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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 05/09/2026

sharing again for the weekend crowd. the humanities aren't in crisis, they're under attack -- because they're dangerous to people in power, because they ask their students to imagine possible worlds.

from the article: "Our tendency to see religion as a matter of personal, interiorized belief has led us to view its study as intellectually niche—or, to put it in neoliberal corporate speak—as a “low-skill” distraction. This is true of how we view the Humanities in general, of course—that, as Lauren Horn Griffin has so well explained, they’re seen as little more than “personal enrichment.” But that, she continues, is a right-wing act of controlling unruly ideas, of pushing to the margins disciplines that ask difficult questions of “invisible” power structures—say they’re irrelevant, deny them resources, call them “unprofitable,” make them disappear. But faculty, especially but not exclusively in Religion and other Humanities disciplines, often work directly against these forces. Because the discipline of Religion is attuned to issues of (presumed) interiority as well as actions in the public sphere, it’s these faculty who are some of the best situated to ask uncomfortable questions of those in power—be they federal policymakers or university administrators.

At (regional) public universities like ours, this means highlighting a population that is quite different by class, race, gender, and sexuality than found at, for example, the Ivies. Humanities education, including Religious Studies, helps inure students to authoritarian thinking. At their best, the Humanities are attentive to the frictions that create lived experiences—particularly those that are oftentimes marginalized. The Humanities explain how things have been different, could have been different, could be different now, and may be different in the future. They are about possible worlds."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Emily is channeling a LOT to academic rage at our impotence.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Fund the Humanities just because. Fund the Humanities for more vicarious intellectual intercourse on Main. Whichever.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❄︎ ☃︎ @moxiest.art · 12/06/2026

he's not the world's first trillionaire. stop. just fucking stop. if attempting to cash in your "trillion dollars" would cause the value of the thing you are cashing in to crater, and thus not be a trillion dollars, that is not a trillion dollars. net worth is fucking meaningless.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 07/06/2026

let me add too that we were ostensibly closed because our major was "unsustainable," but the state's - and university's - own metrics showed that our enrollment has been growing consistently since 2012 this wasn't about money and it wasn't about metrics. it was about something else.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/06/2026

“In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier. ‘It passed from the computer screen onto the homework assignment without ever entering their brain,’ So said.” 🫠

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This came across my IG feed and it's too good to not share here

A pie chart labeled "benefits of staying in academia after PhD" where the categories are salary, wellness, stable mental health, and confidence for your future. They are each associated with a different color. The pie chart has four pieces of different sizes and colors. But the colors in the pie chart do not match the colors Associated with the four items supposedly being visualized here.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Caregiving is female, it is VASTLY undercompensated, and every government agency and male taxpayer benefits from women’s unpaid and underpaid work. Caregiving is a Feminist Issue, it’s an equality issue, it’s an equal justice issue, and it’s a racial justice issue.

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America's millennial daughters are sacrificing their careers to care for aging boomer parents

Unpaid caregiving costs the average American woman $295,000 in lost wages and retirement savings over a lifetime, jeopardizing her financial future.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Faculty everywhere should be incredibly concerned that our employers will steal our teaching materials just as Arizona State has. Absolutely shameless.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Also of note, Iowa paid Chris Rufo—perhaps the leading propagandist for the current assault on higher ed, an unqualified hack and admitted fabulist—$34,000 to speak. It's embarrassing that any higher ed institution would invite him, especially when they are cutting departmental budgets.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/04/2026

I am not sure people understand the degree to which foreign grad students (and especially Chinese ones) are propping up our universities.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

some of you on here have never teleported to a waffle house and it shows

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Jen Hart @jenhartphd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

It makes me very happy that before going to class my morning routine now involves restocking the snacks and meals that we make available for anyone who wants or needs them. 20-40% of college students experience food insecurity

Table full of chips, cookies, and other snacks. Bookshelf in the background with ramen, Mac and cheese, soup, etc

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Jen Hart @jenhartphd.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Not me telling my first year students I am on Bluesky and them earnestly asking “What is Bluesky?” ☠️☠️

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

this made me cackle all the way through

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The defining feature of the Trump administration is glee at the suffering of girls.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/02/2026

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

what even is the fucking point

How can Einstein do all this?
Einstein has his own virtual computer with a browser, just like you do. He can navigate websites, watch videos, read documents, type in text fields, click buttons, and submit forms. Anything you can do on a computer, Einstein can do.

How does Einstein access my Canvas?
You link your Canvas account once during setup. Einstein uses your credentials to log in, view assignments, and submit work on your behalf.

Will my professor know?
Einstein submits assignments from your account just like you would. The work is original and generated per-assignment — not copied from a database.

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Mischief Toy Store @mischieftoy.com · 17/02/2026

Please keep in mind that ICE still hasn't left Minnesota and many of our neighbors are still living in fear. If you're able, please consider donating to one of the many aid funds listed at standwithminnesota.com. Thank you again! 💖

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Stand With Minnesota

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Given the news drop of elite institution in the Epstein files, I hesitate to say this about *any* institution but…if Harvard continues to hold out, it will matter. Something that he cannot buy. Nominally anyway.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/01/2026

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

The unc who went viral a few weeks ago protesting in MN is back: "5 shots they put into that man's body. How do you look me in the eye and tell me you can justify this? I'm a veteran. I swore an oath back in 1969 to protect this country against all enemies foreign and domestic. This is unbelievable"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

They aren’t inefficient. They are terrorizing and killing people with the maximum amount of terrorist spectacle that they want and intend.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

I have watched the video of today’s murder several times and I am here to assure you that there were several agents restraining the victim when he was shot, and there is no way they were worried he was going to shoot one. Even if he had a gun, and I think that’s not true, he was not free to use it.

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conordale @conordale.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Another fact that people outside of MN might find hard to believe: I cannot participate in any kind of observation of ice activities because they will put me in a database, and follow me when I make deliveries of supplies to vulnerable people, so they can abduct them.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Minnesota is the best of us.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

New— I wrote about the amazing success of the Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota (more than $18k raised just from bluesky!!!), how people far and wide are inspired by the fighting spirit, and why I feel it’s my duty as a journalist to use my platform for material change:

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Calling Greg Bovino a "b*tch" raises thousands for Minn. immigrant rights

Spearheaded by The Handbasket, $18k+ in donations were made to spite the CBP commander.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Dear neighbor, It’s become common practice for ICE to stage its operations at the Target parking lot on East Lake Street. While immigration officials tear families apart, Target corporation is silent and makes its workers and customers feel unsafe. 1/

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