John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 13hI feel like we haven’t focused enough on getting this asshole obsessed with the Titanic, especially given his documented arrogance in the submersibles department 2247
Reposted by John StehlinDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Now this is my kind of foreshadowing 511799249
Reposted by John StehlinKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026This is actually the first major de-electrification we're seeing in the mid-transition era and I cannot fucking believe my eyes in seeing the core advocates of electrification celebrating and welcoming and encouraging it www.wired.com/story/us-dat...wired.comData Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the USThere’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction. 18442
Reposted by John StehlinKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/09/2026My lukewarm take on 1.5 stories is that climate is only one of many reasons to phase out fossil fuels, and probably not in the top two reasons for most people. We should do it regardless, to save millions of lives per year from air pollution, reduce exposure to high and volatile fossil prices, and.. 916047
Reposted by John StehlinQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 30/08/2026What eight decades of dollar dominance will do to a mf 1292
Reposted by John Stehlinsurlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Others have pointed it out before, but the capital counter revolution to approximately 4 years of tight labor markets and robust wage growth has been stunning 0175
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026the circular firing squad of your enemies is always fun but this one needs a lot more participants! 031
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Philadelphia you have trained for this momentcnn.comHitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia | CNNThis is why we can’t have nice hitchhiking robots. 151
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Every petty tyrant thinks a union will get in the way of the “special relationship” they have with their employees, there is truly nothing special about higher ed in this regard 052
Reposted by John StehlinChris @cperez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Principal investigators need cheap grad and postdoc labor to boost their own research profiles. Treating them like workers by allowing them to unionize disrupts the feudal lord-serf relationship that exists in most labs." There I fixed it for you 5395114
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"A selling point for the car is that it supposedly allows the driver to go anywhere they want at any time; in practice it creates an uneasy mass of cars squeezing along the same highways at the same time, headed for the same destinations." 150
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026luckily I have impeccable opinions that my employers have always fully co-signed but I still think that if I very publicly whipped up a digital mob that hounded someone into killing’s themselves I would get in trouble 150
Reposted by John Stehlinamulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this. 10999314
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026After several years cooking with induction I am renting an apartment with a gas stove and it is some black-and-white, “there’s got to be a better way” infomercial shit. How do people live this way? 120
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026these people are like a funhouse mirror version of C. Wright Mills’s sociological imagination - making their private troubles everyone’s public issue 010
Reposted by John StehlinOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Over the last few days I've watched highly politically engaged, educated people who are otherwise clear and careful thinkers attempting to litigate the obvious facts of the matter with respect to the late Arday's obvious layers of misconduct, taking their turn wheeling the horse into the gates. 11/ 102008176
Reposted by John StehlinCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture. 8761182639
Reposted by John StehlinJason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The historic site of the former Banjara parking lot payphone. 48717
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I've been working on this for a while and if it were to be my sole contribution to the culture I would be happy 031
Reposted by John StehlinAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026faculty! Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas faculty! please answer this anonymous AAUP survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.com2026 AAUP Faculty in the South SurveyThe Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as... 15672
Reposted by John Stehlinben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026i think its important to emphasize that these afrikaners are not refugees in any legitimate sense but settler-gentry mad that they cant abuse and underpay their black servants and farmhands anymore in yet another case of everything is projection its actual literal asylum fraud 0148
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Some overdue professional news: this fall I will join the Department of Earth Science and Geography at Vassar College. It was an honor to serve the people of North Carolina and I will miss my students and colleagues at UNC Greensboro, but I am excited about this move (and the cooler weather)! 4171
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I was nearly flattened by a driver flying through a fully red light a few weeks ago and when I asked the driver if he was having a medical emergency he said he was having “cognitive issues,” no mention of why his the younger person in took to be his wife in the passenger seat wasn’t driving. 120
Reposted by John Stehlin#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/08/2026Every time I across one of these I watch the entire thing three times in a row 171317219
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026second time in thirty years that Davey Hearn has had fake charges against him dropped, incredible form 120
Reposted by John StehlinSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece. 342860859
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026the petro-/bovo-masculinity death cult prefers rethinking other people's rights to exist 040
Reposted by John StehlinDr. Tripti Bhattacharya @triptychphrases.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The world lost an amazing scholar and human being this past weekend - please consider donating to the Sarah Knuth Junior Fellowship below: climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...climateandcommunity.orgSarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute 084
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026comparatively minor given everything else, but only the dumbest people to have ever lived would think razor-covered buoys in a flood-prone river a good idea even just in hydrological terms. we deserve better enemies. 041
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Still reeling from this. Sarah was kind of an academic aunt to me through grad school and after. She was brilliant, but she used her brilliance to collaborate and to make everyone around her feel smarter, funnier, and more hopeful. Unreal to inhabit this dumber, drearier world without her. 1111
Reposted by John StehlinMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026For many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town. 433405915
Reposted by John StehlinBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I admire our government's new commitment to honesty. 563150002078
Reposted by John Stehlinleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to hang out in the middle east while he starts the same war every day. when a missile blasts you into pieces he'll say your last words were "we must build a new ballroom in the white house" before your body is even cold. good luck soldier 4351821128
Reposted by John StehlinJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares. 891835363
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026the exit strategy from the bubble is selling this malware to public institutionsai.uncg.eduChatGPT Edu | AI at UNCGArtificial intelligence is rapidly changing higher education, research, and the workplace. During the coming year, UNCG faculty and staff will have the opportunity to explore ChatGPT Edu, OpenAI’s hig... 0116
Reposted by John StehlinDefector @defector.com · 20/07/2026Jonas Vingegaard felled yet again by the cruelty of his sport: defector.com/jonas-vingeg...defector.comJonas Vingegaard Felled Yet Again By The Cruelty Of His Sport | DefectorÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Exactly 84 minutes after Jonas Vingegaard spiked his right collarbone into a curb and limped into an ambulance and out of the Tour de France, the assembled press watched him… 2112
Reposted by John StehlinJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Fun fact: While Jews made up less than 1% of the population of Argentina, they comprised up to 12% of those disappeared during the Dirty War, due to the antisemitism of the right-wing junta and the association of Jews with leftism. More Jews were killed in the Argentine Dirty War than on 10/7/2023. 352748661
Reposted by John StehlinOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026CABO VERDE CABO VERDE CABO VERDE 244608709
Reposted by John StehlinCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19/07/2026senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign 262113340
Reposted by John StehlinPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 19/07/2026would hogwarts hire a velociraptor? do you have to let a vampire inside your home - if he's your landlord? is a cop who fights crime as a werewolf by night technically a K9 unit who - deserves overtime? if they become partners, can they literally go anywhere and pull over whomever they want? 1364347584
Reposted by John StehlinHarvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 19/07/2026In other words they are doing their jobmotorbiscuit.comAtlanta's New Bike Barriers Are Flipping Cars and Sparking DebateIf you drive down Cherokee Avenue in Atlanta's Grant Park neighborhood and see a car precariously balanced on two wheels atop a concrete divider, don't 1704604722
John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I’m usually more of a “mature Marx” than a “young Marx” type of guy but yeah, this is a level of alienation previously unknown outside of the nobility, and they are loading it into a cannon aimed directly at their children 050