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@troynovaunt.bsky.social
she/her. English literature, medievalist, singer in the band, recovering indoor cat. In both research and life, resisting being reductive about religion. I don’t speak for my institution, and it doesn’t speak for me. Expect posts about academic freedom.
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Immigration is good, actually.
You may remember “having more than two pencils” as the classic signifier of decadent wealth in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
December 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
You may remember “having more than two pencils” as the classic signifier of decadent wealth in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
It’s stunning to me that anyone manages to read these. My eyes just will not focus on these word salads.
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
It’s stunning to me that anyone manages to read these. My eyes just will not focus on these word salads.
I mean you could cite the pope but you could also cite freedom of speech and religion.
ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.
“ICE Was Here”: Pope Leo-Inspired Nativity Scene Sparks MAGA Outrage
A Nativity scene missing Jesus — and marked with an “ICE was here” sign — has triggered cries of “politicizing Christmas.” The parish priest says he’s answering Pope Leo's call to welcome stranger.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I mean you could cite the pope but you could also cite freedom of speech and religion.
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askjeeves ceo: if you don't use askjeeves your family will die
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
askjeeves ceo: if you don't use askjeeves your family will die
Part of a terrific thread, as you’d expect!
The plan, as I see it, is a cadre of highly skilled professional workers who can be called up and then let go according to the short term needs of land & capital speculation. For example, most professors being on 3 year contracts so their classes can be retooled for student-consumer interests.
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Part of a terrific thread, as you’d expect!
Hello, child services?
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hello, child services?
“These political parties, they’re like shipwrecks: metal structures, they’re dead. Street protests, youth politics come into them like shoaling fish, to turn them into living reefs.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“These political parties, they’re like shipwrecks: metal structures, they’re dead. Street protests, youth politics come into them like shoaling fish, to turn them into living reefs.”
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
It’s possible you don’t have to try every cookie but you definitely should
December 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It’s possible you don’t have to try every cookie but you definitely should
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a bold and risky vision for the university of the 21st century
Ready to start a movement that argues universities should spend money on their core functions, rather than flashy nonsense. Such as teaching and research for example.
December 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
a bold and risky vision for the university of the 21st century
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Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
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I don't think we should ever fear engagement over our basic principles of what is right. Jus soli is a very basic principle of human freedom and deeply woven into the structure of the common law and we should love to love and defend and promote it.
December 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I don't think we should ever fear engagement over our basic principles of what is right. Jus soli is a very basic principle of human freedom and deeply woven into the structure of the common law and we should love to love and defend and promote it.
I don’t know what anyone can do about it, especially, but it does feel like even engaging in a conversation about birthright citizenship is a win for the baddies
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I don’t know what anyone can do about it, especially, but it does feel like even engaging in a conversation about birthright citizenship is a win for the baddies
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Mark Kelly here from another burner phone, I got your number motherfucker - you think you can just keep blocking me lol?
Mark Kelly here, reaching out one more time to test how many fake spam numbers you will allow me to text you from before you decide to block an American space hero
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Mark Kelly here from another burner phone, I got your number motherfucker - you think you can just keep blocking me lol?
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This made me so mad I turned it off and put on BRINGING UP BABY (1938) instead
"I'm not sure there is a state, anywhere in the world, in the late 18th century, that has as wide variety of people who inhabit it" - a historian in the first 10 minutes of Ken Burns's American Revolution doc
Uh, what??? How about...the Holy Roman Empire? The Russian or Mughal empires? Qing China?
Uh, what??? How about...the Holy Roman Empire? The Russian or Mughal empires? Qing China?
December 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This made me so mad I turned it off and put on BRINGING UP BABY (1938) instead
As is
"There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet"
for that matter
"There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet"
for that matter
"I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas" is so perfect and I think about it all the time
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
As is
"There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet"
for that matter
"There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet"
for that matter
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Meanwhile some of the most interesting organic radical action on the ground is coming from rural communities protesting data centers. Somehow that doesn’t excite a lot of people who preach about radial action.
December 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Meanwhile some of the most interesting organic radical action on the ground is coming from rural communities protesting data centers. Somehow that doesn’t excite a lot of people who preach about radial action.
OK that’s an obvious no but I do respect them putting John Cho, the strongest argument for the thesis, front and center
December 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
OK that’s an obvious no but I do respect them putting John Cho, the strongest argument for the thesis, front and center
Real question, is there a common non-jargon word for cathexis?
I mean the second thing was probably a reaction to the first because people naturally if unhelpfully, identify with the thing they like and dislike it when that thing is criticized much like they themselves dislike being criticized.
Not to be all "Get off my lawn" but what happened to fans who delighted in taking apart the thing they love to understand how it works and making fun of it affectionately? When did liking a thing become being a volunteer paramilitary wing of a franchise's marketting department?
GET OFF MY LAWN.
GET OFF MY LAWN.
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Real question, is there a common non-jargon word for cathexis?
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Paul Dano and Matthew Lillard True Detective season let's go
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Paul Dano and Matthew Lillard True Detective season let's go
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I call this the Dream Vampire Economic Model. It also exists in the arts, publishing, and every other somewhat prestigious industry that young people want to work in.
there's a parallel between nonprofit world and academia, where there's a constant tide of idealistic, hopeful people coming in the door, and the people on top are able to lever that commitment to The Cause to extract from them in a way that's harder when everyone's just there to make a buck
December 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I call this the Dream Vampire Economic Model. It also exists in the arts, publishing, and every other somewhat prestigious industry that young people want to work in.
This is an underrated interesting thing about Stranger Things doubling down on children’s agency in the season they’re releasing Right Now. Stuff that maybe just seemed nice or sentimental in pre-Trump 2016 hits different now.
One reason that the US (and the UK presumably, I don’t even go there) doesn’t teach children universal critical thinking and critical information literacy skills is that the idea that children should be able to evaluate or dissent from the lies of adults in society is politically contested.
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
December 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is an underrated interesting thing about Stranger Things doubling down on children’s agency in the season they’re releasing Right Now. Stuff that maybe just seemed nice or sentimental in pre-Trump 2016 hits different now.
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starting point for future budgets for things that are good, "idk, how about triple it" bsky.app/profile/cost...
The entire R&D budget of the department of energy for renewable energy and energy efficiency is, or was, $3.5B. For the whole country! We should triple that number instead. bsky.app/profile/cost...
SpaceX gets a $5.9B contract.
All the renewable energy & energy efficiency R&D done by the Department of Energy is only $3.5B. Wind, solar, geothermal, electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, biofuels, weatherization, buildings, efficiency, state programs, manufacturing, everything. Total: $3.5B 🔌💡
All the renewable energy & energy efficiency R&D done by the Department of Energy is only $3.5B. Wind, solar, geothermal, electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, biofuels, weatherization, buildings, efficiency, state programs, manufacturing, everything. Total: $3.5B 🔌💡
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
starting point for future budgets for things that are good, "idk, how about triple it" bsky.app/profile/cost...
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Ilhan Omar: "It's completely disgusting. These are Americans that he is calling garbage ... it's also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric and this level of dehumanizing can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president."
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ilhan Omar: "It's completely disgusting. These are Americans that he is calling garbage ... it's also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric and this level of dehumanizing can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president."