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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Looks like it's high time for another FFS press release and social Thursday Oct 29!

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tell me more, WaPo, tell me more

stacked headline of two stories, one "3 science-backed ways to help your brain clear out waste" below, "GOP at risk of significant state legislative losses"

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's still time to submit to #ASECS! Please consider submitting to my roundtable on #18c weaponized misinformation, a topic which is sadly relevant right now.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These two gremlins were Chloe and Molly, my Dad's cats. The first lived to around 25 (adopted as a stray), the other ran off to who knows where around 20, I think. They took no shit from anyone, human or animal. I miss them.

Molly attempting to steal my Dad's food.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The latest from the UH Chapter of #AAUP: the state-imposed core curricular review decimates faculty stewardship of curricula, peer review, and academic freedom. aaup-uh.com/wp-content/u...

RE: UH AAUP Concerns Regarding the SB37-Related Core Course Evaluation Framework and
the Core Curriculum Working Group Recommendations
Dear Administrators and Core Review Committee Members,
We write to express our concerns regarding the SB37-Related Core Course Evaluation Framework
document and the Core Curriculum Working Group Recommendations document dated July 7, 2026.
We believe the interpretation and application of SB37 regarding the core curriculum review and the
recommendations made raise serious concerns about (1) the process used to select courses for
elimination, (2) the proper application of SB37, and (3) whether departments had meaningful choice
to relist or remove 3000-level courses . . . .

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

hey look who's coming to my campus?

john sailer comes to UH to flog the viewpoint diversity thing

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A great approach to the humanities "defense" problem, though I wish N. Angel Pinillos had found a better term than "skills" to describe what we teach and what we do in our fields.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

ladies & gents with a touch of gray

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

incidentally, this is what you look like after writing a book on cynicism

dave standing in front of the fountain at central park looking puzzled but attentive

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

via Tom Pepinsky. You better believe that everything happening in higher ed right now is about the authoritarian "remaking of society"

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

#ASECS calls out "Chancellor" Creighton at Texas Tech for their curricular interventions.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

For no particular reason, here's an image of King Herod about to be eaten by worms earlychurchhistory.org/politics/her...

Herod doing evil stuff, looking evil, about to be devoured by worms.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The Faux Faculty Senate are back with another round of helpful advice for our brethren throughout the state. Here we warn faculty not to teach Huck Finn or the Modest Proposal, if they know what's good for them.

As literature professors, we often look to the classics to provide some guidance. We therefore
recommend the immediate removal of Huck Finn because of its controversial “anti-Christian”
bias. To get both sides of this story, however, we contacted Harriet Beecher Stowe’s literary
agency to see how she’d react to Huck’s views on Christianity. Sadly, we were not able to get
through to her, but we imagine that polling deceased authors might be the best way to reach a
“broad balanced approach” to a questionable text that we are only too eager to cross off our list.
We also looked back to the foul legacy of that enthusiast for cannibalism, Jonathan Swift, whose
printed pamphlets were constantly hunted down (for good reasons!) by the authorities who put a
bounty on his guilty head. Clearly, there’s no reason to teach something that might be construed
as pro-cannibalism or anti-Christian. We urge everyone, then, not to teach any such dangerous
texts in the future, unless they can be proven not to upset anyone, anywhere, at any time. This
seems like a reasonable compromise to us.
In the meantime, why not attend our next Faux Faculty Senate happy hour on Thursday,
March 12 at 5 pm till 7 pm at Eric’s in the Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management
on the UH campus. We will bring along our Scrabble game and invite animated discussions over
possibly controversial topics like “What the hell are we supposed to avoid now?”

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Hey it's another FFS press release, this time featuring an exclusive interview with Plato.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

"You will be haunted by three spirits"

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

David Bowie singing into mike on his Diamond Dogs tour

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This is a person who finished his final class of Fall 25.

This is a person, ie, Dave Mazella who finished his final class of Fall 25

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Last FFS Happy Hour for the term, at Bohemeo's 5-7, Dec 11! Also, some helpful hints about "wokeness" and "indoctrination"

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

sure is, but we've created a Faux Faculty Senate at UH, where we meet off campus

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Another installment of the Faux Faculty Senate's press releases, this time about "Forbidden Words!" Find out which words might get you into trouble. And don't forget our upcoming Happy Hour at the Den, across from the campus rec center, 4-6 pm on Nov. 13th

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Here's another installment of the Faux Faculty Senate press releases. This one praises the state of Texas for finding a use for its faculty senates. Great seeing everyone at No Kings, and see you soon at the Den on November 13th!

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The UH FFS has distributed its latest press release concerning our President's so-called "Compact with Higher Ed." Also: the link between agility training and university governance. Take a look, and consider attending our Mimo's event on Oct. 9. Details attached.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

New UH Faux Faculty Senate Press Release just dropped, discussing Texas State and Angelo State's recent moves against academic freedom and tenure

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The UH Faux Faculty Senate deplores the illegal firings of college faculty in TX institutions. We'd like to see you at our first event, which will be held at Mimo on 736 1/2 Telephone Road on Thursday Oct. 9 from 4-6pm. Thanks!

this shows a press release from an organization that needs some saving

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Goodbye, LA, you’re the best!

A wall’s graffiti says “Donald Trump a meme la [pela] [?]

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Oh this is awful, my condolences to you & Kevin. Here’s Phoebe

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Today’s highlight from Juneau, AK: got a kiss from a future Iditarod Alaskan Husky

Dave gets a lick on the face from a husky

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This was the whole household heading out for protestation

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The Year 1771 REACH interns are stepping off, so the group celebrated the end of the year with a reunion party of past and present interns and a lovely cake with some kind of inscrutable message. Thanks, too, to Jun Kim and Dr. Linda Garcia Merchant for all their help these years!

Anisah, Lauryn, Tarashree, Niamh, Kadilo and DM at our party.

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