Reposted by Racheal FestWalt “FML” Whitman @whitmanfml.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I had to call a customer. I usually try to avoid calling customers because i am the poet of the soul. 031
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 12/09/2025My review of Anna Moschovakis's most recent novel is up at @coloradoreview. I loved this weird, dreamy theory novel coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/an-e...coloradoreview.colostate.eduAn Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth - Center for Literary Publishing$16.95 Buy Book About the Book Author: Anna MoschovakisReviewed By: Racheal FestGenre: FictionPublisher: Soft Skull PressPublished: 2024Pages: 208 Book ReviewAn Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface ... 010
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 17/08/2025I've got a new story up at @lemonwoodquarterly.bsky.social. Click through! Bonus points if you recognize what's off about the Oneonta Wendy's parking lot? lemonwoodquarterly.com/permission/lemonwoodquarterly.comPermissionTitle image by Pam McKnight, On the River Bank, Gouache and Marker on Paper, 5″ x 6″, 2025. Permission by Racheal Fest“Give yourself permission,” Madison said, pushing the platter of fr… 000
Reposted by Racheal FestAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 13/07/2025You may not like it but this is the best economic system we can come up with 6395581551
Reposted by Racheal Festderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/07/2025you before and after following me 1226758623
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025remember when we all thought defining neoliberalism correctly would help 000
Reposted by Racheal FestRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2025The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...nytimes.comAs Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas 887242458409
Reposted by Racheal FestAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this. 34879984721752
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Looking forward to reading with a great cast of area poets this weekend the Gatehouse 020
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I talked about a critical AI initiative I've been organizing for faculty on Tea for Teaching 010
Reposted by Racheal Festmax tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025amazing q&a with paul krugman 1524477842
Reposted by Racheal FestMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 25/06/2025(Pace salsa voice) NEW YORK CITY! 975551405
Reposted by Racheal FestBradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Over 1000 people at Oneonta's No Kings Day protest, the most I've ever seen for ANY event in my eight years of living here. 031
Reposted by Racheal FestMichelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comThe AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It MostA Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress. 6626451946
Reposted by Racheal FestLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Broke: "AI can pass the bar!!" Woke: "AI can make people fail the bar because it fucks up all the questions." futurism.com/california-a...futurism.comCalifornia Admits AI Was Used to Write Bar Exam Plagued by ProblemsThe State Bar of California admitted that AI was used to draft dozens of questions in the bar exam administered to aspiring lawyers. 08227
Reposted by Racheal FestDeborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 25/04/2025If this were a report about any other country in the world, the headline would be something more like "Trump Expands Efforts to Crackdown on Political Opposition."nytimes.comTrump Directs Justice Dept. to Investigate ActBlue, Democrats’ Cash EngineThe president ordered an inquiry into ActBlue, the main Democratic fund-raising platform, in his latest move using the government to target political opponents. 26543237
Reposted by Racheal FestJorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 25/04/2025www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comExclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drainA trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold. 031
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 21/04/2025For Easter, we watched 2001: A Space Odyssey (first time for our seven-year-old), and honestly, for a secular family, it did kind of feel like going to church 000
Reposted by Racheal FestElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/04/2025No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that. 18706013612620
Reposted by Racheal FestOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen 8869107628434
Reposted by Racheal FestCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025"Whatever helps us stay productive is what really matters right now. There’s still plenty of time left for 1933 to be our year. Politics will come and go, but I’m sure when I look back on this period, what I’ll remember most will be the work that I completed on schedule." 112927
Reposted by Racheal FestJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx 284165206376
Reposted by Racheal FestDoug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The present situation puts me in mind of a poem. 78324
Reposted by Racheal Festdave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me 528388475924
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 07/04/2025As usual, personal responsibility will fix you right up 000
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Carrie Coon's closing remarks were the best (only good?) part of that finale, but did we need eight very slow episodes to get there? Also, "Rick sucks" has always been the only take 000
Reposted by Racheal Festceej @ceej.online · 04/04/2025(watching a guy with the nickname "Car Crash Chris" crash my car seconds after handing him the keys) what the hell... 432651276
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 30/03/2025that 90s collab between Rob Thomas and Santana 🙉🙈 010
Reposted by Racheal FestMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism 246185704042
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This Is Wrong www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukJudith Butler · This Is Wrong: Executive Order 14168When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society, progressive politics in general is... 000
Reposted by Racheal FestPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that. 16196429320389
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 09/03/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...nytimes.comTrump Pulled $400 million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next.The administration has circulated a list that includes nine other campuses, accusing them of failure to address antisemitism. 000
Reposted by Racheal FestHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/03/2025If you’ve got $20,000 a month to spend on a “PhD level” ai agent, just hire a person.techcrunch.comOpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI 'agents' | TechCrunchOpenAI may be planning to charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI 'agents,' according to The Information. 692116454
Reposted by Racheal FestThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/02/2025A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order on Monday blocking the Education Department and the Office of Personnel Management from disclosing sensitive data to members of Elon Musk’s team and anyone assisting them.nytimes.comJudge Blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE Team From Education Department’s Student Loan DatabasesThe American Federation of Teachers, a union representing more than 1.8 million educators, had sued to keep members of Mr. Musk’s government efficiency team out of the Education Department’s systems. 271585234
Reposted by Racheal FestSheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 24/02/2025“What university leaders must realize is they are coming for your funding, no matter what. They are coming for the Department of Education, no matter what.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...insidehighered.comColleges must stand up to the new segregationists (opinion)In rushing to comply with Trump’s executive actions, universities support a segregationist agenda, Subini Annamma and David Stovall write. 111541
Reposted by Racheal FestAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11/02/2025The billionaire class is waging a war on workers, putting our nation’s healthcare, research, education, + jobs at risk. Higher ed workers, students, +allies are mobilizing Join us! Feb 13 8pm ET National Strategy Call us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 14220
Reposted by Racheal FestNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/02/2025First-wave fascism gave rise to artists like Ezra Pound and Céline. Who are the hot new artists associated with today's second-wave fascism? 1051903161
Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025so, like a high school essay contest (respectfully) 010
Reposted by Racheal Festjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement? 512106582803