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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Medical director at Aetna denied life-saving surgery after a peer to peer with my surgeon where he talked about involving media because my case is that shocking & prognosis that dire. Been a while since I published in NYT or was on PIX11 but I guess its time to start pitching

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm possibly running out of time. In the spirit of leaving evidence behind, and because ad-hoc disclosures are exhausting, here's an abridged, consolidated version of a series of disclosures I've been meaning to write for the past 3 years: vyshalimanivannan.com/schrodingers...

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Schrodinger’s Cat, Or Am I Alive or Dead

I have been existing at the threshold of death for at least the past 3 years. I am frozen with one foot through the door, unable to tell if I’m poised to step backward or forward. I wake up every morn...

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

In today's "U.S. health care as governed by insurance companies is a callous death sentence" news: Aetna out here randomly canceling pre-authorization for critical surgical intervention. (The note suggesting I'm the one who cancelled it was a particularly nice touch.)

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

PSA: ACADEMICS ON THE JOB MARKET STAY AWAY FROM PACE UNIVERSITY ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE BIPOC, DISABLED, AND/OR BELIEVE IN EXPERTISE, TRANSPARENCY, AND TENURE

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

How the actual fuck are we in austerity, bloodbath of faculty and staff cuts that upper admin are oh so sad about, I can't get a course release for a university directorship essential for accreditation, but President Marvin Krislov magically has money for an $80K chauffeur

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We have a Medicaid #FrailAndFurious update for you! We've outlined the key facts you need to know about the new guidelines releases from CMS, the actions we're taking, and ways you can help protect healthcare access for our community. ow.ly/9F3G50ZepMB #pwME #Medicaid #MECFS #LongCovid

Two people (one black man and one Creole woman) wearing red Frail and Furious shirts, one standing and one seated in a wheelchair, participating in a #ME Action event outside HHS. Text: New update. Frail and Furious. Take action today! meaction.net

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Kairos Journal @kairosrtp.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, is pleased to announce its 2026 award winners! Congratulations to the winners for their outstanding achievements.

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I am some combination of overjoyed and shocked by this win because of (a) impostor syndrome and (b) how damn pained, painful, and high-effort this game is. I'm absolutely thrilled people played it and got anything from it at all, let alone found it deserving of this award ♥️

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

What an utter dereliction of duty by America's premier university. They've got untold billions in endowments, there's no need to carry water for fascists.

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I stg Pace admin are practically contortionists with how hard the entire deanery, provost, and president are bending over backwards to protect academic abusers and help perpetuate their abuse But "retention and admission" like this shit isn't palpable in the classroom

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Gotta say watching my university destroy itself in real time through terrible anti-writing and anti-core decision-making after landing an FT position was not what I had on my bingo card

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Also mark your calendar for the third reading circle as @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @vymanivannan.bsky.social, & Travis Margoni will facilitate a workshop on applying these conversations to the teaching of writing. Happening on Monday, Jan 12, 4–5 PM ET! my.ncte.org/event-inform...

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

TFW you work at a bicampus uni that doesn't know the diff between lit & rhet & lit folks in the other English dept are all juris-my-dick-tion crap about everything & win wars of attrition about core writing & WAC with toddler tantrums even though your dept knows what it's doing &

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Absolutely love when a new doctor throws shade at your established care team, proceeds to ignore your reported symptoms, and inserts their own biases into your chart. Oh and also completely lie about assessing a const system in a way that could fuck up future care, that's great

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Kairos Journal @kairosrtp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Kairos is hiring! We have an immediate opening for a social media manager who is able to join our current social media co-editor @vymanivannan.bsky.social to assist with outward-facing communication & act as a social media ambassador for Kairos on X, FB, BlueSky, and professional listservs.

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privateideation.bsky.social @privateideation.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I suspect that a not insignificant amount of the outrage and horror at Kirk's death is that theres an entire class of people in America who are more or less safe and stable and used to being able to speak and act without fear of any consequences whatsoever because they've insulated themselves well.

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

In the middle of collecting evidence of social impact to prove myself for A Thing (The Thing, even) and hoping to address what some might call a gap in my record... so I was wondering if anyone out there has been influenced by (in any way)/has taught any of the following pieces:

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Maybe awards were always popularity contests but its like the metric has explicitly shifted just now to reward campaign stamina & highlighted how much harder it'll be for junior/precarious/disabled/caregiving faculty to succeed over those w/ privilege (& a suggestion of cronyism)

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation 1/

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Patti Poblete @voleuseck.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Next up, #L24 "Resisting AI Hype and Remixing Critical and Creative Resistances to GenAI in Writing Classrooms and Programs" with many awesome folks! #4C25

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

What with everything I missed that the new Peitho just dropped--got a piece in it from the WIP book, on culturally specific writing & archival preservation & (re)construction as Eelam Tamil diasporic-disabled resilience in the face of genocide & erasure wac.colostate.edu/peitho/

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Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric - The WAC Clearinghouse

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Emily @2amwakeupcall.com · 28/02/2025

REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Happy: Black history Black present Black future Black love Black joy Black health Black healing Black people Black community Black family Black kids Black culture Black creativity Black ingenuity Black legacy Black innovation Black liberation Black resistance Black existence ...month🖤

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

AI is a technology of non consent and at this point decentralization is about unpaid extracted labor

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If you are too old or set in your ways to react with adequate urgency, then step aside for those who do. Don’t write ‘why can’t we all get along’ op eds

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 31/01/2025

StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your friends, family, colleagues that makes it incredibly easy for them to call their U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs. Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can

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Call TODAY to stop RFK Jr

RFK Jr is a danger to every single American… and Trump wants him to lead Medicare. Help us stop him!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

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Kairos Journal @kairosrtp.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Kairos is seeking submissions for our Disputatio section! The co-editors are particularly interested in submissions that offer provocations to and for the field, including but not limited to:

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Kairos Journal @kairosrtp.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the publication of our Spring 2025 issue, featuring exciting new webtexts, interviews, and reviews: kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html

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Issue 29.2 (Spring 2025) - Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is the premier online, peer-reviewed journal in computers and writing.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 24/01/2025

This is insanity. If you're researching Tay Sachs Disease or Sickle Cell or hypertension understanding the makeup of your sample--age, gender, ethnicity--is central and necessary. www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...

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FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban

Following the Trump administration's DEI ban, the FDA's move to scrub webpages has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring diversity in drug trials.

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Brb screaming that I landed a parser game about chronic pain and intergenerational trauma and torture and gaming and writing and academic racism and ableism anywhere let alone in @kairosrtp.bsky.social kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html

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Issue 29.2 (Spring 2025) - Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is the premier online, peer-reviewed journal in computers and writing.

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Gregory Mansfield @ghmansfield.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Ableism is what transforms disabled lives into lesser or inferior lives.

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Aetna and Evicore just denied a shoulder MRI and explicitly told me to do six weeks of PT instead, when my therapist told me that without knowing the exact nature and location of the injury, we might fully tear my arm free

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Call for proposals for a free online conference on ‘Literatures & Medicines’ hosted by us lot at Bournemouth University next April. #Comicsstudies and #GraphicMedicine papers are very welcome, please share and submit! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...

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Literatures & Medicines 2025 — Literatures &

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 06/11/2024

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The scene from the Boondocks where Huey, dead-eyed and tired with bags under his eyes asks Granddad: “Granddad, what do you do when you can't do nothing, but there's nothing you can do?”

Grandad: “You do what you can.”

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

This isn’t even correct! The “human shields” bullshit (of which “Israel” is guilty many times over, on camera, and which is falsely thrown at Hamas) doesn’t make it legal to murder children! What the fuck!!

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What the fuck is a "legally killed child" you are all going to hell

Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawo... •2h
@TheAtlantic published a justification for the murder of Palestinian children today.
calculated risk. Even when conducted legally, war is ugly. It is possible to kill children legally, if for example one is being attacked by an enemy who hides behind them. But the sight of a legally killed child is no less disturbing than the sight of a murdered one. And Israel has discovered that shutting out the press carries its own risks. An infanticide that no one can see is also going to attract suspicion.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Amazing: the President of the Ontario Federation of Labour says if U of T wants to raze the encampment on Monday and “move against the students, you’ll have to go through the workers first.” A solidarity rally of unions will be held at the university’s deadline of 8am Monday. ofl.ca/ofl-open-let...

This is a mandate to support the students, not repress them. In this spirit, I urge you to reverse course immediately, and choose negotiations and discussion over ultimatums and repression.

As a gesture of encouragement, I am calling on all trade unions and allies to join a solidarity rally on Monday at 8:00 a.m. at the student encampment at the University of Toronto.

If, by then, you decide to move against the students, you’ll have to go through the workers first.

Sincerely,

LAURA WALTON

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

Set 2 weeks before Mullivaikkal Remembrance, #MillionsMissing week is strangely timed for me every year; often I forget or am too drained to post anything. This year, here I am, more drained, more isolated, sicker. #MEAction @meactnet.bsky.social

A brown-skinned Tamil woman with a black faux-hawk, gold earrings, a gold nose ring, and green glasses lies on white bedding with green polka dots. Her left arm is raised, a tattoo of a gestalt triangle on her wrist. She wears a red shirt with the slogan “Still Sick Still Fighting” printed on it within a white blocky background. She is expressionless. Maybe you can tell she barely has the energy to keep her eyes open.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 28/04/2024

the neoliberalization of culture has meant installing this cia cold war mindset so deep into the zeitgeist that practically any random person can be relied on to do it for free: the stochastic psyop

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 27/04/2024

From the CUNY/GAZA Solidarity Encampment’s Instagram page:

A note calling for people to come to CCNY to defend the encampment. CUNY security has put up temporary barriers to fence them in.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 25/04/2024

Look at all the dangerous protesters sowing chaos at CCNY. This is from law professor @profhuq on 🐦 The CUNY law school students have taken the lead. Which bodes well.

A group of CUNY Law students sitting on the commons at CCNY protesting for peace in Gaza.

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"Emergency Emory Bail Fund Your support is needed to bail out and support arrested protestors at emory university Venmo: @ HALLESTEWART" please support an amplify....Any extra funds will go to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund

Emergency Emory Bail Fund

Your support is needed to bail out and support arrested protestors at emory university

Emory Legal Funds [qr code]

Venmo: @HALLESTEWART

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

TikTok owner ByteDance would reportedly prefer shutting down its app in the U.S. rather than sell it to a potential American buyer if all legal options fail A shutdown would have limited impact on its business while not having to give up its core algorithm

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Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer shutting down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the U.S., four sources said.

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Solidarity with our students putting it all on the line in the face of hostility and repression, and with our colleagues supporting and protecting them Donate supplies and/or to bail funds if you're able!

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Dr. v is for வலி 📚 @vymanivannan.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

I do not have the words to express my grief so what I will say is that I've always felt like an imposter, but Bill always made me feel like I belonged in any interaction we ever had, like I had something worthwhile to say. He was kind and brilliant. What a devastating loss.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

So the way the IDF chose targets was (1) an AI spat out tens of thousands of names of potential Hamas members; (2) those people's homes were made bombing targets; (3) no one bothered to review any of it or even see if the person was home; (4) the potential for civilian casualties didn't matter.

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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

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