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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Imagining an America that can learn and pivot without paying the highest possible price for error and cruelty.

Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We all need someone to back us up, really have our backs, so I'd like to raise my glass to the guy tailgating that school bus.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

if you watch it you tell WB to keep making more Potter stuff and you show them that directly funding JKR’s transphobia, that she LITERALLY uses to strip trans women’s rights away, is not a dealbreaker how could i ever feel safe around someone who buys her the boots she uses to step on my neck?

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We are demonstrably poorer today than we were yesterday, given the loss of Dolly Parton. We are poorer spiritually, aesthetically, musically, and humanistically.

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We need to organize our thoughts (i.e. have a strenuous public discourse) about how we're going to combat public harassment campaigns. A person in their workplace is obligated to perform patient emotional labor. Humiliating them is the lowest of the low. #meta #glasses #pervert #smartglasses

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The sheer number of people in the comments offering 'fight advice' when SHE ALREADY GOT HIM, dead to rights, heel to sternum. She didn't need advice and she doesn't need it now. Ka-BOOM!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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Sylvester @6digit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." ~Harry Truman, President of the United States

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Since the pandemic began teaching has been rough going, but Im not sure Ive ever been this burnt out and anxious as I am in the age of gAI. Every day that gets me closer to the beginning of the semester, this anxiety just gets worse.

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Now that Nolan has done an Odysseus who's not a sneaky horn-dog, maybe he can make a Hamlet without existential angst or an Oedipus without the incest or, hey, how about a DJT biopic where he's just misunderstood and not at all bullying and corrupt?

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

>Everybody use AI or you're fired >Wait stop it's too expensive >Don't use it for menial tasks >Only use it for important work stuff >If you're going to use it for important stuff make sure it's correct >Let me know if you have any questions!

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"With great power comes great responsibility," they say, so I will continue to be the only person in this house who fills the water pitcher.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

hey just for fun let's give the absolute worst person on the planet the power to wage war and destroy economies, what could possibly go wrong

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Just want to remind everyone that Scott Pelley used his 60 Minutes platform to report on the Bill Barr fallacious pre-'summary' of the Mueller Report as though it were reliable and valid . . . and then he never rescinded or retracted that coverage. Not ever.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I think that if allowing Nazis into the conversation was necessary to fostering a free and open society, it would have created a free and open society by now.

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Looks like it's time to re-up my "The Odyssey" insight: It's a story about a 'white' guy who costs everyone else EVERYTHING, and in the last 20 lines of the 24-book epic he proves not to have learned a single damned thing. It's a thunderbolt that stops his stupidity, and nothing else.

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

As a public school teacher who opposed gamification of the classroom from the earliest days (and every fad since), I worry that we'll never find the consensus or the constancy to fight the good fight against easy constant stimulus.

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

They gotta believe that they still have a chance of survival here. Sure all of Odysseus' men died. Sure, all of the conniving suitors died. But, they... they have a fighting chance.

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 15/05/2026

regular google officially no longer works for pulling up an academic article when i'm *correctly remembering the author, journal, and a few keywords*, this is fine

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

MOST uses of AI are the equivalent of painting over a leak stain on your ceiling. Inexpensive and immediately satisfying and in no way whatsoever a lasting solution or a hedge against future labor.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh!

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

“As a girl in Afghanistan, she was denied a formal education and taught herself to read…Today, she has completed 64 college credits while in high school, works nights and weekends to support herself and her siblings, and was admitted to 11 nursing programs. She cannot afford to attend a single one.”

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She was admitted into 11 nursing programs. She cannot afford any of them. | Opinion

Colleges use sophisticated pricing models to recruit wealthier students with merit awards while leaving those with the least financial margin to absorb the largest gaps, writes Jennifer Obel.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

'You have to prove he had murder in his *heart.* The fact that there's a dead body in his house cannot be used as evidence.' This is the logic of the VRA decision as I, not a lawyer, understand it. #LouisianaVCallais #SCOTUS

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The city blocked off part of our neighborhood to tear down a building w asbestos. The teen said "Why did people use asbestos if it causes cancer?!" I told him people thought it was a wonder product and used it EVERYWHERE & told him how the same thing happened w radioactivity... and now AI.

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

25% of American adults said they did not read or listen to any book in the last year—not even part of one. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Survey question "In the past 12 months, about how many books did you read either all or part of the way through? (Please include any print, electronic, or audiobooks you may have read or listened to.)" 25% said none, 14% said more than 20 books.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 11/04/2026

NASA is one of the few remaining good things in government.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Move slow and fix things

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

When I watch someone flailing and failing to justify themself in the comments, I invariably think of this Kurt Vonnegut quote from chapter two of "Slaughterhouse Five":

"He had so much energy that he bustled back and forth between Billy and the scouts, delivering dumb messages which nobody had sent and which nobody was pleased to receive. He also began to suspect, since he was so much busier than anybody else, that he was the leader."

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I was told that "Don't Look Up!" was bad satire, that it wasn't subtle or realistic enough.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 07/04/2026

Come on then, and remove him.

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

or a lady with a loud laugh, maybe

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Been rewatching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-9) and it's interesting from a 2026 perspective to watch a show where the premise is just "let's go find everyone making AI and assassinate them"

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I hate that teaching has become policing and surveilling. I hate that learning has become evasion and shortcuts. I hate how AI papers say nothing at all; they have no capacity for originality, contribution, or social change.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Let's focus on something we ALL agree on: #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Orwell's Drafts Folder @blueknuckle.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Reading is enjoyable.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

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Amphibious Critter @frogosaur.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

All we ever had to do was be good to each other.

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