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Scott A. Carter

@scottacarter.bsky.social
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Higher ed comms and advancement. Misplaced Southerner surviving the Midwest. It's sunny and 75, it feels so good to be alive. Thoughts my own.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 9h
"It’s not summer, it’s not winter, and it’s not spring. Grab a calendar and pull your fucking heads out of your asses; it’s fall, fuckers." buff.ly/w93mWIl
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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𝔉𝔲𝔫𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔩 𝔉𝔞𝔤 @wolvendaughter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Putting in prompts to get music you like? We already have that. It's called walking into a record store that smells of patchouli and asking the guy with the one-hitter behind his ear for recs.
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grovehaunter @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026
This map from 1951 shows how iron ore moved then along the Great Lakes, and almost nothing about this has changed in 75 years. To make steel, you need iron ore. To move iron ore significant distances, you need deep draft waterways. You simply can not get the stuff to fucking *Iowa*
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The night was cold and dark. “Listen to the wind howling in the trees,” said Frog. “What a fine time for a ghost story.”
Frog and Toad craddle warm cups of tea in their hands, as they sit in cozy chairs in front of the fire.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As good a time as any to share my autumn take on the Manhattan, the Autumn in New York: -Rye -Zirbenz Stone Pine Liqueur -Black walnut bitters And please do not ask for proportions. Just keep mixing until the colors look right.
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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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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One reason why you should involve your kids in cooking is because you get to hear amazing commentary like, "Whisk, whisk, whisk. That's all I'm good for."
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Destroying the legalization of free and easy online gambling is intimately tied into the first plank of the winning platform, anti-corruption. These platforms exist solely to extract, steal, and immiserate. They should not exist and their influence on politics and life in general is wholly toxic.
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seems bad
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That album cannot possibly have been released 30 years ago because that would make me [does math]...old. Also, one of the best examples of an album that 1) fucking rocks, and 2) is so difficult to listen to lyrically.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 24/09/2026
The political left actually does have enormous amounts of money at its disposal. Left wing poverty is a myth. But nobody on the center-left is spending money and resources remotely at requisite scale to show undergrads that “the peer-reviewed humanities are cool!” The Democratic Party is no help
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DaylightCounter @daylightcounter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We continue losing daylight for 90 days. 🥳
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What this provost’s use of AI has also made scandalously clear is that AI is wrecking higher ed so fast a lot of faculty have no idea how far it’s gone. Or that many of the students using it hate it—but use it because higher ed has sat on its hands & allowed its hierarchies to become AI incentives.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If any of these guys spent 1 hour with someone outside of their ideological bubble they might have learned something. For example, if you think you can cut the deficit via personnel cuts, you are a fucking clown who does not deserve to be listened to. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
Musk seems to have genuinely thought the government was Twitter. This was one of the rationales for hiring him - he dramatically cut Twitter’s personnel and underlying costs, and no big deal! But one major difference is that unlike a tech firm, personnel for the federal government is a minor cost. Because federal employee salaries make up only about 5% to 6% of spending, you can fire a huge proportion of them, and barely put a dent in federal spending.
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It is so bewildering that a transpanic over **sports** was the tip of the spear that ended in a bill to literally eliminate the word "gender" from the Iowa Civil Rights Code. If I hear one more person use sports as a justification for actual legal discrimination I'm going to lose my goddamn mind.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 21/09/2026
Everyone really should read this piece alongside the Nikole Hannah-Jones piece and reflect on whether we really want to live in a society in which achieving self-actualization requires lots of money as opposed to one which strives to provide opportunities for all through redistribution.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gripping, raw, and important story by Nikole Hannah-Jones about one of the most troubling and intractable problems in our society. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just waking up from a nap to check on that NC State Vanderbilt game. Should be over by now...
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nationalize them and sell everything down to the fucking staplers
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18/09/2026
The skepticism among some folks on the academic Left of the private research funding apparatus and the preference for a largely publicly funded research infrastructure was that the latter was democratically accountable. But we have seen under Trump & right wing leg how easily it can be weaponized
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I yearn for simpler times
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
At least that interception from Love was funny
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hodag metal when? I mean the horns are right there
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cozying up with The Woods (and Cats) All Black by @leemandelo.bsky.social
a black cat resting on a person's lap next to a book titled The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo.
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An important moment in a kid's life -- learning to grind points on Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
A young child with light brown hair sits with their back to the camera, watching a flat-screen television that is playing an 8-bit, retro side-scrolling video game, Zelda II The Adventure of Link
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat’s bow—Death to Moby Dick!
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It doesn't neutralize Republican attacks. So you end up with Republicans making the same attacks, but now your supporters are deflated. And I genuinely don't hard to say, "The party hiding the Epstein Files seems to really want to talk about teenagers' genitalia. I want to talk about the issues."
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Ginny Di @ginnydi.com · 11/09/2026
(I might also need a life coach though, if we're honest.)
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026
I also find it hilarious how universities are justifying these expenditures using the language of 'equity.'"If we don't buy these tools for everyone, then only the rich kids will be able to afford them, and that's unfair." But you don't buy books assigned by profs for anyone? Why not subsidize that!
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palewisconsinite.bsky.social @palewisconsinite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
youtube.com/playlist?lis... As always today, listening to The Disintegration Loops.
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The Disintegration Loops - YouTube
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well that's a ton of birds. 103 million plus. They were mainly flying 1500-2000' above ground and in the dark, so if you're wondering why you may have not seen them, that helps explain it.
103.4 million birds flew across Wisconsin last night.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
it is unforgivable how Democrats are granting the right's premise about trans kids in sports even as they attempt to navigate a "moderate" position so they don't look so bad (hint: not possible) they have literally regressed! the first bathroom bans did not have this kind of bipartisan support!!!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026
right. when thinking about slavery as a system i think it is important to foreground the fact that this was an astonishing wealth production machine. to paraphrase barbara fields, the point of slavery was to produce commodities; white supremacy was the ideological superstructure of the whole thing
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Deathkiller!" the 8yo screams from the kitchen as he preps strawberries for fruit leather
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 07/09/2026
and it was 69 yards? a punt so nice we have to say it twice
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 07/09/2026
HEY WISCONSIN
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wisconsin's motto this year is Burn the Boats and I am here for it
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