Jessica Tripler
@jessicatripler.bsky.social
Avid reader of romance, classics, lit fic, memoir. Philosophy prof who works on phil and lit, pop culture, med humanities. Mainer.
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#Romancelandia, can we keep this GFM going? Robin is out of hospital, but the medical expenses and bills due have not stopped. Please chip in what you can, and share regardless; every $5 adds up.
(remember: tip GFM $0, they charge fees to recipients)
(remember: tip GFM $0, they charge fees to recipients)
Romancelandia and friends, I'm asking your help for my dear friend Robin, aka Janet from Dear Author, who has been dealing with serious medical problems and will need ongoing home health care. Please read, consider giving if you have the means, sharing if you would be so kind.
gofund.me/1bedf76d
gofund.me/1bedf76d
Donate to Help Robin Access the Care She Needs During a Critical Time, organized by Julia McDermott
My name is Juli, known online usually as Sonoma Lass. I'm app… Julia McDermott needs your support for Help Robin Access the Care She Needs During a Critical Time
gofund.me
August 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
#Romancelandia, can we keep this GFM going? Robin is out of hospital, but the medical expenses and bills due have not stopped. Please chip in what you can, and share regardless; every $5 adds up.
(remember: tip GFM $0, they charge fees to recipients)
(remember: tip GFM $0, they charge fees to recipients)
I've read and enjoyed everything Ali Hazelwood has written, more or less, but I may have to DNF her latest, Deep End. I don't see how the MMC can redeem himself. #romancelandia #romancereaders
February 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I've read and enjoyed everything Ali Hazelwood has written, more or less, but I may have to DNF her latest, Deep End. I don't see how the MMC can redeem himself. #romancelandia #romancereaders
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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It’s my bookaversary! Happy three years to BLACK LOVE MATTERS, the book of my heart! I didn’t let the pandemic, cancer, or corralling 13 authors in ten states and two countries hold me down, and we got something magical in return!
What are you reading this first day of Black History Month?
What are you reading this first day of Black History Month?
February 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It’s my bookaversary! Happy three years to BLACK LOVE MATTERS, the book of my heart! I didn’t let the pandemic, cancer, or corralling 13 authors in ten states and two countries hold me down, and we got something magical in return!
What are you reading this first day of Black History Month?
What are you reading this first day of Black History Month?
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I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
It's been rough on campus. So many of my colleagues have had grant applications pulled, had to cancel fed funded funded conferences, and on and on. Just so scary and disheartening.
January 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It's been rough on campus. So many of my colleagues have had grant applications pulled, had to cancel fed funded funded conferences, and on and on. Just so scary and disheartening.
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Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
"Imagine a world in which an A.I. can analyze your reading patterns and alert you that you’re about to buy a book where there’s only a 10 percent chance you’ll get past Page 6..."
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Fuck off. That's not empowerment, that's outsourcing your soul. That's outsouling.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/o...
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
A.I. can be designed to dramatically enhance individual empowerment.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.
Agreed. All my subs are banning links to X and many are adding Meta links, too.
For longtime Reddit users it’s incredible to see how much the platform’s collective attitude toward Elon Musk has changed. Ten years ago he was like a folk hero. Now he’s a common enemy
January 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Agreed. All my subs are banning links to X and many are adding Meta links, too.
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My one bit of hashtag-resist advice is to start a blog. I'm 100 percent serious. A blog, a newsletter, a tumblr - whatever. The blogging craze erupted largely in response to the Bush era & it's time for the people to reclaim their own platforms. Whatever you use social media for, put it on your blog
January 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My one bit of hashtag-resist advice is to start a blog. I'm 100 percent serious. A blog, a newsletter, a tumblr - whatever. The blogging craze erupted largely in response to the Bush era & it's time for the people to reclaim their own platforms. Whatever you use social media for, put it on your blog
Julie Ann Long's My Season of Scandal is absolutely fantastic. How is it possible this woman is not a NYT bestseller? She is one of the best in historical romance and has been for many years!
January 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Julie Ann Long's My Season of Scandal is absolutely fantastic. How is it possible this woman is not a NYT bestseller? She is one of the best in historical romance and has been for many years!
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@cethompson.bsky.social and I are so excited to share the cover for our book Do Less Harm out soon with @hopkinspress.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@cethompson.bsky.social and I are so excited to share the cover for our book Do Less Harm out soon with @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Trying to create my bioethics syllabus, a course I haven't taught for years, and I am struggling mightily. I think I'll quit and read some more of My Season of Scandal by Julie Ann Long.
January 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Trying to create my bioethics syllabus, a course I haven't taught for years, and I am struggling mightily. I think I'll quit and read some more of My Season of Scandal by Julie Ann Long.
Please take care if you choose to read this. It is excellent. I feel sick.
An incredibly well-researched piece on the horrors of Neil Gaiman. It is extremely upsetting and explicit. Please be careful reading it.
www.vulture.com/article/neil...
www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Please take care if you choose to read this. It is excellent. I feel sick.
Since GenAI in classes came up, here is a very interesting document on GenAI Refusal in Writing Studies: refusinggenai.wordpress.com
Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
Visit the post for more.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
January 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Since GenAI in classes came up, here is a very interesting document on GenAI Refusal in Writing Studies: refusinggenai.wordpress.com
Yep, it's in-class written exams for me this spring (with appropriate accommodations for students who need them of course).
Teaching isn't my field so any comments from me should be taken with an enormous grain of salt, but I do expect that there will be an overhaul in how pedagogical assessment of mastery of knowledge is performed. Most likely to me: here's a pen and paper, you have two hours, I'm watching, get to work.
My son teaches college-level biology, and some of his students confessed to using AI to write papers. AI has gotten so good, my son can no longer tell the difference. This is frightening. Maybe AI creative writing hasn't caught up, but it's already there for term papers.
January 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Yep, it's in-class written exams for me this spring (with appropriate accommodations for students who need them of course).
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Friends, look look look! I got to see this live and in person for the first time ever at MLA yesterday. A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US—now at the @sunypress.bsky.social booth (and on the website here of course: sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...)
January 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Friends, look look look! I got to see this live and in person for the first time ever at MLA yesterday. A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US—now at the @sunypress.bsky.social booth (and on the website here of course: sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...)
This showed up as a freebie with Amazon Prime, a "First Read", yay! II guess I get two free books a month? Is this new? Sonali Dev's There's Something About Mira. Coming out Feb 1.
January 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This showed up as a freebie with Amazon Prime, a "First Read", yay! II guess I get two free books a month? Is this new? Sonali Dev's There's Something About Mira. Coming out Feb 1.
For my fellow oldsters and young Yacht Rock fans: listened to Michael McDonald's memoir, What a Fool Believes, driving down to NYC and back -- it was great!
January 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
For my fellow oldsters and young Yacht Rock fans: listened to Michael McDonald's memoir, What a Fool Believes, driving down to NYC and back -- it was great!
Forgot to mention which book I picked up at The Ripped Bodice. Make A Scene by Mimi Grace, a fake relationship for a wedding date romance.
January 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Forgot to mention which book I picked up at The Ripped Bodice. Make A Scene by Mimi Grace, a fake relationship for a wedding date romance.
Finally made time to visit The Ripped Bodice on a Brooklyn visit!
January 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Finally made time to visit The Ripped Bodice on a Brooklyn visit!
Just watched Conclave. I understand the praise for Fiennes but...this was not a good film and the ending made it a terrible film.
December 22, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Just watched Conclave. I understand the praise for Fiennes but...this was not a good film and the ending made it a terrible film.
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Half of writing is just saying, ‘I’ll deal with that later’ and then panicking because it’s later.
a woman is wearing a headband and earrings and asking what do you mean ?
ALT: a woman is wearing a headband and earrings and asking what do you mean ?
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Half of writing is just saying, ‘I’ll deal with that later’ and then panicking because it’s later.
Been listening to last year's buzzy Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and BOY is this "sex scene" not written by a romance novelist: "She put her hand between his legs, wrapping her fingers around the cylindrical chamber of blood sponges that was his (and every) penis." #romancelandia
December 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Been listening to last year's buzzy Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and BOY is this "sex scene" not written by a romance novelist: "She put her hand between his legs, wrapping her fingers around the cylindrical chamber of blood sponges that was his (and every) penis." #romancelandia
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Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
Silo, I gave you a season plus. I'm sure the books by Hugh Howey are great but I'm so bored by this show.
December 15, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Silo, I gave you a season plus. I'm sure the books by Hugh Howey are great but I'm so bored by this show.