Meredith Guthrie

Baseball!

The Brewers’ pitcher’s hair is so ✨fluffy✨

I want to watch more baseball (I’m worried they’ll just cancel next season) but I haaaaaaate the political ads. According to them, I’m Darth Vader, but meaner.

So the slightly shorter version of the Garrity anti Shapiro ad cuts out the part where it admits it was made with AI. (The ad also criticizes Shapiro for building data centers. Pick a side, ad. You’re nonsense.)

To a Texan, “well” is often a two syllable word.

When my Paw Paw (from Texas) retired, he got great joy from really, deeply answering when telemarketers asked “How are you?” He’d drawl out “Welllllllll, lemme tell ya…”

Hey band nerds, I have a present for you. It’s the first day of the Texas UIL State Military Marching Band Competition. And there’s a live stream link: c.streamhoster.com/embed/media/...

Inside of you, there are two wolves:

Queer histories are often preserved in places built by and for communities themselves. Writer and artist Brooke Palmieri reflects on the people who save these traces and why preserving what might disappear matters. 📚 Read the essay in Vanishing Culture: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵

I was once at a university-wide diversity training where, to an auditorium full of people, the facilitator said "can anyone shout out an example of a stereotype?" The entire audience was silent until one man shouted out "All women believe in ghosts." I think about that a lot.

Morning! Here is today’s air quality forecast for Allegheny County: 

Today, 10/27, is the last day to apply for a mail-in or civilian absentee ballot! https://www.pa.gov/services/vote/apply-for-a-mail-in-or-absentee-ballot

Bee the Cat woke up angry! She’s 6lbs of fury! Bee’s walking around the house loudly meowing invective at everyone so we know she’s angry! (Mostly she wants to go outside, I think? We let her out on a leash so she can’t terrorize small birds and animals, but we have to eat breakfast first.)

You don’t say…

New article (fully OA) with Christopher Lewin! Did the Cornish and Manx languages die? Yes. But did they get revived and go on the highest level of recognition in European language policy? Also yes! We explore how that happened, and what it means for language revitalisation. doi.org/10.1177/1468...

This is legit wild. One of the Trumpiest GOP kooks we’ve had holding high office here in Texas makes an absolute spot-on, beautiful, non-partisan call for government transparency against the governor’s attempt to hide his emails with Elon Musk.

It’s wonderful to see the Brewers do well in part because they look so dang *happy*. Too many teams just look deadpan when they‘re doing well (…why yes, I AM thinking of the US WBC team. Why do you ask?).

Brandon Woodruff 😭 I love baseball.

*snerk*

perfect, no notes

Amazing catch! …I kinda want them to give him a quick concussion check. Just in case.

Goodness gracious I hate the “call us optimists“ ad by Meta. They’re dishonest dreck.

Here's how private equity killed your local mall.

Today is the 1st day of Spring enrollment for our students. Due to various scheduling crises, my stress level got so high my watch thought I was doing a workout 😳

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Amazing

You can tell that Rufus the dog is back to 100% because he’s barking at the neighborhood! I’m both relieved and annoyed! Here’s Rufus and one of our cats, Bee, being ridiculously cute.

This is something i have to increasingly stress to academics these days when they're prepping bids for projects: If one of the outputs is a website, we gotta think about how much of it would still work if, at some point, we just had to flatten it down to html when the money, or patches, run out.

Fun fact: The state fruit of Wisconsin is the cranberry, and some of the approximately 250 growers statewide came together to show the Brewers who they are rooting for in the World Series. (Thanks, Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association!)

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

In addition to today being a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day, Allegheny County Health Department has also issued a Mon Valley Episode Watch. If you’re asking yourself, “Wait, what’s up with THAT?” we’ve got all the deets for yinz: www.gasp-pgh.org/resources/mo...

Yes! I love small ball. Something is always happening.

Finally picking up Rufus from the ER vet. They wanted to observe him for a few hours. So far everything seems ok!

The ER vet gave Rufus one shot to throw up (pretty sure he threw up all the contraband) and one anti nausea shot. He seems fine. Just a little sleepy. Vet is calling pet poison control to see if there’s anything else we should do.

Yay my book Disabled Storytellers in the #GlobalMiddleAges (Cambridge UP) is now available for purchase! Pre-order a hardcopy or get digital access (US $40), plus 20% discount code HSY2026 (apply code upon checkout): doi.org/10.1017/9781... #DisabilitySky #DisHist #CripTheory #DisabilityJustice

At the emergency vet with Rufus, who ate something he shouldn’t have (something that was in a sealed box inside a closed Ziplock inside a purse. He’s too smart for his own good)

I’m about halfway through @annaguirre.bsky.social’s The Handbook of Hocus Pocus and it is so good. I am living for the wonderful father/daughter bond between Thea and Mudge. It’s making me miss my sweet dad.

I was lucky to have wonderful, supportive parents. My dad’s parents were awful and his life would have been immeasurably better if he’d cut them out of his life. (My dad learned to parent by doing to exact opposite of what his parents would have done and by using my mom’s dad as a role model.)

I’m really enjoying this live cam of Lake Superior. It has waves, and stars, and sometimes the aurora borealis. Super soothing!

Wishing a big happy 70th birthday to Mae Jemison! She will be known for all time as the first Black woman in space, but we should also remember her time as a Flying Doctor in Africa, and an entrepreneur working towards the equal global distribution of technology. tinyurl.com/mwyc9rvn #WomenInSTEM

The professor is Carolyn Marvin, one of the founders of media history research in the US, one of my subfields. Now leading the resistance against robot replacement of human labor. 

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

I want to see a good John Brown movie! My twins and I visited Harper’s Ferry in 2025 because they got super into his story (thank God for great history teachers!)

something that occurred to me is, everyone knows it’s possible to become a musician with work and practice. but you can’t work on and practice music while staring slackjawed at your phone. the real promise of generative AI is the ability to ‘make’ ‘art’ without reducing your slackjawed scroll time