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Tyler Barnum (He/Him)

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I teach college English focusing on race and gender representation in media. My profile on Letterboxd boxd.it/3tOL Black Lives Matter. Love is Love. Trans Lives Matter.

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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 1h
I wonder how the Pro Magic players feel about God packs. There's a limited pro tour coming up. A few players will get god packs in their sealed pools. Seems like a problem.
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Ellory @thelocalmuffin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm horrifically disappointed to see people hopping into a harry potter art trend after all the heinous garbage jk rowling has done to multiple communities Not so friendly reminder that she's using this as free advertising and you ARE supporting her indirectly for this.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/09/2026
“What we need is everyone w/ a stake in higher education, students, parents, administrators, to go on the record & publicly say these proposed rules are going to be catastrophic for higher ed. They shouldn’t be implemented. Encourage your administration to make a public statement.” — Katie Rainwater
joshcowen.substack.com
Regulating Academic Freedom
A conversation with AAUP’s Katie Rainwater on proposed federal rules to restrict and redefine university research and teaching.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13h
Elon Musk, who is estimated to have ensured the mass deaths of 16 million people by 2030, most of whom will be children, is also history's most prolific creator and distributor of CSAM. He has basically infinite money to avoid facing any legal consequences whatsoever for his vast, vast crimes.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h
Arguably the biggest democracy referendum next month: Virginia is one of only three states where the state constitution says people should lose their right to vote FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE if they are convicted of any felony. This measure would allow anyone to vote after prison.
boltsmag.org
“It’s Time”: Virginians Will Decide Whether to Repeal Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting - Bolts
Voters will decide this year whether to end Virginia’s uniquely harsh felony disenfranchisement rules. They'll also vote on abortion, gay marriage, and redistricting.
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IGN @ign.com · 04/10/2026
GTA 6 has received a rating of PEGI 18, revealing mentions of "decapitation," the ability for players to snort cocaine at any time, "scenes of sexual fetishes," and much more.
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GTA 6 PEGI Age Rating Reveals Mentions of 'Decapitation' and Cocaine That Can Be 'Snorted' at 'Any Time'
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TradeMagic.gg @trademagic.bsky.social · 18h
Plaguebearer from exo was just completed on TradeMagic for 3,301 points. trademagic.gg/cards/plague... #premodern
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God @thegodshow.com · 19h
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 23h
A subway ad is telling me that Meta’s AI agent will shop for birthday gifts for me and I’m sorry but the whole point of giving someone a gift is that I picked it out
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026
Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/10/2026
Seeing this just fills me with absolute despair at the climate situation. We are still at peak emissions. We haven't even begun decreasing emissions and even if we did, the warming that's baked from past emissions will last for centuries. We're cooked.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/10/2026
Donald Trump tore into the reporter at the end of the sprawling, at times deranged interview. trib.al/8KJQamZ
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Trump Moans He Didn’t Get “One F*cking Positive Question” in Interview
Donald Trump tore into the reporter at the end of the sprawling, at times deranged interview.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AOC understands this and I'm extremely excited to campaign for her because of it.
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Foxnoctom @foxnoctom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have Jace a Burger, he looked hungry.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women.
Line chart titled "So far during Trump's second term, just 8% of all job growth has gone to men" showing change in employment by gender since January 2025. Total nonfarm employment grew by 776,000 jobs through September 2026, with women gaining 711,000 positions (92% of growth) while men added only 65,000 jobs (8% of growth). Women's employment gains accelerated sharply through 2026, reaching 711,000 by September, while men's employment growth remained flat with brief periods of decline, including a drop of 96,000 jobs in February 2026.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
POPE LEO: “There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity.”
Pope Leo XIV 
@Pontifex
X.com
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NOTE: these positions are now CENTER in the US...
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TradeMagic.gg @trademagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel from Final Fantasy was just completed on TradeMagic for 7,203 points. 🔥 trademagic.gg/cards/sephir... #mtgcommander #mtgbrawl
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 01/10/2026
blue alerts (statewide texas emergency alerts, that blow up your phone the same way as a tornado warning any time a cop gets hurt) are fucking infuriating this is not an emergency you can not wake an *entire state* up because one of your boys got an ouchie fuck you. nobody fucking cares.
A screenshot of a blue alert with identification details censored
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bells110.bsky.social @bells110.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The lead reporting in the Cornell gang rape was done by the student run paper. Their coverage is what helped to force accountability. Heads should role at this university. They failed completely to do justice. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
Cornell, Chi Phi Sued by Victim of Alleged Gang Rape, Drugging in 2024
A former Cornell student filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that she was gang raped after being coerced into consuming drugs by several men at the Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell in 2024. 
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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's a mystery...
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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If he was a real man, he would lead his troops on the ground on the front line. But he's a chickenshit who will just send your children to kill and die for no reason.
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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sleepy tyrant
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They see women as brood mares whose only purpose is to make babies. Your life is irrelevant unless you are breeding. I hope Kristan doesn't bring this shit to UT.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 28/09/2026
Your reminder that there is a felon in the White House identified in the Epstein files as a rapist, there has been no investigation, and the files are still being hidden in violation of federal law.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
Meet the “Charlie Kirk” of abortion. Mother Jones and @amylittlefield.bsky.social followed anti-abortion leader Kristan Hawkins across the country as she tried to make abortion “unthinkable and unavailable.” But with the majority of Gen Z supporting legal abortion, it’s an uphill battle.
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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I refuse to use threads, but did it take over his marketplace with or without his permission? If you choose to let an AI be in charge of anything in your life, you're an idiot and deserve what happens.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
The important thing to know about the Starship launch today is that Elon Musk is directly responsible for an unfathomable number of people dying preventable deaths and has never faced a single consequence for it.
cnn.com
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
404media.co
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Called it again
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please share. #Pinks
girlyfeminist girlyfeminist
l've been a SA advocate for decades:
NEVER go to campus resources for a SA. Call a rape care hotline/program (off campus), get a SA advocate (they're free), go to a SART hospital for care (and evidence collection if you choose).
They activate the police. Schools have NO business in this process and will minimize and bury it. It's a criminal matter, not an administrative matter.
Period. No exceptions.
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Hex Maniac Alice @ UUSmp 25/156 @haurchy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mamdani has a great story! “We love New York and therefore we should take care of everyone who lives here and not let rich corporations hurt them.” Nice! You can only tell that story if you actually want to do the shit after “therefore”
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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That my mini me on the drum set! youtu.be/xMsM-RTKpag?...
youtu.be
Ogden High first competition Sept 26th
YouTube video by Ashley Sherman
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
DILLEY DETENTION CENTER NUMBER 2 Call it a “staging facility” all you want. The contract says detention. There’s playground equipment behind the fence. And Dilley has already held children far beyond the roughly 20-day Flores limit. Now they’re building “Dilley 2.” We know what this is!
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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What a monster
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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Peggy is Doom's mother?
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.
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Dropout @dropout.tv · 25/09/2026
Game Changer Loop Desk Mat: store.dropout.tv/products/ga...
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Game Changer Loop Desk Mat
Bring some whimsy to your workspace with this Game Changer loopy desk mat! A low-key way to let the fellow nerds in your office know that you’ve got good tas...
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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have beef with these writers. I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie so offensively stupid and that treats the audience as if they're morons. I think it singlehandedly sets the women's movement back at least a decade.
Imdb writing credits for Shaina Steinberg and Cece Pieasants on Bride Hard
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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Never be afraid to shoot your shot. This is excellent
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Tyler Barnum (He/Him) @phinneas8052.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I tried to pick games that helped define a genre for me. These are all games that made me say, "I didn't know you could do that with video games"
A selection of video game covers. Baldur's Gate, Warcraft 2, Sim City 2000, Scorched Earth, Silent Service 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Tetris, Magic Online, and Falcon 4.0
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