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PhDon't

@jdmar3.bsky.social
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If you know me, no you probably actually don't. Professional chaos wrangler. 🏳️‍🌈 All pronouns, all at once.

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will @willduh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hard to get into the spooky season spirit when it’s 100 degrees outside
meme of a skeleton burning in fire
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This probably ends poorly given the history of technofetishism.
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Amy Mode Activated 🪷 ᓚᘏᗢ ಇ. @activateamymode.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is an excellent explanation.
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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Goodnight, friends. We can do hard things, especially when we do them together. I love you.
A quote from Adrienne Maree Brown: Things até not getting worse, they are getting uncovered. We must hold each other tight as we continue to pull back the veil.
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Picard management tip: Some of your decisions are going to be mistakes. You have to make them anyway.
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Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
gentle reminder: the void is for screaming, the abyss is for staring, please don't mix that up and ruin the experience for the rest of us
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nobody gives a F about pedagogy anymore.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For lack of a better descriptor: it totally sucks.
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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am taking a class right now for the first time in over a decade and the textbook is a online only McGraw-Hill book "edited" by my instructor from chapters of OTHER McG-H textbooks. It is totally incoherent. The book is only accessed through the McG-H interface. No part of it is even printable.
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Im sure there are actually horrible ghouls saying nightmarish things online but I actually think people rallying to support cultural institutions with their bodies in the face of the fascist assault on beauty and art is good
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
It's very easy for people not affected, to think that it is doomerism when people point out that having your freedom yanked back after a brief window is *absolutely fucking demoralizing*. More so than at any point in fighting to get that brief window.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
It's one thing to fight for decades and win your freedom. It's another to watch it instantly torn away a decade or two later, and then be asked "just do it over again, c'mon don't be a doomer, it worked once so"
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Pretty Khemyst @prettykhemyst.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
*taps mic* This is your reminder that the folks telling you about the 'evils' of vaccinations are in fact vaccinated along with their family members.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Remember when people were pissed that the Obama administration subsidized cheap cellphones for low income folks?
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jacob galapagos @jacobgalapagos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s think for yourself thursday
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump's first act of kindness will be dying
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Because there are two Americas*, we are underestimating the amount of psychosocial grief unleashed this past week Michael Wright Cassandra Wilson Dolly Parton Tim Curry Gloria Steinem In basically one week
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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Indeed. And too many arguing that the building isn't burning in a way that should cause alarm, really.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
They want to shield racists, and make it out of line to describe people as racist, because they believe in racism and would like to proliferate racist ideas with as little friction as possible.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is
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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
They definitely have.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 06/08/2026
Imagine if instead of the hands free operation you've been using, every function of your phone is nominally available through the worst bullshit automated customer service interaction you've ever had
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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What if you did your job instead of writing sternly-worded letters?
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Complaints about intellectual diversity from the right are basically a coping mechanism to avoid the obvious explanation. There are few astrologers in the astrophysics department, because most people with advanced scientific education stop believing in astrology. But that explanation’s not allowed.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"There has never been a better time in human history to be stupid," @garethwatkins.bsky.social writes. "Today even the stock market is for dumb guys. There’s quantum physics for idiots." www.welcometohellworld.com/there-has-ne...
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There has never been a better time in human history to be stupid
Alright that's enough Odyssey. Let's skip ahead to the next fucking thing. Unless you didn't read this piece yet then fine go do that but afterwards we're done. Today Gareth Watkins returns to write ...
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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Universities need to stop half-assing their response to the all-out assault on science (and higher education more broadly) if we are to have a hope of surviving. We should know that a concept of a plan is not going to work. Universities need to coordinate and take bold action or we're cooked.
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University science in the US needs a coherent plan
The Trump administration continues to degrade America’s scientific establishment, causing widespread harm to the country’s broader interests and well-being. Last week, the Association of American Univ...
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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The thing about burrito discourse is that broadly people under 40 have decided the economy does not provide the living standard they want, on everything from housing to gas to the price of going out. Whether or not this is an irrational belief is irrelevant, somebody has to successfully address it.
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Jean-Luc Picard @spacedadsupport.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just because you never received praise doesn’t mean you never deserved it.
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Jean-Luc Picard
@SpaceDadSupport
Incoming Transmission...

Just because you never received praise doesn’t mean you never deserved it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/08/2026
Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Anthropic's CEO says AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Victorian bootmakers suggest a different possibility. A story about sewing machines, economics, and why history can help us think more clearly about AI. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/what-victo...
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What Bootmakers Can Teach Us About AI
Anthropic's CEO warns AI could erase half of entry-level jobs. Victorian England suggests a different possibility.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Solar eclipse coming up so here’s one of my favourite maps
Top is a map of the US with “Google search volume for “eyes hurt” April 3 to April 10 2024” with a hot line running from Texas north east through to Maine.  The bottom map shows the path of the total solar eclipse which runs in a lone from Texas through to Maine
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...
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The Economist @economist.com · 06/08/2026
Autonomous AI hacking is here. Governments are not ready
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Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?
Autonomous AI hacking is here. Governments are not ready
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
And when there was only one set of footprints in the sand, o my child, that was when I blocked you.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 31/07/2026
My car went rogue after I turned on cruise control and jumped out
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026
I wrote about how nuclear weapons are still a problem and it's a problem if the people who have the nuclear codes can't be trusted not to use them "And importantly, scientists need to understand then, who it is we make a deal with when we compromise on our values in order to get funding." ⚛️🧪🔭
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We can't have metaphors anymore because everything is literal
or How I'm still worried about nuclear weapons
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Dr. Jen @notthatkindadr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
of our fellow scientists have an ethics problem. They think if they design something that then gets used to kill/harm people, it's not on them. I saw this firsthand at Los Alamos. My own boss said of his work there 'if there's a hell, I'm pretty sure I'm burning in it.' Stop working for madmen ppl
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
You can actually budget all you want and stop eating out, but it doesn’t change the fact that people don’t just make enough money for this economy anymore.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
To Trump and his tech and MAGA cronies, "reinventing government" means maximizing profit for themselves and people like them, while making it maximally punitive and exhausting for voters, taxpayers, entrepreneurs, or anyone in need. My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...
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Trump Is Making Government Worse on Purpose
Instead of seeking to simplify and improve citizens’ lives, this administration keeps creating new obstacles and burdens.
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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Charles Nelson Reilly Says 'It's True'
Alt: Charles Nelson Reilly Says 'It's True'
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PhDon't @jdmar3.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The ambivalence I feel reading this is stunning.
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dylan @pinkponysub.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I want 4 day work weeks, free universal healthcare, and a livable wage to meet my basic needs!!
Anne Hathaway as Penelope in her soon to be Oscar winning performance screaming I want odysseys in the odyssey 2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/07/2026
John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.” (Published December 2025)
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 24/07/2026
You actually don't have to base all your politics around being afraid of what Republicans might do or say. They're going to do and say those things either way so you might as well try to get health care
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The Economist @economist.com · 24/07/2026
Hugging Face is no laggard. The tech firm is valued at $4.5bn with hundreds of employees and a dedicated cyber-security team. How did an AI agent hack into its servers?
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Why the OpenAI escape is the most worrying AI mishap yet
Containing the technology is getting harder
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King ♛ @thekingjshow.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026
I really ain’t got much to give socially rn. a bitch is utterly depleted to put it nicely
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[Maximum Joy] @momentoftru.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Bare Minimum Friday. BMF Try to take it as easy as you can today if you can. If it can wait until Monday, let it.
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