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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 34m

If guys who look like this are libs they leave absolutely no ambiguity, that’s why Alan Ritchson concludes every interview with “moreover, Stephen Miller must be put in a trebuchet”

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 7m

I have a bunch of half-size legal pads and I hand out a fresh sheet of paper to every student at the beginning of class for them to physically write notes about the lecture and group reading that day.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16m

Yeah you can easily tell who's knee deep into a chatbot relationship based on how berserker they go when you say stochastic parrot. So much "trap sprung" shit around these parts lately, baiting the surreptitious AI users into ass-showing

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LSM @slukemorgan.bsky.social · 31m

I had a little bit of difficulty writing this because the question "should a higher court overrule a lower court's administrative stay in a way that lets the appellee kill the appellant while the lower court is still reading the briefs" felt like a silly question. And yet.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 14h

They invented gyms in Ancient Greece btw.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 16m

I just remember not knowing who this guy is, suddenly seeing him everywhere in everything, and every review talking about how classically handsome and Hollywood he looks. Which, no.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 45m

Some sketchbook Gruffalo doodles (pic 1) and original ink drawing (pic 2) for the cartoon quoted below. The drawing is now at www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

Various sketchbook doodles in pen and pencil of the Gruffalo

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors! Lee Chilld: The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow. Sally Rooney: The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart. Kazuo Ishiguro: After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 42m

Nobody is going to convince me that this a handsome face.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 45m

I suppose I meant the sense of loss that Brett is experiencing is a qualia about human-made objects that he didn't know was there. A frisson of extra information above and beyond the content of the work.

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Banned Books - Gator Days

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 13h

hrc didn't used to move like this and there is a universe where they don't break for trans rights and instead become more of an lgb type of organization. happy & proud to be one of many lesbians who absolutely refuse to allow trans rights to be used as a wedge issue. it's all of us, actually

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 9h

If you are a Democrat saying transgender girls aren't welcome in women's sports you can fuck off asking me for money and support.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 9h

Luckily we printed most of it in books so we'll be able to resurrect it all.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 10h

I thought her brace was a little babushka bag for picking vegetables. 😂

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10h

Couple that with the very public failures of general insurance in recent years (United Healthcare leading to Luigi, California’s housing insurance crisis leading to delayed/contested payouts on all the fires, the general oppressive feel of trying to get a claim resolved without getting gouged)…

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 11h

Don't let it happen to your paper, cause who will want to spend their energy reading what you write if they have that suspicion. Here are some of those language choices and here's how you might vary them in interesting ways so as to make yourself felt as a warm-blooded, thinking kind of writer.

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 10h

obviously good to abolish the death penalty but also this release mentions 30 years of solitary confinement??? that's also bad!

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 11h

But now? Much easier to ask for this variety. Dear students, do you notice how this article just strings one paraphrase after another after another after another, leaving readers to wonder whether they're stuck in a loop or whether this paper is eventually going somewhere? Do you worry it's slop?

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 13h

"AI did this proof" "AI wrote this paper" I literally, actually, truly do not care. Sorry

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 13h

None of these things have meaning except as one human attempting the bridge the reality gap with another human through language. They aren't useful or interesting in themselves.

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EL BARTO ANTI-WORK @elbarto.bsky.social · 11h

This lady has been in prison for 30 years for a horrible crime she committed as a mentally ill teenager while a whole slew of individuals, who were presumably not mentally ill, are torturing her and will face no consequences for it

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 11h

David Ellison upon realising that combining paramount and hbo streaming platforms will cannibalise revenue streams:

Guy in resident evil scared running through the street

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 11h

Wisconsin congressman Derrick Van Orden has been releasing fake, AI-generated videos of his Democratic opponent in the state's tightest race www.jezebel.com/wisconsin-ho...

jezebel.com

Why Not Just Release Deepfake Videos of Your Political Opponent, If the Law Won’t Stop You?

A Wisconsin GOP congressman has been trying to deepfake his way to victory, releasing fake ads of his Democratic opponent.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

I gather the fraud was intelligence-assisted. Pretty hard to pull it off without. But what made this particular fraud super? Just don’t say that in front of the other, more ordinary fraudsters, okay? No reason to make them feel bad, they didn’t do anything wrong. Well, besides fraud.

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czech hunter biden @conkrete.bsky.social · 11h

between musk vertically integrating everything to escape debt and Ellison doing the same, and an ai bubble inevitably being wrapped up in this...seems like a bad time coming

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

People too young to remember but the day after Obergefell, the gays invaded our Churches and forced them to close, as they remain today. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...

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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book

A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12h

they want to enslave it: in every way.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 13h

If there is a state a debate could have impact it’s Maine because of how old it is but you can tell it wasn’t a good one for Collins and not gonna be anything she’s going to want to talk about

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12h

Animaniacs evicted.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13h

Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.

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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)

After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.

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Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 12h

It's really more a novella, but Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" is an amazing story, a powerful criticism of slavery written just shortly before the Civil War would erupt. Another 19th-century one I love is "The Yellow Wallpaper," how men just can't seem to hear what women are saying.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 12h

The weird need of the institution to be desired - the term of art in these parts is “employer of choice“ - despite doing very little to show that it actually wants you to be there.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 12h

The actual answer is that universities don't pay me enough to make rent so I'm living with my parents and you're the closest university to them.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 12h

The actual answer is that universities don't pay me enough to make rent so I'm living with my parents and you're the closest university to them.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 12h

The Brownian motion of a chaotic universe.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 12h

Weirdest question a university can ask someone hired as an assistant professor in a humanities field after the financial crisis: “why did you 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 to work at our university?” You weren’t chosen; there were no other jobs; we were lucky to get anything; eternally grateful but you aren‘t special.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 12h

Have we ever discussed how weirdly irrelevant (though, yes, effective) the person in the red coat is in Don’t Look Now?

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 13h

and as @profgabriele.com and i rightly argued, any rebuilding of civic life will require giving students the broadest, most robust education we can. *this* is our core mission, not predicting future job markets. doing our jobs means preparing students for shifting markets, and much more besides.

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Religion, Humanities, and the Public Good

The right wing's assault on Religion and Humanities programs is an assault on our ability to understand the world, from Hindutva abroad to Christian Nationalism at home.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's not the best movie ever, but the sexual assault scene itself and the representation of Ann's trauma afterward is a tour-de-force.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For anybody interested, Ida Lupino's 1950 film OUTRAGE is the first major motion picture to include sexual assault as a plot point. It's tells the story about rape through the Hays Code restrictions, and does so by turning the victim into a noir film protagonist--who was generally a man with PTSD.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 13h

I think the realization that it matters that a human being is behind what you're reading is the sense of qualia.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 13h

Experience is the greatest teacher!

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 13h

None of these things have meaning except as one human attempting the bridge the reality gap with another human through language. They aren't useful or interesting in themselves.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 14h

My clowns but not my circus is a union organizing problem. Not easy, but simple.

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