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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong

@amaryah.bsky.social
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Academic by day, woodworker in the afternoon, domestic dyke at dusk, songwriter at night, clueless gardener at dawn. watching movies as praxis. amaryahshaye.com

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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bet they won’t invite me, tho!
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/04/2026
It has been 13 years since Israeli soldiers murdered Rachel Corrie with a bulldozer. This is a really compelling piece by her mother.
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Let’s Finally Do Something About the Bulldozer That Killed My Daughter
Bernie Sanders is trying to end the shipment of US bulldozers to Israel—like the one that crushed my daughter, Rachel Corrie, to death 23 years ago.
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'm rewatching Battlestar Galactica for maybe the 3rd time and man... it's still soooooo good
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Benjy Sarlin @benjysarlin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A major shift, via Gallup. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
crowd screaming "tax the rich" at a mayoral inauguration in the heart of the global center of capitalism, you love to see it
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
So happy about this
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Mamdani's speech ends and Steinway goes wild.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani: "So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/11/2025
i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I know this is meant as slander but it goes kind of hard. Zohran should reappropriate this!
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
free childcare, fast and free buses, freeze the rent. I live in Astoria
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now
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tom westland @tomwestland.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The lesbian who taught intro to writing gave me a B-.
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
VT Religion and Culture is truly such a gem of a department and is absolutely stacked with amazing and kind scholars. I’ve benefitted immensely from the generosity of my colleagues and know how much we all have given to our teaching and service. The shortsightedness of this decision absolutely blows
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
just got word that my department's being shut down. two things: 1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal. 2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
It is!!
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Truly feckless behavior on the part of my Dean!
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 18/08/2025
Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Ah, been thinking about this a lot. Looks great!
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 25/07/2025
It is a CRIME that Virginia Tech doesn’t have one of these
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
And another athlete murdered by Israel in Gaza.
Breaking:

Palestinian boxer Malak Mesleh was murdered today in the air strike on al-Baka Cafe today.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
People think I'm biased against Jeff Bezos, but here's Sartoria F. Caraceni, widely considered one of the best bespoke tailoring houses in the world, commenting on Bezos's wedding suit. "The most terrible, frightening, horrible tuxedo ever seen in my life. I'm really suffering"
A photo of Jeff Bezos in his tuxedo. The low armhole is causing the jacket to lift off his neck. A comment from Sartoria F. Caraceni on Instagram. It reads: "The most terrible, frightening, horrible tuxedo ever seen in my life. Omg .. [face palm emoji]. Elegance is not an empty word. I can't stand it. Really suffering ..."
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 25/06/2025
Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 25/06/2025
"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/06/2025
next up: can you primary the times ed board
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
"He'll get one or two people...."
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
My current situation, also. Excellent vibes.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Here is a clip of the student's speech.
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I don't think we can fight AI creep by weaponizing grades. Nobody learns anything if we decide our job is to be plagiarism mall cops. If we don't win this argument at the level of process, convincing students they CAN'T learn what we have to teach them if they outsource to AI, we won't win at all.
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@bryantburkhart.bsky.social well, I am nearly done with this circle of hope and that was a wild ride! Thanks for telling me about it
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Extrapolating from history: the labor market will cannibalize mid-tier knowledge workers, burn out senior knowledge workers, then shout at colleges & govt for not making enough labor-market ready grads, then govt will blame moms for not making K-12 prepare kids for college pre-labor-market skills.
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
We got our first black pope!
Screenshot of a Forbes article explaining how Pope Leo XIV’s 
maternal grandparents and older siblings are identified in records as black or mulatto and the family passed into a white racial identity
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Defector @defector.com · 29/04/2025
Tunde Adebimpe’s solo debut channels the gift of the mixtape: defector.com/tunde-adebim...
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Tunde Adebimpe's Solo Debut Channels The Gift Of The Mixtape | Defector
Anything I say about “Magnetic,” the lead single off TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe’s first solo album, Thee Black Boltz, won’t live up to hearing it for the first time. Go listen to it. Bett...
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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Our next post is from @amaryah.bsky.social: "Black Internationalism, the Black Prince, and the Pressures of History" itself.blog/2025/04/25/b...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One of the historical stories I think about is how the world kind of let the Netherlands off the hook with the whole “global slavery and brutal colonialism” thing.
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It's like people who expect their favorite singers and celebrities to be the vanguard politically... like, why???
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Spent the afternoon reading Tufte's, *The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.* It's an excellent analysis of why PPT hampers thought & he argues for using technical papers and illustrated handouts. These tools aid an audience in assesing credibility and understanding information in context. Very cool.
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"Rather than providing information, *PowerPoint allows speakers to pretend that they are giving a real talk, and audiences to pretend that they are listening.* This prankish conspiracy against evidence and thought should provoke the question, *Why are we having this meeting?*" Edward Tufte
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Secularists on the internet are so funny to me… like, I dunno, all these women look quite distinct…? Maybe I’m just built different. What they do have in common, however, is a deep swag, impeccable textile taste, and a layering game that is unsurpassed.
screenshot of a post on bluesky that reads “Not long ago, women in all three religions looked no different from each other.” accompanied by a historic, black and white photo, of 3 women in their cultural attire.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The people who said “wokeness” was totalitarian are applauding as dhs sends agents to college campus to apprehend students for thoughtcrime
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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What is this hell where you switch from one subway train car to another bc someone is blasting music from their phone… and the same thing is happening in the next car.
media.tenor.com
a cartoon character is covering his eyes with his hands .
ALT: a cartoon character is covering his eyes with his hands .
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
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SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained
"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
In case you missed it, the day before Mahmoud Khalil’s detention by Ice none other than Shai Davidai tweeted at Rubio demanding his deportation. And once he was apprehended, he felt these were legit “consequences” for him protesting. A faculty member @columbiauniversity.bsky.social the shameful.
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