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josh mullenite

@j-mullenite.bsky.social
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infrastructure politics, prefiguration, (lost) futures | associate professor of sustainable communities at Chatham University | they/any | everything posted should be taken half-heartedly at best

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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"But the power of actions and practices that, despite everything, propel the heart beyond its obstacles, and point toward the building of a possible collective force…that, yes, that still seems to hold appeal and meaning." illwill.com/after-july
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After July • Ill Will
On mass sabotage in Italy's Susa Valley, and the place of conspiracy in our uncertain epoch.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Maybe a hot take, but I don't think 99 percent of comments about cited literature, literature reviews, or "situated"ness are useful or helpful in peer review.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The location of the Homestead Strike is now, mostly, a giant parking lot.
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Michelob Spice @samnorton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The AI dipshits only see art as a product, and not an experience. They don't care about the experience and thought of creation or the experience of understanding. It's just a series of words, images and sounds to pass through your skull to occupy some time before you die.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
After spending 6 weeks in Linköping, Sweden, I'm back in the US and actually in shock at the difference in grocery prices, particularly for fresh food.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It is unsurprising that my alma mater has not reacted to the presence of fascists on campus. It is the culture the institution has cultivated actively for at least the last decade. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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No FIU students are suspended over racist group chat yet. It’s roiling campus
Some students accuse the school of a hypocritical free-speech policy ahead of a new law making it easier to expel students taking effect.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Spending the holiday break in Florida rather than Pennsylvania wasn't the worst choice.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Trying out a new workflow where I write my reading notes into Obsidian and use it to generate a network map that I use to better conceptualize gaps. It's really been helpful in organizing my thoughts which I feel like I haven't been able to do very well since ~2020.
A screenshot of the program Obsidian, with a network map on the right hand side and the notes from a text including markup on the left.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I just backed Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...
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Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias
Get hold of our latest book about revolution, soccer, and the Argentinian uprising of 2001.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I need a better way to find new books for my graduate seminars that doesn't require searching each publisher's website. Goodreads and JSTOR are useless. Any recommendations?
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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Calling all aspiring chairs who are human geographers--we are hiring in the Dept. of Geography & Spatial Sciences. I am on this committee and am available to answer any questions!!! #geography #geogchat #geosky careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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University of Delaware - Details - Chair, Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment University of Delaware
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Pittsburgh Riverhounds vs Miami FC
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A list of software installation packages in a folder titled "software to install that i cannot be trusted to handle myself"
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
University has decided faculty are no longer allowed to install, update, or uninstall software on their computers. They've issued me a new computer that doesn't have the software I teach installed. Incredible foresight.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trying to find outside reviewers for my T&P review this fall and I have to say, the state of websites in higher education might be worse than the labor conditions.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Spring in Pittsburgh
Trees with flowers blooming on a hill side. A road and train tracks in the foreground are separated by s barrier with graffiti that says "I'd rather walk"
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Week four of "Urban Planning and Political Ecology" and the students are already interested in insurgent/insurrectionary planning.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
They’ve apparently been digging out this hill for years. I have no idea why. #photography
A photo showing three excavators digging on a shale hill covered in snow
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Ice fishing on the Allegheny #photography
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I asked students struggling to setup a group chat why they didn't use a different messaging app. "Like WhatsApp," they ask. "Well, I use Signal." "Yeah, you look like you would use Signal."
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
cannot wait to get release updates on new books from james joyce
a screenshot with a button saying "follow" and text that says "james joyce. follow authors to get new release updates."
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting [weaponry] from [boxes labeled 'books and bibles']" (someone else posted this image and I didn't want to quote tweet because it wasn't their point, but this is all i could think)
A picture of text that says "the art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things" attributed to henry ward beecher
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science messa...
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
It’s bitterly cold in Pittsburgh today. Thinking about warmer days. #photography
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Snowy campus scene
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Sunset in the Everglades as seen from the Amtrak Floridian.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I get uncomfortable when people say something like "I'm sorry" when I say I'm from Florida. I don't think people realize how incredible of a place it has been (and could be again). I don't think there would be space for someone like Jesse in Gainesville now, though. Maybe that's what the apology is?
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A University is when a person with 6 figure salary tells a person with a 5 figure salary that they have to cancel the class of a person making 4 figures a year because a class has 7 students enrolled instead of 8
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Reviewing grant/scholarship/fellowship propsals/applications really impresses upon me how much need there is to break graduate students out of the "no one has done this" paradigm. More often than not, someone has done it. That's not what novelty needs to be.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The Metro NY Library Council helps build digital repositories for other org's; they just launched a new People's Archive Digital Repository for the DC Public Library — featuring radical magazines, bike club photos, oral histories, archives of DC punk + Go Go, other 🌟 stuff! digdc.dclibrary.org
A screenshot of the People's Archive Digital Repository, featuring the Darrell C. Crain Photo Collection and a selection of African-American collections
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Why is the Italian Super Cup taking place in Riyadh?
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I keep seeing posts about how Luigi Mangione will be taken care of and perfected. He's at MDC Brooklyn, a facility that frequently has no heat and had conditions so poor that BOP stopped sending convicted people there after a judge described the conditions as "dangerous" and "barbaric."
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I took the Amtrak Floridian from Pittsburgh to Miami with @imenarv.bsky.social It's a picturesque journey.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Love these stickers from Be Our Neighbor Millvale. It's not enough to bang drums outside of a Nazi's house. You have to build a community where everyone is safe.
A sticker that says "Millvale is love." The word love is filled in with the flags of Congo, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Palestine.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Trying not to be the person that just sits in a coffee shop all day but they are playing p.s. eliot, the front bottoms, and mom jeans and it's making that hard.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Worse, perhaps, than being sick is coming back to a week's worth of work and the apparent expectation that it needs to be handled immediately.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This institution is obsessed with having an in-person faculty meeting (despite most people continuing to join via Zoom including an entire campus that is a minimum of 45 minutes away) and it is ridiculous. Thankfully, the tenor of the meeting today is "work to contract."
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Pittsburgh 🤝 Georgetown, Guyana
A brick wall with "do not use this alley as a bathroom" written on itA concrete wall with "no urining here" written on it
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Who are the river people on here? Hydrologists, geomorphologists, historians, anthropologists, poets, writers, people who love them. Looking to make a starter pack! #rivers #envhist #envhum 🏞️
A rainbow touches down in green bushes on the banks of the blueish Yukon, with hills in the background
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
first dusting of the season on the farm nothing sticking in the city
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today in class, a first-year student asked how to manage the grief and anxiety that comes with critical environmental social science. The class brainstormed ideas and shared their own strategies, but I wonder if there's a good way to integrate these strategies into the curriculum?
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Words I would like to have removed from my brain: assessment, accreditation
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
I think about this comic every time anyone mentions the Venezuela-Guyana border.
a hand drawn comic showing the United States (depicted as Uncle Sam) putting a chunk of land labeled "venezuela guyana border dispute" in a freezer. the United States is saying "this way it'll be fresh for use at any time"
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Millvale is the best.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
The most important thing I did this academic year was play a very small role in bringing rare (in the US) Venezuelan peppers to Pittsburgh. I wish academia could have this kind of direct, positive, cultural/community impact all of the time.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
I'm going to need someone to explain to me Pittsburgh's obsession with Pigeon Bagels. They are good, but the lines are ridiculous.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
There's something really wrong when it takes 18 months to get peer reviews back and none of them mention the really great work on the topic that has been published in the interceding period but do suggest you cite things that you kind of already cited.
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josh mullenite @j-mullenite.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
For the past few months there has been a large piece of graffiti on 28 in Pittsburgh that said "No War In Gaza." It--and only it, the other graffiti is still there--has been removed. The removal happened right after the Allegheny County Council voted against calling for a ceasefire.
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