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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 02/10/2026

A lot of people think when you do stand up for women or for whatever is right, you have a Tumblr and everyone clapped moment. Nobody claps.

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 02/10/2026

I've came to the conclusion I'm only going to repost this once again for one simple reason. Nobody talks about what happens after you stand up in masculinist spaces: they decide they can't trust you.

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 01/10/2026

Panas, paisanos, boricuas 🇵🇷—lend me your hands. As the Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña enters its speedrun period, we need you to help determine not only the contours of its policy, but the foods, songs, and mascots of its teams. More info, and the relevant polls: buttondown.com/nsmckinnon/a...

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[LNP] Cometh the Great Speedrun

So we play on, baseball with the current, borne ceaselessly forth into the new—and with your help!

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 01/10/2026

If you'd rather get right to the polls, direct links: Poll #1 (general policy): form.jotform.com/262707960101... Victuals, Vocals and Vitals (food, songs and mascots): form.jotform.com/262726027315... Spread the word far and wide! We need people from every town in PR to show up for their patch!

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Great Speedrun: Poll #1

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 01/10/2026

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[LNP] Cometh the Great Speedrun

So we play on, baseball with the current, borne ceaselessly forth into the new—and with your help!

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 01/10/2026

Every single time a siren sounds outside my classroom, I have to respond with “ope, there’s my ride!”

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 01/10/2026

You know these guys are thinkers, because I would’ve just said “Asspocalypse.”

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it would change nothing but it would still be stunning and important to see someone brave enough to withhold communion to certain justices over this

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love the Fortean Times so much

Magazine cover with the header "MARTIN LUTHER'S ANAL APOCALYPSE: How the protestant reformer battled Satan on the loo". Nothing could possibly live up to such a magnificent headline

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People talk as if FBI political assassinations are a thing that stopped in the early 1970s

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 30/09/2026

What I’m discovering here is that a lot of you had a lot less faith in the Pope’s blessings than I did.

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 30/09/2026

As far as Sousa and Walker getting all het up over their own fans booing them, I can’t bring myself to care about their feelings, but in 2026—after seeing years of ignorant, short-sighted, spoiled opinions become conventional social media wisdom—I refuse to take other Astros fans’ side on anything.

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For far too long, the US empire has committed gross atrocities against the people of Puerto Rico. Today, we call for change to that pattern and demand the investigation into the murder of Filiberto Ojeda Rios. www.dsausa.org/statements/dsa-deman…

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DSA Demands Justice for Filiberto Ojeda Ríos - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

We the Democratic Socialists of America demand justice for Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Twenty-one years ago today, FBI agent Luis S. Fraticelli directed an operation in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, to arrest O...

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 30/09/2026

¿por qué no, y no puedo enfatizar esto suficientemente, los dos?

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 29/09/2026

If you're wondering how locked in I've been during this Astros season, I completely missed that they have a pitcher from Australia on the active roster.

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 29/09/2026

I cracked a joke about the Astros being on pace to lose 9-0. That was two innings ago.

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 29/09/2026

One of my students today went, in one minute flat, to “why are you a fan of those cheaters?” to “the Cubs got Alex Bregman and he’s been great,” so it’s another day on the counter of baseball fans being unable to read.

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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 27/09/2026

Honestly, this a basic reality for being Black or Brown in the US.

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Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.myatproto.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Surviving Nuclear Apocalypse Thanks to Soviets Having Consciences Heritage Month! Here’s to Vasily Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov, who saved everybody on earth.

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 26/09/2026

Today I got to introduce a fellow teacher to the time David Brooks claimed “capocollo” and “soppressata” were too hard to pronounce for people without a college degree, which must be what Petrarch felt like in that library when he discovered the poems of Catullus.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And it turns out it was wildly mischaracterizing. As it was pretty obvious it was going to. bsky.app/profile/fake...

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A.G. Rodriguez @agrwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

9/23/1868

The flag of Lares. A blue field atop a red field separated by a white cross. There is a white five pointed star in the top left blue quadrant. It is the official flag for the municipality of Lares, Puerto Rico and the historic flag flown to symbolize the rebellion against Spanish rule on 9/23/1868.

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The no big acCount of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just listened to the latest episode of No Substitutions which was on overnight oats. I thought @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app might be horrified to know I not only make mine at room temperature but my technique involves using protein powder for extra rib stick tuitiveness.

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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It helps to understand America as a casino you’re trapped in: no windows to another future, no concept of time apart from the casino itself, designed to wear you down. Neon lights and beeps and boops, every machine dressed up as some familiar IP, all doing the same thing: slowly bleeding you dry.

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the brotherhood of speed @deathofspeedy.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026

i really need some help or i'm not going to make it through this month without going into collections and down from there i know everything is actually impossible right now but i have to ask thank you for reading

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Roger Figueroa, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.Sc. @rogerfigphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I held one of those “newspaper jobs” at the age of 12 as the paperboy of my own community in Puerto Rico. It was my first job, and it instilled in me the value of work. More importantly, it taught me the value of written media in people’s lives. “Adiós” al periódico que me enseñó a trabajar. 🗞️

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I feel the rest of the world (Americans included) have no idea of how aggressively the US is pushing to make Latin America into a giant colony. Every day we get news about political interference, increase in military presence, absurd trade demands, online propaganda, Venezuela being pillaged, etc

Headline from one of Brazil's biggest newspapers that reads:
Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) warns the government and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) about the 'critical' level of escalating US pressure against Brazil in the elections.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/monicabergamo/

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 21/09/2026

For the last day or so I thought y’all were giving props to Chris Simms for saying something original for a football-related personality, but no, he was just insisting that football retain enough sanctity that Ted Cruz can’t go on pregame shows. Low bar, even for this country.

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 20/09/2026

Love that Silo is explicitly a show about what happens when you put an IT person in charge.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The other thing to remember amidst all the Steven Pinker discourse is that the book that made him an NPR-darling celebrity academic, The Blank Slate, was essentially an argument that non-evopsych social science is ideologically corrupt and possibly evil.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For obvious reasons, culture warriors in the pay of private interests that seek to take universities over have every reason to obscure this. On an individual level, too, structural explanations are cold comfort when the one job in your field is on a topic you don’t work on and goes to someone else.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But the actual problem is not who gets the golden ticket this year, but rather why a socially vital sector (do we not think knowledge, about society and about nature, is valuable?) has been eviscerated to the point where a steady job teaching and doing research is a golden ticket in the first place.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think it is important not to connect these in the wrong way. We have seen, again and again now, Wokeness or DEI offered as an explanation, especially where any noticeable number of the lucky few to get the chance at a career come from fields dealing with such “divisive” topics as gender or race.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But academia itself has a similar (not identical; but maybe related) problem. There are a few stars, and a larger handful of people privileged with secure senior positions. And there is a sea of casual labour. But there is less and less of a middle where people can make real careers by solid work.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What you won’t find much of are ordinary scholars who have neither an axe to grind about their failed hopes nor a buzz to create for their next NYT bestseller about why plagues are good or The Left has stifled debate by eating sandwiches. Both the picture and the personnel draw from the extremes.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In publications advancing an “antiwoke” line you will find a corresponding mix of would-be or once-was academics who couldn’t make it work for one reason or another, and classical liberal stars who are very much making it work — with a sprinkling of wingnut welfare types on race science postdocs.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s worth considering the confused role academia plays in radical centrism as a movement. It is, first, a muddled target: a bastion of wokeness, brainwashing, ideological compulsion but also irrelevance, elitism, weakness. But it’s also a magic well of authority for heroes like Pinker and Peterson.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s more to be said about the relationship between Pinker-style stardom and the state of academia. Not because academia is Woke, but because star systems loosen rigor at the top while solid scholarship becomes a dead end lower down. Shoddy celebrities and broke PhDs proceed from the same machine

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 19/09/2026

🎶 Do you want to build a project? 🎶 I mentioned a bit ago I'm trying to make an RPG Maker MV game. It's a gladiatorial tactics game—imagine Final Fantasy X (very gently) fucked XCOM. Thing is, between stress, executive dysfunction, and lack of confidence, I'm notoriously unreliable at doing this.

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Halloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey, it’s me, your childhood friend from your idyllic hometown in this RPG. Let’s do some tutorial missions together. No, I’m not in any of the official art, but that probably doesn’t mean anything.

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It was an honor to perform this very chilling and poetically rendered story. "Foreign Objects" alludes to atrocities committed by the US military in Vieques, Puerto Rico. How beautiful to render it this way, with our many voices.

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy Friday! I'm going to be very annoying about this but I HAVE to give props to @boriscrito.bsky.social, @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app, and @sofiaquintero.bsky.social for bringing Foreign Objects - my story of communal tragedy and hope - to life. Free to listen! www.patreon.com/posts/169642...

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Foreign Objects | Podside Picnic

Please listen to an audio production of my flash fiction piece, Foreign Objects. Many thanks to Sofia Quintero, E.G. Condé, and Noah S. McKi

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jegf @jjk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Whenever someone I'm traveling with points out a water tower, I make the same joke: "That's where the local Animaniacs live"

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Noah S. McKinnon (the S is for scary) 🇵🇷🇨🇺 @nsmckinnon.latinsky.app · 18/09/2026

Rochester drivers are like Superman—in that their fatal weakness is a shiny green thing and they seem to think they’re from a species immune to physical harm on Earth.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

YOU COULD HIRE SO MANY FUCKING TENURE TRACK FACULTY FOR THIS. SON OF A BITCH.

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

self evidently true but it doesn’t follow the patriotic sentimentality that’s taken hold of The Resistance™️

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ICYMI For the beginning of #LatineHeritageMonth, I released a full cast audio production of Foreign Objects yesterday Of the Latin American countries celebrating, Puerto Rico is not yet free. This is a story of communal tragedy and hope www.patreon.com/posts/169642...

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Foreign Objects | Podside Picnic

Please listen to an audio production of my flash fiction piece, Foreign Objects. Many thanks to Sofia Quintero, E.G. Condé, and Noah S. McKi

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Today is Mayflower Day - when misguided idiots set off from Plymouth, Devon, to go to America, and look at the shite we're in now. Here are ten artworks about/based around that voyage: First up: "Re-Rites" - Jasleen Kaur (2020)

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