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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Guys!!!! You guys!!!!! The Introduction to *Speculative Relations* has dropped!!!!! You can read it here: www.dukeupress.edu/speculative-...

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Speculative Relations

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.

New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

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Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"

[Painting of a German family]

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erinscafe @erinscafe.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

a king salmon sign WA State, I love you

Sign with a fish that reads The only king we need

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Empire always comes home. All the sins we have committed abroad were always destined to find us in our homes, on our streets. We're being haunted by the violence we allowed to thrive.

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Ryan Fong @rdfong.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I should have predicted that my first real time conversation with @zugenia.bsky.social would have been two hours of 🔥✨💥🌈💫. Look out world, because the witchy Chinese kids are starting to join forces!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2025

Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/01/2025

From WaPo: “Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday — coming after the announcement of a ceasefire deal — killed at least 19 people across Gaza, according to the enclave’s Civil Defense service. The rescue agency said in a statement that many of the strikes targeted residential areas.”

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Ryan Fong @rdfong.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Standing in solidarity with those protesting at MLA today and over the whole conference. I resigned from the committee I was serving on and will not be renewing my membership. It’s the least I can do in my stand against the genocide and scholasticide in Gaza.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Feeling tremendous guilt that I can’t contribute to every single Go Fund Me myself, as if I alone were meant to be the public safety net.

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Slow BOO!s Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 16/11/2024

This sort of thing simultaneously erases the work of indigenous and Native Americans, while ALSO reducing us to props in your own political psychodrama. We're not actually here to make you feel better or save you, we have our own mahi here at home.

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Ryan Fong @rdfong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It’s always, *always* connected to colonialism.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/02/2024

“More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/...

aljazeera.com

‘Cold-blooded massacre’: Israeli forces kill over 104 aid seekers in Gaza

Over 100 killed and 750 wounded after Israeli forces fired at Palestinians collecting food aid in Gaza City.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

"Over three days in February, cybersecurity firm CHEQ tracked the proportion of bot traffic from X...three-quarters of traffic from X was fake, compared to less than 3[%] of traffic from each of TikTok, Facebook and Instagram." www.abc.net.au/news/science...

abc.net.au

A 'great flood' of AI noise is coming for the internet and it's swallowing Twitter first

The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

University recognizes “employee appreciation week” with “self-guided tours” of PR-friendly spots on campus. Alternatives: 👉No univ spam for the whole week 👉A live-streamed seminar in which employees teach senior admin about workload, stretched resources, &c. With a test. 👉free N95s & better IAQ

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Most university administrators are looking for a better position elsewhere (at another university, private sector, whatever), and therefore they have to show how "bold" and "innovative" they are. And that involves shaking things up. Of course, if it goes poorly, they're not left holding the bag.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 13/02/2024

I’m tired of defending diversity initiatives and pleading for my humanity. Let’s call this movement against DEI and affirmative action and equality what it really is: neo-segregationist. And let’s be clear about what we want instead: Integration. www.damemagazine.com/2024/02/13/t...

damemagazine.com

The Evisceration of Diversity Programs Is Upon Us | Dame Magazine

There is a child in America—a worker, a dreamer—whose hard work will never be recognized. They will struggle and toil for little or no end. At best, their labors will be co-opted and stolen; at worst,...

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

More from the newest ECF special issue: "Endeavouring" and Other Eighteenth-Century Fictions, By Nikki Hessell muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... ECF journal, U of Toronto Press Volume 36, Number 1, January 2024, pp. 145-148 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC Read ECF at Project MUSE!

Abstract: The terminology we use in eighteenth-century studies needs to encompass both the period's and the field's global reach. James Cook's ship HMS Endeavour provides a starting point for considering the terms that were used to imagine the eighteenth-century Pacific from Great Britain, the importance of refusing eighteenth-century fictions in and from the Pacific, and the need to expand our critical vocabulary in the field beyond the frameworks of the transatlantic world. This essay proposes "Endeavouring" as a Pacific-focused corollary to the term "Columbusing" in order to advance anti-colonial scholarship in eighteenth-century studies and broaden its scope and vision.

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

👋It's me! Delighted to be in this very special Special Issue of ECF

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Another flash essay from the amazing ECF special issue, "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions": "On Noongar Boodjah: George Vancouver's Colonial Fictions," by Ryan D. Fong muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/artic... U of Toronto Press, ECF 36.1, Jan. 2024, pp. 133-37 #18thCentury #C18th Read ECF journal at Project MUSE!

Abstract: This essay reads Captain George Vancouver's account of his 1791 landing on the southwestern coast of what is now known as Australia through the theorizations and analyses of Indigenous theorists and scholars to expose the colonial fictions that undergird his actions and rhetoric. I then focus on the rhetoric and critical posturing of the settler colonial academy, especially within white-dominated fields like eighteenth-century studies, to consider how its work participates in the processes of Indigenous erasure and points to the need for self-reflexive and reciprocal engagements with Indigenous communities and their knowledges.

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Ryan Fong @rdfong.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

This 👏🏽 will 👏🏽 cost 👏🏽 him 👏🏽Michigan 👏🏽

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Ryan Fong @rdfong.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Add to this airlines and dot matrix printers.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

First year writing instructors are among the best and most important teachers in a university—and, already, among the lowest paid and most precarious. That ASU would choose to outsource that work to ChatGPT instead of investing in those teachers will hurt students and faculty alike. t.co/9y2ZcDHUn6

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Aaron Cozen @aaroncozen.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

“Much like destroying forests, scraping up the sea floor causes irreparable harm to the climate, society and wildlife.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Carbon released by bottom trawling ‘too big to ignore’, says study

Fishing nets churn up carbon from the sea floor, more than half of which will eventually be released into the atmosphere

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

In my latest column for Teen Vogue I wrote about the latest surge, my disappointment with the Biden administration and Democratic party & how so many high risk people have been abandoned by the state: www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-...

screenshot from a Tweet by me that reads” My latest column for @TeenVogue on the latest surge, how high risk people have been abandoned by the Biden administration, & why I won’t be voting this election w/ quotes from @/tinu @/AngelaMSWinCA & @/Christine_ScD” Underneath is a photo of an empty shelf at a drugstore with a few COVID-19 text kits. Below is the title of the article, “COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Could Save My Life

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Queens College just forced chairs to fire 26 of my colleagues, two weeks before the semester starts. They've lost health insurance and income, we've lost 79 sections and over 1600 students have lost their classes. Please help us protest! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

That’s funny I thought my administration threatening to shutter every humanities dept was the next big battle - or perhaps suspend all pro Palestinian faculty - but what do I know, I’m only at a state college

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Ryan Fong @rdfong.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

In which a Victorianist pretends to be an 18th centuryist for a bit. Honored to be a part of this conversation!

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ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Special issue of ECF coedited by @profchander.bsky.social and @zugenia.bsky.social will be available on Project MUSE soon. Now: check out the abstracts, or subscribe to read part 1 of "Refusing 18th-Century Fictions" on the UTP portal: utpjournals.press/toc/ecf/36/1 #18thCentury

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Mzansi, we’re so proud of you. 🇿🇦

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 06/01/2024

The Supreme Court is a nakedly corrupt institution and so I think any discussion about whether it arrives at the right decision on this or any issue is about on the level of "well maybe the asteroid is full of candy"

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Ryan Fong @rdfong.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬

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Ryan Fong @rdfong.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

I’m looking for good essays and public writing articles/think pieces using Frankenstein to talk about technology, especially AI.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 20/11/2023

i am less convinced that AI is going to replace jobs than i am that companies are going to cut jobs on the premise of AI replacing them and then hire those people back as contractors for less money and fewer protections, because that’s what’s happened a *lot* in the last 20 years.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Shall we play “will the writer mention repeat infections of Covid and severe illness resulting therefrom?” with this (yet another) piece on school absenteeism? www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/u...

nytimes.com

Students Are Missing School at an Alarming Rate

Schools reopened after the pandemic, but student attendance has not bounced back.

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