Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 5hNot for parasocial reasons but because some things become able to be said with a lot less explaining 110
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 5hYes! I like a poem that arrives as a personal aside between the poet and the reader because our trust level has gotten to that point 110
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 5hI think it treats another person's agency in a morally objectionable way, but not because it undermines consent. But in order for me to flesh out this view, I'll have to finish this R&R on my desk right now! 120
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 17hSome of these kids would rather torch their dilapidated school buildings than be confined in them without sufficient teachers, with crumbling infrastructure, no air conditioning. Can you blame them? The state has failed them and nobody takes seriously their concerns 010
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 17hCriminalizing young people for wanting a different world will fail every. single. time. 142
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 17hPolice shot a less lethal grenade at this child and it blew off his hand when he picked it up. That is fucking awful. Every attempt by the French education minister and his police to gaslight the world about what is happening here will fail.dw.comHundreds of French schools shut, teen loses hand in protestsThe student protests that rocked France last week have prompted authorities to keep up to 500 schools closed on Monday. A teenage boy lost his hand, seemingly while trying to pick up a police tear gas... 194
Reposted by Caleb WardNikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 22hGood to see that Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy now has an entry on Friedrich Engels plato.stanford.edu/entries/enge...plato.stanford.edu Friedrich Engels (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 031
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This article looks really interesting. It's about how it can be oppressive to impose "counterfactual bodies" on disabled people by imagining them without their disability. 031
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Cosign all of this! They were so fabulous in this era! 020
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The reason I don't like the "just human beings" quote is because it naturalizes nationalism as some kind of basic human error... but why? Genocidal nationalism is a horrible pattern produced by a particular moment in history, not "we're just human beings". But otherwise, much to agree with here. 1121
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Zionism is the national self-determination movement of the Jewish people, as well as a force for ethnic cleansing, racial apartheid, and genocide, which makes it just like every other national self-determination movement." Interesting article, tho I really don't like the quote Zeynep highlights. 1110
Reposted by Caleb WardMegan Behrent @meganb75.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As student protests in France remind the world of their power, I thought it worth resharing this article I wrote on the 1968 revolt of lycéens. As a former lycéenne and former high school teacher I stand with students fighting to determine their own learning conditions isreview.org/issue/111/ma...isreview.orgMay 1968 and the revolt of the lycéens | International Socialist ReviewIf 1968 lives in the popular imagination as the year of student rebellion, the student-led revolt of May 1968 in France is one of its most indelible high points, an event whose sense of possibility... 011
Reposted by Caleb WardLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026DA insists her "'statement described her participation in drug use & sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, &consensual.' Unless today’s undergrads make a habit of reporting consensual sex &drug use to campus police, the DA’s confidence on this point is confusing." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...newyorker.comHow the “Cornell Seven” Rape Case Became a National ScandalThe dismal responses from both the D.A. and the university reveal a larger pattern of institutional carelessness. 1186
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ironically, I submitted some handmade ad copy for my book recently and looking at it I was suddenly worried ppl would think it was LLM 010
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Wake up kids, Meshell Ndegeocello cover album just dropped Yes yes yes please to this ANOHNI collabyoutube.comI Got You BabeYouTube video by Meshell Ndegeocello - Topic 131
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The newspapers have been using this trick for years now 000
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Wow, the Ani quote spinoff alone demands an immediate follow 110
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I can’t tell if folks are starting to internalize the style of ChatGPT etc in your academic writing, or if ppl are actually using LLMs to write your stuff. But I’m getting tired reading papers from students and colleagues with random paragraphs that suddenly read like ad copy 🙄 4221
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Whoa what a throwback. Can’t believe he’s still active. He stepped on my hand at the front of the stage in like 2002. simpler times 110
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For readers of German, this is a profile of him. For people studying the nuts and bolts of how corruption and especially land grabbing unfolds on the ground, I recommend reading some of his reporting.kontextwochenzeitung.deBangladesch und Menschenrechte: Im Exil weiterschreibenDer Journalist Sanjoy Kumar Barua berichtete in Bangladesch über die Verbrechen an der indigenen Bevölkerung und floh wegen Verfolgung nach Deutschland. 010
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Institutions, even the ones ostensibly most dedicated to so-called Enlightenment ideals, serve their own survival over that of the human beings that depend on them. 😔 030
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s incredible news, not just because it means a safer future for him and his family but it also means he can use that relative safety to continue writing about the situation of indigenous people in Bangladesh 🌱 180
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The news is that his asylum application was approved after 2 years waiting 1110
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A close friend of mine just got great, lifechanging news… even more lifechanging than winning a MacArthur Award. Is that feeling what they call hope? 2100
Reposted by Caleb Wardpaulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Rose Anne Prevec groundhoghill.ca 0145
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm feeling pretty enraged today at how shitty my people are (men). I hate this for us! I hate this for everyone we force to cast their lot with us! What the actual fuck. 000
Reposted by Caleb WardTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 30/09/2026"Institutes of higher education harbour known rape dens where men foster a culture of apathy and contempt towards women and are enabled to commit sexual assault" is perhaps something we should consider more objectionable than we currently do. 5523149
Reposted by Caleb WardTereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The theme of our next RUTA conference is freedom—what it is and what it isn’t. Who are the theorists, dissidents, and artists from the RUTA regions of Europe's East, Baltic, Caucasus, Central & Northern Asia—and globally—whose work we build on when we think about what freedom and oppression entail? 275
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On the essential importance of producing questions and not just answers👇 031
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. In the most extreme cases, it even poses a lethal threat to society. —Wisława Szymborska 011
Reposted by Caleb WardMark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...nytimes.comThe Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 (Gift Article)He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew. 16626
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them fifteen minutes later, and then another hour passes… Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?” 130
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Poets are the worst. Their work is hopelessly unphotogenic. —Wisława Szymborska 130
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My 5yo kid walked up behind me while I was posting this and said “what are you looking at? Audre Lorde? Black feminist?” I was like “YES! EXACTLY!” 130
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ladies and gentletheys, I have today discovered the answer to this question! Green. The outfit is green. 1256
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I say read Butler’s Parable of the Sower if you’re not sure where to start 🌱 060
Reposted by Caleb WardTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain. 52532662
Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think this is exactly the purpose here. To accelerate the rise of the right outside the cities. 040