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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 15h

bc i can't read i thought these were the same thread and i was like WHY and HOW

two separate posts from Brett, one is a quote-post of a bufflehead duck and the other is about a Becerra ad on housing paid for by Meta, which appeared in my feed together and confused me

professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

Talking in a couple of hours about infrastructure, show up or zoom on by if you want: "Toxic Los Angeles: Terminal Island and The Leaky Edge of Empire" #4S #4S2026 #4SToronto #ToxicLA

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highly manipulated land at the coast in the Ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach, aerial shot. the image has been modified to just show the "island" by scrubbing away all the other land that surrounds it. (Center for Land Use Interpretation, edit of Port of LA photo, 2005)

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026

what do we call a person who's disagreeably obsessed with port history (Terminal Island, Los Angeles, 1972)

photo of an oil pumpjack, new datsun cars sitting in a lot, and further away, cargo ship and cranes. 1972, port of los angeles, record created by the EPA

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

it's "curious" that NYT includes this photo with no context at all for the graffiti on the righthand side of the doorway (this is Cornell)

graffiti on the administration building's entrance: Smash the patriarchy on the left; on the right, At Cornell, rapists are protected and protestors are expelled

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

what i don't need right now is the pope slinging "ontological", how am i going to convince grad students it's generally iffy (adding alt text here)

screen shot of X posts:

Pope Leo XIV • @Pontif. In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others....

reply: Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

it would be ok with me if this sunset were an ominous portent

a fiery streaky red sunset over the Pacific Ocean. one lone palm tree sticks up out of the bottom right corner. the sun itself peers through as a wink of an angry orange eye

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026

ahoy there @billchilds.bsky.social !! my MN fair souvenir made it to california--but it looks like it might have had quite a journey thank you!!

my hand holding a letterpress printed card that says in pink ink: "find out who you are and do it on purpose. - dolly parton, 1946-2006". it is a bit creased and rumpled

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

i've said a million times, i want someone to study the firms who contract these training modules (probably someone has)

another graphic with a user prompting AI, the graphics are even more ridiculous, there are lines coming off a stack and going in and out of AI, a yellow sentient being

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 08/09/2026

the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed (my pic, last winter, LA River, thinking about it as hot humid conditions strain the grids)

a couple of camping tents set up on a cement pathway above a cement-channeled river, where people without more durable shelter are living. there's a portable solar panel set up next to one of the tents, and a couple of bicycles. it's a cloudy day

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 06/09/2026

far right bird. (embarrassed to share a cell snap w you, haha)

several white pelicans paddling around a wetlands, one has a red wing tag with a number

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026

Did You Know that wildlife rehab org's whose activities are underwritten by the oil industry routinely downplay the industry's role in boiling the planet? local marine mammal rescue org sent this yesterday:

What Is a Marine Heat Wave?
The ocean can experience heat waves much like those that occur on land. One important difference is that heat waves in the ocean can last much longer—sometimes for months or even years. We use the term “marine heat wave” to describe unusually warm ocean temperatures that persist over an extended period.

What Is an El Niño?
El Niño is the warm phase of a natural climate cycle called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). During an El Niño, sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean become warmer than average.

What Does This Mean for Marine Mammals?
For marine mammals, these warming events can have devastating consequences. Warmer waters can disrupt the ocean food web, reduce nutrient-rich upwelling, increase harmful algal blooms like domoic acid events, shift prey availability, and force animals into new and often dangerous habitats.

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 21/08/2026

yes, let us never forget. maybe Freddy is just a rude entitled driver at heart, like so many other asses

black and white photo of a donkey or llama? sticking its head out of a front window of a van. john drysdale, c. 1960s

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 15/08/2026

i've been walking by this vehicle on one of my strolls for a couple years. in addition to the completely obscured plate, the windows including front windshield are all dark black. this is a huge problem all over LA, it seems there is zero enforcement

black dodge challenger with opaque black plastic completely covering its license plate save for the screws where it’s affixed to the car. its windows are all tinted very dark too

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 14/08/2026

taking my entire frustration at the world out on a scummy AI company:

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 14/08/2026

an update: response after i wrote to addy hello@scholarlink.ai (if anyone wants to do same) they're removing the page. however they imply they had the right to take information that was in public--which is a significant part of the problem

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 14/08/2026

oh! i'm pretty sure it is this (and here's more for @guncelawits.bsky.social ) (true story, one of my best friends has doug henning set as my picture on his phone so when i call or text, DH comes up)

doug henning smiling, wearing a celestial top, and holding a crystal, with the words Doug Henning and his world of magic

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 12/07/2026

Los Angeles go one (1) day without being on fire challenge: impossible

view looking north up the LA River, black plume of smoke on the bank. probably a small building or trash fire. the silhouette of the mountains to the north is fairly visible

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 06/07/2026

timeline cleanse. southern california drives me absolutely around the bend but then it will do things like this

white yucca bloom that looks like a torch set amongst green foliage, against blue sky with filmy cloud

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 05/07/2026

not-so-tactical gear after all i've spent half my life in swamp-ass northeast/midatlantic summers and ive never seen this much of an issue with ass-sweating including the time in the 90s my friend left cutoff-cords-ass-stripes on the tile floor of the post office in center city philly

screen grab of a bunch of patriot front losers having sweat through their khaki asses

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