Schuyler Laparle
@schuylerlaparle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Communication and Cognition | Researching metaphor and gesture | Caring about prefigurative politics and emancipatory education | Wanting secretly to be a woodworker
So I recognize that, in the grand scheme of things, this is a deeply unimpressive thing. But... I finally learned how to use a sewing machine, and made this over-engineered drawstring bag as my first project.
Making things is fun, especially when you get to do it in a super supportive makerspace 😌
Making things is fun, especially when you get to do it in a super supportive makerspace 😌
September 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
So I recognize that, in the grand scheme of things, this is a deeply unimpressive thing. But... I finally learned how to use a sewing machine, and made this over-engineered drawstring bag as my first project.
Making things is fun, especially when you get to do it in a super supportive makerspace 😌
Making things is fun, especially when you get to do it in a super supportive makerspace 😌
If a strange being of light had appeared on the trail to tell me "so, big news, you're actually dead, and this is the afterlife", I think that would have been easier to accept than the fact that I was seeing this view, here on earth, just a 1.5 hour drive from my apartment.
Viva la #Cascadia
🌲☁️🗻☁️🌲
Viva la #Cascadia
🌲☁️🗻☁️🌲
September 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
If a strange being of light had appeared on the trail to tell me "so, big news, you're actually dead, and this is the afterlife", I think that would have been easier to accept than the fact that I was seeing this view, here on earth, just a 1.5 hour drive from my apartment.
Viva la #Cascadia
🌲☁️🗻☁️🌲
Viva la #Cascadia
🌲☁️🗻☁️🌲
Our cat is a confirmed kleptotherm.
We thought she loved us, always curling up on our laps...
And then we got her a weight-activated heating pad, thus rendering our fleshy inconveniently fidgety laps fully obsolete.
We thought she loved us, always curling up on our laps...
And then we got her a weight-activated heating pad, thus rendering our fleshy inconveniently fidgety laps fully obsolete.
September 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Our cat is a confirmed kleptotherm.
We thought she loved us, always curling up on our laps...
And then we got her a weight-activated heating pad, thus rendering our fleshy inconveniently fidgety laps fully obsolete.
We thought she loved us, always curling up on our laps...
And then we got her a weight-activated heating pad, thus rendering our fleshy inconveniently fidgety laps fully obsolete.
We got to play our new climate metaphor card game at this year's Researching and Applying Metaphor conference! Thank you @raammetaphor.bsky.social for yet another awesome conference, and all you awesome participants for joining the fun ☺️
Free print & play version coming soon!
Free print & play version coming soon!
August 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
We got to play our new climate metaphor card game at this year's Researching and Applying Metaphor conference! Thank you @raammetaphor.bsky.social for yet another awesome conference, and all you awesome participants for joining the fun ☺️
Free print & play version coming soon!
Free print & play version coming soon!
I'm not a "bouquet" person, but I will say that this has been an unexpectedly nice perk of my partner working on a flower farm.
Side note: really hoping dahlias dry in an interesting and semi-stable way. I know beauty is ephemeral or whatever, but still.
Side note: really hoping dahlias dry in an interesting and semi-stable way. I know beauty is ephemeral or whatever, but still.
August 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm not a "bouquet" person, but I will say that this has been an unexpectedly nice perk of my partner working on a flower farm.
Side note: really hoping dahlias dry in an interesting and semi-stable way. I know beauty is ephemeral or whatever, but still.
Side note: really hoping dahlias dry in an interesting and semi-stable way. I know beauty is ephemeral or whatever, but still.
Taylor Dock Boardwalk in Bellingham, WA. My phone decided to match my eyesight in blurriness somehow, which I find strangely beautiful.
#cascadia
#cascadia
July 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Taylor Dock Boardwalk in Bellingham, WA. My phone decided to match my eyesight in blurriness somehow, which I find strangely beautiful.
#cascadia
#cascadia
July 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A Not-Rothko (in the spirit of @richardmortimer.bsky.social )
Driving West through North Dakota. The Badlands just beginning to introduce themselves.
Driving West through North Dakota. The Badlands just beginning to introduce themselves.
July 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
A Not-Rothko (in the spirit of @richardmortimer.bsky.social )
Driving West through North Dakota. The Badlands just beginning to introduce themselves.
Driving West through North Dakota. The Badlands just beginning to introduce themselves.
Um, Netherlands... what?
June 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Um, Netherlands... what?
Well, here I am, grading 50 AI generated student papers while fascism spreads, genocide continues, and our climate collapses.
But at least my tiny cactus is really going all out with this flower. Thank you, tiny cactus.
But at least my tiny cactus is really going all out with this flower. Thank you, tiny cactus.
June 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Well, here I am, grading 50 AI generated student papers while fascism spreads, genocide continues, and our climate collapses.
But at least my tiny cactus is really going all out with this flower. Thank you, tiny cactus.
But at least my tiny cactus is really going all out with this flower. Thank you, tiny cactus.
Just saw this legendary image in the Guardian. Electric scooter as robot taxi kindling. May it make it into the history books.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
June 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Just saw this legendary image in the Guardian. Electric scooter as robot taxi kindling. May it make it into the history books.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
This postcard from @gothic-sway.bsky.social has been on my fridge for years and yet I JUST noticed how funny it is.
Yay syntactic ambiguities!
If I were still teaching syntax and semantics, I'd definitely sneak this on a slide to remind my students how (charmingly) lame I am.
Yay syntactic ambiguities!
If I were still teaching syntax and semantics, I'd definitely sneak this on a slide to remind my students how (charmingly) lame I am.
June 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This postcard from @gothic-sway.bsky.social has been on my fridge for years and yet I JUST noticed how funny it is.
Yay syntactic ambiguities!
If I were still teaching syntax and semantics, I'd definitely sneak this on a slide to remind my students how (charmingly) lame I am.
Yay syntactic ambiguities!
If I were still teaching syntax and semantics, I'd definitely sneak this on a slide to remind my students how (charmingly) lame I am.
Apologies for not answering emails or doing any other form of work. My cat has mandated a mental health day.
June 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Apologies for not answering emails or doing any other form of work. My cat has mandated a mental health day.
During a quick venture in the Swiss Alps, I was charmed and disturbed by this barn's smile.
(It's made of skulls and jaw bones, which is both meta and metal)
(It's made of skulls and jaw bones, which is both meta and metal)
May 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
During a quick venture in the Swiss Alps, I was charmed and disturbed by this barn's smile.
(It's made of skulls and jaw bones, which is both meta and metal)
(It's made of skulls and jaw bones, which is both meta and metal)
This post reminded me that I used to make fun little cartoons featuring a politically mischievous pair of ghosts. I miss those guys.
c. 2020 from the mini-series "haunt not rent"
c. 2020 from the mini-series "haunt not rent"
April 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This post reminded me that I used to make fun little cartoons featuring a politically mischievous pair of ghosts. I miss those guys.
c. 2020 from the mini-series "haunt not rent"
c. 2020 from the mini-series "haunt not rent"
5 years ago, back in my ghost cartoon and union organizing days (I was not organizing in a ghost cartoonist union though, unfortunately).
April 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
5 years ago, back in my ghost cartoon and union organizing days (I was not organizing in a ghost cartoonist union though, unfortunately).
Really awesome turn out and vibes in #Tilburg today for the strike and rally against recent attempts to cut our education budget! #Solidariteit #StopTheCuts
April 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Really awesome turn out and vibes in #Tilburg today for the strike and rally against recent attempts to cut our education budget! #Solidariteit #StopTheCuts
This little beauty grew up FAST.
When people are getting me down, I look to the plants. The plants always help. 🌱🌿🪴
When people are getting me down, I look to the plants. The plants always help. 🌱🌿🪴
April 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This little beauty grew up FAST.
When people are getting me down, I look to the plants. The plants always help. 🌱🌿🪴
When people are getting me down, I look to the plants. The plants always help. 🌱🌿🪴
One day, in the not too distant future, I will run out of David Graeber books to read. This is potentially disastrous as he is my most reliable source of sassy, radical hope.
Suggestions for other sources of unflinchingly boat-rocking hope appreciated.
Suggestions for other sources of unflinchingly boat-rocking hope appreciated.
March 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
One day, in the not too distant future, I will run out of David Graeber books to read. This is potentially disastrous as he is my most reliable source of sassy, radical hope.
Suggestions for other sources of unflinchingly boat-rocking hope appreciated.
Suggestions for other sources of unflinchingly boat-rocking hope appreciated.
We showed up today for the #TeslaTakedown protest in #Tilburg. Ten minutes after the scheduled start, we were the only ones there. A few other confused people stopped by looking for the protest.
This was (at best) a failure in organization that is both irresponsible and potentially dangerous.
🧵1/
This was (at best) a failure in organization that is both irresponsible and potentially dangerous.
🧵1/
March 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We showed up today for the #TeslaTakedown protest in #Tilburg. Ten minutes after the scheduled start, we were the only ones there. A few other confused people stopped by looking for the protest.
This was (at best) a failure in organization that is both irresponsible and potentially dangerous.
🧵1/
This was (at best) a failure in organization that is both irresponsible and potentially dangerous.
🧵1/
Sometimes I'm late to meetings because I encounter a cat on my walk to work. And people just have to accept that.
March 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Sometimes I'm late to meetings because I encounter a cat on my walk to work. And people just have to accept that.
I rarely recommend books before I finish them, but 100 pages into Tim Winton's Juice, and I'm feeling pretty confident in saying that you should read this book. Right now. Everyone.
March 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I rarely recommend books before I finish them, but 100 pages into Tim Winton's Juice, and I'm feeling pretty confident in saying that you should read this book. Right now. Everyone.
A photo you'd use as an album cover.
I'd call it "drive by dystopia" (it was taken on a road trip across the US, there are layers to the name)
I'd call it "drive by dystopia" (it was taken on a road trip across the US, there are layers to the name)
March 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A photo you'd use as an album cover.
I'd call it "drive by dystopia" (it was taken on a road trip across the US, there are layers to the name)
I'd call it "drive by dystopia" (it was taken on a road trip across the US, there are layers to the name)
This little beauty is a sweet potato that we forgot in a bowl for many months. We found it shriveled and a little moldy, but hoping for a second chance. And here we are. 🌞🌿
March 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This little beauty is a sweet potato that we forgot in a bowl for many months. We found it shriveled and a little moldy, but hoping for a second chance. And here we are. 🌞🌿
🚨 Academia complaint
Below is a list of the application material requirements for a *part-time* *one semester* position. All to bring home, at absolute most, a grand total of $1507 (before taxes).
The academic job market is broken.
Below is a list of the application material requirements for a *part-time* *one semester* position. All to bring home, at absolute most, a grand total of $1507 (before taxes).
The academic job market is broken.
February 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 Academia complaint
Below is a list of the application material requirements for a *part-time* *one semester* position. All to bring home, at absolute most, a grand total of $1507 (before taxes).
The academic job market is broken.
Below is a list of the application material requirements for a *part-time* *one semester* position. All to bring home, at absolute most, a grand total of $1507 (before taxes).
The academic job market is broken.