I know the submission and defense are the actual milestones, but graduating makes it feel real. I have a PhD! 🎓 #PhDone

Just dropping by to say that the next paper in our @openlibhums special collection, Caliban's Mirror, is out! ‘The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation’ by Casey Lawrence. Open Library of Humanities Volume 11 • Issue 2 • 2025 • olh.openlibhums.org/article/…

The boys are back in town! By which I mean, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde. We've got an all new article from Mónica Galindo-González joining the collection! Homosexual Panic and Necropolitics in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘A Painful Case’ @openlibhums doi.org/10.16995/olh.16916

Literary Blackface, DEI, and the Ethics of Authorship by @MyExplodingPen aninjusticemag.com/literary-…

“the ampersand is the sexiest punctuation mark & I dont case who knows it & she doesnt either because shes the one holding it together” — @MyExplodingPen medium.com/promptly-written/…

Congratulations to @MyExplodingPen Their marvellous story (which we first published in our SKIN Anthology) has been shortlisted by Tenebrous Press for Brave New Weird Vol 3! tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025…?

After what just happened to @DrAllyLouks, I’m officially deleting this app from my phone. Twitter keeps sending notifications to tell me I’ll be interested in this pile-on, but all I see is how vile this app has become. I’m out. Find me on Bluesky with the same handle.

Transitioning over to where the skies are bluer: find me over there with the same handle, MyExplodingPen.

Got my 100th rejection for the year today (goal = met), on the same day as receiving $300 for a poem. Being a writer is really weird!!

Joyce readers in Ireland/UK/Europe/Middle East, we scheduled this so you could attend! Vicki Mahaffey online book launch: "The Joyce of Everyday Life" 12 November, 5pm GMT RSVP for link: forms.gle/MiYfkaPeMNNKra7K7… @JoyceFound @JamesJoyceCentr @JJ_Gazette @JoyceTower @JoyceTrieste

Periodic reminder that you can request indie books from your library, and authors get paid a lump sum. My commission on a library acquisition is like $35, which amounts to a LOT of eBooks. Instead of pirating that $1.99 eBook, help the author get paid and still read for free!!

1994 academic: "do you do spousal hiring?" 2024 academic: "do you do hiring?"

Yeah sure let's boil whales alive for this

Academics will have a 2 hour conversation about how busy they both are that ends in them agreeing to co-write something new

Two things can be true at the same time

Watching a cheesy movie where the hot young neighbour gifts Jennifer Lopez a first edition of her favourite book...The Iliad. A first edition. Of The Iliad. He found it in a garage sale.

Ah yes because we just block people for funsies, not because abusers use social media as a way to stalk and harass women. Ffs. I’m betting this update doesn’t comply with EU regulations fwiw

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX AI). I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right. Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird. I open my original photo. No bra showing. I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF... Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨 Immediately, I email the conference host. (FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.) He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue. He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website. She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller. AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯 — FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.

I will never forgive Wordle for ruining a 66 day streak with this bullshit. CORER??

Happy #NationalComingOutDay