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that it's a special, unique job that people do for the love of the work, not the money, and money would just cheapen that whole special, beauitful kind of labor that doesn't count as "real labor"

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To be clear, this particular article doesn't seem to be well-intentioned and is romanticizing academic labor in a version of the same way that teaching gets treated at all levels. Namely...

But whether the intentions are good or bad, it still comes to the same thing -- academics won't (or don't) engage in collective labor action, which only helps management divide and exploit labor.

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And like, my working conditions are admittedly much better than agricultural workers, and I do think that some of this impulse is well-intentioned academics feeling like associating themselves with "labor" is diminishing the ways that our conditions are better than some kinds of work.

I do think a lot of it comes from real (maybe subconscious) elitism about what kind of labor is exploited and an idea that "unskilled" or "low-skill" labor is exploited but that intellectual work is somehow more noble and/or too smart to be exploited (as if that's how labor works)

But I think that dovetails with a sense that unions are for "real labor" (read: blue collar jobs) and what we do is not that. Which is a fundamental category error that may result from understanding that our jobs are comfier and less physically demanding than something like manual labor BUT

A lot of academics have, in my experience, managed to find a very tiny lane between "I support labors and unions (in THEORY, of course)" and "I don't think that I and people like me should unionize". I think some of it is cowardice/not wanting to rock the boat (or feel bad for not rocking the boat)

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Top-tip: if anyone wants to give you the kind of "mentorship" that you being unionised would prevent, get a new mentor fast.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

But sure, a bunch of people who are varying degrees of cozy with eugenics and race science (Pinker, Krauss, Singer, the founder of Quillette) are just conveniently concerned about THIS instance of academic freedom, when the freedom to spew racism without consequences is threatened. Coincidences!

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm just going to throw this out there, academic freedom isn't meant to protect things that have have been emperically disproved by a preponderance of actual evidence by actual scholars in the actual field. Would these people be equally mad if a flat earther were fired from a science department?

Abhishek Saha, professor of mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, who is among the signatories of the supportive letter, said those seeking Cofnas’ dismissal “misunderstands both philosophy and academic freedom” and that “academic freedom exists precisely to protect contentious, controversial and offensive work”.

The American Association of Physical Anthropology in 2019 issued a statement rejecting “racial realism” as incompatible with the scientific evidence, while commentary published in the journal Philosophical Psychology described his work as belonging to “a group of ideas that insist on their legitimacy in spite of disproving empirical evidence”.

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Omg just imagining that has me melting!!

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Amy Pistone @apistone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How on earth am I supposed to get any work done when this one has already called dibs on my lap, no room for a laptop

A picture of a brown lab mix with very big and cute eyes with her adorable face on my lap

A picture of a brown lab mix with her head on my lap, with a laptop in the background

A picture of a brown lab mix with her head on my lap

A picture of a brown lab mix with her head on my lap, with a laptop in the background, and with her big, pretty eyes looking adorably at the camera

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Someone tell the New York Post they are free to use the headline "Natalie Imbroglio"

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Ummmm, idk if anyone is familiar with Brotato but it's a bullet hell game where you're a potato with weapons who (in this particular version) is fighting for its life against malicious underwater critters. Unclear on the premise of you get to respond or have to survive a year to get the money but...

Screenshot of a bullet hell game with a large jellyfish-like feature emanating red bulletsand lots of small, nondescript worm-ish creatures swarming around. In the middle is a very beleaguered potato with guns trying to survive the 51 seconds left in the wave

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Not sure if it's a good or bad thing that they think you need the 101 level. Really that's sort of saying that you're NOT a clown (yet)... but on the other hand, maybe it's suggesting that you're visibly aiming for clownitude and doing poorly

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Not so far, the kitten has been left with a good caretaker, but i like to think that it was Chekov's kitten and it will be back at a critical moment.

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I think this is probably the best summary of it? He's a very very large man who fights bad guys and solves crimes (though in season 3 they do find a bad guy who is bigger than him, somehow) www.instagram.com/reel/C04NX3K...

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