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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 16m

Only 1 out of 57 men in the Cornell rape group chat objected to the sexual assault.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 3h

Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

appleinsider.com

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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Perso je suis persuadé que Lepen sait très bien que c'est vrai, que les électeurs RN le savent aussi, et qu'ils ne vont perdre strictement aucune voix. Pour croire que le RN est autre chose qu'un cloaque verreux plein de néonazis, il faut être vraiment con comme une brouette de tuiles.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shot: "We asked 37 top academics and researchers who study education to rate a range of ideas for both effectiveness and cost, on a scale of 1 to 7." Chaser: "The panel included: Dominique Baker..." LOL y'all I read so many papers to complete this survey on k12 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having just read The Most Secret Memory of Men, I can’t wait to dig into Sarr’a take on the Ai scandal / plagiarism embroiling Thélyson Orélien

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The Not Chaotic Cherub 😇 @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Zack Fox is absolutely hilarious 😂

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What if we could understand Provincetown not merely as a white space but [also] as a galaxy, or even a universe, of Blackness? #BlackProvincetown

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Looking at the photograph is somehow not unbearable: My friends, two dead, one low on T-cells, his white T-shirt an X-ray screen for the virus, which I imagine as a single, swimming paisley, a sardine with serrated fins and a neon spine.."

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(for M.) Looking at the photograph is somehow not unbearable: my friends, two dead, one low on T-cells, his white T-shirt an X-ray screen for the virus, which I imagine as a single, swimming paisley, a sardine
with serrated fins and a neon spine. I'm on a train, thinking about my friends
and watching two women talk in sign language. I feel the energy and heft their talk generates, the weight of their words in the air the same heft as your presence in the picture,
boys, the volume of late summer air at the beach. Did you tea-dance that day? Write poems in the sunlight? Vamp with strangers? There is sun under your skin like the gold Sula found beneath Ajax's black. I calibrate the weight of your beautiful bones, the weight
of your elbow, Melvin,
on Darryl's brown shoulder.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Completed another interview today and I'm just floored by the fact that I get to do this as my actual job: talk with Black LGBTQ* folks - artists, writers, creatives, travelers, local residents, young people, middle aged folks, elders - about how their fascinating lives intersect with Provincetown

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Inadvertently made a "cold dirty London fog" by putting my earl grey tea bags into a glass of iced latte. Will advertedly do this again.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today in #sabbaticalstories: Saturday morning, in a nor’easter yet happily (?) at work in my office reading, sipping earl grey tea I brought home from London; messing around with Nvivo and prepping for a #BlackProvincetown interview

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"When he calls me, I will answer When he calls me, I will answer When he calls me, I will answer I’ll be somewhere listening for my name.." - Melvin Dixon www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Black and white photo of Melvin Dixon in a turtleneck and jacket, staring directly at the camera while leaning on a white pillar

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The new “A Different World” isn’t replacing the classic—it’s answering a question some of us have been asking for decades. Yes!!!!!

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This project is the most interesting thing I've ever done in my life. It requires going to poetry readings, kink workshops, fashion shows, film festivals, drag performances, sex shops (well, only one), art galleries, church services, the dunes, the beach, tea, galas and so on.. #BlackProvincetown

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The fact that so many say yes is pretty awesome

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An unexpected part of my research life right now is contacting, on a fairly regular basis, famous writers and asking: "Do you want to talk to me about Provincetown?" #BlackProvincetown

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The president barred US reporters, while welcoming Chinese reporters who answer to the communist dictatorship in Beijing. This would be the same president who's running government-paid TV advertising vowing to stop the United States from becoming communist..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...

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In Trump’s White House, China’s Dictator Is Welcome. American Media, Less So.

The showdown over President Trump’s partial media ban played out as he welcomed President Xi Jinping, whose government is ranked among the most repressive in the world.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Never in my life have I seen 80,000 young people come together for a religious event.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/09/2026

NBC News' Claudio Lavanga asked Pope Leo if he had anything to do with Chicago White Sox 'miraculous' historic ride to the playoffs during the pope's flight to Paris.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The longer I listen to his French, the more I learn his rhythm and cadence. He definitely speaks like someone who is fluent but his articulation is struggling and muffled at times. He sounds like someone who isn't used to reading long passages out loud in French but I understand him..

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's actually kind of interesting to see young people posing questions directly to the Pope at the Stade de France.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He doesn't speak French like an American. He doesn't speak French like anyone I've ever heard before, honestly. It's strange.

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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 25/09/2026

🇻🇦🇫🇷 Après avoir présidé les vêpres en la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, le pape Léon XIV est attendu ce vendredi soir au Stade de France pour une veillée avec des jeunes. 🔗 Suivez cette soirée en direct #France #Paris #Pape #LéonXIV #Vatican #Religion #Christianisme #StadeDeFrance #Veillée

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

“The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core.”

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

“On Tuesday, department chair Danielle Clealand told faculty in the Social and Cultural Analysis Department that the provost’s office rejected all women’s and gender studies courses from counting toward UT’s core, according to an email reviewed by the Statesman.”

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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes

The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Girl dinner

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally got my copy of THE NERD REICH! Excited, daunted, but also grateful to @gilduran.com for his important work 🙏🏽

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This stopped me in tracks today on my way to work. A gorgeous wookpecker doing their thing!

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Provincetown Poet" by David Bethuel Jamieson (1986) An intriguing abstract portrait of the renowned poet and writer Cyrus Cassells. David and Cyrus were both Black creatives and close friends living in 1980s Provincetown. #BlackProvincetown

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fashion tip: the sluttiest thing a straight man can wear is a regular sweater with the sleeves pushed up just a little. This is your cheat code

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

To paraphrase Tom Wolfe, we are witnesses one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely that the dark night of AI-Job-Replacement is always descending on the humanities and yet lands only in math and computer science.

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The AI capture of educational institutions is *obviously* part of an effort to weaken and eradicate these institutions.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm hearing about students who cannot write more than a page or two of text unaided by AI and I can't say that they're at fault if their own college or university does not *require* the teaching of longform writing.

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