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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is it Halloween yet? because that was a lot of possessions #BillsMafia

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I ❤️ philosophers but also, inject this directly into my veins

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

but sure, you just need better sleep hygiene /s

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

wow, "get in a box so you are legible to me!" 🫠

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

oh I see what you're saying. weird, and also, e x h a u s t i n g

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

oof, that is sad. but I meant just the disciplines in the formal side - maybe I am confused about the sides you meant? re bridges, once I posted about the "interdisciplinary trenches" and a colleague said no, the disciplines are the trenches, taking pot shots at those of us not in the trenches 😂

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There should be a cross-disciplinary formal women association, I'd certainly join that. And then we could all meet and dress up formal which would be fun, lambda earrings and all that

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We've secretly replaced your quarterback with a quarterback who gets sacked a lot. Let's see if he notices. #BillsMafia

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Learning to analyze, to question, to pursue knowledge, to build arguments based on evidence, and to discard sophistry: these are values that the sciences, social sciences, and humanities share. And we share the battle to protect this style of inquiry from barbarians who would destroy it.

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"we see your snorting goat, and we raise you one pair of pajamas"

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

why stop there? 1, 3, 9, 81 ...

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

a quarter of academics admit to it anyway but yes, and this feels to me like an example of the capture of the idea of value by the idea of money, which is such a pervasive mental shortcut in our world

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Democrats Abroad @demsabroad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

U.S. votes abroad! Need help voting? Ride the Blue Wave! 🌊 Get live voter help this coming Sunday and Tuesday! #USpol #USpolitics #Vote

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As an aside, I think one of the essential skills being trained in college that the 'college is for training workers' paradigm devalues to its peril is the ability and willingness to treat dry, academic matters as serious and worth getting right, rather than dismissing them.

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amazing! But are we sure that a pet isn't a person? Sometimes I am not so sure. But perhaps it only matters whether the *founders* thought a pet was a person. I bet they didn't.

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🎯 is the woke left in the room with us

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this sounds like a beautiful crystal of a class, and I hope you can keep it safe somehow

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Focus is funny 🐦🐦 www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

black and white comic with four panels. 1. duck wants human to feed it, says speech bubble showing a drawing of human hand dropping food to duck 2. human points to "don't feed ducks" sign showing same drawing of human hand dropping food to duck, in a circle with a slash through it. 3. duck brings stepladder. 4. duck climbs stepladder and says speech bubble that has human hand below duck throwing food up to duck. see human, that's not what is prohibited!

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

(ah it was deleted, it was a photo of a flowchart suggesting that semantics doesn't care about context, op was rightly calling attention to it)

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

me, a semanticist, living the life, not giving a f*** how context affects meaning. oh hi pragmaticists, slaving away in the context mines, so jealous of me

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

indeed. only the domestic abuse researchers can help us now

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I see that there's no wikipedia article for "brand damage" yet, someone could fix this, just a thought

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

nice. and is there more to this educational series? I am hopeful

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

can't take credit for "an Asian-American woman tries to do her taxes" but I do think it's a pitch-perfect example of the genre

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You don't make demands about French in Quebec. You don't. You can't. That would have blown the whole thing up right there. You don't understand the forces you are messing with.

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Max saw "The Final Lap" and just about delivered #F1

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

yes, and also socialists running Paris for 25 years

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Those are your toes" and "Don't chomp on mommy"

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Bluesky, tell me the titles of the songs you made up for your kids when they were little.

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In a space where people are standing and walking around (i.e. a museum exhibit), people’s likelihood to read something drops sharply past 50 words. Once you hit 100 words, your text physically repels people—they avoid standing near it or looking at anything nearby.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/08/2026

Trump’s Compact 2.0 announced by Linda McMahon this week should be placed in the context of their failed 2025 “loyalty oath” compact that was defeated by students & faculty at every institution they offered it to. Organizing & collective pressure works. 1 🧵 www.aaup.org/issue/winter...

Trump's Compact 2.0
Universities should not be made answerable to the political program of a particular administration.

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

# The Red Sox beat the A's tomorrow

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"I know you want it to be something unusual" 🤯🤯🤯🤯

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Looks like she and Simon Wessely are going to be very happy together, congratulations to them

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Lucky for her that she's apparently never been disabled or ill. Unlucky for us that she apparently has zero imagination about what it might be like to be so. Ianaφ but isn't there philosophical work on the (in)ability to understand what it's like being someone else?

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"in" temporal adverbials in the news

headline from 9 years ago: "SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to get humans to Mars in six years"

post from Alan Richardson: "It didn't say which six years!"

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Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD @pcbryan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

How it started / how it’s going (Complete chapter in: www.bloomsbury.com/us/portrayal...)

A meme from New Gender Who Dis, comparing Nick Wilde (the fox from Zootopia) to Disney's Robin Hood (also fox). They state "These foxes exist in ideological opposition to each other and represent Disney's shift towards fascism. In this essay I will..." at which point it cuts off.

This is a chapter entitled "Disney's Trickster Foces and Their Responses to Authority Structures" by Peter Cullen Bryan, Anatres Russell Leask, and Dori Koehler.

This is the essay threatened.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You'll get-- my em- dashes when-- you pry-- --them-- from my cold-- ---dead--- Keyboard.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 28/07/2026

Wrote two lines of Javascript to make news websites actually look like what they *feel* like to me

France and Spain are on fire due to climate change, but never mind that, driving is a nightmare for tall people like me – so which cars are best to help back pain?

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Holy hell, thank you for your service reading this and reporting on it, I don't think I could have kept my lunch down

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Something is Being Born @nabelew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In an article that complains loudly about the use of biological conservation metaphors in discussing language loss, dude is very happy to believe that languages can die "of natural causes". What, pray tell, is a "natural" cause of death for a cultural practice? Verb cancer?

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Bridget Copley PhD @moppety.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

FOX turning down the crowd sound and turning up the music as tfg gets booed, but the whistles cut through

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