John Linstrom (he/him)
@johnlinstrom.bsky.social
writer, educator, editor, convener, worshiper, museum guy, music lover, family person before most else
poetry book: tinyurl.com/5n8ruav6
edition of The Nature-Study Idea (discount code 09BCARD): tinyurl.com/mrwucr8k
banner photo: Lake Michigan morning
poetry book: tinyurl.com/5n8ruav6
edition of The Nature-Study Idea (discount code 09BCARD): tinyurl.com/mrwucr8k
banner photo: Lake Michigan morning
Pinned
Post-semester return to the body: open.substack.com/pub/johnlins...
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The woman ICE killed in Minneapolis was the poet Renee Nicole Macklin Good.
"i want back my rocking chairs,
solipsist sunsets,
& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches"
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
"i want back my rocking chairs,
solipsist sunsets,
& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches"
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
poets.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
The woman ICE killed in Minneapolis was the poet Renee Nicole Macklin Good.
"i want back my rocking chairs,
solipsist sunsets,
& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches"
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
"i want back my rocking chairs,
solipsist sunsets,
& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches"
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
Abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Abolish ICE
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
This is graphic. But it pretty clearly proves that no one was being run over. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:18 PM
This is graphic. But it pretty clearly proves that no one was being run over. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
So I deleted or deactivated all my social media accounts this fall for a couple months. Some accounts I'd gotten rid of early in the year, after watching their tech overlords line up in obeisance behind the new president. But near Christmas I reactivated Facebook, where most of my actual friends 1/
January 8, 2026 at 4:16 AM
So I deleted or deactivated all my social media accounts this fall for a couple months. Some accounts I'd gotten rid of early in the year, after watching their tech overlords line up in obeisance behind the new president. But near Christmas I reactivated Facebook, where most of my actual friends 1/
The theme of today’s freezer load is John’s publications, Hurston books, and some randos. Remediation from the Jackson Hall Mold Outbreak of 2025 continues.
July 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The theme of today’s freezer load is John’s publications, Hurston books, and some randos. Remediation from the Jackson Hall Mold Outbreak of 2025 continues.
In today’s edition of Back-Patio Mold Remediation, John encounters fire ants and later gets to rush home as church gets out during a freak five-minute shower on a zero-chance-of-precipitation day. (Photo taken before the drama; rain damage minimal)
July 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In today’s edition of Back-Patio Mold Remediation, John encounters fire ants and later gets to rush home as church gets out during a freak five-minute shower on a zero-chance-of-precipitation day. (Photo taken before the drama; rain damage minimal)
I am really excited to bring this new edition of Bailey’s The Outlook to Nature into the world next year. I’m finally down to just writing the intro (started), tying up some loose ends, and soliciting the foreword (just sent out another inquiry for that, which I’m crossing my fingers like crazy for)
July 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I am really excited to bring this new edition of Bailey’s The Outlook to Nature into the world next year. I’m finally down to just writing the intro (started), tying up some loose ends, and soliciting the foreword (just sent out another inquiry for that, which I’m crossing my fingers like crazy for)
Another day, another book crop.
Thanks again to Rachel at the Learning Commons for letting me borrow space in their chest freezer as I continue to slowly save my library from the Jackson Hall Mold Outbreak of 2025.
Thanks again to Rachel at the Learning Commons for letting me borrow space in their chest freezer as I continue to slowly save my library from the Jackson Hall Mold Outbreak of 2025.
July 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Another day, another book crop.
Thanks again to Rachel at the Learning Commons for letting me borrow space in their chest freezer as I continue to slowly save my library from the Jackson Hall Mold Outbreak of 2025.
Thanks again to Rachel at the Learning Commons for letting me borrow space in their chest freezer as I continue to slowly save my library from the Jackson Hall Mold Outbreak of 2025.
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Youngkin said yay! Close the already non existent health departments in rural areas!!
Close the hospitals too! Limit funding for DEI!!
Close the hospitals too! Limit funding for DEI!!
July 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Youngkin said yay! Close the already non existent health departments in rural areas!!
Close the hospitals too! Limit funding for DEI!!
Close the hospitals too! Limit funding for DEI!!
My time has come
And with the 37th pick @johnlinstrom.bsky.social takes Peter Gabriel's 1990 acoustic version of Here comes the Flood (recorded and released commercially in 1990 and materially different enough from the original to qualify, the Committee ruled):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO0C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO0C...
Here Comes The Flood
YouTube video by Peter Gabriel - Topic
www.youtube.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
My time has come
So it continues.
July 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
So it continues.
!! Perhaps I shall finally prove that I know some 90s songs!
Pulling a few more numbers from the lottery for the tourney:
34. @case4thealgorithm.bsky.social
35. @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social (deferral from 2024)
36. @leahmensch.bsky.social
37. @johnlinstrom.bsky.social
38. @meganc.bsky.social
34. @case4thealgorithm.bsky.social
35. @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social (deferral from 2024)
36. @leahmensch.bsky.social
37. @johnlinstrom.bsky.social
38. @meganc.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
!! Perhaps I shall finally prove that I know some 90s songs!
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syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.
July 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.
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Migrants at a Miami immigration prison have been compelled to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs,” with their hands tied behind their backs.
These ICE officials need to go straight to The Hague.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
These ICE officials need to go straight to The Hague.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
July 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Migrants at a Miami immigration prison have been compelled to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs,” with their hands tied behind their backs.
These ICE officials need to go straight to The Hague.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
These ICE officials need to go straight to The Hague.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Latest batch out of mold remediation. These are my South Haven history books (from way back when i was writing my MFA thesis), plus a book on Lake Superior that my grandparents feature in and a couple volumes of Country Life in America. If anyone knows any SH history books I don’t have, let me know!
July 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Latest batch out of mold remediation. These are my South Haven history books (from way back when i was writing my MFA thesis), plus a book on Lake Superior that my grandparents feature in and a couple volumes of Country Life in America. If anyone knows any SH history books I don’t have, let me know!
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News like this is unspeakably horrible, yet we must speak of it. Our governors, leaders, meantime, insist on doing nothing. Something that we can never allow to be forgotten.
I think this is the most horrifying post I have ever read.
July 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
News like this is unspeakably horrible, yet we must speak of it. Our governors, leaders, meantime, insist on doing nothing. Something that we can never allow to be forgotten.
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Alt text included!
July 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Alt text included!
It was good yesterday to organize the bit that I’ve managed to save from the campus mold office so far. By the time I’m through (probably sometime in the fall), this unit will be full and I’ll have to purchase a new bookcase.
July 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It was good yesterday to organize the bit that I’ve managed to save from the campus mold office so far. By the time I’m through (probably sometime in the fall), this unit will be full and I’ll have to purchase a new bookcase.
“When students realize their own humanity is at stake in their education, they are deeply invested in it… The real threat to liberal learning is from an administrative class that is content to offer students far less than their own humanity calls for — and deserves.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“When students realize their own humanity is at stake in their education, they are deeply invested in it… The real threat to liberal learning is from an administrative class that is content to offer students far less than their own humanity calls for — and deserves.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
This is a small fraction of the mold-infested library I’m slowly rescuing from my office.
July 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is a small fraction of the mold-infested library I’m slowly rescuing from my office.
This is one of two wagonloads I brought across campus to the freezer in the library yesterday. About one wagonload fit; the other I was able to leave, and I still had enough bagged books left over to fill our fridge freezer at home. Did i mention it was above 90° and also the elevator was down?
July 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is one of two wagonloads I brought across campus to the freezer in the library yesterday. About one wagonload fit; the other I was able to leave, and I still had enough bagged books left over to fill our fridge freezer at home. Did i mention it was above 90° and also the elevator was down?
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1909 pamphlet on Chicago teachers’ salaries and the increases in the cost of living
July 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
1909 pamphlet on Chicago teachers’ salaries and the increases in the cost of living