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Tedra Osell

@tedos.bsky.social
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin, “Notes on the House of Bondage”

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 8h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 4h
Fuck this lawless court
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 5h
“A massive, massive investment in public education” needs to be a top message for anyone serious about this country’s future.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if you’re a dude thinking “i’ve never done anything disgusting” (citations needed) then you’ve more than likely sat there quietly while your friend did something disgusting or bragged about doing something disgusting. you cannot absolve yourself.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 20h
What a video
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OMGOMGOMG
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lolololololol I teach hs. White collar work. There is not a single task in my day that isn’t interrupted, usually multiple times. Every important task overlaps with several other important tasks. “Structured, clearly delineated tasks” require context, individuation, knowing the ppl involved.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look, my fridge has fucking labels in it. And clear bins. And I wipe the shelves constantly. Bc we all have adhd and I need to be able to find ingredients where I expect them & the other two ppl in the house just put shit wherever there’s an open space. But this video? Come the fuck on
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fuck the WaPo. I used to love that paper but Bezos has fucking destroyed it
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Megan McArdle's WaPo column celebrating the end of the woke left's ability to "cancel" right-wing voices over their social media posts, while making no mention of @karenattiah.bsky.social's legally enforced reinstatement to the WaPo after being fired for her social media posts, is chef's kiss.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The thing Mamdami is doing that makes the biggest difference? Putting. Time. And. Money. Into. Communications. No one knows wtf you’ve done if you don’t fucking communicate.
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I hope Maya Angelou's estate sues them
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh, get fucked, @wsj.com. Now and forever. 🗃️
A fatuous WSJ editorial titled “The Ph.D. Job Crisis Is a Needed Market Correction.” The dek reads:
“Universities will produce fewer underemployed, overcredentialed and aggrieved young people.”
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Every year we make the case for keeping leaves, branches, & plant stems in your yard. Bugs need them for shelter! That’s not to say you can’t tidy up: rake leaves into garden beds, around trees, or just in a pile out of the way. All we ask is that you #LeaveTheLeaves! 🍂🐝 xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
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Leave the Leaves!
One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Art-i-fic-ial” has four whole syllables. “Su-per” is half that. And it’s just a notch down on the lexical register.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is lovely and represents a mindset I wish we could all get to. Including me.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Flip side: a LOT of ND students struggle with perfectionism and or time blindness. A lot of what I do with my students is emphasize that it’s perfectly ok to turn in work that’s not entirely finished/perfect, that it happens all the time irl
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saving lives for year, on a shoestring
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THIS
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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Waxing gibbous almost full moon (or Harvest Moon) this evening above Fonts Point. Note the people in front of the moon (Photo: Sicco Rood).
Waxing gibbous almost full moon above Fonts Point showing the rugged gullies in the foreground with clouds turning blue pink overhead.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you bring a normal iced coffee to an interview that’s fine but if it’s one of those ridiculous sugared monstrosities from that place we’re supposed to be boycotting that’s a HARD NO
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Go little bug!!
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Excellent advice!
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
YASSSS BROADSHEETS
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Same, Medusa. Same.
A gray cat with an expression of utter exhaustion. One eye is closed. Her other eye is sleepy looking. The ear above the closed eye is curled back with fur sticking out of it like she has bedhead.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
the Court “cannot expect the public to have faith in our judicial system if, without clear explanation, we are consistently greenlighting harmful acts” i continue to think putting KBJ on the Court may be Biden's best decision, no other justice is doin it like her www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Justice Jackson Calls Emergency Docket ‘Potentially Corrosive’
Hours after fielding the Trump administration’s latest emergency application, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave a speech urging the Supreme Court to rethink such requests.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Who do I know in news media that would like a bittersweet human interest story about a rapid response volunteer flying to Peru on her own dime to deliver a cat to a family that was deported. Volunteer is NOT rich. Deported girls hand-raised cat from tiny kitten. Sympathetic characters all around
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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*spins wheel* Clams with *throws dart* hepatitis
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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh this hurts to think of. Utterly life-altering. Wishing him healing and a path back to making music. Not a week goes by when I don’t listen to him. Bittersweetly anticipating his new album (recorded last year but shelved due to his stroke). www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Omg please I can’t any more I am begging
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some days you just need to leave work early and go sit in a park and get yelled at by a scrub jay. Which for some reason is the antidote to all the frustration caused by other humans.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gonna start asking ppl if they are “rely[ing] on his [their] own imagination[s] as a rich and powerful middle-aged white man” because 👩🏼‍🍳😘
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God bless everyone working their asses off to make this happen and make this evil administration and its willing goons actually obey it
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This sounds a LOT like what happens at those “troubled kid boot camp” places that parents hire to kidnap their kids
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
THIS OMG YES
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Omg this is exactly it. Especially in student writing. Fuck feeding kid’s papers into “AI detectors” (which I don’t do anyway bc they’re bs): it’s not hard to say “there’s no argument here”.
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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More of this, please. #solar
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Here’s What California Is Learning From Solar Panels Built Over Irrigation Canals | KQED
California solar panels tower over canals in Turlock, proving to save water, produce clean energy and improve local water quality.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also read this thread. Please.
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Read. the. Whole. Thread.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m watching this thinking damn, their knees
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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