My cat has figured out that I will keep giving him piles of treats with a pill hidden inside until he eats the pill. Lord have mercy.
04.02.2026 00:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@lwalker.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.
My cat has figured out that I will keep giving him piles of treats with a pill hidden inside until he eats the pill. Lord have mercy.
04.02.2026 00:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And what is the answer?
03.02.2026 15:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Counterpoint: It was hot in 1825 academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/636/
02.02.2026 21:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 2**stares in Frankenstein**
02.02.2026 21:32 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Schumer: "I have many jobs as leader.. and one is to fight for aid to Israel β all the aid that Israel needs. I will continue to fight for it. Β«We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that."
Doesn't seem like this should be his job
01.02.2026 23:19 β π 6431 π 1080 π¬ 248 π 368You can ask your doctor to test your immunity. I found out my Rubella immunity had lapsed, but not mumps or measles.
01.02.2026 14:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I know everyone is fangirling Amanda Gorman, but I would like to introduce you to a more recent National Youth Poet Laureate and current CUNY student m.youtube.com/watch?v=8mzp...
01.02.2026 00:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I shared this thread with my art historian spouse, and she declared this thread an art historianβs dream.
31.01.2026 23:53 β π 35 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0Guillotining has become the moderate position, actually.
28.01.2026 15:02 β π 109 π 16 π¬ 2 π 1I protested Clinton in high school. If you recall, he also bombed Iraq.
31.01.2026 01:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ME TOO.
31.01.2026 01:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm so sorry you had this experience and so glad you had support.
31.01.2026 01:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I appreciate everyone whoβs on strike today. I will also say, if you have small, local businesses in your area that are open, especially if they are owned by or employ immigrants, support them.
31.01.2026 01:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Everything I do to this paper makes it worse.
30.01.2026 21:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The problem with having three different scholarly editions of Frankenstein is that I never know which one I'm citing. Pretty sure there are page refs to all three in this draft. Pretty sure I could not locate all three if my citational practice depended on it.
30.01.2026 20:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0CUNY is 100% the NYC shibboleth.
30.01.2026 19:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I have a friend who had to block Cuomo on Instagram because she kept waking up to discover that she'd spent a drunken evening cyberbullying him on Threads. Man I love her. We should all be cyberbullying these assholes.
30.01.2026 13:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ds are demanding DHS stop "deporting US citizens," but deporting *US citizens* is not legal to begin with! So they're offering money to criminals if they...what, stop criming, I guess? It's basically 'hey stop robbing this bank and we'll give you a million bucks'. I swear I am going insane
30.01.2026 01:52 β π 324 π 110 π¬ 15 π 4Bidenβs legacy is a mountain of corpses paid for by US taxpayers
30.01.2026 02:37 β π 110 π 32 π¬ 2 π 1Often as I put my son down, after his shower in clean PJβs & warm bed Im struck with a pang of guilt over the babies that donβt have this, and my mind tonight drifts to the babies in prisons in Palestine & Texas. I wonder if the people guarding their cells have kids of their own.
30.01.2026 00:43 β π 100 π 18 π¬ 3 π 2To be fair, a lot of us died.
30.01.2026 00:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This thread is so fabulous. Scientific vs. common names is apparently still a loaded subject!
@aksagal.bsky.social This made me think of you :)
There's this great play, "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart," where the main character spends eternity in the Devil's library and makes an important scholarly discovery and looks up and says, "But none of it matters!" And I think about that more than I would like.
28.01.2026 15:00 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I am so proud of my colleagues, Ionna Glava and Fevronia Soumakis, for creating the first OER textbook for Modern Greek!
pressbooks.cuny.edu/moderngreek1/
Oh, I know that face! It's so hard when they look at you like you're the ultimate betrayer of all kittenkind. Best wishes for a speedy recovery β€οΈ
27.01.2026 13:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I can remember when W announced the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
I can remember a world before DHS, and I want to see a world after DHS.
This is an insult to snails.
27.01.2026 12:55 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No. You don't compromise with fascists. Abolish ICE.
27.01.2026 12:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
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