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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 3h

For @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social I talked to Laurie Parsons about Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse newbooksnetwork.com/climate-hege...

Cover of Climate Hegemony by Laurie Parsons

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We need the opposite of the "youth pastor" meme for Christian adults, like someone to sit backwards on a chair and say "I know you're excited that they say they found Noah's Ark, but you know what else is causing devastating floods and killing off entire species?"

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What are some good strategies for keeping up with research being published in languages you don't speak? I can handle Spanish, Portuguese, and Swedish, but that still leaves out French, German, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, etc. #academicsky

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In 2020 I published an article documenting the links between WWI military cartography and Tolkien's maps of Middle-earth. Today I discovered the same point had been made four years earlier by Simon Ayrinhac, but published in French. Oops. www.tolkiendil.com/tolkien/etud...

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La représentation cartographique chez J.R.R. Tolkien - Tolkiendil

Tolkiendil, association des passionnés de l'œuvre de J.R.R. Tolkien dans le monde francophone.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social I talked to Jared Dahl Aldern and Theresa Lynn Gregor about "Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships" newbooksnetwork.com/landkeeping

Cover of "Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships" by Jared Dahl Aldern and Theresa Lynn Gregor

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How can you honestly look into this face and tell him that I have to "go to work" today?

Adorable orange and white kitten sitting in a human's lap, looking adorably up at the camera.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 24/09/2026

WAIT, WE SOLD 160 SUBSCRIPTIONS ALREADY! We need to sell 40 subscriptions to reach our goal of 200 subscribers by the end of the day! This deal will go away forever at midnight: www.theflytrapmedia.com/no-slop

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The Flytrap

Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I keep seeing these videos that say "How do I explain to my cat sitter that my cat does this weird thing," and look, I know several cat sitters and they love that shit.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Maybe it's just because I live in Pittsburgh, but I always find it so jarring to hear people treat furries as this weird scary alien thing. It's like someone trying to scare me by saying "Did you know many airline pilots are named *Kevin*???" I know a dozen Kevins, and half of them are furries too.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 22/09/2026

To the degree Roko’s basilisk does stand in as a proxy for a joint ideological commitment in tech, I think some significant number of tech people implicitly believe in a devil’s bargain that if they help build the global surveillance state they get to be one of the good ones that isn’t mowed down.

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.

An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People don't object to the *word* "cis," they object to the *concept* of cis. That is, they object to trans women and cis women being treated as distinct but equal subcategories of women, like tall women and short women (and likewise for men).

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Party of One Podcast @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Party of One Episode 500: The Creation of Wonder with A Bunch of My Friends How do you celebrate 500 episodes of your podcast? By inviting 37 of your friends to help celebrate by telling the story of a 20-year TTRPG campaign turned into a multimedia rock opera cinematic experience. Party On, yall.

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500 - The Party of One Episode 500 Spectacular (The Creation of Wonder with A Bunch of My Friends) - Party Of One

To celebrate 500 episodes(!) of the show, I sat down with a bunch of my friends to play The Creation of Wonder by Eve Golden-Woods. We told the story of The Singularity Cycle, Phase I. The Blade of th...

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads

and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did some astrologer pronounce 9/24 to be the most auspicious day for all business to be carried out? I have a dozen requests for meetings, appointments, etc for that specific day, but I can't do any of them because it's also the day I have to take a family member to a colonoscopy.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The baseline, moderate position is that every employee of ICE should be sentenced to life without parole.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 17/09/2026

I think focusing on the "sex cult" aspect of the rationalists, while understandable for attention-grabbing, puts the emphasis in the wrong places. Sure, yes, the rats have sex, and because they're a fucked up abusive cult, some of that is fucked up abusive culty sex, but that's not the focus.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The highest possible salary for someone teaching at a PA State System school, per our current CBA, is just under $140K. That's for a tenured full professor who has been around long enough to get to the top step of the pay scale.

Screenshot of APSCUF CBA showing a Step 13 faculty member in pay range 4 making an annual salary of $139,705.52.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My takeaway from the whole Talarico mess is that trans people should never trust a white person who makes "Christian" a big part of their identity.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people

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The Karlie Chronicles @karliechronicles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Mae does a good job of calling out the yellow streak in @jamestalarico.bsky.social 's back. I am so tired of being abandoned by cisgender Democrat “allies” when it is convenient. The point of being an ally, you may remember, is to come to the aid of those being attacked?

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Apparently Realtors have decided that "buying a duplex and renting out the other half to pay for your mortgage" is now known as "house hacking." Like you've found this clever trick of ... being a landlord.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Then we started racismmaxxing and went and shock-and-awe-mogged Iraq.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Charlie Kirk was extremely Christlike, in the sense that instead of having a real job he just got into arguments in public places with people who were smarter than him, then had his followers edit the records afterward to make it look like he totally owned them.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There was never any *unity,* even on 9/11 itself. There was only *conformity,* a pervasive demand for Us to shut up, bend the knee, and join in eliminationist violence toward Them.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Guy who's above average at a very specific type of analytic intelligence and concludes on this basis that he's the only conscious person in a world of meat robots" is a classic villainous archetype because if you ever went to college you probably knew like five of that guy.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nobody tell Trump that Quakers are a bunch of woke liberals, or else he'll try to change the name of PA to something like Kirksylvania.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm more interested in Lutheran Batman: - Tons of casseroles in the Batcave fridge - Bruce Wayne made his fortune selling tasteful modernist furniture - Sola bat-scriptura, sola bat-fide, sola bat-gratia

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I really hate the way the internet has conflated the concepts of "intrusive thought" and "impulsive thought" (e.g. the "I let the intrusive thoughts win" meme). It makes life harder for those of us with conditions like OCD that are characterized by intrusive thoughts.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am dead serious when I say that GTRLF:EB deserves to be studied in literature courses. An iconic first-gen Tingler that set the standard for the genre, and then the revised edition showing how Chuck's approach and relations with his audience grew over time.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social I talked with Christy Hyman ( @writingtwobooks.bsky.social ) about The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp: newbooksnetwork.com/the-cultural...

Cover of The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp by Christy Hyman

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

These guys are going to be really confused when they trigger the end times, but it turns out it's Ragnarok instead of the Rapture, and they all get eaten by Fenrir.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I think it's specifically that moral judgment *by those who are socially inferior* is held to be illegitimate. "How dare The Poors criticize me, a Bona Fide Success Man?" The purpose of moral judgment is (in their eyes) to maintain social hierarchies, not to hold everyone equally accountable.

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026

For the racist, racism is: 1. Pleasurable, emotionally 2. A way to build social bonds in a racist society 3. Financially profitable Therefore, racism is a rational choice by the racist. Your racist uncle is not "crazy." Your racist uncle has made a choice.

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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The end game is what Thomson Reuters/Westlaw is now pushing us to - access only through a forced Generative AI model, where they no longer invest in legacy research platforms that left the human in control of the results and research strategies. 4/5

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

For @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social I talked to Alejandro Camacho and Brigham Daniels about "Lessons for a Warming Planet": newbooksnetwork.com/lessons-for-...

Cover of "Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of US Environmental Law" by Alejandro E. Camacho and Brigham Daniels

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

On a policy level I am in favor of legalizing weed, but on a personal level I can't understand how anyone finds the recreational effects of the drug to be worth having to smell it.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Counter-opinion: Unionize literally every profession connected with higher education. Grad students. Adjuncts. Staff. Custodians. Undergrad student workers. Employers exploit any "wiggle room" in the system, so now we give them absolutely none.

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've seen a bunch of thinkpieces about how all of Christopher Nolan's films have the same themes and storyline about a troubled great man, but to my disappointment so far none of them have referred to The Odyssey as "OppenHomer."

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I can only assume the White House left the label for Ohio off this map specifically as a slight against JD Vance.

Facebook post from The White House: JUST NOW: President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office renaming Lake Ontario to LAKE AMERICA! EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. 🇺🇸, with a map showing the Great lakes, with Lake Ontario renamed Lake America. The map includes labels for Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania, but not Ohio.

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