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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really encourage all my fellow straights to loudly and clearly speak up for trans people. There are folks in your life who need to hear it.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bene Gesserit: "Put your righte hande yn the box" Me [figuringe out wher to put my iced coffee]

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

like literally guys it's time to come to jesus. i don't care about your morals, you're going to hell but that's not important right now. hold my hand when i tell you this: if your strategy is "everyone just do what i want no matter how i treat you", you will lose 100% of the time. come ON.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

american evangelical christianity is more or less antinomian. it lacks any moral requirements which cannot be instantaneously and privately absolved, does not require that you be catechized by anything other than John 3:16, and ratifies every impulse which you might have.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026

You can’t hinge your belief in people having access to basic goods on whether or not they “deserve” them or they’re at “fault” for not having them. Just give people their basic goods.

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Beau @beaupihlaja.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This halftime show feels like one of those, "no sentence in this paragraph can be anticipated" situations Madonna The Muppets BTS Ted Lasso

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 14/07/2026

The United States is turning into a kind of reverse Omelas: everyone is miserable except for a single child, Donald Trump, who inexplicably must be kept happy.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

For those outside academia who are curious: as someone who has taught for ~25 years, many of us now face an existential crisis in assessing student work. Anything you haven't viewed a student actually writing down with their own hand is basically suspect; it's a shitty feeling, to put it bluntly

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The best time for scientists to realize that their survival depends on solidarity with humanists was six decades ago, the second best time is now.

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Earn @nregib.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“Fuck it, we live.” is gonna be needed to get thru the bullshit that’s coming 🦔

lilia @violetxnds
"fuck it we ball" becomes far more weighty once we account for the pre-existing axiom that is "ball is life," for the latter effectively transforms the former into "fuck it we live." and what maxim could be more gravely important than that which urges man to persist at all costs?

Below the text is a hedgehog at a keyboard.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

One more comment about this. You thought A&M was bad for censoring Plato's Symposium? Well, Texas Tech said "hold my beer" and banned Plato's REPUBLIC from a philosophy class because there's a brief mention of homosexual love in it.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026

There are many stereotypes abt Black ppl. Most of them negative. But the ultimate truth about our legacy is simple. The legacy of the African American is that we won rights for every demographic. Every domino that fell, it began with Black liberation struggles. Freedom of movement? We gave you that.

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Today, the Court erected a new standard: Prove the green segment in the below is not part of the yellow circle

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 19/04/2026

Whatever you do,

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN."

Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

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Beau @beaupihlaja.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Not as pretty as the pics sent home from our friends in space. It's just not every day we have folks who've slipped the surly bonds of Earth out quite that far between us and brother moon. Safe travels home, friends. Thanks for making the trip for us... #NASA #ArtemisII #TTU #TCR #moon

Day moon visible over the northwest corner of Humanities Building on TTU campus

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This is not a hypothetical fear. My piece focused on three countries — Brazil, South Korea, and Poland — where elected authoritarians were too blatant and their opponents did a good job persuading key audiences that the democratic threat was real. The result, in each case, was authoritarian defeat.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This makes sense if you think of the university as nothing but a finishing school with a football team.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14/12/2025

Tapping the sign again.

@jasonc_nc:

I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.

Max Dubler:

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.

True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties.

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Tom Rank @tomrank.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

V good: 'My Socialism is a Christian Socialism, an actual redemption of a Christian Evangelicalism I have rejected, where I had read, 'Blessed are the poor', and immediately amended it with 'in spirit' to deflect it, to not have to deal with the open wound in our society that Socialism addresses.'

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize trans people has completely lost touch with the common humanity."

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Beau @beaupihlaja.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Vinny remains. undefeated.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/08/2025

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review. I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway. My latest in @thenation.com

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The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US

The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 22/07/2025

“Pedocon theory does not involve secret networks of underground tunnels where adrenochrome is harvested for reptilian overlords. Pedocon theory is not hiding beneath twelve layers of misdirection. Pedocon theory is rooted in the basic politics of the reactionary right.”

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We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory

The connection been Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Doing some work on 'what is a professor' for an article and found this fun quote... "In The Uses of the University (2001), former University of California President Clark Kerr admits that he often thinks of his faculty as “a series of entrepreneurs with a common grievance over parking.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

from apnews.com/article/cali...

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Beau @beaupihlaja.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Fantastic read. This line... "Consider the influence of MTV’s Jersey Shore. Once holding such a monopoly on a generation’s attention, it is now localized to the Shore Store, which exists with all the enthusiasm and obligation of a land acknowledgment at a City Council meeting."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Come back the next day and say “how’s my little fish buddy doing? Where’s Gary?” And watch him panic

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it full stop

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I dream of a future where history holds Skrmetti in the same dustbin as it holds Dred Scott

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

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Technical Communication & Social Justice Journal @techcommsj.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

@beaupihlaja.bsky.social and @ekalodnermar.bsky.social are here at the Editors' Roundtable answering questions about TCSJ! If you're at #ATTW25 (in person or on Zoom), come on by.

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