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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 1h

BANGERZ. This and their previous are titanic

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 3h

Fest is such a blast (except for when I got my nose broken in the pit at Negative Approach)

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Christopher S. Baird @christophersbaird.bsky.social · 3h

Yes! And I'll add that professors also exist to motivate and inspire students. Articles like this assume that all college students are 100% self-motivated to do all the hard work required to learn. A professor's genuine passion for a subject is contagious in a way that a computer never can be.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 4h

Death by snu snu for ol' Ben

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 5h

Imagine choosing this poorly built polygonal hill to die on

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 5h

The last Lebo protest was pretty sizable, so I'd expect the same this time, and they're staggered so folks could theoretically do both if they're mad enough

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 5h

This probably ties in with my not-so-secret yearning for Big Pittsburgh aka municipal consolidations

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 5h

Fair!

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 5h

Unironically this. There's an article to be written someday about how there are ≥2 of everything here because of regionalism and personal beef

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 5h

Man, there are a LOT of these in the region:

Sue Kerr @pghlesbian.bsky.social · 5h

The map shows Western Pennsylvanians have planned at least 21 rallies. You can literally attend multiple marches if you’re willing and able. #NoKings

All the No Kings Oct 18 Events in the Pittsburgh Region www.pghlesbian.com/2025/10/all-...

All the No Kings Oct 18 Events in the Pittsburgh Region

This weekend, Saturday October 18, Americans return to the streets in a show of grassroots resistance known as No Kings events. The first event was on June 14, 2025, when organizers estimated that …

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 5h

No Kings organizers announced the Point State Park protest at 2 is moving to Allegheny Commons Park. Gotta say it's always struck me that Pittsburgh will run 2–3 separate protests at the same time. Very indicative of the region's mindset

The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 1d

INBOX: Multiple No Kings events planned for around Pittsburgh Saturday, including a large rally on Grant St. downtown and smaller ones near the PCA&M in Shadyside and in Mt. Lebanon. Downtown is 12:30, Lebo's is 2 p.m., Shadyside at 5.

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 5h

I always hated PJ's tbh

The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 5h

(threateningly) Better pizza. Better ingredients

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 5h

What if he was right all along...?

A very wet John Schnatter, Papa John's ex-CEO, says in viral interview that he ate more than 40 pizzas in 30 days and that the quality has been destroyed, addting that 'the day of reckoning will come'

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 20h

Please do it. All too often, people think others will say what they're thinking, and then no one says anything.

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 20h

Another student publication getting censored by admin. Antithetical to what college is for from where I sit.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Ryan Deto @ryandeto.bsky.social · 23h

Pittsburgh International Airport joins a growing list of airports that aren't show the Kristi Noem message. Airport officials said they don't have the proper screens to show video messages. www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

Noem's shutdown video won't air at Pittsburgh airport

PIT says all multimedia screens are under contract with vendors.

www.axios.com

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local-news-pgh.bsky.social @local-news-pgh.bsky.social · 1d

Western PA: Frost Advisory for Thursday morning

https://www.wtae.com/article/cooler-and-dry-to-finish-the-work-week/69037832

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 1d

I'm so old I remember when stare decisis was a thing

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City of Asylum @cityofasylum.bsky.social · 1d

"Kiran Desai’s Long-Awaited Return Is a Transcendent Triumph" (New York Times). Read the full review of Kiran Desai's "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" and don't forget to register for her upcoming program at LitFest 2025! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/...

Kiran Desai’s Long-Awaited Return Is a Transcendent Triumph

Teeming with vivid characters across several continents, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” traces a hesitant romance that challenges tradition and loss.

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 1d

INBOX: Multiple No Kings events planned for around Pittsburgh Saturday, including a large rally on Grant St. downtown and smaller ones near the PCA&M in Shadyside and in Mt. Lebanon. Downtown is 12:30, Lebo's is 2 p.m., Shadyside at 5.

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Timothy™️ @posttim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn you bsky—give us polls already. I really need to know people’s orange juice pulp preferences.

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The™ Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 1d

I found a different band to enjoy and stopped idolizing artists. P.S.: never get a band tattoo.

Matthijs Matsferatu 🦇 @matsermatser.bsky.social · 1d

As a metalhead: where to even start?

People who idolized someone they later found out was a piece of trash, what happened?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Let me strongly emphasize that you should not give someone money for committing a gross breach of professional ethics. You also shouldn't hire them for a prestigious new job but our industry is garbage, alas!

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 1d

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, @status.news has learned www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 1d

via @marydudziak.bsky.social The Germans are basically funding 3 year asylum professorships for US academics seeking to flee the country for the remainder of the Trump Administration.

VolkswagenStiftung @volkswagenstiftung.de · 28d

New opportunity for professors in the humanities & social sciences in the US: Our Transatlantic Bridge Professorships support research & exchange in Germany & the US (€300,000 for up to 3 years). Apply from Jan 15, 2026. 🌉🇩🇪🇺🇸 More: 👉 www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/f...

Transatlantic Bridge Professorships

The programme is aimed at professors at US universities who are conducting research on the future of democracy, fundamental rights and academic freedom, or the future of transatlantic relations and wh...

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