Chris Lloyd

Friends, @keeblearin.bsky.social and I have a new essay out at ASAP/Review about @jamiljankochai.bsky.social's "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak." It was a pleasure to work with Arin and with @davidhering.bsky.social and @emmywaldman.bsky.social!

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can we get circles on here plz like the olden days of twitter

Streeting is truly the most heinous little prick

We’ve just stopped talking about the disgraceful complicity of every MSM outlet and reporter that has chosen to remain on a site that is an explicitly racist, Nazi cesspool.

It is unconscionable that they have CHOSEN to continue using it as their primary social media platform.

The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!

In classrooms today, the technopoly is thriving. Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience. Students aren't being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively. We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning— the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one's own voice. Critical pedagogy is out; productivity hacks are in. What's sold as innovation is really surrender. As the university trades its teaching mission for "Al-tech integration," it doesn't just risk irrelevance-it risks becoming mechanically soulless. Genuine intellectual struggle has become too expensive of a value proposition.

Bleak but important essay by Ronald Purser on AI capitulation at California State University. We need to push back against this in our own institutions.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Having been a Brownie, Guide and young leader, and then had a Brownie daughter, I’ve always been proud of Girlguiding’s inclusivity. So I’m devastated to hear that they’ve decided to exclude trans girls from the organisation. Sign here to protest (and appeal directly if you have contact with them).

Fucking hell

GET in the BIN.

BAAS Development Fund - British Association for American Studies NEW EARLIER DEADLINES FOR BAAS DEVELOPMENT FUND APPLICATIONS (1st FEBRUARY & 1st OCTOBER: BAAS invites scholars in any field of American Studies to apply for grants of up to two years in duration.…

BAAS invites scholars in any field of American Studies to apply for grants of up to two years in duration. Grants may be requested for up to a maximum of £2000 for a range of American Studies academic activities.

Please note, from 2026, earlier submission deadlines are in place.

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If you have ever liked one of my posts, please help a boy out and listen to my podcast? Or share it with a friend? Or just play episode each muted so I get the streams? It’s Books Up Close on all platforms. I’ll send you a cake/gift/hug if you do.

A brilliant poetry collection - taut, visceral, affecting. Go buy!!

Happy to report that the author copies of the shelf-ready version of the book have landed on my doorstep from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social! Feel very grateful to be with my favourite publisher 🙏 Next up is the launch in Belfast on January 29! (Deets in due course). 🤍💙

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Thank you!!

It’s required yearly viewing 🥰

She’s my queen!! @nigella.bsky.social for life. I have all her books (bar one) 💜

Some festive reading for y’all. Listen my podcast - Books Up Close - for your literary content, and follow the Instagram for this month’s advent calendar 🎄

Thank you!

Let’s start an over 30 selfie thread

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some gorgeous Vivaldi by candlelight 💫

Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

grey day, but good lighting

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Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction

This weekend @edinburghup.bsky.social has an amazing 50% off everything sale! You can get my book for the low low price of 11 pounds quid!!

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Hydrofictions Hydrofictions

Bargain copies of my book available for £11 this weekend in the @edinburghup.bsky.social St Andrew's Day sale 😎 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hydrofi...