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@somuchforthestate.bsky.social
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He/him. Assoc Prof of writing, rhetoric, and global studies @ UM-Dearborn. Likes cats & games. Campus AAUP chapter secretary See recent article on human rights and corporate violence in Tech Comm Quarterly: doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2024.23949…

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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 23h
A worthy endeavor for a crucial field: gofund.me/8610d9560
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Donate to Help the Undefeated CCCC Chairs and Members Unite, organized by Vay Young
The undefeated CCCC group is a coalition of CCCC chairs and members who ha… Vay Young needs your support for Help the Undefeated CCCC Chairs and Members Unite
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rough week w this guy and we had to take him to emergency care and he’s there at least one night and they just sent us this 😭😭😭😭
Orange cat with the caption goodnight from sweet cooper
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
tumblr post:
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Aug 31, 2023
Every time some fash posts about Real Art vs
Duchamp's Fountain it's like lol that urinal has been kicking your ass for a hundred years

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Marcel Duchamp kicked the bucket 55 slutty, slutty years ago and you can't get him out of your head.
You're half as old as he is dead and you are worshiping at his altar, you are drinking his piss. He won.
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Resemblances are important
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Took both cats to a groomer today. The fearless orange monster apparently gets motion sickness. The drive was 25 minutes. He is now unhappy with his shaved butt. This is a before picture
Big orange cat lying down on a blue rug
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 28/09/2026
Our next class will meet tomorrow, Tuesday September 29th at 4:15 pm [ET]. when we will discuss the Story of Capital Chapters 4 and 5, with a particular emphasis on Chapter 5, "The Falling Rate and Rising Mass of Profit".
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wow. In my brief stay at Oxford they made me swear an oath to respect the collection and it was very sacred and formal and here we go
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Australia is about to co-host COP31 in Turkey but Australia isn't really talking about climate change. To help fix this, Lyndal and I arranged this talk about why the biggest threat to the human species remains the biggest story going. When: 6pm, 29 September. How: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Lyndal Rowlands and Royce Kurmelovs talk climate journalism and COP31. Riot starts Tuesday, 29 September at 6pm. Registration required.
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hate proposal writing it all kinds the most. I would honestly rather write an assessment report for the Dean to ignore, it’s that bad
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 14/09/2026
Happy Birthday to Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I, published on 14 September 1867. I've taught Marx's Capital every year since 1971. My new free virtual course, The Story of Capital, meets tomorrow, Tuesday, September 15th at 4:15 pm [ET].
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sunny day real estate during the football broadcast? And le tigre in a Starbucks commercial? Weird
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wasn’t this the AI company the Pope was hanging out with?? Or was that a different one lol
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The state of exception
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/09/2026
AI Strategist Suggests Calling Data Centers ‘Computer Parties’ theonion.com/ai-strategist-suggests…
AI Strategist Suggests Calling Data Centers ‘Computer Parties’
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Dr. Vytautas Malesh but Spooky for October @vytau.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I would comment here on the shifted balance of power in academia away from professors and towards administrators, who are very corporate-friendly. Profs increasingly seen as quaint, old-fashioned relics with "unrealistic" ideas. It is, as you say, depressing. Ushering students into Plato's cave.
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Great - saw some Democrats for Rogers when passing through Huntington Woods. Prob part of that blue no matter who contingent. Wonderful people really
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Back in print! My text "Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?" is available again in its hand-stamped and dated booklet version. Still only $3.00. Buy copies for your students, or instructors who should be teaching about what it means to self-publish in the US in 2026. halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...
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Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?
This publication was prompted by an invitation from Mariame Kaba to join her in a discussion titled: Why Make Zines in 2025: Information Control Under Fascism
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
He could start by making Copilot something you can turn off.
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...
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How Many University Vice-Chancellors Does It Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?
“One Vice-Chancellor for Administration and Finance to commission a feasibility study. One Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Effectiveness to assess the impa...
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Del Griffith's Ecstatic Reaction
Alt: Del Griffith's Ecstatic Reaction
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día de les muertos @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A graph of the top 5 oil companies sharing the bulk of pollution with alt text
A graph titled "Who is respinsible for the climate crisis. Spoiler alert: it's not you." This graph shows the top 5 Oil Giants' contributions of annual metric tons of C02e. Approximate numbers read on the slightly unclear graph that Shell leads with 1.5 billion, then Chevron at 6.75 million, BP (British Petroleum) at 3.75 million, Exxon at 1.25 million and Saudi Aramco right behind at 1 million.
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It's Time For The Left To Have A Conversation That Has Already Happened Multiple Times But I Didn't Care Then
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chrishawn @chrishawn.net · 20/08/2026
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/08/2026
This is genuinely great - thank you, @aft.org! Would love to see a similar statement urging teachers and students to cancel their ChatGPT accounts due to OpenAI's support of ICE! www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/10/1...
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A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions
Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 18/08/2026
An undercover Homeland Security Investigations agent attended an April event in Ann Arbor focused on resistance to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to federal investigative records. via @michiganadvance.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/docu...
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Documents show undercover DHS presence at Ann Arbor ICE resistance event in April
An undercover Homeland Security Investigations agent attended an April event in Ann Arbor focused on resistance to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to federal investigative…
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Good thing I’ve played Destiny 2 more recently than Demons Souls!
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.
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Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists
More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students
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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 09/08/2026
In Japan, Palestine solidarity is connecting punk, feminist, anti-nuclear and anti-colonial movements.
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Punk, BDS, and Manga: How Palestinian Resistance Connected Japan's Fragmented Movements - Untold
Japanese BDS campaigns forced companies to cut weapons ties with Israel. Palestinian solidarity now connects punk, feminist, anti-nuclear, and anti-colonial movements. For activists, the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki makes Palestine's resistance their own
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Oh man @pablo.show love this podcast and just have to say, as a diehard pats fan, I love to see Lombardi under fire. He used to call Joe Flacco “DB Cooper” as if he stole his well-earned contract money, but turns out that the real DB Cooper was Mike all along. Insufferable.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's also important to consider this new feature in context of the recent comments made by the new leader of this platform. He specifically said he wanted to change the reputation of the site as having a progressive vibe. Also, there is already PLENTY of Sports content. Connect the dots, people.
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The CEO of Bluesky Says He Wants Less of a Focus on Liberal Politics (and More Sports)
Some on Bluesky don’t seem to have noticed the “sports” part.
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Reading up on second language writing and AI and the tricky notion of authenticity keeps coming up - and learning that US customs and immigration are using AI to conduct initial screens of applications is um wow just great 🤮
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026
exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The coach salaries alone are a travesty. At UM the guy who had the same name as me made 1 million a year and he wasn’t even top dog. Was praying for a payroll mix up!
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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's syllabus season: perhaps you are looking to talk with your students about how the work of study in the university is (and has long been) in jeopardy? May I offer for your consideration UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS, a book that historicizes many dimensions of the present attacks on higher ed.
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University Keywords
How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles.University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original unders...
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Not gonna be playing any EA games again www.rockpapershotgun.com/ea-have-gone...
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EA have gone private, as Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment groups complete their $55 billion acquisition
The deal was announced last September.
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
But where do the preferences come from? Income stagnation? I guess we’ll never know
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 31/07/2026
"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
Opening page of the Transactions article 'On Detail in Historical Writing' by Joe Moran. 

Full abstract: "This Comment considers the role of detail in historical writing, inflected through my own experience of writing ‘trade’ books for a general rather than specialist readership. I argue for the value of the detail that is slightly recalcitrant, that is more than just flesh on the bones of an argument or evidence marshalled to make a point. Detail is itself a kind of argument and thus, since beauty and elegance in writing derive from economy, a way of making a point without belabouring it. The gratuitous fact can be seductive, suggesting that the world has a randomness and overabundance that can't easily be rounded up into a dataset. Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience. They correct our tendency to fixate on one story, to focus on the eventful at the expense of the marginal, and to invent a false unity of experience that erases social differences. With their obdurate specificity, they can shatter our presumptions about the past. I explore these ideas with reference to modern literature (Flaubert, Chekhov), the Mass-Observation archive and examples from my own work in contemporary cultural history and family history."
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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · 31/07/2026
#ERSBookReview 📕 Unwelcome Shores is an important study that refuses the disciplinary division between refugee scholarship and the sociology of race and immigration. @rutgersupress.bsky.social Read review by Jake Watson here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If we were really “smart sizing,” we’d start chopping at the top. Today’s lesson in higher ed corporate self help discourse 👍🏼
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/07/2026
Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary theonion.com/teacher-required-to-pr…
Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Food should be free. Taxes could go to basic necessities instead of - oh I don’t know - weapons of mass destruction, oil subsidies, and tax breaks for wealth hoarders 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/07/2026
The U.N.'s migration agency is warning that criminal networks have been trafficking hundreds of thousands of people — many of them educated English speakers — to work in online scam centers, and the caseload is growing. to.pbs.org/3ThpVYv
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Criminal gangs increasingly lure victims to work in online scam centers, UN migration agency warns
Once brought in, they often get locked up, have their identity documents seized, and forced through violence, threats and "debt bondage" to participate in the online scams.
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dylan @pinkponysub.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I want 4 day work weeks, free universal healthcare, and a livable wage to meet my basic needs!!
Anne Hathaway as Penelope in her soon to be Oscar winning performance screaming I want odysseys in the odyssey 2026
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So much for the state 🤷🏽‍♂️ @somuchforthestate.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
That’s 2 cccc conferences in Milwaukee that have been ruined or canceled. My favorite city and second home. NCTE is who we thought they were when they refused to support Palestine many years ago
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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
More on @ncte.org’s betrayal of its membership and mission by dissolving CCCC: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
insidehighered.com
NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association
The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...
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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It's wild because comp is the most widely offered course at any university across the nation & many faculty across all English fields teach comp more than they teach in their expertise. 1000s of people who don't even study comp rely on the CCCCs for resources and conversations abt teaching writing.
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