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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18h

I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here’s why I think Jesus would’ve supported live streaming executions.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18h

I am old enough to remember when we thought Megan was better than this she’s the one that very publicly left the cult and repudiated their teachings and talked a lot about coming to realize how unjust she had been to queer people, many of whom put in a lot of years to educate her this is gross

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 17h

every publisher doing this shit should be giving 100% of the anthropic settlement money to their authors.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21h

Princeton, McGill and Penn have all denied tenure to women who went on to win a Nobel Prize. It says quite a bit about tenure standards, and the treatment of women in academia. MAGA thinks that DEI gives them an unfair advantage. And that's farcical. www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

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Researcher Demoted By University Of Pennsylvania Wins Nobel Prize For mRNA Discoveries—And Some Academics Urge Penn To Apologize

Katalin Karikó’s research laid the foundation for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't know if this plays around the country but you can inject it into *my* veins. Just the fact that he has enough respect for the voters to speak to them like an educated adult in incredibly refreshing. And no, his indictment of Collins as a Nazi bigot is not hyperbole.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

it’s never a bad time to remember how hilariously unpopular this guy is. didn’t it take him like twelve rounds of ballots for his OWN PARTY to grudgingly hold their noses and pull together enough votes?? he hates his life so much and honestly some days that’s such a balm to my soul

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The rhetoric of tech in a nutshell: I value convenience, efficiency, ease first and also have no capacity to recognize humanity, my own or others, but feel qualified to run the world. Someone send an army of divorce lawyers; after all this guy already wants to disconnect.

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The only “Ancient Greek value” worth anything is hospitality to strangers and its the one that the current US government would get merked by Zeus for violating rn if we were in a myth

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There's never enough Classics content here so let's talk about a couple of (as I tell my students) 'load-bearing culture words' in Latin and some of their cultural significance: beneficium: a favor, kindness, service officium: a duty, kindness, service & munus: a service, favor, obligation, gift.

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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the instructions he gave the AI were almost certainly longer and more detailed and took more time to craft than the message that ended up on the card, and this motherfucker failed at both

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 07/10/2026

I would like the classicists clamoring to say something about Nolan's Odyssey to have a public opinion about this

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Emi @emiphemera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They turned Clippy into a "notice me senpai" subservient wretch and called it God and I am so tired of this stupid era.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s very reliable. Once you see it you won’t unsee it. bsky.app/profile/edbu...

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

About 10, 15 years ago these people started the “was Hitler really so bad? Hitler only wanted what was best for the Germans, what’s wrong with that!?” talking point and I knew I would live to see it become the mainstream GOP position. The end of living memory of WWII is going to be ruinous.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think this needs to be on people’s radar more, if only because in their psychology Texas is not a place where voters compete to see who is in control, it’s a core GOP possession and losing that possession will be seen as a direct and existential attack.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

more and more, as artists of all stripes are forced to become their own content creation/marketing machine to promote their art in addition to making it, I feel like Enya is the most famous musician who got it 100% right. we know nothing about her and it's great. just minding her own b in a castle

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this 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

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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reposting for all of us whose Sunday might be improved by enjoying this elegant and colourful heron. 😊

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It'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. 🧵

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Ben Nagy @rantyben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this 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.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chapel 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

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Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This thread tells an appalling story. Absolutely shameful, entirely unethical behavior from USA Today and their reporters.

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Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

From your mouth to the ears of any deity who exists and would be likely to listen. I grew up in NC and my friends who still live there deserve that and more.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If 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

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

she 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 😭

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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

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/10/2026

Talking about the trades? Read this instead of The Atlantic!

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Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"I don't have to explain the context to you," I said to the grads and undergrads who were unsuccessfully hiding smirks. "But how clear do you think that reference would be to someone reading about it in fifteen hundred years?" (2/2)

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Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I 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

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I Know What Juda Did Last Summer @gypaetus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the 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

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026

!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Joy Reeber 🦄 @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the 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.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Elon 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

Instagram post from Malala decked out in Eagles dear with text "Go birds!"

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

nothing 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

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

God I hate being right.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Upton Sinclair remains undefeated

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A rare point of agreement between us and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 28/09/2026

It 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

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This 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?

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Carrying That Weight—Again

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case

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Logopoios @gnomai.com · 29/09/2026

But 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)

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Television history that matters.

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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

orange cat all beat up and bloody in the snow :(

orange cat asleep splayed out on his side on his blanket

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