Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Jonathan Sadow

@jsadow.bsky.social

540 followers 200 following 120 posts

I teach 18th-Century Literature at SUNY Oneonta. Trying this out but I am also on Mastodon here: https://c18.masto.host/@jsadow. In theory if you follow me at @jsadow.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy you can interact with me on Mastodon from Bluesky.

c18.masto.host

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · 1d

Kind of expensive, so if you are interested in reading What Has Been (1801), a feminist Minerva Press novel edited by Elizabeth Neiman and I about a woman who attempts to survive as a writer, have your library order it.

#c18th #c18 #18c #18thc #Romanticism #Gothic #FeministSky #Minervapress

What Has Been, A Novel by Eliza Kirkham Mathews

What Has Been, originally published in 1801, is an affecting, lively, and accessible read for scholars and students of the long eighteenth century. This critical edition includes an extensive introduc...

www.routledge.com

4 8

Reposted by Jonathan Sadow

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Sep 13

"It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence against external manipulations." www.chronicle.com/article/when...

1 35 96

Reposted by Jonathan Sadow

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Jul 23

putting AI in ms paint... these are sick, dangerous people

36 270 2.2K

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · Jul 18

May every day be another wonderful secret.

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · Jul 14

This is the series of posts in that hack, so it is not really funny.

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · Jul 14

This is what was posted on the hacked Elmo account so maybe stop reposting the second one like it is hilarious.

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · Jul 13

Hacked account going on an antisemitic rant.

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · Jul 7

"the two communities got along swimmingly and ended up starting their own spinoff website to discuss ponies and fascism in harmony".

My Little Nazi: The Curious Link Between the Alt-Right and the My Little Pony Fandom

Beloved children’s cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and fascism: two things that, to your average John Q. Public, would seem to…

mackenzierudd.medium.com

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · Jul 7

not to me; what could be more white than my little pony?

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · Jul 5

I am not taking on some pony term www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

'My Little Pony' Fans Are Ready to Admit They Have a Nazi Problem

Even a niche subculture built around magical cartoon horses is reckoning with racism.

www.theatlantic.com

1 2

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · Jul 2

Seen in a Philadelphia restaurant.

A garbage can that has the label "please use me".

Reposted by Jonathan Sadow

Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · Jun 24

A reminder that Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to write his housing plan hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT for His Housing Plan

The Democratic mayoral frontrunner's "Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.

hellgatenyc.com

5 69 270

Reposted by Jonathan Sadow

Rutgers University Press @rutgersupress.bsky.social · Jun 17

"Revisiting Richardson"

Edited by Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer

www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rev...

Published by Bucknell University

#LiteraryStudies #18thCenturyStudies #18thCentury #SamuelRichardson #Gender #Sexuality #Race #Religion #BucknellUniversityPress

5 19

Reposted by Jonathan Sadow

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jun 14

May Liberty meet wi’ success!
May Prudence protect her frae evil!
May tyrants and tyranny tine i’ the mist,
And wander their way to the devil!

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jun 14

Here’s freedom to them that wad read,
Here’s freedom to them that wad write!
There’s nane ever fear’d that the truth should be heard
But they whom the Truth wad indite.

—Robert Burns, ‘Here’s a Health to them that’s awa’ (c. 1792)
#BookWormSat #C18th
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertb...

Here's a health to them that's awa
Robert Burns

Here's a health to them that's awa,
Here's a health to them that's awa;
And wha winna wish gude luck to our cause,
May never gude luck be their fa'!
It's gude to be merry and wise,
It's gude to be honest and true;
It's gude to support Caledonia's cause,
And bide by the buff and the blue.

Here's a health to them that's awa,
Here's a health to them that's awa,
Here's a health to Charlie, the chief o' the clan,
Altho' that his band be sma'!
May Liberty meet wi' success!
May Prudence protect her frae evil!
May tyrants and tyranny tine i' the mist,
And wander their way to the devil!

Here's a health to them that's awa,
Here's a health to them that's awa;
Here's a health to Tammie, the Norlan' laddie,
That lives at the lug o' the law!
Here's freedom to them that wad read,
Here's freedom to them that wad write!
There's nane ever fear'd that the truth should be heard,
But they whom the truth wad indite.

Here's a health to them that's awa,
Here's a health to them that's awa;
Here's chieftain M'Leod, a chieftain worth gowd,
Tho' bred amang mountains o' snaw;
Here's friends on baith sides o' the Forth,
And friends on baith sides o' the Tweed;
And wha wad betray old Albion's right,
May they never eat of her bread!

1 1 7

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · Jun 7

Maybe they will get stoned with their AI girlfriends.

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · May 15

This student has exactly the right expression

Reposted by Jonathan Sadow

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · Apr 29

[Canadian Election]

My riding flipped from Bloc to Liberal & I am semi-relieved, but it will be a minority government that will need Bloc support so very skin-of-the-teeth since almost as many people voted Conservative.

Graphic of popular vote of Canadian election showing Liberals with 42.8%, Conservatives with 41.7%,, Bloc 7.4%, NDP 5.8%, Green 1.1%, PPC .8%.

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · Apr 28

Has it really come to this, Gray Lady

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · Apr 25

Maybe someone could explain to David Brooks that Achilles never ran a cryptocurrency scam 🙄

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/o...

Reposted by Jonathan Sadow

Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · Apr 8

3 19 65

Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social · Apr 6

I like Tesla destruction but there are no penguins in Canada.

Reposted by Jonathan Sadow

Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · Apr 5

This dude is currently live on Tik Tok protesting. I’m telling yall, the waters are churning more and more out there.

150 2.8K 15K

Reposted by Jonathan Sadow

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Apr 3

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

1K 12K 47K

Reposted by Jonathan Sadow

netspooky @vacci.ne · Mar 24

Texts from anxiety and depression and the houthi pc small group

30 1.4K 9.1K