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Anne Mocko

@themockowl.bsky.social
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scholar, faculty-person, Minnesotan trying hard to make my corner of the world a better place

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 2h
RFK Jr. says that with the threat of bubonic plague people should check with their barbers to have their humors checked.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have a question about this math
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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huge props to the headline writers at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm really sad about the death of one of my favorite wikipedia editors so here's a thread of some of the greatest articles he wrote
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c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Losing my mind while doing some research for my creature design lecture that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog. Like there has gotta be a fable where the maned wolf took all the leggie from its cousin
Maned wolfBush dog
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
CHOTINER: and when you're in water you PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right. CHOTINER: And this is because PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Introvert at party meme with pontiff regalia
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GEFILTE PHISHING
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Instead of Harry Potter, it's important to show your kids Life of Brian. Children need to know that they are not That Guy
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this seems bad
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john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Chicago sewer oil slick 🟩🟨🟦🟧 📷 2021 #ManholeCoverMonday
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Always wondered what he'd do after retiring from Deep Space 9
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This puts the current pace of US budget deficits into perspective. @eddyelfenbein.bsky.social
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Anne Mocko @themockowl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Love this thread as an antidote to originalism (and maybe also to the way the SC has been wielding the major questions doctrine?)
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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Four baselines for academic conference attendance: 1) keep to your allocated speaking time. 2) everyone is clever; stand out by being warm & kind. 3) be interested in everyone equally - from postgrad to Prof to conference administrator to catering & hotel staff. 4) in Q&A, ask an actual question.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
LITERALLY WHEEZING
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29/07/2026
"Helping working people to afford lives of joy” This is absolutely why Mamdani is succeeding in New York and is so beloved.
As Mamdani said on his ninth day in office, his agenda is not simply about curbing the city's most urgent crises, but also includes helping "working people to afford lives of joy." That includes an intentional, visible effort to make many smaller-scale improvements to quality of life in the city. And it also includes efforts by the mayor himself to show up in the places where New Yorkers let loose and celebrate side-by-side with them.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Still thinking about genderfluid avocados
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I looked up the actual ages of a number of people described by nineteenth-century journalists as "elderly" today, and they ranged from 80 to... 46. 💀
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Zephyrus ✨🌻☀️ 🐺🏳️‍🌈 🐻🧸 @noblewolf8x.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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al-boo @captainacabairbud.myatproto.social · 12/07/2026
correct you if you’re wrong?? bitch this is the internet i’ll correct you even if youre right
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Anne Mocko @themockowl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Did my teenager write this skeet
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 10/07/2026
Don't let copaganda fool you — police violence is not tied to their safety. In 2025, the vast majority of killings began with police responding to suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported.
Screenshot of chart showing how police killings in 2025 began. 680 were suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported. 112 were traffic violations. 84 were unknown.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In the comments someone says that Ben Franklin begged off the job of writing the document because he didn't want to have to deal with the editing process and I have never in my life found a Founding Father quite so relatable.
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bleddwgan @radekllundain.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It's very much this
Ben Rosen
@ben_rosen
FOUNDING FATHER: we must always have an electoral college and 2 senators per state
ME: ok but what if 40 million people live in california
FOUNDING FATHER (spits out tea prepared by a slave): there's HOW many people in WHAT
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J.J. @jjfromkansas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Exit light Enter night Take my hand Morocco beat the Netherlands
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
My dear lord. lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...
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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/06/2026
Here is where everyone should file a comment against what is effectively an OMB power grab. Wildly distorts the balance of powers. www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...
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Regulations.gov
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026
currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals
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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Enjoy the Rave cover of AFTER REVIEW PARAGUAY 🇵🇾 NUMBER 10 COVERED HUS MOUTH DECISION IS RED CARD www.instagram.com/reel/DZ7LYZ8...
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas
Britannica page on algae
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/05/2026
we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
DEVELOPING: Rob Lowe’s band from St. Elmo’s Fire has withdrawn from President Trump’s America 250 celebration.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 23/05/2026
This war could’ve been an email
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Due to a worsening economic outlook, renowned Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne has been downgraded to BBB+ Milne
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
How your email finds me
Screaming ceramic head with wild hair.
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 05/05/2026
LONGLEGS 2: LONGER LEGS LONGLEGS 3: EVEN LONGER LEGS LONGLEGS 4: BOY HOWDY ARE THOSE SOME LONG LONG LEGS
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles
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