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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 11h

Our first family photo. That’s my husband and our new baby boy, Ibsen Jessica Lange.

One gay man on either side of a 1-year old brown/sandy heeler pup named Ibsen Jessica Lange.

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@nigella.bsky.social is perfection on #BritishBakeOff! They’ve found the most wonderful team of four this season.

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To mentor teachers into the profession is such an awesome responsibility. I love it. I love mentorship and what intergenerational partnerships engender.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

Excellent piece by @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social on the weak Left vision for public education. This extends to higher ed; beyond free tuition and full employment, the Left doesn’t have a program of what content people are supposed to get out of college. educationwars.substack.com/p/whats-left...

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What’s Left for Public Education?

The left has no vision for public schools - and that’s a big problem

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kelly Macdonald is a really exceptional actress. She’s just awesome to watch. I respect the choices she makes and how earnest she is in every choice she makes.

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All the notes about how good #Adequate is to folks who read it, though infrequent, are powerfully written. I’m very proud of this collection and @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social for being smart about the things I’m less smart about! Out now at #UtahStateUP

Book cover of Nafís White’s braided art in browns and blues with the white words ADEQUATE: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition and our names on it.

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a gay man with gay voice, these programs are also homophobic in that they force a butcher sound than I’m used to.

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t like going to the gym. I don’t like doing gym things. I don’t go to get healthy. I turn into a brat as I’m getting ready and I audibly sigh when I get out of my car at the gym. I go because I’m am very sedentary and because I can’t stand the idea that I’m paying for something I’m not using.

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Vetoed. It passed CA Congress and this guy said “nah, fuck women, pregnant folks, and folks who need GAC.” To deny abortion and GAC is an unqualified moral failing. To punish those seeking such things is an unqualified moral failing.

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Without oversight and vigilance, corporations will destroy it all. I’m gutted by how much damage was done before they were stopped. And further by how harmful the technology is to our ecosystems.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw a FASCINATING Instagram post about the nuance of getting social media right which used as an example — stick with me — Julia Stiles on this season of “Dancing With the Stars”

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m not sure about “done” but I’ve always framed academic dishonesty as a wound to a relationship when I discuss it with my students. And what is that if not a matter of ethos?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.

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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

After the Civil War, many in Congress invoked education to transform white Southern prejudices & secure republicanism. They abandoned that vision to pursue superficial feelings of reconciliation. We still live with the consequences. Learn more in my book: www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Abse...

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Absence of National Feeling

Before the start of the Civil War, the US Congress seldom took up the question of education, deferring regularly to a tradition of local control. In the period after the war, however, education became...

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think this is a really clear-eyed statement that supports the Q: What does this anti-trans posturing get you? It’s not what politicians think 😑 Also the Q of GAC or trans athletes is such an easy trap to avoid. That so many can’t seem to avoid the trap suggests they don’t want to.

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Introducing the husband to John Carpenter’s #TheyLive. Him: I’m really excited to see where this goes. Me: 🥹

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There used to be a reciprocal, mutually beneficial relationship between the press and the president, but social media broke it. Presidents can easily go around the news filter and speak directly to supporters. And democracy suffers because no one can hold the president accountable.

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have an irrational love of the Physical:100 franchise.

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Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rubio plans to "revoke or reject visas from [those] found to be responsible for...uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination and the incitement of violence against minority racial/ethnic groups in South Africa." Easy enough. Since they aren't happening. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-sout...

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U.S. slaps South Africa with new sanctions due to alleged discrimination against White people

The Trump administration has announced that it will impose travel bans on officials it claims are responsible for discrimination against White people and other minority groups in South Africa.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am suing the NIH. As part of a class action with the ACLU and 16 other plaintiffs, we are challenging the thousands of unlawful grant terminations in an effort to get them all reinstated. Whatever happens, at the very least, no one can say I sat back and watched while they destroyed science.

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Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That there is no plan to reuse materials from no-longer-useful products is a moral and ethical failing. This is what folks think about when we say this world is ending. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says

Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is an important step. It doesn’t get rid of public surveillance as an issue of serious concern but when a major city cancels a corporate contract because that business violated terms of contracts, we should hear about it. That’s the story.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't know if I trust you if you read all these musicians pulling out of Ed Sheeran's tour first and foremost as an act of "solidarity with Macklemore" or even "opposing censorship of artists" instead of profound solidarity w/the people of Palestine. All the statements seem quite clear about this

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Neat article. I particularly like this part: “It is unclear why the myth has endured for so long, but Goriely suspects that the perception of ancient Greece as a supremely knowledgeable and ingenious civilisation is partly to blame.” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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UK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon’s optical illusions

Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#4C27 announcements went out. 4C has always been nerd camp and a place to see my loves from across the country. I’ve been asked to act as a respondent for a panel and host another one. For these reasons I’m going.

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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: AI giants warn their tech could kill us all. Their proposed safety rules could help kill off cheaper competition. Our @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation exposes unproven runaway claims and a looming financial blackhole worth 10% of world GDP 1/20 bylinetimes.com/2026/09/15/b...

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Behind the AI ‘Extinction’ Power Bid: Soaring Costs Could Hit 10% of World GDP

AI firms are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify restrictions on developments by their smaller rivals whilst seeking greater influence over regulation

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The Leadership Conference @civilrightsorg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Millions of eligible Americans aren't registered to vote — and many who think they are may have had their status lapse. Don’t be one of them. Take two minutes today to check. Then let your friends know to check too! nationalvoterregistrationday.org

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Prediction markets are a cynical business.” Stop this, @theguardian.com. The proper frame is “The gambling industry is a cynical business.” Prediction markets for sports (& everything else that uses the term) is gambling. Enter George Carlin & “shell shock” www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

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Sydney Sweeney’s prediction ad is cynical, unhealthy and reveals plenty about modern sports | Jane McManus

The actor’s latest promotion has stirred outrage but will no doubt be good for the prediction markets hoping to lure in young men

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The campaign, for US sports prediction market company Novig, depicts Sweeney in minimal to no clothing while she pretends to play several different sports.” The rebrand of “prediction” from “betting/gambling” is a frame journalist shouldn’t give into. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

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Sydney Sweeney under fire for ‘sexualising women’s sport’ in sports prediction ad

Olympic athletes have come out in force to condemn a sports betting advert featuring actor Sydney Sweeney in various states of undress

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Make it make sense: “Mr. Trump’s 50 percent tariffs were themselves partly retaliation for tariffs Canada imposed last year, after Mr. Trump placed levies of up to 50 percent on Canadian steel, aluminum and autos — a move that violated the free trade agreement between the two countries and Mexico”

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Why Carney Isn’t Rushing Back to the Negotiating Table

Canadians back his tough stance on trade with the U.S. An expert says that support gives him little incentive to reopen talks soon.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thanks for reading my 🧵 on the voluminous discourse on higher ed in the US. I have some (probably obv but am noting anyway) thoughts about the phenomenon of endless reflections on higher ed/ flood of higher ed takes. Why is it different fr reporting and personal essays on other industries? 1/

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’d love to teach a grad seminar called “The Sacred and Profane” that focuses on seemingly unassailable concepts in Rhet comp and those who have pushed against them: (post)Process WAW (& it’s branches)/meaningful writing Improvement Standard English Humanism What else would you include?

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pretty much. Listen for these things.

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dr. amelia chesley @plaidsicle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

look what I made, everyone! plaidsicle.github.io/bad_ideas_ab... mobile display probably needs some work. please feel free to find all the mistakes and areas for improvement in it and send me feedback. we can call this the beta test #fyc #WritingStudies #rhetoric

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Bad Ideas About Writing, Chapter by Chapter

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A propos of nothing? I wish the opening vocal note to “Ombra mai fu” could be held for a real 90 seconds to 4 minutes. It’s maybe one of the best first notes in opera. Literally if Handle wrote nothing but this aria, he’d deserve to be immortal for it.

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dear reader, no he will not. Don’t be fooled by this lie.

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Look. I have a lot of contempt for this US administration. I hope people realize that POTUS can do so so much harm when building a cabinet. Every aspect of US life of is made worse when leaders do not believe in nor follow their institutional charges w humanity, generosity, and intelligence.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Department of Communication at the University of Arkansas is hiring a new Assistant Professor in Communication and Democracy as part of a cluster hire in Democracy and the Public Good! uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex...

Assistant Professor of Communication & Democracy position at the University of Arkansas. Apply by October 10, 2025.

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Timothy Oleksiak @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Now… about about renters protections 🤔

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Texas isn't a red state, it's a non-voting state. Let's change that, Texans! Make a plan to vote early: October 19-30. And tell your friends and family. Please check your voter registration by going to: www.texas.gov/living-in-te...

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