ProfLauraG
@victorianlaura.bsky.social
I don't post much, but I'm not a bot or a plant--I'm here to follow the folks I used to follow and learn from on the other place. English professor; university administrator; lucky blue-state dweller. Trying to be a better fascist-opposer.
"Including Saturday’s attack [on Brown University], there have been more mass shootings in 2025 than there are days in the year." (Boston Globe)
December 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"Including Saturday’s attack [on Brown University], there have been more mass shootings in 2025 than there are days in the year." (Boston Globe)
Apparently, 28 people are right now looking at the same copper dustpan on the Ace Hardware website that I am. For some reason, I find that surprising.
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Apparently, 28 people are right now looking at the same copper dustpan on the Ace Hardware website that I am. For some reason, I find that surprising.
Just found myself, as one does, on the North Carolina Sweet Potatoes website, and I'm sorry to say there's a recipe on there for "S'mores sweetpotato quesadilla."
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just found myself, as one does, on the North Carolina Sweet Potatoes website, and I'm sorry to say there's a recipe on there for "S'mores sweetpotato quesadilla."
Psyched to be in Massachusetts right now – just got my Covid shot at the CVS down the street. Plenty of appointments open; pharmacist was happy to see me. (Flu too.)
September 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Psyched to be in Massachusetts right now – just got my Covid shot at the CVS down the street. Plenty of appointments open; pharmacist was happy to see me. (Flu too.)
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Adding just six hours of media literacy training to an American Government course significantly improved students’ ability to identify credible sources and boosted their confidence in evaluating where information comes from.
theconversation.com/college-stud...
theconversation.com/college-stud...
College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened
Just 2½ hours of online instruction made students a lot better at identifying misinformation on YouTube and TikTok.
theconversation.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Adding just six hours of media literacy training to an American Government course significantly improved students’ ability to identify credible sources and boosted their confidence in evaluating where information comes from.
theconversation.com/college-stud...
theconversation.com/college-stud...
Start of Globe article re VT: “All the dairy farmers who voted for Trump were under the impression they weren’t going to come on farms and take our guys,” said Machia, 37. “It’s happening more than we’d like. It’s scaring the farming community and we’re like, ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen.’”
May 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Start of Globe article re VT: “All the dairy farmers who voted for Trump were under the impression they weren’t going to come on farms and take our guys,” said Machia, 37. “It’s happening more than we’d like. It’s scaring the farming community and we’re like, ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen.’”
Could you all just stop using the word "grandmas"
Could you just stop
Could you just stop
April 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Could you all just stop using the word "grandmas"
Could you just stop
Could you just stop
It stuns me how many ppl on this site scorn anyone who dares to be over 50 in public. Would you prefer that "grannies"—about whose histories you know, btw, nothing—NOT show up at rallies? Newsflash: Old people are just PEOPLE who were lucky enough to get OLD. We'd like you to have that option too.
April 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It stuns me how many ppl on this site scorn anyone who dares to be over 50 in public. Would you prefer that "grannies"—about whose histories you know, btw, nothing—NOT show up at rallies? Newsflash: Old people are just PEOPLE who were lucky enough to get OLD. We'd like you to have that option too.
Percy Shelley in 1819
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
February 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Percy Shelley in 1819
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
Gift article for those keeping track: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
All of the Trump Administration’s Major Moves in the First 100 Days (Gift Article)
The New York Times is tracking the actions and significant statements of President Trump and his administration during the first 100 days of Mr. Trump’s second term.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Gift article for those keeping track: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Carolyn Forché (1981) on American obliviousness :
There is a cyclone fence between
ourselves and the slaughter and behind it
we hover in a calm protected world like
netted fish, exactly like netted fish.
It is either the beginning or the end
of the world, and the choice is ourselves
or nothing.
There is a cyclone fence between
ourselves and the slaughter and behind it
we hover in a calm protected world like
netted fish, exactly like netted fish.
It is either the beginning or the end
of the world, and the choice is ourselves
or nothing.
February 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Carolyn Forché (1981) on American obliviousness :
There is a cyclone fence between
ourselves and the slaughter and behind it
we hover in a calm protected world like
netted fish, exactly like netted fish.
It is either the beginning or the end
of the world, and the choice is ourselves
or nothing.
There is a cyclone fence between
ourselves and the slaughter and behind it
we hover in a calm protected world like
netted fish, exactly like netted fish.
It is either the beginning or the end
of the world, and the choice is ourselves
or nothing.
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fantastic @timemagazine.bsky.social read about my @nusl.bsky.social colleague dick daynard who led the country in coming after big tobacco & is now taking on sports betting & the deceptive marketing practices the industry relies on to attract & addict consumers 🤩
time.com/7209769/spor...
time.com/7209769/spor...
The Man Who Took On Big Tobacco Has a New Target: Sports Betting
Law professor Richard Daynard says gambling isn't just a popular pastime–it's a major public-health problem
time.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
fantastic @timemagazine.bsky.social read about my @nusl.bsky.social colleague dick daynard who led the country in coming after big tobacco & is now taking on sports betting & the deceptive marketing practices the industry relies on to attract & addict consumers 🤩
time.com/7209769/spor...
time.com/7209769/spor...
I think a lot about Eve Sedgwick's observation about weaponized ignorance in politics: "If M. Mitterand knows English but Mr. Reagan lacks--as he did lack--French, it is the urbane M. Mitterand who must negotiate in an acquired tongue, the ignorant Mr. Reagan who may dilate in his native one."
January 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I think a lot about Eve Sedgwick's observation about weaponized ignorance in politics: "If M. Mitterand knows English but Mr. Reagan lacks--as he did lack--French, it is the urbane M. Mitterand who must negotiate in an acquired tongue, the ignorant Mr. Reagan who may dilate in his native one."
Curious about what those with knowledge about #mentalhealth or #depression think: Is this (another) tech dystopia, or useful tool?
home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/02...
home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/02...
Phone App Uses AI to Detect Depression From Facial Cues | Dartmouth
home.dartmouth.edu
January 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Curious about what those with knowledge about #mentalhealth or #depression think: Is this (another) tech dystopia, or useful tool?
home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/02...
home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/02...
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I wrote this song, "I Will Join You When I Can," a few years back, and I share it here in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It began life as I thought about what Dr. King said to the audience in Memphis the night before he died, "I may not get there with you..."
I Will Join You When I Can
YouTube video by Joe Newberry
youtu.be
January 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I wrote this song, "I Will Join You When I Can," a few years back, and I share it here in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It began life as I thought about what Dr. King said to the audience in Memphis the night before he died, "I may not get there with you..."
In case others were, like me, not sure what an EO can and cannot do, here's the @19thnews.org:
"This use of executive power has limits: [EOs] can be revoked by the next president, challenged in court or checked by Congress. . . .
"This use of executive power has limits: [EOs] can be revoked by the next president, challenged in court or checked by Congress. . . .
January 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In case others were, like me, not sure what an EO can and cannot do, here's the @19thnews.org:
"This use of executive power has limits: [EOs] can be revoked by the next president, challenged in court or checked by Congress. . . .
"This use of executive power has limits: [EOs] can be revoked by the next president, challenged in court or checked by Congress. . . .
Sometimes the NYT is just plain funny:
"We’re excited to offer the consumer more wearing occasions through our diversified bottoms portfolio," said Janine Chilton-Faust, Levi’s global vice president of men’s design. Diversified bottoms FTW!
"We’re excited to offer the consumer more wearing occasions through our diversified bottoms portfolio," said Janine Chilton-Faust, Levi’s global vice president of men’s design. Diversified bottoms FTW!
January 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Sometimes the NYT is just plain funny:
"We’re excited to offer the consumer more wearing occasions through our diversified bottoms portfolio," said Janine Chilton-Faust, Levi’s global vice president of men’s design. Diversified bottoms FTW!
"We’re excited to offer the consumer more wearing occasions through our diversified bottoms portfolio," said Janine Chilton-Faust, Levi’s global vice president of men’s design. Diversified bottoms FTW!
NYT doing A+ Trumpwashing this a.m. in an article about his inauguration portrait.
"Stars such as Carrie Underwood"--"such as" doing a lot of work there.
And "reminiscent of the purposeful pose he struck for his mugshot"--quite a phrase to be writing about the president-elect.
"Stars such as Carrie Underwood"--"such as" doing a lot of work there.
And "reminiscent of the purposeful pose he struck for his mugshot"--quite a phrase to be writing about the president-elect.
January 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
NYT doing A+ Trumpwashing this a.m. in an article about his inauguration portrait.
"Stars such as Carrie Underwood"--"such as" doing a lot of work there.
And "reminiscent of the purposeful pose he struck for his mugshot"--quite a phrase to be writing about the president-elect.
"Stars such as Carrie Underwood"--"such as" doing a lot of work there.
And "reminiscent of the purposeful pose he struck for his mugshot"--quite a phrase to be writing about the president-elect.
Turns out (so far) that the thing I'm going to miss from FB is my neighborhood free/swap site. When I screw up and buy large instead of tall garbage bags, how will they find their forever home?
January 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Turns out (so far) that the thing I'm going to miss from FB is my neighborhood free/swap site. When I screw up and buy large instead of tall garbage bags, how will they find their forever home?
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In January 2026, I am slated to begin a term as editor of the Journal of Southern History at Rice, and the SHA is looking for a New Book Review Editor at another institution to work with me. Please apply! Review of applications begins this month.
January 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In January 2026, I am slated to begin a term as editor of the Journal of Southern History at Rice, and the SHA is looking for a New Book Review Editor at another institution to work with me. Please apply! Review of applications begins this month.
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There are now 50 creative writing professors in the "Creative Writing Teachers" starter pack. If you teach creative writing in college, let me know I should add you. #academicsky #writing #teaching
go.bsky.app/8c9ephm
go.bsky.app/8c9ephm
December 29, 2024 at 5:58 PM
There are now 50 creative writing professors in the "Creative Writing Teachers" starter pack. If you teach creative writing in college, let me know I should add you. #academicsky #writing #teaching
go.bsky.app/8c9ephm
go.bsky.app/8c9ephm
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“[Gross's] storytelling makes us uncomfortable, and it should. She complicates the ways scholars have simplistically understood capricious acts of violence.” —@kcarterjackson.bsky.social on Kali N. Gross’ Vengeance Feminism https://buff.ly/3DlalTm
December 10, 2024 at 9:45 PM
“[Gross's] storytelling makes us uncomfortable, and it should. She complicates the ways scholars have simplistically understood capricious acts of violence.” —@kcarterjackson.bsky.social on Kali N. Gross’ Vengeance Feminism https://buff.ly/3DlalTm