Kassie Jo
@kassiejo.bsky.social
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Hate account. All opinions should be my employer’s.
Assistant Prof Early American Lit. Melville. Mill girls. Murder.
Assistant Prof Early American Lit. Melville. Mill girls. Murder.
JOHN BROWN DAY!
Told my students to do their vocal warmups before class. Foreshadowing.
Told my students to do their vocal warmups before class. Foreshadowing.
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
JOHN BROWN DAY!
Told my students to do their vocal warmups before class. Foreshadowing.
Told my students to do their vocal warmups before class. Foreshadowing.
Is it really my fault if the soft animal of my body loves to start shit?
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Is it really my fault if the soft animal of my body loves to start shit?
Me in my office after no one at work recognized my Wisconsin culture on the 50th anniversary:
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Me in my office after no one at work recognized my Wisconsin culture on the 50th anniversary:
I feel like I am a professor in the same way that a dog is sometimes the mayor.
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I feel like I am a professor in the same way that a dog is sometimes the mayor.
Finally, a student has taken me up on my longstanding extra credit offer and made an “Emerson’s Transparent Eyeball” costume.
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Finally, a student has taken me up on my longstanding extra credit offer and made an “Emerson’s Transparent Eyeball” costume.
Give me one good reason why “The Minister’s Black Veil” isn’t just the male loneliness epidemic.
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Give me one good reason why “The Minister’s Black Veil” isn’t just the male loneliness epidemic.
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Dashcon president
Sure, but if it was a ball PIT you’d all change your tunes pretty quick.
October 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Dashcon president
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they’ve been doing this, as I reported years ago! www.thedailybeast.com/why-ai-is-de...
October 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
they’ve been doing this, as I reported years ago! www.thedailybeast.com/why-ai-is-de...
Sure, but if it was a ball PIT you’d all change your tunes pretty quick.
October 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Sure, but if it was a ball PIT you’d all change your tunes pretty quick.
A student tried to explain Disney’s Descendants to me and every new piece of information made me more distressed.
What do you mean the villains are trapped on a prison island? It’s a slum? And they raise their children there?! BECAUSE THE CHILDREN ARE ALL ASSUMED TO BE VILLAINS FROM BIRTH?!?!
What do you mean the villains are trapped on a prison island? It’s a slum? And they raise their children there?! BECAUSE THE CHILDREN ARE ALL ASSUMED TO BE VILLAINS FROM BIRTH?!?!
October 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
A student tried to explain Disney’s Descendants to me and every new piece of information made me more distressed.
What do you mean the villains are trapped on a prison island? It’s a slum? And they raise their children there?! BECAUSE THE CHILDREN ARE ALL ASSUMED TO BE VILLAINS FROM BIRTH?!?!
What do you mean the villains are trapped on a prison island? It’s a slum? And they raise their children there?! BECAUSE THE CHILDREN ARE ALL ASSUMED TO BE VILLAINS FROM BIRTH?!?!
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Can Sarah Marshall of @yourewrongabout.bsky.social do the audiobook?
I am finally sitting down this morning and starting in on the page proofs, and oh, my heart. This #Newsies book is really going to be real! It's been four years, and it's GOING TO BE REAL. ❤️🗞️🥹
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Can Sarah Marshall of @yourewrongabout.bsky.social do the audiobook?
Some days when I read Emerson, I want to give him a swirlie.
Some days, like today, I just feel like dudes rock 🤙 y’know?
Some days, like today, I just feel like dudes rock 🤙 y’know?
October 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Some days when I read Emerson, I want to give him a swirlie.
Some days, like today, I just feel like dudes rock 🤙 y’know?
Some days, like today, I just feel like dudes rock 🤙 y’know?
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Happy (not quite) birthday to Hannah Crafts, whose precise date of birth is unknown (circa 1830), but who still deserves to be celebrated!
Read about Crafts with:
- "Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation" by Gene Andrew Jarrett: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Read about Crafts with:
- "Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation" by Gene Andrew Jarrett: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
1/2
October 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Happy (not quite) birthday to Hannah Crafts, whose precise date of birth is unknown (circa 1830), but who still deserves to be celebrated!
Read about Crafts with:
- "Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation" by Gene Andrew Jarrett: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
1/2
Read about Crafts with:
- "Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation" by Gene Andrew Jarrett: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
1/2
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Lots of options but let's go classic on this one and say that time we shitposted so hard they put it in a peer reviewed journal and then that issue won a prize 🐳
October 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Lots of options but let's go classic on this one and say that time we shitposted so hard they put it in a peer reviewed journal and then that issue won a prize 🐳
Anyone who knows the concussion protocol want to critique my form here? I tried my best.
October 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Anyone who knows the concussion protocol want to critique my form here? I tried my best.
The only history I’m interested in these days: today is Snoopy’s 75th bday.
October 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The only history I’m interested in these days: today is Snoopy’s 75th bday.
Remember last year when I asked the chancellor what admin’s plan was when people started calling for professors to get fired and he lectured me about classroom management? You think it’s okay to circle back to that now that professor in the system are getting fired?
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Remember last year when I asked the chancellor what admin’s plan was when people started calling for professors to get fired and he lectured me about classroom management? You think it’s okay to circle back to that now that professor in the system are getting fired?
How much money do I need to become the most unhinged Real Housewife and would you donate to my GoFundMe?
October 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
How much money do I need to become the most unhinged Real Housewife and would you donate to my GoFundMe?
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This reminds us of our favorite Midwest tourist attraction and definitely does not make us think about OUR LEG.
September 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This reminds us of our favorite Midwest tourist attraction and definitely does not make us think about OUR LEG.
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A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.
They're Organized; We Need to Be Organized, Too
Trump and his far-right acolytes wield their power to disinvest from public services, terrorize our neighborhoods with ICE agents, and ensure that opposition to genocide becomes a fireable, and d...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.
The trumpets that signal the rapture will only play the Mighty Mighty Bosstones
September 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The trumpets that signal the rapture will only play the Mighty Mighty Bosstones
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The art is pouring in to our DMs! Huge thanks to @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social for bringing Angela Smyth’s amazing whale to our attention!
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
September 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The art is pouring in to our DMs! Huge thanks to @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social for bringing Angela Smyth’s amazing whale to our attention!
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.
Can’t believe my “pokemon GO TO THE POLLS” joke didn’t land in class today.
September 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Can’t believe my “pokemon GO TO THE POLLS” joke didn’t land in class today.
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This beautiful art was sent to us anonymously and we want to remind you our DMs are always* open.
*Until our co-laborers melt into the sperm.
*Until our co-laborers melt into the sperm.
![Edited tweet that now reads:
[Pequod waiting room]
Me: [chanting]
squeeze, squeeze-
co-laborers: squeeze, SQUEEZE
whale [pounding her
clipboard] SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5kdheyhhrpxvmm3pu464qltb/bafkreid2usa3z7mluwf2etqiqge3gxgaocb4stgg3xge3n3c6seonmgy4a@jpeg)
September 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This beautiful art was sent to us anonymously and we want to remind you our DMs are always* open.
*Until our co-laborers melt into the sperm.
*Until our co-laborers melt into the sperm.
I need some professional advice.
Now that I’m faculty and not a grad student, is it still okay for me to troll my university on the internet?
Now that I’m faculty and not a grad student, is it still okay for me to troll my university on the internet?
September 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I need some professional advice.
Now that I’m faculty and not a grad student, is it still okay for me to troll my university on the internet?
Now that I’m faculty and not a grad student, is it still okay for me to troll my university on the internet?