Dr Abigail Boucher

Cover of Dante's Divine Comedy showing two men standing in front of a wall of fire but looking up at the sun while angels fly overhead.

Cover of Dante's Inferno showing two men looking unnerved as a positive tornado of lost souls swirls around overhead.

Cover for Dante's Inferno. It's just some poorly-drawn fire.

Cover for Dante's Divine Comedy, appropriately showing a painting of the poet (and kind of uggo) Dante in profile--he really makes this text all about him, so this is apt.

For our spoooooky Halloween text, we will recap Dante's Divine Comedy (major focus on the 'Inferno' section).

And to help us do this, we will be joined by medieval heresy historian (and Abby's best friend/Daniel's enemy), Justine!

Tune in 15 Oct. for Dante's embarrassing self-insert Bible fanfic.

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

Long 19C job in New Zealand - see below

Cancer: You will be the worst possible version of yourself today, but no one will notice the difference.

Rewatching Sex & the City; I couldn't help but wonder:

Does no one in Carrie's life read her column? Every week it's like:

My friend Charlotte York, who lives at this address, loathes her husband Trey and his penis problems. Also I'm having an affair, hope my boyfriend doesn't get suspicious ;)

No country in the history of the world has ever prospered by deliberately lowering the educational attainment of its citizenry.

No other country in the world today (not even Trumpist America) is proposing to do so.

Suggesting the UK should do it, systematically, is a marker of deranged idiocy.

I bought a Magic Eraser to clean my walls and suddenly I'm like, 'Oh, sorry, I didn't realise that I lived in The Color Purple house before Celie arrived and found floral wallpaper under years of filth.'

Episode 15: Daniel Jenkin-Smith, Bureaucracy, Utopia, Dystopia

Daniel Jenkin-Smith, one half of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social, is a guest on @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social. Bigger than the 1968 crossover Thanksgiving episode of The Beverly Hillbillies. Can't wait to listen!

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Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

oh i mean this bodes well for accuracy and truth

._.

Book cover for Catcher in the Rye showing a young man in a red hunting hat walking between two cliffs, which have rye fields on top, but are also New York skyscrapers.

Book cover for Catcher in the Rye showing a young man in a red hunting hat smoking a cigarette and the puffs of smoke turn into ducks flying away

Book cover for Catcher in the Rye showing a red hunting hat with no one inside it.

Book cover for Catcher in the Rye showing a psychotic looking red carousel horse hovering over a New York cityscape. You know this cover. This is the famous one. It's everywhere.

Hey, ya phonies! Enjoying back-to-school? Well, our (anti)hero sure isn't! Join us for JD Salinger's 1951 ode to teen angst, 'Catcher in the Rye'.

Let's all have Buckfast at Tiffany's, put on weird hats, and argue about who has it worse in winter: ducks or fish.

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Double rainbow in Birmingham

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

Let this be a lesson. Avoid AI like you would the plague!

I will message you

I had a very strange undergrad philosophy prof who wanted to recreate the ancient teaching experience as much as possible. He insisted in a 'Just joking! (not joking, tho)' way that we all needed to call him 'master'.

I wouldn't trade the microexpressions I saw in that class for the world

Meta is an unethical company run by Peter Thiel’s techno-fascist billionaire protégé—Mark Zuckerberg—and is part of the Trump regime’s surveillance state.

It’s time to leave Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—and while you’re at it, drop Amazon, Google, and OpenAI as well.

Learn how in this thread:

Broadening my husband's musical tastes by playing a mix of old and new stuff in the car.

When I asked him to name the singer (Kristen Chenoweth in 'Wicked'), he paused for a very long time and said, '...is it Dua Lipa? That's a person, right?'

Going to death-roll out of this car like 'Ladybird'.

I don't need that kind of pressure in my life!

Debating with a (likewise pacifist) coworker which one of us would win in a fight. Our greatest strengths come down to:

-She goes to yoga weekly
-I went to New Jersey once and have a generally bad attitude

Recorded, and released, during a heatwave, we discover in this episode that high temperatures can yield provocative new visions about literature and culture.

Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' (1953) - out tomorrow!

Almost assuredly a very distant cousin.

Our family did a genealogy thing a while back and they told us that almost every single Boucher currently in North America is a descendant of one guy who landed here in the 1600s.

Cover for Fahrenheit 451, showing a very shiny full-face fireman's helmet, reflecting the image of a burning book

Loads of people guessed correctly! Our next very banned (and, ironically, often burned) book is Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopia about the perils of anti-intellectualism, 'Fahrenheit 451'.

Tune in on 13 August for a lot of histrionics about technology!

Meet the Gen Zers who have sworn off AI — and ask their friends to do the same Some Gen Zers are firmly rejecting AI tools in their daily lives. We talked to four people, ages 23-27, who explained why they won't touch the tech.

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baby needs pasta grocery store sign

rolling up to the Olive Garden like

Enough time has passed.

We need to all finally admit that, while he looked very hot doing so, Stanley Tucci makes the worst fucking cocktails I have ever tasted.

Oh, that was a season 3 surprise

It is so wonderfully ... something that it becomes weekly therapy. I love it, I cannot live without it

My greatest, most therapeutic experience is hate-watching 'And Just Like That'.
I thought I had plumbed the depths and gotten everything I could get from this.
Until out of nowhere
Carrie Bradshaw
started to write
shitty neo-Victorian fiction
*pterodactyl scream*

ATTENTION ALL PERVS: our 69th episode, covering John Cleland's 1749 erotic novel 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure' (AKA 'Fanny Hill'), is out now!

Expect strapping footmen, polite applause during orgies, and plenty of red-hot turtlebilling!

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