Plaid Mass Panic
@bpasanek.bsky.social
C18 scholar. Director of Graduate Studies and Father Functions. Starting over.
Working on my guest lecture: Kids, it’s like when you go outside and "touch grass" after too much screen-time. Most people think there are screens and there is grass and you can look at TikToks of grass on your phone or leave your dorm room and touch the stuff.
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Working on my guest lecture: Kids, it’s like when you go outside and "touch grass" after too much screen-time. Most people think there are screens and there is grass and you can look at TikToks of grass on your phone or leave your dorm room and touch the stuff.
Double, double toil and trouble; planet burn and AI bubble.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Double, double toil and trouble; planet burn and AI bubble.
UVA'S RECTOR SHERIDAN and VICE RECTOR WILKINSON MUST RESIGN. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
UVA'S RECTOR SHERIDAN and VICE RECTOR WILKINSON MUST RESIGN. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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white male student terminating black female student's assignment for the unforgivable crime of committing journalism against UVA's vichy fedsoc interim (and, naturally, white male) prez c-ville.com/student-jour...
Student journalist terminated following interview with UVA interim President Paul Mahoney - C-VILLE Weekly
Getting an interview with, let alone answers from, upper leadership at the University of Virginia is an uphill battle for any news organization. The groups with the most access to UVA’s administration...
c-ville.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
white male student terminating black female student's assignment for the unforgivable crime of committing journalism against UVA's vichy fedsoc interim (and, naturally, white male) prez c-ville.com/student-jour...
We are governed by ghouls and cowards. drive.google.com/file/d/1rgFz...
11.14.25_JER Resignation Facuty.pdf
drive.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We are governed by ghouls and cowards. drive.google.com/file/d/1rgFz...
We are governed by ghouls and cowards.
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We are governed by ghouls and cowards.
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Change in Headline
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Change in Headline
I want my funk stepped on.
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want my funk stepped on.
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To understand what was at stake here: in VA, the AG gets to appoint university counsel. From Jim Ryan’s forced resignation to the (mercifully) reject “Compact” to the odious and bizarre “settlement,” UVA has been hamstrung by counsel chosen by the state’s GOP administration. That’s about to change.
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
To understand what was at stake here: in VA, the AG gets to appoint university counsel. From Jim Ryan’s forced resignation to the (mercifully) reject “Compact” to the odious and bizarre “settlement,” UVA has been hamstrung by counsel chosen by the state’s GOP administration. That’s about to change.
UVa's "Cav Daily" regularly outshines WaPo and NYT in moments of crisis.
ACQUAVIVA: U.Va. paid nothing, yet lost everything
It seems disingenuous for the University to boast about its agreement having “no external monitoring,” since the University’s president is required to report compliance — and certify under penalty of ...
www.cavalierdaily.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
UVa's "Cav Daily" regularly outshines WaPo and NYT in moments of crisis.
UVA sold out by its interim president.
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
UVA sold out by its interim president.
Metaphor or metonymy?
October 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Metaphor or metonymy?
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This video provides a good sense of the densest part of the protest today and doesn't even show everyone on that side of the street!
October 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This video provides a good sense of the densest part of the protest today and doesn't even show everyone on that side of the street!
No Kings, Charlottesville.
October 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
No Kings, Charlottesville.
Do not fold (spindle or mutilate).
October 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Do not fold (spindle or mutilate).
UVa survey on the "Compact" at virginia.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
October 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
UVa survey on the "Compact" at virginia.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.
September 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.
Concrete poetry on the front page of all the newspapers.
September 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Concrete poetry on the front page of all the newspapers.
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People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/