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System Working As Intended @systemnotbroken.bsky.social · 9d

A perfect gem in this collection.

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kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 5h

wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?

The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.

www.thenation.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15h

'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News

Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Shane @thistimesurely.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really incumbent on anyone with a conscience to simply leave that place. And if everyone did, those accounts would soon relocate to where their audience is. The argument of ‘I’ll go when everyone else goes and not until’ is such a weak one. It’s incredible to me people still feed that monster.

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steadyflight.bsky.social @steadyflight.bsky.social · 2d

and it's no longer a chronologically synced online public square. it was so effective at bringing people together quickly to help each other - with information and mobilization of voices, resources, or attention. it was intentionally broken to interrupt the good it was capable of doing in the world

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 3d

Please join this committee…

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

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

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3d

I do think this is at the heart of the issue. Our fields prepare us to participate in stable institutional structures but not how to collectively protect those structures from bad faith attacks and neoliberal dismantling.

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 4d

I take your point but the idea of funneling money, however little, to M*sk led me to abandon the network of interlocutors I had over there. Posting on Bluesky so far feels like a completely futile exercise but at least I can do so without feeling ethically compromised.

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 4d

And who doesnt enjoy shouting into the void that is Bluesky? 🥲

Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 4d

There is of course an instrumentalist justification for remaining on Twitter. But it seems (to me a least) ethically unjustifiable to remain on a platform that is run by an avowed fascist.

The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 4d

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

@jonnelledge.bsky.social

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 4d

Oh absolutely. That’s why I say ”at the very least”. For many, as you note, that is precisely the appeal..

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 4d

Academics with young children: I would love your advice. How do you manage to carve out time to read/write/think without being an absent parent? Is the answer just ‘Don’t sleep much’?

Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to Christmas creep my 5 year old has already started pressuring me to buy her an advent calendar…

Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 4d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 4d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4d

'One does not wish to dignify this kind of vandalism with a response and you have to wonder whether the Tories will give Badenoch even one election before booting her out.'

In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate

observer.co.uk

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 4d

That was 2011. Now the Western states vs. failing/facist regimes dichotomy seems far less stable.

Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 4d

Based on my year living there, it requires Western expats to have at (the very least) a willingness to stomach a strict racial hierarchy and economy dependent on indentured labor. At the same time, for people escaping failing states/fascist regimes it represented
a degree of freedom and stability.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 4d

Wanting to live in Dubai is basically just a massive character flaw.

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 4d

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 4d

They're cutting religious studies programs so everyone can study tech, just when the tech world increasingly demands religious studies education to understand it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 4d

After a long week, I’m considerin adopting this title/status 😅

Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 5d

I received a hate email from a doctor in south Carolina who claims an academic affiliation with McGill University, seemingly because he studied there 20 years ago. He signed his letter "assistant professor (ret.)"

Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 4d

Every time I read news from the UK it sounds less and less like the country I know/knew….

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 4d

Utterly disgusting, but another sign of the continuing emboldening of hate groups.

Labour should be as quick to act against groups like this, who are actually causing harm and breaking the law, as they declare themselves to be against those opposing genocide.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 6d

Not to mention the many English lit grads who go on to law and consulting…

Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 7d

You’re there in Thana Bhavan now?

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 7d

The creative industries, generally led by humanities grads, are a $multi billion global export - and one of the things the UK does best.

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 7d

Another has directed multiple films and TV shows. Another is an advertising hotshot.

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 7d

Even on its own terms the idea that an English degree is worthless is so clearly untrue. One of my good friends from English-lit undergrad days is currently on her way to Hollywood to sign terms a movie version of her novel…

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 7d

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