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@skeptibrarian.bsky.social
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Expat-alachian information professional, enjoying West Coast vibes now. ❤️ scholcomm and medlibs the most. Canine chaperone, fiber crafter, and fretter.

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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Turnitin is a scourge at every level of higher education and research, and even before LLM/AIs, it was making most people more ignorant about copying and plagiarism.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cornell expelled students who were protesting genocide in Gaza, but made five of seven guys who gang raped a drugged girl for seven hours write essays. That tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about the morals of that institution.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ok, that made me snort iced tea
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
California delivered a massive win for Trump’s oligarch coalition on the Paramount-WBD merger
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Senegalese college basketball player, Amina Seck, is currently in ICE detention. Seck was travelling with her team to a tournament in New York when she was detained by ICE at Louisville Airport. She has been moved four times since her detention. #wnba eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
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KSU women's basketball player detained by ICE at Louisville airport | Exclusive
Aminata Seck, 26, was detained while traveling as part of Kentucky State University's women's basketball team.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mr C thinks I should be stroking his luxurious ears and not editing my promotion self-assessment, which is due in 24 hours.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They’re going to claim that trace amounts of birth control in drinking water is a public health risk, and then make birth control pills illegal, aren’t they?
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
...any Dem politician who throws trans ppl under the bus, when they have the opportunity to instead MAKE THESE ANTI-TRANS ADS ABOUT ELON MUSK, is an outright coward: bsky.app/profile/bmig...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Listening to Jason Stanley’s Erasing History and now wondering if outcomes would have been different if academia had thought itself susceptible to a Scott Walker.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You know what “misled” means? That information was known and decisions were made to intentionally lead people away from it. It is an active, multi-step form of lying. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...
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After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality
New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Apartment smoke alarm went off randomly at 1 am. Despite a careful check of our space and the outside, anxiety brain means I am waiting for conflagration any second now.
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#qfmft
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Incandescent with rage.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/08/2026
Good News: Gavin Newsom and his lobbyist goons did not have the juice. It looks like California Forever’s shady plots are dead for this session. The people of Solano win again, despite the state’s most powerful leaders siding with the weird billionaire city scheme. This isn’t the end.
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Feeling low tonight that a favorite faculty member, who happened to be an adjunct, wasn’t rehired for the fall. I hate that I have to find out that a colleague won’t be there anymore by checking to see if their email address still works.
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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 27/08/2026
Generative AI didn’t emerge out of nowhere. Its effects and supposed threats can be traced back to the people who developed it. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social joined @parismarx.com to discuss her new book THE RULERS and how tech companies wield their power. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/339_...
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DenizenUnknown @denizenunknown.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton. Her might of a hundred soldiers will live on.
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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Book bans are segregation Scooby snacks. They allow people with no political power to feel power over their neighbors. They allow conservative politicians to say they're 'successful' while they fail at every other meaningful government action. bookriot.com/utah-bans-pu...
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Utah Bans Its 37th Book From All Public Schools
PUSH by Sapphire, published 30 years ago, is the 37th book now banned in all public schools in the state of Utah.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
They want you to become comfortably numb to their death cult The lethal drone attacks by Trump's CIA on innocent Ecuadoran fisherman is one of the worst war crimes from a criminal regime There needs to be justice. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/cia-...
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We need to care about Trump’s CIA murdering fishermen on the high seas | Will Bunch
Reports that CIA drones attacked fishing boats off the Galapagos Islands may be Trump's worst war crime yet.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
people will look back on this era and recognize the destruction of USAID among the most profound stains on America's conscience, and the architects of its destruction as white supremacist perpetrators of mass infant death
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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 13/08/2026
Oh damn it is way worse. Turnitin was trying to make instructors *personally liable* for mistakes made by its faulty AI detector. The entire FAQ is eye-popping. If you're a journalist, download a copy and consider writing about academic surveillance software.. view-su2.highspot.com/viewer/40018...
Screenshot of Turnitin guidance titled “Q23: Am I personally liable for decisions based on a Service Report?” It states that Turnitin disclaims liability for decisions made in reliance on Service Reports and that instructors are “solely and independently responsible” for decisions about students, including placement, performance, academic misconduct, or Service Report contents. Turnitin logo appears at bottom right.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12/08/2026
#OtD 12 Aug 2017 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and 19 injured in a neo-Nazi terror attack in Charlottesville, VA. Heather was one of many protesting a white supremacist rally when a Nazi drove his car deliberately into the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8376...
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Why are people? Had someone donating arts materials to our Makerspace today, who got put out that we didn’t want her ripped, dirty bunny slippers.
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I’m sure it’s only coincidental that the Cal State system has been working hard to close gender studies programs over the past few years.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
WNBA (the org) courted this. They could have nipped this in the bud, but instead they placated anti-trans activists, so now bigots have glomed onto them. If you don't tell them their opinions are vile and are unwelcome, they will destroy you or leech on you forever. just ask amnesty international
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Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Is just rebranding Business Schools, no?
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Why I ride the train: listening to elderly immigrants from Hungary talking to women from Kenya about siestas, seeing horses having a snack 30 feet away, and watching a toddler asleep across her grown up’s lap.
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Such good info here.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
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sandovalsnews @sandovalsnews.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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In California’s wine country, little help for farmworkers facing domestic violence
In Sonoma County, where more than 400 wineries depend on farmworker labor, little is done to reach those workers with information about domestic violence protections and legal aid.
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Banned Library @bannedlibrary.com · 22/07/2026
"This isn’t just a fight over who gets to define library work. It’s a fight over whether the public still has a professionally trained, ethically obligated line of defense for free inquiry and privacy, both of which are foundational to a functioning democracy." Excellent.
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Never used Door Dash, and things like this are why. #dchomerule
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.
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'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
You know what to do, folks!
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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember that there are situations where NOT acting IS a political act. To not speak out is complicity/support. The obstacles to speaking out are psych barriers and we can overcome with tools. @lewan.uk #DefendResearch #StandUpForScience #AcademicSky #HigherEd #ScienceSky
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The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Todd Blanche just testified under oath that Constitutional rights don’t apply to people who are undocumented living in rhe U.S. This is incorrect. Just wrong. The law is clear. Constitutional protections apply to “all persons” within the country’s borders.
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Skeptibrarian @skeptibrarian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Read the CSU's suggested bargaining language. Cool to know they believe librarians (and coaches and counselors) don't deserve academic freedom. And that faculty should avoid controversial topics. That'll work well for counselors treating trans students or librarians buying books on Palestine.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A rapist paid $5.6 million to one of his victims today. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/n...
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E. Jean Carroll Receives $5.6 Million Payment From Trump in Civil Case
A federal jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming Ms. Carroll. He exhausted his appeals last month, prompting a judge to order that the money be paid.
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