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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 4h

Over the past decade, we’ve been told that we can’t have accountability for sexual violence because it would enable the state to weaponize the process and oppress marginalized groups.

In retrospect, the thing that actually allowed that to happen was a lack of accountability for violent white men.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

Emancipate yourselves from the authoritarian idea that you cannot criticize the Democrats because the Republicans exist

pat12311.bsky.social @pat12311.bsky.social · 3h

Question…you’d rather support the racist, sexist, misogynistic, bigoted, anti-science, anti-freedom white supremacy GOP? Make it make sense…

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 56m

My very protestant family are suddenly all over this pope, lol.

I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 1h

It will never not be funny that the Pope is a White Sox fan

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 1h

It will never not be funny that the Pope is a White Sox fan

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 1h

"we must remember that the skills that a humanities education cultivates are, in fact, highly valued. Decoupling these skills from the humanities disciplines that foster them has, over time, submerged this important connection." bit.ly/4qb8oNv

Stolen Valor: How the Humanities “@ Work” Are Hidden in Plain Sight | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core

Stolen Valor: How the Humanities “@ Work” Are Hidden in Plain Sight - Volume 1

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 21h

the psychological toll of living in a society where everyone is out to compete with, profit off of, and scam everybody else is indescribable

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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 1h

Anyone else on here an alumnus of one of the schools offered Trump's "deal"? Join me in signing this alumni petition now to tell your school to reject the "Compact" and stand up for campus freedom. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/si...

SIGN THE ALUMNI PETITION: Tell your school to reject the federal government’s “Compact”

The federal government is trying to extort your school by coercing American universities into joining its so-called "Compact”. This is a time for courage, not capitulation. Sign this alumni petition n...

alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

So glad not a single politician on the planet has the intelligence to perceive how massive a con this is (AI will cure cancer we are told, instead we get this) or the political will to regulate this company and sector.

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 21h

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 14h

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If this country was truly "pro life," we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn't about "life".

It's about control.

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Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 16h

Something I think about a lot: One of the reasons people used to think boys “outgrew” ADHD is because in adulthood men tend to offload their executive function (managing calendars, remembering birthdays, cleaning, grocery shopping) to wives and secretaries so it masked their symptoms.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1h

A reminder about public history. ✍️

Easy reading is damn hard sticker allegedly said by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 1h

I need to sleep for, like, a month. Then I need like 6 weeks' Victorian-style rest cure. THEN my research leave.

Instead: 9 more weeks of commuting and teaching.

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ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 2h

Is it not a lil bit alarming how there is no job security in ANY field.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1h

I’m allowed to mute you if you make me tired. Thems the rules

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 2h

it's getting more and more obvious that fixing what's broken in this country is going to require levels of integrity and moral clarity that most people just simply do not possess and I'm not sure what to do with that information

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 15h

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 22h

think people who didn't grow up around this stuff, and who weren't subject to a constant torrent of email forwards overestimate the extent to which this is "new." what really feels "new" to me is the slow takeover of the commanding heights of the GOP since the Tea Party era and elite radicalization.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 1h

Seeing multiple artists lately say they got covid at cons even while masking but then I see photos of most people wearing loose fitting ear-loop masks. For maximum protection you NEED A TIGHT SEAL! Head-loop masks like N95 are best (or at least get ear loop adjusters/mask tape so KN95 fits tighter).

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 1h

Their whole ridiculous persecution complex is because they're not cool.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 2h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1h

Every time something like the GOP chat leak occurs I hear smart people arguing that shame could be a useful tactic. But shame only works if the bad actors think their actions are bad. Hypocrisy, shame, these Victorian-ish norms are just that, norms, guardrails, and they don't work against fascism.

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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 16h

REMINDER THAT SAM ALTMAN RAPED HIS DISABLED SISTER FOR YEARS WHEN SHE WAS A KID

404 Media @404media.co · 20h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 20h

honestly the thing about protein powder being loaded with dangerous levels of lead explains a ton about the collective mental breakdown of about 1/3 of our country

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Connie @bethechange1682.bsky.social · 8h

Excellent thread

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 1d

“Doing what you can to avoid spreading it to other people” is masking , until we have clean air - and in the meantime , you all need to be advocating for clean air, which none of you are showing the urgency around when you fail to mask.
40%+ of Covid cases are asymp and Covid disables people

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