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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 6h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: As rumors swirl about Trey Reed's hanging death at Delta State University, we've published a timeline of all verified events.

It covers everything from the discovery of his body to the autopsy and ongoing independent investigation, with links to relevant stories and documents.

Read it here:

Timeline: Trey Reed's Hanging Death at Delta State University

A timeline of the known events surrounding Delta State University student Trey Reed's hanging death in Cleveland, Mississippi.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 2h

I hope folks are holding Michael Archer, Jr. up because I can’t imagine both my parents dying in the same year (Angie Stone died in March, D’Angelo this week).

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Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 2h

LOL I knowwwww

Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 3h

FUCK CANCER RIGHT TO HELL

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 4h

Have mercy Lord

www.tmz.com/2025/10/14/d...

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 3h

I WALK OUT OF MY INTRO TO BLACK STUDIES CLASS AND YOU TELL ME THEY DONE TAKEN D’ANGELO?!?!

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Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 5h

some “scholars” are so dedicated to making out indigenous people to be ignorant of the world. imagine loving the colonizing mythos this much.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Elias Jahshan @eliasjahshan.bsky.social · 6h

Today is the official 🇺🇸 North America 🇨🇦 publication day for THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY! 🎉

That’s right, this gorgeous book that I happened to curate & edit is now available in all good bookstores across the US + Canada! If your fave bookstore or library don’t stock it, get them to order it in for you 🙌

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

Some people have been saying.

How everyday tech is training us to accept constant surveillance

By ignoring small tech intrusions, society lowers the bar for what counts as privacy.

www.axios.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6h

"To put that in perspective: 97,000 is the sort of figure you’d expect to see from a mid-size regional paper like The Minnesota Star Tribune or The Seattle Times. Not from a globally recognized newsroom with multiple Pulitzers to its name"

average paid daily circulation hasnt been <100K in 55 years

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 22h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 6h

messing with graduate students’ opportunities for networking and community smh

they’re doing similar stuff here in FL except they’re scrutinizing not just the conference but the panel title and paper title for “banned” topics to deny travel funds.

Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 7h

Here is the email from the provost reversing the decision & saying we can attend if presenting research. However, we still cannot recruit or attend without research benefit. Also many students did have registration cancelled (or missed registration deadlines) when OSU was prohibiting attendance.

SACNAS NDiSTEM conference update
Hi All,

Please see the email below from the provost with new guidance related to the SACNAS conference.

Best regards,
Todd

From: Provost Ravi V. Bellamkonda <ADMIN-Provost@osu.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
To: Provost Ravi V. Bellamkonda <ADMIN-Provost@osu.edu>
Cc: Garcia, Anne <garcia.680@osu.edu>
Subject: SACNAS NDiSTEM conference update

Hi everyone,

Our office has been working with the Office of Legal Affairs regarding participation in the upcoming SACNAS NDiSTEM conference in light of the outreach the university received last week from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Based on our conversations, the Office of Academic Affairs is recommending the following as it relates to participation in this year’s SACNAS conference:

If an Ohio State faculty member or student is scheduled to present research or participate in sessions that advance their research at the SACNAS conference, then the faculty member or student can attend and use university funds to do so.

If an Ohio State faculty member or student is NOT scheduled to present research or participate in sessions that advance their research (e.g., the purpose of attending is solely for recruitment) at the SACNAS conference but wishes to participate in the conference, they may still attend but must use personal resources to do so.

For participation as a research presenter or in sessions that advance their research, we are requesting that a designee within each college or unit (e.g., the Associate Dean of Research) affirms that the participation is in fact to present or advance research as part of the approval process for university funding.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 7h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 20h

B I BLIOGRAPH Y
PROPAGANDA
( These authors select and use facts and opinions in order to prove that
the South was right in Reconstruction, the North vengeful or deceived,
and the Negro stupid.)
Avery, Mrs. Myrta, Dixie After the War .
Bowers, G. Claude, Tragic Era; The Revolution After Lincoln.
Carpenter, Jesse T., The South as a Conscious Minority.
Craven, Avery, Edmund Ruffin, Southerner.
Herbert, Hilary A., The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences . Four
Pe riods of American History. --, Why the Solid South, or Reconstruction and Its Results.
Morton, Richard L., The Negro in Virginia Politics, 1 865-1 902.
Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, American Negro Slavery.
Pike, James, The Prostrate State. South Carolina Under Negro Govern-
ment.
Pollard, Edward A., The Lost Cause Regained.
Reynolds, John S ., Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1 865-1 877.
Van Evrie, J. H., Negroes and Negro Slavery, New York, 1 863.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 20h

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 20h

Couple of thoughts:
(1) I miss Cora Harrington's presence, because she would have a thing or three to say about that header image
(2) Some of those historical illustrations of women with tiny corseted waists are actually fetish images

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 21h

Oh dear, no thank you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...

Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist

www.nytimes.com

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 19h

The is extremely funny because you can tell by the cross on that book that it isn't a Bible — it's a Book of Common Prayer, the official prayer book for the Episcopal Church.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Many Gen-Zers “bring a new attitude to the combination of faith and politics, and many see politics as a matter of spiritual warfare,” writes Daniel K. Williams, a historian of American religion and politics.

Opinion | Why So Many Gen Z-ers Are Drawn to Conservative Christianity

And what that might mean for the future of American politics.

nyti.ms

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 19h

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

vimeo.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 19h

“If we only talk to white conservative Gen Zers we can pretend that’s all Gen zers!! Worked with Millennials!”

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Many Gen-Zers “bring a new attitude to the combination of faith and politics, and many see politics as a matter of spiritual warfare,” writes Daniel K. Williams, a historian of American religion and politics.

Opinion | Why So Many Gen Z-ers Are Drawn to Conservative Christianity

And what that might mean for the future of American politics.

nyti.ms

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 20h

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 20h

NOOOOOOO NOT MISS MAJOR!!!!!!!!!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20h

This is, of course, only the beginning.
Neither OpenAI nor Meta care what kind of damage their tech will do as long as they get clicks and shares.

David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 1d

I am in a Facebook group where people ridicule AI slop. Someone shared a Sora video in which Hitler was giving a TED Talk about how he was forced into World War II by the Poles & the Brits. I reported it & FB said it was not "hateful." Also, Sora apparently has no qualms producing vids with Hitler.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 21h

My friend @cweekly.bsky.social saw The Black Fantastic in the wild. What a beautiful display! The quote from OEB really says it all: "How dull it is to have people defining you."
@libraryofamerica.bsky.social
@victorlavalle.bsky.social @nkjemisin.bsky.social @tananarivedue.bsky.social

Paperback books on a display table in a bookstore with a sign above them that reads Black Voices and shows a quotation, "How dull it is to have people defining you," from author Octavia E. Butler

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