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Stentor Danielson

@chefstentor.bsky.social
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Cartographer, podcaster, academic studying wildfire, Q method, and fantasy maps. Settler in Jaödeogë’ (Pittsburgh). They/them. mapsburgh.com carrierbagpodcast.blogspot.com glittercats.itch.io

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Knowing how many buildings burned, and how much of each building burned, is essential; but it tells us nothing about what the buildings were used for, who depended on them, and by what miracle of persistence they existed at all." Nicole Lambrou, on "What the Count Misses" in wildfire recovery:
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What the Count Misses
Wildfire recovery tends to overlook damage that can’t be measured. In Altadena, the number of buildings that burned in the Eaton Fire says little about what residents really lost.
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RNS | Covering the world of religion. [Unofficial] @religionnews.com.web.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
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I wrote a history of antisemitism in America. Even I am stunned by what’s happening now.
(RNS) — A year after her book on antisemitism was published, and on the eve of Oct. 7, scholar Pamela Nadell writes she is stunned by the 'growing crescendo' of antisemitism.
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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The idea of having AI do your *hobbies* for you ... it's like someone who says they're really into hiking but they actually just turned a roomba loose on the Appalachian Trail.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
one of the biggest issues to me w/LLMs is that they're prone to confidently providing incorrect or only correct-adjacent answers to questions. and cops and authoritarians love getting confident answers on who the bad guys are and extremely resistant to evidence that those answers are wrong
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i would rather remove my eyeballs than witness an AI tingler cover
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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump has ascended to a plane where language and reason have fallen away to leave behind the pure light of bigotry. He can bypass the conscious mind and inject hatred and cruelty directly into the brainstem.
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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People pointing out that Trump is incoherent and factually incorrect are missing the point. Trump's words have never been chosen to communicate information -- they simply express the emotion of "us good, them bad." And his followers cheer because they get it.
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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Have they tried not doing child sexual abuse?
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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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
I know they didn't actually find Noah's Ark, but I'll let them believe it if it motivates them to put half as much energy into addressing climate change.
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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
I know the real answer is "learn to speak those languages, you whiny American" but fluency takes time. Google Translate is helpful when there's a specific piece (in electronic format) I want to engage, but less so for broad-scale searching/skimming/monitoring.
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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
Since when is free daycare "Democrats' favorite policy"? Pretty sure Dems' favorite policies are: 1. Throwing trans people under the bus 2. Harsher and more inhumane treatment of migrants 3. Expanding fossil fuel extraction
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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My article (in English, and citing only English sources) here: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...
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Military Cartography’s Influence on Tolkien’s Maps of Middle-earth
The published maps of Middle-earth by Christopher Tolkien drew on extensive drafts made by his father during the process of his writing. These drafts enable tracing the possible influence of the elder...
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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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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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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
If you only want to deal with pets that only ever act normal then you'd become a fish-sitter or something.
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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 · 24/09/2026
But Iceland is second only to Turkey for countries where you meet random friendly cats on the street.
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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Furries have done way more for society than Tommy Tuberville ever has. www.anthrocon.org/charity-even...
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Charity Event History | Anthrocon 2027 — LEVEL 30: BEGIN — July 1-4, 2027
The Charity Auction at Anthrocon started when the convention began back in 1997. Over the years, Anthrocon has raised over $647,000 for various charities. Anthrocon’s Charity Auction has consistently ...
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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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ve, the ghost of info past @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
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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
Thanks to our union, that pay rate is the same across disciplines -- a history prof and a medical prof with the same seniority make the same salary. www.passhe.edu/hr/labor-rel...
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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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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The guy calling himself "John Brown stan" is lecturing us on how oppressed people should just ask nicely for their rights? Like, does he think they were just planning to have a picnic at Harper's Ferry?
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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
Just swapped my old gas stove for an induction one, and it's great!
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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
I like the part where it says "need somebody with arms *long pause*" so that you're like "yes, Trump really does have arms."
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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Democrats will sacrifice 20 leftist voters in order to win over one conservative voter, and then not get any conservatives' votes.
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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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