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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral

@bibliobouros.bsky.social
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Cranky Christian, freelance medievalist, ADHD enthusiast. Ask me about my semi-feral trash goblin. All seditious musings herein are my own. Don’t blame my employer. ——— Ἔτι πολλὰ ἔχω ὑμῖν λέγειν, ἀλλ' οὐ δύνασθε βαστάζειν ἄρτι

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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Hey y'all, want to make a statement and help people at the same time? SNAP funds $187 per person. If you have means, consider donating $187, $18.70 or even $1.87 to a food bank. You can can send even the receipt to your elected representative and share your #187reasons to end the standoff.
A black and yellow graphic that states, "Make a political statement that helps others. Donate $18.70 to a food pantry." To the left is a picture of a person serving food in a service line.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Hey ya’ll, I’m an ac developer and was asked for ac writing advice for neurodivergent grad students. While I can speak to my own experience with ADHD, I’d love to get others’ opinons. If you’re ND and did grad school: what helped you finish your research? #neurodivergent #academicSky #ADHD #Autism
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Those commanding armed forces in time of war where the uniform of their command. They don’t need to wear suits to pander politicians.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I just wanted to say that, whatever you have heard about insurance companies like #Cigna being evil, it’s probably worse. A friend of mine with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer has been repeatedly denied her chemotherapy, MRI imaging, and now blood sugar monitoring equipment for her condition.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The trash goblin wants you to send noods. Especially the rice ones. #dogs #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky
A gray faced senior dog stares down its prey, a dangling plain rice noodle. A somewhat blurry picture of a gray faced senior dog snapping up a mouthful of rice noodle. A gray faced senior dog slurp up a tangle of rice noodles, its tongue poking out playfully.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
So apparently Teams is not entirely sure how to translate the word “neurodivergent.” This is from a workshop I recently gave. From here on out, I ask that you all address me as “nerd virgin.” #neurodivergent #ND #ADHD #autism
Screen capture of an automatically-generated closed caption transcript showing the word “neurodivergent” transcribed as nerd virgin.”
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
It turns out that some academic institutions produce far more garbage research than others, according to Nature.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Good thing this little monster loves the snow lol #dogs #dogsofbsky #dogsofbluesky
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/02/2025
“Rather than fascism or single-party dictatorship, the United States is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism,” Steven Levitsky writes:
theatlantic.com
The New Authoritarianism
This isn’t single-party rule, but it’s not democracy either.
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. 

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
shibas against doge
A cream Shiba Inu in a somewhat messy apartment.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
So, the trash goblin has apparently leveled up from ripping up plush piggies to horror movie plots. I finished a Zoom class to find a 9-in. chef’s knife on the carpet behind me next to her toys. How the hell did she carry it across the house without cutting herself? #dogsofbsky #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A black senior dog with a gray face meticulously takes apart a stuffed pig.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hey #AcademicSky, there’s an awesome academic developer position open in my unit! Apply here!
fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
Director of Curriculum Development & Design Initiatives and Faculty Awards: Teaching and Learning Innovation - UTK
The Director of Curriculum Development & Design Initiatives and Faculty Awards serves as the lead administrator over Teaching and Learning Innovation’s curriculum development and design response to th...
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hey there #EduSky, there’s a great position open in my unit. Share widely with your faculty developer friends!
fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
Director of Curriculum Development & Design Initiatives and Faculty Awards: Teaching and Learning Innovation - UTK
The Director of Curriculum Development & Design Initiatives and Faculty Awards serves as the lead administrator over Teaching and Learning Innovation’s curriculum development and design response to th...
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Dog fishing, rice noodle style.
An elderly black dog attempts to eat a rice noodle dangling in front of its face, a series of four vignettes.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Seriously, though— should we really be shocked that someone who basically grew up being bounced on Roy Cohn’s knee would go full-on McCarthyism ten days into office?
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
You don’t say.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
My university got notification from the administration today about the canceled grants and federal funding affecting research and programs that we offer. This is very bad. #EduSky
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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Forced patriotism is indoctrination. Forced patriotism is indoctrination. Forced patriotism is indoctrination. Forced patriotism is indoctrination. Forced patriotism is indoctrination. Forced patriotism is indoctrination. #history #EduSky #AcademicSky #SkyStorians
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
And yet the middle school where I volunteer requires the pledge of allegiance every morning. So what exactly is defined as indoctrination? #edusky
whitehouse.gov
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Oh, this is gonna get FUN. Looks like it’s time to break out my balaclava. #eduSky #DEI www.chronicle.com/article/trum...
chronicle.com
Trump Singled Out These 130 Colleges as Possible Targets for Investigation. Is Yours on the List?
The president directed each federal agency to identify up to nine organizations for compliance reviews related to DEI efforts — including colleges with endowments over $1 billion.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Who has four paws and just figured out how to use the floor pedal on the garbage can? The trash goblin has evolved!
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Check out this AI generated pair of scissors. If this is the future, imma be hiding out in my cabin in the woods.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I was informed by a middle schooler today that I look like Brienne of Tarth. Not Gwendolyn Christie, specifically Brienne. Um, thanks? Somebody get me a sword.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
You can now only work at the White House if you are a raging, true believer in the red hat circus. Imagine that. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Loyalty tests and MAGA checks: Inside the Trump White House's intense screening of job-seekers
Job-seekers hoping to join the new Trump administration are facing a series of intense loyalty tests.
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Over 100 refugees who were scheduled to be resettled in Indiana have seen their flights canceled in the last two days. Refugees make our state stronger, and the bipartisan support for U.S. refugee resettlement has been a pillar of our nation for over a century.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE. youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
youtu.be
PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Fun fact: I grew up in a family of hardline right-wingers and, to my father's shame, I became a leftie. But that upbringing taught me a fact that the #resist crowd still hasn't learned: human rights by executive fiat are an illusion. We fooled ourselves into progress for decades. Let me explain.
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Austin Channing Brown @austinchanning.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
You’ll never convince me that this attack on “DEI” isn’t a specific + coordinated attack on Black women (the 92%) bc it is our work that erected those programs, created those budgets, challenged administrators and executive teams, etc. But they can’t outpace our creativity or our strength.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Having been left to starve by her cruel owners, a desperate trash goblin is forced to turn tricks for her treats. #dogs #dogsofbluesky
A great feast, senior dog with black fur raises a paw to ask for a snack.A gray faced senior dog with black fur paws at the couch for a treat.The trash goblin, a black senior dog with a gray face, stretches her nose up longingly at the delicious odor of a peanut butter sandwich
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Great, I can see her judging me from two different angles. #dogsofbluesky #dogs
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Nah fam, if we’re gonna survive this, we need pet pics, dumb jokes, and science quotes.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Oooooh they’re saying the quiet part out loud now! wait till they read the Sermon on the Mount… #exvie #evangelical #deconstruction #christianNationalism
Picture of post from Pastor Ben Garrett using the phrase “the sin of empathy” and that “you need to properly hate” God’s enemies.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Hey there #EduSky, I LOVE to talk about plagiarism with faculty, so I’d love to know: how would you explain #plagiarism to an incoming freshman in ten words or less? I’m serious about those ten words. If it’s going to stick, it’s gotta be punchy. Ready, set go! #AI #GenAI #teaching #pedagogy
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Just a reminder from your friendly neighborhood neurospicy bridge troll that excusing horrific behavior with the phrase, “oh, he’s just autistic” is ableist bullshit—and it shows how little you actually think of autistic people. Thankyouverymuch
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
OH SNAP Just to be clear: being autistic doesn’t make you act like a Nazi, but acting like a Nazi does make you an asshole.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
High praise! If I were Bishop Budde I’d engrave it on a plaque.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19/01/2025
President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.
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Biden issues pardon to late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced civil rights movement
Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey's mail fraud conviction in the 1920s was politically motivated and an effort to silence the…
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025
SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is beyond vile.
In NPR, headline writing, “Trump administration strip schools, churches of immigration enforcement protections.”
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hey there, who else no longer exists on federal websites? 🙋 #lgbtqia
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Well, here’s my nightmare realized. 🙃
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/01/2025
If you're discriminated against or arrested for being trans in Illinois, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Happy third gottiversary to our certified feral trash goblin. May you always get neck scritches, crunchy salmon skin, and have the perfect perch to yell at everyone to get off your lawn.
A black senior dog with a silver face looks away from the camera. She wears a purple collar. Maggie, a black senior dog with a silver face, does her best to”Kilroy was here” impression by peeking over the sill of a window. Maggie gets neck scritches from her favorite human, a middle-aged guy with short, graying black hair and a shaggy salt and pepper beard. Our senior dog Maggie gazes out her favorite window into the street below, waiting for someone to yell at. Her long, shepherd-esque long ears are delightfully askew.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
“people need to learn how to win by losing when that's the best play you have.” Yes.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Christina Katopodis gave some of our faculty great advice this week about helping students find a sense of belonging: taking time to ask students to reflect on their goals/ dreams and develop personal learning goals for the class. #EduSky #InclusionEd
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
To be perfectly fair, a good many of them already look like this.
A meme that says “The minute a man uses the word
"females" he automatically looks like this to me” above a picture of Quark, an alien from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
media.tenor.com
a close up of a stuffed monkey with a green shirt that says me on it .
Alt: Meme. a close up of a stuffed monkey with a green shirt that says me on it giving side eye.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
If you’re not familiar with the NAR, now’s a good time to start. I’ve seen a beloved campus pastor flirting with this lunacy, and I’ve seen it creeping into my extended family on multiple fronts. #ChristianNationalism #Exvie #Exvangelical
theatlantic.com
The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
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Saint Mags, Board Certified Feral @bibliobouros.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Yes! But promoting accommodations alone isn’t going to be enough. Neurodivergent students who had IEP’s in high school school generally don’t sign up for accommodations because of expense, difficulty, and lifetime experiences with ableism, discrimination, and exclusion. We need to fix the system.
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