Kirsten Tranter

Failed Wordle AND left the coconut out of the Anzac biscuits with not exactly delightful results. Go home Saturday, you are the worst. nytimes.com/games/wordle/i…

my new catchphrase. twitter.com/FXNetworks/sta…

merry christmas, lizards

Just a heads up, if you watch six episodes in a row of the bear You can expect an extremely exhausting dream life in the few hours of sleep that might follow

@catri I am not okay with this

@kahunteroma @herstry Beautiful essay ❤️

Thank you 🙏 @herstry for giving my essay on friendship, grief, and karaoke a home. herstryblg.com/theme/2022/9/3…

What is the time of writing? How can we make sense of this question when time turns to mush? I'm so glad this essay found a home at @SydReviewBooks

@kahunteroma Not my door - around the corner on Shattuck in Berkeley 🙂

@ktranter Really committing to it! The artwork is 👌

Berkeley, day 900-ish.

@kahunteroma She decorated her door every day in lockdown with a count of # of days. Less frequent lately but always spectacular

Can the afternoon commute really be complete without a random guy making death threats & pointing imaginary gun at one’s head I guess not

After all the drawing prompts humans have been giving to text-to-image models like #dalle and #stableDiffusion, it's time to turn the tables. GPT-3 has generated prompts for humans to draw! #botober #botober2022 aiweirdness.com/botober-2022-d…

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@annaspargoryan Motörhead covers Bowie m.youtube.com/watch?v=J06yQb…

I need your favourite metal covers of non-metal songs, please and thank you

@NickRiemer1 Yes. And not an argument you hear anyone making to prospective students who will taught by these casuals. Cognitive dissonance.

2. "Casuals aren't good enough for permanent teaching and research jobs". As if there were so many academic jobs around that the pool of talent is already exhausted. As if academic work shouldn't be properly supported. And as if "excellence" could ever excuse exploitation. 2/4

Two terrible arguments against decasualising academic jobs 🧵 : 1. "I was made to go through hell to get my position. So why shouldn't everyone else?" Do people really not get that this is an argument against *all progress*, which means that things *improve* over time?? 1/4

First week of class. Always a little amazed and fascinated by how many students take A Modest Proposal seriously.

If SoFI, a student loan refinancing company, could give its CEO a 92% raise last year paying him a grand total of $103 million in compensation and spend $625 million to put its name on the LA Rams football stadium, you know what President Biden can do? Cancel all student debt.

@kahunteroma When the Ground is Hard by the amazing @MallaNunn might be perfect? penguinrandomhouse.com/books/567004/w…

I need a new novel to read with my 8th graders. What are your favorites/suggestions? #teachersoftwitter #middleschool #englishclass

Wordle 425 2/6 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩tiny victories are extremely welcome today.