GingerProf

Las Meniñas everyone!!!

Generative A.I. ys the opposite of art

A good reminder that when you enjoy something someone has done -- a book they wrote, a performance they gave, a speech they made, whatever -- it is incredibly powerful to just reach out and tell them directly.

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

Things that people will always mention in conversation (with an important addition): - went Harvard Yale Princeton - am a doctor lawyer - "live in Berkeley" (addition)

Day four without salad. Morale is low.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there were Roman soldiers from Africa in York England and on Hadrian's Wall, so, anyway...

Feeling great about my decision to not care about Wordle.

The best to ever do it! 🩵💙🩵

Apropos something… it’s time to bring back my “Concerning Racism” in Tolkien fandom and scholarship piece: journals.tolkiensociety.org/mallorn/arti...

It's because that's his name!!!

Andy Serkis has made some very ignorant remarks, and it seems like this blog post may (unfortunately) be relevant again: luke-shelton.com/2022/02/12/w...

A good vibe can even come out of Oklahoma! Exhibit A:

In true Silmarillion fashion for #TolkienTrewsday - there were no horses to help the Noldor on the Helcaraxë, but Fëanor found room for them on the ships.

Pauline Baynes forever!!!

Kids going to school in the dark for four months what could go wrong?!?

Thomas More: complicated. So true so true.

Yes two yeares bitwene seasouns ys bad but ymagine finisshinge *The Iliad* and *The Odyssey* and then havinge to wayte about seven hundrede and a halfe yeares for *The Aeneid*

Plese repost & share! Teachinge or studyinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level? Heere ys a free, open access, scholar-creatid resource: #OA #OER opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

S/O to the young woman on my 8 hour flight who never for a moment stopped shaking her leg up and down rapidly enough to shake the entire row. True commitment.

Patti Lupone the woman that you are!

HJ Heinz and Co. of Pittsburgh PA has 24 hours to respond:

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As we enter prime VBS (Vacation Bible School) season, please remember that the trauma is real and be kind to yourself.

Alternatively known as "Kitty myrtles" in my world.

Tolkien at Kzoo paper went well, despite my 2am arrival! "we who endured the Grinding Ice." 🥶🧊💙 #FirstAgeBestAge

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool

Scholars yn the humanityes who are at prestigious institutions and who have clout and reache sholde be usinge everye single minute of their tyme to protecte programs at less prestigious institutions. Ther sholde be a moratorium on researche until the futures of their fieldes are safe.

Two of the greatest comments from student evals over the years: 1. "fled is that music. Do I wake or sleep?" 2. "To dance beneath the diamond sky w/ one hand waving free." 3. Keep the naughty Earl (Earl of Rochester).

Me re-reading Wuthering Heights: "Well, better go see what my Yorkshire ferals are up to."

Welcome to "I've suddenly started caring about this class" season to all who celebrate!

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

There's Austen discourse and I don't need to add evidence to her greatness EXCEPT no one has observed: she offers the wittiest most biting funniest narrative voices ever to narrative voice. I mean, I am cackling!

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Never forget:

this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its own ways of making people disappear. -Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These #everynightapoem it's necessary to talk about trees.

Reservations are in an hour and a half so I am pre-eating to ensure no lives will be lost. 😋

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future We neede artes and humanityes artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...

If there's a thing I love it's paintings inside other paintings. 🖼️

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Appropriate times to use the word impactful: 1. Describing the manner in which a heavenly body struck the Earth. End of list.

So a big part of the Project 2025 goals hinges on forcing women out of the workforce. The Heritage Foundation knows that women voters hold the most power in terms of sheer numbers. If they can push you out of the workforce, they can push you out of your voting rights.