Angus Johnston
@angus.bsky.social
CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
(And my reply.)
And I'll drink all the time!
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
(And my reply.)
And that is a fact.
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
And that is a fact.
It's time for me to watch The Ritz again, isn't it?
A ★★★★ review of The Ritz (1976)
I think a lot about the moment after Stonewall but before AIDS, that achingly beautiful false spring in American history. This is a movie about an even more specific moment, one that's often neglected...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It's time for me to watch The Ritz again, isn't it?
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the virgin 2025 AI-powered doll vs. the chad 1998 Furby
been thinking for not-directly-related reasons about Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together, specifically the chapter where kindergartners speedrun an animistic cult around the proto-chatbot doll, Furby
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
the virgin 2025 AI-powered doll vs. the chad 1998 Furby
(Ahbidohbihday was the kid’s imaginary friend. To this day, it’s our word for “I fold” in family poker games. No idea how that started.)
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
(Ahbidohbihday was the kid’s imaginary friend. To this day, it’s our word for “I fold” in family poker games. No idea how that started.)
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Just 2 days ago, my teenager busted out with "down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, I lost my love, got eaten by a squirrel," one of my bangers from like 8 years ago.
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Just 2 days ago, my teenager busted out with "down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, I lost my love, got eaten by a squirrel," one of my bangers from like 8 years ago.
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This, so much. I truly can't quite comprehend anyone intentionally giving up one of the absolute best (and so wholly, restoratively human) things about parenthood.
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This, so much. I truly can't quite comprehend anyone intentionally giving up one of the absolute best (and so wholly, restoratively human) things about parenthood.
A YouTube search on "Honeysuckle Rose country cover" turns up a bunch of likely hits, though it's not a song I know, so I can't easily confirm.
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A YouTube search on "Honeysuckle Rose country cover" turns up a bunch of likely hits, though it's not a song I know, so I can't easily confirm.
It never occurred to me to do that as part of a storytelling project, but if it had? "No, I'll ask a robot to do it for me" is not a thing that ever would have entered my brain.
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It never occurred to me to do that as part of a storytelling project, but if it had? "No, I'll ask a robot to do it for me" is not a thing that ever would have entered my brain.
One of the most fun things about being a parent is making up new lyrics to songs you love with your kid. It's easy and fun and they stick in your head forever.
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
One of the most fun things about being a parent is making up new lyrics to songs you love with your kid. It's easy and fun and they stick in your head forever.
Yeah. I probably would have handled that situation differently, and I would have written both the assignment and the rubric differently, but I don't flatter myself that there was anything I could have done that would have protected me in that situation.
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Yeah. I probably would have handled that situation differently, and I would have written both the assignment and the rubric differently, but I don't flatter myself that there was anything I could have done that would have protected me in that situation.
We should all be working to construct robust, thoughtful, humane pedagogies that reflect our ethics and our values, and we should always be striving to make them better and stronger and more decent.
But our pedagogies won't save us.
But our pedagogies won't save us.
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We should all be working to construct robust, thoughtful, humane pedagogies that reflect our ethics and our values, and we should always be striving to make them better and stronger and more decent.
But our pedagogies won't save us.
But our pedagogies won't save us.
It seems to me that in 2025, of all years, the question "Is strict adherence to long-established professional norms a viable strategy for protecting oneself from attacks by fascists?" is one that we should all acknowledge has been answered fully in the negative.
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It seems to me that in 2025, of all years, the question "Is strict adherence to long-established professional norms a viable strategy for protecting oneself from attacks by fascists?" is one that we should all acknowledge has been answered fully in the negative.