JohnWBuaas

Prof. of English, ButlerCC, Kansas; PhD in 20c. Am. Lit. Proud husband, father. Inordinately fond of Mexico City.
Also at @johnwbuaas.bsky.social

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Books read in 2023: a running thread
A few exceptions aside, the "theme" is books by women authors

(The old one got bunged up, so I'm re-doing it.)

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I have three Bluesky invite codes I would like to pass on to interested people. If you're seeing this, you're welcome to them, but I'd esp. like for people/orgs who are from or are interested in Latin America to have them. DM me if you'd like them or can pass them on.

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I have two invite codes to the other place that I'd like to pass on to journalists, academics, writers on culture, etc. who live in/write about Latin America. DM me if you're interested.

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@seeshespeak All those writers living in Vermont . . . how'd they get any work done???

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@MamurphyMaureen This is very kind of you! Thank you very much!

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Sitting here wondering how Mitchell might rephrase that final sentence if he were to take generative AI technologies into account.

[inefficient rhubarb snackowski @snackowska]

few things feel as sickening as acting, even in front of yourself, like you’ve retrieved a normality that has died. because it’s like making a marionette out of normality’s corpse and saying oh look it’s dancing everything’s super

[Tlatoani_Cuauhtemoc @Cuauhtemoc_1521]

El majestuoso ahuehuete de la “Noche Triste” fotografiado por Abel Briquet alrededor de 1880 en Popotla, después de haber sufrido el primer incendio el 2 de mayo de 1872. Acaso debajo de su fronda lloró Cortés la madrugada del 1 de julio de 1520? FALSO! Una invención difundida en el siglo XIX #CDMX

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Pachelbel's Canon in D, P 37 played by countless trains, the sounds of which were recorded and assembled by the Czech machinist Pavel Jirásek

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@ElyseBurden @NormOrnstein @AOC The dilemma facing the House GOP Caucus:

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This thread brought to you by my teaching this semester of PRAIRYERTH (in which Wm. Least Heat-Moon talks about compass plants and other edible plants, among many, many other things).

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A compass plant, an edible plant native to prairies, growing out of a curb just around the corner from our house. I first noticed it a couple of days ago, and this morning I took a picture of it; this afternoon, I'll give its resin a try--the Plains tribes chewed it like gum.

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The prairie is a fragile biome, as all ecosystems are. The plants themselves, though . . .

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@AmericanGwyn And now I know . . . The Rest of the Story.

Thanks for this!

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@zorafuture Exactly this.

[kimon kotzias @kimonfi]

Frida Kahlo.
What the Water Gave Me.1938-39

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@kristine_kenyon @omyword @ThePlumLineGS @AOC

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(As I think of all the other things plaguing higher ed these days, bedbugs actually would be easier to get rid of.)

[Aristegui Noticias @AristeguiOnline]

Hace unos días fueron suspendidas las clases en facultades de la UNAM y en la UACM por una plaga de chinches.
https://t.co/3J4PuwLVOk

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@MollyJongFast @AmericanGwyn, here's why they won't go for Trump, I think: too many already-vulnerable people in Biden-friendly districts.