DJcontraption AKA Dahron J
@dahron-anneliese.bsky.social
Chaplain-y cyclist consistently calms chaos, cracks contradictions, collects conundrums, critiques culture, challenges consensus, committed carer🏳️⚧
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Yes! Work together! Do good things! Lol, but also: srsly tho.
I found it surprisingly candid (which, as you note, may be the reason for its status now). However, it shows that an institutional tome--a tome about an institution?--can do some truth-telling. Consider me a vote for bringing it back!!
I found it surprisingly candid (which, as you note, may be the reason for its status now). However, it shows that an institutional tome--a tome about an institution?--can do some truth-telling. Consider me a vote for bringing it back!!
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Yes! Work together! Do good things! Lol, but also: srsly tho.
I found it surprisingly candid (which, as you note, may be the reason for its status now). However, it shows that an institutional tome--a tome about an institution?--can do some truth-telling. Consider me a vote for bringing it back!!
I found it surprisingly candid (which, as you note, may be the reason for its status now). However, it shows that an institutional tome--a tome about an institution?--can do some truth-telling. Consider me a vote for bringing it back!!
I'm hanging out with two of your colleagues today, as it so happens--and at a church nonetheless!
However, I will pay penance by doing a double-shift of canvassing tomorrow.
Will that absolve me?? LOL
However, I will pay penance by doing a double-shift of canvassing tomorrow.
Will that absolve me?? LOL
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I'm hanging out with two of your colleagues today, as it so happens--and at a church nonetheless!
However, I will pay penance by doing a double-shift of canvassing tomorrow.
Will that absolve me?? LOL
However, I will pay penance by doing a double-shift of canvassing tomorrow.
Will that absolve me?? LOL
But of course! Thank you for sharing of your gifts and work!
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
But of course! Thank you for sharing of your gifts and work!
Lagniappe: while at the VU Press site, I looked to see if they'd re-released "Gone With the Ivy," an institutional biography from many years ago. They hadn't, but instead, I found this truth-telling post with some history of the VUP from the incomparable @betsyphillips.bsky.social!
bit.ly/44E9b05
bit.ly/44E9b05
The Legacy of One of Our Most Important Books - Vanderbilt University Press
In this staff post, Vanderbilt UP Marketing and Sales Manager Betsy Phillips reflects on the checkered legacy of one of VUP's most important books in our
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November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Lagniappe: while at the VU Press site, I looked to see if they'd re-released "Gone With the Ivy," an institutional biography from many years ago. They hadn't, but instead, I found this truth-telling post with some history of the VUP from the incomparable @betsyphillips.bsky.social!
bit.ly/44E9b05
bit.ly/44E9b05
(lagniappe: no one showed (I was a film-buff, choir child, in a classical bubble, so, yeah, no surprise there lol), but their loss; we had movies on a big screen & a stellar, handmade, 3-layer, ice cream cake)
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
(lagniappe: no one showed (I was a film-buff, choir child, in a classical bubble, so, yeah, no surprise there lol), but their loss; we had movies on a big screen & a stellar, handmade, 3-layer, ice cream cake)
—for my 13th, my dad was able to borrow a 16mm print of "Hard Day's Night" that we ran at the party. Admittedly, that was less out of Beatles love—that classical bubble strikes again—& more that Dad was a film buff (me being one in training), but I grew to enjoy them more & more because of that. . .
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
—for my 13th, my dad was able to borrow a 16mm print of "Hard Day's Night" that we ran at the party. Admittedly, that was less out of Beatles love—that classical bubble strikes again—& more that Dad was a film buff (me being one in training), but I grew to enjoy them more & more because of that. . .
Two things, on the topics but just generally attached:
—among other random things, George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" on 45 with allowance money (may have been older than 10; as you & I have discovered, we were in similar classical bubbles)...(1/2)
—among other random things, George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" on 45 with allowance money (may have been older than 10; as you & I have discovered, we were in similar classical bubbles)...(1/2)
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Two things, on the topics but just generally attached:
—among other random things, George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" on 45 with allowance money (may have been older than 10; as you & I have discovered, we were in similar classical bubbles)...(1/2)
—among other random things, George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" on 45 with allowance money (may have been older than 10; as you & I have discovered, we were in similar classical bubbles)...(1/2)
(W/in the theme of the surveilled world in which we all live, and can at any moments be targets of—intended or mistaken—this recent video from @apnews.com gives some glimpse into just how widespread our travel, our healthcare, more & more of our every move is being tracked & shared):
bit.ly/3MfK8dq
bit.ly/3MfK8dq
Secretive Border Patrol program is detaining US citizens for ‘suspicious’ travel
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. (AP video: Marshall Ritzel) #usa #surveillance #news Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home
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November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
(W/in the theme of the surveilled world in which we all live, and can at any moments be targets of—intended or mistaken—this recent video from @apnews.com gives some glimpse into just how widespread our travel, our healthcare, more & more of our every move is being tracked & shared):
bit.ly/3MfK8dq
bit.ly/3MfK8dq
In a July @slate.com "What Next" podcast, guest Grace Byron ( @emotrophywife.bsky.social ) discusses the trans community analogues:
bit.ly/4a5E551
bit.ly/4a5E551
Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America
Looking for health care in post-Skrmetti America.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
In a July @slate.com "What Next" podcast, guest Grace Byron ( @emotrophywife.bsky.social ) discusses the trans community analogues:
bit.ly/4a5E551
bit.ly/4a5E551