Bradley J. Fest

Robyn - Dopamine (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Robyn

Inordinately digging this song. youtu.be/vitil9qMN6A?...

Bradley J. Fest - Three Poems — Magazine1

Revisiting these tonight: www.magazine-1.com/bradley-fest

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Idea for episode of Is It Cake:

Contests have to make cakes that are indistinguishable from representations of cake--simulacral cakes. Call it the Baudrilard Challenge. Like, wow, I totally thought this cake wasn't an actual cake!

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it

we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care not for thee
Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

[dreamye lute arpeggio]

Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

underground art is important (and important to ME personally) but a world where nobody ever gets a big budget to take a big weird swing is still massively depressing

Teaching Without Computers is like Alyssa Liu figures skating, the most relaxed, elegant you've ever been in an always beforehand at least semi-stressful situation. I mean, I finished my grading in 70 mins. today. Jeeeezus.

Wore my "Print Is a Rent Strike" t-shirt while asking students to hand write a close reading today @mattseybold.bsky.social.

(And caveat: We're studying FFXIV but are only writing and reading about it in analog [print outs that I make and give out].)

Gonna give two teaching presentations to my colleagues next year. One, "Teaching Without Computers" for how my spring 2026 classes are going amazingly in pure analog. The other, "Teaching Megatexts" on teaching Final Fantasy XIV and Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar each for an entire semester.

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

Poster art for Bennett Foddy's Lecture Series event with the NYU Game Center. Features characters from QWOP, Getting Over It, and Baby Steps. Text reads: NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Bennett Foddy Creator of QWOP, Getting Over It, and Baby Steps Why did I make this? 7:00pm, March 5th, 2026 Room 202, 370 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY

New York: next week. Fall ... all over again.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

This is the way

Moving all my writing assignments to being composed in class is not only revolutionary for my blood pressure--now that I'm not looking for AI use anymore--but also for the TIME it takes to grade things. As I'm writing my own comments by hand now, I'm just plowing through papers. What a revelation!

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

If every inch of all your homes are filled with books, archive death will be forestalled.

At Dickens conferences, over-speakers spontaneously combust, leaving the room coated in a vile, nauseous, greasy yellow liquid.

Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you" YouTube video by Modo de Usar

The best

#ValentinesDay

High School English and the Making of American Readers Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵

academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

Fuck this is a awful, dreadful chart.

Not to get all Gladstone about this but... gambling is a major social ill and absolutely needs cracking down on

playing heist expert for @jetjocko.bsky.social 's article is among my top most delighting professional experiences ever

We all saw the fellas grindin right? That may be a first for the super bowl.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Beat me to it.

Bradley J. Fest — Does It Have Pockets 2023.29–30 | 2024.01–02 | 2024.03 | 2024.05–06 | 2024.08–09

Rediscovered this thing I wrote a few years ago. Check it. www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/bradl...

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests