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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the framing of the issue (women/pantyhose and men/cigarettes) is just evidence of a wistful nostalgia for "better times" in which women could be freely sexually harassed without repercussion and men could do manly masculine things without being told no. the whistle is so high pitch.

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wrote about Aetna's denial of life-saving, surgeon-recommended IJVC decompression surgery, a decision upheld in a peer-to-peer with a medical director (likely from an unrelated field): tinyurl.com/2k3w6ubw Please share widely 🙏🏾 #DisabilityBSky #NEISVoid #MedBSky

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Aetna Denies Life-Saving, Physician-Recommended Surgery, Surprising Exactly No One

A few weeks ago, I shared that, after an exhausting 3 years of searching for a diagnosis during which my quality of life and capacities rapidly deteriorated, I was finally diagnosed with bilateral int...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i'm thinking we, as a species, lost the plot. don't know where. but if we're talking about AI rights while the rights of trans people, pregnant people, immigrants, and Black and brown people are daily eroded, we messed up somewhere.

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Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights

Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm?

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I see the GG > alt-right > GG pipeline is a complete circle now.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have done a lot of productive things over the past few weeks (so much writing), but I am most proud of what I did today: I unloaded my 55lb wheelchair on my own. Be afraid, for I've almost regained total independence and the menace I am will not be contained (since I can't load myself yet).

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Grim grim grim. An obscure academic appointment that Cambridge University made into national news to congratulate themselves, thus making the later plagiarism scandal into a public trial of Black scholarship, possibly now resulting in the death of a father of two.

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

as an ambulatory wheelchair user and faculty member, the dissonance between the hard push for Title II digital compliance and the reality of navigating campus spaces is sometimes difficult to manage. especially when people complain "why do we need to do this work for just a few people?"

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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Call for Chapters: Femininities in Video Games Edited by Dr Stephanie Harkin (RMIT University) & Heather Blakey (University of Western Australia) Palgrave Macmillan femininityinvideogames.my.canva.site

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I will never choose to affiliate with @ncte.org, given the absolutely disgraceful way they have chosen to dissolve CCCC, a 70+ year organization central to the discipline of writing and literacy studies. I am so disappointed in the NCTE leadership. May they come to view their actions with horror.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This month is the 36th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and it reminds me that the ADA could not be passed today. It probably couldn’t get a vote in committee today.

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."

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CCCC EC Quick Response July 23

Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...

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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

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Mothership @mothership.blog · 19/03/2026

"After weeks of frustrating research, I found one brace that got me back to not just playing games again but also mending my own clothes and cooking, too." -- @nicoleclark.bsky.social is back on the site today to wax poetic about the thumb brace that let her play Silksong buff.ly/JhYnxZU

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A thumb brace has let me play games pain-free for the first time in years

Finally, I have achieved my fitness goals. My thumbs grow buffer by the day.

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

alright, which academic is doing the work on Gamer identity and prediction (gambling) sites, with probable intersections with capital and meritocracy?

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I regret not buying a house with a basement. I was told tornadoes don't happen here; they go around. Then last year (6 months after moving here) a tornado went through the city. I didn't think my storm anxiety could get worse. Anyway, I just got a quote for an above ground shelter for my garage...

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below.

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

having secret beef with someone on the other side of the world who doesn't know that such passionate disagreement exists.

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I have a syllabus to write and some drafting to do, but I want to leave this somewhere so it's out of my head and in the ether: The US administration is playing a video game. They are mixing real war footage with game footage to normalize equating loss of life with loss of pixels.

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I just published an article on this very issue with @saffista.bsky.social. Mixing real footage with game footage and hyperealistic graphics presents a very real problem for understanding not just history, but immediate events. Article here (or by DM): doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2025-0109

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The Truth(iness) is a Lie

Article The Truth(iness) is a Lie was published on December 1, 2025 in the journal Digital Culture & Society (volume 11, issue 1).

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I look forward to @rafaelfajardo.bsky.social's sketches every year. ❤️ 🎮

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week, I attended a workshop on creating a uni-wide GAI literacy requirement (I'm the squeaky wheel). One of the participants brought up ethics, including environmental consequences for the Colorado River. A man behind me started heckling; he was sick of hearing about the Colorado River.

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

If you're interested in Call of Duty, the Cold War, or how song lyrics can be rhetorical framing devices for arguments -- please check out our latest piece! (and message me if you have trouble finding it and I can help)

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✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️🖋️ @saffista.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Last year @toskakoshka.bsky.social and I wrote a bad ass piece on historical revisionism through Call of Duty paratexts and its out(-ish) in the latest issue of of *Digital Culture & Society*. If you're an academic with library access please go download it!

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...

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Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence

YouTube video by People Make Games

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

At 9:45am, I texted a friend a question: Is it too early for Mountain Dew? She told me it wasn't. This exchange has happened every couple of months for eight years (industry besties). Not sure I believe her, but she gives me the confidence to have Mountain Dew before noon (breaking rules).

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Keegan Lannon @keeganlannon.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I don't know. I've been teaching since 2006 and I have never seen someone pretend to be disabled to get accommodations. I mean that literally: I cannot think of a single instance where someone was trying to game the system.

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Understanding Generative AI: A Primer for College Writers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer: Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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tristanwalsh.bsky.social @tristanwalsh.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

What an insult to all Alaska. This is outrageous.

A screenshot of the ADN story with highlighted text quoting an anonymous EPA spokesperson: "A spokesperson for the federal Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday defended the decision, saying "due to the proactive cancellation of this grant, $20 million of hardworking US tax dollars are currently sitting in the U.S. treasury instead of swept into the Kuskokwim River."

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 07/10/2025

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/10/2025

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Submit a Claim

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Excited to announce that University of Tennessee at Martin is hiring a TT faculty member! Specialty is Prof/Tech Writing, and teaching first-year comp is also expected. bit.ly/UTM-PTW-AY26TT. Priority deadline is Nov 3rd. I'm Search Chair, so let me know if you have questions. #techcomm #rhetcomp

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Assistant Professor of English

The Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages at University of Tennessee at Martin invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor with a specialization in composition and profess...

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

not to make it a competition, but I've been on the phone for an hour (so far) with the drug manufacturer, insurance, and the specialty pharmacy trying to get my monthly dose of way-too-expensive-MS-disease-modifying-drug. how's your healthcare going?

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a black cat is holding a pair of scissors in its paws and says `` well '' .

Alt: Gif of a black cat filing its claws with the caption, "Well..."

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

You can use this tool to find out just how much funding your local district (or any district in the country) will be losing in the new federal budget: "DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding." public.tableau.com/app/profile/... #EduSky #EdChat

HOW MUCH WILL YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT LOSE?
Federal budget cuts to public education will eliminate afterschool and summer programs, arts and technology classes, teachers, emergency preparedness, mental health services, and more.

Search for your state and school district to see how much your child’s education will be impacted.

DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding.

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

All the punitive deplatformization & surveillance that gamers egged on against hot tub/"egirl"/OF streamers is a rehearsal for attacking that freedoms of expression that YOU love, sooner than later

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

if you read one thing about higher ed or tech or venture capital this week, make it this theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/how-ventur...

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How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships

You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I interviewed Kishonna Gray for _Historiographies of Game Studies: What it Has Been, What it Could Be_. It was published today and I'm so excited to see it in print! This book contains 31 chapters of awesome scholarship *and* it's open access. So... >>> punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

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Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:

rollingstone.com

Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler'

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'

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