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Jenni Tabler

@jennismovingcastle.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Sociology. Medical Sociology. Health Disparities. 🔮

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Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · Feb 12

I know we are all feeling a particular way about the government removing photos of non-white, non-male leaders from their buildings. Here are images from my rural queer joy exhibitions; we put up big photos of the gays™️ in Wyoming. My book under review is about the value of art for communication 1/🧵

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 11h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 6h

I’m just waiting on all the Neoliberals who spent years communicating white supremacist smears about so-called second and third world countries not being able to sustain democracy or being susceptible to corruption to step up and apologize, but I’m not holding my breath.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 13h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 8h

If not editable, why editable-shaped.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 11h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 11h

Thinking about that restaurant that is getting sued because they paid their employees bi-weekly instead of weekly and how my husband can be required to come to work during a shutdown with 0 knowledge of when he will get paid.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d

Everyday now there is new information detailing just how economically unviable AI is. Data centers will be the new abandoned Walmarts, but on an even larger scale.

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AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 2d

Why are you crying?
Oh I was watching a video of the Portland Bike Bus and noticed that the kids with disabilities were included w/ their parents biking them in with various bike wagons and carriers.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 2d

Based on the government's response to teens setting off firecrackers outside of ICE favilities, I genuinely believe that if the US had one single French-style labor protest our country would meltdown into martial law and never recover.

Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 2d

Me looking at the brick trying to figure out where on campus this sign is 🧐

Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 2d

If historians and sociologists who make textbooks do not put the fuckin costume wearing portlanders in the section on this era of immigration history I will never forgive you. ~we~ as academics literally have this power and I will throw hands ✋️

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Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 3d

I need to log off because every single time I log on makes me so stressed for the future

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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 3d

Marc Rowan graduated from Penn in 1985. Mr Rowan has never taught a college course or worked on a college campus, nor does he have research expertise in higher education. He does own his very own private jet, though, so I guess he's qualified.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 3d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 3d

There is no way to describe the feeling of having a toddler with very minimal verbal skills sign 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🫱👈🫱👈🫱👈🫱👈🫱👈🫱👈🫱👈🫱👈🫱👈🫱👈🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🫱🫲🫱🫲🫱🫲🫱🫲 at you over and over yelling "MO MO MO MOooAHHH" and then they crashout when you can't guess what exactly "more" of something they want

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Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 3d

Uh so I know TWO faculty who had grants terminated by the Trump administration, and had literal heart attacks/needed emergency heart surgery and like... chronic stress is real.