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JEM

@passableghost.bsky.social
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I'm a librarian, teacher, scholar, writer, & geek. I cat, but don't dog. Like to cook. Will whiskey.

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smamuel @radiopeep.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
AHHH!! the zine i helped make has now been published in an academic journal! journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un... it’s about the baseline structure of gothic horror in fiction, and how it’s used in comics! made alongside @passableghost.bsky.social!!!
journals.library.unt.edu
View of Imagined Horrors
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One persistent belief of authoritarians is that brutality will diminish resistance and that lies will obscure the truth. They are always wrong. #resist #AbolishICE #fascism
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Cailín Walsh 🍀 @cailin.dev · 13/11/2025
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"We all have our faith...mine is in the truth." --Fox Mulder
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Every year, on cue, people start referring to the Fall time change as "Daylight Savings Time", when, in fact, it's the opposite. I think this is the single greatest proof of the Mandela Effect. Or the Blue and Gold Dress Effect.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"If you don't work, you don't eat" At once the most absurdly privileged and monstrously inhumane expression of cruelty I've heard lately. It's the voice of the slave master, the sweatshop owner, the prison camp guard--unethical and unworthy of our democracy. No one has to "earn" the right to eat.
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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I'm excited to share that we've got another edition of Gender Queer on the way for next spring! This one is annotated by queer and trans authors, comics scholars, and multiple people who appear in the book as characters 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚
The cover of "Gender Queer: Annotated Edition" by Maia Kobabe. A digital drawing shows Maia (a white nonbinary person with short brown hair) seating in profile on a hillside covered in California native wildflowers overlooking the Sonoma County coastline. Golden hills covered in oak trees recede into the distance around a grey pebble beach and a richly blue ocean under a blue sky
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Don't worry DJT, I think you're still eligible for Razzie. 🏆 #NobelPeacePrize #DonaldTrump #fascism
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Peaceful protest and civil disobedience are not "rebellion". You know what rebellion is? Storming the Capitol, attacking our representatives, disrupting the peaceful transfer of power, threatening to hang the Vice President. Those same traitorous rebels are now working for ICE.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Trump's failing regime is now reduced to just making up imaginary war zones and street battles against "terrorists" in chicken and frog costumes to justify their illegal use of military and federal law enforcement personnel against American cities. 🐔🐸🪖 It would be laughable but for the fascism.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Let's be clear: Hegseth and Trump just declared war on the American people and gave military leadership the order to wage that war in our cities, against our citizens. If this isn't enough to impeach and remove this regime, then we've already surrendered to tyranny.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
So, they summoned every military leader in our armed forces for a misogyny summit and authoritarian pep rally. And made taxpayers foot the bill, while endangering national security globally. Got it.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
There is no legal, ethical, scientific, or educational basis for this decision at all. Resist. #censorship #academicfreedom #freespeech #fascism #resistance www.texastribune.org/2025/09/25/t...
texastribune.org
Angelo State University bans classroom discussions of transgender identities, stirring criticism and confusion
Instead of a campus-wide announcement, faculty members say the restrictions have trickled down through department chairs and college meetings.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Oh. I see. Disney put Kimmel back on the air to salvage its subscriber base...two days before they announced a new price increase. 🤔 There is never enough cynicism to go around, even when I try to stockpile it for emergencies.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Repeat: There were NO trans people involved in the murder of Charlie Kirk. The FBI's own evidence proves this. It's the existence of a trans person in the shooter's life that's held up as evidence, because it's their existence that facsists consider a crime.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Watching corporate America and academia crumble to authoritarian power simultaneously makes it clear how symbiotic they've become in the post-Reagan neoliberal era. There's no discernible difference between CEOs and university chancellors or presidents despite their performative "values" statements.
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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
insidehighered.com
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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KERA News @keranews.org · 18/09/2025
A coalition of interfaith groups held the first Religious Freedom in Schools summit in Dallas this week to discuss how to push back on legislation it says centers Christianity in schools.
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Interfaith summit meets in Dallas to address 'coordinated' religious push in schools
A coalition of interfaith groups held the first Religious Freedom in Schools summit in Dallas this week to discuss how to push back on legislation it says centers Christianity in schools.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We all figured AI would eventually destroy humanity, we just kind of assumed it would be with nuclear missiles and killer robots, not by taking our jobs and making us stupid. We figured we had that part well in hand with just exploitative capitalism. But why break what ain't fixed, I guess?
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

Alayna Treene
@alaynatreene
Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops to help with local law enforcement (without buy-in from the state’s governor) could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN

Now he’s going to Memphis

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@HBRabinowitz
 https://cnn.com/2025/09/12/politics/chicago-memphis-trump-national-guard
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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Ben Towle @benzilla.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Kevin Huizenga zine about teaching comics. Free for students and teachers—$10 for the rest of you cretins! #SPX2025
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"When it comes to the AI technology industry, we refuse their frames, reject their addictive and brittle technology, and demand that the sanctity of the university both as an institution and a set of values be restored." Yessss, may the blowback be swift, hard, and universal
bloodinthemachine.com
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
So, as it turns out, there were no libs, Socialists, immigrants, trans people, or gang members shooting up schools this week, just radicalized white supremacists, conservatives, and cis straight white dudes with guns...as usual.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Does anyone really believe that genuflecting at the altar of "civil discourse" will stop Trump and his MAGA-fascists from using violence, terror, or intimidation against their enemies? That's not how fascism works. We won't sweet-talk our way out of it. Speak truth, not comforting platitudes.
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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
And find your activist colleagues, ones in unions and not. The only way through is together.
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a man with a beard and long hair is talking about a good fight .
Alt: a man with a beard and long hair is talking about a good fight .
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Dr. Spencer D. C. Keralis @hauntologist.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Last Call! Submissions for #Academizines special issue close 9/15! journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un...
journals.library.unt.edu
CFP: Academizines! | Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This SCOTUS has lost all credibility and generations of trust in the independence and integrity of the courts. They are nothing but the rubber stamp of a fascist regime intent on demolishing our Constitution, our democracy, and our basic human rights. They are no longer to be trusted or respected.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Current reading--keepin' it light... #TheRoad #EdgarAllanPoe #horrorcomics
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Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
"The lesson is that defeating the fascism we face now requires much more than defeating the current administration or winning elections. It requires a deeper shift: the recognition that we need to always stand in solidarity and fight for others as if our lives depended on it."
bostonreview.net
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
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KERA News @keranews.org · 29/08/2025
The UNT System’s temporary pause on drag performances went into effect in March of this year. A federal appeals court ruled earlier this month a similar ban likely violates the First Amendment.
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University of North Texas ends ban on drag shows
The UNT System’s temporary pause on drag performances went into effect in March of this year. A federal appeals court ruled earlier this month a similar ban likely violates the First Amendment.
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KERA News @keranews.org · 30/08/2025
These measures touch nearly every aspect of life, from education and healthcare to public safety, property rules and support for first responders. With so many changes coming at once, Texans can expect a variety of noticeable impacts on their daily lives. kerane.ws/3Hy241e
kerane.ws
More than 830 new Texas laws take effect Sept. 1. Here’s what’s changing
These measures touch nearly every aspect of life, from education and healthcare to public safety, property rules and support for first responders. With so many changes coming at once, Texans can expect...
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I feel like Sloppy Joes were once a much bigger part of my life and I don't really know what happened to us. I guess we just grew apart. 😒
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This regime now gives pardons and full military honors to traitors & insurrectionists while persecuting & erasing loyal, dedicated, competent soldiers, civil servants, scientists, doctors, librarians, teachers, and workers, or anyone not thoroughly indoctrinated into their ideology of hate. #Merica
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I've seen graduate students, junior faculty, librarians, research assistants, and technical contributors routinely denied co-author credit by senior faculty or PIs who believe they alone deserve author credit. This is academic dishonesty and violates basic publishing ethics.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Dear Marvel: It's really not necessary to include every character in every movie. Their 10-second cameo is not fan service, it's just moving the goal-post of "success" a few million dollars further out. Fewer characters, better writing, good villain=quality and value. See: Fantastic Four
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Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I love the idea of Nicholas Cage doing the next season of True Detective, but I want him to do it as his character from Pig.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Hit the @communitymarket with my new Bug Out Bag from @stephhawkinsbigsky and returned with spoils. 🌶🍅🥚🥜
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Mephisto: [Aside] Enough of all this academic chatter, Back again to devilry! --Johann von Goethe
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
time for a new afterword
The Rise
Decline of
Faculty
Governance
PROFESSIONALIZATION
AND THE
MODERN
AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY


LARRY G. GERBER
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
We monster so you don't have to.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22/08/2025
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
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JEM @passableghost.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
If you walk out of any museum feeling "good"--about yourself, your country, history, or society--you did it wrong.
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Dr. Spencer D. C. Keralis @hauntologist.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
CFP: Academizines! This special issue invites contributors from across the disciplines to share their research and creative scholarship in zine form. journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un...
Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship
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