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@thekitchentapes.bsky.social
academic, knitter, neo-Victorian convalescent
This is true. At the same time, I have an extensive family tree with custom tags that include "crime," "evil," and "murder." There's a Quebecois brothel madam locally famous for rejoicing at a gallows as a man was hung for stealing.
It's okay if you have shitty ancestors. The future is now.
It's okay if you have shitty ancestors. The future is now.
Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time.
Time to claim your true history.
Time to claim your true history.
January 17, 2026 at 9:48 PM
This is true. At the same time, I have an extensive family tree with custom tags that include "crime," "evil," and "murder." There's a Quebecois brothel madam locally famous for rejoicing at a gallows as a man was hung for stealing.
It's okay if you have shitty ancestors. The future is now.
It's okay if you have shitty ancestors. The future is now.
Take a break from your doomscrolling for this. It's mandatory viewing.
This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.
January 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Take a break from your doomscrolling for this. It's mandatory viewing.
there will prob be a global boycott of US goods by the end of his term
January 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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I think voting is incredibly important. This is why me and my friends have raised $1 million for voting rights.
I think if the ONLY THING you are talking about right now is people voting, you have lost the plot.
I think if the ONLY THING you are talking about right now is people voting, you have lost the plot.
January 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
I think voting is incredibly important. This is why me and my friends have raised $1 million for voting rights.
I think if the ONLY THING you are talking about right now is people voting, you have lost the plot.
I think if the ONLY THING you are talking about right now is people voting, you have lost the plot.
It's gotten to the point that walking into the street and screaming "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" over and over and over again seems like a rational thing to do.
Apparently someone was singing Come Out Ye Black and Tans at an anti-ICE demonstration
January 16, 2026 at 1:08 AM
It's gotten to the point that walking into the street and screaming "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" over and over and over again seems like a rational thing to do.
ADHD is TFW you're mid-sentence with your brain racing through 10 different options for how to end it, all of which seem relevant (thanks, pattern recognition). Words seem to go nowhere, but they're going in very particular directions.
It's not inattention. It's competing hyperattentions.
It's not inattention. It's competing hyperattentions.
January 16, 2026 at 12:33 AM
ADHD is TFW you're mid-sentence with your brain racing through 10 different options for how to end it, all of which seem relevant (thanks, pattern recognition). Words seem to go nowhere, but they're going in very particular directions.
It's not inattention. It's competing hyperattentions.
It's not inattention. It's competing hyperattentions.
I am a southern studies professor with 25 years of study and research under my belt, so I say this with some authority: sriracha shouldn't come within a mile of a plate of chicken and waffles. It just ain't right.
January 15, 2026 at 1:44 AM
I am a southern studies professor with 25 years of study and research under my belt, so I say this with some authority: sriracha shouldn't come within a mile of a plate of chicken and waffles. It just ain't right.
There are so many problems with the idea of $3 meals, one of which is that executive functioning is not an unlimited resource.
On the $3/meal thing: I went through a weird period where I tried to be really frugal and would try to limit my grocery budget to $50/week. I am single and educated. It was really hard and ultimately something I gave up, because it made me miserable.
January 15, 2026 at 1:13 AM
There are so many problems with the idea of $3 meals, one of which is that executive functioning is not an unlimited resource.
It's fun teaching a grad seminar bc grad students are smart, curious, and bring their own weird intellectual hyperfixations to class discussion.
It sucks teaching a grad seminar bc some asshole assigned too much reading.
It sucks teaching a grad seminar bc some asshole assigned too much reading.
January 13, 2026 at 10:03 PM
It's fun teaching a grad seminar bc grad students are smart, curious, and bring their own weird intellectual hyperfixations to class discussion.
It sucks teaching a grad seminar bc some asshole assigned too much reading.
It sucks teaching a grad seminar bc some asshole assigned too much reading.
This is a wonderful thread.
It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
January 12, 2026 at 7:09 PM
This is a wonderful thread.
I forgot what it's like to come home after teaching a grad seminar for three hours, loathing the sound of your own voice, and not being able to turn your brain off.
As Mark E. Smith would say, I'm totally wired.
As Mark E. Smith would say, I'm totally wired.
January 9, 2026 at 12:26 AM
I forgot what it's like to come home after teaching a grad seminar for three hours, loathing the sound of your own voice, and not being able to turn your brain off.
As Mark E. Smith would say, I'm totally wired.
As Mark E. Smith would say, I'm totally wired.
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Another image that sums up the protest.
January 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Another image that sums up the protest.
Students act like I'm a puppy kicker when I ask them to print off a reading and bring it to class.
January 8, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Students act like I'm a puppy kicker when I ask them to print off a reading and bring it to class.
I don't give a fuck whether or not the woman murdered by ICE was a US citizen, and you shouldn't either.
January 7, 2026 at 8:39 PM
I don't give a fuck whether or not the woman murdered by ICE was a US citizen, and you shouldn't either.
The discourse over the last couple of days has been big accounts talking about other big accounts, and I could not be more bored.
"power users" pffft, okay, whatever
"power users" pffft, okay, whatever
that's a lot of power users gone because of dogpiling. christ
January 6, 2026 at 8:05 PM
The discourse over the last couple of days has been big accounts talking about other big accounts, and I could not be more bored.
"power users" pffft, okay, whatever
"power users" pffft, okay, whatever
People who think Bluesky is toxic weren't part of late 1990s message board wars, and it shows.
January 6, 2026 at 7:57 PM
People who think Bluesky is toxic weren't part of late 1990s message board wars, and it shows.
The eternal conundrum: do I teach the Time Machine or War of the Worlds this semester? Cannibals or tentacles? Giant crabs or Martian kudzu? The horrors of reunion with one's wife or the heat death of the universe?
I love HG Wells.
I love HG Wells.
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 AM
The eternal conundrum: do I teach the Time Machine or War of the Worlds this semester? Cannibals or tentacles? Giant crabs or Martian kudzu? The horrors of reunion with one's wife or the heat death of the universe?
I love HG Wells.
I love HG Wells.
I'm looking for readings about tech billionaire accelerationism for my eco-catastrophe class this semester. I'm not having much luck finding longer essays or chapters.
Any recs?
Any recs?
January 6, 2026 at 3:40 AM
I'm looking for readings about tech billionaire accelerationism for my eco-catastrophe class this semester. I'm not having much luck finding longer essays or chapters.
Any recs?
Any recs?
A great thread on writing. We love to see it.
This set of observations is produced by my scrolling Reddit and otherwise listening to people talk about "how to write."
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
A) there is no requirement that any of your characters has any sort of "arc" let alone a redemption.
B) there is also no requirement that your fiction has a plot.
December 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A great thread on writing. We love to see it.
I'm teaching an English grad class for the first time since the ascendancy of AI plagiarism. I have a firm "no AI" policy that undergraduates routinely ignore.
What are y'all seeing in your grad classes in terms of AI plagiarism lately? How widespread is it? Any strategies for minimizing it?
What are y'all seeing in your grad classes in terms of AI plagiarism lately? How widespread is it? Any strategies for minimizing it?
December 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I'm teaching an English grad class for the first time since the ascendancy of AI plagiarism. I have a firm "no AI" policy that undergraduates routinely ignore.
What are y'all seeing in your grad classes in terms of AI plagiarism lately? How widespread is it? Any strategies for minimizing it?
What are y'all seeing in your grad classes in terms of AI plagiarism lately? How widespread is it? Any strategies for minimizing it?
People who are afraid that students can't take bluebook exams because of issues with handwriting are revealing their own technophilia and screen addiction.
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
People who are afraid that students can't take bluebook exams because of issues with handwriting are revealing their own technophilia and screen addiction.
Petition to throw the entire Clinton family into a volcano.
I think Republicans are overestimating liberals' emotional attachment to Bill Clinton.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Petition to throw the entire Clinton family into a volcano.
I am already dreading going back to campus in the spring, as I've dreaded going back to campus every semester since ChatGPT was released.
I can't overstate how much AI has stolen from me as a teacher.
I can't overstate how much AI has stolen from me as a teacher.
December 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I am already dreading going back to campus in the spring, as I've dreaded going back to campus every semester since ChatGPT was released.
I can't overstate how much AI has stolen from me as a teacher.
I can't overstate how much AI has stolen from me as a teacher.
When I started grad school in 2003, we were told that we had a 50/50 shot of getting a tenure-track job.
When I graduated in 2009, we were told, "basically, you're fucked. Publish more. Uh, good luck."
When I graduated in 2009, we were told, "basically, you're fucked. Publish more. Uh, good luck."
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
When I started grad school in 2003, we were told that we had a 50/50 shot of getting a tenure-track job.
When I graduated in 2009, we were told, "basically, you're fucked. Publish more. Uh, good luck."
When I graduated in 2009, we were told, "basically, you're fucked. Publish more. Uh, good luck."
I've been teaching for over 20 years. Most of my students have been good or downright great. I've also seen some weird shit.
When I see faculty rhapsodizing about teaching and idealizing students, I'm like "okay, but surely you've seen a lot of weird shit too, right?"
When I see faculty rhapsodizing about teaching and idealizing students, I'm like "okay, but surely you've seen a lot of weird shit too, right?"
December 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I've been teaching for over 20 years. Most of my students have been good or downright great. I've also seen some weird shit.
When I see faculty rhapsodizing about teaching and idealizing students, I'm like "okay, but surely you've seen a lot of weird shit too, right?"
When I see faculty rhapsodizing about teaching and idealizing students, I'm like "okay, but surely you've seen a lot of weird shit too, right?"