Devin Garofalo

Sorry I now see Toby mentioned the hostage crisis lol.

The dog was kidnapped and ransomed multiple (three?) times.

Portland State declares financial crisis, reveals plan to cut or reduce 19 departments Portland State’s announcement Monday lays the groundwork for a process that could result in a massive restructuring of the university.

Despite Portland State faculty & staff securing $311M in higher ed funding, reducing Oregon’s higher ed cuts from 5% to 0%, PSU admin move forward in enacting worst cuts in its history. Why?

@psuaaup.bsky.social

What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since

He loves a good nape!

Oh good gravy. Burke had thoughts on a lot of things, and they were mostly, at the end of the day, about boobs. Signed, an actual eighteenth-century scholar.

WWEB do — said no one.

Thanks @glavey.bsky.social for humoring / enabling me.

2026 March Meowness Photo Contest Izzy loves to romp around the beach, observe the surfers, and climb rocks — look at that face, pure joy!

It’s March Meowness in San Diego. Plz vote for my very cute dogs. Last but not least, Izzy. (Vote for them both, no need to choose! 😂) [Alt text: link to a photo of a lion-esque chihuahua wearing a periwinkle harness, walking along the shore — face is pure joy.] woobox.com/p5kg3p/galle...

2026 March Meowness Photo Contest Oona loves helicoptering at La Jolla Shores and watching all the dogs at Cliffhanger — she thinks she can fly!

It’s March Meowness in San Diego. Plz vote for my very cute dogs. First up, Oona. (Vote for them both, no need to choose! 😂) [Alt text: link to a photo of a tricolor pup wearing a seafoam harness, her ears flapping in the wind — she looks like she could fly.]

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this is a framework for capitulation to fascism, with some fancy medieval citations thrown in to smarten it up and give it a gloss of moral seriousness

"Noise Up the World" is an exhibition exploring the archive of novelist, essayist, philosopher, and scholar Sylvia Wyntervwith special attention to her major projects on Man, and the Autonomy of Human Cognition.

Reception
Mar 2, 2026

Invocation: Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social

Send them yr proposals!!

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Thx Corbin, I am so excited for yr book!!!

Thank you Manu!!!! ☺️

Snippet of publishing agreement with OUP for a book titled Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned — part of the Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures series edited by Patricia Matthew and Manu Samriti Chander.

All the things have been signed, so it is official: my book on lyric manscapes, planetary humanisms, & ambivalent reading is forthcoming in OUP’s Race in C19 Literatures & Cultures series! @triciamatthew.bsky.social & @profchander.bsky.social you are extraordinary editors, grateful for you. Woohoo!

your emergency moment of calm: baby opossum eating a grape

Thanks for humoring me, I realize it is a very stupid joke.

I am mad at myself for not yelling THAT WAS WILD(E).

Can’t wait to read!!!

The Enclosures of Free Verse Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from ...

In honor of the publication day of The Enclosures of Free Verse (uncpress.org/978146969306...), here's a little thread about what the book does and does not offer.

Ah I follow, yes, it was wild (har)!

Glad you agree this is an endorsement of my teaching. Clearly the hummingbird could not stay, a distraction from the sin of criticism.

None beyond that it was assigned today for discussion — happenstance!

Walked into my classroom today right after a hummingbird flew into it. A student and I were able to bundle said hummingbird up in her puffer jacket and transport it outside. Then we all talked about Dorian Gray. High point of the quarter.

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.

A California agency received 20k AI-generated comments opposing heat pump rules. Staff called a sample to verify—several said they never sent comments. Raises serious questions about the opposition campaign that helped kill the clean air standards, that would've prevented 1000s of premature deaths.

I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.

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nobody: hmmm i wonder if there's any way to make student evaluation "data" even MORE discriminatory, biased, and epistemologically fraudulent than it already is?

tech sector [firing up an algorithm of oppression]: HERE YOU GO