Hester Blum

Terror Camp | Polar Fan Conference Terror Camp is an annual virtual gathering of hundreds of polar exploration enthusiasts. Inspired by AMC's The Terror and the history of the Franklin Expedition, this polar exploration conference feat...

This weekend is the next iteration of Terror Camp, a free online conference for polar exploration enthusiasts, which has the highest level of intellectual content and hilarity I have ever encountered: www.terror.camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social

The cover of the St Louis post-dispatch: the top headline reads “Judge: Wig photos were private”

Good morning St Louis

And the book is incredible

Holy f@$k!

“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”

This whole video is jaw-dropping.

Same, must-watch (and must-share with your a.i.-pushing administrators):

It's a capacious field!

A BLUE HUMANITIES job: jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

highly recommended whether you are binging it in order to take a break from the news about vile academic workplaces or not

The Chair Company is the Twin Peaks of office shows, everyone watch now

He sounds like Humbert Humbert in these emails

Epstein money directly funded that video program

My kid’s existence and thriving and free movement are all valid. These annihilating vile monsters

I've been doing a pretty good job remaining minimally functional in this terror regime but the last couple of days really got to me (my former advisor in the email tranches etc.) and now I can't imagine how I minimally functioned at all.

How many university presidents/administrator/thought leaders will take away from this that maybe they should not be all in on whatever rich men in tech are selling to them? (Zero)

All of the time we spend defending higher ed and

A pink purple aurora with a baseline of faint green visible in the middle of Chicago despite light pollution

Aurora visible in the middle of Chicago

Arts & Sciences Dean says WashU will not sign Trump’s higher ed compact as-is - Student Life Dean of WashU’s College of Arts & Sciences, Feng Sheng Hu, told faculty at a meeting on Tuesday that Chancellor Andrew D. Martin does not plan to sign the Trump administration’s compact for higher edu...

www.studlife.com/news/2025/10...

Oooh I will!

WashU will NOT sign the compact, as the dean of arts and sciences announced just now to faculty – the dean was told by the chancellor that he could share that information (and that moment was the closest I’ve ever seen a college-wide faculty meeting come to a standing ovation).

STL NO KINGS in front of the Gateway Arch

STL NO KINGS , Amphiba: amphibians against facism

Antifa cavalry riding a pink and blue hippo

DT as Marie Antoinette: “no health care for you but a ballroom for the queen”

St Louis says NO KINGS in thunder (and lightning)

What Democratic candidates should be fighting for

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Skrillex

Sarah Mesle’s brilliant new book Reasons & Feelings: writing for the humanities now, with a bright red-pink cover featuring a tattoo-style arrow, saying hello to my tattoo of a Temple toggle harpoon head

Yesssssss @sunsetandecho.bsky.social !!

A minor G on you

Sign the Petition SAVE WPSU

The Penn State BoT is killing the public radio station. WPSU serves a half million rural Pennsylvanians, and it was cut at the same time the Board gave the PSU president--whose greatest hits include closing 7 (seven!) PSU campuses--a 1.1 million dollar raise. Please sign

www.change.org/p/save-wpsu

What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, and Living the Good Life? (Update) - Freakonomics What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, and Living the Good Life? (Update) - Freakonomics

Freakonomics just re-aired its three-part series on the history of whaling – it was a joy and an honor to be part of that conversation: freakonomics.com/podcast/what...

The fully-constructed Lego Endurance, elaborately packed by excellent movers and ungrammatically labeled

If only the non-Lego Endurance were so well cradled

Herman Melville’s Commode I have recently become the reverential custodian of a commode that belonged to Herman Melville. I achieved this honor through an unlikely sequence of events that began with a Facebook post about a …

(the story of how I came to have Melville's commode: avidly.org/2021/12/05/h...)