Tyler Cohen
@tylercohencomix.bsky.social
cartoonist * educator * graphic designer * parent * queerdo * reader * over thinker * interdisciplinary * meandering mind * jew-ish * witchy * bisexual * seeker of groove * out to destroy binaries
Feather—Fieldmouse Press
Primahood: Magenta—Stacked Deck
Feather—Fieldmouse Press
Primahood: Magenta—Stacked Deck
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Tyler Cohen
@tylercohencomix.bsky.social
· Jan 13
Feather — Fieldmouse Press
by Tyler Cohen A lyrical and poetic exercise in wordless storytelling, Tyler Cohen’s Feather explores the things we make and the things we leave behind. - Publication Date: March 2024 Book ...
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My wordless comic and surreal fable, Feather 🪶, is out now from @fieldmousepress.bsky.social
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It’s gingerbread season m.youtube.com/watch?v=8bIW...
Gingerbread Haka
YouTube video by Bakeryoftheyear
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November 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It’s gingerbread season m.youtube.com/watch?v=8bIW...
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this guy made his son a tiny version of Engineered Garments's FA pants 😭
IG twhattcomethru
IG twhattcomethru
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
this guy made his son a tiny version of Engineered Garments's FA pants 😭
IG twhattcomethru
IG twhattcomethru
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Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
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Here are dozens of peer reviewed medical research studies detailing the impacts of SARS-CoV-2 on pediatric health and development. Vinay Prasad can write all the “memos” he want, but they don’t dictate scientific reality. Don’t fall for his obscene antics. www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-i...
ANSWERED: Is COVID-19 Harmful to Children?
A Compilation of Peer-Reviewed Medical Research
www.panaccindex.info
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Here are dozens of peer reviewed medical research studies detailing the impacts of SARS-CoV-2 on pediatric health and development. Vinay Prasad can write all the “memos” he want, but they don’t dictate scientific reality. Don’t fall for his obscene antics. www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-i...
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TIL that this is where David Tennant got his trans pride TARDIS pin.
I WANT ALL THE THINGS.
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
I WANT ALL THE THINGS.
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
TIL that this is where David Tennant got his trans pride TARDIS pin.
I WANT ALL THE THINGS.
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
I WANT ALL THE THINGS.
www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
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Black Codes didn’t “restore order.” They rebuilt slavery with paperwork — criminalizing rest, movement, labor, even childhood. Freedom was legal in theory, illegal in practice. New shackles, same fear of Black autonomy. #ReconstructionTruth #AbolitionLogic
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Black Codes didn’t “restore order.” They rebuilt slavery with paperwork — criminalizing rest, movement, labor, even childhood. Freedom was legal in theory, illegal in practice. New shackles, same fear of Black autonomy. #ReconstructionTruth #AbolitionLogic
Bonus: my offspring and I get to joke (because laughter is a mandatory survival skill) that they are suffering from “PENES” (pronounced “penis”)
—to which another caregiver has laughingly responded, “Aren’t we all!”
—to which another caregiver has laughingly responded, “Aren’t we all!”
Davenport references the International Consensus Criteria (ICC) for ME
In the ICC post-exertional malaise (PEM) is called post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE).
I much prefer the name PENE.
Neuroimmune exhaustion matches my experience far better than malaise.
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In the ICC post-exertional malaise (PEM) is called post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE).
I much prefer the name PENE.
Neuroimmune exhaustion matches my experience far better than malaise.
2/
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Bonus: my offspring and I get to joke (because laughter is a mandatory survival skill) that they are suffering from “PENES” (pronounced “penis”)
—to which another caregiver has laughingly responded, “Aren’t we all!”
—to which another caregiver has laughingly responded, “Aren’t we all!”
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I've noticed that most of my students have bought the physical books for my classes and are marking them up more than in the past. Perhaps what they're craving is an experience that a machine can't replicate...the human experience of pleasure, confusion, illumination, etc. that comes w/ reading.
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I've noticed that most of my students have bought the physical books for my classes and are marking them up more than in the past. Perhaps what they're craving is an experience that a machine can't replicate...the human experience of pleasure, confusion, illumination, etc. that comes w/ reading.
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My general sense is that my students, like Thoreau, feel overwhelmed by the challenge of just knowing how to be a decent human and to flourish in a world suffused with injustice and indifference. Society is telling them that new technologies will solve all the problems, but the youths are skeptical.
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My general sense is that my students, like Thoreau, feel overwhelmed by the challenge of just knowing how to be a decent human and to flourish in a world suffused with injustice and indifference. Society is telling them that new technologies will solve all the problems, but the youths are skeptical.
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The way I try to de-AI-ify my classes is that I emphasize at the beginning and throughout the semester that all we're doing is reading some interesting shit other humans have produced, talking about that shit, and writing about it. Humans have been benefitting from that process for centuries w/o AI.
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The way I try to de-AI-ify my classes is that I emphasize at the beginning and throughout the semester that all we're doing is reading some interesting shit other humans have produced, talking about that shit, and writing about it. Humans have been benefitting from that process for centuries w/o AI.
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
History 🧵
Henry Ford accused industrialist and statesman Bernard Baruch of being the secret Jewish dictator of the United States. When reporters asked Baruch for comment he said, "Now, boys, you wouldn't expect me to deny that would you?"
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
History 🧵
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19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
19 year old freshman just wants to go home for Thanksgiving to see her family, she gets deported to Honduras.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
Former President of Honduras who’s serving 45 years in prison for drug trafficking?
He gets a full presidential pardon.
Both are Honduran. Only one is a criminal.
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Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
November 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Since Louis CK is in the news again, it's worth restating that he never gave an honest accounting of his sexual misconduct—his initial "apology" and his subsequent statements have been contradicted by the testimony of his victims, and contained elisions and gaps intended to exonerate him.
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I was able to donate another 50. There are only 6 hours left in this fundraiser. Let’s help them make the amount for urgent aid for 6 families in Gaza. Their suffering continues unabated. We cannot abandon them.
I’m raising funds for my bday which is coming up soon. Who will join me in this?
I’m raising funds for my bday which is coming up soon. Who will join me in this?
I was able to donate 50. It was doubled. Who can join me? Please.
This is not a useless task so long as there’s a chance just one person can see this and help.
So here’s hoping.
Six families, etc.:
So here’s hoping.
Six families, etc.:
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I was able to donate another 50. There are only 6 hours left in this fundraiser. Let’s help them make the amount for urgent aid for 6 families in Gaza. Their suffering continues unabated. We cannot abandon them.
I’m raising funds for my bday which is coming up soon. Who will join me in this?
I’m raising funds for my bday which is coming up soon. Who will join me in this?
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Look, every single “deal” reached by a university with the Trump administration is a moral stain that will be seen with deep embarrassment once we’re through this. But for Northwestern to do this now, when the administration is visibly weakened, is even more shameful and inexcusable.
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Look, every single “deal” reached by a university with the Trump administration is a moral stain that will be seen with deep embarrassment once we’re through this. But for Northwestern to do this now, when the administration is visibly weakened, is even more shameful and inexcusable.
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A great essay on why close reading is a more radical methodology than most people think and why university managers don’t like those of us who teach it!
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 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A great essay on why close reading is a more radical methodology than most people think and why university managers don’t like those of us who teach it!
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Important read especially because we likely all know someone with Long Covid
The Sick Times: 'You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely.'
Written by Philip Hoover
'If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.'
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
Written by Philip Hoover
'If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.'
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely. - The Sick Times
If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.
thesicktimes.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Important read especially because we likely all know someone with Long Covid
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The Sick Times: 'You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely.'
Written by Philip Hoover
'If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.'
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
Written by Philip Hoover
'If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.'
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely. - The Sick Times
If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.
thesicktimes.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Sick Times: 'You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely.'
Written by Philip Hoover
'If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.'
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
Written by Philip Hoover
'If community-building is a bulwark against autocracy, then asking after one another might be a good place to start.'
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...
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'Nunez’s narrator cites an unattributed author: “There are two kinds of people in the world: those who upon seeing someone else suffering think, That could happen to me, and those who think, That will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us to endure, the second kind make life hell.”'
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
'Nunez’s narrator cites an unattributed author: “There are two kinds of people in the world: those who upon seeing someone else suffering think, That could happen to me, and those who think, That will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us to endure, the second kind make life hell.”'
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Feels dramatic pre 2020 to post 2020. Still have as many amazing students who blow me away but the disparity between those who can do anything and those who can barely function is widening…
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Feels dramatic pre 2020 to post 2020. Still have as many amazing students who blow me away but the disparity between those who can do anything and those who can barely function is widening…
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social said it best in 2020
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social said it best in 2020
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Is it bad that Im so jaded by dealing with university leadership that I am not surprised at all that this is how they react to "AI"?
Probably.
But university admins have proven themselves to be consistently rightwing, anti-labor and not particularly interested in the actual work that academics do.
Probably.
But university admins have proven themselves to be consistently rightwing, anti-labor and not particularly interested in the actual work that academics do.
We are living at a time when university leadership amplifies anti-intellectual tropes and technologies
These are very troubling times
These are very troubling times
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Is it bad that Im so jaded by dealing with university leadership that I am not surprised at all that this is how they react to "AI"?
Probably.
But university admins have proven themselves to be consistently rightwing, anti-labor and not particularly interested in the actual work that academics do.
Probably.
But university admins have proven themselves to be consistently rightwing, anti-labor and not particularly interested in the actual work that academics do.