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Dallas Allen

@dallasallen.bsky.social
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Teacher, Professor, scholar of literacy. All opinions my own. He/him

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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is exactly it. It’s frustrating as a literacy scholar to see the term “literacy crisis” thrown around without this nuance. People are assuming a level of illiteracy that isn’t reflective of reality. While there are certainly people who can’t read at all, I see this as the larger problem.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I find that, no matter how many ways I acknowledge LLMs etc are changing, people dismiss me as “crazy” or “unserious” because I refuse to attribute those changes to “intelligence.” I will say again, automated language production and intelligence are completely different things.
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Chuck Wolfmangione @dopeymcgeee.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Odyssey this, Odyssey that. Brother, you odyssey me eat deez hot dogs.
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Brad Whipple @NYCC @bradwhipple.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.
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Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Obviously, I’m aware there’s recency bias at play here, but The Odyssey may be my favorite Nolan film. It’s just so well done and such an interesting exploration of this story.
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Andrew Ferguson @dontfuck.men · 17/07/2026
Intellectually I know that The Hague is a real place and things other than The International Criminal Court exist there. I was still not prepared to read the sentence: “Shrek Rave Is Coming To The Hague!”
A poster for Shrek Rave with a giant green laser 3d head of Shrek wearing sunglasses. The text below says “Shrek Rave Is Coming To The Hague!”
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
First Geese now Goose?? Stop with the fowl related psyops.
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socks. @socks.onl · 30/06/2026
im done with nuance. if u won't loudly love the trans women in your life like their life depends on it (bc it fucking DOES) then i don't want you in my life. there is no discussion. it's too late for "trans women are valid!" it has to be "i will fight for u as long as i live because i love you!"
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MrSquid @mrsquid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My honest belief is that the dissenters should just be fully disbarred. You cannot sincerely believe the 14th Amendment does not contain birthright citizenship. To hold this is to be either so dishonest or so incapable of analysis that you cannot practice law.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
There’s something so hilariously sad about Trump celebrating his playlist in this quote.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Fucking ghouls.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
To the faculty who laugh-reacted the all faculty email at my university about a proposed tuition increase...I salute you.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It’s so disconcerting to me how much modern technology is designed explicitly to divorce us from the major great uniqueness of our species…our ability to think and reason. I don’t know. Seems bad.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Tech companies have been trying to make education more efficient forever, but good education is often necessarily inefficient. To struggle over something is to “waste” time, but of course that’s where the learning lives. A frictionless education is a useless one.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is literally what happened in the beginning of Nazi Germany. I’m not being hyperbolic.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“It contains capitalization errors”
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is scary, sure, but it would also backfire spectacularly. There’s not nearly enough ICE agents for this to do what they want. It would be little Minneapolis resistances everywhere.
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John Drake @johndrake.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
While rereading my dissertation this weekend I audibly said “what is wrong with me” at the sheer number of em dashes. No AI necessary.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The people responding to this with no obvious grasp of civics but with a near divine confidence in Trump’s godlike power is driving me insane.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
i hate fascists i hate pro-fascist propagandists i hate fascist apologists i hate fascist appeasers i hate apologists for fascist appeasers i hate how much hate i have in my heart
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Also, translation is interpretation. You can’t just one-to-one port over meaning. It’s a choice of how to best represent context. A machine can’t do this!
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I’m continually disappointed by higher ed in this moment.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Utter coward shit.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I’ve finally found a short story sadder than “baby shoes, never used”.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Thank you Canvas, for placing the AI helper button (that I didn’t even want) directly over the submit comment button on Speedgrader. Expert design there. Real upgrade to the service.
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Emma Baccellieri @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Beautiful sentence. God bless America.
The Pop-Tarts Bowl is considered first among equals and can pull rank.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 30/11/2025
and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I find this so bizarre and unsurprising. Yet again we see university admin sacrifice the ideals of the academy on the altar of comfort. The idea of taking any moral stand is anathema to them. Just sheer intellectual cowardice.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
This is obviously true, but even beyond that there are plenty white families and cultures who also do this! Ask my son and he’ll tell you he has like 10 aunts and uncles and I have two blood siblings. It’s a wholly invented and insidious controversy.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
This is obviously true, but even beyond that there are plenty white families and cultures who also do this! Ask my son and he’ll tell you he has like 10 aunts and uncles and I have two blood siblings. It’s a wholly invented and insidious controversy.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This is legitimately moving. What an incredible show of bravery and respect.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Lol, lmao even.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I love everything about this essay.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This flies in the face of the entire body of education literature. Just absolute rubbish.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Ezra Klein is really putting to the torch the idea that he ever was a smart guy. He’s speed running self destruction.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
sometimes I get a tiktok where I'm sitting there waiting for the punchline and then I'm like, oh no, it's just a dude in his twenties staring into the camera with sad music and the text "sometimes ur friends can be ur biggest betrayers". that's cool man, we had AIM Away messages for this
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2025
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2025
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A speech bubble below Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock, as if he is saying the quoted tweet.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/07/2025
the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I am not a physically imposing dude but I’m 100% I could take TCW in a fight. What a colossal dork.
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Dallas Allen @dallasallen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The last time this man was politically relevant, there were roughly 10-20 websites on the internet. This is not the same world. Stop giving this man column space!
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