Reposted by JuliAmanda Hoey @amandahoey.bsky.social · 13hThe median voter assumes that there is an easy way for immigrants to come here legally that people don’t do because, idk, reasons, and the best possible thing Democrats could do for their electoral prospects is make that actually true, stick it in a dry budget bill, and never speak of it again. 123329
Reposted by JuliPT Pumpkins 🎃 @ptklein.com · 14/10/2026We need to talk about the size of the squirrels in Ann Arbor 221003
Reposted by JuliElephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 14/10/2026One thing I admire about the Narnia books is that characters come and go. Oh you wanted 9 books about about Lucy? Too bad. Here’s Digory. Here’s Eustace. Some of these kids are shitty. Some of these books are unpleasant. 041
Reposted by Juli𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐎'𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐒.𝐉. @kohsj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Significantly more serious than the pre-surgery information had indicated. Prayers for Pope Leo 🙏 www.rte.ie/news/world/2...rte.iePope Leo had lobe of lung removed as doctors found cancerThe Pope has lung cancer and had the lower lobe of his right lung removed during surgery in Rome, the Vatican has said. 0141
Reposted by JuliCount Nikolaj Bill-cula @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Italian Catholics should push to ditch Columbus and adopt Mother Cabrini 3299
Reposted by JuliMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦♂️ 552171489
Reposted by JuliAddy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 11/10/2026Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Librarian: It's important to leave space so that when more is acquired and processed, we don't need to shift everything else around to get it to fit. 1594
Reposted by JuliRob @robertferry.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We are 24 years away from when the world needs to be at net zero carbon emissions. Fossil fuel infrastructure and even some appliances have about a 25-year design life. That means that every gas power plant, gas pipeline, or gas boiler you install today is a middle finger pointed at your grandkids. 716868
Reposted by JuliMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If Anthropic truly believes that Claude is conscious, then they are admitting they believe they are engaged in slavery and that they're okay with that. 1336
Reposted by JuliCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026But the reason cars are easier and faster is not because cars are INHERENTLY easier and faster as a form of transportation. It is because we have built this place for cars. We can unbuild it, and step ONE in unbuilding it is imagining hard infrastructure that you can build around. 125932
Reposted by JuliCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026The thing we need--that we know we need!--and that is EXTREMELY POPULAR, whenever it is built! is a model where people can walk to grocery stores, restaurants, parks, and schools where they live, and get to work without using their own individual car. 347135
Reposted by JuliCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is. 231502206
Reposted by JuliTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Taxes are the direct means by which we communally fund our most precious public goods. I wish politicians of every stripe would stop pledging to cut the very taxes we depend upon to build our shared institutions. 410026
Reposted by JuliKate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026What if I don't want everything customized exactly to my exact tastes and existing interests, what if I want to sometimes be surprised and experience the unexpected 3295
Reposted by JuliFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026nationalize everything Elon Musk owns. 742978613
Reposted by JuliShaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026yes, college costs too damn much. but it’s constantly infuriating to me that we punish students, reduce their educational options, demand they choose the most financially secure path because our government robbed their futures and gutted their opportunities. 16212
Reposted by JuliShaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026how about a sector by sector analysis of 40 years of wage theft, particularly in fields related to public service, education, and care work?nytimes.comA College-by-College Guide to Which Majors Pay Off — or Don’tCollege is one of the biggest investments you’ll ever make. We built a tool to compare the earnings of all available majors in a federal data set at nearly every school. 715243
Reposted by JuliStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?” 6857931249
Reposted by Julilauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/10/2026the main tradeoff of going to grad school isn't money or prestige. that would be laughable. the main reason to do it is so you can ruthlessly pick apart movies that touch on your area of subject expertise 381121114
Reposted by JuliBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm again grateful to @theverge.com for publishing my newest long-form essay on the limits of the computational model of the mind, the benefits of understanding both biological and cultural evolution to explain human thinking, and the danger of cognitive hot dogs in education.theverge.comOur minds aren’t equipped to handle AIAI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you. 820048
Reposted by JuliDorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'll never understand how "a lot of mostly/potentially/probably incorrect metadata is better for digital discovery than accurate but sparse metadata" became a popular idea than "we will put things online more slowly, but we will do it with accuracy" 927876
Reposted by Juli Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ah, not only are professions that are crucial to society--teaching, social work, nursing, libraries, arts--being denied support. Almost all of those are fields traditionally held by women. Not a coincidence. 310719
Reposted by JuliColleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026(My former student! That never gets old! It's SO COOL when they publish things!) 0161
Reposted by JuliDerek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The layered temporalities of academic life take a collective psychic toll. Especially these days, when there are more of them than ever demanding simultaneous attention. 121
Reposted by JuliMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I've had a fire extinguisher my entire life I've never used it Is this fraud 3769
Reposted by JuliCirc @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2579364653
Reposted by JuliTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/09/2026*smacks forehead* Ohhhhhhhhhh, guys. I get it. Okay! People don't hate the mass surveillance state as part of our carceral fascist society and lament the ease and access which people can now be a creep or worse. It's that they hate GLASSES! They just hate GLASSES! Let's just make it a necklace! 612433
Reposted by JuliMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One of the most effective tools at countering the creep of invasive surveillance tech in an era of oligarchs and little government regulation has been shame (cc @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social). “Pervert glasses” is a great example. Gotta do the same for this stupid amulet. 1112733
Reposted by JuliMarc Lajoie @lajoiemedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's disheartening the number of media critiques these days that amount to: "the villain is doing bad things, I can't believe the author condones his behaviour!". The author doesn't!! That's why he's the villain!! 840831
Reposted by JuliSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What if my interviewer offers me Turkish Delight? 1920025
Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I am reading Barbara Pym's Jane and Prudence and I understand ai am supposed to sympathize with these mid-century women whose brainy potential has been wasted by societal expectations that trap then as clergymen's wives or assistants to male writers, but... 100
Reposted by JuliMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"The truth is that the most environmentally friendly solution is simply buying less and wearing the clothes you already have as long as you can." This is pretty much the answer to every product. The most sustainable thing is LESS. Trouble is, our economy collapses if folks do that. Maybe it must.grist.orgGen Z is using ‘polyester’ as an insult. It’s actually a throwback.Here's how the fabric went from a "miracle" fiber to TikTok slang for fake. 0285
Reposted by JuliTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There was a bloom of stories maybe ten years ago about older professors creating problems for the job market by not retiring, and just checking in now to point out that they’ve since retired and almost none of their jobs continue to exist. 1041270
Reposted by JuliLiam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026awhile ago I saw a post that DAYS was the best @themountaingoats.bsky.social driving album, which I think is probably true, but there's also a lot of nuance so I've made a helpful guide 59515
Reposted by JuliDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026The difference between "tilly norwood" & a traditional cartoon is the cartoon has a human voice actor, director, & writer, working in concert to create a performance. The reason to call Characters by their in-world pronouns & "Norwood" an It, is that the SPECIFIC INTENT of it is to replace actors—… 161386
Reposted by JuliDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no." 452961739
Reposted by JuliUniversity of Michigan Library @umichlibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/20269/24, 5pm: Celebrate 100 years of the iconic "Down in Ann Arbor Town" map by learning about how the map came to be and the cartographic context that produced it. (And maybe pick up your own copy!) Join us in the Hatcher Gallery or on Zoom: myumi.ch/X8y3r 032
Reposted by JuliN.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 19/09/2026"I'll be judge, I'll be jury Said cunning old Fury, I'll try the whole cause and condemn you to death." -- Lewis Carroll, 1865 2223
Reposted by JuliKate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026People in a corporation made a thing and that thing is harming people and organizations and the planet at a disproportionate level to its real or potential benefits and those people and those corporations can be and must be accountable. It's not easy but it can be simple. 0175
Reposted by JuliChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again" 792363392
Juli @julimarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Pretty impressed actually! Probably also a little disappointed that my fundamental character flaws and struggles remain the same. But she'd think my life is pretty awesome 010
Reposted by JuliAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead. 4643255
Reposted by JuliKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/ 10459184
Reposted by JuliK.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 12/09/2026Body: The autumn approaches. Consume carbs. Make soup. Me: It was 94 degrees today. Body: Nestle in the bed beneath a mountain of blankets. Me: I was sweating so much I had to change my bra. Body: You crave cozy. Become one with the cozy. Me: I'm going to go sleep face-up in the pool. 241039134
Reposted by JuliFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/09/2026Quite frankly, I think all of you who believe the Democrats shouldn’t hammer the GOP on letting actual sci-fi super-villain Elon Musk mass-murder vast numbers of children because “Americans don’t care about that” are suffering from a dire lack of marketing and sales imagination. 737475
Reposted by JuliThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026To lose one chokepoint may be regarded as a misfortune 3526
Reposted by JuliEve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 09/09/2026tired: anxious wallflower wired: mentally ill shrubbery 1131
Reposted by Julialix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking 36973170