I love the MBTA. For all its faults itās still a good thing and Iām glad I get to use it.
Working as an editor for an academic publication will make you despise talking w/ academics. Received yet another disrespectful email from someone Iām helping get published. Unis ought to mandate cordiality classes for grad students because Iām very tired of being blessed out by other academics.
Little did I know it could get worse ā now Donald Trump is repeating the Haitianism from 220 years ago. On brand for this country, truly.
jd vance is a vicious liar who is going to get people killed www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...
Vance wrote on X that "people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldnāt be in this country." Police say they haven't seen evidence.
If youāre wondering why, as an americanist, Haiti should be on your mind, look no further than the recent fake narratives of immigrants causing chaos, eating pets, etc. 220 years out from their revolution and they still arenāt treated with basic human decency in this country. This BS isnāt new.
RoboCop is a horror movie because it's about a guy forced to work after he already died.
7yo: Papa, did even have a national anthem before Whitney Houston? Me: Letās talk about what happened
ā¤ļø @edrabinski.bsky.socialtruthout.org/articles/lib... š šµšø "As stewards of public memory who are committed to ensuring that all sides of every story can be told, librarians have a particular stake in this struggle."
A global network of librarians and archivists is organizing in solidarity with their Palestinian colleagues.
People sometimes ask whether academic writing should be accessible to the general public. Academic writing should not even be accessible to other academics. If you can follow the thread of my argument, I have failed as an academic writer