Holly Masturzo
@hollym.bsky.social
Professor of Humanities (Florida State College system) | Humanities, Ethics, Women’s Studies | 💜s: art, dance, writing, walking, calcio/fútbol -- @drz0 elsewhere
💯 For me this parallels 'the simplicity on the far side of complexity' quote. Creating & facilitating informed comfort is an art, skill, science &more. Had a student tell me this week she signed up for my Women's Studies class hoping to find space less traumatizing than her other courses & the world
Was talking to a friend about how artists have spent years warning about the arrival of the current moment, and how he personally feels like making a shift towards creating work that can comfort and maybe galvanise people right now. No need to sound the alarm anymore - the dystopia is already here.
January 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
💯 For me this parallels 'the simplicity on the far side of complexity' quote. Creating & facilitating informed comfort is an art, skill, science &more. Had a student tell me this week she signed up for my Women's Studies class hoping to find space less traumatizing than her other courses & the world
Reposted by Holly Masturzo
On this day, the hallowed birthday of COMMON SENSE, by Thomas Paine, I present to you some lesser known quotations (and some blockbusters) -- to help us understand what he hated about kings, and what he loved about the people.
“It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.”
“It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.”
January 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM
On this day, the hallowed birthday of COMMON SENSE, by Thomas Paine, I present to you some lesser known quotations (and some blockbusters) -- to help us understand what he hated about kings, and what he loved about the people.
“It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.”
“It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.”
Hmm. Some World Cup warm-ups will be nearby in late March… Croatia v. Colombia & Brazil. Let’s watch how “dynamic” this pricing is.
January 8, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Hmm. Some World Cup warm-ups will be nearby in late March… Croatia v. Colombia & Brazil. Let’s watch how “dynamic” this pricing is.
Reposted by Holly Masturzo
U.S. higher education lost at least 9,000 jobs in 2025. Federal budget cuts, fewer international students, etc. www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...
December Cuts Close Out Brutal Year for Sector
With around 300 reported job cuts last month, the higher education sector shed at least 9,000 positions across 2025, a year marked by federal policy uncertainty and rising costs.
www.insidehighered.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:59 PM
U.S. higher education lost at least 9,000 jobs in 2025. Federal budget cuts, fewer international students, etc. www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...
“We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest & feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.” - Frances E. Watkins Harper (1866) Facilitating study circle with local Unitarians tonight on Harper, including this speech
January 7, 2026 at 10:27 PM
“We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest & feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.” - Frances E. Watkins Harper (1866) Facilitating study circle with local Unitarians tonight on Harper, including this speech
Extended lunch break today in an effort not to succumb to syllabi/Ed Tech overload.
Let’s take extra good care this year teacher/academic friends. ✨
Hour walk in the park + 45 min. at county pool. High of 79F today - have to make Florida teaching advantages where we find them.
Let’s take extra good care this year teacher/academic friends. ✨
Hour walk in the park + 45 min. at county pool. High of 79F today - have to make Florida teaching advantages where we find them.
January 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Extended lunch break today in an effort not to succumb to syllabi/Ed Tech overload.
Let’s take extra good care this year teacher/academic friends. ✨
Hour walk in the park + 45 min. at county pool. High of 79F today - have to make Florida teaching advantages where we find them.
Let’s take extra good care this year teacher/academic friends. ✨
Hour walk in the park + 45 min. at county pool. High of 79F today - have to make Florida teaching advantages where we find them.
Football/soccer second to none really for sport-culture-politics
Throughout their win vs Botswana at AFCON, a DR Congo supporter replicated the stance of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in African and Congolese independence who was assassinated in 1961 following a joint plot between political opponents, Belgium, the US, and UK 🇨🇩
January 2, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Football/soccer second to none really for sport-culture-politics
King Zeus is unbothered by your fireworks or your countdowns. Live in your own time. Happy New Year ✨💜
January 1, 2026 at 12:44 AM
King Zeus is unbothered by your fireworks or your countdowns. Live in your own time. Happy New Year ✨💜
Reposted by Holly Masturzo
"Florida should be leading the way in small-scale solar system adoption by passing regulations that give residents reasonable, less restrictive access to this safe and efficient technology," writes Bob Norberg of @thirdactflorida.bsky.social.
Floridians should be free to lessen the impact of electricity rate increases with plug-in solar | The Invading Sea
Florida laws are constraining the choice of residents to install their own solar generation and storage capabilities.
www.theinvadingsea.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Florida should be leading the way in small-scale solar system adoption by passing regulations that give residents reasonable, less restrictive access to this safe and efficient technology," writes Bob Norberg of @thirdactflorida.bsky.social.
Cold front definitely is here but the sky’s on fire
December 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Cold front definitely is here but the sky’s on fire
Our glorious distant past. Lots of home/yard work this break & moving on to some New Year’s deep cleaning now. Note the issue date, not as old as one might expect maybe? Location was near one of our campuses. I must have needed something for a class as 2007-08 was when I started teaching there.
December 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Our glorious distant past. Lots of home/yard work this break & moving on to some New Year’s deep cleaning now. Note the issue date, not as old as one might expect maybe? Location was near one of our campuses. I must have needed something for a class as 2007-08 was when I started teaching there.
Reposted by Holly Masturzo
I've got to be honest, we may as well call it a night #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I've got to be honest, we may as well call it a night #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
One of the best digital traditions of the season, commencing now in the UK and continuing through the evening across time zones. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.
December 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
One of the best digital traditions of the season, commencing now in the UK and continuing through the evening across time zones. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
☀️ happy Solstice all ✨
If you missed out on the Newgrange solstice livestream this morning you can find it here. Really worth it for the authoritative, evocative commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgu...
Winter Solstice Live Streaming - 21 December 2025
YouTube video by Office of Public Works
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
☀️ happy Solstice all ✨
More than one holiday shopping email I’ve received this week has included items clearly meant as Valentine’s Day gifts? Bring back seasons please and thank you.
December 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
More than one holiday shopping email I’ve received this week has included items clearly meant as Valentine’s Day gifts? Bring back seasons please and thank you.
Going through student responses to a survey I gave all my classes this year (still in process) & one item jumps out right away: 71.4% of enrolled students said they prefer to read books in print (n=329) In addition to pushing back on AI/LLMs, feel it’s time to renew push back on ebooks for reading
December 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Going through student responses to a survey I gave all my classes this year (still in process) & one item jumps out right away: 71.4% of enrolled students said they prefer to read books in print (n=329) In addition to pushing back on AI/LLMs, feel it’s time to renew push back on ebooks for reading
A minivan. Decorated on all sides with Christmas light decals. Parked diagonally across 2 spaces. On the same row as an oversized luxury SUV also taking up 2 spaces. I’m just out for a post-grading lunch & it’s not peak holiday chaos yet but too many people seem off their moorings. (Some literally.)
December 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A minivan. Decorated on all sides with Christmas light decals. Parked diagonally across 2 spaces. On the same row as an oversized luxury SUV also taking up 2 spaces. I’m just out for a post-grading lunch & it’s not peak holiday chaos yet but too many people seem off their moorings. (Some literally.)
Amazing tournament run by FSU & great goalkeeping performance to get by the No.1 seed Stanford.
5th National Championship for my undergrad school - which did not have NCAA women’s soccer at the time (!)
5th National Championship for my undergrad school - which did not have NCAA women’s soccer at the time (!)
Florida State 1–0 Stanford
Hudson's goal in the 87th minute stands and Florida State wins its fifth NCAA DI Women's Soccer National Championship.
Hudson's goal in the 87th minute stands and Florida State wins its fifth NCAA DI Women's Soccer National Championship.
December 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Amazing tournament run by FSU & great goalkeeping performance to get by the No.1 seed Stanford.
5th National Championship for my undergrad school - which did not have NCAA women’s soccer at the time (!)
5th National Championship for my undergrad school - which did not have NCAA women’s soccer at the time (!)
It was a deeply flawed time, but apropos of nothing, I miss 1994.
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It was a deeply flawed time, but apropos of nothing, I miss 1994.
One of the long-serving group leaders of our UU study group brought several original early 19th c pamphlets from his own collection for our Spirituality & Reform discussion this evening. Remarkable how their debates on criminal justice reform, anti-poverty & anti-war remain resonant.
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
One of the long-serving group leaders of our UU study group brought several original early 19th c pamphlets from his own collection for our Spirituality & Reform discussion this evening. Remarkable how their debates on criminal justice reform, anti-poverty & anti-war remain resonant.
Thanks to my students for a great day yesterday as we wound down a truly exhausting semester - one class guessed my age as 5 yrs younger than what I am (!), another said they appreciated my “work ethic” With our profession under attack it has been harder to gauge what’s going well. Grateful for them
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Thanks to my students for a great day yesterday as we wound down a truly exhausting semester - one class guessed my age as 5 yrs younger than what I am (!), another said they appreciated my “work ethic” With our profession under attack it has been harder to gauge what’s going well. Grateful for them
I've probably only bought a couple holiday trees in my adult life. Have a new screened porch and feeling vaguely positive after travel, so I thought, well, what do trees cost nowadays? My word. I don't recognize this world. Any tree $$ I briefly considered will go into refreshing my herb garden.
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I've probably only bought a couple holiday trees in my adult life. Have a new screened porch and feeling vaguely positive after travel, so I thought, well, what do trees cost nowadays? My word. I don't recognize this world. Any tree $$ I briefly considered will go into refreshing my herb garden.
On a Clipped Wing, Flamingo Escapes a British Zoo for a Life in France
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Managed a 12-hr conference day at #NWSA yesterday, so this little introvert earned a morning beach trip. Perhaps not the best in PR but a nice public beach only a mile via shuttle from conference hotel; even managed to walk back across the inlet bridges.
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Managed a 12-hr conference day at #NWSA yesterday, so this little introvert earned a morning beach trip. Perhaps not the best in PR but a nice public beach only a mile via shuttle from conference hotel; even managed to walk back across the inlet bridges.
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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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