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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

for my colleagues & friends in the American Musicological Society, a small (but big) update about what has transpired at this year’s meeting www.facebook.com/share/p/17Gz...

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I feel sick to my stomach reading the reports from Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli detention. I genuinely want to vomit.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 06/08/2025

Zohran Mamdani just released a statement about Cuomo working with Trump:

NEW YORK, NY – Today, the New York Times reported that Andrew Cuomo is coordinating with President Donald Trump ahead of the upcoming New York City mayoral election to help billionaires buy this race and steal it from the very New Yorkers on the frontlines against Trump's authoritarianism. Andrew Cuomo tried to hide this from the public because he knew how damaging it would be. In response, Zohran Mamdani released the following statement:

“Andrew Cuomo has spent his career governing for the powerful and prioritizing his own self-interests over those of the people he was sworn to serve. This is not just a shady backroom deal by a cynical politician, it is disqualifying. It is a betrayal.

Donald Trump is sending masked agents to rip our neighbors off the street, gutting the social services so many New Yorkers rely on, and threatening to deport me for having the audacity to stand up to him and his billionaire friends. The job of New York City Mayor is not to be jester for a wannabe king, it is to protect the people of this city.”

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 06/08/2025

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Jake Tapper invented a statement by Rashida Tlaib and he’s still on TV!

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 08/06/2025

🚨 The LA protests escalated fast. DHS called in the National Guard, and reports say Marines may be deploying next. The city is still on edge. 📢 If you’re out there, protect yourself and your crew. 📲 Save this. Share it. Stay safe out there.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Well don American Musicological Society. If you’re a US small or medium sized music org worried about loss of funding, connect up with AMS www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-AI generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 9 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!

Photo of a fluffy white cat meowing at the camera. Sloppy digital crayon letters spell out Art Show.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

ChatGPT is not comparable to calculators. - ChatGPT is not replicable - ChatGPT is not consistent - ChatGPT is not predictable - Calculators automate 1-3 actions, ChatGPT automates thousands Resistance to Gen AI is not the same as resistance to calculators. ca.news.yahoo.com/ceo-chatgpt-...

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CEO of ChatGPT maker responds to schools' plagiarism concerns: 'We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested in math class'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that the company will work on tech like watermarking to prevent plagiarism but warns it won't be perfect.

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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

David Zaslav is getting paid $52 million/year to change the name of a company who had significant brand recognition back and forth

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brainyviolinist, PhD 🎞️🎻🐈 @brainyviolinist.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Cackling at the number of places - heck, the number of STREETS - I recognize in The Four Seasons on Netflix 😆😆😆

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 08/05/2025

The problem with y’all calling Joe Rogan “intellectually curious” … the man is nearing the 6th decade of life with curiosities that should’ve been quelled by a library card and community college enrollment

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brainyviolinist, PhD 🎞️🎻🐈 @brainyviolinist.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

May 2016 - May 2025 Now that the CEO of Duolingo is centering AI, replacing workers with AI, and maintaining an “AI first” stance, I am ending my streak and deleting my account. You used to be so good, Duo. Now you’re dead to me.

Image of my current Duolingo streak, which reads “I’m on a 3202 day learning streak!”

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This is the type of thing that poorly run private companies are doing on a smaller scale constantly and a great example of why “we gotta run government like a business” is a grade-A dumb guy’s idea of what a smart guy thinks

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 27/03/2025

starting a crowdfunding campaign to get Hayao Miyazaki a gun and a legal defense fund

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I’m not judging individual scholars for leaving the US for theoretically safer universities. I’m judging the rest of you for not noticing or caring that roughly 75% of your adjunctified colleagues have neither the putative protection of academic freedom nor the means to leave.

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Seana Davis @seanadavis.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

❌ This image has surfaced on Bluesky with a caption saying it shows Israeli actress Gal Gadot's Hollywood star destroyed. But this photo is old. A quick reverse image search shows it was first published in 2018 when Trump's star was destroyed with a pickaxe.

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Snaxxmaxxer @workersdance.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@gofundme.com you need to respond!

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 16/01/2025

Imagine still believing that America is the land of the free when they’re doing this to a journalist at a press conference

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

fuck, and I cannot empathize this enough, the heritage foundation

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 16/01/2025

if you have local queer orgs or food banks, for example, now's a great time to throw their numbers in your phone and find out what they need. you don't need to reinvent the wheel yourself.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Working on getting some of that hot syllabussy

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Full @democracynow.org interview with @srseikaly.bsky.social and Barbara Weinstein on the American Historical Society's vote at #AHA25 to adopt the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza. The resolution passed in a landslide vote of 428–88 (4 abstentions). www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/aha...

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American Historical Association Condemns Israel’s Scholasticide in Gaza

The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the United States, has adopted the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to comprehen...

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Since bluesky doesn't seem to be enforcing their own community guidelines against image scrapers I guess we just have to keep warning each other. Here's a new one to block and warn people about: @catloversfanclub.bsky.social.

Screenshot of a bluesky account called "cat lovers".

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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

As a sometimes attendee of the AHA - I am delighted with the turnout and the vote. I understand it needs to go to council now (where it can be vetoed).

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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Anyone around Ashville who can help?

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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 03/01/2025

⚠️ Watch out for #AI slop - its presence will only grow: gizmodo.com/metas-ai-pro... 💡 For tips on separating real content from AI fakes, check out our quizzes, posters & more: newslit.org/ai/ #MediaLiteracy

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Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop

Hollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta's sites and they're everything we dreaded.

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VictoryDrawsStuff - COMMS REOPENED ON VGEN! ✨ @victorydrawsstuff.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Since there is interest for it, I went ahead & made it: ✨Bluesky Artists Under 10K Followers Starter Pack!✨ Please go check out all of these artists in this Pack, perhaps help them all reach 10K! 👀💖 If YOU are under 10K & wants to be added, comment & I will add you ASAP! 👍⬇️ go.bsky.app/V1K3XyL

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CeramicToast on bsky! @ceramictoast.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Discomfort is not harm. Internalize that. Discomfort is not harm, and if you're made uncomfortable by the work of a total stranger who does not know you exist, you can just process on your own and move on. You do not need to make it anyone's "fault" and no one needs to be "held accountable" for it.

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Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen @alixabeth.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Man on TV talking about the New Orleans event, announcing that he hates to say this but we’re going to have to be situationally aware everywhere we go. Women: …

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

It would be fun to have sideline reporters at academic conferences. Reporter: "Prof. Rothman, how do you come back from such a devastating Q&A? They really hammered you out there." Me: "All we can do is go back to the archives, find more evidence, and then just trust the process, Helen."

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Gift link. I learned some of this while working at a venue that presented Shen Yun performances and wondering how the money could POSSIBLY be working (I knew exactly how much everything cost them!), but incredible to read all that and more laid out in one place. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/n...

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How Shen Yun Tapped Religious Fervor to Make $266 Million (Gift Article)

The dance group has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to work for free and pay its bills.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Several scholars of color and marginalized academics have said this several times on Twitter and here, but many people remain there because that’s where their communities reside and there are huge exit costs. Not everyone has the PRIVILEGE to leave a community behind.

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ThisIsTheMusic @thisisthemusic.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Anyone else finding this app is slowly becoming full of bots/fake accounts??

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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

keeping watch

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat, sitting in a bright window. He looks up and out attentively. His green eyes look larger in the bright light, and his nose is pink. A white and blue menorah with blue electric lights on it sits in the window next to him.

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Kirsten Carithers @kcarithers.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Looking for something new to read in 2025? Might I shamelessly suggest my first book: *Interpretive Labor: Experimental Music at Work*? Short 🧵 below!

Cover of the book. Teal background, gold and purple shapes, excerpts from avant-garde scores

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

PLEASE stop offering this scumbag your condolences and learn how to do a reverse image search. This is a stolen image of a cat named Cheddar. He lives in Korea and he's fine: www.instagram.com/c.c.c__cat/r...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/12/2024

What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Dirty Dancing teaches that abortion rights are good and you should never date a guy who reads Ayn Rand, which is 90% of what you need to get through life

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Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The state of humanities funding in the US is shocking. For every $1000 the feds spend on research, humanities receive a $1.30 🤯 Of the ~$54 billion in research the federal govt funds in U.S. higher ed, only $69 million goes to the humanities (=0.13% of fed total) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core

Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works - Volume 1

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 27/12/2024

Since the year is almost over, I thought it would be neat to look back and share my top four comics of 2024! Hope you liked them too! ✨

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

All of these daily articles about 20 Palestinians killed in Gaza, 15 killed, 43 killed, 10 killed, day after day… and the number of dead cited in news stories and headlines has hardly changed in months and months.

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