Erin Kappeler
@erinkappeler.bsky.social
English prof turned instructional designer
The Enclosures of Free Verse: Racializing Poetic Form in the Modernist Era -- available for preorder from UNC Press! https://tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
She/her/fix your hearts or die!
erinkappeler.com
The Enclosures of Free Verse: Racializing Poetic Form in the Modernist Era -- available for preorder from UNC Press! https://tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
She/her/fix your hearts or die!
erinkappeler.com
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Never in American political history has there been a party so focussed on other people’s genitalia.
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Never in American political history has there been a party so focussed on other people’s genitalia.
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my year of using the crying-and-laughing react on 100% of the texts I receive, without exceptions, has resulted in a 40% decrease in overall texts received. Strongest recommendation
December 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
my year of using the crying-and-laughing react on 100% of the texts I receive, without exceptions, has resulted in a 40% decrease in overall texts received. Strongest recommendation
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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
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Reading about what Brown TA/undergraduate Joseph Oduro and his students endured on Saturday is so absolutely horrifying
Turn the guns into plowshares, please
Turn the guns into plowshares, please
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Reading about what Brown TA/undergraduate Joseph Oduro and his students endured on Saturday is so absolutely horrifying
Turn the guns into plowshares, please
Turn the guns into plowshares, please
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Having the newest thing used to be a personality trait. What I've learned from watching the surveillance state proliferate, is that the only thing I want to be a bleeding edge early adopter of is treating people with dignity and compassion.
December 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Having the newest thing used to be a personality trait. What I've learned from watching the surveillance state proliferate, is that the only thing I want to be a bleeding edge early adopter of is treating people with dignity and compassion.
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stay strong everybody! the things we do with students really do matter, and even the most vanishingly small moments of connection —stuff we might not even notice, or know we did, or that feel swallowed up by the awfulness of AI— end up making huge changes in people's lives later on
Hearing, and seeing, many university professors express despair, of this sort, this fall. Faculty are famously headstrong and truculent, if sometimes grouchy. But this affect is new. ’ve never seen the widespread descent into sorrow before, that I am seeing now.
Today I'm teaching the last few classes of the worst semester of my career. Just poor attendance, rampant AI use, disruptive students, and a sea of blank, disinterested faces. That last one is especially tough. It's hard to perform for a crowd that seems intent on giving no reaction whatsoever.
December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
stay strong everybody! the things we do with students really do matter, and even the most vanishingly small moments of connection —stuff we might not even notice, or know we did, or that feel swallowed up by the awfulness of AI— end up making huge changes in people's lives later on
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This - the Wheatley Census - has been at the center of my research life for the last year (and a half, honestly)! Proud to finally share the first iteration of it publicly. Take a look. Poke around. And send me your info about copies you work with!
Pleased to announce the Wheatley Census is ready for 1.0 public release! As detailed a census as possible (right now) of the first six editions - those printed in the 18th century - of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, is available here: www.wheatleycensus.org.
Wheatley Census
www.wheatleycensus.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This - the Wheatley Census - has been at the center of my research life for the last year (and a half, honestly)! Proud to finally share the first iteration of it publicly. Take a look. Poke around. And send me your info about copies you work with!
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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
In a world of trash, I am still hanging on to the beauty of my beloved Mars Volta continuing to grow and change as artists decades into a wild career. Lucro Sucio is so rich and heartbreaking and beautiful and Omar and Cedric are my favorite love story. That is all.
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
In a world of trash, I am still hanging on to the beauty of my beloved Mars Volta continuing to grow and change as artists decades into a wild career. Lucro Sucio is so rich and heartbreaking and beautiful and Omar and Cedric are my favorite love story. That is all.
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starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
Proposal: instead of pouring resources into AI, tech companies first figure out a way for people to be able to copy slides from one PowerPoint presentation to another without the formatting getting all fucked up
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
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I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
The Enclosures of Free Verse
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from ...
tinyurl.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
The Enclosures of Free Verse
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from ...
tinyurl.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'm so happy to be able to say that The Enclosures of Free Verse is now available for pre-order from UNC Press! 🎉
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%.
tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
@uncpress.bsky.social
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i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology
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This is it. And any democrats trying to score points by swearing at Trump should be treated as unserious unless they can also acknowledge this basic fact (looking at you jb)
"Like capital punishment, torture, and slavery, deportation is wrong. Always, all of it, no exceptions. People of conscience must not let ourselves be pulled into line-drawing between acceptable and unacceptable instances of this violence"
littlevillagemag.com/letter-to-th...
littlevillagemag.com/letter-to-th...
Letter to the editor: Deportation is wrong, period - Little Village
By Nate Holdren, Des Moines I write this letter to the editor on the evening of Friday, Sept. 26 after hearing the news that Ian Roberts, the superintendent of the […]
littlevillagemag.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is it. And any democrats trying to score points by swearing at Trump should be treated as unserious unless they can also acknowledge this basic fact (looking at you jb)
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less punditry and much more organizing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
less punditry and much more organizing.
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be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
be stoked, stay stoked, all around the country the people are back at it
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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I don’t know why I thought Teen Vogue would persist but here we are. Such terrible news for free speech, for political education, for the intellectual commons of girlhood.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I don’t know why I thought Teen Vogue would persist but here we are. Such terrible news for free speech, for political education, for the intellectual commons of girlhood.
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I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Good morning, this is still a Mars Volta fan account. Finally watched Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird and it just added fuel to the flames.
I wish for everyone the joy of rediscovering a long-forgotten favorite album that is indeed a masterpiece (Deloused in the Comatorium, my god!)
October 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Good morning, this is still a Mars Volta fan account. Finally watched Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird and it just added fuel to the flames.
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I added a shortcut to search Wikipedia and do that first instead of searching the web if I think there'll be an article. I also switched to DuckDuckGo search with AI turned off. Highly recommend
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I added a shortcut to search Wikipedia and do that first instead of searching the web if I think there'll be an article. I also switched to DuckDuckGo search with AI turned off. Highly recommend
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I keep going back to this piece and this sentence: “The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.”
“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”
Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo...
Who gets to live a "long" life in America?
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I keep going back to this piece and this sentence: “The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic.”