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andré carrington

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Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic andrecarringtonphd.com insta: audio.futurism

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 9d

Audiofuturism: Science Fiction Radio Drama & the Black Fantastic Imagination will be available for pre-order in December.

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Audiofuturism - andré carrington

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before ma...

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 1h

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2h

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 15m

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 50m

Nor'Easters are wild! It's really a cold tropical storm, I was not prepared

andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 51m

Making a PowerPoint about Dune because I believe the children (of Dune) are the future

a woman in a black leather jacket has a cross necklace

Alt: Whitney Houston in a music video: a brown-skinned woman in a black leather jacket has a cross necklace

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 1h

They appreciate the ambience 🪶

Two finches in a stone birdbath with water sprinkling from its center

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1h

antifa descending en masse upon (Communist) Party City

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 4h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck racism youtu.be/P9F4YnZS_qQ?...

Fishbone - Racist Piece Of Shit (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 8h

It's because they don't want to govern under regular order. They want to rule like dictators. The appropriations process, stare decisis, elections (FOR ALL THEIR FLAWS) allow for things they want to make impossible.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 8h

I thought we were supposed to value intellectual diversity & condemn polticial violence?

Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 10h

In the 1950s, my father was teaching communism to what was then the NSA - precursor to the CIA. When moving offices some of Karl Marx‘s books fell out of his boxes and a guard turned in him in to the McCarthy cronies — he was accused of being a Communist. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 9h

Emailed and ommented on the web form. Thank you for spreading the word

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Alex Jungroth @alexjungroth.bsky.social · 8d

If you live in California, please write to Gavin Newsom in support of these five trans rights bills by Oct 12th.

All you need to do is write a one sentence comment to the effect of:

I support these bills and trans people.

Thank you so much for your support! 💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#trans #BlueCrew #CA #US

Action Needed: Urge Governor Newsom to Sign Five Critical Trans Rights Bills

TransFamily Support Services is proud to co-sponsor five critical trans rights bills that have officially passed the California Legislature. This is a major victory—one made possible through a powerfu...

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 12h

The polishing deck chairs on the Titanic of my promotion dossier (which is itself done but I have so much work to do on one project to make sure it’s ready) was just having a whole conversation with my beloved about whether it’s the Pan-African Data Project or The Pan-African Data Project.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 10h

They do that all the time. Seeing themselves in cars' rear-view mirrors is like a species-level crisis for them

andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 10h

Need everybody to bring the same fire they had for Jimmy Kimmel to this

ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 12h

✅ He fired a U.S. Attorney who refused to bring charges against her
✅ He replaced them with someone with NO prosecutorial experience

This isn't justice. This is retaliation.

When Black women do their jobs with excellence, they face attacks. But AG James isn't backing down, and neither should we.

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Errick Nunnally @erricknunnally.bsky.social · 12h

Hm.

A former Fox News host, who paid a settlement to avoid a sexual assault case, is Secretary of the Department of Defense.

The former head of World Wrestling Entertainment, who is accused of covering up the sexual abuse of minors, is over the Department of Education.

A former heroin addict, who is accused of sexual assault by a former family babysitter, is over the Department of Health & Human Services.

A 34 time convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, who has been accused of sexual assault by 26 women, is president of the United States.

When unqualified, morally bereft, white people occupy the highest positions in our government, y'all need to shut up about Black

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 10h

Tag yrself I'm turnip shepherd

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

This is so bad and it’s sad seeing a fellow cosmologist oversee it

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Dornsife lays off 'nearly all' academic support staff, dean announces - Daily Trojan

The school laid off 162 employees Friday morning to make way for a restructured model with 47 fewer positions.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 21h

My epidendrum is flowering again. Really glad it's kept going for a few years now

Small flowers on the narrow stem of a plant

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 23h

I just had the very odd experience of reading my 2015 book, The Hunt for Vulcan, and wondering how the hell I came to write it

It reads well, at least to me, & it’s a great story, but it’s so far from what I’ve been thinking about for the last 10 yrs I don’t remember how I arrived at those thoughts