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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 3h

Anyone else remember how 20 years ago the less than a second exposure of a breast with a nipple guard was somehow a great danger to all children? Fucking talk about obscenity.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 3h

My work process is a wonder of chaos but it pays off sometimes. I’ve been struggling to work up a section on lesbian pulp and relocated work to alcohol. Then discovered that three years ago I roughed out a good intro and a case study of a raid. Past procrastinating Richard for the win!

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 4h

As much as I tease you numbers people, I love that you exist because I'd never have known this and it is just amazing how totally shitty reporting can present ammunition to bad faith actors.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sometimes you see a title and rush to download it - and swear not to lose it in your TBR pile.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just wrote "pulp, porn, and the post office" randomly in response to a colleague checking in and now I want to write an article just to use that as the title.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Writing about gay books and the post office that hated them and looked over to see this adorableness.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

See…a humanities degree helps you realize that “Cat’s in the Cradle” isn’t a guide to successful parenting.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Exactly. The only time I’ve been moderately tempted to use it is when I was doing assessment bullshit. I fucking hate assessment bullshit which is why I was tempted though I still didn’t. But unlike this guy I hate bs busy work not my kid.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

one of the biggest selling points of AI is that it will help you do the things you don't want to do more quickly and efficiently. whether these people realize it or not, what they *don't want to do* is remarkably revealing of their souls. basically the plot of the 2006 Adam Sandler movie "Click"

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence

The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wish these people would just understand that your right to bigotry is protected and bigotry doesn't become more acceptable because it is derived from religion. After all, his argument can be made about Loving and interracial marriage just as easily.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/10/2026

oh look paid protesters

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Remembering that the great threat to free speech was when a rando HR person suggested language to a mid level IT person to some folk who are silent when the state literally mandates language in education to please an unhinged president.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Doing notes on extragovernmental censorship and found one of my favorite titles, and the chapter is great too: “‘Say You Love Satan’: Teens and Popular Occulture in 1980s America” in the excellent Growing Up America: Youth and Politics since 1945 from Fieldston, Eckelman, and @renfro.bsky.social

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My suggestion that we all get to work has fallen on deaf ears.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just got reviews on a piece and am amused that the harsher of them complained that the article needs to be at least twice as long to be effective and I'm like "it was once!" (they acknowledged that this could be because of the special issue, which it is)

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Spent an hour writing stupid assessment shit for pointless assessment review and damn does this shit drain the actual joy out of the profession.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These fucking headlines. Rape and sexual assault described as sexual misconduct scandal.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reliance interest is one of those things I roll my eyes at when lecturing. It only emerges when convenient. As I tell my students, after all Plessy certainly had enormous reliance interest involved.

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gonna be pretty hard to have dinner with Neo-confederates when they don't think I should have access to the restaurant. That's part of the silliness of reach across the aisle talk.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This has been on my feed all day so I'm going to give it as fair as treatment as I can. Prof. Wolfers is well meaning & I get the intuition, but he's speaking outside his area of expertise and he's just wrong. Having lunch with someone you disagree with isn't going to "cure ideological bias." 🧵

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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.

Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That first test screening story is horrifying.

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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Update to American politics intro lecture Presidential powers 1. The power to persuade 2. Going public 3. Giving Senators' phone numbers to the public

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My writing philosophy at the moment is adapted from Dory: just keep writing. 6000 words into this chapter and I'm not sure I've hit 30% of what I wanted to cover but I just can't stop the word vomit spewing out of me about the obscenity law. Future Richard is going to hate me when they have to edit.

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Just Keep Swimming: Dory and Nemo

ALT: Just Keep Swimming: Dory and Nemo

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just literally face palmed at this. What idiot trial judge even allowed this?

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 01/10/2026

y'all i'm working on this data collection project looking at dissertations & sometimes I get reminders that we are not all playing the same game (1999 edition)

not the least, I would like to thank my family: my parents, for buying me a lovely condominium at Harvard Street so that I could concentrate on my research with out worrying about paying rents,

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh god I’ve been reminded of the horror of ago by with a dude on message boards about politics. I remember a guy who loved to bring up “hide the decline” in discussions of gay rights and stuff.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This week's new episode of Liberating Lit is with Amanda Jones, where we go deep on the mental health toll of literary advocacy, what keeps her going, and where/how it appears the pendulum is swinging back toward the right to read.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m reminded of the law professor who once argued in the listsev that such hearings are kangaroo courts unfair to the accused.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Had the thought that this chapter needed a summary of midcentury obscenity law, like 4 pages. Two days later I have ten pages of dense notes so this is going well.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Utah banned SEVEN more books from all public schools yesterday, bringing the total number of state-sanctioned bans in the state to 44. More than half of those bans happened in 2026.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Studies dating back to the 80s have found that men are not just “confused” about consent. They just don’t prioritize consent over things like power, domination, and sexual gratification. Men participating in a gang rape know they don’t have the victim’s consent.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Writing a lot of notes about obscenity law in the 40s-60s for this chapter with lines like "In the stupidest line of a fucking dumbass opinion, Justice X said" and laughing to myself about seeing how far in the process I can leave language like that in.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me: I finally figured out the organization for this part of the chapter! Sylvia: awesome! Let me help.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one of the fun things about digging up older surveys is that you get a lot of practice with the game of "am I more offended by the underlying question or the choice of scale"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've been excited for this book for a long time. Should be a fascinating history of the outing of an LBJ advisor and the effects on American politics and media.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Found this fun 1949 Seattle report on comic books that basically says lazy parents don't get to blame comics because they raise shitty kids.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Any list is inherently stupid but my WTF moment on this was Scandal. To be clear I LOVE Scandal but I love it because it is stupid ass hot garbage. I love little more than implausible stupid spy/conspiracy shit and it delivered and delivered, one upping itself every damn episode sometimes.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Had a failed doctor's appointment but it allowed me to read like 1/3 of this book. It is fascinating and wow did I not fully grasp the scope of power-war antisemitism in America. It's also nicely written for a reasonably general audience.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

From a 1952 congressional investigation of pornographic literature.

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Richard Price (they/them) @advincensorship.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My mother still asks me if I'm working today. I can't make her grasp the idea that I am possibly working all of the time. Of course, it's equally likely that I'm not actively working at any time. So I guess I get it.

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