Brandon Walsh

There is a TikTok making the rounds of a woman crying after seeing her child's kindergarten classroom and finding it "underwhelming" and "not cute." I am married to a teacher who began his career teaching at the elementary level and I have a few things to say. 🧵

The fact that people are homeless in the US is not a failing of those people.

It is a failing of our country.

We have the resources to help, house, feed, and clothe every person here — even those struggling with mental illness and addiction.

That we choose not to says more about us than them.

You are not allowed to see inside immigration court. So we brought an illustrator At rarely seen hearings, families with toddlers and unaccompanied teenagers, face lawyers for the government.

A stunner of a story from @sfstandard.com sfstandard.com/2025/08/11/a...

Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for ChatGPT. By him I'll be great emperor of the world.

- Dr. Faustus, probably

behooves us to think with great clarity about the forcing upon society of a tool that—whatever else it does—definitely triggers dissociation, at a time when that country is set to embark on a huge wave of psychiatric confinements + work camps for the neurodiverse, unhoused, & otherwise inconvenient

I miss Pocket too

A few words on Pocket, research processes, and teaching with blogs - walshbr.com/blog/bloggin...

Stand Up for UC We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.

I’m heartened to see this.

“You got the new name for our office?”

“Sure do. Real normal sounding acronym like you asked.”

Dave Matthews Band bus incident Article Talk Dave Matthews Band's tour bus stopping at the Kinzie Street Bridge to empty its blackwater tank On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open-top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below. The incident became popularly known as the Dave Matthews Band incident! or Poopgate. 2]

Happy 21st anniversary to the Dave Matthews Band poop incident en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Ma...

A real “wow they really are listening to what you say” moment for old dad

Their poster renames their Praxis DH fellowship as the "Praxis Yellowship in Digital Journalities" 💛

Parenting is wild because it seems like just yesterday you were trying to get a first word and then the next thing you know they say, “blueberries? In this economy?”

Text game or annual workday training?

Post presentation by the 2024-2025 Praxis Program cohort describing a text analysis project examining satire and naming in the early decades of The Yellow Journal, UVA's satirical journal.

With thanks to @literaturegeek.bsky.social for hanging, the poster put together by last year's Praxis Program cohort as a part of their yearend sprint is in its new home. They did a mini-project on naming, satire, and power in The Yellow Journal, UVA's satirical newspaper.

Every piece of dystopian media that seemed like a stretch deserves a handwritten apology.

How do we reach an audience when the audience has scattered?

New blog post: Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation

foundhistory.org/2025/08/digi...

#dh #digitalhumanities

Thanks for checking it out!

ICYMI - I posted this week on some common frameworks for structuring DH courses.

Still hope to teach it one day!

Why aren’t you connecting

Grayson

Puts words to much of what I’ve been trying to process. Thank you for writing.

An overhead photograph of a road passing through snowy fields. The road forks toward the left of the picture.

New blog post: "On Grief" in higher ed. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

We should never have connected

To be fair, I too often wondered throughout life what was on the roof of my place of work. If imbued with unchecked power I also would probably go to the roof.

PSA you can get a splinter from just about anything - just a matter of how much it hurts and how frequently it happens.

Signed, the guy who finally got the Velcro splinter out of his finger.

Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

LA Times: "'It backfired,' said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash. .... 'Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.'

WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ypqo...

You know things are going great when there’s a new arrested development gif for every higher ed headline.