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i’m late to the party but only because i was late with an essay for @johannawinant.bsky.social this is stunning and true 🤩
“When offered a poem, and time, and attention, and good faith, my students offered their own arguments back as if they had been waiting their whole lives for the chance…”
“When offered a poem, and time, and attention, and good faith, my students offered their own arguments back as if they had been waiting their whole lives for the chance…”
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
i’m late to the party but only because i was late with an essay for @johannawinant.bsky.social this is stunning and true 🤩
“When offered a poem, and time, and attention, and good faith, my students offered their own arguments back as if they had been waiting their whole lives for the chance…”
“When offered a poem, and time, and attention, and good faith, my students offered their own arguments back as if they had been waiting their whole lives for the chance…”
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A filling broth of eels.
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A filling broth of eels.
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Reanimated skeletons often make problem-solving choices not with a brain, but with a small lump of cheese stuck to the inside of their skulls, or sometimes a dead bug.
#TheElderScrolls #Oblivion
#TheElderScrolls #Oblivion
December 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Reanimated skeletons often make problem-solving choices not with a brain, but with a small lump of cheese stuck to the inside of their skulls, or sometimes a dead bug.
#TheElderScrolls #Oblivion
#TheElderScrolls #Oblivion
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“Even at the most basic level, reading demands patience and the mental effort needed to induce the peculiar kind of shared synesthesia that allows us to turn blots of ink into sounds, mental images, and finally, one hopes, ideas and feelings.”
Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum
There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.
thebaffler.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“Even at the most basic level, reading demands patience and the mental effort needed to induce the peculiar kind of shared synesthesia that allows us to turn blots of ink into sounds, mental images, and finally, one hopes, ideas and feelings.”
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The ongoing strike at the Louvre has become a major test of the museum's management.
Strikes and a $100 million heist push the Louvre into historic crisis
The ongoing strike at the Louvre has become a major test of the museum's management. Workers are striking over understaffing and safety concerns, especially after a $102 million jewel heist exposed security failures.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The ongoing strike at the Louvre has become a major test of the museum's management.
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See images from villages across Europe of Yuletide parades for Krampus, a demonlike creature who playfully frightens onlookers.
Photos: Krampus—Saint Nick’s Dark Companion
Images from Europe’s Alpine region, and other areas, where villages hold Yuletide parades for Krampus, a demonlike creature who playfully frightens onlookers, looking for naughty children to punish—or possibly to drag back to his lair in a sack
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
See images from villages across Europe of Yuletide parades for Krampus, a demonlike creature who playfully frightens onlookers.
@margaretatwood.bsky.social I've just recently learned that you have an interest in the NW passage and of course you do, because it's usually only cool people who like that topic.
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
@margaretatwood.bsky.social I've just recently learned that you have an interest in the NW passage and of course you do, because it's usually only cool people who like that topic.
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Immigrants who have served out a prison sentence and are up for parole are calling themselves unfit for release—not because they’re not ready to be free, but because they fear getting out would mean immediate deportation.
Marked for Life | Olivia Heffernan & Steve Brooks
Tattoos criminalize El Salvadoran refugees in the eyes of Homeland Security.
thebaffler.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Immigrants who have served out a prison sentence and are up for parole are calling themselves unfit for release—not because they’re not ready to be free, but because they fear getting out would mean immediate deportation.
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Garden of Earthly Delights
November 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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2/2 Countess's husband, in his curling-papers, sips his morning chocolate. Possibly the most ridiculous-looking man in 18th-century painting. Or ever. Well done, William Hogarth, & happy birthday!.JPG
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
2/2 Countess's husband, in his curling-papers, sips his morning chocolate. Possibly the most ridiculous-looking man in 18th-century painting. Or ever. Well done, William Hogarth, & happy birthday!.JPG
@margaretatwood.bsky.social Maybe the similarities are not that great as Crake can actually get through a complete sentence :/
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@margaretatwood.bsky.social Maybe the similarities are not that great as Crake can actually get through a complete sentence :/
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