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Holy shit.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.

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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The folk protest music scene is back

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this might be the single worst thing ever uttered at a UN General Assembly certainly the worst thing said by the leader of a purported democracy

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The White House Press Corps should've walked out as soon as the Trump regime banned the Associated Press for calling the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of Mexico." That was Feb 15, 2025. The first month of Trump Term II. Not surprising that abandoning principles for weak acquiescence led to more abuse.

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Rochesterians— Support a local business while showing #LakeOntario pride. T-shirts, hats, and posters on north Culver Rd. #ROC www.lakeontariopress.com

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 31/08/2026

· #AcademicSky · The loss of 111,000 international students in the school year that has just begun will cost the United States US$3.4 billion and almost 40,000 jobs, says a new study from NAFSA: Association of International Educators and JB International, a US-based education management company.

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US$3.4 billion loss from drop in international students

The loss of 111,000 international students in the school year that has just begun will cost the United States US$3.4 billion and almost 40,000 job...

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

1794 Treaty of Canandaigua between the U.S. and Six Nations recognizes Seneca territory as bounded by Lake Ontario.

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just made my first ever batch of jam —with the abundance of peaches from our CSA. 😋

An array of four jars of homemade peach jam sitting on a kitchen counter

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just deleted the Google Maps app from my phone. A company of pandering Uriah Heeps

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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/08/2026

U.S. students hoping to earn a Ph.D. in political science, public policy, cultural anthropology, or science education will no longer be eligible for a prestigious fellowship from the National Science Foundation, the agency has revealed. scim.ag/4hXaGy1

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NSF shrinks support for social sciences in prestigious graduate fellowship program

New solicitation excludes students in seven fields and science education

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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Mina @minerva1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Schools won’t give kids an ibuprofen without signed permission from parents. But we’re supposed to believe they’re doing secret gender surgeries.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The problem with how political discourse in the US uses internal culture war framings for all disputes is that even Americans who oppose Trump struggle to grasp how for neighbouring states such attacks increasingly resemble full war

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Dear American Beef Producers, I made a special deal for foreign sellers to undercut you. My tariffs and other actions raised prices, and I want burgers to look cheaper ahead of the election. Also, expect extra high feed and transportation costs next year due to my war. You're welcome. Best, DJT

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m saving this for my course on Culture and Politics in Latin America. Students seem to like readings that have a personal element that helps them understand what abstract concepts such as dictatorship and disappearances are like and empathize with the people who experienced them.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

I’m not trying to hear about plagiarism from people who can’t get anything done without AI. You’re disqualified on this one. That plagiarism is bad is supposed to be a settled social belief. AI use muddies the whole thing.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There is no funding model for running modern R1 research universities without foreign students & federal funding. We should stop pretending there is & things are somehow going to be fine & actually have our leaders get out in public & explain this to voters, loudly & clearly & constantly.

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Unfollowing, muting, or blocking people who repost lots of AI memes. We all have choices to make.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Every time someone posts about AES, I think: “Wow, the American Ethnological Society sure is getting a lot of attention these days!” #AbdulEl-Sayed @amethno.bsky.social #anthrosky

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When the *liberal arts* dean endorses adoption of the student AI club’s tool for preparing course materials. 🙄 🙄 What are we doing here, people?

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Trump has denied most disaster requests from Democratic-led states

A graph showing Presidential approval rates for disaster requests from Democratic-led states and Republican-led states

Source: POLITICO's E&E News analysis of FEMA records

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Catcher in the Rye Chex

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.

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Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump 'Mega Master' Hearings Accelerate

A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hearings more than doubled in New York City in June, as a new tactic of hastily scheduled court dates rolled out.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Not a single word about how these tariffs violate both our WTO & USCMA obligations. Every time Trump does this, the NYT & other outlets simply write as if we live in an international vacuum, where the US has no obligations under signed, ratified international treaties. It's journalistic malpractice.

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

So many innocent people have died and will die because of one monster’s ego and the soulless cooperation of his enablers in the admin, military, and right-wing media. The resistance needs to shift into high gear. If we are not active in our opposition, we are as guilty as those who drop the bombs.

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This just killed several PhD programs at my university.

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Very Unhealthy = current air quality index in Upstate New York Just standing outside for 10 minutes led to a coughing fit. 😷 #Rochester

Phone screenshot of Weather app showing the Air Quality Index for Rochester currently is 236, which rates as Very Unhealthy, related to wildfires in northern Ontario.

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Just another summer day in upstate New York when the sky is too orange from blazing Canadian wildfires that the kids can’t even walk to the public library.

Suburban upstate New York neighborhood scene in which the sky is orange because of raging Canadian wildfires to the north.

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A voice as smooth as honey 🍯 🎶 RIP Mr. Neill

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Portland Press Herald is reporting that Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition & Presente! Maine say the person who died in the shooting is a 26-year-old Colombian man authorized to work in the U.S. & had been issued a Social Security number. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

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Live updates: Man killed in Biddeford ICE-involved shooting ID’ed as 26-year-old from Colombia

Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026

harpers.org/archive/2018...

21 Grahams

From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina.

A race-baiting, xenophobic bigot
The Islamic State’s “man of the year”
The death of the GOP’s relationship with Hispanic voters
A death blow to the GOP’s relationship with women
The world’s biggest jackass
A wrecking ball
A salesman of fear
A politician whose ideas are gibberish
A politician who is incapable of representing a mattress company
A poor representation of a Republican
A president who is unfit for office
A president who sometimes crosses the line
A Twitter user whose tweets are sometimes beneath the office of the presidency
A man who has a blind spot
A thoughtful person
A good person
A strong person
A golfer with an accurate drive and an athletic swing
A president doing a great job
The best hope in decades for peace
A potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Nearly 30 percent of American adults cannot paraphrase or make inferences from a multipage text. In 2017, that number was less than 20 percent." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When universities and economic systems and political systems incentivize cheating, you get cheating. Look to the administrators who’re greasing the skids for the cheating machine instead of at the students who are doing what they’re implicitly being told to do.

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Once again, I am begging people not to ignore red flags. The Nazi tattoo and the fact that he was a mercenary soldier-for-hire were two huge red flags. There is still time to replace him on the ballot.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Just throwing out there if Platner withdraws at any time prior to July 13th, the Maine Democratic Party will have until 5 pm on July 27th to name a replacement on the ballot. If you're concerned about whether Platner is the linchpin to taking back the Senate, there is a non-fiasco way out.

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