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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Subsequent attempts are ignored completely. Child refuses concept of giving a name to another being. The fish simply is.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Ask again later. “What’s the fishy’s name?” “Meow?” (Similar question structure to animal noises). But fish is not a cat, we explain it’s a different question, he’s not convinced.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Got our almost-2-yo a betta fish. He’s very excited about Fishy. Tried to explain the concept of a name (his name is ___, dog’s name is Arlo, etc). Seemed fine. What is fish’s name? He tries. “Rock?” (Fish likes/has rocks/gravel). We affirm, but he refuses to validate the choice.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

While it’s true one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, I’m wholly enamoured with the cover art for my new book. It looks phenomenal. Read about the artwork that begat the cover design here: cassandrahartblay.net/2025/10/21/o...

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How does one choose an image for an ethnographic monograph? And how did this one come to be? The cover for Access Vernaculars features a painting by artist Andrei Roiter, with text design by Cornel…

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Looking forward to the inevitable bombshell report exposing exactly how many university administrators took bribes from edtech AI companies

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In honor of my book coming out next week, I got some new professional photos taken and spiffed up my website. Hard to believe that the previous version, up since 2014, was more than 10 years old!!

Screenshot of homepage of Cassandra’s website with a photo of her holding a cup of tea and looking at the camera, and text describing her work.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Please note that in an earlier post the date was wrong. It is Tuesday the 14th, NOT Wed the 15th.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Join me next Tuesday for a virtual book launch event for my new book, Access Vernaculars. Hosted by the Society for Disability Studies. With discussants Raquel Velho and @xcherkaev.bsky.social, and organized by @mw-m.bsky.social ! Get the book at @cornellupress.bsky.social

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Sorry, the 14th. I’m going to delete this post and try again :) thanks for noticing.

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colin feral @sal.gay · 22/09/2025

It was the omg of times, it was the Jfc of times

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/09/2025

Last week at @4sweb, I got the honour of being on a on Disability Access, Infrastructure, & Technoableism panel w/ @chartblay.bsky.social , @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, & Raquel Velho, learning from & speaking w/ them & @disabilitystor1.bsky.social & @besswww.bsky.social, as commenters & interlocutors…

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Canada treating MAID like a pressure release valve will never not horrify me. The cold cruelties of a system that exists to repeatedly communicate the message to disabled people that they are disposable, and more efficient at dispensing death than it is at care.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I understand. Apologies for overstepping and thanks for taking the time to explain …

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Could be that someone made an error in the calendar software that generated the message? Worth politely checking that wasn’t the case

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My 1.5 yo child pointed at this photo in a coffeeshop and said, “mama!” So now I know what movie I’m watching next time I can stay awake

Framed Photo of Linda Cardellini as Velma in Scooby Doo 2

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It’s slave labor. The goal of the whole tariff grift is a new global chattel slavery order. 🤬

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 23/04/2025

love to get letters from the government asking if i’m jewish

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Among the most offensive things about technocultic rhetoric around so much (AI, robotics, and more) is how easily (often-abled) techbros of all levels deploy disability and disabled people as a cover for whatever asinine/BS claim they make to investors, journos or VCs.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

So my guess is that trifold letter envelopes exist because the people who started using envelopes had previously used wax seals. Signed, someone who uses techniques from past technologies in the present @dearhankandjohn.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @hankgreen.bsky.social #envelopes

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I feel like this is all about the way that people keep doing things one way after the reason for it ends. A vestigial fold, if you will. Old correspondence was scrolls. Then paper sealed with wax. A trifold makes a lot of sense for a wax seal.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

In the latest episode of @dearhankandjohn.bsky.social someone wondered how and why envelopes fit trifolded paper, asking wouldn’t it be easier to just fold the paper in half. Guesses abounded but I’m still stuck on one that John & Hank missed (and surely a historian on here will set us straight)

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

roses are red carnations are white

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This course sounds amazing! What an honor to be included!

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is the wildest story I have literally ever read. In any normal circumstances, a half-dozen senior officials would be forced to resign over this—starting with the National Security Advisor. And I doubt anyone will face any accountability at all.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025

I believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 11/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Horrifying that this literal sanctioning of sexual assault got so many GOP votes, but relieved it didn’t pass. Small blessings for girls & women who play sports.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

See, college kids, you can’t trust ChatGPT to do your work for you

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2025

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This is a bigger scandal than people realize. It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance. If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was. Putin.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today, the current occupant of the White House and his lap dog @JDVance tried to act tough. Zelenskyy made it clear to the world how weak they are. They have reduced the United States position to be nothing more than Putin or bust. Zelenskyy smartly chose to go home.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I actually feel sick after watching that.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The scene that just unfolded in the Oval Office is appalling. Trump and Vance berating Zelenskiy on live TV? We’re so focused on how much Musk controls Trump, are we missing a bigger picture?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Once again, I've never heard an instance of "DEI forces" dictating what a professor can or cannot teach, but I've seen more and more of this garbage from the other direction.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I’ve been working on this in some way or another since 2005, when I started considering the topic on undergraduate study abroad. That makes this a 20 year project. Other related projects started after and were published first. I work slowly, and that’s okay. Maybe even good?

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I’ve lost count long ago of the number of times the project got stalled, or had to be rethought because the academic conversation shifted (mostly in good ways), or the was delayed and had to be reshaped by changes in geopolitics (me, next week: writing an afterword begging the editor to stick it in)

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Wowza! Page proofs! The thing is typeset - it’s really happening?! This is technically my second book, but in a lot of ways that count, it is my first book… the book that developed out of my dissertation.

Page proof of the title page for an academic book, reading:
ACCESS VERNACULARS: Disability and Design in Contemporary Russia
Cassandra Hartblay
Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

So true. Baffled by straight people. And women who participate in their own oppression in this way.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Me watching this unfold, and I had to stop it and come here because Jesus fuck, Lauren, if your partner is friends with people who will slut shame you, and he’ll believe them, walk away.

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Laura Mauldin @lauramauldin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

In the opening of my book out next year with Ecco, I cite stats on how common disability is (6 in 10 US adults have a chronic condition, 26% of US adults have a disability) and use its ubiquity as a place to start talking about ableism and what it means to be human, and how we need care.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I’ll be on a virtual panel tomorrow on “bodies in focus” in Eurasian studies. It’s the end of a great series. The discussion will focus on intersectional liberation. What would you all like to hear me talk about? slaviccenter.osu.edu/events/bodie...

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Bodies in Focus: Body Matters & Liberation in East European and Eurasian Studies (Panel 6)

Register hereThis six-part virtual event series will examine body matters within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. The body-as-method has emerged recently to provide novel insights ...

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 20/02/2025

Things are changing quickly. US lawmakers are now voting under credible threats of bodily harms and untimely deaths.

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stephen fowler @stphnfwlr.com · 18/02/2025

Elon Musk not being the leader of DOGE is a legal+technical distinction that contradicts public representations made by Musk, DOGE + President Trump about the billionaire's position in the government, and continues to raise questions about operations that Musk claimed to be "maximally transparent."

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White House says Elon Musk is not in charge of DOGE -- legally, anyway

Elon Musk is not the legal administrator in charge of the "Department of Government Efficiency," the White House said in a court filing, and has "no actual or formal authority" to make decisions.

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