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Suspended in Gaffa @leegilmore.bsky.social · 14h

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times?

Suspended in Gaffa @leegilmore.bsky.social · 14h

Ronald McDonald. But not just because scary clown. I had a vivid nightmare where his face turned into a menacing collage of advertisements. My 4-year old subconscious already knew.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Chronicle Review is just publishing Quillette's desk rejections now

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the fight for abortion rights is the fight for trans rights is the fight for foundational bodily autonomy for all of us. every issue is a queer issue and if you haven't realized this yet, don't worry. they'll show you.

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the main reasons fraternities still exist is that membership signals to potential employers that you’re capable of keeping institutional secrets, even when it means covering up illegal behavior.

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Clark Valentine @clarkvalentine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey dads my age who have sons in college: do anything you can to keep them from joining a social frat. Make it clear that the shit that goes on there is unacceptable. Don’t fall for the propaganda.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.”

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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Lish McBride @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, it’s even worse. To be very clear—I support trans people and think this whole thing is bullshit. But title 9 also creates a pathway on campuses and federal spaces for people who have been sexually harassed, stalked and assaulted to be protected and seek investigation.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's kinda funny the way this article describes how a model being unsafe -- ignoring guardrails, pretending to have done things it didn't, not following user instructions -- also makes a model a shitty consumer product

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are Black Democrats not a thing or…

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My kid has launched a petition to change his high school’s handbook policy on AI use. He’s pissed. (He really hates AI)

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This is a petition to change the BHS Al policy from this, which was copy & pasted directly from the student Handbook google document on Monday, September 21st of 2026.
BHS Al Policy
Unauthorized use of generative Al tools to substantially complete an assignment is not permitted.
This petition to change the Al policy would like to change the following:
• Remove the word substantially from the policy all together
a. The usage of the word substantially is ambiguous at best, and disingenuous at worst. For example, who is it that decides when Al was used substantially, who decides what substantially means, and why is any amount permitted
when the use itself is unauthorized?
Require a more descriptive decision on how Al is and is not permitted in assignments and projects
a. If students do not know what is permitted, how do they know what is not
b. If Al is used in 100% of the creation process except for editing, would that count as substantial usage? Most would probably argue yes, but it is possible for an argument to be posed of the opposite, that the baseline was made with Al but the final product was made by humans. That argument could be made,
and could be accepted., even if it goes against what the policy means.
c. If Al is used for the basis of the brainstorming of talking points, but nothing
else, would that count as substantial usage? Most would probably argue no,

but again, it is possible to argue the opposite. It could be argued that because the baseline of the passage was Al generated, everything else built on that foundation does not count as real work.
Have a more active description of why Al is prohibited
a. Why is Al prohibited? Is it because you just don't like it? Is it because it harms the environment? Is it because it harms the learning capabilities of people no matter the age or gender? Specifics are important.
• Expand restrictions on Al and what possible punishments might be
a. What happens when you break the rules? Nothing? Suspension? A grade drop? Or should it be decided by the teacher?
b. What specifically is not permitted when using Al? Is image generation allowed? Probably not in art. Is source generation allowed? Who knows, not
us.
c. Are teachers allowed to use Al? Why or why not? It sends mixed messages when teachers use Al in their classroom slides and then turn around and say
"No! This technology is really bad and horrible and don't use it?"
• Require a more expansive curriculum on Al and its problems
a. Anything would be helpful. Even an assembly would be helpful because people do not know anything about what Al does to them, or the environment. This is a BARE MINIMUM.
Each request will be signed on individually in this petition. Each change would be requested individually and discussed with those who have the power to change it individually.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026

For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...

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The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth

The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts

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unlawful whatever 🐝 @inlovewthemooon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Portland heads up 📢 Happening now 9/20 1:25 pm 2512 NE Broadway, Portland, OR Right-wing agitators have shown up at the sports bra hours before their planned 4:00 protest and are "protesting" the bar without opposition

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He should put on a cardigan sweater and deliver this message in a televised address. I'm sure American voters will love it!

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

private equity brain rot in our universities means that paying for more humans to teach and research isn’t just unsexy, it lacks the get rich quick potential that the model depends on

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

In which several of us highlight the fear-hype, the spiritual and metaphysical commitments, and the economic incentives behind the "AI slow down/pacing/pause/whatever." If you believe in the possibility in of "artificial superintelligence" & actively work for its arrival, that means you have views…

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 15/09/2026

On this day in 1963, a white man detonated a bomb under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, with 400 congregants inside. Four Black children were killed in the blast.

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Sep. 15, 1963 | Four Black Girls Killed in Church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14/09/2026

I've been thinking about this a lot because of all the talk about how Dolly Parton "didn't take sides" and I think she's proof that if you don't want to talk about politics you don't have to, but she took sides with her money & her actions and her side was pretty clear. So is Sheeran's, I guess.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

All of Trump’s endless crimes pale compared to the precious time he has not just squandered but dedicated to turning up the heat. This is mass murder on an incalculable scale.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

this guy is one of the architects of a war that might rank as one of the worst strategic missteps in american military history and here is on CBS getting a softball interview about his feelings

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trump, Vance, and especially Musk have largely succeeded in eroding the norms against overt gutter racism. We don't get back on track as a society until people that act like this are driven out of public life.

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Ryan Smith @rysmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

AI's greatest risk isn't that it will kill us all. It's that the people who are trying to profit from it will do something really stupid in the name of their bottom lines and lack the basic common sense or are too cooked on AI ideologies to stop before they do something that kills a lot of people.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

JD Vance using 9/11 for clout while his boss snores through it and everyone else is networking, meanwhile Mamdani is out here with the dangerously radical take that you should care about human beings you don't know personally

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

luckily we all recognized eventually that our collective reaction of hate and violence after 9/11 was morally repulsive and materially devastating, and so when we confronted covid we... ha ha

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ll put this here for the younger people because it’s one of those pieces of 9/11 lore that sounds false but is true: While most flights remained grounded throughout the United States after 9/11, the White House allowed the bin Laden family to fly out of the country.

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White House Approved Departure of Saudis After Sept. 11, Ex-Aide Says (Gift Article)

Richard Clarke, who ran White House crisis team after Sept 11 terror attacks, says top White House officials personally approved evacuation of dozens of influential Saudis, including relatives of Osam...

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

People who continue to pursue a technology under these circumstances are either massive liars or truly believe this and are persisting anyway, and either way they are rotten people who should be removed from all forms of power and access.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

demonstrating reason and language capabilities in coat hooks alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

the old "drunk octopus wants to fight" photo of a two-pronged metal coathook, whose screws look like off-kilter eyes of an octopus putting up two of its eight dukes

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 08/09/2026

He was NINE when 9/11 happened. NINE

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phylan @phylan.website · 08/09/2026

OpenAI guy deeply concerned that OpenAI product is extremely powerful. no no this is not an ad. don't say this is an ad. it's The News

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cageyratfish (they) UTC-7 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

can we even say "sold" anymore when they're just shoving "AI" into everything we use without even giving us a chance to say no? this feels more like an invasion than a sales pitch. they're not selling a product. they want us to stop thinking for ourselves.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I teach history. That's my profession. That's what I'm trained in, that's what I was hired to train students in. That's what all my experience and interest is in. I don't know a thing about AI and I don't want to. So if you want to teach AI, go teach AI in your own fucking classroom.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

humanities education is for all, for the common good. we’re in the trenches these days, i know. but we keep doing the work of teaching our students how to imagine and build better worlds.

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Suspended in Gaffa @leegilmore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Once upon a time when I was researching religion at Burning Man in the early 2000s, I encountered an evangelical Christian pastor who was out there with his Church distributing water as an act of Witness. His theology & politics were terrible (NAR, I later learned). But his ministry was not. 1/5

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.

"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The newly pervasive absence of humility is one reason reactions to Dolly Parton's death stands out. All these stories about donations she didn't draw attention to, and support she gave to other artists. No one has a memory of her bragging, demanding credit, or centering herself when helping others.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The person who was marketing chatGPT to colleges was the head of marketing for Coursera and if you're an academic that actually should tell you everything.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp

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Suspended in Gaffa @leegilmore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I probably have a friend/follower or two here who fits the description?

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