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Jonathan Urquhart @jonathanurquhart.bsky.social · 4d

"The irony was not lost on the faculty: The university was censoring its own conference about censorship."

Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 4d

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 5d

The 10.7ha univallate Iron Age glory of Segsbury Camp (aka Letcombe Castle) Oxfordshire

Here looking south in an aerial picture © James Pratt from the OA citizen science project #Airchaeology 😍

www.airchaeology.org/2018/09/28/s...

Happy #HillfortsWednesday 🥳

The grass covered ramparts of a hillfort bisected by a modern road from the air looking to the cloudless sky of the horizon

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Jonathan Urquhart @jonathanurquhart.bsky.social · 6d

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly.

Jonathan Urquhart @jonathanurquhart.bsky.social · 7d

Sky seems terribly dark, what horror is this? Oh, wait, it's night. Never mind, as you were.

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Jonathan Urquhart @jonathanurquhart.bsky.social · 8d

a cartoon character with a crown on her head

Alt: Disney cartoon wicked stepmother

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Jonathan Urquhart @jonathanurquhart.bsky.social · 10d

a group of men in historical costumes with the words nobody knows above them

Alt: nate bargatze, keenan thompson and james austin johnson in American revolution costumes with the words nobody knows above them - bargatze is george washington.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12d

Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files.

“We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

(Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12d

Two months before Calvin Alexander’s parole hearing date, he was told he was no longer eligible.

Why? An algorithm had deemed the nearly blind 70-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, a “moderate risk,” barring him from speaking to the parole board.

(Published April w/ @veritenews.org)

An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.

A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm B...

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Jonathan Urquhart @jonathanurquhart.bsky.social · 12d

Thank goodness it's March tomorrow.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13d

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When food banks need bread, 900 home bakers answer the call

A Seattle-area nonprofit group called Community Loaves donates home-baked bread and cookies to food banks in four states.

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 16d

Funny how these studies never involve academic art historians. I wonder why!

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

AI analysis finds £71,000 painting dismissed as copy is a Caravaggio

Exclusive: Study gives 85.7% probability Badminton House version of The Lute Player is by 17th-century master

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Louise Brooks Society™ @louisebrookssoc.bsky.social · 16d

Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, screens in Philadelphia on Sept 29 ( Silent Movie Day ). See louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com/2025/09/pand...

Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, screens in Philadelphia on Sept 29 ( Silent Movie Day )

Pandora's Box, Louise Brooks,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, G.W. Pabst, 1929, silent movie day,

louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 16d

Flesh and Emptiness: or, 42 Ways of Looking at Paul Verhoeven

Paul Verhoeven's movies talk to each other through time. In other words, all of his movies are the same.

www.brightwalldarkroom.com

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Jonathan Urquhart @jonathanurquhart.bsky.social · 16d

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

a group of people are dancing on a red carpet with the words let 's do the time warp again written on the bottom

Alt: rocky horror picture show movie - choreography! c Let's do the time warp again! red lampshades - everyone in black - energy abounds!

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17d

A new look at an ancient fossilized skull is challenging the textbook timeline of human evolution, prompting some scientists to argue that our own species is much older than previously thought.

New look at ancient skull challenges timeline of human evolution

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over the start date of Homo sapiens.

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Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · 19d

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings,” wrote Ernest Hemingway of his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald, born OTD in 1896. Eighty-five years after his death at age 44, Fitzgerald stands as arguably the quintessential American writer. loa.org/writers/210

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Library of America

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23d

'It’s hard to notice absence, but once you do, you cannot unsee it. We studied a procession of male writers, kings and generals, with only an occasional female to give any sign that women had been there too.' 1/2

Helen @helenpins.bsky.social · 23d

Please be prepared for this to become my entire personality (yes, it always has been, but now I will have stats to back up my tenacity) #historyteacher #EndSexismInSchools #women observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Girls just want to be in our history textbooks

Women are still largely missing from the history we teach in classrooms. If we want a fairer future, we must stop erasing half the past

observer.co.uk

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Jonathan Urquhart @jonathanurquhart.bsky.social · 24d

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Captain Planet - Intro Theme

YouTube video by Crunchyroll Store Australia

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Jonathan Urquhart @jonathanurquhart.bsky.social · 25d

Once Upon a Time

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Jonathan Urquhart @jonathanurquhart.bsky.social · 25d

Feeling real good.

a man in a pirate hat is standing in a room with a lot of chairs flying around him .

Alt: Captain in Pirates of the Caribbean walking down steps of a ship as it explodes all around him - splinters everywhere a look of deep stygian horror on his face

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 26d

Soldier has won acclaim with his work depicting the pain and suffering of people following the Nigerian Civil War.

Artist Soldier: 'If you put money at your forefront, your work will lose its lifeforce'

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 27d

Celebrate the independence of Mexico by watching on the channel some wonderful works from the country:
JAPON.
CANOA: A SHAMEFUL MEMORY.
SIMON OF THE DESERT.
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL.
VICTIMS OF SIN.
TÓTEM.
CRONOS.
ALUCARDA.
DEEP CRIMSON and more.

a woman in a white dress sits at a table with a man in a tuxedo and bow tie

Alt: a woman in a white dress sits at a table with a man in a tuxedo and bow tie

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 27d

The simply incomparable Robert Redford

(1936-2025) ❤️

A man wearing a shearling-lined jacket and light blue shirt stands indoors, looking to the side with his hand on his chest. Other people are visible in the background.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 26d

Oh shit! How did I miss this? Rest in power, Jill Godmilow. What Farocki Taught is an all-time great work. I got to spend an afternoon with her, and she was such a unique and exciting person to be around.

James Schamus @jamesschamus.bsky.social · 27d

RIP the great filmmaker and teacher Jill Godmilow, one of the all-time originals. vimeo.com/jillgodmilow

The Films of Jill Godmilow

Jill Godmilow, a working independent film and video-maker and Emerita Professor in the Dept. of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 27d

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

🗃️ #arthistory #renaissance #skystorians #Academicsky

ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/art-therapy

Art Therapy

Beauty may not be able to save the world. But it can certainly go a long way towards helping us cope with whatever ugliness it throws at us.

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