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Scott A. Carter

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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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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Everything he is saying here is fully vindicating my belief that we need Religious Studies as an academic discipline to begin to understand the culture surrounding AI, and its millenarian fantasies.
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I mean come on, how can you not love this youtu.be/0bBb-c6IpEE?...
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Nomeansno - Big Dick
YouTube video by MegaKill2425
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
37 years of being blown away by this album youtu.be/B0oVHWh8Tuo?...
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It's Catching Up
YouTube video by Nomeansno - Topic
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
on a scale of medieval bat how are you feeling today?
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is why imperial collapses can often seem extraordinarily sudden: They come as the culmination of decades of undermining the institutions, relationships, and structures that keep states functioning. A jenga tower can stand with missing blocks until it's given a tiny push.
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brainplan @brainplan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
that brief conversation with Pat Murphy was maybe the only good in game interview
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on Bluesky
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/10/2026
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I was then perplexed by the Vanderbilt/Washington University report. Health inequity and disparities, lack of diversity, urban racial segregation, structural racial discrimination, each of which is taken as an a priori societal ill to be addressed, are seemingly proper objects of study, research and, yes, at times advocacy, across much of my university’s vast research enterprise. And yet, for my colleagues in the humanities, the report casts the same a priori assumptions as suspect, as political goals that threaten to “distort the scholarly enterprise.”
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Congrats to UW Madison on the Nobel in Physics! He is an immigrant to the US. Immigrants make up 40% of US wins in science chemistry, medicine, and physics in this century.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When you give talented researchers the resources they need to explore questions no one else asks, they'll lead you to incredible discoveries. Congratulations to @uwmadison.bsky.social physicist Francis Halzen on winning the Noble Prize.
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Make that 50,000% bsky.app/profile/walk...
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The top marginal tax rate should be 40,000% but I am willing to go higher
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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 05/10/2026
Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:
From one of the highest Isle Royale peaks at 1,133 feet above sea level (roughly 530 feet above Lake Superior), webcam located at the peak of Mount Ojibway, captures a northern vantage point. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-10-04 21:05:48 EDT (about 13 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: nps.gov/isro/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm // Current Temp in Isle Royale NP: 50 F | 10 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: WNW at 24 mph | 38 kph // Humidity: 75%
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jeff Passan Bot @jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The dream scenario of every kid. Bottom of the ninth. Two outs. Bases loaded. Facing the toughest pitcher in the world to hit. Jackson Chourio made magic.
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Un-freaking-real. Jackson Chourio just walked off Mason Miller. Brewers lead the series 2-0. Even on its worst day, Milwaukee finds a way to beat you.
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BREWERS!!!!!!!!!!
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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is Tohono O’odham ancestral land, and the tribe had been taking legal action to protect the site. They will continue to fight—as should we all!—but the damage is probably irreparable
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My ears are still ringing from the 1995 Peach Bowl when NC State played Mississippi State in the Georgia Dome
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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh no, I am so sorry. Sending love
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026
"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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Werewolven Daughter @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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gravewalker @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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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
Oh, and a dash of maple syrup
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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
I mean bsky.app/profile/rodg...
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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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Scott A. Carter @scottacarter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You couldn't have waited until Tuesday to post this?
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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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