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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · 19h

Some days when I read Emerson, I want to give him a swirlie.

Some days, like today, I just feel like dudes rock 🤙 y’know?

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 7d

Happy (not quite) birthday to Hannah Crafts, whose precise date of birth is unknown (circa 1830), but who still deserves to be celebrated!
Read about Crafts with:
- "Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation" by Gene Andrew Jarrett: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 7d

Lots of options but let's go classic on this one and say that time we shitposted so hard they put it in a peer reviewed journal and then that issue won a prize 🐳

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone who knows the concussion protocol want to critique my form here? I tried my best.

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · 11d

The only history I’m interested in these days: today is Snoopy’s 75th bday.

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · 12d

Remember last year when I asked the chancellor what admin’s plan was when people started calling for professors to get fired and he lectured me about classroom management? You think it’s okay to circle back to that now that professor in the system are getting fired?

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · 13d

How much money do I need to become the most unhinged Real Housewife and would you donate to my GoFundMe?

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 21d

This reminds us of our favorite Midwest tourist attraction and definitely does not make us think about OUR LEG.

Image from House on the Rock with the open mouth of a whale and boat inside.

Image from House on the Rock of the underside of the whale, show that it is being attacked by a giant squid.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 26d

A reading list for building durable organizations for both short term survival and long term social transformation.

They're Organized; We Need to Be Organized, Too

Trump and his far-right acolytes wield their power to disinvest from public services, terrorize our neighborhoods with ICE agents, and ensure that opposition to genocide becomes a fireable, and d...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · 22d

The trumpets that signal the rapture will only play the Mighty Mighty Bosstones

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 26d

The art is pouring in to our DMs! Huge thanks to @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social for bringing Angela Smyth’s amazing whale to our attention!

We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · 27d

Can’t believe my “pokemon GO TO THE POLLS” joke didn’t land in class today.

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 27d

This beautiful art was sent to us anonymously and we want to remind you our DMs are always* open.

*Until our co-laborers melt into the sperm.

Edited tweet that now reads:

[Pequod waiting room]
Me: [chanting]
squeeze, squeeze-
co-laborers: squeeze, SQUEEZE
whale [pounding her
clipboard] SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE!

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · Sep 15

I need some professional advice.

Now that I’m faculty and not a grad student, is it still okay for me to troll my university on the internet?

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · Sep 12

Even Pinterest is bad internet now. I’m going back to the last place I felt happy.

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · Sep 8

I don’t have imposter syndrome until a student asks me to explain a basic grammar rule.

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · Sep 4

BEAT MY RECORD! Got a Covid vaccine and I only called two pharmacies, went to two others, and sent 400 stress texts.

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · Sep 2

My surefire fantasy draft strategy: only players with kind eyes.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Sep 2

I saw JAWS for the first time this weekend and nobody had ever told me it was mostly just guys on a boat (i e Moby-Dick)

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · Sep 2

I tried. Not even a little cuddle.

Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · Jul 31

Maybe I have certain expectations for men at sea, but I watched Jaws for the first time and there was not enough kissing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 1

Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts.

But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy.

In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states.

This is why unions are vital.

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · Sep 1

Quick, someone give me $200 so I give this cat my mom found under her shed a sense of whimsy.

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’ve been trying my whole life.

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · Aug 28

Not enough people are talking about how Melville and I are the same height and have almost the same birthday AND YET I am still not invited to be a reenactor at conferences.

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Kassie Jo @kassiejo.bsky.social · Aug 27

What?! Oops. Vintage spoiler from 1993. If you sign up for my Critterology MasterClass, you can get the whole syllabus.

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