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David

@dchandler.bsky.social

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Currently teaching, reading, and writing, in that order. I enjoy looking at old boats.

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David @dchandler.bsky.social · Sep 25

A while ago, I decided to take a crack at writing short fiction. Check out my first published story in 'Bitter Become the Fields' from @hornsandrattles.bsky.social !

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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 13h

Just once in my life, I'd like to read a message from my college's administration that involved a plan that wasn't outright hostile to faculty. God, being a teacher sucks so much now. It wasn't like this even 10 years ago.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 1d

It's that stuff Chris Evans eats in Snowpiercer

David @dchandler.bsky.social · 1d

Oh damn. Folks are hanging by a thread here.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 3d

The administration has decided...

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

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 5d

One year ago today, a spectacular aurora display graced the night sky across much of the globe. This was my view in *Oklahoma.* What a beautiful world we are fortunate to live on. #photography

Pink, green, and orange aurora pillars with a SAR arc and moon-lit clouds over relatively still waters of a large lake.

The andromeda galaxy between a red SAR arc and the Milky Way.

Numerous pinkish aurora pillars with a bluish-purple sky and spotty clouds over relatively still waters of a large lake.

Pink, green, and orange aurora pillars with a bluish-purple sky over relatively still waters of a large lake.

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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 5d

In a day-long symposium about AI use in higher ed

youtu.be/me-HUZLiTcU?...

"THOUGHT ABOUT KILLING MYSELF!" - Steve Harvey

YouTube video by Eric Marley

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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 6d

"Satantango" is extremely good

David @dchandler.bsky.social · 8d

My short story "Scratches" is going to be published in the latest Tales of Sley House anthology! If you're in the mood for some Southern gothic spookiness, please give it a read.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 9d

There are so few people actually asking, “is this any good for what we do?” Instead people give lip service to “responsible use” while plowing ahead with punching “AI” into everything. This isn’t just about selling a product; it’s about co-opting humanities researchers to train “AI” models.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 9d

CUNO - “Fuck does Cuno care?” The boy turns to you. (He doesn't care.)

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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 9d

Why couldn't it be the one with sexy Death showing up and kindly ushering me to a better place?

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9d

I wish a different Twilight Zone episode had become more and more relevant every year

Billy Mumy as Anthony Freemont in The Twilight Zone episode 'It's a Good Life'

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emma 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🔞 @5g.gay · Aug 31

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 10d

The word for these Dems is "collaborators"

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Dec 18

pathetic abcnews.go.com/Politics/dem...

Democrats' playbook to beat Republicans in 2 years: work with them now

Democrats have a plan to take back power in Washington back from Republicans in two years: work with them now.

abcnews.go.com

David @dchandler.bsky.social · 11d

Man, that "being anti-AI is just another form of bigotry" take probably goes real hard if you're stupid.

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 11d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 11d

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

president.dartmouth.edu

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ToughPigs @toughpigs.com · 11d

When your copy of The Muppet Show record skips in the right place to cause never ending pain

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 11d

I teach community college in Oklahoma, and our literacy rates are so abysmal that much of what I teach is dev ed reading. And the college (due to the state) is trying to phase out dev ed entirely, so pretty much any composition or lit course has needed dev ed instruction by default. It's awful.

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David @dchandler.bsky.social · 12d

No it doesn't, you complete dumbass.

David @dchandler.bsky.social · 12d

Well, there goes my ongoing contribution to NPR. Fuck this, and fuck y'all for going soft on this regime.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 13d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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deadshock @debbshock.blue · 13d

[waking up]: oh, fuck off

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