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Kate Averett @convergecollide.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Go to graduate school and maybe you, too, can someday have a job as a professional email writer!

Kate Averett @convergecollide.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I need a good to-do list app that I can use on my work laptop (PC) — anyone have one they love/like/would recommend? It doesn’t need to be overly complicated; I mostly just need to be able to organize by task type (color coding ideal!). I hate the one connected to Outlook.

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Kate Averett @convergecollide.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sociologists! I am teaching my Gender and Families senior seminar again this fall and would like 1-2 new-ish books to add into the rotation for my book group assignment. Have you read (or written) such a book lately that you’d like to recommend?

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Kate Averett @convergecollide.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We have been sitting at just below 40% of the goal for Shantel’s fundraiser for a few days now. I know a lot of #sociology and other academic folks are on here — can you chip in $5-10 to get us a bit closer?

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Kate Averett @convergecollide.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Reposting for the daytime crowd. Can you chip in $5 or $10?

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Kate Averett @convergecollide.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hey y’all — our friend @sgbuggs.bsky.social needs our help! As you may already know, her beloved fur-baby Saba has cancer and recently had to have surgery. Her friends and larger community are rallying behind her to help defray the costs of Saba’s care. (1/3)

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Kate Averett @convergecollide.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I’m not a mom, but I am a scholar of, among other things, mothering/motherhood in the United States. Mothering is hard work, and our society certainly makes it harder. Sending love to those who mother today. Imagining a collective future where the work of nurturing and care is valued and supported!

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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This child is in prison. He is a US citizen that has committed no crime, has not faced a jury of his peers and has not been charged with anything at all. He is 2 months old. In prison. He is 2 months old and in prison.

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Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 13/02/2026

Meta hopes you won’t notice their privacy invaders because you’re busy resisting authoritarianism. Prove them wrong. They’re part of the same fascist protect.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

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Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 12/02/2026

This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

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UT-Austin to merge race, ethnic and gender study programs

More than 800 students are pursuing degrees in the affected departments, which include African, Latino and gender studies.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵: -The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Sarah Brayne, Sarah Lageson and Karen Levy have a nice paper on “surveillance deputies.” Ring wants to deputize your pet dog. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Surveillance deputies: When ordinary people surveil for the state | Law & Society Review | Cambridge Core

Surveillance deputies: When ordinary people surveil for the state - Volume 57 Issue 4

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

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Kate Averett @convergecollide.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I love good dancing/choreography/staging of a performance so much.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Billie Holiday avoids making political statement, sings Strange Fruit instead

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

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lilli 🤠 @lillianbf.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

second sentence of the SI article about rickea is a run through of the abusers stats. if you're a journalist, don't do this. it doesn't matter how many sacks he had!! if you're including that you suck!!

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Rickea Jackson was the 4th overall pick in the 2024 WNBA draft. Wikipedia: In her rookie season, started in 35 of 40 regular season games, and averaged 13.4 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.5 assists. She was named to the 2024 WNBA All-Rookie Team. Women's lives and accomplishments matter!

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

We've seen this before, the implication that this man's brilliant future will be jeopardized because of his crimes. But what about Rickea Jackson, herself an incredibly accomplished athlete!

He was picked in the first round by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2025 NFL Draft, and the runner-up for Defensive rookie of the year.

Pearce had 10.5 sacks during his rookie year, the most by a Falcons rookie since Micah Parsons (Dallas Cowboys) in 2021.

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm going to be thinking of Rickea Jackson and hoping that she is safe and has people to care for her. but also want to fucking note that in this news article about two very accomplished athletes, only the information about the perpetrator was given. www.local10.com/news/local/2...

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Falcons’ James Pearce Jr. jailed after police chase, domestic incident with WNBA player: Cops

NFL star linebacker James Pearce Jr. was arrested Saturday after fleeing a domestic dispute and crashing his vehicle during a police chase, according to Doral Police Chief Edwin Lopez.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Boston Ballet part 2

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The Boston Ballet accepted the challenge!

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Need a mood boost? Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

MILAN (AP) — The troubled Caribbean country, Haiti, has fielded two athletes for the Milan Cortina Winter Games, and they will proudly wear Haitian symbols — although one less than intended after intervention by the International Olympic Committee.

The skiers will compete in uniforms designed by Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean that originally featured an image of Toussaint Louverture, the former slave who led a revolution that created the world’s first Black republic in 1804. The IOC ruled that the image violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism, requiring Jean to come up with a creative solution: painting over the nation’s founding father.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances. What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.

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United University Professions @uupinfo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Negotiations with New York State for a new UUP contract began today! The Negotiations Team has been working hard on a comprehensive set of proposals, and team members were looking forward to getting to the table. Thank you to the Team! Read more here: uupinfo.org/communicatio...

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 04/02/2026

The reason "Abolish ICE" scares them so much is because it speaks to the power of political imagination. Our political imagination has been intentionally suppressed in favor of the stagnation and inertia of the short-term profit economy's political desires. This is existential as well as physical.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Hey @schumer.senate.gov please tell me EXACTLY what a body cam is gone do for this baby girl. Put it in record . Because I want it read at your reckoning

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

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sally, who makes yachts @sally-yachts.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Yet another attempt at laundering the public image of a surveillance state kingpin. Don't fall for it.

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Kate Averett @convergecollide.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Accidentally ordered an iced coffee instead of hot in the Dunks app this morning so if you need me I’ll be leaning into my queer/Bostonian stereotypes extra hard this morning.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 01/02/2026

I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was. I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works" NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T

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Kate Averett @convergecollide.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If you aren’t watching Unrivaled you are MISSING OUT. Marina Mabrey just scored 27 points in a 7-minute quarter, including SEVEN threes.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

If you've given biometrics to TSA (Pre-Check and Global Entry members) and you plan to attend a protest, you should wear a medical mask.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I'm a journalist and attorney, not an activist, so I've no answers on what Americans should do right now. I only know this: Donald Trump is attempting to incite a civil war so he can cancel all future elections, and he will keep executing citizens until that outcome is achieved.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I WANT MORE ELECTED DEMS TO SAY "future prosecution of ICE agents."

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The claim that he had a gun. The claim that a gun somehow was reason to shoot him after wrestling him to the ground. The claim that there was any reason for heavily armed goons to approach him. The claim that ICE should even be on the streets. NONE of these should be accepted at face value.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

Tell your Senators to strip DHS out of the bill before they vote yes this week or vote no entirely bsky.app/profile/chan...

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