JI Daniels

Author of If You Can (@SpuytenDyvil) and Mount Fugue (@KERNPUNKTPress), and others. Eater of cakes, professor of English, player of games.

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https://t.co/fiSRUIkE2M website has been down for a bit, @cardboardcompy @_never_work @rootkitten @BNBBTT is it gone forever, or is this just an internet being dumb thing? Wanted to download The Entertainment.

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@PaisleyRekdal 2 parts mezcal, 1 part campari, 1 part cynar, 3 dashes orange bitters, and some mashed up habanero (1 pepper muddled for each 6-8 drinks). Just serve with some ice--smoky, slightly sweet, spicy, and a beautiful red color.

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I genuinely don't know why David Zaslav hates HBO so much, but a subscription to the service seems a worse and worse value nearly every day. Can we just cut to five years later when we find out he has some bizarre vendetta against it?

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Of all the boring required work I do in academia, writing letters of recommendation is my absolute favorite.

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@Literature_Lady Honestly, I've noticed that a lot of cheap, not-for-profit schools are easily as predatory, trying to churn students through, burning out faculty, over-promising to poor students and not supporting them. The state of education is precarious w/o better funding

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@the_strix Toreador doubting.

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Who's the most morally repulsive person you've ever had an erotic fantasy about?

DON'T ANSWER!

Just think about it silently and slowly stew in your own shame.

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The facts they learn along the way are nearly incidental to the world they do with them.

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It'd be a gross exaggeration to say that I'm not interested in teaching students information, but I'm primarily interested in helping them have the tools they need in order to say something on their own than I am in hearing them tell me something someone else already said.

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These kids are smart, I'm not going to feed them academic jargon, I'm going to help them use that jargon to change the f-ing world.

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people with abs must be so hungry.

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@jeffvandermeer 1) That is sweet as hell
2) I am literally shuddering at the thought

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@ferrifrigida Pah, mine was a fanfic about the TV cartoon Gargoyles, because I'm original

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I wish I could properly explain just how much writing course maps with course outcomes, module outcomes, and learner outcomes is NOT pedagogy, but rather, just a litany of paperwork to convince administrators that their job produces value (this is only sometimes true)

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@Coelasquid it's amazing, but it almost makes me afraid that I'm going to lose the tragic comedy of enormous dudes who have honed their body to the limits of aesthetic perfection stuffed inside a suit that's simultaneously too big and too small.

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I'm grading and doing paperwork and just eye-fucking my stack of to-read books that I'll get to read soon...soon...

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Hopefully it will be more complex than it looks. Who knows. TV is wild these days, where sometimes it is incredibly powerful and nuanced and thoughtful, and sometimes it is words that people say into a camera for money, and even previews only barely help you decide which it'll be

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I hate to be this person, but I'm really not excited about Kindred. It's such a powerful and nuanced novel, and the previews of the show look like...another horror series. It might even be amazing, but that would be missing so much of the book that I care about. Oh well.