Matthew L Reznicek

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits

Some reading due! 👇

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I can't think of something less controversial to say about US presidents than that Trump is the most openly corrupt president in US history. Shame on the BBC.

5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️

Also, the articles in this issue are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 11/10s the whole lot

Special issue titled ‘Disease and Disability in the Novel’ - looks fantastic!

@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993

Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.

OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.

This is horrible news.

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Federal judge dismissed indictments against Letitia James and James Comey | CNN Politics A federal judge dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday.

Oh, Tish James case dismissed too. Now Miss Hannigan has to start her orphanage.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...

Every bit of this only reinforces Joyce Carol Oates’ absolute roast of Elon Musk as fundamentally lacking in the ability to enjoy anything normally human. “I built a tool that can insult people in a social setting better than anything ever invented” is a real personal tell.

Caleb Williams has to have better awareness in that situation. He should never have trusted Falkland.

Things as they are, 14; things as they should be, 0.

The Decembrists: Russia’s First Revolution

The #DecembristRevolt of 1825 saw Russia’s nobility attempt to depose a tsar.

🔒 Susanna Rabow-Edling’s article from the December issue can be found in the archive

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New Publication Alert

Hamlin, Christopher. "Rotten Bodies: Class and Contagion in 18th-Century Britain. By Kevin Siena." The Journal of Modern History, vol. 92, no. 4, 2020, pp. 933–35. JSTOR.

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Sextant

A breakthrough in navigation, the sextant was used for measuring the angle between a celestial object and the horizon to determine latitude and longitude. It first appeared in the mid 18th century, so wouldn't have been available to pirates of the Golden Age.
#maritimehistory #c18th #history

Norman MacCaig November night, Edinburgh The night tinkles like ice in glasses. Leaves are glued to the pavement with frost. The brown air fumes at the shop windows, Tries the doors, and sidles past. I gulp down winter raw. The heady Darkness swirls with tenements. In a brown fuzz of cottonwool Lamps fade up crags, die into pits. Frost in my lungs is harsh as leaves Scraped up on paths. – I look up, there, A high roof sails, at the mast-head Fluttering a grey and ragged star. The world’s a bear shrugged in his den. It’s snug and close in the snoring night. And outside like chrysanthemums The fog unfolds its bitter scent.

The night tinkles like ice in glasses.
Leaves are glued to the pavement with frost.
The brown air fumes at the shop windows,
Tries the doors, and sidles past…

—Norman MacCaig, “November Night”
published in The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Birlinn, 2011)
#poem #poetry
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Disappeared to a Foreign Prison The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.

Orville Etoria, a Jamaican national who’d lived in New York for nearly 50 years, was shackled and put on an ICE flight to Eswatini. “It helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains,” he said. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/dLJ4SQ

Anyone in #academicsky land use a reMarkable? I use an old iPad to read / annotate PDFs, but it’s clunky & integration isn’t the best. I travel A LOT, so light, easy-to-carry tech is my jam for working on planes/in coffee shops, etc. I’m thinking of a refurb RM, but not sure it’s worth it? Thoughts?

Lodore!

Found a new to me Shelley novel that I can’t wait to start at Elliot Bay Books

The headline is amazing. The foreign policy chaos that may sell out Ukraine is horrifying. The picture is of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, nominally the nation's top diplomat and also the National Security Advisor, who may or may not have called senators to disavow the plan he insists he co-wrote.

According to physicists, "inertia" is the state of existence between not doing your grading and doing your grading.

The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge's car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply. Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID was checked. "This egregious incident underscores both the community's and the Judiciary's concerns about how ICE is conducting its operations in Rhode Island," R.I. Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell said. Citing that climate, Suttell said the Judiciary understands recent calls to expand the use of virtual court hearings in Providence.

The **chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court** called to expand virtual hearings —citing this incident where ICE threatened to smash the window of a judge’s car — because people who work at the courthouses are no longer safe

In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.

All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...

I get to spend a week with my absolute bestie. The thing I love about academia is how amazing the friends become; the thing that’s hard is they often live half a continent away

The most obvious development of all time.

Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...

You can now preview the book, which means you can look and search inside, and I think read the acknowledgements (the most personal part of it by far) and the preface - there's a 'preview book' button below the cover:

For Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, making 'Hamnet' was 'something bigger than the moon' Their film wrecks audiences with its exploration of romantic intimacy, grief and the inner lives of artists. Working with director Chloé Zhao — and each other — changed them forever.

For Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, making ‘Hamnet’ was ‘something bigger than the moon’
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What a cool event.