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Ashley Reed @thematterhorn.bsky.social · 40m

I know this makes me sound like a starry-eyed naif, but this is a false choice. Everyone should be able to go to college if they want to. Bricklayers should get to read Plato, learn advanced math, take a dance class, work in a lab, study abroad

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 8h

The @aaup.org should consider adding something about what the epistemic commitments of public higher education should be and what research infrastructure / funding distribution should look like to their excellent plan: www.aaup.org/blueprint-st...

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A Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education

The AAUP and AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms aimed to counter the Trump administration’s far right extremist attacks on American higher education an...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Ashley Reed @thematterhorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is an incredible piece of TV criticism ("Dr Ethan Winter is played by Richard Armitage, in accordance with the scriptures") and I am now feverishly searching my streaming services for this show www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Winter review – Richard Armitage’s new cop drama is as ferociously watchable as it is daft

Sometimes you want prestige drama that roils with nuance and complexity. And sometimes you want Armitage shouting in a cagoule

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Ashley Reed @thematterhorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the wonderful things about studying the nineteenth century is that you can learn lessons about activism, strategy, community, care, and progress from the good (though never perfect) people who came before us

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

I’ve heard three talks in the last couple of months by very prominent skeptics of AI who have all argued that the solution to the problem of AI in education is smaller classes and more teacher/faculty attention. I don’t know how that happens without a massive, massive investment in public education

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Ashley Reed @thematterhorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Carceral solutions rarely fix things but I do think we should have “statutory manslaughter” laws: because of the power differential, the auto driver is always at fault (and liable) for an accident involving injury or death to a pedestrian or cyclist

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We've stolen a lot of young people's lives by telling them they have to be planning A Great Career when they're like 19

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The AI skin does not want anything, it does not have opinions. If it gives a performance, it will be layered over an uncredited human meat puppet. That human will be giving the real performance but the AI skin will be what is named in the press.

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Men In Black: Vincent D'Onofrio as Edgar

ALT: Men In Black: Vincent D'Onofrio as Edgar

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026

Join my team! Help us figure out how to be as careful stewards of today's born-digital archives of state as we've been for physical archives over the last 200 years. Seeking experience in digital archives/collections/preservation, or related cultural heritage work. Due 10/6. Up to $91k.

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Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States

Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Locatio...

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Ashley Reed @thematterhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Got an email today about an interdisciplinary research team at my uni that designs trainings to help elderly people recognize scam calls. Laudable, right, but all those intellectual resources could be directed to other problems if our government simply passed and enforced basic regulations

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In recent cases, it's not that AI somehow "escaped containment" or "went rogue." That's anthropomorphizing at best. It's more like if a Boston Dynamics robot dog nudged open an already open door and walked in.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every half-ass plan for our extinction that they provide just turns me on. No internet, you say? No online banking?? No 2FA to use the bathroom at my job??? Baby I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s. You’re describing my platonic ideal. Extinct me.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I used to make long distance phone calls on a rotary phone. You cannot scare me.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/09/2026

If you have tap water on a large municipal system it is tested more frequently and more aggressively regulated than bottled water. Also you don't have to worry that the bottle is secretly leaking endocrine disruptors into your water.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026

to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees.

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Ashley Reed @thematterhorn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My favorite fun fact about Gloria Steinem is that she was briefly Christian Bale’s stepmother

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 22/08/2026

2026 CFB names thread:

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

White power is totally communist when you think about it as the society-level organization of money and resources for the exclusive privilege and benefit of white men. When they scream about “communism” it is projection.

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

doing a land acknowledgment before starting a game of Catan

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 27/08/2026

"AI literacy" is so vague that using it is actively causing confusion. It can be used to mean any mixture of: - understanding how AI works - knowing that AI can get things wrong - experience in identifying AI mistakes - understanding how AI affects learning - how to use AI products

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Your grandparents would listen to Dolly and then she'd talk about loving drag queens and her gay fans on a talk show. And her love was always framed as genuine, Christian love. A woman of deep faith and immense talent talking about her love for LGBTQ people. It meant so much to me. Still does.

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/08/2026

Students and faculty beaten, expelled, and blackballed for protesting Israel's brutal occupation of Gaza is fine but heaven forfend that a Belgian university gets a bit fed up with little Charlie Spectacles' thoughts about African IQ

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Theatre kid" is tossed around by right-wingers, and I want to say: - I wasn't a theatre kid. - I have a theatre kid, they're great. So are their friends. - If you have a problem with theatre kids you should look into your heart to see why or crawl back into your hole and die. Either's fine by me.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“Silly” is a good way to put it! There were excesses in 2020 but they were mostly low-stakes efforts by well-intentioned people to address real injustices. The excesses of the right during the same era were far more harmful. The reckoning we need now is about how elites lost sight of that.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This one just hugely gives away Galloway’s (and Douthat’s) game. Society has always treated unremarkable white men as very special snowflakes who fail upward. We still do an enormous amount of this. But the problem is that women and POC have taken a few high status jobs and that is very bad.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I am a girl. I like reptiles and horror movies and science fiction and comics and TTRPGs, and for my entire life, every time I have entered a space, I have had to prove that I didn't "steal" it from the person* it rightfully belonged to. (*Boy, then man.)

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Steve Coy @mcleemz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

in The Odyssey a character says “our Age of Bronze is collapsing,” which is an idiotic piece of dialogue but really fun to say in response to, like, a restaurant being sold out of what you were gonna order

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UDJG Life @udjg.life · 23/07/2026

Ai is now why we can’t have nice things. No wonder there is such a push back. Sure would be nice if we had a representative government that could place some guardrails up. From @stephenfollows.com stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...

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What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.

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Ashley Reed @thematterhorn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Das Schreckliche Mädchen (1990)

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

There is a real contradiction between the argument that academia is controlled by the left and the reality that the professors getting fired, denied tenure, blacklisted, and fleeing the country from far-right death threats are almost all, in fact, on the left.

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Ashley Reed @thematterhorn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Wham’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” is such a funny song. Girl snuck out while dude was asleep and he’s like “next time take me with you.” Dude you were ASLEEP. This girl is CHEATING ON YOU

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 18/07/2026

hi this is a really big deal. Chaco Canyon is one of the most important historical sites in North America. the area tribes are extremely opposed to this. please please please comment on this with the BLM. it takes two minutes.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I worked on some research about online sexual violence. We were shocked by how many of the victims found the details of what they experienced on 8chan, in anonymous forums where men bragged and challenged each other to sexual assault.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I think it's pretty simple: Marvel started off very careful to avoid audience fatigue. They hired auteur directors, they made different films feel like different genres, they released new installments at spaced-out intervals, and gradually built to a powerhouse. Then they got greedy.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter

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