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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, and infections on the lower left side of the jaw, which can go straight to your heart!

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 8h

2K lifetime for the orthodontist is a great deal! And yet still out of reach for so many people. It's wild.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 8h

I'm at the exact opposite end of the country

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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 11h

I'm so excited for the session @josheyler.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and I are hosting tomorrow, Resisting the Use of AI in Education: Taking a stand for our students and our colleagues, at 1:00 pm ET. Are you registered?

Announcing a live webinar on Resisting the Use of AI in Education: Taking a Stand for Our Students and Our Colleagues. Event takes place on October 13, 2026, at 1:00 pm ET. Speakers are Cate Denial (University of Minnesota Rochester), Joshua Eyler (University of Mississippi), Kevin Gannon (Queens University Charlotte), and Liz Norell (University of Mississippi).

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 14h

Why exactly are teeth considered luxury bones in the U.S.? (I'm sure the answer is "capitalism.") I have dental insurance - a mighty $2000 a year. I have used it. I now have to spend $2100 on a root canal today, and have $10,000 more of dental work to go. Who tf has an "extra" $12,100 lying around?

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Soak is my go-to for hand-washing in general, and washing my knitting projects in particular

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This might be more niche than you want, but Soak is available at Handcraft Happy Hour, 3600 Clipper Mill Rd, Suite 117, Baltimore, MD, United States, 21211

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The material facts on the ground - that a person could invite people over to a home in any state of being and serve whatever - do not matter to the people writing these think pieces. Their point is to bemoan the at-large status of women as independent, non-servile beings.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Read a thread in which people were debating whether AI is actually intelligent, and marveled at how fast people descended into "your reply isn't intelligent/you show no evidence of being intelligent yourself." Sorting humans based on "intelligence" is eugenics. This is not a winning argument.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/10/2026

Anthropic's new User Policy forbids you from engaging in "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models". It does not, however, explain what the fuck this could possibly mean.

anthropic.com

2026 Usage Policy update

We’re publishing a new version of our Usage Policy. In this post, we summarize the changes we’ve made.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I spent such a great afternoon with the history faculty at Fordham, discussing experiential learning. This sign, seen along the way, cracked me up.

a photograph of a sign that says "Alarmed Stair. Emergency Exit Only."

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

People who say that we should be careful to be nice to computer systems do not have the sense they were born with. Do not listen to a word they say.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love this. It's like a military formation and they're coming for us.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The death penalty is wrong, and the way it's undertaken - in highly controlled circumstances, often late at night - betrays a lingering sense of shame. But Trump and co. have no shame, and I have no doubt that if the accused was white, they wouldn't be doing this, nor livestreaming it.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What the hell. This man and everyone who accedes to his wishes . . . . just . . . . AHHHHH.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

right? And we know the answer to why they wrote essays - because the college messed up big time.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The author of this piece messes up what restorative justice *actually* means. Restorative justice must center the victim/survivor, and make sure they are receiving justice. It's not about the college's wishes, or the wishes of those who caused harm. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

chronicle.com

Why the Cornell Men Accused in the ‘Jane Doe’ Case Wrote Essays

Inaccurate claims that reflective writing was their only punishment sparked an outcry.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Heartbreaking doesn't seem powerful enough a word, but it's what we have.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was a delight to spend part of my morning with the good folks at Trent University, as the inaugural speaker in their Beyond the Page conversation series. People asked such great questions, and I appreciated every one of them!

A flyer for Beyond the Page, a conversation series at Trent University in Canada. The flyer shows a photo of me smiling, and the cover of my book, A Pedagogy of Kindness

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I also knitted the scarf in the photo

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I taught my whole methods class on the historiography of the American West. I didn't use one book, I used articles from Turner onward. I can send you the syllabus?

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also if I never hear another leader say "we're listening and learning" it will be too soon.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is so meek. It gets at none of the issues of power on the campus, and elides the comparisons the student journalists at Cornell pointed out between the consequences for sexual assault and those for protesting Gaze or plagiarizing an essay. Feeble.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Historically (no pun intended) I have not enjoyed being in Philly. But still. Respect.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love this. Immediately planning a vacation there.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am incensed by sexual violence, and also angry that the systems that have disappointed people are actually working as intended. A system's purpose is what it does. It's pretty hard to make progress without acknowledging that.

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Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Believe it or not, the Supreme Court was presented as far back as 1947 with the question whether attempting to execute someone a second time, after a botched first go round (then, in a portable electric chair known as “Rusty”), was cruel and unusual.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote this a while ago, about living with PTSD after sexual assault, and trying to live a life. It's on my mind a lot given everything in the news. medium.com/disability-a...

medium.com

New York

I was in town to rediscover the kind of person I could be.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These are all from an anti-AI perspective, which is obviously only one part of the story, but there are a lot of resources here: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

catherinedenial.org

Against Generative AI – Cate Denial

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The state has no business putting anyone to death, and I hope to god that this finally qualifies as cruel and inhuman punishment and she is allowed to live.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Julie Cidell @jlcidell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really needed to read this today. You should read it, too.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The end of an era! Thank you for all the years you've put into this, Cathy!

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I modeled the language in my syllabi after @nbedera.bsky.social's language here. It's so deftly done.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm glad it resonated! Thank you!

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