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Person. Parent. Educator. Completing my migration from the (former) birdsite. BIPOC, Gen X, they/she.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h
“The bias conversation puts you in a position where it’s almost like you think it can be fixed and it is possible to have equitable AI systems, and that always felt wrong to me because once you introduce these things into a market logic, they are going to discriminate…”
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These were the ‘Adams and Eves’ of facial recognition technology | CNN
For nearly a decade, the artist Trevor Paglen has exhibited the original faces that the U.S. military used to develop facial recognition technology. Now, we’ve all become the dataset.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Libraries do not mess around.
Libraries employ bounty hunters to bring in people with overdue books dead or alive.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The year is 2030. Taylor Swift released a new album last week. She has already re-released 9,000 versions of it. You ask if this is a bit much, and a Swiftie immediately decapitates you. This is legal for them to do, as has been decreed by God Emperor Taylor Swift.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "I Peaked in a Past Life" Pin. To be fair, I was a capybara in a past life. The bar is high. collabs.shop/mpbtov
An enamel pin of a pink and purple lotus flower resting on green lily pads, with a banner underneath that reads "I Peaked In A Past Life".
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a perfect library joke 📚
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Dartmouth provost's decision to stop writing by substituting AI-assisted text production is a great opportunity to have the kinds of conversations every institution should be having about AI use in higher education. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
insidehighered.com
Dartmouth’s provost has stopped “writing.”
Dartmouth’s provost raises a tension we should examine.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good morning
a restaurant called Spicy Memory
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When we tell students that we have to use generative AI because it’s inevitable, we spread antidemocratic misinformation, while also saying that the following are all inevitable too: surveillance, white supremacy, language homogenization, mass theft, environmental devastation, and and and…
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is why it is important to push back on the idea that these models can think and reason just like a human, it leads people to think this is both possible and a good idea Stop huffing farts in the philosophical debate and look at what is actually happening
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
lol. Lmao, even
THE NERVE

For one, he's still smarting from a six-year-old petition that tried in vain to get him removed from a linguistics association for alleged racist statements. "In the old days," he said of cancellation culture on a recent podcast,
"there were public hangings, public crucifixions, burnings at the stake. The electronic equivalent is the internet petition with 600 signatures."
That petition must have hit extremely hard.
After all, to liken it to a crucifixion is not a very Steven Pinker thing to do. Generally he considers it prudish wokeism to complain that words are "toxic" or "violent." Like many American academics, he believes that speech, no matter how bullying or racist or cruel, can never be criminal. Just last year he tweeted:
"Speech is not violence. Violence is not speech."
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Post Mo Thóin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI could kill is, but it would be because people were stupid with it, not because it was smarter than us.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 19/09/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "shit like this makes me worried for the fate of humanity"
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I spend most of my Bluesky time on my fandom account, and for good reason. There really is a particular kind of person here who lives to take things personally and can’t wait to pick a fight in replies, isn’t there?
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
It's always a good time to share this.
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Perfect 😌 (h/t @nameshiv.bsky.social and @effinbirds.com)
Screenshot of two consecutive posts in my feed. 

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice... • @nam... • 10m
The absolute refusal to learn from anything even once is why you should try not to put the literal stupidest people alive in charge of your country, don't do it again 3/3

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com • 11m
Painting of a bird with the text, “just as I suspected: dumbfucks
@effinbirds”
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The one reason why you should make me your Senator for all 50 states:
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Faïza @fayza.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
Credit : vinn_ayy (IG)
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖🏽 If you haven’t already, check out my recent essay about Star Trek IV, Moby-Dick and Cetacean Ops in @orionmagazine.bsky.social! orionmagazine.org/article/plan...
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Planetary Kin - Orion Magazine
Learning from Star Trek’s space whales
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And this is why we need comedians (his name is Clayton English)
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
rejecting AI isn’t a failure to prepare children for an “inevitable” future, it’s a vital statement of belief in our agency to chose a future for them, rather than letting it be dictated to us by a small group of the richest men, who are increasingly - I wish this was just hyperbole - openly fascist
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Undertaker: Stay Down!
Alt: the Undertaker from WWE looking down and shouting “Stay Down!”
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” -Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hilarious and enlightening activity in today's academic orientation (I did not come up with the idea; Jered Bright did). Students wrote professional emails to profs on the board, and we brainstormed how to make them even better. Then they wrote the most unprofessional email to a prof they could.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
please enjoy new tingler POUNDED BY THE COMPULSION TO CHECK MY PHONE EVEN THOUGH I JUST DID TWO MINUTES AGO BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES ARE MONETIZING OUR ATTENTION WHICH HAS ALREADY RESULTED IN DEVASTATING SOCIETAL HARM out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH7RDYV5 and patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...
cover of POUNDED BY THE COMPULSION TO CHECK MY PHONE EVEN THOUGH I JUST DID TWO MINUTES AGO BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES ARE MONETIZING OUR ATTENTION WHICH HAS ALREADY RESULTED IN DEVASTATING SOCIETAL HARM featuring a shirtless man in sunglasses on the left side with short beard and blonde hair. next to him is a MESSAGE NOTIFICATION for one HANDSOME undread message they are on a city street
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 30/08/2026
Photo of a part of the sticker wall, near the gum wall in Seattle. A large glued poster of a cat holding a sign reads, “A.I. IS DẠTA
& CAN ONLY LOOK AT WHERE WE'VE BEEN.
CREATIVITY IS TRYING TO SEE WHERE WE CAN GO.”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
I’ll admit that I initially hate clicked, but it was not what I expected.
usatoday.com
Data centers are great and we should fully embrace them | Opinion
When I learned a data center was being built near my town or city, I stood up on my human chair and cheered.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”
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Lark @larkylark2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The call keeps coming from inside the house, and I am so sick of this shit. To have to battle our own colleagues to stave off the encroachment of the ecocidal fascist plagiarism machine exhausts me every day
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 27/08/2026
M-W
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
HMPH!!!
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
folks SAY they want kindness but this is not always the case. the most controversial thing that i ever post is 'the best way to make inroads in any creative profession is to be kind'. i get SO much pushback, because it is a scary idea for those who have trained themselves to be unkind as a defense
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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP to two of the best to ever do it
dolly parton in the 80s in black lingerie with red trim with garters and stockings dolly parton again in red lingerie with a garter belt and stockings tim curry in rocky horror picture show in a sparkly garter belt and lingerie too tim curry posing with a black jacket and his stockinged legs extended to show off black stilettos
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There's a reason we insisted on featuring Tim Curry's Frank N. Furter on the cover of our book. It's because it's probably the most influential drag performance of all time. Here's what we wrote about him
Tim Curry, Queen of the Midnight Scene

“I just wanted you to go further with it. You
weren’t letting go completely.”
Michelle Visage to Sasha Velour during
the 9021‐HO challenge

If Divine terrified and fascinated the mainstream 1970s with his
size, demeanor, and rage-based drag, then Tim Curry terrifiedthem, because his drag made them want to fuck him. Crossing
the draggy aggression of glam rock with the sensual archness of

Mick Jagger, Curry tapped into his nasty feminine side and cre-
ated the immortal sweet transvestite from Transylvania, Frank‐-
N‐­Furter, in the greatest cult film of all time, The Rocky Horror

Picture Show. Curry has never stated or articulated his sexuality
publicly, so while we can’t claim him as a queer man, we can still
claim him as a queer icon, because his performance was like a
big pansexual nonbinary sex bomb going off smack in the middle
of the most sexually open decade in centuries, the 1970s. Curry’s
Frank‐­N‐­Furter was simply hot and up for anything, regardless
of who was involved or which way they swung. Coming at a time
when people like David Bowie had already cracked open the door
on nontraditional, nonbinary presentation styles, Curry’s thick
lips, heavy eye makeup, and sinewy body turned on everyone
and made the young queer and trans folks in Rocky Horror’s
countless midnight audiences feel like they weren’t such freaks
after all—or even better, like they were freaks and wasn’t that a
glorious thing to be?
The cult success of The Rocky Horror Picture Show spawned
a subcommunity around it, full of its own traditions, slang, and
mode of dress, all based on or playing off the film itself, similar
to the midnight movie traditions that spawned the Cockettes.

None of this is notable in the general sense because all subcul-
tures, from underground comics fans to S&M clubs, have all

the trappings of their own cultures. But starting in the mid-
1970s, because the film’s cult following practically demanded

cosplay from its most ardent fans, it allowed and encouraged
countless young men to step out in public on a Saturday night
wearing fishnets, heels, a face beat to the gods, and a corseted

bustier—for over four decades. For the entire span of a genera-tion, The Rocky Horror Picture Show encouraged men—queer,
questioning, or not—to get in touch with their feminine sides
and then show them off to the world. For some of these men, it

was a doorway opening up new ideas about their gender iden-
tity or sexual orientation; but for the majority, it was about ex-
isting in a space that allowed them to do something they’d never

normally think to do in their own life. In some ways, getting
cishet men to try drag and feel a little freaky about it was a

more significant achievement on the film’s part than the count-
less men it walked up to the closet door and opened it on the

realization of their own queerness.
If Divine used drag in part to express her rage and to let loose

her id, then Tim Curry used it to express his desire and desir-
ability. Curry’s drag was the first time mainstream folks openly

admitted they found drag hot. Of course there have always been
plenty of folks who found the non-gender-conforming sexually
attractive, but it was a big damn deal for people to go around
admitting it in the (more or less) mainstream in 1975. People
tend to think of drag as something composed of glamour and
focused on beauty or a style of performance designed to get
laughs, but it can just as easily be a vehicle for anger or a tool to
explore desire, which is why it makes such great inroads to acting
and why Michelle Visage considers every drag queen an actress.
Tim Curry straddled all the lines of drag—boldness and
camp; male, female, and nonbinary; gay, bi, and pansexual—in
an underground film that satirized old Hollywood horror films

and musicals in order to explore themes of desire, fear, and per-
sonal freedom of expression. What does that have to do with

Drag Race?
What part of that doesn’t have something to do with Drag
Race?The cover to Legendary Children, featuring Tim Curry among a sea of legends
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
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Small Seasons @smallseasonsbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Lessening heat. The heat of summer has been forgotten. The rice has ripened and cotton flowers are in bloom. 🌾
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My beloved 8th grade English teacher just commented “AMEN!” on this VIBE CHECK clip on IG. 🥹🥹🥹
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Dr Chris Smith @spyhistorian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are in the knowledge business. Not the anti-knowledge business. And, no, this is not a free speech issue. You have the right to say what you like. Working as an academic is a privilege. If you want to peddle bullshit, become a YouTuber.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 20/08/2026
A researcher at the Old State House Museum in Little Rock discovered slave auctions had once taken place on museum grounds. Her bosses told her to stay silent. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
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A researcher at the Old State House discovered slave auctions had once taken place on museum grounds. Her bosses told her to stay silent. - Arkansas Times
“They immediately said, ‘Do not mention this to anyone.’ They said to keep researching, but don’t say anything about it because they might be watching,“ researcher Tessa Wahlquist said. “They” were me...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"The team found that the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black & white people in the 2010s, even after controlling for common factors tied to health inequalities, such as rurality or pop. density" www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today
New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities
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