Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22hthis is why we don’t do “poor Melania” or write fanfic narratives where the wives of these men are victims. they wake up every day of their marriage and choose this 01208185
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 19hReposting for all of us whose Sunday might be improved by enjoying this elegant and colourful heron. 😊 0235
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 18hIt's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you without a Latin verse rant to scroll through... Last couple of days I have been digging a bit more deeply into Ovid's style of ELISION. 🧵 162
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026this is a great thread and you should read it because I am not dunking. My one quibble is it's hard for me as a 'linguist' to fit reasoning models into 'pure syntax machines' without blowing out "syntax" to stupid Chomskian dimensions. Current LLMs multiply bc they know long multiplication. 221
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Chapel Hill is inundated with suburban midwestern catholics for the game vs Notre Dame and it's like a movie where a ghost shows me what life would have been had I made different choices 61183
Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This thread tells an appalling story. Absolutely shameful, entirely unethical behavior from USA Today and their reporters. 010
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If blue collar work was inherently upwardly mobile, everyone would do it. But the world doesn’t work that way. Capitalism doesn’t work that way. And people who romanticize blue collar work as having a quiet dignity are being patronizing, even if they don’t intend to 2166265
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭 111197286
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes 562917475
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/10/2026Talking about the trades? Read this instead of The Atlantic! 312044
Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I was very proud of my pedagogy in medieval Latin today. We were reading Bede's commentary on Luke, and there's a bit where he's doing the medieval equivalent of subtweeting an early anti-xtian author about whom we know almost nothing. I said "imagine I wrote something about a VP and a couch." 1/2 141
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄I Know What Juda Did Last Summer @gypaetus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the very same day the hospital i worked at started handing out "healthcare hero" t-shirts to us, corporate also had us sign a paper acknowledging that there would be no expectation for hazard pay or additional PTO for sick leave if we contracted covid 120157
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 3372127
Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026the Atlantic and similar publications are getting progressively less tolerable every year. and to clarify, yes, I mean "they are intolerable." I honestly think it would do many "elite" pundits a lot of good to live somewhere where they're forced to interact with folks not like them. 010
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs 695189850
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026nothing they value or aspire to or revere about Masculinity™️ is the behavior of wise, mature, grounded adult men. it’s what little boys think is cool about being an adult man and they were allowed never to grow out of that 154891
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026God I hate being right. 141533416
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Upton Sinclair remains undefeated 6824109
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A rare point of agreement between us and Lucius Cornelius Sulla. 3873
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery 652097250
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?jessica.substack.comCarrying That Weight—AgainI can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case 211955405
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Logopoios @gnomai.com · 29/09/2026But nothing is preferable to me, at least, unless it happens to be true. Ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν ἥδιον ἔμοιγε, εἰ μὴ τυγχάνει ἀληθὲς ὄν. (Pl. Euthphr. 14e) 011
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Television history that matters. 316029
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"indoor cats are miserable and they long for the outdoors and you are depriving them of their true nature by trapping them inside" okay here's my cat when he was outdoors vs now that's he's indoors 1236866710
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026there is a certain undercurrent of something that can only be described as puritanism on this site, where understanding a bad thing must mean you're into that thing because apparently the only way to battle bad things is to yell loudly they are very bad someone else better fix them but not like this 1345163
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026if this horrible little thing and its cursed amulet come near me I'm going to beat it with a bat actually 401165138
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not. 631164173
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually 11016207
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comHe spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed. 1122789667
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75260099756
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A useful way to think about it is to imagine a republican candidate saying one thing that you liked, agreeing with you on exactly one issue. That would totally work, right? Donald Trump announces he’s for one thing you are also for and then you vote for him. See how stupid it sounds. 922840
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/09/2026everyone complaining about paywalls, one of the most easily manipulated barriers to knowledge ever created, desperately needs to consider taking some personal responsibility for their poor media habits 461393136
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026making this my new email autoreply 738977
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too 643643675
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is why I have now embraced my unadulterated, cringe-worthy, faith and belief in the truly unique ability of humans to be humans and to express their humanity in art and self-reflection. And I include all humanities disciplines in the “self-reflection” part. 612118
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this. 353162914187
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women 6138793687
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now! 3304660700
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026bleak but essential read 6614172
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/09/2026Welp, now we know who their other clients are. As I've been saying, the tech fascists are buying up Democratic consultants by the bushel. They have enough money to *BUY BOTH SIDES* Time to burn out the rot and build a party that serves the people, not the billionaires. 17416141
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good. 160185223412
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The SCOTUS ruling today prevents the USPS from not delivering ballots based on directives from the Trump admin. BUT, the late postmarks issue remains. To make sure your ballot gets counted, return it early and, even better if you can, drop it off in an official ballot dropbox to ensure it’s on time. 6257133
Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026sometimes I regret how native I went when I lived in WI, and said times are happening more and more often during NFL games 000
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much. 192027659
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Of all the late stage Trump theories, wants the world to die with him seems increasingly credible. 621755408
Reposted by Joy Reeber 🦄Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026THIS IS WHAT YOU SAY IF YOU NEED A NONCOMMITAL RESPONSE 419233