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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s Banned Books Week, and I had to unsubscribe from a Google alert for my wife’s name because her beautiful book was so frequently showing up in banned book lists. It’s a non-fiction book for kids about gender. Inclusive of all kids. Not just trans kids, all kids. www.amazon.com/dp/125030295...

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It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So when there's just one company left, then what happens.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Oh this JT had some zany ideas that stuck in the craw of librarians everywhere". Like... "McMastergate" (ffs really) wasn't about a guy trying to mix up professional practice and make a statement about the value of an MLIS. He was gutting staff and practicing toxic neoliberalism.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I dunno man but I find essays about why we can’t agree as exhausting as the disagreement. And I think any article that starts with “this guy was controversial for this one slide” is pretty dismissive of the labour bloodbath that followed it.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s out. I can finally die.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These are for sure filled with spider eggs.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It seems notable to me that all the claims and suggestions for "future proofing" the library revolve around capitulating to the whims and desires of CEOs or institutional Presidents rather than the one thing that can actually protect the library: securing stable, permanent funding.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026

I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all

wikihow tutorial illustration with a man in baseball cap and pink shirt partially crouching, hands on thighs, and pivoting counterclockwise as shown by red arrows. Caption reads, "how to discretely get your balls unstuck from your thigh"

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Somewhere along the lines of “we must always defend academic freedom” we missed some subtext around good/bad-faith. They shouldn’t be protected equally.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In a pretty fun way, this is a nice parallel to “bad-faith journals” (I don’t use “predatory”, because major publishers are predatory)… you’ve got scads of researchers missing the scam part entirely. They’re not publishers the same way bad faith ghouls aren’t academics. It’s window dressing.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I keep saying this over and over but academia does not know how to deal with bad faith actors, and I suspect some measure of McCarthy-era academic freedom haze is a major part of the problem. If you trust that the system is good at hiring people, and that guardrails are in place, trust is inherited.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I didn’t know I wanted this until I saw it and now it’s all I want.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don't think making conclusions based on the publicly available data is "spreading lies". I think it's a bad-faith position to suggest that only someone who has every fact that exists no matter how much it costs to get it can be the only arbiter of salient criticism of the publishing industry.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...

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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I read that Canadian Campus Antisemitism "report" so you don't have to (but you should). Simply put. we cannot accept the findings of this report because of its methodological flaws. Let's unpack a few of them. 🧵. www.canada.ca/en/canadian-... 1/11

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Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) - Canada.ca

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“In our capacity as academics, perhaps the most radical thing we can do is our job itself. How can anybody in their right mind notice the growing damage to universities & instead of stand against this, facilitate the destruction of expertise, of learning skills, and of academic integrity?”

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Every time Lisa Hinchliffe writes a skitch post I feel obligated to hate read it and every time I hate read it I am dumber for having read it.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Morally, any cyclist in that group would've been justified shooting that driver.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The only thing inevitable about AI is its failure I would love to put on a cap & gown and give this one-sentence speech to hundreds of CEOs

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You can tell the New Yorker has all the best sports takes because the section is called “the sporting scene”, a phrase that definitely evokes the image of bloused trousers.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

solomon in 1 Kings 3

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What’s the emissions save on drowning every neoliberal?

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I think it’s so telling that this ghoul thinks lowering emissions is a “short term goal” that “isn’t sustainable” when we know both how little time we have and also how unsustainable the status quo is.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Got upset and made this so hopefully people will actually listen. What the fuck are we doing here folks?

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“We all know I refuse to look at climate evidence and that I’m definitely more conservative than Harper, but I’ll tell you one thing I love is industry for the sake of industry, no matter how short sighted it is.”

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Do you ever think like, “hey I can’t help but notice that when politicians stop representing people, that you don’t have a [representative] democracy any more? I sure do! Seems bad.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I think it would be possible to not exist in a constant thrum of worry and depression about the very clearly spiralling climate situation if literally any politician gave like 5% of a shit about it. I could say the same thing about the cost of living. Or genocides. Or tech regulation.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I’m saddened to announce the passing of my work colleague, The Zodiac Killer. While we were often on opposing sides of the business, I always enjoyed his silly little scavenger hunts.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Since 2016, Postmedia has been majority owned by Chatham Asset Management, a New Jersey-based hedge fund owned by Republican megadonor Anthony Melchiorre, who dined with President Donald Trump shortly after his initial election that year." ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

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‘Dumpster fire’: Postmedia’s decade of pushing Canada’s politics to the right

Canada’s largest newspaper chain has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Actually wait, that might whip.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Embarrassed to have had the thought, “I can’t believe Jeff VanderMeer spent 7 years writing a Shrek book.”

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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Queens University hosting, not just guests from a genocidal apartheid state, but guests who are sexual predators too

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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I don't think the mainstream necessarily is aware of the deep wellspring of anger that's among voters right now imho people's lives aren't better, the government couldn't give any less of a fuck, and they're not shy about showing us that

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

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fangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My dog the long term says we need to cut this the fuck out yesterday. You what to know what isn’t sustainable? Environmental collapse.

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Like honestly I’ve yet to see the AI use case where I think, “oh, ok, I guess that’s worth all this other bullshit.”

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acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

And then I can hear the like “stuff like this is just a bug. They’ll work it out.” No. They won’t. They have no incentive to do that, for one. And also, knowing who Max Planck is would require *understanding*, and an LLM does not “understand”. It can’t. It literally cannot.

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