DM Campbell
@dmcampbellwsu.bsky.social
Prof, AmLit, WSU Pullman; Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism & Early Cinema in Am Women’s Writing; ed. The House of Mirth for Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Oxford UP). Canada is a sovereign nation. None of these shenanigans are legal.
First seen on @scalzi.com Our typewriter repair shop here in Spokane closed & now my IBM Selectric III & I will have go drive over to Bremerton. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (Gift Article)
This is the story of how a man traded steady, grinding corporate security for a dying craft and, in the process, found his soul.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
First seen on @scalzi.com Our typewriter repair shop here in Spokane closed & now my IBM Selectric III & I will have go drive over to Bremerton. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by DM Campbell
Your #writinginspiration for the morning.
To be fair, Neal wrote "The Baroque Cycle" longhand after a computer backup disaster ate the first five hundred pages or so.
Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote—
Yeah nope, that's just deranged.
Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote—
Yeah nope, that's just deranged.
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Your #writinginspiration for the morning.
In Auntie Mame, Mame takes in children during the war who systematically destroy the house she’s rented; Patrick adds up the $ damage each day. On a good day, it’s only a few hundred; on the bad day, in the thousands. Guess why I’m reminded of this daily when looking at the news.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In Auntie Mame, Mame takes in children during the war who systematically destroy the house she’s rented; Patrick adds up the $ damage each day. On a good day, it’s only a few hundred; on the bad day, in the thousands. Guess why I’m reminded of this daily when looking at the news.
So the takeaway is that we can no longer trust advice from the CDC since it has been infected with the spiteful anti-knowledge and pro-ignorance stance of the current administration. Got it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
CDC in turmoil after agency backpedals on debunking vaccines-autism link
The CDC’s website now says health authorities ignored evidence of a potential connection between vaccines and autism, despite dozens of studies showing no link.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So the takeaway is that we can no longer trust advice from the CDC since it has been infected with the spiteful anti-knowledge and pro-ignorance stance of the current administration. Got it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Reposted by DM Campbell
What is the Wheatley Census number and how can you use them? ⬇️
The Wheatley Census Number (WC #) is a unique and durable identifier assigned to each book (or fragment) recorded in the census. This enables *copy-specific citation* in scholarship, bookselling/provenance research, and anywhere identifying and citing at the individual copy level is needed.
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
What is the Wheatley Census number and how can you use them? ⬇️
Reposted by DM Campbell
Join us on Zoom Events for the SCMS 2025 Virtual Symposium from Dec. 5-6. Simple, accessible, and familiar. Access invites and a user guide will be sent Dec 3. Check out the schedule now: www.cmstudies.org/page/VSsched.... See you online!
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Join us on Zoom Events for the SCMS 2025 Virtual Symposium from Dec. 5-6. Simple, accessible, and familiar. Access invites and a user guide will be sent Dec 3. Check out the schedule now: www.cmstudies.org/page/VSsched.... See you online!
In my writing classes, we used to take a good portion of a class to analyze the Gettysburg Address. In addition to looking at the great sentences, I used to ask them not just what Lincoln was saying but what he was NOT saying in the midst of the war.
Today in History: November 19th
1863: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the brief but renowned Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the National Cemetery in Pennsylvania during the American Civil War.
1863: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the brief but renowned Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the National Cemetery in Pennsylvania during the American Civil War.
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In my writing classes, we used to take a good portion of a class to analyze the Gettysburg Address. In addition to looking at the great sentences, I used to ask them not just what Lincoln was saying but what he was NOT saying in the midst of the war.
In yesterday's class on The House of Mirth, we started with Reynolds's Mrs. Lloyd and what it could tell us before moving back into Selden watching Lily at the train station. Starting with an image is never a mistake, I'm thinking.
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In yesterday's class on The House of Mirth, we started with Reynolds's Mrs. Lloyd and what it could tell us before moving back into Selden watching Lily at the train station. Starting with an image is never a mistake, I'm thinking.
Reposted by DM Campbell
I updated Word this week and it's now impossible to turn off Copilot icon that shows up on each and every document.
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I updated Word this week and it's now impossible to turn off Copilot icon that shows up on each and every document.
Reposted by DM Campbell
30%of AI resources worldwide are now devoted to finding ever more complicated ways to make it impossible to deactivate AI.
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
30%of AI resources worldwide are now devoted to finding ever more complicated ways to make it impossible to deactivate AI.
Update: Alas, this solution no longer works, so we will be stuck spending 30% more time on each email deleting stupid predictions & rewording when the prediction refuses to let us change it. I hate this.
Found it! For Outlook Version 16.102.2: (1) begin to write an email message; (2) Go to Edit - Spelling & Grammar; (3) Uncheck Show Text Predictions.
Is anyone else being driven insane by Outlook’s predictive text feature, which apparently came from hell with a Microsoft update and CANNOT BE TURNED OFF? I’ve tried several solutions offered online but none of them work.
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Update: Alas, this solution no longer works, so we will be stuck spending 30% more time on each email deleting stupid predictions & rewording when the prediction refuses to let us change it. I hate this.
Reposted by DM Campbell
Daphne du Maurier's Typewriter to Auction
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
Daphne du Maurier's Typewriter to Auction
Daphne du Maurier's typewriter Olympia SM-4 De Luxe typewriter is going under the hammer at Bonhams' Books, Atlases and Manuscripts auction which ends on November 19.
www.finebooksmagazine.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Daphne du Maurier's Typewriter to Auction
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
11-11-18, from my grandfather's service record. We thank them today.
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
11-11-18, from my grandfather's service record. We thank them today.
Reposted by DM Campbell
Today I learned that one reason we like the smell of old books is that they give off the scent of vanillin, which is found in mother's milk.
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Today I learned that one reason we like the smell of old books is that they give off the scent of vanillin, which is found in mother's milk.
Reposted by DM Campbell
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
Conversation this morning: “The Republicans have an enormous appetite for American pain” and yeah, that about sums it up.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Conversation this morning: “The Republicans have an enormous appetite for American pain” and yeah, that about sums it up.
Nothing about what Jill Lepore says is remotely true for @pullman.wsu.edu for 2014 or any other year—maybe because we’re a land grant institution? Also: didn’t we used to say that anecdata is not data?
This is an absolutely incredible thing to say. As someone in Ivy-ish (Duke) classrooms from 2016-2022… I call bull.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Nothing about what Jill Lepore says is remotely true for @pullman.wsu.edu for 2014 or any other year—maybe because we’re a land grant institution? Also: didn’t we used to say that anecdata is not data?
Reposted by DM Campbell
'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Wonderful essay by Nora Gilbert on "Gaslight"
“The document’s brief description of the ending of the ‘original English play’ stunned me. This was not the ending of the ‘Gas Light’ script I knew so well by that point.”
New at PB: @noragilbert.bsky.social uncovers a lost version of the film Gaslight.
New at PB: @noragilbert.bsky.social uncovers a lost version of the film Gaslight.
The Lost Ending of “Gaslight” That You Didn’t Know You Needed - Public Books
The only way to really understand the term is to sit down and watch the harrowing psychological film from which it got its name.
www.publicbooks.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Wonderful essay by Nora Gilbert on "Gaslight"
Found it! For Outlook Version 16.102.2: (1) begin to write an email message; (2) Go to Edit - Spelling & Grammar; (3) Uncheck Show Text Predictions.
Is anyone else being driven insane by Outlook’s predictive text feature, which apparently came from hell with a Microsoft update and CANNOT BE TURNED OFF? I’ve tried several solutions offered online but none of them work.
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Found it! For Outlook Version 16.102.2: (1) begin to write an email message; (2) Go to Edit - Spelling & Grammar; (3) Uncheck Show Text Predictions.
Assistant Professor of English Education, career track, at Washington State University: wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
Assistant Professor of English, Career Track (Scholarly Sub-track)
Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: December 10, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 161-NN_FACULTY - ...
wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Assistant Professor of English Education, career track, at Washington State University: wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
Is anyone else being driven insane by Outlook’s predictive text feature, which apparently came from hell with a Microsoft update and CANNOT BE TURNED OFF? I’ve tried several solutions offered online but none of them work.
October 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Is anyone else being driven insane by Outlook’s predictive text feature, which apparently came from hell with a Microsoft update and CANNOT BE TURNED OFF? I’ve tried several solutions offered online but none of them work.
Reposted by DM Campbell
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
He hates this country, like his puppetmaster Putin, so tearing down the White House is the next logical step.
He’s already destroying the country, so destroying the symbols of the country isn’t surprising. Of course it’s not legal, but then, nothing he’s done since January 20 has been legal, however much it’s been rubber-stamped by a corrupt Supreme Court.
Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
He hates this country, like his puppetmaster Putin, so tearing down the White House is the next logical step.