Sara Monahan
@geraniumkate.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Practice at Marywood University. Poet. C19 Americanist. Native lit. Mostly she/her. Really tired. #LandBack
“Whale hive, do your thing”
Finished rereading Moby-Dick (very slowly!) and the last pages show that Melville really knew how to write taut, fast-paced, plot-driven prose, and so just chose not to for hundreds of pages.
December 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“Whale hive, do your thing”
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It's utterly insane, but statistically probably unsurprising, that there was more than one Brown student who had previously experienced a mass school shooting, including one who was actually shot, @miatretta.bsky.social.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
We sadly know Zoe Weissman because of Parkland. In fact, our families are so close, that she has been there for my wife and I after Parkland and helped with our foundation Orange Ribbons For Jaime.
America, are you ok with this?
America, are you ok with this?
December 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It's utterly insane, but statistically probably unsurprising, that there was more than one Brown student who had previously experienced a mass school shooting, including one who was actually shot, @miatretta.bsky.social.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.
"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do --
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do --
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
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A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
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Wait. So he knew about the island and refused to go, but didn’t say anything to anyone about what he knew was going on there?
September 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Wait. So he knew about the island and refused to go, but didn’t say anything to anyone about what he knew was going on there?
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Now it’s a party.
September 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Now it’s a party.
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I’m not sure what this list was for but it seems like a good time
August 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I’m not sure what this list was for but it seems like a good time
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Not everything you know goes in the book/article/thesis/dissertation! So much of what we learn and know for each project is part of the iceberg - background and details necessary for our understanding but presumed, inferred, or unnecessary to the reader. Only a fraction of the iceberg is visible!
July 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Not everything you know goes in the book/article/thesis/dissertation! So much of what we learn and know for each project is part of the iceberg - background and details necessary for our understanding but presumed, inferred, or unnecessary to the reader. Only a fraction of the iceberg is visible!
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Drove by an establishment in France called ‘Pain and Snacking’, which also happens to be my writing process.
July 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Drove by an establishment in France called ‘Pain and Snacking’, which also happens to be my writing process.
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People reallye ynto Gen AI summaryes seeme to thynke of bookes as annoyinge litel labyrinths whose onlye benefit ys that thei leade to a tastye magical glowing orb called "informacioun" that when consumed doth turne you into a man wyth a bow tie and the righte to talke over everyone else.
July 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
People reallye ynto Gen AI summaryes seeme to thynke of bookes as annoyinge litel labyrinths whose onlye benefit ys that thei leade to a tastye magical glowing orb called "informacioun" that when consumed doth turne you into a man wyth a bow tie and the righte to talke over everyone else.
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they actually went with "that bastard moved a table" as oppo, incredible
June 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
they actually went with "that bastard moved a table" as oppo, incredible
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We have had a lot of conversations in my department about how to deconstruct the idea of an essay as a “product” and reconstruct what we were always using it for to begin with: how to teach critical thinking, audience analysis, support with evidence, research, source evaluation and scrutiny, etc.
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
June 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We have had a lot of conversations in my department about how to deconstruct the idea of an essay as a “product” and reconstruct what we were always using it for to begin with: how to teach critical thinking, audience analysis, support with evidence, research, source evaluation and scrutiny, etc.
Be safe, my Midwest babies. Wish I were home with you.
June 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Be safe, my Midwest babies. Wish I were home with you.
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It is difficult to imagine any circumstances in which the assassination of one democratic lawmaker and the attempted assassination of another is not fascist violence, calculated to suppress political resistance to a fascist project. At this point I am not going to try.
June 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It is difficult to imagine any circumstances in which the assassination of one democratic lawmaker and the attempted assassination of another is not fascist violence, calculated to suppress political resistance to a fascist project. At this point I am not going to try.
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all girls want are flowers and a partner that would gladly throw bricks at ICE
June 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
all girls want are flowers and a partner that would gladly throw bricks at ICE
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Why I love @chrislhayes.bsky.social
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Why I love @chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
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The White House's stated intent to use expedited removal for this guy's family is flatly ILLEGAL. By law, expedited removal ONLY applies to people not admitted at a port of entry, or here without having been "admitted or paroled" into the US.
But his family was admitted at an airport on visas!
But his family was admitted at an airport on visas!
June 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The White House's stated intent to use expedited removal for this guy's family is flatly ILLEGAL. By law, expedited removal ONLY applies to people not admitted at a port of entry, or here without having been "admitted or paroled" into the US.
But his family was admitted at an airport on visas!
But his family was admitted at an airport on visas!
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sorry I didn't reply right away, I was carrying my cat around and letting her sniff high-up things
May 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
sorry I didn't reply right away, I was carrying my cat around and letting her sniff high-up things