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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 5h

This concept should be shared broadly with people who reply on social media.

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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 7h

What a weird thing to do

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 12h

Archaeologist here and someone who just wrote an entire book chapter ln the history of communication. Maybe if dude had spoken to a linguist or an anthropologist he would not have shown his taint to the entire universe. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 17h

SCOOP A Pentagon influencer called liberal women a "pestilence" who will end western civilization. He's also: • Praised dictators like Franco and Pinochet • Said people without kids should not be allowed vote • Called immigrants "semihuman savages" www.wired.com/story/a-pent...

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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization

Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The number of tenured professors who have their job because their wife typed their dissertation 30+ years ago should be embarrassing.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would never have been able to get an advanced degree without student loans. The new aggregate loan limits already nuked my chances at switching careers through the MLIS—this new rule would be catastrophic for the working class At this point it wouldn’t be a waste to explore alt. higher ed design

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ayup. ROTC too, but that didn’t work out for me for several reasons. And given doctoral student stipends these days versus tuition, there is no way to get a PhD without loans either.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This works, btw. It's actually pretty incredible and heady just how powerful it is in practice. Every time I've done it the impact is pretty memorable.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026

Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.”

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I devoted a full class sesession each semester to discussing misogyny in tech/business. After working with multiple experts, students, and listening to lived experiences, this is hands down the best advice we could find. When you’re in a position of majority you have a responsibility to speak up.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Technically, the New Dealers gave it to the Greatest Generation and to the Boomers, but yes, absolutely

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have known for decades that investment in education is paid for many times over by reducing the cost and prevalence of incarceration and also improving health outcomes, but it’s a long game politicians won’t play. Even though it leads directly to a better, healthier, and richer society.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you’ve ever obsessed over your color palette for a #DataViz or even just a PowerPoint presentation, you need to look at this tool. 😍

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have 46 people blocked, so the lack of kudos for my jokes makes sense now.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“As of May 2026, the C.D.C. had 30 percent fewer employees than it did before the layoffs…Interviews with more than 30 current & former employees reveal the agency is now tightly controlled by Mr. Kennedy and his associates, and its scientists are finding it increasingly difficult to do their jobs”

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“If the task force’s mission was not supposed to solve the problem of sexual assault, as Love has stated, then it has been a resounding success.” I know too many women who have suffered while their abusers are consoled by their university. Kudos to this student editorial board.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just a reminder - here was the news from yesterday re alleged voting fraud committed by non citizens in NV.

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The single biggest things this discourse hints to me is a lack of standardized scoring rubrics for candidates, which means greater likelihood of hiring based on biases.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I still don’t think it’s percolated that the Trump administration has given higher ed both a headshot and a gut shot

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s nice of GAO to report on what was obvious to anyone who cared to look.

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

💡 Microsoft: “Instead of teaching our users about First Normal Form (1NF), one of the most basic rules of data, let’s spend millions of dollars to make the lives of every data consumer even more painful.”

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A few thousand people got involuntarily added to an email group. Several hundred reply-all emails to the entire group asking to be removed, even more saying to not reply all. Inbox chaos. My favorite are the trolls. (“Let’s share recipes!”) There are more chaos goblins in my org than I expected.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I understand being blocked (curate your feeds!), but getting blocked today for agreeing with the person is new.

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As a one who refereed for more than 20 yrs: Good. I was mentored my very first game by a female FIFA referee. More than half of the best referees I worked with were women, b/c they had to be so much better to advance even a little. He was only suspended for two games. www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/s...

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Columbus Crew reserve team coach fired after incident involving ‘physical abuse and sexism’ | CNN

Major League Soccer (MLS) team Columbus Crew fired Federico Higuaín, the head coach of its reserve team, following an incident in a game that a referees’ association deemed “physical abuse and sexism”...

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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National Security Leaders for America @nslforamerica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Retired U.S. Army Col. Ken Williams, PhD, examines Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s conduct through the lens of ethics, trust, and the civil-military relationship, arguing that his actions are undermining military culture and operational readiness. nsl4a.substack.com/p/the-compre...

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

if you eliminated furries from infrastructure writ large we would be throwing rocks and gathering berries in the span of a month

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 24/09/2026

Things are going great. Why do you ask?

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 23/09/2026

this is a good thing. you should trust furries with security and life critical roles, actually.

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today’s unexpected compliment: Off-hand mention to boss’s boss of my long-time goal of writing a book. After years, a topic is slowly taking form in my brain. “A Worm’s Eye View of Leadership: What the rest of us expect from leaders” He sounded legitimately fascinated & encouraged me to write it.

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TIL that “foreword” and “forward” are different words with no shared meaning and I am both mad at my past self for not noticing this homonym and glorying in the prospect of being assholishly pedantic to the next person I meet who needs to know it.

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m not opposed to greater scrutiny of officers as they become generals/admirals, American high command certainly has its problems. But evaluating their tactical acumen is folly from the start. That’s neither been the problem nor the role of modern generalship. foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/12/t...

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The End of the Fighting General

America’s top brass should abandon dreams of battlefield glory—and focus on paperwork instead.

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Found a results table D&D doesn’t have (yet).

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

the thing about Kavanaugh's fantasy-land depiction of immigration stops is that people of color have to live in the real world a new ruling (by a Trump judge in Alabama, no less!) shows that federal judges can engage with that reality, rather than Kav's fiction ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day

The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/09/2026

I'll note that the data shows that social media use stayed steady during this period (AI use isn't surveyed, but other studies show it has increased steadily in this age group over the time period).

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Sam Miller @kaisermiller.family · 21/09/2026

Kind of hate that "caring about whether things are true or not" seems to be a minority position these days.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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