrases and indirect objects.

19.01.2026 12:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The people’s captain 🫡

14.01.2026 00:39 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It’s this one for me, too. Just a perfect f*cking movie 🥺

05.01.2026 16:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is the greatest ad I've ever seen

05.01.2026 15:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YES

01.01.2026 17:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
i am running into a new year
By Lucille Clifton

i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twenty-six and thirty-six
even thirty-six but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me

i am running into a new year By Lucille Clifton i am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that i catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what i said to myself about myself when i was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six even thirty-six but i am running into a new year and i beg what i love and i leave to forgive me

Always worth a post

31.12.2025 17:08 👍 548 🔁 209 💬 3 📌 6