Elizabeth Barnett

Bitchiness very acceptable from ladies who run estate sales. You're right, I should have gotten a ticket before standing in line. It's only fair that I go find someone in an apron and then stand in line again. Yes, I do see that everyone else is holding a ticket.

It is disgusting that Trump’s hateful words of calling Somali Americans “garbage” have continued to go unchecked by members of the Republican Party.

These are US citizens he is denigrating.

We have a duty as Americans to call out his hateful rhetoric.

Bemused by how quickly I went from thinking debate moms are intense to texting my sweet daughter "FINISH HIM!!!!!!!!"

After: cozy fire hazard

Christmas tree with LED lights casting a blue glow

Before: felt like ai

Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

Winona Ryder with a glowing ball of Christmas lights, awed expression on her face.

Going back to incandescent after LED

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Uncle Monte's Christmas Horse Listen to Uncle Monte's Christmas Horse by fortlander #np on #SoundCloud

Saving Christmas by turning off the lights until I can replace them and listening to Uncle Monte's Christmas Horse, an album my husband made back in our Nashville basement.

It Happened to Me: I Put LED Lights On My Tree and Ruined Christmas

Revisiting Kathryn Nuernberger's "Little Lesson on How to Be" to teach with Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts." What if the Old Masters were wrong about suffering?

Sissinghurst

I have always advocated the use of pots in the garden. How valuable it is to have a few pots which may be carried indoors on an evening when one smells frost in the air. #gardening

Is Julius Caesar super campy or am I?

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Between diffusion models and LLMs, tech has inflated a trillion dollar bubble around automating activities that have immense social and cultural capital—writing, art, photography—but little actual capital. It’s harmful to education, culture, and society with minimal overall benefit

Papillons; Paris, Tolmer[ca. 1925] http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48852965

Papillons; Paris, Tolmer[ca. 1925] (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48852965) #nature #illustration #art

Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre

imaginary Romans with real knives in them

Holiday tradition of googling “new donna tartt when”

One day you're young, the next you're making a zoned grocery list for when H-E-B opens at 6am

Something like convergent evolution happening as humanities professors respond to ai with a similar set of practices that we each hunkered down and came up with out of desperation over the summer of 2025.

Wondering if all the cute Thanksgiving turkey pictures nudge susceptible folks (me) toward vegetarianism

Pablo Picasso - Turkey, from Picasso: Original Etchings for the Texts of Buffon - The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

I saw the image before the artist, and was surprised that Picasso made this good-natured turkey.

Things I am trying as migraine medication runs out and insurance denies refills: meditation, fish oil, zyrtec, daily pages, haphazard food elimination, magnesium, neck stretches (family mocks)...

Upending this cultural compromise by effectively destroying trust that the institutions can effectively and consistently diagnose merit is an existential crisis for the entire sector, but we seem to be sleeping on a parallel crisis in knowledge acquisition/production as such

The gentlest, firmest, weapon for us to use in the culture wars, from Goethe:

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

A Santa doll with blue eyes staring into the abyss

Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.