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Yeah, ok, but where was this BEFORE the election? Ffs. The leopards are feasting.

a woman is holding a lantern in the dark with netflix written in the corner . ALT: a woman is holding a lantern in the dark with netflix written in the corner .

Yes. We have to hold our lights up, so that others can see us.

Comedian Bill Hicks (dead lo these 30 years) called us "a virus with shoes." I've seen no evidence that he was wrong.

Something something I didn't think the leopard would eat MY face...

Zeit online: Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß Elon Musk streckt den rechten Arm, und alle springen drüber. Willkommen im neuen Aufmerksamkeitsregime.

This German paper has no doubts and no willingness (or legal ability) to show it.

There is a paper here. Or an essay for IHE.

This is fantastic (in every sense of the word)! I have used monstrosity as a theme in my lit courses for a long time - I just preordered your book and am really looking forward to it!

Thirty years later, still raises the hairs on the back of my neck.
#genx #soundtrack

Here I am at my follow up appointment today. I am a survivor, and I know how important screenings are. Mine was delayed in March 2020 due to COVID. In late August, a lump that was Stage lla when I was diagnosed on 9/21/20. Fast-growing. I'm one of the lucky ones.

I don't call it bullshit in my syllabi because they're legal documents, but I definitely talk about AI in exactly this way in class the first day, and throughout the term. It's bullshit.

Wood stove with orange flames with a rocking chair nearby

Plan is to be posted up by the fire today. It's 7⁰ with a brisk west wind.
Looks to be a clear day for the full Wolf Moon. 🌕 The theme for me is to Choose to Let [This] Go, with Gratitude.

A part-human, part-animal monster is in front of two fortresslike buildings. The caption reads, “The povtraytvre or shew of a wonderfull Monster which was found at Rome, in the yeare of our Lord, 1496.”

A calf with a human face and a round shape like a monk’s tonsure on the back of its head stands on its hind legs. A flap of skin around its neck and shoulders is reminiscent of a monk’s cowl or cloak. The caption reads, “Heere followeth the portrayture or Figure of the other, that is to wit, of a Monkish Calfe, calued after this fashion in the citie of Freiberge in the countrey of Misne. Anno. 1528.”

A 🧵on religious monsters in HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, (Feb. 4, @ucpress.bsky.social)
In the 16th-C Protestant Reformation, religious thinkers weaponized monstrous births. They spun them as metaphors sent from God to show church corruption under the pope and his priests.
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern 1/10

Photo of book cover for Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh on a wooden table

Teaching this 2024 #hugoaward -winning novel as the last book of spring term. #antifascist #lgbtqia #sciencefiction

Um, I'm in this post and I don't like it. 🤣🫠

FB/IG/Threads going the way of Twitter in 3...2...1...

When lyrics hit you in a different way than they did 30 years ago...

Doing a pop-up online salon tonight on Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol. Register before 6 pm CST TONIGHT for the link! linktr.ee/caryatisfarm...

My students really love it.

Throwback to the dance and dye silk workshop held on my Farm (@caryatisfarm IG) back in September. I'm learning how to loosen up and go with the flow. Video by @gaealady on IG.

You did an absolutely fabulous job with this-- I could not put it down!!

Fwiw, I am teaching 4 novels and a novella in a 14 week spring class geared for college sophomores. Frankenstein, Jekyll &Hyde, Dracula, The Hobbit, and Some Desperate Glory. We'll see how it goes, but I feel like I need to reintroduce the joy of reading alongside the critical analysis.

I survived cancer in 2020 and an epic near fatal nosebleed a year ago, and the closure of my campus this past May. Figured it was time to read it.

Ah jeez, lookit dis. 😆

So glad you are here.

Some light reading so that I can maintain a semblance of sanity in order to keep doing my day job.

Installment plan for a mattress here.

Photo of full moon over empty soybean field and trees

Hunter's Moon rising over the neighbor's field.