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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thats quite an oversight but literally not a single person to catch it because everyone is too busy sending it to own the libs

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Son: when your phone dies does it go to heaven or no? this question was funny because while i appreciated that by "or no" he meant 'do phones have a soul' (or, "is 'dead' in this case a figure of speech?") but my immediate thought to myself was "which of my phones actually *is* burning in hell?"

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"journalists" screaming "this phd title makes me insecure of my reading comprehension and so therefore= not science" Theyve never read the insane titles of physical geography papers and if they have, they afford a degree of "ill take your word for it" that they refuse to grant to critical theorists

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Im so terribly sad to hear about this today

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

being a geographer is great because the other night I was in a bar and found myself in a conversation about map projections and to my chagrin but also my delight many people still misunderstand how those work (or don't work). Thanks to the bartender for lending me an unzested orange!

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What I love about Chicago is that there are still places that Ive (embarrasingly) never been

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

what if commencement speeches just didn't mention AI at all, whether naively or rhetorically... simply don't even mention it? My friend sitting next to me at commencement made a great point: AI discourse is politically impersonal; a safe punch down on the present situation that avoids Gaza and ICE

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Transgender For Everybody! @ktfalvey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Bleach is their all-purpose solution: Covid, swimming pool algae, whatever. Next they'll be trying it on inflation.

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Me to 3yo son: why you got so many questions?? Son: Because I have to know.

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I have a long recurring nightmare wherein I realize in the final week that I went the entire term forgetting to attend a course I signed up for. That dream is continually reified by students I grade who *actually* do this

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Prisons have been closed for less than this. Whitmer needs to demand the resignation of the MDOC director. upnorthlive.com/news/local/t...

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Third death in under a month at Huron Valley women’s prison

YPSILANTI, Mich. - Another woman who was in prison died.

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The problem with this article by @hana-kiros.bsky.social is that it argues that the SBE is worth saving because "squishy squashy" "ridiculous research" is often eventually realized or shown to benefit capital accumulation, austerity or other (ironically) squishy squashy reactionary public policy

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

First time in Toronto was a breeze. Love it. I dont typically endorse comparisons to Chicago but Toronto is the closest. Cant wait to go back next month

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

More quotes from 3 y/o son: *cutting pear for him* Soo dada....are you being a pear "prepara"?

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thefuguetive.bsky.social @thefuguetive.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

how is it possible we have an explicity Whites Only refugee policy and it is a non-story that virtually no elected seems to care or even talk about?

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Explaining horseflies and mosquitos to 3 y/o son, he says "Im like a blood gas station" And I just

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

And now sleeping for 3 days straight

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Yesterday I successfully defended the thing

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Yoni Brande @yonibrande.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

dissertation draft sent to committee

Coraline's dad, sitting at a computer and looking exhausted

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

#BluePower hot off the press! Into the brain you go @stschrader1.bsky.social My dissertation (submitted yesterday) has led me down the rabbit hole of FOP member trusts that are functually but not actually insurance. Where it goes nobody knows

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I dont typically read articles by security think tanks but to the extent that it is true/accurate i found this piece to be very interesting

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

What is going to make university degrees worthless isn’t niche subjects like languages or the entire human past, it’s charging to teach people “content-creator” skills they can learn on the can

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Next up on "Higher Education: AI wasteland" Lol not this student leaving THE CHATBOT'S CAVEATS in the essay

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I always look forward to the honorary geographer speech

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This is college now and we are self-owning ourselves with respect to any possible solutions. AI is a tech bubble but it seems a far more pertinent bubble will be the skillsets of young people in 5-10 years. The "we need to work with AI not against it" ppl will say otherwise but Two separate papers

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A core component of my research questions the invocation of "taxpayer dollars" as a rallying point for human rights organizing. I understand the valence. But can't something just be wrong on its face? Rather than be rearticulated as a cost that is (by design) minimized through economies of scale?

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I actually forgive this person, especially if they read Judge Dred and appreciate the visceral possibility of Mega City One

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"quant poli sci guy with bad takes" is underrepresented in film and long form TV but overrepresented in real life how can we shift the balance

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Rebecca Burns @rebeccaburns.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Minnesota unions are planning another massive action: this time, by teaming up with a new, Twin Cities-wide tenants union calling for a March 1 rent strike. W/ @sarahlazare.bsky.social and @workdaymagazine.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

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Terrorized By ICE, Unable to Pay Rent, Minnesotans Are Getting Ready for a Rent Strike

A tenant organizing push in the Twin Cities has support from labor unions representing more than 25,000 workers.

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This morning the unfathomable happened. A student came to office hours.

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Still thinking about when a student I had recently wrote a whole essay response about how women "suffered" (from "suffrage") before the passage of the 19th amendment, and how quick i was to think at least they didnt use chatgpt for their answer

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Hard power and soft power are actually the same thing, their relative influence kinda just depends on vibes

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

In most cases it has been America's theft from Black people in nearly every category that was influential, and somehow this theft has never stifled still new (yet to be stolen) cultural innovations

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Our current trade policy is a mashup of high school (third attempt) cafeteria politics, ISI dom fetish, and "here's a dollar go buy yourself a star war"

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Grading likely-AI papers is a constant mental battle between "I'm offended that this student thinks (wrongly) that I'm an idiot and that they are benefitting themselves" and "I am sorry but it is above me now, I cannot care that the students are doing this and in fact Higher Ed ensures that they do"

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

One way to judge a society's investments is asking: "what kinds of people and relationships will this investment create?" Sit with this question. Investment in repressive bureaucracies has become so normalized that we are desensitized to how far away from the best parts of humanity it takes us.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

What can you do? If you’re in higher ed, no matter what your position, join a union. If you don’t have one, join the AAUP and try to build a union on your campus. Write publicly, and do not let these scumbags scare you. Silence is what they hope to produce. They want us scared. Thankfully we’re not.

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Had to do a double take at this part

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

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Troy Brundidge 312/802 @teebeegeo.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

My 3 y/o son knows every word of Speed Demon by MJ, even the "shoop!" and i promise you it is the funniest thing you will ever see

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Dylan Rodriguez @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

2/3 Rather, this is to urge collective awareness of the everyday methods of invasive state surveillance and to assure each other that this shit will not intimidate or demobilize, it will only further embolden and activate...

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