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@instantconductor.bsky.social
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writer + critic // fiction, politics, reviews pedagogy // democratic & critical @ SUNY Oneonta curator // Writers Salon @ Community Arts Network of Oneonta

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Walt “FML” Whitman @whitmanfml.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I had to call a customer. I usually try to avoid calling customers because i am the poet of the soul.
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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Meme from the Simpsons, Moe (labeled Francis Fukuyama) throws Barney (labeled History) out of the bar, only for us to see in the third panel Barney standing behind Moe inside the bar
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
My 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...
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An 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 ...
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
This one was fun to write
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I'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/
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Permission
Title 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…
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
so many berries
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 13/07/2025
You may not like it but this is the best economic system we can come up with
Today's Mission:
Transfer wealth from my boss to my landlord
I call it "Working a job"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
you before and after following me
A monkey sitting on some land covered in dirt and dry grass. The image is from a news story with the headline: Chimps develop fashion trend by shoving grass in their ears — and in their butts. The monkey picture here has some dry grass sticking out of their ear. A black-and-white photo of the actors from the film Planet of the Apes. They are in their ape costumes but appear to be in a fancy shoe store. They are getting fitted in some nice shoes by a salesperson.
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
remember when we all thought defining neoliberalism correctly would help
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The 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...
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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I 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.
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Looking forward to reading with a great cast of area poets this weekend the Gatehouse
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I talked about a critical AI initiative I've been organizing for faculty on Tea for Teaching
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
amazing q&a with paul krugman
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
(Pace salsa voice) NEW YORK CITY!
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Over 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.
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Michelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Each 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...
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The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A 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.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Broke: "AI can pass the bar!!" Woke: "AI can make people fail the bar because it fucks up all the questions." futurism.com/california-a...
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California Admits AI Was Used to Write Bar Exam Plagued by Problems
The State Bar of California admitted that AI was used to draft dozens of questions in the bar exam administered to aspiring lawyers.
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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
If 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."
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Trump Directs Justice Dept. to Investigate ActBlue, Democrats’ Cash Engine
The president ordered an inquiry into ActBlue, the main Democratic fund-raising platform, in his latest move using the government to target political opponents.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain
A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
For 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
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The Lincolnshire Poster @desiderratum.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Drake meme but with Richard Nixon as drawn by Norman Rockwell: Panel 1 reads "Using the Drake meme". Panel 2 reads "Using the Drake meme but with someone even more problematic".
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
No 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.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Currently at work with a toothache
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Celeste 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."
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The present situation puts me in mind of a poem.
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
As usual, personal responsibility will fix you right up
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Carrie 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
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ceej @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...
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
that 90s collab between Rob Thomas and Santana 🙉🙈
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This Is Wrong www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Judith Butler · This Is Wrong: Executive Order 14168
When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society, progressive politics in general is...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not 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.
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
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Trump 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.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/03/2025
If you’ve got $20,000 a month to spend on a “PhD level” ai agent, just hire a person.
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OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI 'agents' | TechCrunch
OpenAI may be planning to charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI 'agents,' according to The Information.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/02/2025
A 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.
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Judge Blocks Elon Musk’s DOGE Team From Education Department’s Student Loan Databases
The 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.
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Sheila 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...
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Colleges 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.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The 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...
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hands off our healthcare our research our jobs
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
First-wave fascism gave rise to artists like Ezra Pound and Céline. Who are the hot new artists associated with today's second-wave fascism?
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Racheal Fest @instantconductor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
so, like a high school essay contest (respectfully)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025
if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?
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