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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 23h

Again- the GOP certainly don't think that it's over. The guys *doing this* don't think they seized ultimate power over the budget and don't need Dems or Congress anymore. *They* don't seem to think it's Duma Hours.

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 1d

Good

The Hill @thehill.com · 1d

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) threatened legal action if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) delays swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (Ariz.).

thehill.com

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 1d

Tuition at the University of Utah will be free for some students with families earning less than $100,000 a year, the state’s flagship higher education institution announced Tuesday morning.

via @utahnewsdispatch.com

University of Utah tuition will be free for state families earning less than $100,000 annually

Tuition at the University of Utah will be free for some students with families earning less than $100,000 a year, the state’s flagship higher education institution announced Tuesday morning.

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 1d

Making free meals available to all public students wouldn't only produce benefits equal to the costs, it would produce social benefits with a net worth of about $520 million a year, according to an economic analysis released last Monday ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/14/a...

Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some • Ohio Capital Journal

Most Ohio school kids already get free meals. Making them free for all students would produce big social benefits, new study says.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 1d

This chapter I'm writing about sexbots is unending

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 1d

Myself and @sndorf.bsky.social are hosting, feel free to reach out with questions! 🥳

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 1d

CfP: Feminist Theory and Music 18
Theme: "Movement, Musicking, and Migrations"
Conference Dates: June 4-6, 2026
Location: Roger Glass Center for the Arts, University of Dayton, (Dayton, OH)
proposals due November 24, 11:59 pm Pacific (GMT-8) forms.gle/F2T4uhXGZkEE...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

The USC Thornton School of Music has appointed Solange as the school’s first scholar in residence

She will she will teach a course on music curation, host student-focused workshops and more

Solange to build programming and teach course at USC Thornton School of Music

Grammy winner Solange Knowles is bringing her expertise to the USC Thornton School of Music, where she has been named the school's first all-school scholar in residence.

www.latimes.com

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 2d

Not a book in my house left unscathed by my cat's gnawing interests.

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 2d

Let me know if you need anyone to pick it up in Cincy and drive it to Minneapolis next month 😆

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d

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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Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social · 3d

First encore at the Ronn McFarlane-Paul O'Dette lute duo recital today: John Dowland's "My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard" - for two people to play on a single lute. And I thought playing piano, four hands, was tricky to coordinate!

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 3d

Got my first explicit “we cannot fund this Jewish-themed work because of what’s happening in Israel” note and, in addition to being absolutely blood-boiling on many different levels, I need everyone to understand that holding diasporic Jews responsible for Israeli war crimes is simply antisemitic

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Diasporic Minnesotan Loves Sweater Weather @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 3d

The guy who runs Palantir studied WITH Habermas.

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 4d

We're on socials again! 🥳🥳 Give us a follow, why don't you?

The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group @lgbtqplusmusicsg.bsky.social · 4d

In July, the LGBTQ+ Study Group descended upon Berlin for our inaugural Summer School. Read about it in our committee report prepared with 💜 by Shirley Wick.
www.lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com/post/queer-s...

Queer Survival, Organizing, and Worldmaking: Report on the Inaugural Summer School of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group

Prepared October 1, 2025 by Shirley WickWhat does it mean to survive, to resist, to care and connect through music, sound, and queer practice and how can scholarly work engage with this? These questio...

www.lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 3d

2001, a senior in HS in the reddest part of NYS, I chose Matthew Shepard as my project. I probably should have figured something out about myself...anyway, forever grateful to my teachers for trusting my curiosity.

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Matthew Shepard was murdered right when I was trying to come out of the closet. So like, this hit me pretty hard. Maybe that’s why I understand how important it is for trans kids to know they deserve to live.

Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 4d

27 years ago, hateful violence took the life of Matthew Shepard. His story reminds us of what happens when intolerance goes unchecked.

Today, as extremists target our LGBTQ+ neighbors for who they are, we must recommit to building a nation rooted in love, safety, and equality for all.

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 3d

So, what? We're just talking at students and coasting? Yeaaahhhh you can give all the brilliant lectures and your students can't use a toaster. Just my two cents.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 4d

know what's good? a great lecture by someone who really knows their shit

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 4d

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 4d

We're on socials again! 🥳🥳 Give us a follow, why don't you?

The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group @lgbtqplusmusicsg.bsky.social · 4d

In July, the LGBTQ+ Study Group descended upon Berlin for our inaugural Summer School. Read about it in our committee report prepared with 💜 by Shirley Wick.
www.lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com/post/queer-s...

Queer Survival, Organizing, and Worldmaking: Report on the Inaugural Summer School of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group

Prepared October 1, 2025 by Shirley WickWhat does it mean to survive, to resist, to care and connect through music, sound, and queer practice and how can scholarly work engage with this? These questio...

www.lgbtqmusicstudygroup.com