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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder

@nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social
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Historian of disability, early America, and the 19th century. Assistant Prof at Kean University, views mine not my employer's. Learn More: nicoleleeschroeder.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8h
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Heroes who wear masks: I’m looking for you!” - @msjulieslam.bsky.social #MaskTogetherAmerica at 2026 @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social “I wear a mask because I don’t want to get COVID.”— CS (Nott the Brave) said it for all of us. A mask protects you from all the pathogens spreading in the air! #IAmNYCC
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please tag yiur fav accounts below - whos covering disability content here? I still havent figured out this site and I am unlikely to unless I can tune my feed to the vibe of disability twitter
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system" @bachynski.bsky.social
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A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decades
After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...
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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For what it’s worth, according to the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) definition, this also counts as Long Covid—not just new symptoms but also worsened existing ones. If you have ever wondered if you’re part of the LC cohort.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 24/09/2026
Joining global advocates for clean air at the UN today! ✊
Lucky at the Healthy Indoor air event at the UNAdvocates at Healthy Indoor Air in schools at the UN
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026
*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.
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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excited to team up with these amazing folks to talk about the moral, ethical, and pedagogical reasons to resist the use of AI in our classrooms. You can register here: olemiss.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Announcing a live webinar on Resisting the Use of AI in Education: Taking a Stand for Our Students and Our Colleagues. Event takes place on October 13, 2026, at 1:00 pm ET. Speakers are Cate Denial (University of Minnesota Rochester), Joshua Eyler (University of Mississippi), Kevin Gannon (Queens University Charlotte), and Liz Norell (University of Mississippi).
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Articles like these are emblematic of the institutional amnesia surrounding Covid-19. A pathogen that emerged less than seven years ago, which can cause fatigue during the acute infection and as a common long-term effect, not even mentioned. Conspicuously absent. www.nbcnews.com/health/menta...
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Why are Americans so tired? CDC report highlights who’s feeling it most
Fatigue is one of the most common concerns reported in primary care visits, yet not much attention is given to how often adults in the U.S. are coping with it.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/09/2026
not even the bitcoin people were brazen enough to try and pull this line

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“Data centers are not secretly poisoning communities. They are critical infrastructure that can raise legitimate, but resolvable, questions about water use, electricity demand and local permitting — hardly the environmental menace Brockovich makes them out to be.”
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Factually untrue. Data centers are absolutely poisoning communities, from fumes from their diessel generators, to the incessant loud noise, to the climate-destabilizing massive amounts of CO2, plus hazardous and harmful air pollution & coal ash from their electricity generation.
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To be fair the data centers are not doing that! (Aside from maybe noise if there’s not enough sound insulation). Data centers are just servers in a room. Natural gas plants attached to data centers are doing all that and that’s why we shouldn’t power these data centers that way
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
‘The plan calls for government agencies to try out “supported-living models” such as “farmstead or campus-based communities”, which the groups fear could revive forms of institutional confinement.’ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘So much fringe science’: RFK Jr’s advisers are pushing an extreme makeover in autism research
Experts warn the 336-page plan from RFK Jr’s advisers deflects federal dollars into unreliable alternative therapies
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And yet, many media outlets publish articles celebrating campus-based communities for disabled people that already exist, without taking a moment to analyze problems with it (there's a difference between segregated housing and inclusive housing).
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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I work at the intersection of book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. It is really frustrating that all three (especially the latter two) are rarely included in disciplinary lists in grant applications. I have to find workarounds that aren't as descriptive or accurate.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/08/2026
Our Michael Mechanic tallied up just some of what DOGE’s nonsense has cost us since last year. (Spoiler: It includes our humanity, safe food, and a ton of money.)
motherjones.com
Elon Musk’s DOGE promised savings, but it's cost us a fortune
A new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Clean Air Cville has just released a step-by-step PC Fan Air Purifier build guide with a complete supply list and photos: www.cleanaircville.org/buildguide This design uses silent PC fans so is great for classrooms & places a totally silent air filter is needed: www.reddit.com/r/crboxes/co...
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From the crboxes community on Reddit: DIY Air Purifier Build Guide | Clean Air Cville
Explore this post and more from the crboxes community
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is misogyny and anti-disability discrimination on par with old-timey doctors claiming women are prone to ‘hysteria’ and the vapours. It is unacceptable seeing this in any newspaper. UK philosophers should loudly condemn it as a whole, since it is authored by an ex-colleague. It is wrong
Why are young women using walking sticks?
A disproportionate number of Gen Z females are affected by vague syndromes and may be victims of social contagion

Kathleen Stock
Wednesday August 05 2026, 9.00pm BST, The Times
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In 19th-century Paris, walking with a cane was a symbol of the dandyish flâneur, strolling elegantly around the city with an ironically arched eyebrow. In 21st-century Britain, canes are the unironic preserve of vulnerable looking girls.
Sometimes you see groups of them, each leaning on a walking stick as they edge gingerly along. Startlingly fresh-faced users have been visible at Pride parades for a while, and there are growing numbers on university campuses. The message sent to onlookers is about a life spent in pain; though what kind of pain, exactly, remains unclear.
TikTok has hundreds of videos on the subject: how to match your stick to your outfit, how to dance with a cane, how mobility aids can still look hot. And the trend is not just for walking aidsTo point this possibility out tends to produce anger in those affected or those that care for them. Arguing that certain kinds of disability are socially created, particularly in females, looks at odds with the dictum that young women with chronic illnesses tend to be disbelieved by doctors, and that this is a very bad thing.
When talking about trends across huge populations, though, both things can be true - indeed, they might even be connected. And in the socially constructed case, we are still talking about illness rather than deliberate feigning. It's just that the source of illness is, in part, a story the sufferer has unconsciously learnt. And this is very good news. For unlike biologically fixed disorders, stories can be changed for the better, and happier endings produced for the sufferers concerned.
Rather than it being cruel to say this, in fact, it is cruel not to.
We owe it to potentially able-bodied young people to challenge their tendencies to neuroticism and fear; to get them out into the world as functioning adults, wherever that is possible. For their sake, we need to help them ditch the props, and - quite literally - to stand on their own two feet.
Kathleen Stock is a contributing editor at UnHerd
Hugo Rifkind is away
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
have we considered just banning these things entirely
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Perfectly said. No, I cannot do another daily task. Unless I want to skip one of my two meals. And no, I cannot go to any more appointments or physical therapy or anything. I need to rest more. I can't remember the last time I had *any* energy at all. I have to move and I have no idea how.
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
if you think you’d don’t know anyone with longcovid, but you don’t use any mitigation yourself, consider: yes you do, they just may not feel safe enough to tell you.
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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.
Dumbass CEO of Anthropic thinks people should work for the "corporate mission" over survival.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Inflammatory disorders can be brutal. I’d know personally (thanks vasculitis et al). But the misinformation, including on vaccines, is dangerous. A deep dive from me into how MAHA sped up the inflammation panic. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Great Inflammation panic
The wellness world's favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those of us with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn't just annoying—it's harmful.
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Everyday eugenics is grinding me down to my bones. Any time I read the news its just headline after headline of "well vulnerable people will just die *shrug*" whether its war, famine, diseases, environmental disaster, or whatever other horrific stuff is happening daily. I am so so weary.
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Not a big fan of the "sick, elderly and/or disabled people don't count" discourse that appears to follow public health disasters these days.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
I think "AI" plumpers should be happy I'm focusing mostly on the nonsense it's doing to my field, rather than how it's very clearly designed as a tool for the capture of wealth and capital by a bunch of accelerationist weirdos enthusiastically huffing their own farts from the depth of their K-holes
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I truly dont know how we can look around and pretend the same groups of people identified as likely to die or become disabled by Sars-Cov-2 no longer need protection. Sorry are you telling me there are no more pregnant people, disabled people, or elderly people in the world?
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
At the end of Disability Pride Month, I want to reflect on the labor it takes to be a disabled person being one of a handful of people regularly covering disability. I am exhausted. But I'm also proud of what I do at @motherjones.com.
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When are we going to talk about how class shapes conferencing in academia? And how conferences exacerbate the wealth gap btw folks with unlimited research funds vs those of us with the funds to attend/belong to just one org a year?
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Shira Lurie @shiralurie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Reposting this piece by myself and @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social about SHEAR’s resistance to inclusion and accessibility for…reasons. www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/1...
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Ending remote conference options is exclusionary (opinion)
In scrapping remote options for conferences, academia has set out on a dangerous trajectory, Shira Lurie and Nicole Schroeder write.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Got an email today for an academic org bemoaning how much conference hotels charge for a mic, speakers, and projector. You have got to be kidding me. Just cut the hotel conference contract. Host your JULY conference at a uni thats fully prepped. Go virtual. Buy $20 mics 1/6
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Same applies to epi pens. I pay $400 for a generic pair every other year. Even though there are some brands like Auvi-Q that ARE innovating and making the application easier (and harder to make mistakes), insurance companies fuck w the formulary to make sure you pay more for a worse product.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
AOC: This is an inhaler pump. Can you guess what the great innovation was that made it worth preventing this from going generic? It’s this little plastic piece right here. That was a major part of the new patent they filed to extend exclusivity and prevent this life-saving drug from going generic.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 06/07/2026
"July is Disability Pride Month, so I wanted to focus this newsletter post on how my Disability Justice lens informs all of my work, in case tangible examples could help others to think more critically about how oppression limits access." www.equitableforall.com/articles/7-w...
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7 Ways This Disability Justice Practitioner Can Support Your Work with Virtual Equity Services
This newsletter post is the author's attempt at highlighting how her Disability Justice lens informs all her virtual equity services, as she reconciles that she will either get better at marketing her...
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Underground Bookshelf @ugbookshelf.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Call for submissions! The July writing contest theme is: Own Voices, Personal Fiction or Poetry, Memoirs or Nonfiction Learn more at: www.underground-bookshelf.com/3250546_july... #WritingContest #ownvoice #Fiction #poetry #memoirwriting #memoir #submissionsopen #disability #lgbtqia #bipocauthors
White, boxy text against an ombre blue background: Monthly Writing Contest, July 2026, Own Voices, Memoirs, Author Self-Inserts, Personal Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction, Submissions close July 26, 2026, Cost: free, Winners Featured on Underground Bookshelf. A hand comes from the right side, clutching a quill pen. The artwork is a bright aqua color shaded with magenta. A bright aqua ink splatter bursts from the quill's tip.
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Berkeley Public Library @berkeleypubliclibrary.org · 06/07/2026
One of the gems on our ELibrary page is Calisphere's digital collections. For Disability Pride month, we'd like to highlight UC Berkeley Bancroft Library's Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement collection: calisphere.org/collections/...
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Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement: selected documents from the Bancroft Library
The world view on disability has shifted dramatically over the past thirty-five years. In the 1960s and 1970s, for reasons not yet fully explained, the grassroots call for self-determination by people...
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 24/06/2026
If we are serious about protecting LGBTQIA+ people - not just online safety, but the survival of queer history - we need to understand what is lost when access to online spaces is restricted
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Geocities: a cautionary tale of how Trans+ history can be deleted with one click
Geocities, a gay owned start up, was one of the first to give people tools to make their own web pages - when Yahoo deleted it, queer and Trans+ archives were lost
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 14/06/2026
"The Government Doesn't Want You To Read These Zines" – new benefit zine packets from South Bend Commons! All proceeds go to Prairieland Defendants. firestorm.coop/products/253... @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social
A screenshot from firestorm.coop showing the product page for "The Government Doesn't Want You To Read These Zines". The product image is styled like a redacted document and the page shows that 18 packets are available.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please keep hammering this. It's an obvious and effective message that plays widely, especially with low-info voters.
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Calling all in #DisabilityStudies - please share the news that @disstudies.bsky.social has a new conference CFP out! "Here and There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World" is going to be AMAZING next April! 1/7
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Did you teach, read, or cite an article from @DSQJournal this year? DSQ is open access for anyone interested in #DisabilityStudies! Since it doesnt make $ through publication, we have to fundraise to support the editorship. If you care about making this possible please donate!
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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I know academic orgs are mostly bs, but I'm on the SDS Board and I actually think we are trying to combat the general harms of academia. If youre also in #DisabilityStudies I really hope you can help us sustain the org!
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.
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