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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

jesus christ. stripping it for parts. this is literally making me nauseous

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 29/09/2026

Don’t ask an elected official if they “believe” in climate change, it’s not a religion. Don’t ask if they think it’s serious: it is. Ask them what matters most: what are they doing about it? Excellent application here, 10/10 no notes 👏⬇️👏

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

appreciation pos: been reading debra hawhee's A Sense of Urgency with my mostly gen-ed students in environmental rhetoric for the last week and they are doing a really nice job with this not-for-beginners material, i'm so proud of them.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

had to say goodbye to an absolute unit of dog today. handsome, ungovernable, bit of a himbo. lived to be 14 and a half years old. we loved him very much.

a beautiful white and brown shorthaired hounddog photographed in golden hour, laying down on grass and fallen leaves. the image captures him licking his snout.

a black and white photo of a brown and white dog resting on a futon.

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Jon Green @modestholdings.com · 25/09/2026

Johnson County colors are at half staff today in honor of Ahmed Osman, who was lost at Lake McBride Tuesday. On Monday, our flags will be at half staff in honor of Hannah Jorgensen, the teacher who sacrificed herself trying to save him. Please keep the families in your hearts.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Preach!!!

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pretty proud of this analogy. Also applies to giving feedback on AI generated text.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Once you start conceding ground to the “protect sports” angle in order to win an election you’re not fighting for anyone’s rights

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I find it terrifying that people (men) think they are falling in love with AI chat bots. The desire for a romantic object that does not exist outside of your interactions with you and has no purpose other than to secure and maintain your attention is the purest distillation of misogyny.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

trying to figure out what mythical voter @robsandia.bsky.social is trying to capture with his anti-trans politics when it doesn't separate him from his opp.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i'm not one to participate in much memorialization of this day, but here is the best thing ever written about 9/11 www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/f...

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Questions Of Faith And Doubt - Leap | Faith And Doubt At Ground Zero | FRONTLINE | PBS

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

100% this. like, i believe the ppl who say polling indicates that majority of americans hold the exclusionary position on trans people in sports but I do not believe that is the issue that determines their vote. we've got cancer in our water in iowa and probably a looming farm crisis, gimme a break

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This, forever and ever and ever, amen.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

happy to report that for the first time ever, this term I let my students develop a classroom AI policy after reading 5 articles presenting perspectives on GenAI and discussing/writing about them for two days. Today my students all agreed "no AI for this class."

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Girl, this mess comes as CCCC is dechartered by NCTE, in part, because the org allowed for people to advance the notion that we CAN refuse to be part of this Big Tech ruse (not even that we as writing instructors HAVE to; we just have that option through the organization ethos). Flops.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

visited the MN State Fair for 1st time today, had many tasty bites: nashville hot chicken on a stick, breakfast gnocchi w/ pesto cream & pork belly, corn ribs w/ chicharróns, the apple donut ham sandwich thing, a schnitzel sandwich, garlic fries, and beer ice cream!

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you haven't heard this series, you should listen to it, and you'll like Dolly even more. (My fave episode is the one where Jad talks to his dad about how "Tennessee Mountain Home" spoke to him as an immigrant far from home.)

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

tiny story: when my son was born (8 years + 2 days ago) he had some GI questions that required transfer to childrens hospital in the next town, but i had to stay put under observation; hours after i was left alone w/o my newborn son, a nurse came in and said she enrolled him in Imagination Library.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i've assigned this essay in my undergraduate CNF course a few times and damn if it doesn't get the students cookin' with gas. RIP to a real one. www.autostraddle.com/my-virtual-b...

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My Virtual Brunch With Dolly Parton

"Dear Editor: You are cordially invited to have brunch with country music icon Dolly Parton this Sunday, August 7th."

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Would find ”we should teach students about the Bible” a lot more convincing if we weren’t on a twenty-year run of closing down religious studies programs.

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

To be extra clear: all that LLM typing speed? Interface design. We published on it. And the speed has a minor but significant effect.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

desperately want @viewerpod.bsky.social to watch MAFS Seattle, which has NEW EXPERTS, LOTS OF COUNSELING, and SEVERAL GROUP DINNERS. the characters! the plot twists! top tier.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"should i pack the pool bag?" this 100% tracks

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

we watch so much womens bball in our house that one day when my then-6yo walked into the room while we were watching mens bball he expressed surprise that boys play it.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

when i was like 23 i went to a doc for a nagging cold. first she asked me about my drinking habits, labeled me (w/ a lot of judgment) as a binge drinker, then out of nowhere, said, all in one breath: "do you have a girlfriend i mean I don't care if you're gay." (i am straight)

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

1) the guy telling dell curry "you don't want to be out here" 2) i ain't reading all that / happy for u / or sad 3) drunk susan orlean 4) truck full of rice

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

try explaining to a 7yo that when the hotel doesn't allow check in for 4 hours and it only takes 2 hours to get there, we need to DO THINGS to KILL TIME, and that the DOING OF THINGS will not delay the ARRIVING ON TIME, but also that early arrival is not possible

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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

They're trying to undercut our ability to organize a holistic, coherent response. If they let us have 4C27, they have to know we'll use it to declare independence from them. They want our dues and to stop compositionists from fighting GenAI. This only works if they do it as a blitz.

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Everyone needs to have this saved for reference for the time when people attempt to argue that dechartering of CCCC was not politically motivated.

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 24/07/2026

if they cancel the 2027 conference after years of conferences telling us they can't cancel in response to hostile legislation because they can't get the deposit back I'm going to scream

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The @ncte.org is a dead organization as far as I'm concerned. Worthless to those in higher ed and writing.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

NO RESPONISBLE AI USE UNDER TECHNOFASCISM. REGULATE BIG TECH. BE AN AI KILLJOY. these dillweeds can go to hell

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NCTE has just summarily killed a 77-year-old organization that has shaped how writing is understood, taught, and learned, in higher education in particular. No member involvement. No transparency. No process to speak of. With friends and fellow educators like these, I guess who needs enemies.

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

idk man, but it sure looks like the encroachment of big tech on executive boards for professional orgs may be the death knell for my discipline

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If @ncte.org will do this to their composition wing, they'll do it to anyone. Flee this organization. It's rotten.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

this ncte thing is so fucked!!!!!!!!!! i am literally on vacation with like zero internet and the one minute i can log on the only news is "sorry we dissolved your professional home babe! love you!"

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

do.... college "english" departments know they are sustained by composition/writing specialists and programs?

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Trent Wintermeier @trentwintermeier.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@ncte.org is wimpy as hell. but thanks for "acknowledging" (ignoring) our communications and dissolving our "special topics conference" (the largest professional org for writing studies) that has been happening for "many years" (literally 77!!!!)... wish y'all asked us to help write that lazy letter

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

trump: born to be a pool boy, cursed to be the president

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The AI-Tutor Revolution That Wasn’t www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Essentially, these ed-tech experiments have driven home what educators have long intuited: Learning is a largely social and relational enterprise, and bots have yet to replicate the value of a human touch. Teachers are still our best source of motivation for students, not only because strong ones know how to push kids to learn new things, but also because education works best when it happens in a group.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

did the #WNBA send a memo that coaches need to wear league-issued gear about 90% of the time now or what? my running group chat evaluating coach fits is getting awfully bored.

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm teaching environmental rhetoric this fall. At end I want to provide students w/ a list of orgs, internships, fellowships, or other formal to semi-formal opportunities they may pursue should they like to participate in climate-oriented work. Recs? @lecagle.bsky.social @doctorvive.bsky.social

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Out of Office @horsdoeuvre.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

our ice maker on our then-15-month-old refrigerator crapped out last thanksgiving and i finally called for a service visit which is scheduled for today "between 8-5." what the hell.

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