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Carrie Shanafelt
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mastodon 4.7.3Assistant professor at Yeshiva College in #18thC & #19thC #Literature. #Bentham & #queer #aesthetics (wrote Uncommon Sense, UVaP 2022), national #debt and #slavery, #Bronx #cats #boardgames #film
Chair of Columbia Seminar in 18thC European Culture, Treasurer of the #Johnsonians.
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Six years after buying this apartment full of outrageously janky and poorly installed off-brand appliances, one failed, and I thought, I've got this. I've saved up enough that I can afford to get us a dishwasher. But in order to get the new dishwasher in, I had to catastrophically dismantle the oven. Well, OK, I'll stretch my capacities and also buy a new range. Oh, it can't be installed because the microwave over it is no longer up to code? Guess we have to get a new microwave...
Today one of my students asked me why I hate AI writing/art so much, and I said, "Imagine if someone told you they were going to give you the best food in the world, and they went around to all the best restaurants in the world, and then put it in a blender and handed you a straw. Or all the most beautiful colors, whizzed together, so you can only use one color. That's how I feel about AI as art."
"Oh, so it's... brown."
"It's just brown."
I had a few pleasantries (sneeze/bless you) with the man across from me on the subway, and now that we are above ground, he is on the phone and clearly managing a pretty complicated stable of high-end phone sex workers with extremely demanding clientele for whom not just anything will get them where they want to go. It is always a treat to encounter people who are gifted at what they do!
Having cats is such a trip. I just looked up and saw this. These are two real pictures of my actual cat, Camilla.
#CatsOfMastodon
Kane Parsons, the 20yo director of Backrooms, mentioned Punishment Park (1971) as an inspiration in an interview, which I had not seen, though I love Peter Watkins's 1964 Culloden. We watched Punishment Park tonight and it's somehow simultaneously shocking and satisfying to hear so many of the problems we face in the US today coming from the mouths of (lightly) fictionalized young people 55 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dAEHh4Lw98
@deathkitten@firetribe.org I know--there are many many reasons. My students, like most college students, are being pressured to use it, not be "afraid" of it, and I keep finding that aesthetic disgust is the only thing that seems to break through sometimes.
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@carnage4life@mas.to I'm trying to figure out how they think ancient Mediterraneans were scooting around on boats all the time and yet had never met anyone with brown skin.
I bought a new bra and in order to get a discount I signed up for the mailing list, which of course means that every day since I received the bra, I've gotten these increasingly invasive emails asking how it felt today.
Did you notice it feels different this time?
Should be just about molded to your shape now.
Hot day today, good day for that bra, huh?
You gotta wear it three times before you decide, OK?
Mildly creepily entertaining but today, unsubscribe.
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Penzeys is giving away $20 worth of Mexican vanilla with purchase if you use the code BROKE at checkout, and there are several other free or cheap spices--$1 small vanilla sugar, free "Outrage of Love" seasoning blend, smoked paprika for $2, etc.
https://www.penzeys.com
Every afternoon, our 11-year-old cat Dolores finds the brief hot sunbeam in the bedroom and instantly becomes a little kitten again. #CatsOfMastodon
Every time I do something really big and complicated, I spent a few days in a frenzy of activity and energy and then I crash for days. The week I came home from running my conference, I finished edits on two articles, wrote a job ad, a CFP, booked a bunch of speakers, finished grading all my classes, wrote a million overdue emails... and then spent almost a week feeling like I was recovering from a nearly mortal wound. Reminder to self: You are not dying! This always happens!
@transience@beige.party If you cut them up, toss them with oil and salt, and roast them for a very very long time, until they are crispy and dark on the edges, and then toss them in citrus, they will not taste like dirt.
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@dan@discuss.systems The "throw rug" is what we call "handbagging," when our fluffy cat Dolores looks like you dropped a large full handbag in the living room. (Babe, did you leave your handbag in the hall?)
I am too respectful to photograph the two NB goth youths sitting across from me on this 1 train, both bent deeply over and furiously reading--one tearing through Foucault's Discipline and Punish, and the other plowing through an ancient paperback of Mishima. The aura on this train is electric.
Wow, so they made it impossible to turn off autocorrections to suggested text in the new Outlook? That is a bold move for a program I am forced to use at a workplace full of people with uncommonly spelled and international names.
Last night I dreamed I went to a philosophy conference that was the opposite of ours at Emory this month. It was mean, elitist, exclusive, silencing, shabby, defensive, and sad. There was no food or drink on the premises. People ignored the talks to schmooze or tuned in only to mock them. It was such a dead-on representation of everything I fear when facilitating scholarly meetings, or attending them. The environment you create will feed some impulse in people, good or bad.
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@blind_mapmaker Yes, and it is well worth it! There is so much that doesn't get posted to their site.
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@futurebird Whenever I dream about one of my cats, I am forced to carry one, wiggling, in my arms while I visit somewhere I have never been. My spouse and I dream this so often now we call them "cat in arms" dreams.
Sorry babe, can't come to bed
I'm watching the last 3 minutes of Beau Travail on repeat
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@futurebird@sauropods.win Did you see the announcement about 1.7? Clint and Sandy are now marriage material!
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@skinnylatte I was lucky to be raised in a real Baptist church that had plenty of flaws, but we learned early that cops are not your friends, you should never make pledges to government, and no one should ever know who you vote for. My parents didn't even tell each other. By the time I graduated high school, the pastor died and was replaced by a homophobic bootlicker who craved power and hated people, just like every other corrupted Baptist.
New tanks for nothin just dropped! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB1mxuvkaEg
(tanks for nothin has put out 8 videos in 2 years, each one about the long process of creating a self-sustaining aquarium with strange constraints. It's like The Five Obstructions but for fish, and each one is a little masterpiece.)
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@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social It is absolutely wild to be a college professor and read these 100% garbage takes about higher education from mainstream media. Their own alma maters should be so ashamed that this is what their students say in public about them. But because media outlets only hire from elite schools, no one realizes that sub-elite schools are all about getting our students so very skillful and knowledgeable that hirers won't discriminate against them. Elite unis do not prioritize effective teaching!
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@stevegis_ssg@mas.to What kind of supposedly intelligent companion can't tell that I am writing to Marnin, a Dean at my college, replying to his email, which is under his name in our directory, and not silently wanting it corrected to "Marvin" eight times in a row? It makes me feel nauseated from anxiety.
RE: @mxtiffanyleigh@wandering.shop
Last time, the vibes were so good they achieved escape velocity and we all ended up pledging fealty to love and fun and goodness. Be there!
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@futurebird@sauropods.win They gave one to Shane so I suppose Clint was the next step of seemingly irredeemable Pelican Town men. Sandy is a snack though.
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@AmateurExpert@flipping.rocks @futurebird@sauropods.win Check out ConcernedApe's new YT video!
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@digitalsnow@social.lol We are also the most likely sexual orientation to endure domestic and sexual violence from partners, exacerbated by bi-phobic stereotypes and misinformation. And we quickly learn to hide our experiences of violence because non-bi people so often tell us we deserve it or we are making it up. https://lgbtqipvinstitute.org/support-for-bisexual-survivors/
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@AmateurExpert@flipping.rocks @futurebird@sauropods.win I keep trying to love someone else, but I always end up with Krobus. I think he is the only person whose life I am not ruining by marrying them. (Leah and Elliott both kept telling me it is OK they gave up their artistic aspirations to have my children, and I really can't take the guilt.)
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@maxalmonte14 Some vicarious joy here: https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3mirb76pbl22v
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@motoridersd@pug.ninja According to many, Joel is exactly like that in real life too. Unbelievable choice to live as a baby puppy forever.
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@motoridersd@pug.ninja I was wondering what you would think when I saw the photos yesterday. And Joel Dommett on Taskmaster! Like, we can see it isn't correct, but surely it doesn't mean nothing, right?
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@ntnsndr When I had a tenured job, I got the most requests--probably 7-10 a year, and I would reject maybe 30% of them, either because the journal was so janky they were asking me to review random articles on topics I don't work on, or because a journal was sending me an article I had already rejected/R&Red for another journal.
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@mattblaze@federate.social I find it hard to believe that people who find it so upsetting to see a non-inflammatory mention of a news topic are not at all upset by starting a vicious and lurid thousand-word fight with a stranger about it. Blocking is free and fast!