Reposted by KVSSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If that sounds familiar, yep that was literally the birth of laissez-faire economics. It led directly to the bread riots that ended the French monarchy. Funny how that part keeps getting left out of econ 101. 416014
Reposted by KVSMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026where there’s a will there’s a whale 11392
Reposted by KVSSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item: 15549482
Reposted by KVS🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121625149
Reposted by KVSGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203186895285
Reposted by KVSMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026please explain or meme why 125922
Reposted by KVSBaby Jane @babyjanehudson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I liked him before, but this idea, who thought of this? This is next level. Pull me up to your level I wanna see the view. 1472
Reposted by KVSMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 17/03/20251.) ugh 2.) why do photos of Sam Altman always look to me like when people make computer renderings that reconstruct some ancient person's likeness from a skull arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...arstechnica.comOpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair useNational security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says. 3663
KVS @faeofregret.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I want opera newbies to know that it’s completely a different experience hearing opera in person instead of on a recording. It’s amazing hearing someone’s voice un-mic’d ring your ears in the back row. 💃 000
Reposted by KVSFluffyByte Games - Jacob @fluffygamedev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm pro opera, and I vote. 11019
Reposted by KVSDrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Apparently people are very excited to go to the opera 834614
Reposted by KVSMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 685248885503
Reposted by KVSJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about! 1562617416
Reposted by KVSSteve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on 4397271234
Reposted by KVSAlex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 12/09/2023Reducing light pollution at night helps migrating birds. Turn off the lights for them! 3698243
Reposted by KVSMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Even if you think you know the whole Kennedy Center story, this is enlightening and enraging. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...nytimes.comHow President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection. 561808872
Reposted by KVSDave Almighty @dave-almighty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Capes. We gave up on capes/opera cloaks way too early. 168214
Reposted by KVSWill Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed 5774341830
Reposted by KVSderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My cat has been sick, which has made me feel so terrible and anxious, I can hardly function. She's 19.5 years old and has been with me forever. I fear we're nearing the end and I love her so much. If you have a pet, please give them a kiss for me. Take them out for a walk tomorrow; give them a treat 1535291341000
Reposted by KVSWill Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Daily bunny no.3444 practiced their scales 72428505
Reposted by KVSRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953 430115824854
Reposted by KVSMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026one of the things Joyce Beatty is seeking to uncover in her lawsuit currently is that they were basically already bankrupt before they even took his hame off and are trying to hide it 2891243
Reposted by KVSKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/20263. That college is about reading for “the workforce.” No, it’s about development for the adult force. Of which work is a part. 4/ 651064
KVS @faeofregret.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When I was a TA, I told my students that learning was a social activity. Judging how they spent the rest of the semester buried in their laptops during class, they didn’t believe me. 010
Reposted by KVSTomás Ryan @tjryan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely..." This is the way forward @tcddublin.bsky.social 515449
Reposted by KVSRob @robertferry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026David pulled an Orson Welles War of the Worlds bluesky edition. Many were certain we were being invaded. 0262
Reposted by KVSMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I’m sorry I can’t tonight I JUST GOT COMPLETELY EMOTIONALLY WRUNG OUT BY A STRING QUARTET 11022
KVS @faeofregret.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Things I was frightened of as a child: - the dark - ghosts - mummies - the grasshoppers from A Bug’s Life - tornados - Beethoven (creepy vibe) - being forgotten at school and having to spend the night there 010
Reposted by KVSDr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Bayeux Tapestry good but massively upstaged by seeing a cat in a ruff right before 664336772
Reposted by KVSDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit. 776972170
Reposted by KVSMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026like you apparently have to make some money to live in society but it turns out you don’t have to care about it and if you just read books and go on adventures the rest of the time nobody can really stop you? wild 240218
Reposted by KVSMichael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My #Smithsonian experience 7334153
Reposted by KVSMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/09/2026Here is our draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981. It was written by a lovely human. 28975202
Reposted by KVSMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Your annual reminder of what REALLY happened: Donald Trump went on WWOR Radio on 9/11/01--yes, that very day--to say that with the collapse of the Twin Towers, he now had the tallest building in New York. Which was a good preview of things to come, in that it was both disgusting and a lie. 412127600
Reposted by KVSMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026catching up on last week's photojournalism and my sweet lord 116616
Reposted by KVSKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The state of Georgia nearly banned football in the wake of his death. But the governor ultimately vetoed the bill with the argument: “the sports of every great people, ancient and modern, have been hard and severe." 019020
Reposted by KVSCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is very good advice, even if the true problem is at the cultural and systemic level rather than at the individual level. We write too much because academic culture and system value quantity over quality. And this quantity clogs the system, further weakening the quality. 34412
Reposted by KVSCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We read one of my favorite articles. "a personalist dictatorship may be defined as an authoritarian system of social repression set by an individual (...) in which (...) all policy dictates derive from him, and all of society is viewed as his personal fief." Best reading on Trump's America too... 2206
