Cullin

Not the left, and not MAGA, but hardly apolitical. The major thing his friends and acquaintances said was that he was deeply invested in 4chan. 4chan is not neutral. 4chan is the hangout of white supremacist extremists, self-avowed Nazis, and race war accelerationists.

Kander and Ebb’s least sexual song w 2025s least sexual (?)toy(?)

Not that political assassins are historically super coherent in their thought processes, but —!

The amount of nihilist edgelords with almost indecipherable and always inconsistent assassination messages is getting somewhat concerning

Totally normal setup outside 1 Pace Plaza where Google Gemini is giving students a free premium subscription for a year

Charlie Kirk’s direct legacy.

State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted the warning on Thursday.

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights

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Good luck!! Sounds so exciting!

Sharing our Toni Morrison Grendel reading from class today, for definitely no specific reason

Often thinking about when I was a very pregnant teacher and my high school sophomores told me if we ever go into lockdown, I should move to the safest corner of the room right away and they would move the bookcase to barricade the door on their own. "You have the baby," they (babies) said.

flags half mast and bottomless media hagiography for a man who spent his days tricking dim children into thinking black women are worthless

Took 9 yo who I’ve been watching since she was 8 months old to school this AM and she told me, totally randomly, “hey Cullin I really like that saying you told me ‘who painted the lion?’” 😭 I’ve raised a feminist medievalist

Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it

Netanyahu fleeing Israel after instigating potentially a world war, leaving Israelis to bear the brunt of his impetuous actions — like who is really concerned with Jewish lives here exactly

“protecting women"

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

😩❤️

Brilliant students bringing in Angela Davis totally unprompted we love to see it

If anyone needs me for the next week, I will be in my grading cave where my students are brilliant, etc., etc.

I’m in Ohio for a wedding and was at my mother’s restaurant and this ancient man asked me if I’m still in school and what for and I said I’m working on a PhD and he said “so will you be a doctor or nurse?” And I said no it’s a humanities degree and he goes “so nurse” 💀

It was so fun!!

Grand Rapids has everything — medievalists, Broadway and film legends

Mandy Patinkin on my flight I talked to him I’m crying

A Pope from Chicago………great, as if we don’t already hear enough from people in Chicago 🙄🙄

Currently in the most annoying possible place to be when a new pope is announced (trapped on a campus with hundreds of medievalists)

So this!!! 👇

This would’ve done numbers on Twitter if I wasn’t still in Twitter jail

Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimage to mythological Kalamazoo

A student called me “mother Chaucer” at the end of our last Chaucer class today which I’ll be promptly putting on my CV

Can’t wait to hear what my queen Carly Rae Jepsen has to say about all of this