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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Mulder: That’s just it. No one’s on drums! They pushed through industrial then beyond. Beyond credits. One band. One sound. One mind. Neither dance nor punk. Something the world wasn’t ready for. Scully: This came in 14th on Sterogum’s Wire retrospective. Mulder, that’s 14th out of 15.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Mulder: They gave The Cure a wah pedal, Scully—can your science and logic explain that? Scully: These drums sound programmed. How can you even call this post-punk?

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Mulder: They tried to bury it. All post-punk. They said, “remember the Sixties?” to kids who had no idea. They gave Prince songs to the Bangles. Promised them it’d all come around again. Happy Mondays, Mother Love Bone, Dukes of the Stratosphere. They wanted us to forget what we’d seen and heard.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Scully: What is this? Mulder: It’s Manscape. Wire’s seventh album. Scully: It has two stars on AllMusic, Mulder.

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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

25 years ago today, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan. Weeks earlier, Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t think teaching a canon is bad, and studying intellectual traditions as historical phenomena is important to understanding culture, past and present. What’s bad is teaching a specific canon as if it’s above history and somehow universal. The frame matters, as does what’s available beyond it.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hearing that record for the first time was like stepping into another world.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

T: Which Cocteau Twins album should I listen to besides Heaven? Me: WELL…

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Refugees from the right are welcome, but not at the lectern. Go stack chairs. This isn't the next phase of your career. The next phase of your career doesn't involve a camera or mic.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Please join me in celebrating Stanislav Petrov Day, commemorating the day in 1983 when Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet duty office for the early warning nuclear exchange system, decided that the warning he received was probably a false alarm and did NOT precipitate a nuclear war!

en.m.wikipedia.org

Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I don't have to pause and write a truth table for (¬φ ∨ ψ), please check my pulse.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Has anybody tried asking the Trash Heap about all this?

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

They’re lucky a lot of people accepted DEI instead of revenge

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Aldi meatless meatball shortage is destroying our family.

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

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Let's bring back developers who slip Monty Python quotes into documentation. Let's bring back French theorists who are never clear when they're joking or not.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Likely been said before, but I'm never going to recover from seeing all these people generating text that nobody wants to read. They're telling on themselves, yes, but the prevalence has absolutely shaken my understanding of information, communication, taking pride in your work...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Hugh Cayless @hcayless.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We’re not scared. These things produce such a phenomenal amount of traffic that our systems keep going down if we don’t aggressively block bots. It’s pure self defense. And yes, it’s breaking everything.

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John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Like when Kermit the Frog appears in an evening talk show or something it's very clearly tongue-in-cheek. It would be pretty disturbing if say Jim Henson went around acting like Kermit was a real dude and never breaking character.

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

mmygod

the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky post

today's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After 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/

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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

in 1627 someone published a text called 'Woe to Drunkards' with an honest to goodness Chad knight vs. Virgin fop meme

"In a woodcut on the title-page of 'Woe to Drunkards,' a sermon preached by Samuel Ward, of Ipswich, 1627, the vices of that age are typically contrasted with the virtues of a former one. In the upper compartment we are shown what men were of old by the open Bible, the foot in the stirrup, and the hand grasping the lance; while in the lower, the degeneracy of their descendants is typified by the leg and foot, decorated with a broad silk garter and a large rosette; by cards and dice, and a hand holding at the same time a lighted pipe and a drinking cup with a cockatrice in it. Twenty years afterwards, these types would have been more strictly applicable, with the inscriptions merely transposed."

Excerpt from: Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards, William Andrew Chatto, 2014
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45584

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10/09/2026

this is, I think, one of the inherent problems with LLMs using natural language interfaces: they are a statistical tool *that looks like* a logical tool statistical approaches can be a useful way to find related information! BUT for it to be useful you have to *know that's what it's doing*

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If your Elizabeth is Holmes... No, it's no use. And I've had years to come up with something.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some of us are old enough to remember when national pride and honor centered the celebration of first responders. Curious, today, which outlets also remember this.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fellow anxiety collectors, you can do one of those tasks right now instead of thinking about it sixteen times a day. This will give you more time to focus on a different worry.

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trinity ⭐️⚓️ @meleesadposts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

listening to daft punk

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't know why you say goodbye when...

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's the self-awareness and self-parody for me. How it never turns completely spiteful and, even with the callbacks and the megacorp satire, it's never complete projection. The Lincoln's birthday bit alone!

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Increasingly I view the quoted genre as the dialectic opposite of papers titled "Beyond the Debate" which are, inevitably, perfectly ordinary contributions to whatever debate they're expected to rise above.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

taking walks

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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 04/09/2026

re last repost: I stand by my assertion that if someone is being "deported" to somewhere they didn't come from, the correct term is simply "transportation" as in the Victorian practise of shipping convicts off to colonies, this is barbaric 19th century shit and "deportation" is a euphemism here

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

An interesting effect of that dialect map relying so much on vocabulary I've rarely said since childhood is that it placed me in Missouri, where my parents were raised. I imagine one based on phonetics would reach quite a different conclusion.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You would think epub would be more popular/supported by now, but having done countless hours of accessibility remediation on PDFs this year, I can report that's on too few agendas.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Using an AI image to showcase diversity seems especially cursed. Though I suppose there’s an equality to making sure no one was paid.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We cannot count on the courts or DOJ for to stop this nor for the administration to comply if they did - so what will Congress do?

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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

in the 90s it was nearly impossible for an out trans woman to have a career in academia. thank god we have equality now (it is nearly impossible for anyone to have a career in academia)

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reader view is really doing the work for a lot of websites these days, huh.

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sol @spider.florist · 31/08/2026

What we really need to go back to is dudes seeing a hot lady and repeatedly hitting themselves over the head with a giant mallet instead of making it her problem

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Forever holding my tongue when someone uses the phrase "a modern X" instead of specifying the features of X that they want.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Related thought: stop rewarding abusive senior colleagues w less service (and the corollary of dumping more service on those who are highly-capable/not abusive). Instead, give those assholes service that limits their ability to abuse + require meaningful training in how to do service appropriately

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Miranda Miller’s Skeleton @randymiller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's been about 20 years now that I've been told trans people are a new and unstudied phenomenon from the past few years, and we just don't have all the data yet to know to do about us, by people who have no understanding of the data we already have

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Metascientists need to be required to read history of science. We already know so much about how an individual experiment is not a miraculous thing that is supposed to single-handedly produce fail-proof scientific facts. More than science, it's our assumptions about science that we must fix.

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Elizabeth-Marie Helms @kleidouxos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, Lote, Against Method, Broken Earth trilogy, Sharp Objects, Histories of the Transgender Child, Summer Fun, Triumph of the Moon...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:

Slide header: Premises/values: Cards on the table

Bullet points:
* I care more about students’ learning than about the “accuracy” of grades or the prestige associated with a specific degree
* I want to work collaboratively with my students, rather than policing them
* I don’t want to spend any time reading, much less providing feedback on, something nobody wrote
* Science is a human, communal process; there is no knowing without knowers; and our work cannot be autocompleted
* Deep thinking and human connection are always more important than polish, speed, or “productivity”
* Research agendas should not be set by & for industry

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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