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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you so much, that is really helpful.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

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"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess for me it seems like it'd be on the crass side but okay for late night TV, but for the DNC to be posting it I'd say it seems both cringe and really disrespectful to him.

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Should I stick the messy draft that needs to get split into two papers and redone on a preprint service and then point to it as a working paper? (I'm not lying, it is a working paper, but I also have a full time dev gig, a side gig, and two young kids so work happens sporadically.)

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hate to be on here asking for professional advice, but how messy can a paper be and still be acceptable to submit to a preprint service? I'm about to apply for a lectureship position. I have a pocket paper that got rejected for good reasons (cramming too much in). But I don't have a good pub.

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean . . . were they actively TRYING to make awful sexual innuendo or were they that bad at social media? Like I don't know which is worse . . .

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This should be utterly unshocking but leftists seem to really struggle to let go of the St. Bernie image. Like, he's been really useful. He's also an outright ass in a lot of ways. Let's just let him be that and thank him for his service and also MOVE ON FROM HIM.

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like beyond the dozens of moderate critiques I have of him over the years he's really shitty to Black women service workers. I know because I stayed at the same hotel as him years ago and was bantering with the staff about him and they could NOT WAIT to tell me he was an asshole to them. So, yanno.

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Been on my bullshit for 10 years now, but some folks really need to understand that Bernie Sanders rose because he was basically the only politician with a modicum of power in Washington who espoused democratic socialist views when the demand for such positions became overwhelming. He's just okay.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/09/2026

Here’s what’s important for you to know real pastors don’t support you becoming a trad wife… because there has never been a point in history where it has been in the best interest of women to solely depend on the benevolence of men for their wellbeing

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anthropic's denials mean *nothing*, just like how OpenAI's denials over Navier–Stokes mean *nothing*. These companies have shown time and again they have no idea what their AI is doing. The LLM agents—given "/goal" persistence and few if any limits—surely reviewed all they could, including chats.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was just pointing out a couple of days on here that this is the LOWEST HANGING FRUIT of low hanging fruit for Democrats to promise if they take control of Congress. RAISE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE from $7.25. It has not risen since 2009. It's criminal.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve floated, “GET YOUR HAND OUT MY POCKET, FOOL” for this purpose. So far no takers.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16/09/2026

I spoke to an array of religious freedom experts for this piece. Christopher Lund, a professor at Wayne State University Law School, told me: “The kind of pressure that DHS policy now is exerting on houses of worship is just a different kind of religious interference than we’ve had before."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations

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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown

Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have a cousin who was constantly putting me on game with ways that I could get out of my J-O-B and not do all that “smart shit cuz.” I finally explained to them that I LIKE all the smart shit, did in fact choose to do it for a living, and I am very good at it. They never really believed me.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Anyway, shout out to trans people for letting me know what Newsom was all about. Because without that info, I never would have went digging and discovered how chummy he is with white supremacists and how he runs up on homeless people.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the US's reckless decision to attack Iran without a coherent strategic plan has been a disaster for our regional allies, but of course there have also been downsides

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It was worth enduring Joe Manchin’s obvious corruption because his personal brand made it possible to elect a Democrat in West Virginia. The same should be true for New York. by Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'd rather be cool and wrong than cringe and right.

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If they could do this to a discipline as foundational as history, it wasn't hard to see that science wasn't too far down on the menu.

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We should also note that this isn't remotely unique to or originating in science. They did the same things to the humanities a decade ago and too many scientists responded with a shrug or a kind of unspoken, "suck it up, softies!" attitude.

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Never Quite Free nearly made me drive off the damn road when I played it for the first time.

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mark used to do it during his Folk Sings three Ages ago . . .

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Whenever I read about these techbro bunkers, I wish more people knew the Digwell Carol by Leslie Fish so that I could make a reference to it.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tolkien gave up on writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings because he imagined the youth of Gondor forming 'orc-cults' who would imitate Mordor and found it too depressing; a remarkable feat of imagination when it came to predicting people who still worship the Soviet or Nazi empires today.

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I said it'll be "full of grief and brilliance" and goddamn it's been a while since I nailed a prediction like that. (not that it was a hard one, mind.)

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I wasn't ready for where this thread went, but I'm glad I read it anyway.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She was a brilliant songwriter with a gorgeous voice. She could act! She was an important philanthropist and visionary whose understanding of giving back we may never fully see. She used her platform to stand up for what's right. And phew, she was down to earth and funny AF always.

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Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle Playing Their Acrylic Nails (1987)

YouTube video by Back to the Past

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"You got a new book from Dolly!" is something we get to say to our kids twice a month

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

They can't make you work past 5 on the day Dolly Parton dies, it's illegal

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Clear the spot for the Parton Center

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NGL I'm on Bsky right now because I wanna see it when Tressie finally drops her thoughts on this.

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(spo)okie 🎃 @okie.gay · 25/08/2026

Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Watch it head directly for Mar-a-Lago.😈

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There's a part of my brain that, even though I know who it is, looks at that and says, "I was wondering what Kris Kross were up to these days..."

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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s weird that people feel like if you’re hot, you’re entitled to date somebody who is as hot as you lol. Otherwise you’re ’dating down.’ As if the most important thing in the equation of dating is looks. Which I’m not going to deny is important. But also, is it everything?

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton on her favorite books 💖 “Not enough folks know what a great book ‘Kindred’ by Octavia E. Butler is. It’s kind of tricky to describe but somehow it all works — it’s about race relations and there’s time travel and romance. It’s powerful.” safe travels. www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/b...

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Dolly Parton Likes to Read by the Fire in Her Pajamas (Published 2020)

“Especially on a rainy day off … sitting in a comfy chair.”

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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

-why is it the ONLY unforgivable sin?" And then she told me, "I finally figured it out. The Holy Ghost is that part of God that lives in everybody, and the way you sin against it is by not loving everybody with all your heart, for exactly who they are."

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Dolly Parton - Travelin' Thru [Official Music Video]

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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP Dolly Parton ❤️ Here's a lovely Dolly story: We worked together on "Transamerica." She told me that the bible passage that used to puzzle her the most was, "the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." She said, "How the heck do you sin against the Holy Ghost, and-

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Wuf 멍멍 @bongrot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of my favorite anecdotes. She embodies revery of others without compromising love of self — joyous just for the love of the game

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MTBinDurham @mtbindurham.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why yes, I'm here haunting Tressie's profile because I know her take on Dolly is going to be full of grief and brilliance. And in the meantime I'm just RT'ing her other stuff.

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