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I cannot believe the amount of times this week - in professional and personal settings - an adult has relentlessly yelled my name while I was in conversation with someone else like we’re in a first grade classroom.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 17h

More North Country with every paragraph. It has to be a a parody: “I’ve been here 37 years and I’ve never had a busier summer,” said Tina Merrihew, 59, who owns a half-laundromat, half-doughnut shop. “Amazing what trolls can do. They’re instigators.”

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 17h

Seriously NOTHING more NoCo! "Tupper Lake, a once-bustling blue-collar lumber town, has enthusiastically welcomed the trolls."

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 11/10/2026

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking SE from 2800 N Lake Shore Drive as the Chicago shoreline meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-10-10 19:06:04 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: 2800lsd.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 74 F | 23 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: SE at 9 mph | 14 kph // Humidity: 49%

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Do you want to read this over one more time before we publish?” “Nah we’re good” apple.news/ABlXnKbsjRH2...

Trump says it would be 'great discredit' if he doesn't win
Nobel Prize
President Donald Trump said it would be a
"great discredit" for the Nobel committee if he does not win the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Oct. 9 the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize to [INSERT NAME OR ORGANIZATION] for their efforts to
[INSERT WHY].

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Everyone makes such a big deal about sunset before 7 but how are we living in a world with sunrise after 7?! It’s dark when I wake up! It’s supposed to be dark when you go to bed!

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To every politician in New York: Do not tell the protesters to behave peacefully. Do not tell the protesters to disperse and go home. Instead, tell ICE to behave peacefully. Tell ICE to disperse and go home. Side with your constituents, not the Trump administration.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This reminds me of a recent conversation I had with @alexhanna.bsky.social about AI and workers, in which Hanna noted that bosses tend to think most feminized work can be automated because they imagine the work as reduced to the task itself and forget the necessary relational aspects.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love the positioning of good news that I am getting a twelfth direct report and several FWS students. Sure, I love managing a dozen people, having no true colleagues, and I'm so grateful to have a bunch of people on either side of my reporting line thinking I can read their minds.

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Texting from the afterlife is so funny because we all know ghosts prefer mysteriously written letters in cursive.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love the City and I am so glad they have dedicated someone to this! I feel bad for the person reading the tip emails, though. There will be so many strongly-worded emails.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hopefully this won't be feel-good stories about upward mobility. I hope it includes actual struggles CUNY faculty, staff, and students face in making their campuses work, from failing physical infrastructure to how many times we need to authenticate to access the LMS (or failing tech infrastructure)

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"If you can’t say “genocide” on any of the major platforms, yet those are the ones all of the Big AI tools used as their training data... well, then the AI tools sure aren’t very likely to know much about genocide, are they?" www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

anildash.com

We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People really don't get that cars are weapons, huh.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's hilarious watching these videos side by side because Mamdani is almost always smiling or laughing or waving like a little baby. He always looks joyful. Everybody else looks miserable! Also, his mother is a director! Do you think the success of his videos is unrelated?!

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David Lebo @leboism.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Regrouping: ok, the sexy thirst trap pics of the streamer didn't work, let's try maligning the pure soul lady adored by children worldwide

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The last time they tried to make the whole election about one person, no one had ever heard of him, so they've switched tactics to attacking someone that everybody loves

FOX News segment on "Ms. Rachel's Controversial Stances", which include voting for candidates that reflect your values, thinking the lives of foreigners are worth something, opposing the unaccountable secret police, and correctly stating that no one needs a billion dollars

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm so sick of New New York City where we have to have *only* nice, expensive things for tech bros and we can't have sweet, quirkly things like the MPHC climbing gym, which always had some of the best route-setting in the city. www.curbed.com/article/rock...

curbed.com

New York’s Oldest (and Weirdest) Rock Climbing Gym Is Closing

The Manhattan Plaza space where routes are labeled “spicy” and emotional support dogs stand by may soon be replaced by tennis.

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Education Dept. Formally Removes Title IX Protections for LGBTQ Students A forthcoming amendment would define sex as an ‘immutable biological classification as either male or female.’ www.the74million.org/article/educ...

the74million.org

Education Dept. Formally Removes Title IX Protections for LGBTQ Students

A forthcoming amendment would define sex as an ‘immutable biological classification as either male or female.’

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I didn’t speak to my dad for like a decade and yesterday we had an amazing day together because I didn’t speak to him for that decade.

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 24/09/2026

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking SE from 2800 N Lake Shore Drive as the Chicago shoreline meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-24 04:06:03 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: 2800lsd.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 62 F | 17 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: ENE at 8 mph | 13 kph // Humidity: 70%

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ok. We found the good Thai food in Lagrange, IL but we’re still looking for the good falafel. Any tips will get picture of said falafel.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I just sat through a whole presentation about AI-enhanced feedback for students and at the end someone was like, what do you think,? And I just sat there, wondering what they thought I was going to say. Ranting wouldn't have made sense in the context, so I just said "the union..." and left the room.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Y’all are doing too much.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/09/2026

One thing I think is amazing about Hasan Piker, love him or hate him, is that anybody cares about him at all. That's just incredible, how did that even happen. How does anyone even have an opinion on him in the first place. It's wild stuff

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes! Some days completely unprompted I find myself thinking about how I never needed to know who this person was. Like why do I know who he is. I don’t even really understand what twitch is!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think this is a mistake. It was one thing to stand with this man immediately after your election but now??? come on.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm so glad you phrased it like this because that's absolutely how I feel and I couldn't put it together and the impact it has on my day-to-day. I can never know what kind of day I am going to have when I come in to the office and of course that makes me feel out of control!

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I felt the need to reply that they had asked for an in-person meeting, and felt it was quite important that it was in person, so, no, we will wait until we can meet in person, which probably won't be until next week. I'm tired everyone above and below me feeling no accountability to each other.

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I can be flexible, but I reqlly resent the remote work agreement. There’s no enforcement mechanism, and no one who works for me understands the ECP can rescind it any time. Plus consistency is important! People who come in the same days every week are much happier!

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Renee @reneemc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My two employees last week: let’s meet in person about this. It’s important we meet in person on Monday. Me, Monday morning: I guess I’ll drag my exhausted ass into to the office for this in-person meeting My two employees, Monday morning: I’ll have to join virtually because…

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.

npr.org

Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas

The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.

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dave’s killer dread @dreadlines.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

dude just fucking hates moderators

My friend said they went to a Zizek talk and eventually the moderator
interrupted him saying "I think it's time for questions" and Zizek was like “Ok. I will ask the first one. 'Professor Zizek what would you say if you had more time?' and then he proceeded to continue the talk as if
nothing happened

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again

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