Jennifer Young

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Unpopular opinion - there is no way to use GenAI ethically, and AI literacy should involve helping people to understand why (hint - stolen IP, devastating environmental impacts, exploitation of workers, loss of learning, writing and thinking skills) #AcademicSky #sociology

[Enter Valentine.]

A bonus Daily Cartoon by Jim Benton. #NewYorkerCartoons

Wool bounces! 🥰

You knowe the coole thinge about Gen A.I.?

Aye, me neither

Excellent and empoweringe educacioun will nevir be "efficient" yn the waye that a businesse doth stryve to be "efficient." It ys the heighte of knavery to use one standarde to measure everye human activitye. Businesses are ther to make profits. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

They’ve Always Known He is A Racist... They just never cared

The time for mincing words and normalizing his ethnic cleansing campaign (disguised as “immigration policy”) is over. Trump is a racist. His party tolerates if it does not actively endorse his racism. Those who normalize him enable racism. His agenda is racist open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

two men are standing next to each other and the caption says we will be spending this sunday ALT: two men are standing next to each other and the caption says we will be spending this sunday

Anybody else going to the Superb Owl party?

YouTube video by Netflix France La Fashion Police juge EMILY IN PARIS ! (Drag React)

Rose & Punani jugent Emily 🚨🚨🚨

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

[twangy, jaunty lute arpeggio]

Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

Paddington in the Winter Olympics

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1789

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore

It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

I think we all need an amber bear today

We are looking at a close up of the Fossgate entrance to the Hall showing a brick building with a carved stone doorway with two red doors beaming in the morning sunlight. Above the doorway is a carved and painted Coat of Arms.

It's grey (again), it's raining (again) and we've run out of biscuits (absolute disaster).

We are in need of some red door energy.

May this bobby dazzler bring you some much needed oomph to get you through Friday. ❤️

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.

@ruthmarcus.bsky.social writes about mass layoffs at the Washington Post—where she spent more than 40 years as a reporter, an editor, an editorial writer, and a columnist—and the paper’s decline under Jeff Bezos. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/hsbIts

Being paywalled out of reading an article about finding joy in academic work feels about right for 2026. #AcademicSky #Polisky

Writing Tip:

In On Writing, Stephen King said, “If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check... and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”

So if you want to be a talented writer, the secret is LED bulbs.

Why, yet thy scandal were not wip’d away

A charter written by a drunken spider

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you

Merovingian cursive:

All these lists are breaking me: such wonderfully specific modules! So students can really get their teeth into a cool topic with the expert!

While we're now made to turn our modules as bland as possible to recruit the largest possible number of students and to ensure the teachers are replaceable.

Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable

One of the funniest reviews I ever read

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

YouTube video by artfilm33 Midnight at the Oasis - Waiting for Guffman HD

❤️❤️❤️

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

I bet if I got a new notebook that would fix me.

Join the Movement - Take Action Take action today! Support the National Immigrant Law Center in advancing immigrant rights and help ensure everyone has the freedom to thrive.

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Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.

A view along the lower deck context gallery, with the ship sort-of visible through a smallish window. It's also covered in ducting, which isn't ideal.

The Mary Rose from the lower deck context gallery now, with full views of the ship.

Did you last visit when the ship was covered in ducting and visible through small windows?

Time for a return visit...

maryrose.org/Visit