Coming soon to a town near you, while our leaders serve billionaire psychopaths & the media distracts us with inanity & bile.

It’s really difficult to overstate how many pedagogical problems that seem impossible to solve are actually just a function of classes being too big.

Never trust that anything that’s digitised or available online will be available forever. Digitisation is not preservation, and tech companies aren’t archivists or librarians. The presence of hard copy in a physical collection is the only guarantee of long-term survival

Excited to announce our one-day online workshop on Ageing, Progress and Decline in the Victorian period on Fri 6 December. Join for papers on a range of topics by expert speakers - inc. a keynote by Jacob Jewusiak. Register via Eventbrite or email me: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ageing-progr…

Goodbye, America. It was nice knowing you.

It is more important to look at why Trump was allowed to run, after committing sedition and a number of other crimes to which he confessed, than why he was able to win.

#OtD 7 Nov 1879 French anarchist-syndicalist Benoît Broutchoux was born. He edited multiple syndicalist papers, and was sent to prison many times throughout his life for printing radical ideas and taking part in labour struggles stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12488/…

Someone should invent a social media network for academics where tweets are both peer-reviewed and paywalled, and visible to you only if your institution has paid a massive subscription fee

He's not wrong

It’s hard for me to explain the depth of sadness I feel about Jack Smith moving to vacate the remaining schedule in the DC case. All that work. All those filings. And Donald gets to just walk away from accountability. It’s profoundly depressing for those of us who seek justice.

I hope everyone understands the assignment this holiday season 💙

All of the hundreds of worst-case-scenario questions you are sending me via email and DM, the answer is yes. Yes he could and yes he would.

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

No one understands this moment and how we got here better than Carole Cadwalladr. If ever there was a “must read” essay, this is it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Apparently Elmo is very, very upset with SNL because of this portrayal of him on the show this week. So don't retweet this and make him more angry,... or he may start ghosting your followers.

It’s spelled ‘kakistocracy’

Please circulate this CFP for the Annual USC Comparative Lit conference focusing on Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms.

Elon is censoring our page now. I knew this would happen. Do me a favour. You can break this algorithm by simply liking this post.

Last night I met up with my favorite English teacher, a lifelong friend who teaches both high school and college courses. In thirty-five years of teaching, she has never been more worried about her students.

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