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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

Nice joke you’ve got there. Be a real shame if I repeated the content of it back to you with aggressively pedantic sincerity.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 19h

Wow, what a place of honor! Highly esteemed deeds must be commemorated here! And there are probably valuables...

Federal Disposal Field HZ-21 from the videogame Fallout 76

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

this is a big time of year for base ball

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

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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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 11d

Just heard word that my book, ENDURING DIGITAL DAMAGE, is shipping on Oct 15 if ordered from the UAP website. You can preorder it now and the discount code “DAMAGE” will take 30 percent off the total price.

www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

Enduring Digital Damage

Networks the intricate relationship between rapidly advancing digital technologies and environmental degradation and reveals the costs of our globally connec...

www.uapress.ua.edu

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 4d

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 4d

Mood.

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 4d

New episode of the Rhetoricity podcast featuring Dr. Derek G. Handley! We talk about his recent book Struggle for the City, which documents how Black communities organized to resist urban renewal in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and St. Paul. rhetoricity.libsyn.com/no-end-to-th...

Rhetoricity: No End to the Struggle: An Interview with Derek G. Handley

This episode features an interview with , author of the book . Dr. Handley is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is also affiliated faculty i...

rhetoricity.libsyn.com

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 4d

Johnny Cash didn't switch costumes with Elton John on SNL just to have some asshat call him "deeply uncool." I hate to even share this but the ratio is nice.

Left: Johnny Cash wearing a pink feather boa, a sparkly gold ascot, and gold glasses with pink feathers at the temples.

Right: Elton John in a black cowboy hat and leather jacket over a plaid shirt.

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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 5d

CHICKENNNNNN MAAAAAAAAAAN

Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 5d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 5d

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 6d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 6d

Nice! I should clarify that this was only for the first ending, so I hadn’t even touched Act 3 yet.

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 7d

Very much looking forward to this whole event including the discussion of my book on Dec 10th! I wanted to share again that the book is available for preorder and the discount code “DAMAGE” will reduce the cost by 30 percent if ordered from the press website.

www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 7d

It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks! By and large I’m just delighted (though I gotta go for a better ending). But in my head I was expecting maybe a 70-hour play clock, so 98 really got me for a second.

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 7d

Is this is self-own? Possibly. Am I a 40-year-old turn-based RPG devotee who completed Silksong? It is decidedly so!

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 7d

Didn’t finish last week’s @remapradio.bsky.social episode till I wrapped up Silksong, so consider this proof that @gameonysus.bsky.social was right about the true time it takes to beat this game. 😅😭🕸️

Silksong completion clock showing just under 98 hours.

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️ - KOFI COMMS OPEN @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 8d

The fact that this got slapped with the "intolerance" label is really just the icing on the cake huh

onion person @junlper.beer · 8d

i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here

Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 8d

So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from:

WhiteWind
Skylight
Bluescreen
Flashes

Basically all ATproto apps/projects?

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 8d

"Drawing on a wealth of sources ranging from satire and comedy to essays, sermons, and film, On Pedantry sheds critical light on why anti-intellectual views have gained renewed prominence today and serves as essential reading in an age of rising populism across the globe."

On Pedantry

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice

press.princeton.edu

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 11d

This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications at Internet Archive. 📻 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h...

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Kairos Journal @kairosrtp.bsky.social · 11d

Kairos is hiring! We have an immediate opening for a social media manager who is able to join our current social media co-editor @vymanivannan.bsky.social to assist with outward-facing communication & act as a social media ambassador for Kairos on X, FB, BlueSky, and professional listservs.

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