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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 1h

Secure enough. My last tornado event was in Tuscaloosa.

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 1h

I hate hurricanes but tornadoes are worse

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 1h

The sky is an odd amber color but I am not going outside to get a photo.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 6h

Anyone going to mention Oklahoma City?

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Gregory A. Wilson @gregoryawilson.com · 6h

Yep. The statement is a whole lot of words to say "we don't understand copyright."

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 6h

🚨BREAKING: A judge ruled the DOJ's policy of collecting states' unredacted voter rolls and urging them to remove voters flagged as ineligible is illegal. "This policy...has left untold numbers of disenfranchised voters in its wake and inflicted injuries to the Plaintiffs' privacy," the court wrote.

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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 6h

Today, we have a concurrent announcement of the public execution of a human (livestreamed, no less) and the decree that one must not be cruel to a software system. Is the anthropomorphisation of AI a vector for the dehumanisation of actual humans? Either way, this is all getting very desolate

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8h

If you praise the Confederacy, everyone knows what you're doing. If you praise Rhodesia, though, you still get that little frisson of naughtiness, the little tingle of rebelliousness that can power you through the drudgery of your eight-hour shift at your dad's car dealership.

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How a defunct white supremacist state became a cult favorite on the Right

From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 10h

If you want to know more about the history of slave traders and slavery in TX from the Mexican period thru independence, annexation, Civil War, and more, check out @jrlundberg.bsky.social 's The Texas Lowcountry with @tamupress.bsky.social www.tamupress.com/book/9781648... 🗃️

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The Texas Lowcountry

In The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 1822–1895, author John R. Lundberg examines slavery and Reconstruction in a region of Texas...

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 6h

Thread.

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 7h

Jim Cantore headed to Destin, so we appear to have got lucky.

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J Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 11h

I'm definitely observing this. A lot of my friendships from university began as study groups. Now students just study with notebookLM or another chatbot. These students will come out of university more socially isolated, less open-minded, and lacking critical communication and collaboration skills.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 10h

I've previously been published in F&SF, but all the drama around contract terms under the new ownership makes me really reluctant to submit to any of these magazines. I really hope they start taking more sensible legal advice and offering more normal contracts--to everyone.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 10h

Authors shouldn't read their own audiobooks. The best audiobook narrators are actors who left their breakout television roles for what they thought would be a promising movie career but ended up being mistaken.

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 10h

Local Waffle Houses are closing at 2:00 pm.

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 10h

Rain starting to pick up. Need to grab 2-3 last things off the patio and clean the tub.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.

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The Economist @economist.com · 09/10/2026

A new paper found that when male managers had their first daughters, the gender pay gap at their firms narrowed. Our charts explain the trend

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What having a daughter does to a boss

Male managers hire more women after becoming a “girl dad”

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think there’s plenty. Water and batteries were hard to find.

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SB @stephestellar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📜 (if there are archives students on here?)

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026

Recently unearthed records show that, in one set of trials carried out by the US Army, the electric shock gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers in a mock forced cell extraction scenario, who then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.

motherjones.com

Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers

After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We could get anything from 5 to 15 inches of rain tomorrow and Saturday? Glad I live on the second floor.

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Last week I stumbled across a once-classified report from 1971 that listed the actual times for SLBM attacks and warning systems. What hooked me from the onset was that all the times are listed in *seconds*. This week for DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I try to unpack all that a bit...

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The speed of war

The short times of nuclear warning and attack (1971)

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work" But why you would do such foolish thing on yourself? They want to reap money for prestige, sacrificing cheap high-level international tallent intake. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

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US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work

Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For the record? The Private Selection Hot Honey Pepperoni and Feta pizza? Absolutely slaps.

The box art of said pizza, labelled "Made With Sourdough - Ready in 12 min."

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Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📚one got library sky?

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are you an MLIS student or new-ish librarian worried about navigating convos around AI? Join @juliesetele.bsky.social & me for a free webinar hosted by Rutgers LIS students. Let's talk strategies for finding your (AI skeptical) people & finding ways to push back. 📚 scarla.rutgers.edu/event/talkin...

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Talking AI: A Guided Conversation on AI Critique and Refusal in Academic Librarianship - SCARLA

Are you a current or future librarian against AI? Do you want to learn how to advocate for AI refusal in professional environments and job interviews when faced with opposition? […]

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Minion S. Pumpkins, Librarian @odosbucket.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ok, dumb question for librarians. I did try to figure this out but OCLC’s documentation is confusing. If my library drops its firstsearch subscription, will students be able to see our holdings and make ILL requests thru Worldcat.org? Or will I have to get their “visibility” subscription for that? 📚

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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Long ignored by Saudi Arabia, the ancient columns of Al-Rajajil are embraced as part of the area’s rich pre-Islamic history. But much remains unknown about the stones, and a visit to the site leaves one with more questions than answers. #saudiarabia #history www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...

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Saudi Arabia’s Stonehenge: An ancient mystery in the desert

Long ignored by Saudi Arabia, the ancient columns of Al-Rajajil are embraced as part of the area’s rich pre-Islamic history. But much remains unknown abou…

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Double red flags at Pensacola Beach

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The problem is they think everyone else will agree with them.

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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Gonna work on a future thread like this but for the Confederate army

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

rollingstone.com

CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧵 about the 250th and how much of the activity was decentralized at state and local level. (The November issue of #AHAPerspectives will include a sampling of accounts from the historians and curators behind such programming, including at least one that John names below.)

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 08/10/2026

the absolute funniest thing i’ve been told about JD Vance from people who cover him is that he’s obsessed with charles de gaulle and thinks he’s his american reincarnation.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).

phoenixnewtimes.com

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pretending that elite university graduates undercut wages for working class laborers is...a claim.

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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And one consequence of this, we argue, is that the hollowed-out parties in the global north hemorrhaging voters to far right authoritarians might learn something from parties of the global south that have never taken the stability of their democratic systems for granted.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/10/2026

We have invented the mythical man month from classic software engineering book Don’t Invent the Mythical Man Month.

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