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Is this a spoiler, probably, but idc I'm so annoyed

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Like way to telegraph which character is going to die violently mostly to serve as a narrative purpose almost as soon as we meet them

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This is an entirely accurate synopsis and this movie rules

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So is The Gentleman supposed to be winky winky allusions to The Godfather or is Guy Ritchie just ripping off all the bits he likes and rearranging them as he feels like it

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The more words used and the more passive the voice the shittier it is. Our budget transmittal uses the phrase (i may get this slightly wrong, I looked several hours ago) "involuntary staff reductions in force." How many words do you need to use before it doesn't sound like "layoffs"

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is no more surefire way to piss me off, other than to be condescending, than to be an indecisive, thoughtless, or incurious person in a leadership position

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 06/10/2026

we can cancel this tuesday, if we believe in ourselves everyone go back to bed

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is concerning enough that I'm going to ask about this or similar policies/practices before agreeing to speak to ANY journalist on or off the record. if you can't promise me in writing that this isn't happening, that's the end of the conversation.

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Not to mention a critical failure to understand the electoral college and how it works.

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That anyone has any smoke for Tom Morrello speaks to the stupidly binary relationship many ppl in the US have to voting as the singular valid form of political expression & that they have less than no context for his incredibly political art or his amazing family's influence on int'l politics.

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software is not a coworker, it is not an employee, I don't care if it has a cute avatar or a human sounding name, or a way to interact with it via a human sounding voice. I love Bladerunner as much as the next person but my god.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These illustrations are still terrifying to me as an adult

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This book had me sleeping with the lights on when i was six bsky.app/profile/slee...

The cover of Scary Stories to tell in the dark

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Steel Magnolias (my mom was diabetic).

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Do you have something planned for #BannedBooksWeek? An event, read in, fundraiser, etc? Share it with us so we can give it a boost!

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Go to a rural county and tell me why the sheriff, whom everyone knows is corrupt, keeps getting re-elected.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is the start of Banned Books Week and as such it's an EXCELLLLENT moment to donate to @authorsabb.bsky.social. We are laser focused on tbe single issue of fighting book bans. It's hard work, and we've done it with all volunteers for about 3 years-- and now we finally have a program manager.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

People keep making movies based on Austen like she's one of the Bröntes and man would the Bröntes have been irritated about that

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anyway I can't remember which one this is but if it's the one I read I sincerely hope they cut the scene where she *sits on a colleague's lap* because there are no more seats left

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*screams in contingent* most postdocs are classified as staff

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Talk now about what you will do if there is a bad power outage, esp one that might last a while. How will you meet up and communicate if the cell towers go down or there is no way to access the internet? How will you get water? Share resources together? Where will you shelter?

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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We're preparing for many thing, but most pressing is the historic El Niño that is coming this rainy/winter season. It is on track to be very destructive and cause power outages, flooding, etc. (For those who live in fire-prone places, fire seasons following bad El Niños are usually particuarly bad)

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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Recently pulled together an emergency preparedness pod with people who live near me because of the many (worsening) crises that we are in or are heading our way. Can't stress enough for others to do this asap. Even just having a couple of conversations about it is better than nothing and will help.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

Any discussion about declining "public trust" in higher ed needs to start with acknowledging that the default stance in media coverage of higher ed looks like this: bsky.app/profile/ashe...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An entire generation of faculty and students (rightfully!) fully internalized “the institution cannot love you” and institutional leaders wonder where trust went 🙄

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is such a good example. If people can't afford to do it for a high profile contemporary artist like Ruscha idk what anyone thinks we can do for people who aren't rareified.

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OK, but it's been six years since CV was used to add metadata to these photos of LA, and 1100+of them still have "snow" in them. 12sunsets.getty.edu/contact-shee...

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12 Sunsets: Exploring Ed Ruscha's Archive

Explore Sunset Boulevard through photographs by Ed Ruscha tagged with 'snow'.

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These are people who should know better imho. If it's some recently monopolized private equity funded vendor who doesn't know a library from a hole in the ground, it would irritate me less.

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My mom literally worked in "automation" at OCLC in the 80s, it's not like I don't understand the benefits of standardized computing processes but they're not fucking magic.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had a vendor demo one of their new tools for creating "automated" metadata for archives and after it confidently informed us that an early 20th c doc from a Jewish tb sanstorium was a mid 19th century Freedmans Bureau Record....not only that, it didn't even produce standard data about file format.

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Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty (flipped, detail), by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1746, 📸 by @madelinepcarter.bsky.social

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People who work and worked in the trades, especially in things like masonry and bricklaying, it destroys your body over time. The people who are gifted craftsmen could and do make a better living than an "unskilled" (I hate that word, it is often untrue) labor but it comes at a v high cost.

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It's infuriating. Both of my parents went on to get doctorates & my dad always described his father, who started in slaughterhouses and became a meat seller for Swift, as one of the most intellectually curious people he ever met. He also worked himself to death bc of how hard that is on your body.

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Somewhat related, a research project req me to review around 60 years of a local Black newspaper (Denver) on microfilm and if I had not understood the extent to which accusations of "impropriety" with white women were used as a pretext for racist violence against Black men, I def would have after.

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