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@david-fieni.bsky.social
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Professes Francophone & Arabic literatures, graffiti, sounds, ecopoetics. Imagines forming a nascent movement for earthly relatives who like it here. Writes, reads, walks, listens, talks, plays, collectivizes. Views here do not represent my employer.

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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 22h
#giletsjeunes from Humanité
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I pray for the day that these lines will cross. I pray that this day will come soon. For when it does, our climate politics will change forever. news.gallup.com/poll/708050/...
Americans' Beliefs That Global Warming Will Threaten Their
Way of Life Do you think that global warming will pose a serious threat to you or your way of
life in your lifetime? 70% said no in 1997, but 53% say no now. 24% said yes in 1997, but 45% say yes now.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In our little 2-college town in Central New York, 1.5 hours from Cornell and Ithaca, I come across this beautiful expression of solidarity with "Jane Doe" -- written on the sidewalk in orange chalk.
"Jane Doe" chalk graffiti on sidewalk"Jane Doe" chalk graffiti on sidewalk, wider angle shot.
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Always jouissance visiting the Lacan section at Gibert Jeune in the Latin Quarter
Lacan shelf with books and images
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Notorious Hacking Group 'OpenAI' Claims Credit For Breaching Australia's Medicare System waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2…
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Taught Favian Martín's chapter on "American Indian Graffiti" and so got to bring Reservation Dogs into the classroom for the first time, which was fun.
Slide from a presentation on Reservation Dogs and graffiti.
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why does too late capitalism think that me giving it money authorizes it to keep begging me for a public review of its services?
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One day they'll invent paper news.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Being asked to approve correction in forthcoming essay in which I accidentally typed "EdTech shartups." Considering fighting to keep it.
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Adding Le Grand jeu to short list of favorite bookstores in the world. FUCK YEAH. Located in the area between Oberkampf and Ménilmontant in Paris. "We specialize in publications on street culture and DIY aesthetics, and support independent publishing." www.legrandj.eu/pages/the-bo...
Happy guy holds big bag of graffiti books in front of graffiticentric bookstore in Oberkampf, Paris.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My periodic reminder that certificates are entirely unregulated Any college can name any combination of courses a “certificate” Degrees are overseen by accreditors www.npr.org/2026/09/16/n...
npr.org
When students attend these colleges, taxpayers often pay. Here's why
Federal data shows many borrowers who aren't paying their loans went to private, for-profit colleges — schools that often market to low-income students and rely on federal financial aid for revenue.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
well, now we know why they didn't want him on video
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And silly me, thinking I couldn't hate Ed Sheeran any more...
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beloved Mothra @audleyzdarke.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026
The adolescent version of Godzilla from "Shin Godzilla" who, to put it charitably, looks both startled and like he was the victim of a rogue orthodontist, with the caption "the fuck you lookin at keep scrolling"
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no and then there's FUCK no.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
KNOXVILLE… #RIPDolly ♥️ From WBIR: www.instagram.com/reel/Dceq2t-...
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dependency is the goal.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
100% #BookSky
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This fine man is simply a champion of the meritocracy, see www.varsity.co.uk/news/30360
In the blog – titled “A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution” – Cofnas claimed that race was linked to academic ability. He went on to argue that under a true meritocracy, black people would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment” and that the number of black professors at Harvard would “approach zero”.

He also advocated for the preservation of “racial distinctions,” in society, stating that there “must be some barriers set up between races in order for each one to express its own unique genius”.
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
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Craig Sicknick @jan6risingvoice.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Would anyone like to place a wager that an ICE agent will shock his own genitals with the new gloves?
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
These fuckers www.timesunion.com/news/article...
timesunion.com
Advocates warn of increased ICE activity across Capital Region
Recent enforcement actions have been faster and less visible, creating fear across immigrant communities.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026
It is utterly damning of this country that a "Check If Your Salad or Your Guacamole is Especially Likely to Make Your Ass Explode" app is necessary, but since it is, I guess it's a good thing one exists
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
good morning you don't have to talk about douchehat you have one precious life and your attention is a treasure
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Third-personify technofeudal immediacy culture!
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22
Express headline: The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In "Good Vibes Only," @robinjames.bsky.social shows how vibe checks have become a technology of literal and figurative policing, drawing on philosophy, popular music studies, and media studies. Check out the intro for free: buff.ly/1JCvlbe.
Cover of Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation by Robin James. The cover is dark with warped, abstract shapes in blue, purple, pink, orange, and yellow gradients. The title and subtitle appear in light blue text on the left and center, with the author's name in pale yellow near the lower right. The title and author's name also have a warped effect.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
oh well
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Obviously an idiot with access to an LLM created it" wrote Terrestrial Defense League, demonstrating that they were smarter than a fellow at a think tank who focuses on "AI" and geopolitics without saying that they were smarter than a fellow at a think tank who focuses on "AI" and geopolitics...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Students anted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings+complex ideas. They didn’t want to outsource any of this effort to gen AI. They wanted to do the work.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
insidehighered.com
Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)
We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Whoever created and approved this slide did not know where countries in Africa are and did not care to ​check their work,” wrote Matt Petit, who focuses on AI and geopolitics at the Atlantic Council, in the post.
theguardian.com
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The grackles usually come, stay for a few days, raise hell, fight & holler, empty my bird feeder, scare away the songbirds, then move on. But now it's been weeks & I realized this morning as I wrote out on the porch with my cat, that I am Penelope & he is Telemachus. I'm this close to marrying one.
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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Scarlet Tanager in the woods on Friday and an Indigo Bunting by the side of the road on Saturday, both seen and heard. I feel something like what people must mean when they say “blessed.”
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 26/07/2026
Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I would totally run a marathon if they weren't so long.
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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My translation is now officially out! (ebooks are currently available on other retailers). Please share with interested colleagues/students, and if you can, ask your library to buy a copy! I'm so proud of this work, and it's a novel my students have really loved press.georgetown.edu/Book/Blue-Wh...
press.georgetown.edu
Blue White Green
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So, a needle pulling thread La, negation in the bled 🎶
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
UK is a graveyard for nature as massive new developments planned "Over past century, England & Wales have lost 98% of wildflower meadows - half of Britain’s ancient woodland, half of lowland ponds, 90% of freshwater wetlands and 62% of all “farmland” wild birds." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
theguardian.com
‘It makes your heart sing’: can a pioneering project show that rewilding really works?
The long read: Intensive farming has all but destroyed England’s ancient woodlands and freshwater wetlands. On a farm in Lincolnshire a radical aristocrat hopes to show there’s money in protecting nat...
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"Why don't students protest?"
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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.
Large limestone lavatory building built by Works Progress Administration workers in 1938. Located at Minneopa State Park near Mankato, MN.
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
With Andy Burnham endorsing Count Binface and saying the Count was "carrying hopes of nation" in the Clacton byelection, Labour has now given more support to Binface than the Democratic Party has given to the Mayor of New York City.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is absolutely devastating and infuriating. ICE officers in an unmarked car shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father of three, on his way to work. Then the smear machine immediately kicked in. Read the words of his son, and demand accountability: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
washingtonpost.com
He saw a video of a Mexican man shot by ICE. It was his father.
The eldest child of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said his father was “a family man” who was likely frightened by the unmarked vehicles following him.
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Terrestrial Defense League @david-fieni.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Who is the American Count Binface? WE NEED ONE
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Ham der kammerat Bo @bo-stefan-nielsen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys ☀️
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Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
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