Academia is held together by caffeine, free labour, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations

Happy #NationalComingOutDay

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI). I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right. Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird. I open my original photo. No bra showing. I put

I will never forgive Wordle for ruining a 66 day streak with this bullshit. CORER??

Ah yes because we just block people for funsies, not because abusers use social media as a way to stalk and harass women. Ffs. I’m betting this update doesn’t comply with EU regulations fwiw

Watching a cheesy movie where the hot young neighbour gifts Jennifer Lopez a first edition of her favourite book...The Iliad. A first edition. Of The Iliad. He found it in a garage sale.

Two things can be true at the same time

Academics will have a 2 hour conversation about how busy they both are that ends in them agreeing to co-write something new

Yeah sure let's boil whales alive for this

1994 academic: "do you do spousal hiring?" 2024 academic: "do you do hiring?"

Periodic reminder that you can request indie books from your library, and authors get paid a lump sum. My commission on a library acquisition is like $35, which amounts to a LOT of eBooks. Instead of pirating that $1.99 eBook, help the author get paid and still read for free!!

Joyce readers in Ireland/UK/Europe/Middle East, we scheduled this so you could attend! Vicki Mahaffey online book launch: "The Joyce of Everyday Life" 12 November, 5pm GMT RSVP for link: forms.gle/MiYfkaPeMNNKra…… The International James Joyce Foundation The James Joyce Centre James Joyce Gazette James Joyce Tower TriesteJoyceSchool

Got my 100th rejection for the year today (goal = met), on the same day as receiving $300 for a poem. Being a writer is really weird!!

Transitioning over to where the skies are bluer: find me over there with the same handle, MyExplodingPen.

After what just happened to Dr Ally Louks, I’m officially deleting this app from my phone. Twitter keeps sending notifications to tell me I’ll be interested in this pile-on, but all I see is how vile this app has become. I’m out. Find me on Bluesky with the same handle.

“the ampersand is the sexiest punctuation mark & I dont case who knows it & she doesnt either because shes the one holding it together” — Dr. Casey Lawrence 🎓 medium.com/promptly-writt…

Congratulations to Dr. Casey Lawrence 🎓 Their marvellous story (which we first published in our SKIN Anthology) has been shortlisted by Tenebrous Press for Brave New Weird Vol 3! tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/31…?

Literary Blackface, DEI, and the Ethics of Authorship by Dr. Casey Lawrence 🎓 aninjusticemag.com/literary-black…

The boys are back in town! By which I mean, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde. We've got an all new article from Mónica Galindo-González joining the collection! Homosexual Panic and Necropolitics in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘A Painful Case’ The Open Library of Humanities doi.org/10.16995/olh.1…