Beth Boyle Machlan
@bethmachlan.bsky.social
Essayist, educator, Zillow stalker, hockey fan, pet pic poster. Usually tired; probably mad. Words at The Common, Catapult, Avidly, River Teeth, NYT, The Rumpus, Guernica. CFA-UAW she/her
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tomorrow!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
December 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
tomorrow!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
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This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.
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Fuck this. Fuck. This.
I know people spend so much time talking about Jeffries and this bullshit but this man deserves to be primaried, removed from power, and chased out of Washington, D.C.
People like this continuing to hold power will only deliver a fascistic failure of a future.
I know people spend so much time talking about Jeffries and this bullshit but this man deserves to be primaried, removed from power, and chased out of Washington, D.C.
People like this continuing to hold power will only deliver a fascistic failure of a future.
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Fuck this. Fuck. This.
I know people spend so much time talking about Jeffries and this bullshit but this man deserves to be primaried, removed from power, and chased out of Washington, D.C.
People like this continuing to hold power will only deliver a fascistic failure of a future.
I know people spend so much time talking about Jeffries and this bullshit but this man deserves to be primaried, removed from power, and chased out of Washington, D.C.
People like this continuing to hold power will only deliver a fascistic failure of a future.
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Here’s a Spotify Wrapped for ya:
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Here’s a Spotify Wrapped for ya:
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
If we had received 100,00 Spotify streams this year it would have netted us $300.
Buy your favorite band’s records.
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Of all the indignities and cruelties, today this is the one that got to me.
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Of all the indignities and cruelties, today this is the one that got to me.
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Posting this on December 3, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities is a choice, @theatlantic.
Feeding suspicions of accommodations and of the alleged "disability con" in general is the only thing you achieve with this piece. Aside from which its a lot of speculation and anecdotes.
Feeding suspicions of accommodations and of the alleged "disability con" in general is the only thing you achieve with this piece. Aside from which its a lot of speculation and anecdotes.
Accommodations in higher education were supposed to help disabled Americans access the same opportunities as their nondisabled peers, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social reports. How did they become another way for wealthy students to gain an advantage?
Elite Colleges Have an Extra-Time-on-Tests Problem
Accommodations in higher education were supposed to help disabled Americans enjoy the same opportunities as everyone else. How did they become another way for wealthy students to gain an advantage?
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Posting this on December 3, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities is a choice, @theatlantic.
Feeding suspicions of accommodations and of the alleged "disability con" in general is the only thing you achieve with this piece. Aside from which its a lot of speculation and anecdotes.
Feeding suspicions of accommodations and of the alleged "disability con" in general is the only thing you achieve with this piece. Aside from which its a lot of speculation and anecdotes.
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Alright, real talk. Does anyone have any resources on writing a great personal statement for grad school applications?
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Alright, real talk. Does anyone have any resources on writing a great personal statement for grad school applications?
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If you've got some coin, toss some in the plate of trans journalists telling trans stories from trans perspectives, because the institutionally transphobic corporate media sure as fuck isn't going to.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
If you've got some coin, toss some in the plate of trans journalists telling trans stories from trans perspectives, because the institutionally transphobic corporate media sure as fuck isn't going to.
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Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.
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It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
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I heard there was a secret verse
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I heard there was a secret verse
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
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“Since building materials cannot enter Gaza without Israeli permission, the UN-endorsed plan effectively ensures that it will be impossible to rebuild in ways that would benefit the vast majority of Palestinians.” —Sari Bashi
Gaza: The Threat of Partition | Sari Bashi
On Monday the United Nations Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s twenty-point peace plan for Gaza, which creates a “Board of Peace,”
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November 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“Since building materials cannot enter Gaza without Israeli permission, the UN-endorsed plan effectively ensures that it will be impossible to rebuild in ways that would benefit the vast majority of Palestinians.” —Sari Bashi
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Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
From Turtle Island to Palestine, Indigenous people across the world continue to resist settler-colonial domination, extraction, and exploitation of their land and communities.
We center these tradi...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
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i read this essay as a wonderful unpacking of the material and political conditions that undergird relational, caring ways of doing language together, that underlines the need to collectively fight for these conditions
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
i read this essay as a wonderful unpacking of the material and political conditions that undergird relational, caring ways of doing language together, that underlines the need to collectively fight for these conditions
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meanwhile blackjack is definitely right-coded because republicans love to hit anything under 21
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
meanwhile blackjack is definitely right-coded because republicans love to hit anything under 21
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i love spending 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year not using chatgpt
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
i love spending 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year not using chatgpt
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this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
Not me bursting into tears because the guy at the grocery store is buying 40 cans of Fancy Feast turkey and gravy for his feral cat rescue Thanksgiving dinner 🥹
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
this is also a good time to remember: if you need help feeding your pet, there's a really good chance that your local rescue &/or SPCA is giving away pet food rn; they know times are hard all around and no one should have to decide between feeding themselves or feeding their pets
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November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Viola Fletcher, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Viola Fletcher, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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I wrote about the impact of seeing "The Harder They Come" in my new book:
"The spirituality and street-level urgency were an extension of what I was beginning to understand as “punk rock.” There were outsiders everywhere, and there was an uphill search for affirmation everywhere."
#jimmycliff
"The spirituality and street-level urgency were an extension of what I was beginning to understand as “punk rock.” There were outsiders everywhere, and there was an uphill search for affirmation everywhere."
#jimmycliff
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I wrote about the impact of seeing "The Harder They Come" in my new book:
"The spirituality and street-level urgency were an extension of what I was beginning to understand as “punk rock.” There were outsiders everywhere, and there was an uphill search for affirmation everywhere."
#jimmycliff
"The spirituality and street-level urgency were an extension of what I was beginning to understand as “punk rock.” There were outsiders everywhere, and there was an uphill search for affirmation everywhere."
#jimmycliff
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The correct use of ChatGPT is asking it to write lewd poems in the style of RFK JR.
Trust me.
Trust me.
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The correct use of ChatGPT is asking it to write lewd poems in the style of RFK JR.
Trust me.
Trust me.
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The official Department of Justice recruitment page is saying the quiet part out loud: they don’t care about law, they only care about deportations. Flagrant. False. Possibly illegal. This is why many of us have advocated for an independent immigration court for years. 
November 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The official Department of Justice recruitment page is saying the quiet part out loud: they don’t care about law, they only care about deportations. Flagrant. False. Possibly illegal. This is why many of us have advocated for an independent immigration court for years. 
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Suck it, Debra Messing
Reporter to Trump: Would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani mayoralty?
Trump: "I would. I really would. Especially after the meeting, absolutely."
Trump: "I would. I really would. Especially after the meeting, absolutely."
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Suck it, Debra Messing