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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈

@thedukewindsor.bsky.social
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He/him/his. PhD in Rhetoric and Political Communication. Autistic and very gay. Coffee drinker, cat lady, bourbon connoisseur, university educator, Star Trek enjoyer, Straw Hat Pirate, etc.

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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
On occasion, I check my Google Scholar profile (yeah, yeah, we all get the occasional narcissistic act). This time I checked and was honored to be heavily featured in a MA student’s thesis. It’s a surreal feeling to this day, being a published author and seeing my work positively influencing others!
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
mfw facebook experiences a catastrophic service disruption
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Genie from Aladdin Says 'I'm Free!'
Alt: Genie from Aladdin Says 'I'm Free!'
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Alan Vravl II @vravl.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Today's watch!
Summer Wars poster
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
literally said “oh my god” aloud when We Bury the Dead unveiled this look for Brenton Thwaites. I mean look at him. Christ. 😍
Actor Brenton Thwaites as Clay in the movie, “We Bury the Dead”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
three goddamn days later I got this old 11” MacBook Air I bought as a toy to run Ubuntu 22.04. what an ordeal.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
If you have a platform you can use your platform.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I’ve been playing with what has been hailed as one of the most user friendly Linux distros for hours now and can’t get basic functionality. TBH I see why it’s not widely adopted.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Carrots, a dry burger patty, and what the fuck is that?
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
pros for having a naturally oily face: natural sun protection and looking years younger than I actually am my entire life cons: having regular and cystic acne like a fucking teenager for my entire life a Faustian bargain, to be sure
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
lol, lmao even
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a man in a hat is holding a lollipop
Alt: Jd Vance’s face superimposed on a large dancing child holding a lollipop
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
hallelujah, he took Pakistan's offer
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
For a man so concerned about getting into heaven, he really is doing his goddamnedest to ensure he burns in hell
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We’re really about to witness war crimes committed on live national television, aren’t we?
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
the psychic damage of being online and aware this morning is staggering
four panel comic. 
panel one: a cartoon man addresses a brain: “hey Brain how’s it goin?”
panel two: the brain is obscured by many many black scratchy lines, making it look like an evil tumbleweed 
panel three: the man takes this in silently
panel four:man: “yea”
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is openly threatening genocide and we're just supposed to go about our daily lives like nothing is fucking wrong? www.cnn.com/2026/04/07/w...
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Live updates: Trump threatens ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ ahead of his Iran deadline | CNN
Trump’s warning comes ahead of his 8 p.m. ET deadline for Iran to make a deal, as the US also struck military targets on Iran’s strategic Kharg Island. Follow live news updates.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
why has half the fucking internet become unusable without adblocking software
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
thinking about the time a month ago when I hexed my abusive ex from afar by singing Silver Springs at karaoke on the anniversary of me leaving him and the entire bar joined in to help it really does take a community 🥹
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Star Trek has a way of bringing me to emotional and psychological catharsis at the exact moment I need it. I'll forever be grateful for this series.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Reading Derrida currently and if I get sent to hell, this is what Satan will have me doing for all eternity. Christ.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
welp lmao
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I am displeased to report I am reaching burnout while dealing with neurotypical society. That an entire organization's or society's or family's culture can be run on assumption alone is utterly bizarre to me.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm curious about when paragraph indentations became passé. Genuinely not trying to be snarky here; I'm just struck by how many students simply don't include them anymore when writing in essay format.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
interview fit check
Daniel’s posed for a selfie. The photo is mediated through his MacBook screen, where he’s wearing a suit jacket, button down shirt, and a manually tied bow tie.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I came in with absolutely no expectations for Star Trek’s Starfleet Academy but each and every episode they surpass them entirely. Particularly, episode 5’s Series Acclimation MIL was such an endearing, insightful, and above all loving tribute to DS9. I’ve been in tears since.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
new grindr profile pic lmfaoooo
Daniel posing for a mirror selfie. He’s showing off the new haircut. There’s a Pikachu plushie in the top left corner he also emphasizes.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
new grindr profile pic lmfaoooo
Daniel posing for a mirror selfie. He’s showing off the new haircut. There’s a Pikachu plushie in the top left corner he also emphasizes.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
So, we’re absolutely watching live as Western capitalist hegemony dies an agonizing death by a thousand Epstein Files drops, right? Can we just get this shit over with so we can confront whatever new horrors await us afterward?
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
new haircut what’s up
Daniel sits in a chair and holds up a peace sign. He’s showing off his haircut that is much shorter than it used to be.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
There’s nothing like the AuDHD urge to catastrophize a task you have to do to such a degree that it paralyzes you for days …only for the task to take twenty minutes to complete.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
toxic top energy to send a man your address for a hookup and then ask him to buy you a goddamn vape on the way over without even offering to pay back
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I wonder if this will be the week that will finally herald @jaketapper.bsky.social’s breathless, continuing, and book-length coverage of the current president’s obvious cognitive decline
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
My legs are rubber and my body is dehydrated, but I had the time of my life ringing in the new year living out a gogo boy fantasy I never knew I had. Happy New Year, y’all. It only goes up from here!
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Revisiting Neon Trees’s Picture Show after many, many years and suddenly I remembered why I had a MASSIVE crush on Tyler Glenn when this album came out
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I don’t post much, but I need to get this one on the public record. I got groped at my workplace, Ulta Cosmetics, and it exposed a nasty culture of negligence.
Image of text. Text reads, Okay, so, story time. The narrative that follows has been the singularly most invasive, disrespectful, and grotesque professional experience of my life. It’s made me realize why people who have experienced what I have never come forward. But, I realized that the only entities who benefit from my public silence are the person who sexually harassed me and Ulta, the company where it happened. 

On November 9th, I was groped by a coworker. She had no business touching me where she did, nor lingering there an uncomfortable amount of time. This occurred on camera and in front of witnesses. 

I gave a statement to one manager for informational purposes that next day. I then amended it into a formal grievance the day after that. I gave my amended statement to my direct report manager, not making the connection that she’s related to the person who groped me. Image of text. Text reads, The issue, according to Ulta, is “resolved.” The (now former) coworker has been fired, a fact I learned only after repeated inquiries to management, HR, and the district manager.

But there’s more to it than that. The manager was directly involved in taking the statement from me—and her relative. This constituted a clear conflict of interest, one which went unreported by the district manager’s own admission. 

A conflict of interest, interestingly, explains why the process took nearly a month to unfold, why the accused was made aware of the accusation immediately, why she was permitted to work with me again and repeatedly request to talk with me off the record, and why no other witness statements were immediately taken. It also explains the disrespect that manager, my direct report, has shown to me and others in the interim.

A conflict of interest doesn’t explain why I’ve been condescended to by my Human Resources representative, all the “miscommunication” from management of all levels, and why I’ve had to claw the miniscule scraps of information that I have been able to only through vociferous, repetitive, and sometimes confrontational self-advocacy.Image of text. Text reads, It also doesn’t explain nor resolve the humiliation of repeatedly baring this vulnerability to so many strangers. On this point, for those of us who are mandatory reporters, your obligation to report has been satisfied. The bitter and cruel irony is that I had to fundamentally mandatory report myself. My institution, one which pays me a wage so low I need this second job to keep my rent paid, immediately closed the book on it. Just today, too, I had to file a Worker’s Comp claim and bare my soul once again. 

Finally, it doesn’t explain nor resolve Ulta’s decision to have her still be my direct report manager. The issue, its reps feel, has been satisfactorily resolved. 

Obviously, I don’t share the sentiment. A stern talking to doesn’t undo the culture of negligence that led to me getting groped in the first place. 

So, I guess I’m baring my soul once again. One final time. But I’m doing so this last time to get it on the record, to get how utterly infuriated I am about this whole thing on the record, and emphasize once again that the only people who benefit from your silence are the perpetrators of wrongdoing against you.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 28/11/2025
🙏🙏🙏 Thanks to all helping to spread the word! 🙏🙏🙏
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Chris ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴 @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Sometimes, it really is!
A series of 3 tumblr posts from user willowcrowned:

1. the secret to life is to always use more spinach and less rice than you think you'll need

2. the second secret to life is that fresh air warm sun and a cup of tea will make your problems small enough to start handling

3. the third secret to life is that violence sometimes really is the answer
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Online teaching in the age of AI makes me want to quit teaching. Wading through a sea of ChatGPT slop is so goddamned frustrating.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Buckle up, y'all. We're about to be confronted with a great deal of really dark, really disturbing shit about prominent members of Western society.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: no celebrity feud will ever be resolved as powerfully as resigning your lead guitarist to playing the solo on his own diss track the veritable cuck chair of music: Silver Springs
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a woman is singing into a microphone while sitting on a stage .
Alt: Stevie Knicks is singing into a microphone while performing Silver Springs, looking directly at lead guitarist Lindsay Buckingham who is also featured playing a guitar
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
There’s a slight pink haze in the darkness tonight here in Kentucky, one which brightens when photographed
A photo of tonight’s aurora visible from Kentucky. There’s a slight pink haze. in the foreground is a graveyard with a one way sign prominently featured.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
breathing a sigh of relief. Fuck Kim Davis. apnews.com/article/supr...
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Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Taking into account the moral abomination for which they are responsible, it is also important to remember that any society is three missed meals from chaos. That is all.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Congressional Republicans and the Republican sitting President of the United States are allowing millions of people to starve as part of their political brinksmanship.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Congressional Republicans and the Republican sitting President of the United States are allowing millions of people to starve as part of their political brinksmanship.
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
what even is this fucking hair
Photo of Donald Trump speaking. His hair is a mess, it’s peaked on one side and valleyed on another
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
icons ✨💖
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Daniel Duke Windsor, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @thedukewindsor.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I defy you to tell me a funnier recurring bit than the mole from Goldmember
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a pixelated image of a man with a black spot on his face
Alt: a gif of a man with a mole on his face taken from Austin Powers Goldmember. The character Austin Powers says, “Mole”
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