Reposted by Erik DavisIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/12/2025This is a very reasonable goal! I donated. Can you help them make it happen too? 17959
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 18/11/2025What’s the word for getting stuck in a chorus and being unable to leave it. No, the answer cannot be “OCD.” 111
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025When old friends become politicians, getting email from them becomes a very bewildering experience 020
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I was just accidentally (I mean, I assume) invited to an undergraduate party via mass email with all addresses visible. 😂 120
Reposted by Erik DavisShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/10/2025The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed 8145941236
Reposted by Erik DavisPrism @prismreports.org · 16/09/2025How did the U.S. public get to a place where we find it acceptable to passively watch collapse, catastrophic crises, & even genocide? @williamcson.bsky.social argues that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was a litmus test that revealed to the ruling powers just how much they could get away with.prismreports.orgAnother way out: Building resistance when passivity is the normThe COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to be meeting needs, not falling in line behind fascist incursions 44326
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025So….Trump is bragging about being too scared to walk down the street in Baltimore, even accompanied by the mayor and their security teams? Blowhard masculinity norms have changed, I guess? 110
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025news.google.com/rss/articles...news.google.comGoogle NewsComprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News. 010
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025No disrespect to actual K-Pop artists, but it really feels like “K-Popped” could be the moment this bubble finally bursts. 010
Reposted by Erik DavisAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi. This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org. We ditched X for BlueSky early this year. And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof. I don't know what we'll do next. Keep up with us using our newsletter at mfp.ms/subscribe. 30247922251
Reposted by Erik DavisDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2025Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was. 101116443101
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025The Strange History of University Autonomy — and Why We Need It More Than Ever www.chronicle.com/article/the-...chronicle.comThe Strange History of University Autonomy — and Why We Need It More Than EverAcademic freedom from the Middle Ages to apartheid South Africa to now. 000
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Subject: The Review: The University of Chicago falls on hard times 000
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025thediplomat.com/2025/08/thon...thediplomat.comThongchai Winichakul on the Cambodia-Thailand Border Conflict“In such a situation,” the prominent Thai historian says, “maps cannot help because they are part of the problem.” 010
Reposted by Erik Daviss. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19/08/2025This really sucks. Libby is already not very good but it’s also the almost universally-used ebook lending platform. 48724
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 18/08/2025UC Officials to Face Lawmakers Over Failure to Return Native American Remains and Artifacts 010
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 16/08/2025I have had a truly lovely time at the IABS conference in Leipzig and then subsequent workshop in Leiden. This was a bit of a surprise to me, and I’m grateful for it. 130
Reposted by Erik DavisStephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 15/08/2025It is very difficult, when organizing people in this moment, to balance two true things in tension w/ each other: 1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense 2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense 2676205
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Two cups of coffee are required. The first is to destroy the calm of morning hormonal chemistry. The second gives you the focus needed to act to regain that calm. This is not irrational but merely paradoxical. 000
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Our eyes locked across a room: so we know each other? 010
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 08/08/2025The weather in Northern Europe right now is just perfect, and I’m going to spend most of my day in museums! 010
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Sotheby’s returns ancient Buddhist gem collection to India after legal pressure 000
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 31/07/2025I’m trying to estimate how many Manitoba trees are currently in my Minnesotan lungs. 120
Reposted by Erik DavisErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/07/2025We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day. 74132384429
Reposted by Erik DavisJudith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Taking bets that "religion" mostly equals evangelical Christianity in this case. And, may I recommend @profirmf.bsky.social and @mpgphd.bsky.social's *Religion is Not Done With You: Or, the Hidden Power of Religion on Race, Maps, Bodies, and Law.* www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...wapo.stTrump administration urges federal employees to talk religion at workThe guidance from the Office of Personnel Management builds on the administration’s efforts to bolster faith’s presence in the federal workforce. 53015
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Think it’s all bad? It’s been worse. People made sweet songs about it. Let’s get to work, sweetly. youtu.be/UXFypTVHynMyoutu.beFilastine - Gendjer2YouTube video by PostWorldIndustries 020
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025It’s nearly time for Early and dissolute retirement to a beachside shack phase of life, so I need to make a bag of cash to make it happen. How does a person with my very specific set of skills (say it like Liam Neeson if you enjoy aesthetic confusion) get that bag? 230
Reposted by Erik DavisNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The fact that only 5% of college professors voted for a far-right narcissist whose policies will destroy our economy and democracy shows that universities lack real intellectual diversity. 231371172
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I have had to make a bunch of irritating phone calls this week and I’ve been trying to surprise each operator with how kindly and politely I treat them. It helps how I feel about the interactions, which are usually very frustrating, and has pleasantly thrown at least one person off their game. 131
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Oh: gizmodo.com/silicon-vall...gizmodo.comSilicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won't Have to Attend Boot Camp)The tech industry is fully on board, but the rank and file won't have to do time as grunts. 000
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Every worker deserves a union. Today, Macalester college’s staff have one, because they did an amazing job or organizing. I’m so proud of, and grateful for, these courageous folks. Solidarity Forever. 0216
Reposted by Erik DavisEthnonational Hydrocarbon Oligarch @johnweeks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025@erikwdavis.bsky.social this though 021
Reposted by Erik DavisHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 10/05/2025Abolitionist John Brown was born May 9, 1800. 14750179
Reposted by Erik DavisBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 07/05/2025I'm also refusing to make a martini with Drano.bbc.comThe people refusing to use AIWorried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI. 24893137
Reposted by Erik DavisAlex 🏴Ⓐ🔆 (The Anarchist Turtle) @theanarchistturtle.bsky.social · 07/05/2025 324263
Reposted by Erik DavisMel @melf.bsky.social · 08/05/2025"Apple made 'Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)' in support of Free Black Mamas DMV www.dmvbailout.org and has launched a Let Her Go Home website lethergohome.org where you can donate, find local bail funds, and learn more about court-watching." Source: pitchfork.com/news/fiona-a...dmvbailout.orgFree black mamas DMV 016596
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025youtu.be/ki1nvcNbYH8?...youtu.beFiona Apple - Pretrial (Let Her Go Home) (Official Music Video)YouTube video by fionaappleVEVO 000
Reposted by Erik DavisTony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · 04/05/2025#MusicSky #MayTheFourth 518132352055
Reposted by Erik DavisFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/04/2025it’s very comforting to know that Americans actually are the stupidest rich-country voters, in a weird way 2359243
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025😍😍 asianews.network/cambodia-exp...asianews.networkCambodia expects to eliminate malaria by year’s endIn 2024, Cambodia reported only 355 malaria cases, a major drop from the more than 1,000 cases recorded in 2023. 010
Erik Davis @erikwdavis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Hegseth posts home phone number to Craiglist ad. www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/p...cnn.comHegseth shared detailed military plans in second Signal chat that included his wife and brother | CNN PoliticsDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen on a second Signal group chat, this one on his personal phone and including his wife, lawye... 120
