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Pete Davies @pete-davies.bsky.social · 2d

How Musk fucked up Twitter's blue tick verification system, and its disastrous consequences.

Alessandra Tanesini @ale1808.bsky.social · 2d

A wonderful post on Twitter and on X verification by Shane Ryan and Jen Foster on Open for debate
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

An Epistemic Environmentalist Analysis, From Twitter to X

Exploring the changing nature of public debate

blogs.cardiff.ac.uk

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mental health pixelslop @lewmo.bsky.social · 2d

good afternoon

an orange and white cat is cuddled by a brown tabby cat

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 2d

that’s right 😎

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Alessandra Tanesini @ale1808.bsky.social · 2d

A wonderful post on Twitter and on X verification by Shane Ryan and Jen Foster on Open for debate
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

An Epistemic Environmentalist Analysis, From Twitter to X

Exploring the changing nature of public debate

blogs.cardiff.ac.uk

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 2d

Hey remember when Brian Leiter said philosophy grad students on Twitter had “job prospects de minimus” ? Anyway I’m a Dr. now and I co-wrote some philosophy about Twitter blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...

An Epistemic Environmentalist Analysis, From Twitter to X

Exploring the changing nature of public debate

blogs.cardiff.ac.uk

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah! And ahh 🙈 thank you, was actually feeling self-conscious that it’s so messy in so many places!

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 5d

Teaching @add-hawk.bsky.social’s “Playfulness and Epistemic Traps” in my “Info, Misinfo, and the Media” class :)

University classroom whiteboard with concepts from philosophical paper written in expo marker

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 12d

I know my boyos are in safe hands with their grandparents in the states, but god help me if I don’t miss them so much it hurts :(

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 17d

Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?

a man in a superhero costume is standing in the dark

Alt: Peacemaker, a very muscular white man in a superhero costume, is standing in the dark and dancing under a series of spotlights

media.tenor.com

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Randolph Lee Welty @randolphleewelty.bsky.social · 17d

“That leaves us with a massive asymmetry, where Charlie Kirks work against rule of law democracy, Ezra Kleins pretend that they don’t, and together they work to convince everyone that all this is fine, just normal disagreement, so the people taking attacks on democracy seriously are the problem.”

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17d

"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."

Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump

The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA

www.arcdigital.media

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 18d

‪Anyway, we’re still friends on instagram — and I just saw that he and his husband-to-be are getting married this week ❤️ what a wonderful, beautiful, much-needed reminder that joy is precious and worth fighting for. ‬

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 18d

We ended up sitting there for hours. Just shooting the shit. And at some point it he confided in me — the first time he’d told anyone — that he was gay.

That was almost 15 years ago now. But I still remember how glad and also deeply sad I felt as he laughed away tears of relief.

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 18d

Freshman year of college I attended the first queer-straight student alliance meeting, and later a boy from my dorm whom I’d seen there asked if we could talk. Sorta taken aback but eager to make friends, I proposed we get coffee, and we sat down at a picnic table on the quad.

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 18d

Just good stuff all around

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 18d

Love to feel my brain working less well and having to wonder if it’s just aging or if it’s permanent damage from covid or the spoon of microplastics up there or the decade of chronic stress from the global resurgence of fascism

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 26d

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 27d

John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave

John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave

John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave

But his soul goes marching on

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 27d

‪for the second time today: I feel like I’m losing my fucking mind ‬

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 27d

playing footage of the President’s actual words with minimal editorial comment: immediate indefinite suspension

saying we should “just kill them” about the homeless: nothing, apparently

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 27d

This is the kind of shit people were warning about when they said "hey there's these guys called Sinclair buying up every affiliate station in the country" but we didn't act then and now we're here

TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 28d

#BREAKING: Sinclair says it will air a one-hour tribute to Charlie Kirk on its ABC-affiliated stations in the time slot that is usually occupied for "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The special will air on Friday, per a Sinclair spokesperson.

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 27d

Ordinary people are out on the street giving their all against a bully who is not only corrupt but unpopular, not only flailing at the proof he’s a child rapist but visibly dying before our eyes. And people with actual wealth and power are *racing* to lick his boots. We’re on our own.

Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 27d

Right-wing cancel culture just took Jimmy Kimmel off the air. And ABC’s surrender proves that mainstream media have failed once again to meet the moment.

“What we are witnessing is a coordinated campaign of government censorship orchestrated by the White House to silence dissent.”

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 27d

do they really think we’re that stupid? ARE we that stupid???

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 27d

It’s really skeeving me out how ALL of these different news outlets are peddling the “because of Charlie Kirk comments” headline for Jimmy Kimmel’s show termination when he actually made zero “Charlie Kirk comments”

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 27d

‪evil is banal, sure, but I guess I didn’t realize it was also so farcical and cringe ‬

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dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @jenfoster.bsky.social · 27d

for most of my education/adult life 1930s germany was incomprehensible to me but surreally it makes much more sense now :/

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