Reposted by David B Hobbsrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11hthere are PLENTY of writers who come from a blue collar background and have worked in the trades and i can't remember ever seeing one of them publish an op-ed about how everyone should pivot to hard, painful physical labor 461059128
Reposted by David B HobbsAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education: 21463102
Reposted by David B Hobbsweird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026 43111
Reposted by David B HobbsAndrea DeKeseredy @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New piece in the University of Alberta paper on the administration’s recklessly cruel decision to slash 100% of funding to affiliated child care centres on campus The effects continue. They refuse to budge despite the harm. “Have you dropped out, yet?” thegatewayonline.ca/2026/10/the-...thegatewayonline.caThe effects of the defunded on-campus child care - The GatewayCampus child care was defunded by the U of A leaving student parents struggling and the university’s dedication to ACB is nowhere to be found. 02214
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I got my mail-in ballot yday and it’s eight questions about “dangerous migrants” and then the separatism question 100
Reposted by David B HobbsMichaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026not sure why I made this but now you have to see it 10492633523
Reposted by David B HobbsJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119114672848
Reposted by David B HobbsKate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 652990981
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My dog watching me start to make dinner at 9:15pm when bed time should have been immediately after his last walk 030
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026we as a profession owe David Lodge deep thanks for bursting the dangerously inflated Stanley Fish Bubble 1101
Reposted by David B HobbsMohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social 131386535
Reposted by David B HobbsAlexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Require heat in wintertime" and "Ban beige-only classroom decorations" seem obvious to some, though few evidence-based studies exist. 061
Reposted by David B HobbsDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026$18 EXTREMELY WELL SPENT! Get at it folks. This book is brilliant. 0112
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026real jobscels know that you shouldn’t bring a drink to an interview because a free coffee may be the only thing you get out of it 081
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think it’s nice that Texas’s pro-Choice movement has a popular song 010
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Alberta is introducing a new funding model to directly punish students who are majoring in the humanities, more or less because the starvation model didn’t do enough to discourage majors: thegauntlet.ca/documents-sh...thegauntlet.caDocuments show proposed new tuition framework for Alberta’s studentsProposed tuition framework presented to student leaders in late August, may have considerable impact on arts education here in Alberta. 124
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026my dept sees a hopscotch version of this: -majors decline & class sizes contract -students love their smaller classes -…so much so that their friends start to take our classes -majors go up, enrollments per class rise -kids hate big classes …rn majors are up 25% from AY25 but I know what’s coming 1225
Reposted by David B HobbsSara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026He imposed Shania Law 14875351458
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026not to bring everything back to Steve Winwood’s “Valerie” but it strikes me that “I’m the same boy I used to be” is not really a winning line 110
Reposted by David B HobbsJason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026UCP support has plunged in Calgary and outside major cities www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... and the independence movement is now below 25% support. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... It’s Janet Brown/CBC poll time, folks!cbc.caDanielle Smith’s popularity dips as her party now tied with NDP in support: poll | CBC NewsThe Janet Brown Opinion Research Poll for CBC News suggests 41 per cent of respondents would vote for the UCP if an election were held today, while 41 per cent would vote for the NDP. 98929
Reposted by David B HobbsAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Academic freedom continues to crumble at the hands of Republican Party political appointees at UT. 313065
Reposted by David B HobbsDrop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24/09/2026🇵🇸 More than 900 all-terrain wheelchairs donated by 1 Australian charities for amputee children in Gaza have remained blocked in storage in Jordan since 2025, The New Arab reported on Wed. COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry body that oversees aid entry, rejected a Feb. 2025 app. from the Jordan... 17455
Reposted by David B HobbsTravis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's genuinely crazy how a pretty blatant act of indiscriminate large-scale terror just kind of got accepted as some combination of a "brilliant intelligence operation" and basically a joke. And how much its defenders see all Lebanese Shia as inherent terrorists. 2558123
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Every single night / I pray that my oysters aren’t too tight / Ptown restaurant set alight / Babyboy cringe on main, I feel like Bourdain 010
Reposted by David B HobbsJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5. 527584
Reposted by David B HobbsBenjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Last week, Ohio State students violated the university’s absurd ban on chalking to protest having a weapons manufacturer as the official sponsor of our athletic department. Faculty from @osuaaup.bsky.social were there to support students’ rights to free speech, which is plainly under attack.thelantern.comProtestors chalk on campus against Ohio State’s partnership with Anduril and the university chalk banColors covered the Thompson statue and bricks around it after protestors chalked phrases like “Democracy now,” “F*** Anduril” and “Divest now” to protest against the university’s partnership with Andu... 322053
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Monday Morning Hysterics Power Rankings: after a strong weekend of Fort-Da, we see pre-season favorite Elisabeth von R on top! 000
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“They took the handcuffs off, but I couldn't read anything, and I didn't have my watch. …I discovered that the acoustics are really good in there, especially under the HVAC unit. I sang Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child and Big Rock Candy Mountain, which are like prison and depression songs.” 030
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026after the farmer’s market, I went to the postoffice to pay $52 of duty on my new Marmoush shirt 🐓 021
Reposted by David B Hobbsjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20/09/2026students said “Maybe our university should not profit from this” and then donors, faculty, and staff called them terrorists and organized to deport them 014537
Reposted by David B HobbsErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...erininthemorning.comThe Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By StateThese are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle. 7837101379
Reposted by David B HobbsPavel Andrade @pavelandrade.com · 30/07/2026Combined and uneven modernism seminar for the upcoming ACLA. In person, U of Houston, 20-23 May, 2027. How do peripheral literatures register, model, and think the historical and material configurations of the world system? www.acla.org/seminar/f2f2...acla.orgView Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association 1158
Reposted by David B HobbsOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026justice for Ange 3724
Reposted by David B Hobbsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress? 430103771920
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026they should ask me if buying trousers on the internet is addictive 000
Reposted by David B HobbsSheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Emer and I have plans to retrace and recreate Stegner’s epic multi-day backpacking trip through Vermont, if anyone wants to come 072
Reposted by David B Hobbspixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Now that everyone has turned on Ed Sheeran I finally feel comfortable saying this: you shouldn’t be allowed to get a bunch of tattoos if you’re a musician who makes wuss music 713370331
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I stand ready to be the new Foremost Mid Ginger Man With Sort Of Crooked Eyes 170
Reposted by David B Hobbslunch enjoyer @hoaagie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026static.klipy.comYuimetal's Shrek Smiling MemeALT: Yuimetal's Shrek Smiling Meme 1181
Reposted by David B HobbsJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026There are literally four tickets left for each of my shows in Cambridge this weekend and then they are FULLY SOLD OUT!thecomedystudio.comTCS presents: Josh Gondelman18+ w/ 2-Item Suggested Minimum. Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City, where he currently lives and most recently worked as the head writer a... 1202