Just voted! One of us for his first time! #KamalaHarris2024 #BobCasey2024

In light of all the weird psychosexual discourse coming out of the Right, I've been thinking a lot about this one . . .

today on the podcast Nicholas Orvis and percival hornak sit down with Dr. Mike Sell -- their conversation focuses on the affordances of making shared references to media and pop culture in TTRPG play and TTRPGs as engines for participatory dramaturgy. listen now: linktr.ee/dndramanerds

I know there's a lot going on, but there's also olivia stowell's article on 'Laguna Beach' and construction of televisual real-estate bliss. publicbooks.org/pre-recession-… via @publicbooks

this conversation was an absolute joy -- we got delightfully in the weeds about table cultures and game mechanics and TTRPG history, and start to theorize how TTRPGs serve as an engine for a kind of participatory dramaturgy -- really cool stuff, thanks Dr. Mike Sell :~)

On this bummer of a morning, I'm reading a brilliantly designed high-school learning unit by one of my students that centers on Butler's 'Dawn' and includes a lengthy note explaining why they will never be able to implement it due to the censorious jackboots on the school board.

lol the idea that the old guy would have magically solved endemic economic illiteracy and whiteness

2020 Biden: 81 million votes Trump: 74 million votes 2024 Trump: 71 million votes Harris: 66 million votes These numbers do not match up with either the empty Trump rallies or the packed Harris rallies, and she should definitely not too quickly concede.

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women

A question about literary theory in U.S. English departments. I was hired by IUP as a specialist in theory in 1999. Do you know of departments that hired theory specialists after '99 (in contrast to, say, identifying theory as a secondary focus or presuming knowledge of it)?

Yoko Ono's "Why" but "WTF"

And a four-year weirdo-thon too

Some immediate steps I believe that all trans people should take: - Get your passport. Today. It takes time to come in and this will likely be shut down under Trump. - Update every ID your state allows you to. - Make sure you have a supply of medication in case of disruption

As a Gen X white male, a demographic that has seen a similar rightward swerve, I can only express sympathy. No lies told 👇

I'm in the blue: profmikesell.

Directors and actors pulling up the ladder behind them

GMd a session of Monster of the Week last night and used the phrases “eldritch bile” and “squelching extractive slurp” and that’s a win.