Alya

"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation."

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FUCK that

A Jacob Frey sign illegally placed in the boulevard in front of someone’s house

[to the tune of “Hot to Go”]

🎶 Frey sign in the boulevard
Put that shit back in your yard 🎵

😩 i want it NOW

when I say I’ve been waiting *years* for @anniemcc.bsky.social’s book to come out… 😤💯

if he’s dead he’ll still be dead in the morning get some shut eye silly

Rosa Press has collated a folio of tributes in memory of our friend Joshua Clover. Please read pieces by @lalouverouge.bsky.social @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social @charmainechua.bsky.social Oki Sogumi, Mark Steven, @andrew-brooks.bsky.social + @alorange.bsky.social here: rosapress.net/joshua-clove...

Preorder this book now! Rosa author, Rosa fave, Rosa icon, Madeline. Can't wait to read, hype, cite, and love this book.

YouTube video by UCTVInsight Archives of Anonymous Labor: From Farce to Liberation

The full discussion with @archivesonscreen.org curators @hennefem.bsky.social and Michelle Baroody at the Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara in February is up now on YouTube!
youtu.be/gKnaGV0qSww?...

The American Vandal, "Print is a Rent Strike" (double sided) READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/theamericanvandal/p/against-technofeudal-education?r=4b9icb&utm_medium=ios LISTEN: https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/newspapers-worse-than-dead-but-print...

Many people have said to me in recent months that they would buy a "print is a rent strike" t-shirt.

Well, now's your chance. I reached out to the preeminent critical theory and literary studies printmaker, @allgrim.bsky.social, & he designed this absolute wonder.

Honored is an understatement. This moment we’re in is a weird (and scary) one, and we’re lucky to have the Matt and everyone he brings on American Vandal as we figure it out.

this nameless phantom feeling

Mute Compulsion - Public Books The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”

my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera

(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)

Mute Compulsion The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”

New at PB, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social reviews Emma Cline’s “The Guest” (Random House), arguing that the opacity of the central character is a resistance against the “trauma plot” that has come to popularity in contemporary fiction.

My philosophy and experience with students is that they can almost always do incredibly difficult work, but if you ever waste their time with soul-killing meaningless work, you have essentially poisoned the well when it comes to getting them to spend any additional effort on your class.

For context: The coal industry employs about 40,000 people.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

More than four out of five Americans, 83%, said they were concerned about the cost of groceries, with 46% saying they were very concerned. Some 47% said they were worried about being able to pay their rent or mortgage, 64% said they were worried about affording an unexpected medical expense. About 48% said they believed they would have trouble affording an unexpected $500 bill without borrowing. One in four said it would be "very difficult" A quarter of those surveyed said they spent at least three hours a day worrying about their finances and ability to afford basic necessities. Another 25% of respondents said they or someone in their household had skipped meals in the past year in order to make ends meet, and 26% said they had fallen behind on their monthly bills over the past year.

Fuck the stock market reports, this is what real life is like

dance like nobody’s getting the ick

"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read"
So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me

a hand holding a copy of a green and yellow book: University Keywords, edited by Andy Hines

This mighty book has arrived and I’m eager for it to be in your hands! It can orient us term by term to past struggles in higher education and the ones ahead.

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

"Careless people … smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

OK U WHORES THE TIME IS NOW

This email from All of Mpls is full of defamation & slander. As the son of immigrants & a council member representing a large immigrant community, our community deserves to know whenever ICE is present. This agency separates families & tears communities apart. People need to check their privilege.

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and…

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID.

The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

Remember NFTs? Sort of? Not really? The same guys who made that bullshit are now telling us auto-complete is intelligent and it has feelings

it’s virtual! so you’re still welcome to participate and attend if you’d like :-)

hope to see you there!

ACLA May 30, 31, and June 1 -- stream A (10:30-12:15) w/ @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @jasonread.bsky.social and many other people I can't wait to learn from

ok! good effort. we’re gonna aim for posting normaler tomorrow but you guys hit the showers and rest up