Jonathan Dresner
@jondresner.bsky.social
Japan/World/Food/Migration historian. Nerd, geek, comics. Blogger. Rootless Cosmopolitan. Still masking. Views expressed are mine alone (RTs are someone else's). Cis he/him/his.
Same handle on Spore.Social.
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments.
Same handle on Spore.Social.
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments.
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Jonathan Dresner
@jondresner.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Our intolerance for disorder, diversity, and difference will kill us all. But we will kill the diverse, different, and creative ones first.
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"AI dubs" are dead!
We can indeed stop these companies when they try to replace people with stolen slop.
The solution is bullying corporations, which is half y'all's hobby anyway so this should be easy.
We can indeed stop these companies when they try to replace people with stolen slop.
The solution is bullying corporations, which is half y'all's hobby anyway so this should be easy.
BANANA FISH no longer has an English dub on Amazon
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
"AI dubs" are dead!
We can indeed stop these companies when they try to replace people with stolen slop.
The solution is bullying corporations, which is half y'all's hobby anyway so this should be easy.
We can indeed stop these companies when they try to replace people with stolen slop.
The solution is bullying corporations, which is half y'all's hobby anyway so this should be easy.
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So just to be clear, the best moment by far of the “Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders join the Starbucks picket line” event in Park Slope today was when a school bus drove by and the children on board started screaming their support out the window. But taking baby to his 1st picket line was cool too
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
So just to be clear, the best moment by far of the “Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders join the Starbucks picket line” event in Park Slope today was when a school bus drove by and the children on board started screaming their support out the window. But taking baby to his 1st picket line was cool too
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<s >There's a surprise.</s>
A leaked 115 page report by current & former FBI personnel describes the bureau under Kash Patel as a “rudderless ship” & says he is “in over his head,” lacking the experience & bearing needed to be an effective FBI director—
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
<s >There's a surprise.</s>
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Comprehensive deep dive into how Zionist reactionaries attacked the University of California. UC failed to anticipate an organized political attack and gave into pressure by violating the rights of all UC students, faculty, staff.
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Portrait of a Campus in Crisis
UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become…
jewishcurrents.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Comprehensive deep dive into how Zionist reactionaries attacked the University of California. UC failed to anticipate an organized political attack and gave into pressure by violating the rights of all UC students, faculty, staff.
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
Required reading for UC workers!
jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...
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Interview CEOs only under oath
Stop interviewing CEOs
Stop interviewing CEOs about AI.
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Interview CEOs only under oath
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"People whose brains have been liquefied by conservative propaganda believe they’re never to blame for adverse consequences. Setbacks always must be the doing of nefarious leftists. ... But, of course, the fact is they’re part of one of the most successful political movements in American history."
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: A Kansas town chose cruelty. Now it mourns as the mayor faces voter fraud charge and deportation. #ksleg
A Kansas town chose cruelty. Now it mourns as the mayor faces voter fraud charge and deportation. • Kansas Reflector
Coldwater residents have learned a valuable lesson after their mayor was charged with voter fraud: Actions have consequences.
kansasreflector.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"People whose brains have been liquefied by conservative propaganda believe they’re never to blame for adverse consequences. Setbacks always must be the doing of nefarious leftists. ... But, of course, the fact is they’re part of one of the most successful political movements in American history."
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We must protect each other to survive
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We must protect each other to survive
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As I once told my students, "People tend to select from history what pleases them, and I think that the historians' job is to remind them that the rest of it exists."
It’s really fun to be a historian. We are fun at parties. We will absolutely not ruin your traditions by explaining the history of them.
Them: You know the Olympic torch relay just began.
Me: Yeah, the flame is ancient but the relay itself was invented by Hitler to connect Ancient Greece to Germany for the Berlin Olympics
Them: Always a ray of sunshine
Me:
www.forbes.com/sites/drsara...
Me: Yeah, the flame is ancient but the relay itself was invented by Hitler to connect Ancient Greece to Germany for the Berlin Olympics
Them: Always a ray of sunshine
Me:
www.forbes.com/sites/drsara...
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
As I once told my students, "People tend to select from history what pleases them, and I think that the historians' job is to remind them that the rest of it exists."
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"This was a planned attack...
See, the essay was in response to an article about how trans & gender-non-conforming people are treated. The grad student instructor? Transgender. The student's mom? A right-wing podcaster." [And lawyer. We do not disbar enough lawyers.]
www.patreon.com/posts/144821...
See, the essay was in response to an article about how trans & gender-non-conforming people are treated. The grad student instructor? Transgender. The student's mom? A right-wing podcaster." [And lawyer. We do not disbar enough lawyers.]
www.patreon.com/posts/144821...
OU, College Essays, & the Right-Wing Anti-Trans Grievance Grift Gravy Train | Spider Perry
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December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"This was a planned attack...
See, the essay was in response to an article about how trans & gender-non-conforming people are treated. The grad student instructor? Transgender. The student's mom? A right-wing podcaster." [And lawyer. We do not disbar enough lawyers.]
www.patreon.com/posts/144821...
See, the essay was in response to an article about how trans & gender-non-conforming people are treated. The grad student instructor? Transgender. The student's mom? A right-wing podcaster." [And lawyer. We do not disbar enough lawyers.]
www.patreon.com/posts/144821...
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Ok but “Students, faculty, staff and alumni need to create a subversive alternative university lurking within the shadows of the university itself.”
Or strike? Shut the whole thing down. Do it now before exams.
Or strike? Shut the whole thing down. Do it now before exams.
"We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators."
— John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed
@insidehighered.com
— John K. Wilson for Inside Higher Ed
@insidehighered.com
Northwestern’s Complicity With the Trump Regime
We need shadow universities to preserve academic values and academic freedom at a time when they are under attack by government officials and campus administrators.
www.insidehighered.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Ok but “Students, faculty, staff and alumni need to create a subversive alternative university lurking within the shadows of the university itself.”
Or strike? Shut the whole thing down. Do it now before exams.
Or strike? Shut the whole thing down. Do it now before exams.
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Read to the end y'all, it's worth it.
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Read to the end y'all, it's worth it.
Jonathan Dresner (@[email protected])
#SourceOfTheDance
Songs for the moment, some from long ago
spore.social
December 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The only truly radical politics is accountability, as @cripdyke.bsky.social says
Any sign that actual consequences still exist will REALLY freak out a not-insignificant percentage of the current DC elite
And to anyone who’d claim someone worse will replace him: even if that happens, Hegseth would still be outed. Which would inspire more pushback against Trump’s incumbents and lead to more calls for ousting them
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The only truly radical politics is accountability, as @cripdyke.bsky.social says
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About a decade ago my current institution hired the shiny bow tie from outside rather than the inside person everyone knew and trusted
Shiny bow tie collected his CV line and moved back to what was clearly his home institution; we lost the insider to an Ivy that saw its good fortune in our mistake
Shiny bow tie collected his CV line and moved back to what was clearly his home institution; we lost the insider to an Ivy that saw its good fortune in our mistake
The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
About a decade ago my current institution hired the shiny bow tie from outside rather than the inside person everyone knew and trusted
Shiny bow tie collected his CV line and moved back to what was clearly his home institution; we lost the insider to an Ivy that saw its good fortune in our mistake
Shiny bow tie collected his CV line and moved back to what was clearly his home institution; we lost the insider to an Ivy that saw its good fortune in our mistake
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extremely sad for all the authors and artists affected unfairly by angouleme's cancelation, but... sometimes other things matter more. extremely avoidable situation but i'm glad people seem to be clear on where the blame lies
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
extremely sad for all the authors and artists affected unfairly by angouleme's cancelation, but... sometimes other things matter more. extremely avoidable situation but i'm glad people seem to be clear on where the blame lies
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The liminal time approaches
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The liminal time approaches
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(3) The actually-interesting story that the NPR reporter completely flubbed is that THIS ENTIRE "CENTRIST" OUTLET IS 100% REPUBLICANS TRYING TO SEED THIRD-PARTY SPOILER CANDIDACIES TO HELP THEIR PARTY MAINTAIN CONTROL IN 2026.
Everyone in the Independent Center worked for Trump, FreedomWorks, etc.
Everyone in the Independent Center worked for Trump, FreedomWorks, etc.
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
(3) The actually-interesting story that the NPR reporter completely flubbed is that THIS ENTIRE "CENTRIST" OUTLET IS 100% REPUBLICANS TRYING TO SEED THIRD-PARTY SPOILER CANDIDACIES TO HELP THEIR PARTY MAINTAIN CONTROL IN 2026.
Everyone in the Independent Center worked for Trump, FreedomWorks, etc.
Everyone in the Independent Center worked for Trump, FreedomWorks, etc.
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Another person cured of HIV. We have come such a long way. Happy World AIDS Day. www.iflscience.com/7th-person-c...
7th Person Cured Of HIV After Stem Cell Donation Offers Hope Of Expanded Treatment Options
The success of a transplant from a patient with only one copy of the protective gene might be a one-off, but may also allow others to benefit.
www.iflscience.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Another person cured of HIV. We have come such a long way. Happy World AIDS Day. www.iflscience.com/7th-person-c...
"They are trying to drive trans people out of society using roving hordes of online abusers, and destroying every institution standing in their way.
Stand up for us now, or watch everything you love get torched one by one until you live in the ashes.
Stand up for us now, or watch everything you love get torched one by one until you live in the ashes.
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"They are trying to drive trans people out of society using roving hordes of online abusers, and destroying every institution standing in their way.
Stand up for us now, or watch everything you love get torched one by one until you live in the ashes.
Stand up for us now, or watch everything you love get torched one by one until you live in the ashes.
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments and no acceptable compromises on trans lives
A lot of transphobic whataboutism is just straight up trying to make being a bigot sound like a legit position asked in good faith.
Nope, same old horseshit.
Nope, same old horseshit.
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments and no acceptable compromises on trans lives
As I once told my students, "People tend to select from history what pleases them, and I think that the historians' job is to remind them that the rest of it exists."
It’s really fun to be a historian. We are fun at parties. We will absolutely not ruin your traditions by explaining the history of them.
Them: You know the Olympic torch relay just began.
Me: Yeah, the flame is ancient but the relay itself was invented by Hitler to connect Ancient Greece to Germany for the Berlin Olympics
Them: Always a ray of sunshine
Me:
www.forbes.com/sites/drsara...
Me: Yeah, the flame is ancient but the relay itself was invented by Hitler to connect Ancient Greece to Germany for the Berlin Olympics
Them: Always a ray of sunshine
Me:
www.forbes.com/sites/drsara...
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
As I once told my students, "People tend to select from history what pleases them, and I think that the historians' job is to remind them that the rest of it exists."
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December 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Every trans person, and those who stand with us and see what we go through, is WELL AWARE that this student is a young woman priming herself to jump on the Right Wing Hate Grift Gravy Train.
When you discuss the merits of the essay at all, you're feeding into that. Stop it. Call this what it is.
When you discuss the merits of the essay at all, you're feeding into that. Stop it. Call this what it is.
Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics.
That’s…not the problem.
That’s…not the problem.
December 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Every trans person, and those who stand with us and see what we go through, is WELL AWARE that this student is a young woman priming herself to jump on the Right Wing Hate Grift Gravy Train.
When you discuss the merits of the essay at all, you're feeding into that. Stop it. Call this what it is.
When you discuss the merits of the essay at all, you're feeding into that. Stop it. Call this what it is.
We must protect each other to survive
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We must protect each other to survive
"People whose brains have been liquefied by conservative propaganda believe they’re never to blame for adverse consequences. Setbacks always must be the doing of nefarious leftists. ... But, of course, the fact is they’re part of one of the most successful political movements in American history."
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: A Kansas town chose cruelty. Now it mourns as the mayor faces voter fraud charge and deportation. #ksleg
A Kansas town chose cruelty. Now it mourns as the mayor faces voter fraud charge and deportation. • Kansas Reflector
Coldwater residents have learned a valuable lesson after their mayor was charged with voter fraud: Actions have consequences.
kansasreflector.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"People whose brains have been liquefied by conservative propaganda believe they’re never to blame for adverse consequences. Setbacks always must be the doing of nefarious leftists. ... But, of course, the fact is they’re part of one of the most successful political movements in American history."