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@sinajo.bsky.social
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Feminist theorist, urban studies/critical geography afficionado, teacher, writer, renter, nerd. Assoc Prof of WGS at LMU. All opinions my own, yadda yadda.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: 
Using Generative AI?
You’re prompting with Hitler!
GenAI is a Fascist Project!
Try using your brain instead
Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
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rob cham! @robcham.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
DIY > AI
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 11h
This is exactly it. Melinda Cooper argues in her essay ‘Epstein Family Values’ that the tech billionaires want to create a world of servants so that they can play the masters. Some of us will be playthings, some helpmeets to reproduce the master race. Useful, or abandoned. We need a better future.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just can’t get enough White Sox/ Pope content. Lord, I have seen what you’ve done for Villanova
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Forbes @forbes.com · 28/09/2026
The company’s announcement of a new AI safety system comes amid its billionaire CEO’s rejection of AI slowdown and regulation pushes.
forbes.com
Nvidia Launches New Safety Platform, Says It Can Prevent AI Agents From Going Rogue
The company’s announcement of a new AI safety system comes amid its billionaire CEO’s rejection of AI slowdown and regulation pushes.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bring back shame, combat vice signaling
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is in part a Project 2025 goal to push women out of higher education, by eliminating federal loan support for degrees that tend to graduate majority women students.
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 27/09/2026
I think choosing Texas should be left up to the states
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The White Sox have to retire Munetaka Murakami's number immediately. This is the greatest interview of all time.
youtube.com
Murakami loving his first clubhouse celebration 😂
YouTube video by Bleacher Report
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This genuinely made me laugh out loud today
HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This conversation with Timnit Gebru was so hugely insightful. It really helped me to understand the eschatological, ‘effective altruism’ side of the AI delusion as a form of eugenics.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s amazing how the media cooperates to make some issues salient and completely ignores others. We went from North Carolina being protested against for an anti-trans bathroom bill in 2016 to now every politician being asked their position on a dozen or so athletes in ALL of K-16.
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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Look, Homer!
There's that bird you like to argue with.
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This thread really did help things snap into focus. And now whenever I hear one of these weirdos speak, all I hear is ‘Aaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeeee’
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
"Defund the police" in action
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I joined Bluesky to bully @harvilla.bsky.social into devoting an episode of 60 Songs That Explain the 90s: the 2000s to Songs:Ohia’s Farewell Transmission
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wish we could just forget 9/11. It would be better if we could. But we live in the world that the global war on terror has created, a machine that manufactures endless war through genocidal lies.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s hard to judge such things but the firing of the Stars and Stripes EIC is a huge scandal, or should be.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.
forever-wars.com
Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This man won his primary by 30 points.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."
The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It always seems like it can't be true, but it is: American businesses often pay more to try to defeat a union drive or contract negotiation that they would if they recognized the union and agreed to better pay and benefits prospect.org/2026/09/08/u...
prospect.org
How Much Do Union-Busting Campaigns Cost? - The American Prospect
Is your boss making you sit through anti-union propaganda meetings? It turns out those are pricey.
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The first week of this semester has TRIED ME. As my late theater director, Mr. Charles Holmond, used to say, Lord Jesus give me strength (my students are perfect angels, however; but ye gods the proliferation of all the things that get in the way of the real job!)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
two panel animated meme with left panel showing a character dialing on a phone (meme edit has added "Gender Studies" to the above the number pad) and right panel showing a stone faced animated character with their phone to their ear
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
resegregation www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
nytimes.com
Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Did not expect to an encounter a lengthy interpretation of Simone de Beauvoir in this Heritage Foundation report. I mean it’s bonkers wrong, but happy Monday everyone, everything is gender now
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I am once again a proud Hoosier
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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cool molly @rainforests.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
mood
little death from camp miasma if he was in happy days
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2026
Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its advertising is focused on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors. The campaign never explicitly states it would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved 2 years ago.
propublica.org
Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment
Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
More and more compelled by Michelle Goldberg’s claim that Trump is really more a first lady than a president (perhaps an indictment of what we confine a first lady to, but nonetheless!)
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“The Ohio Immigrant Alliance report observes that abuse close to the border, long tolerated but often obscure, is now visibly on display in towns and cities throughout the interior of the country. "It's as if the Border Patrol is passing on the cycle of abuse to its baby brother.”
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After Alex Pretti was shot while peacefully witnessing during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the US government did not investigate his murder; they investigated groups that were supporting efforts to witness and document, calling them agitators. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
nytimes.com
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
With our whole chests, humanists!
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A must-read from M Gessen, on the quotidian fascism experienced by trans people in Kansas, and how they care for each other, fight back, and flee.
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If anything, the reactionary centrist response to ‘woke 1’ was a lesson in what follows from sentimentality, as James Baldwin’s critique of it: “Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel… 1/
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Me, waking up to “woke 1” discourse
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Nicole Murphy... told me that nobody asked her whether she wanted to vote during the 2024 presidential election, when she was in prison. “Are we not still people? Why wasn’t I asked? It felt like your voice was completely silenced in there.” Really fantastic reporting from Bolts.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
😑 this is in no way accidental
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
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sinajo.bsky.social @sinajo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is totally bonkers overreach from Vandy’s BOT, an expression of direct political control over the university
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