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Diego Millan

@diegom.bsky.social

Books, food, flowers, running, coffee, mostly in reverse order. Also an Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies working on a book about laughter.

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Provide Breakfast β€” Je T'aime Patisserie

And in case someone wants to support Ms. Kearsley's breakfast program but isn't in the area:
www.jetaimebk.com/provide-brea...

31.10.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Any passing study will reveal that this current depravity has a long history. This is why they don’t want you reading and computers answering your questions for you.

31.10.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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French bakery in Bed-Stuy offers free breakfast to SNAP card holders Beginning Nov. 1, when SNAP benefits are expected to be suspended, Je T’aime Patisserie will offer free breakfast to anyone who presents their EBT card from 7:30-10 a.m.

This is dope. In the spirit of the BPP free breakfast program, but fancy.

31.10.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1355    πŸ” 423    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 21

You can and should advocate for liberation for all oppressed people worldwide. There are multiple genocides and uprisings happening all around us. Anyone telling you to 'pick a struggle' is an op, full stop.

31.10.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Catching up on what I missed from last night’s Alchemy Lectures. Living where I do in rural VA, I am so, so thankful for this annual event.

Profoundest thanks to Christina Sharpe and all of this yearβ€˜s alchemists.

31.10.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

for watching if you missed and would like a dose of the kind of attentive, attuned brilliance that makes hope possible in times like these

31.10.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the syllabus for getting deep into what Canisia Lubrin conjured in her talk last night would be long but as a door, the heart of it was creating a sonic reverberation of the Bois CaΓ―man ceremony for our times, in which Black and Caribbean sound, language, and resistance swirl like a rising storm

31.10.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yeah! I teach this in my 19th century American gothic. it’s a trip for sure. Let me know when you do. we can grab a coffee and discuss.

31.10.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI’m gonna stand and applause yallβ€œ πŸ˜‚ but also πŸ’“

31.10.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌ

30.10.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"there is no place where these troubles have been fixed" (canisia lubrin)

30.10.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

”this incarnation of a poet’s nightmare” Canisia Lubrin

30.10.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œTo make a shroud for what hatred destroys…”

Wow

30.10.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"the brutal response to all that we have worked for, we who believe this earth is for everyone" (christina sharpe)

30.10.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

have coffee, have cookies, have the Alchemy lectures live is my "be quiet my show is on" (it is better than any show of course)

30.10.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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For their decision to run ICE recruitment ads and then standing by the decision.

30.10.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lol!

30.10.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Live for at least part and then streaming the rest tomorrow. Thank you and everyone for these lectures.

πŸ’šπŸ’™β™₯️ (wonder what color the next cover will be)

30.10.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Okay so these are amazing (and for free!?). Love the pattern on the tights, too. Congrats!

29.10.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST.

Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.

www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...

29.10.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

And Brutus is an honorable man

28.10.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 262    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0

Every one deserves to eat. It’s that simple.

26.10.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1709    πŸ” 553    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 19

I totally agree (with this and the follow up below). I wonder, too, how much the narrative about professors and increased grade anxieties amplify studentsβ€˜ just wanting to secure a professor's approval before writing. Like, they can independently think but worry about a fictive backlash.

26.10.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. β€œIf independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

24.10.2025 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 386    πŸ” 209    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 35

Part of politics is recognizing no social group has monolithic or inherently good politics and that, as Stuart Hall noted, politics is educative.

24.10.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 167    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

23.10.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 16710    πŸ” 4952    πŸ’¬ 494    πŸ“Œ 123
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The Justice Department Announces Agreement with University of Virginia WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement with the University of Virginia (β€œUVA”) that will protect UVA’s students, faculty, and employees from violations of federal ci...

This is shameful.

It’s not the US president’s role to oversee our state public universities.

Appeasement is a road to nowhere.

www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

23.10.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Your request for horror not thriller got me thinking maybe this is the year I dip my toe back in, but only if I have a new episode of bake off to soothe me after.

20.10.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Me seeing β€œscream” and β€œI know what you did last summer”

20.10.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No interest in a building where the lives of so many have been dashed away by the stroke of a pen.

20.10.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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