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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I teach at a community college now, and I have taught at elite universities before, and this tracks 100%

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I ruled the world, "gender ideology" would refer to the belief that there are precisely two genders that correspond to one's anatomy in an obvious and unproblematic way

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

every time professors talk about assigning "points" to this or that to try to modify student behavior, it makes me want to throw my laptop at a wall and walk into the sea

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If crime is down why are TEENAGERS hanging out OUTSIDE where I can SEE THEM?

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Intelligence is also culturally defined and not everyone links it to verbal ability. I'm thinking today about the story of the Indigenous man who said to the settler, "you want to talk to someone to see if he's worth hunting with. I want to hunt with someone to see if he's worth talking to"

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Regarding the inescapable conversation about whether language = thought = consciousness,

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This Labor Day I am in a union again, join one if you can

A selfie that cuts me off just below the nose and shows I'm wearing a size XXXL tee shirt from SEIU Local 500. It's purple with a white and yellow design showing a raised fist holding a fountain pen and the text "Maryland Community Colleges United"

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I teach gen-eds and I approve this message

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I can't read this without remembering that "performative," in linguistics, means "an utterance that becomes true by being said," like "you're under arrest." A vote is another obvious example

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've been saying, to hear some tenured faculty talk, you'd think they're epiphytes that can subsist on only high-impact journal citations and air

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Люблю хлеб @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

IMO particle physics is far less practical than nearly every social science, but people act like it’s the opposite. Like, my guy, quarks will never have an effect on your daily life, but you’re going to be involved in multiple stance triangles every day, and you won’t even be aware of them.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 19/08/2026

The criminally deployed troops in DC are not fighting crime. They are the crime.

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fakesharrows @fakesharrows.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

no, I don’t think there should be armed soldiers walking around the playground where we are celebrating a seven year old’s birthday. come on

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Overheard ER doc tell a student that I was an "interesting" case. Then he came in to talk to me, said I might need major surgery but don't worry, "my dog had the same procedure and she's fine"

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Frank Herbert: I've told you 100 times Herbert: if only you'd listened to me about having a butlerian jihad and also finding the guiding light of islam, then maybe none of this would have happened King: wait how is islam related to this? Herbert: inshallah

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

That being said, what is happening to DC now is a travesty. My mom was born in Romania, and she said it reminds her of Bucharest under Ceaușescu. We need to do so much more than de-Trumpify the Mall and get rid of the National Guard. I love DC, but Statehood is the only way it can truly thrive.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

DC gets a bad rap from... well, everyone. But this is a real-ass city with culture and community that are worth celebrating. I met my wife, lifelong friends, and all sorts of rad people here. My career blossomed. Once I factor in free museums and bike lanes, I can't imagine living anywhere else.

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Too often, we neglect the subtleties of Homer's original text. For instance, this famous passage: Odysseus is coming And everybody's jumping His wife has many suitors His son, a godly tutor His giant horse is wooden His guilt is a great burden So if you like to party He'll make you a dead body

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com

Hello,

I’m writing to let you know that I just canceled my DashPass because of DoorDash’s disgraceful campaign against D.C. home rule.

DoorDash is urging Congress to nullify a new D.C. law imposing a 20 percent tax on food-delivery services—not merely by overturning that law, but by prohibiting the District from enacting any new tax without prior congressional approval. That is an extraordinarily sweeping assault on D.C.’s right to govern itself and an odious insult to the District’s residents.

I am especially disgusted by DoorDash’s public claim that it is somehow defending D.C. residents while actively seeking to strip us of our right to govern ourselves through our own democratically elected lawmakers. Please do not pretend that disenfranchising District residents is an act undertaken on our behalf.

I intend to publicize DoorDash’s attack on home rule as widely as possible and urge everyone I know to boycott the company.

Shame on you.

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Anna Belew @nabelew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The arguments against language reclamation haven't changed much in the nearly 20 years I've been working in this field: "It costs too much." "People are choosing to abandon their languages, so let them." "They have no practical use." "It's just sentimental nostalgia." Fuck All That, a thread:

newyorker.com

Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die

When cultural preservation comes at the expense of speakers’ decisions, sometimes it's O.K. to let a language die.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 20/07/2026

Some of these deaths were caused by the thousands of paramilitary goons zooming around our streets doing Kavanaugh stops. Funny how Trump's ~10,000 National Guard and federal LEOs aren't actually making our streets safer

washingtonpost.com

Road deaths up sharply in the nation’s capital, despite goal of reaching zero

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser pledged to eliminate traffic deaths in the city. More than a decade later, they still haven’t gone down.

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think The Odyssey should have had a culturally appropriate cast IE all Greek IE every character played by Jason Mantzoukas.

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Michelle Chappell she/her @michellechap76.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The decision about whether out-of-state National Guard troops remain deployed here does not actually belong to DOD, it belongs to the governors who deployed their troops here. Tell every governor to recall their troops: freedcproject.org/guard

freedcproject.org

National Guard Out Now — Free DC

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

Promotional image. Title: Gender Census 2026. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Images: On the left, a box with a Venus/female symbol on it, patterned with tree bark. On the right, a box with a Mars/male symbol on it, patterned with grass.

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Goffman GENDER ADVERTISEMENTS is essentially one long shitpost, change my mind

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Went to @glenstonemuseum.bsky.social and they have @jennyholzer.bsky.social temporary tattoos in the gift shop. If I were going to get a permanent one, which is best? A SINGLE EVENT CAN HAVE INFINITELY MANY INTERPRETATIONS maybe?

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Really enjoying the Telemundo commentator who calls it the "selec[θ]ión española" #linguistics

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Five living authors that you've read five books by each: Akwaeke Emezi Ben Hatke Stephen King R. F. Kuang Ann Leckie

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It's that time again! #pridereads 1. Felicia Davin THE SCANDALOUS LETTERS OF V AND J, which came recommended by @gretchenmcculloch.com. I recently read LES MISERABLES and it was fun to read a T4T genderfluid epistolary romance set in the same time and place

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

HELLO ACADEMICS INTERESTED IN DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION PLEASE TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO COMPLETE THIS SURVEY. :) It's IRB approved and everything!

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

But there is a real reluctance to just speak up and present yourself as an authority, when you ARE an actual authority. And it felt weird that I sort of had to present my bona fides to be taken seriously. Anyway, it turned out fun and I was glad I spoke up. But the kicker is…

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

lol @ DC Mayor being listed as a "state" office

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I went to Harvard ... daily, when I worked in the bookstore receiving room

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I was thinking about ranking Patterson second (after Silverman). This lost him my vote

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lilli 🤠 @lillianbf.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The statement by students, also written out in the alt text

For Immediate Release from The Organizers:
On Saturday, May 10th, 2026, Howard University graduating seniors organized a protest and rally in opposition to Howard University's decision to select Muriel Bowser as keynote speaker of this year's Commencement Convocation. A commencement convocation ceremony is meant to be a final congratulations to the graduates on behalf of the University by offering words of encouragement and guidance as they step into a new life phase. Typically, a keynote speaker is a person of upright character. They should be a living example of competence, truth, and service.
Muriel Bowser demonstrates none of these qualities. Any resident of the D.C. area is familiar with the increase in police and federal agent presence in the city. These officers have targeted Black young people (including Howard University students) in their attempt to control and subdue Black bodies. Bowser did nothing to prevent the federal takeover of D.C., and offers no protection to the people she swore in to serve. To make matters worse, Bowser is implicated in the killing of millions of men, women, and children in Gaza through her partnership with the genocidal American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Why does Howard University believe Muriel Bowser is qualified to offer words of wisdom to Black students, many of whom will soon return to Black communities across the country?
Why won't Howard University take a public stance against anti-Blackness, capitalist greed, and war?
Since the University is not willing to demonstrate care and responsibility toward issues that affect the reality of Black people in the DMV and oppressed people abroad, students decided to act in actual alignment with the values of truth and service.
During Bowser's speech, some students turned their backs while she spoke. Others began to yell from the audience. Several students got up and walked out of the ceremony and participated in a celebration of their own.
This is the truth.

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This thread uses Bourdieu, feminism and political economy, and makes the case that the Met Gala is Good, Actually while acknowledging that, empirically, it sadly seems not to be Art 🔥

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

If the Klein is Naomi Then carry on, homie If the Klein is Ezra Ignore what he says, brah

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

People in DC and people all over this country know the danger guns pose to our lives. That's why DC has strong laws on guns. That's why we need national action on gun control. And it's why this regime needs to stop attacking and attempting to undo DC's local laws on gun safety.

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Italo Calvino (If on a winter's night a traveler) and Georges Perec (Life, a user's manual) taking the Oulipo project beyond form and into the realm of meaning

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This is why I recruit business majors to take intro to cultural anthropology

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I wrote a piece on Substack about the closing of Hampshire College. Such a sad end of an era. open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

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On Hearing of Hampshire College’s Closing

….End of a Hopeful Progressive Era?

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is the paper on genAI that I didn't know I needed. It's all witchcraft and pareidolia

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Add a food to a movie title The Fellowship of the Onion Ring

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27/03/2026

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

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fakesharrows @fakesharrows.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I don't care that they don't do anything and I don't care that it's a huge waste of money. It is an indignity that we are being policed by soldiers.

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes in front of Zendaya.

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