Hugh Cayless

It will be bleach-based, no doubt.

XSLT is still important Microblog and feed from Aram Zucker-Scharff.

XSLT *should* be part of the web platform.

https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/xslt-is-still-important/

They’re only like 3 decades behind. That thing was supposed to explode and blow the moon out of orbit in 1999!

People *really* want to be told everything will be all right. That gets less and less likely all the time.

Taking Action in Higher Ed Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.

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Working on my slides for my #Balisage talk next week and getting heavily distracted by my mostly unwritten paper for the #TEI annual meeting in September. This is very on brand for me.

The downside to running a university like a business is that it will act like a business and simply adapt to government pressure rather than stand up to it.

We knew this was coming. The admin is going to want to fold immediately, so it’s up to the students, staff, faculty, and alumni—the people who really *are* the university—to agitate for our integrity.

So sorry Carrie. Wishing you strength and peace.

Apropos of nothing, but my dad once bought a Lada for the Child Care Board in Barbados (I assume it was the cheapest station wagon they could get). That thing had the *most elaborate* toolkit I’ve ever seen in a car. Dad: “That doesn’t bode well.”

Fair enough. I’m a massive fan of your work, by the way, so I will just quietly fanboy my way out of this argument 😁.

I haven't the faintest idea. And yes, I agree that is a flaw in the piece. I just don't think it invalidates the whole argument that we can make the case for a masculinity built on taking responsibility for our lives.

We shouldn't. They need to become human themselves so that they see others as humans too.

The quote I see is "The progressive left seemingly has no opinion on men getting laid." The word "help" occurs twice in the piece: "helpful" and "self-help." To me, that says the left isn't making a case that cuts through like the right is. I'm afraid the service you posted isn't working for me.

That’s not at all what I got from it. I read it as making the case that we can make a counter argument against right wing manchildishness based on being a responsible adult. If that is indeed his argument think it’s basically correct.

The frame of the piece is “This is a way to make the case to young men not to be total dicks” though. He’s not arguing that this is particularly original, nor that women haven’t been saying this all along. That’s a fair criticism of the piece, but I don’t think it invalidates it.

To be fair, in the article he does give a pretty detailed and reasonable answer, which is more or less that if you’re a functional human being, people will find that attractive, so you should work on that. The lure of the easy dunk is hard to resist though 🤷🏻‍♂️

brave DNC plant in RNC headquarters: we salute you for putting a lada on that poster

Y'all! There's only 2 more weeks to register for the Annual Meeting! Get on it!

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Had to be done.

Not the first time I’ve heard that “Why walk if you can take X mode of transport” line, and a) I like walking, b) it’s good for me, c) you see things while walking that you miss if you zoom on past them.

More than decimation I’m afraid. Supposedly we are going to do less. But it’s unclear what that means so far.

Today was the last day for a whole bunch of great colleagues who took voluntary separation offers. Incredibly sad, and a massive loss of institutional memory all at once.

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest

Not that one.

The replies here are so funny because they’re all like “oh SKYDADDY?!?! You talked to SKYDADDY?!?!” and I don’t know what to tell you but a lot of people from a lot of different faiths actually do pray about stuff to think about it particularly this old ass Sunday School teacher from North Carolina

Seems like you have to option-tab in Safari. Frankly, that’s a little obnoxious. Looks like you can turn tab navigation on in settings though.

They have an excellent reason for it: because they may in the future be held accountable for their crimes.

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

A reminder that registration for the TEI Annual Meeting is open! See tei-c.org/news/2025/07... for the registration link and the conference program.