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Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social · 4h

a poster for death on the nile shows a man

Alt: a poster for death on the nile shows a man saying “it’s a dynamite combination”

media.tenor.com

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Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social · 12h

A most deserving recognition.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 19h

It was my honor to serve my final year on the Herbert Baxter Adams prize committee (after receiving the award in 2019)—sending big congrats to this year’s winner, @lottelydia.bsky.social for Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/789140...

Imperial Island by Charlotte Lydia Riley | Penguin Random House Canada

This riveting new history tells the story of Britain’s journey from imperial power to a nation divided—one that alternately welcomes and excludes former imperial subjects and has been utterly transfor...

www.penguinrandomhouse.ca

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Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social · 1d

The 55-year-old indie rock fan community cannot hear those sirens because of tinnitus.

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Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social · 2d

In his West German home.

Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social · 4d

I am not sure what to do with this information, Josh.

a shark mascot says i have no idea what im doing

ALT: a shark mascot says i have no idea what im doing

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 5d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 9d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social · 9d

Sometimes—usually it seems that the academic gods have a weird sense of humor. The trick is to find the good advice hidden in the derision. Every now and then Reviewer 2 can help with some things despite their attempts to tear you down.

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Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social · 9d

You have just encountered Reviewer 2.

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Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social · 10d

I lost my son 22 years ago today. Hug your loved ones.

The Flaming Lips - When Yer Twenty Two (Official Audio)

YouTube video by flaminglips

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11d

Steve's book is all the more relevant today than when it came out a decade ago. Do yourself a favor and buy a copy if you don't have it. Steve work matters and is a candle in the shroud of disinformation from Washington these days.

Ward "Boo" Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 16d

Hey everyone! I'm extremely excited to announce that today marks the release of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Steve Silberman's ground-breaking NeuroTribes, with a new foreword by John Elder Robison.

Neurotribes by Steve Silberman: 9780399185618 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

This New York Times–bestselling book upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differ...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 13d

The Chicago ICE raid has proven once again that US citizenship is irrelevant. It is race or perceived race that matters. Anyone Black or brown is a target. Our Christofascist regime is accelerating ethnic cleansing tenfold.

Elections will not save us from this.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 12d

Ian Thompson’s new book Synths, Sax & Situationists explores the legacy of soixante-huit through the music of bands like Cheval Fou, Barricade, Maajun and Fille Qui Mousse...

Michel Faber on Situationism and the French Rock Underground

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 13d

Logan Square is a melting pot neighborhood — multi generational immigrants, younger people owning their first homes, a fair bit of gentrification, with some of Chicago’s best restaurants, bars, retail. Think maybe Greenpoint or Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn or Silver Lake in LA. Now with tear gas.

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 13d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14d

First Trump blackmailed universities into suppressing free speech. Now he’s bribing them with taxpayer dollars to enforce his agenda. Corruption and authoritarianism, plain and simple.

No university should cave to this blatantly unconstitutional coercion.

Trump offers top universities funds if they boost conservative ideas

Brown and MIT among nine schools told to back conservative views or risk losing federal support, sparking free speech fears

www.theguardian.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13d

This also follows the Trump administration implementing a no fly zone for drones in Chicago to prevent people from documenting what ICE is doing. They're masked thugs acting as secret police trying to ensure they have no accountability.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

FAA sets unprecedented drone restrictions over Chicago as feds step up immigration arrests

The Federal Aviation Administration set the sweeping restrictions Wednesday at the request of the Department of Homeland Security.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Journal of the Western Society for French History (JWSFH) @jwsfh.bsky.social · 15d

Hey Bluesky:
We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!

Blue and white images in squares above the name of the Journal of the Western Society for French History in white type against a black band at the bottom

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Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social · 16d

Woohoo!!

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Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social · 16d

Well thank you! Going to fly the gwenn ha du for you!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Jonathyne Briggs @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social · 18d

My Maine coon has a sleepy cove underneath my McCartney section in one of my two kallaxes. Or is kallax also the plural?

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 19d

Autistic people oppose a cure to autism and I have a hard time reconciling why that isn't the end to the conversation about it.

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