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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not him baton-twirling. Too cute.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If they don’t leave Jonathan alone

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I keep seeing headlines like one this morning about AI eating jobs and like it doesn’t have to. Does everyone realize that? Lol I hate it here.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Sheep and Wool Festival is happening in a few weeks and I’m going for the first time. I’m giddy with excitement and like pretty sure that this is the year that I will finally have to figure out a yarn storage system. #knitsky

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026

Stop putting off that thing you wanted to do

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Wichelhaus @formertwtruser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When Black people get things, specifically

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like one big Richard J. Daley administration. Chicagoans of a certain age know. He‘s staring up from hell wishing he were in on the action.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If ever there was a time when God should incarnate and strike folks down where they stand like lightning bolts and flames shooting from his fingertips, now would be good.

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Leuven University Press @leuvenup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📚 We’re proud to join the @acls1919.bsky.social #TalkAboutHumanities campaign. The message is simple: we need more humanities and social sciences research. Read more and get involved: www.acls.org/talkabouthum... #TalkAboutSocialSciences #Humanities #SocialSciences #Research

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Aunt Fancy @auntiefancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Arguably the civil war was as much about northern states not wanting to be legally required to enforce the slavery laws of southern states as it was about the south wanting to continue enslaving people. Just mentioning that for no particular reason.

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The first secession proposals were from anti-enslavement activists who wanted relief from Fugitive Slave Act enforcement requirements. See: Caleb McDaniel, "The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform" lsupress.org/978080716230...

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m headed to the farmers market for greens and hopefully quince🤞🏽, though I think I’m a smidge too early for the latter

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What are some definitive history titles on the creation of Israel? I was thinking after a conversation yesterday that really don’t know.

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Laura likes to read a lot @lrrzmdrgl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here are their names and a wonderful soul created a website to keep track of them. thecornell7.org Also, since we are talking about college rapists Brock Turner now goes by Allen Turner and lives in Ohio

Photo of the Cornell seven rapists: Matthew Ingalls, Diego Sarabia, Winston
Lee, ScottKertzschmar, Scott Norris, Gillio Lopez, and Jonathan Newwell
A website to keep track of them: thecornell7.org

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ugh. This is such a good reminder. We don’t have to be the weirdos who cram everything in. Lol There’s stuff I could cut out that would make the pace more relaxed, and the class more enjoyable maybe. I also think they’d learn and grasp more.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m chalking it up to me, though b/c as teachers we need to be able to ride the wave. & if I had built in slack as you say, rather than (in addition to?) explicit instructions & a level of inflexibility to prevent things that happened last semester, I‘d be better off. But we learn I guess.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ugh. Last semester was a fiasco b/c I didn’t get time to plan & had to use an “approved syllabus. This time I was able to modify materials to my likes/standards but did‘n’t account for the schedule. I also thought grad students might have the independence/skills to follow what I laid out.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Two China state visits 10 years apart 👇

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This weekend in LIS professor-ing, I'm trying to make a plan to get my class back on track on Monday. We have only met twice including the start of school (8/28), due to the holidays observed throughout the month in NYC. I was not prepared and over-planned. Who knew it was possible to over plan?

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have had a fly in my apartment for the last week almost. I've told it already that it's days are numbered. Each time it lands, it's where I can't/don't want to smash it: the cutting board, the ceramic stove top, unpeeled fruits, plants, mirrors, the tv screen, etc. This fly is playing games.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just seeing the name has me over here In the throes of a serious bout of nostalgia! I love it and of course you know your students have ZERO idea. Lol

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m putting summer clothes away and pulling out the fall and winter collections after freezing my butt off on the commute home.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not Fishbone! Blast from the past. lol

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

listen, cornell is extremely busy prosecuting alumni who demanded answers to uneven speech policies when it came to israeli/palestinian actions on campus www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

insidehighered.com

Cornell Graduate Banned After President Hit Him With Car

Cornell University has temporarily banned from campus a former student who was bumped by the university president’s car at a low speed, Ithaca’s NPR affiliate WSKG reported Monday.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can you imagine? This would be amazing. But imagine how they would be crying broke, which is the most ridiculous thing ever. The fact that they do this now w/this and other exemptions is mind blowing.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m so happy to finally be able to say that it was so chilly that I had to close the windows. 🍂🌬️

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When Benjamin Netanyahu berates New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during his UN address for calling him a war criminal, it will only increase Mamdani's popularity. The overwhelming majority of the democratic free world wants to see Netanyahu face trial in The Hague.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not sure it’s ironic, but yes..

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah looking back I’m surprised I got one. I just thought it was an oversight. Would’ve never dreamed that was the policy. Now I‘m sure I wouldn’t get one. It really is a reflection of so much as you say

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The last place I worked did that & I demanded a garbage can when I started. I soon realized mine was the only office on the floor that was getting cleaned. Everyone else had just been sitting w/this for a couple of years. I thought I was the anomaly w/no garbage can. Mind you tuition is $73,000/yr

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Vaguely puts me in the mind of the person #onhere who was excited that she found a deal on salmon a few weeks ago: three pounds for $11. 👀

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Most city health departments offer access to vaccines to uninsured or underinsured adults. They tend to offer sliding scales to pay for them, too. I'm not sure if or how much this has changed [in red states], but it's worth checking into if needed since we're heading into flu season soon.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I find the converse ad is so interesting because like you can't really even see the shoes properly. The only thing you can see clearly is what they intended you to see.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, I have Proton and I have to explore docs and the other suite of things they offer, or figure out if I just limit myself to external hard drives, and the like. I've also been working with Tutamail.

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RMF 🪬 @monnierock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also, thinking thinking about how LCCNs dismantle a collection development practice (mine, for instance 😬) that is heavily intersectional. And I should say, I think that least part of the cookbook collection won't suffer this fate.

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