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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 3h

So I just saw G Love for the first time in like 30 years

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“In the past 30 days, 14 commercial flocks and seven backyard flocks have confirmed H5N1, affecting a total of 620,000 birds. Minnesota is the national hotspot for avian flu” www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

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H5N1 avian flu returns to Midwest poultry farms, with multiple turkey operations hit

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 10h

another one of these bs gender performance/toxic masculinity games the GOP has been running re this candidate, that’s the important takeaway (Btw one of my friends who was at the time vegan, often noted that as a spanglish speaker she liked to call it ‘vagan’ ‘cause VEEgan sounded weird to her)

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 11h

cannot wait to devour this while I lay on the couch feeling lousy from my COVID booster + flu shot side effects all weekend

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 11h

It's also very funny: "Their dimly lit and cheaply ornamented walls are lined with dark leather couches and bookcases of fake cardboard books titled inscrutable things like DARWINS THERIE and Furniture Design Idea Book."

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 12h

2 but we were more likely to use 1 with each other, in regular conversation

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Going to see Jack Johnson and Ben Harper independent of each other, a week apart. Settling into my neoboho era

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the drama is better than I thought it would be

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the way he stumbles over this discriminatory speech that someone else probably wrote for him! Also his suit and shoes are terrible, and the flag background clashes—just tacky. keep your ol’ decrepit military

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tracey wants the attention he's getting. In fact, like everything else, he's monetizing it.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mad at myself for watching this on repeat, but ive been practicing my mostly defunct French every day: www.instagram.com/reel/DdtwvKw...

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, we announced that HASTAC is closing as an interactive social network after 25+ years of innovative, exciting, and equitable learning, scholarship, and community focusing on technology and its impact on society. educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/09/29/s...

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Sunsetting the HASTAC Network After 25+ Great Years: Farewell and Appreciation From HASTAC Co-Directors Cathy N. Davidson and Shelly Eversley – Educational and Cultural Institutions

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 30/09/2026

There is a ridiculous amount of cool stuff happening in the Bay Area right now, and I'm strapping my gas mask on and spelunking into the Meta Mines so you don't have to: www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

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COYOTE Calendar: October 1-October 7

This week we've got live mural painting, mushroom architecture, slow walking, and more.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 29/09/2026

This open letter is now circulating. Please sign and share through your networks. Thanks. sites.google.com/view/frenk-r...

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We call on Julio Frenk to immediately retract his statements

[Links to several other open letters and faculty statements are below.]

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a lot of very annoying men have been going on about “restoring trust” in universities, by which they mean increasing “viewpoint diversity,” by which they mean privileging evidence-free conservative beliefs. but it seems like a bigger deal that students and faculty can’t trust their school this way:

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A heartbreaking story by @lilianasegura.bsky.social on Christa Pike, a victim of abuse from the people around her, including the criminal system. She is scheduled to be executed tomorrow. theintercept.com/2026/09/27/c...

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The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m sorry that Schmitt guy is 51? o 😂

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Rueben Vargas (2-1) @ruebenbvargas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Netflix could've literally done a women's basketball romance. It was right there. Instead they went "What if 'Heated Rivalry'...but no homo?"

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh I have to talk about Battle of Algiers + Zohra Drif’s memoir tomorrow

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah the universe will handle that guy

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

occasionally I see a story or something that makes me grateful for NOT getting the job

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Another point about this: The trafficking of ideas, concepts, and frameworks for understanding the world into political and popular settings is one of the most important ways that scientific fields exert influence. This is reliant on social and political infrastructure, which allows or stops the...

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it will never cease to amaze me that there are still people finding previously undiscovered/overlooked documents that tell us EVEN MORE about Hannah Arendt lol

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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fair play to Arsenal skipper Martin Ødegaard's father, he refused an offer from a law firm to set up an offshore company in a tax haven to manage his son's image rights when Martin signed for Real Madrid, saying everyone should pay taxes. 🔴⚪

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Alleged rapist Russell Brand shares billing at the MAHA conference with Jay Bhattacharya, RFK Jr, & Oz 🤬 So does the BEEF TALLOW GUY FROM STEAK ‘n SHAKE—he was thrilled when RFK Jr’s MAHA food advisers urged us to eat more beef tallow (1/2 the advisers had financial ties to livestock or dairy!) 🥩

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Nerd Girl Says @rachaelconrad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think about this regularly when I’m out. The fact that these guys ended up being drugged because someone was targeting their friends and the fact that if they hadn’t been there and accidentally taken the bullet something truly horrendous might’ve happened.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You then lean on the antitrust-exemption the NFL currently enjoys in order to get them to pool money for all the schools who need to fill in the gaps to remain competitive, to create a now recognized minor league for the NFL (as opposed to the current de-facto recognition of college sports as a sub)

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have wondered if they’ve noticed that these athletes are in school

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let me give you the actual solution to this problem. Universities and colleges have to hire football players as union employees (AFL-CIO, same as the NFL), with no requirement to attend school. They get health and retirement benefits, and are limited to a five year employment contract.

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Given the very existence of the student-athlete category was to ensure no labor protections for these workers… you know what would be amazing for federal oversight? How about coaches needing to have some qualifications and credentials that prioritize athletic workers’ safety? coach salary caps?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exceptional solidarity from ASU hockey players who have demanded their coach be placed on leave for essentially overseeing the murder of their teammate and have disputed the university’s findings. www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...

Seven Arizona State men’s hockey players asked the university’s president to place the Sun Devils’ coaching staff on administrative leave pending further investigation into the workout that left sophomore transfer Matthew Mayich on life support.

In a 26-page letter sent to ASU president Michael Crow on Monday and obtained by The Athletic, the players disputed numerous findings from the university’s initial review of the Aug. 20 workout, writing that Mayich did not receive water and was provided inadequate medical care after his collapse.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Eagles are clearly playing Bears today. ”perk” of living close to soldier field 😂

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s kinda funny — not funny— how unwilling folks are to take seriously a social scientist’s insights about actual, relational phenomena and power, when those insights feel … personal. “Well, in my life, we like/do/feel x…”

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sigh just a main character I guess

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one thing that always sticks in my mind is my friend—as she’s buying me one of those road ID bracelets for when I was out on a run or ride—said she became a better, safer driver after taking a cycling safety class…

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 28/09/2026

if you bike enough i just don’t see how it’s not (doored twice, not seriously injured either time but that’s a matter of luck)

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

They’ve sunk everything into the idea that regular people somehow want a layer of enterprise software between them and every aspect of their lives. They can’t imagine people don’t want to run everything like a business.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%

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msh skeeta @melodymocha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm running this back because sports betting is ruining sports period.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026

It would actually have been conceptually impossible for the Vanderbilt/WashU report to have been peer reviewed because the premise of the report is that we should ignore half a century of peer-reviewed research in the humanities when we assess what they have contributed to knowledge.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, we know how they feel about sexual assault. and I guess we also know how they feel about expertise…

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