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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"API Waived" is "Free Pizza" for postdocs.

Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Boycotting is easy and fun too! Here's an info graphic of all the ultra processed crap that Nestle makes. You can punch upward and improve your health at the same time.

A web-style info graphic linking Nestle with: Stouffers, Hot Pockets, Dreyer's Taster's Choice, Coffee Mate, Ralph Lauren, Loreal, Perrier, Nestea, Poland Springs, Gerber, Wonka, Nerds, Kit Kat, O Henry, Crunch, Purina, Alpo, Friskie's and many more.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Blackstone and BlackRock are two sides of the same dystopian coin falling into a well of infinite darnkess. It is a race to the bottom for all and the coin is going faster and the bottom is getting nearer. To hell with capitalism.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Freedom of religion includes freedom from religion.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u... Fascists going after shared governance at George Mason University.

nytimes.com

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Just wait. They will try to rehabilitate the careers of these ghoulish enablers. It's going to happen. And probably sooner than you think.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

No sitting politician lacks for food. No sitting politician lacks for healthcare. No sitting politician lacks a home to sleep in. Put another way, every politician has their basic needs met and therefore do not embody the lives of all those they represent. This alone is an indictment of democracy.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

www.reddit.com/r/This_is_fa... This is class war. This is fascism.

Image of text from an account called: "aclu_nationwide."

Text reads: "BREAKING: President Tump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities."

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Life on the tenure track is Sisyphean. While publishing articles is one of the most important goals, it seems like publishing is the last thing you can manage to pull off after teaching, grading, correspondence, grantsmanship, budgeting, travel, committees, conferences, mentoring. Pic related.

A "Far Side" Gary Larson comic. On the left is the image: A dentist and assistant stare down at a man recumbent on a exam chair. The man in the chair has tubes and objects pouring out of his mouth. The dentist says to him: "Now open even wider, Mr. Stevens...Just out of curiosity, we're going to see if we can also cram in this tennis ball."

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Violence is never the answer if you are a victim. Violence is always the answer if you are a cop, a CEO, a president, a soldier, a guard, a jailer, a vivisectionist. - Conventional "Wisdom."

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Dutifully up-voting images of the dystopia, wondering when the future is supposed to arrive.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Normalize having honest talks with prospective PhD students. About workload, expectations, what academic hierarchies they can expect, what life after the doctorate looks like, how timelines go to shit.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"It is not a genocide, it is a war of choice" is not a refutation but an admission of guilt for both.

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Journal of Critical Study of Communication & Disability @jcscd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

JCSCD invites submissions examining the impacts of sociopolitical shifts and evolving governing ideologies on communication and disability. criticalstudycommunicationdisability.org/index.php/jc...

criticalstudycommunicationdisability.org

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sociopolitical Shifts, Communication, and Disability | Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

It is important to remember that the powerful are also extraordinarily weak. Their power is so tenuous and holds on by a thread. That is not deep authentic power but fragility.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It sucks that transcription AI only works for spoken languages. Another example of audism baked into research. And yes, I've seen the promo video for sign language AI and that shit is cool but light years behind what is needed for deaf signers to match the tools available for speaker hearers.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Doctor: You shouldn't take this one OTC pain med, it has a negative cumulative effect on the body's filtration system. Instead, here are new prescriptions for pain that won't actually reduce the pain level and now your body has to metabolize three new drugs as well. Oh and weight gain. Me:

Two hard choices meme, with the guy giving the thumbs up and the caption says, FUGG THIS

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

> Overall, the independent workers association appealed most to the very constituencies that Democrats have struggled to mobilize or retain in recent cycles: working-class Americans, people of color, and those who feel that the American Dream is slipping away. jacobin.com/2025/06/rust...

jacobin.com

Rust Belt Voters Are Sick of Both Parties

Polling shows Americans are ready to support independent populists running on economic platforms. But what they don’t want is anything associated with the Democratic Party’s brand.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Kinda bullshit that the "et al.," designation takes up two words, when often it is replacing just two words. I feel like this kind of thing should not count for word counts.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

What is interesting about the aesthetic of ICE is that there has no aesthetic other than "casual white guy" dress. This is frightening in a way that a uniform could never be. Whoever make this judgement call is a fucking psychopath beyond measure.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

What the disability theory that describes when you are out of spoons and used up all the forks and knives, too.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Multigenerational class war. Multiracial class way. Interability class war.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It's time deaf educators have more rights and protections than hearing interpreters. There, I said it.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"...towards authoritarianism" ... MF ... IT IS FASCISM

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

What's up with journal editors asking for writing for "lay" people. Are journals no longer scholarly outlets for publication?

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

We don't have a society. Instead, we have surplus rotting military equipment.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Volunteer trash pick ups are a symptom of a society in decay and the refusal to allow an inept government or selfish people to win. I admire the work but hate that it needs to exist. Capitalism is the disease. Rot is the symptom.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Solidarity is when the librarian, the dropout, and the child care worker all hate the empire together.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I went to Ingles the other day for produce. One tomato--literally ONE tomato was five dollars. Four apples was EIGHT dollars. What in the shit?

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Let them rage bait themselves into twin doom spirals of incrimination. And then let justice be done.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Terrorists cosplaying as government is illegitimate.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Before it shatters, cracks appear. They spread until it becomes irreversible and the shatter happens.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

You know, it is not Women and Children Into The Wood Chipper First.

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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I'm going to just start requiring that it is all Chat GPT output that way I don't need to spin the roulette wheel.

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