Thankyou!

90% that in fact.

I had found a rare exception. Now the look on the bookseller's face made more sense.

I just swaggered in, bought a porno poem book at my work and carried it around. Big ass smile as I tapped my card.

I opened the book at random and blushed a deep red.

It was filth.

Unrestrained intense porno poems.

Work took over so I didn't get to read anything else.

Got home and my oldest asked me what I was reading. I told him a book full of feelings to borrow.

This morning he asked if I'd read one to him.

I did this on my birthday. Walked in to the little university bookstore, smiled at the bookseller behind the counter.

First book I picked up had a poem I felt. So with purpose I turned around and walked to the counter.

I paper over glum with gregarity. So I was friendly.

My top 5 tips?

1. Voice recording feedback is efficient and humanising
2. Theme your course & be a bit cringe about it
3. Interactive presentation tools like Menti are a godsend & improve access
4. Talk your students through the logic of your course design
5. Get your students to talk to each other

I think I'm already that 😂 yet somehow I only ever really listen to Drill.

It's not something I'd listen to regularly, but it did a great job of capturing a certain feeling of decay and regret that pops up in my writing a lot.

Some of the lyrics are artful too. Thanks for the rec 😃

Mine is "Above the Canopy" by @urthboy.bsky.social

I don't know why it is so perfect but it is.

I will now listen!

*except Edmund Burke and me

It isn't some great gotcha. They want to exploit and steal while reviling the people who labour for it (cultural product).

What fault lines specifically? Revealed how?

I mean the tip of the knife was in, the virus wiggled it around.

But maybe my metaphor confuses rather than reveals.

More clearly: yes a global pandemic had local consequences, many of those consequences flowed along paths of policing and racism that predated them. Unadressed they continue.

Yep, and the wounds of injustice are bound to fester when left untreated.