Memorial for Fobazi Ettarh
25.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 57 🔁 51 💬 0 📌 0
Henry Rollins standing on a stool next to his record collection.
For Henry Rollins, music is the antidote to the "tough haul" of human existence. Today, the punk icon turns 65.
13.02.2026 16:54 — 👍 199 🔁 47 💬 5 📌 8Oh wow, congratulations!!!
10.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
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Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...
07.02.2026 23:54 — 👍 209 🔁 65 💬 14 📌 9I for one cannot wait to be represented by @tomperriello.bsky.social instead of the dumbass we have now
07.02.2026 14:43 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I am so sorry. A terrible loss.
05.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.
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Shutter Island
13.01.2026 18:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
09.01.2026 01:50 — 👍 15487 🔁 3654 💬 234 📌 735The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
07.01.2026 20:26 — 👍 86940 🔁 21352 💬 1615 📌 1511Bad for students. Bad for instructors. Bad for universities. Good for private equity.
20.12.2025 01:13 — 👍 131 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 0
Everyone concerned about this should attend Faculty Senate tomorrow to learn more: uvirginia.trumba.com/senate-meeti...
11.12.2025 22:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One Access won’t prevent you from assigning course packs, but your students will be forced to subsidize other students using $400 textbooks within Canvas, with all the surveillance and data gathering concerns that apply. It’s a huge change and there’s been very little discussion so far.
11.12.2025 22:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The latter will charge all undergraduate students a flat fee for course materials and may disincentivize low-cost and open access materials. Will be an important topic of discussion at FacSen tomorrow!
11.12.2025 21:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think this is conflating two issues: the digital accessibility requirements that kick in April 2026 (which are frustrating and bureaucratic but serve a worthwhile purpose) and the One Access proposal for course materials being rolled out by the UVA bookstore.
11.12.2025 21:45 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Former Rep. Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat who won his sole term in a huge 2008 upset, unexpectedly announces campaign against GOP Rep. John McGuire. Trump carried the current version of #VA05 56-43, but it could look a lot different if Democrats convince voters to approve a new map this spring.
09.12.2025 12:59 — 👍 251 🔁 64 💬 1 📌 49
Read this NYT piece by Sam Kriss about AI's distinctive writing style - especially "It's not X - it's Y" - and then look at this horror of an AI-generated article, which uses all the tropes he identifies, over and over again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
25.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 140 🔁 53 💬 11 📌 31
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
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Gov.-Elect Spanberger Calls On UVA Board of Visitors to Pause Presidential Selection; "As it will be a priority of my administration to stabilize & normalize the leadership of our public colleges & universities, I will make appointments soon after my inauguration." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/gove...
12.11.2025 19:19 — 👍 85 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 8
Text reading 'ZINES NOW!' in bold black letters overlaying a background featuring various faded gray symbols including '@' and '#.'"
A person wearing a printer’s apron inspects wooden printing materials in a workshop environment, with various tools and another person visible in the background.
Three zines titled Miscellany of Emotions; Zine of Miscellany, and Things I Learned About Surviving C-PTSD; alongside a pencil, displayed on a wooden table near a window.
“Using your hands and your imagination stretches the brain!”
Zines offer a creative, low-barrier way to express, connect, & advocate. Read about the year-long Zines Now project happening now! #ZinesNow #Zines
library.virginia.edu/news/2025/zi...
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Hey, can we talk about JOY?
Join your local progressive groups, y'all!
Working with neighbors to help us all can be one of the most joyful things in everyday life. Every time I join anything, I see these kinds of smiles.
Here's a 🧵 of photos to inspire you.
blacksky.community/profile/did:...
Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here
Please share!
I've watched my kids play it and while I love the visuals the gameplay seems ... masochistic.
25.10.2025 19:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0alas, only NYC and London. hope you get good tix though!
24.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0brb racing off to Google "sugar reunion tour"
24.10.2025 12:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is gonna be good
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