Ben Wurgaft
@benwurgaft.bsky.social
writer, historian, appetite!
there is a humanistic equivalent to innumeracy besides "illiteracy."
https://benwurgaft.org/
there is a humanistic equivalent to innumeracy besides "illiteracy."
https://benwurgaft.org/
Exactly. And how bad it feels to realize it’s me doing the overhugging
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Exactly. And how bad it feels to realize it’s me doing the overhugging
Same. It always feels like it claims too much, without one.
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Same. It always feels like it claims too much, without one.
Ok where are we on”solidarity“ used by people we are not in orgs with
December 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Ok where are we on”solidarity“ used by people we are not in orgs with
Ah I see academic community replicates committee work!
December 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Ah I see academic community replicates committee work!
“”Vonce ze rockets go up, who cares vere ze come down? Zat’s not my department” said Werner bon Braun“ - Tom Lehrer
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“”Vonce ze rockets go up, who cares vere ze come down? Zat’s not my department” said Werner bon Braun“ - Tom Lehrer
lasso ogni Santanza, voi ch’entrate
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
lasso ogni Santanza, voi ch’entrate
yeah, i think everyone should be more patient with one another regarding structural problems beyond either sides control.
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
yeah, i think everyone should be more patient with one another regarding structural problems beyond either sides control.
some of this 2018 interview about the tools I use for my work is still relevant (but not the photo): usesthis.com/interviews/b...
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Writer, historian
usesthis.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
some of this 2018 interview about the tools I use for my work is still relevant (but not the photo): usesthis.com/interviews/b...
I use large (the size used to mail LPs) cardboard for my to-do lists, writing on it in sharpie. I use cardboard for thoughts I want to turn into objects that populate my desk space, so that I don't lose track of them. Sometimes they end up as paper scraps on a cork board (big cork board fan).
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I use large (the size used to mail LPs) cardboard for my to-do lists, writing on it in sharpie. I use cardboard for thoughts I want to turn into objects that populate my desk space, so that I don't lose track of them. Sometimes they end up as paper scraps on a cork board (big cork board fan).
Paper and cardboard are pretty indispensable for me! I find that I don’t internalize enough when just typing everything.
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Paper and cardboard are pretty indispensable for me! I find that I don’t internalize enough when just typing everything.
now musing about which social theorists would have the most bearing on Vecna, and I'm still thinking "Foucault."
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
now musing about which social theorists would have the most bearing on Vecna, and I'm still thinking "Foucault."
Whereas Foucault would make perfect sense to them.
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Whereas Foucault would make perfect sense to them.
my Mom did once tell me that I had to write an undergraduate thesis so that one day I would have juvenilia.
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
my Mom did once tell me that I had to write an undergraduate thesis so that one day I would have juvenilia.
it is the best. in a notebook or in a margin.
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
it is the best. in a notebook or in a margin.
shouldn't this represent an intellectual challenge to the idea that neurodiversity ought to be a protected or protective identity category?
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
shouldn't this represent an intellectual challenge to the idea that neurodiversity ought to be a protected or protective identity category?
This seems entirely right to me, having grown up in the "East Coast Professors" ecosystem - which has very few connections to the evangelical ecosystem, or the military ecosystem (interesting and weird and sometimes scary things happen at those connection points).
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This seems entirely right to me, having grown up in the "East Coast Professors" ecosystem - which has very few connections to the evangelical ecosystem, or the military ecosystem (interesting and weird and sometimes scary things happen at those connection points).
and what is a pie but a circus, really? Bread and circuses both.
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
and what is a pie but a circus, really? Bread and circuses both.