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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 13h

Being smart has always been a fact about me, like the weather. What has mattered instead was whether I was kind

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 13h

Ta-Nehisi Coates has this beautiful little essay about his time teaching writing at MIT that nails it, I think.

www.theatlantic.com/national/arc...

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 13h

Great-grandpa had been a Navy chaplain in the Aleutians during both World Wars so we come by it honestly

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 13h

Of course he had a Communion kit. There was a cross painted in Wite-Out on the top side so he didn’t open it upside down

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 13h

Some of my earliest memories are of going with my dad (an ELCA Lutheran pastor) to give Communion to parishioners in the local nursing and retirement homes

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 13h

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 13h

Also sometimes you do the right thing and just lose, and these systems will never tell you that shit

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 13h

Us against the Institvte. Together

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 13h

Okay, you too. There’s a reason I didn’t graduate (but still made out okay). And that my college admissions essay was about a time I’d failed

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t help but think MIT‘s response to The Compact was swift because it’s so sincere. Though every institution has sore spots, it’s easily the closest thing to meritocracy I’ve ever seen up close. Tough — sometimes brutal — but fair.

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 13h

At this point, I kinda hope the case he’s trying to SLAPP into being against the publisher doesn’t get thrown out (and JFC not settled like fucking cowards), because Discovery will be SWEET and POTENT, like lead.
Nothing in this book is dirt, it’s not deceit, it’s just reporting.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 14h

More on Lucky Loser:

The history of this man’s deceit, corruption, and irrationality was never discreet. It was always out there, always major.

The NYT itself committed major journalistic malpractice in not assembling THEIR OWN archives into a precís of negligence, dereliction, fraud, and abuse.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 13h

Have influenced. Really

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 13h

Today I learned that MIT is in Massachusetts because its founder, William Barton Rogers — a UVA prof and the state geologist — decided he just couldn’t with Virginia anymore.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 13h

That and their families (sometimes)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h

Number 599: one of those car window decals of pissing Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes but he’s pissing on the word “deficit” and it’s marketed to political centrists

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · May 13

Number 549: a stapler that needs a working Internet connection to function

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 15h

The most they are going to get is for her to cancel her book your, and they are probably not going to get that. Meanwhile, fascism

Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 15h

Virtue signaling (when accompanied by virtuous acts) is—to a point—great actually, but Dare’s still right here. To put it in more activist terms, what’s the theory of change exactly? There are bad people with access to the levers of power out there and she ain’t one rn

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19h

It’s hard to imagine anything more performative and pointless than protesting at Kamala Harris’ book tour.

This is the epitome of virtue signaling instead of actually trying to help a cause.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 15h

There’s a reason that when they lose they tend to suicide

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

Here for the "emergency" naked bike ride in Portland

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 15h

I mean sometimes they die surrounded by their subjects. Usually those subjects are busy killing them

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 16h

The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 22h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 17h

freelibraryfoundation.org/events/the-a...
Philadelphia FREE LIBRARY, October 14: THE AENEID.

The Aeneid: Translating the Classics with Emily Wilson, Scott McGill, and Susannah Wright

The Author Events Series presents The Aeneid: Translating the Classics with Emily Wilson, Scott McGill, and Susannah Wright Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman…

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Kevin Riggle @kevinriggle.bsky.social · 15h

I got to see Emily Wilson in New York a couple weeks ago and she was phenomenal, run don’t walk

EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 17h

freelibraryfoundation.org/events/the-a...
Philadelphia FREE LIBRARY, October 14: THE AENEID.

The Aeneid: Translating the Classics with Emily Wilson, Scott McGill, and Susannah Wright

The Author Events Series presents The Aeneid: Translating the Classics with Emily Wilson, Scott McGill, and Susannah Wright Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman…

freelibraryfoundation.org