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@nmohlmann.bsky.social
English prof (autobiography, the paranormal, colonial Virginia) & south coast vaporwave
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to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
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"... these materials, although controversial in their advocacy for insurrection, squatting, and anarchy, are all squarely constitutionally protected speech"
reason.com/2025/11/26/t...
reason.com/2025/11/26/t...
Texas man faces up to 40 years in prison for transporting constitutionally protected pamphlets
A man in Texas faces up to 40 years in prison for transporting constitutionally protected zines and pamphlets.
reason.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"... these materials, although controversial in their advocacy for insurrection, squatting, and anarchy, are all squarely constitutionally protected speech"
reason.com/2025/11/26/t...
reason.com/2025/11/26/t...
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If you are having a rough year and are worried you can't get gifts for the people in your life, you can sign up here and submit your wishlist.
If you are someone who has a little bit extra and wants to give someone else joy? Find one & buy them something!
shelflovepodcast.com/holiday-fair...
If you are someone who has a little bit extra and wants to give someone else joy? Find one & buy them something!
shelflovepodcast.com/holiday-fair...
Holiday Fairies
Romancelandia holiday fairies is a mutual aid effort for the romance novel reader community.
shelflovepodcast.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
If you are having a rough year and are worried you can't get gifts for the people in your life, you can sign up here and submit your wishlist.
If you are someone who has a little bit extra and wants to give someone else joy? Find one & buy them something!
shelflovepodcast.com/holiday-fair...
If you are someone who has a little bit extra and wants to give someone else joy? Find one & buy them something!
shelflovepodcast.com/holiday-fair...
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To put this in context, I was offered a teaching track job in 2023 that had a salary of $55,000.
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
To put this in context, I was offered a teaching track job in 2023 that had a salary of $55,000.
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"The CIA has denied the allegations of brutality among the units, saying they were the result of Taliban propaganda...However, USCIS used a Human Rights Watch report decrying the units as a reason to deny US citizenship to an Afghan soldier who had worked alongside American forces"
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"The CIA has denied the allegations of brutality among the units, saying they were the result of Taliban propaganda...However, USCIS used a Human Rights Watch report decrying the units as a reason to deny US citizenship to an Afghan soldier who had worked alongside American forces"
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AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
AI kind of feels like the endgame of this bit Graeber described in the original Bullshit Jobs essay: these people have been so thoroughly cleaved from any sense of purpose that they resent those who have one. They hate artists for their skill and think poverty should be the price of having a calling
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Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Your moment of calm: kestrel on a fence post. Out at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social
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My rule is anyone who puts hedge fund managers and CEOs in the same “class“ as journalists and professors is actually a hedge fund manager trying to foment a culture war as a means of tax avoidance.
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My rule is anyone who puts hedge fund managers and CEOs in the same “class“ as journalists and professors is actually a hedge fund manager trying to foment a culture war as a means of tax avoidance.
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Hey you there! Yeah, the one that just woke up from the turkey coma - we’re bringing Nostalgia Lounge to Cincinnati next week, I hope you’ll join us!
🎛️ @yungshiro.bsky.social @glyphtrax.bsky.social , Grav3yard, @crystaleternal.online
🎛️ @yungshiro.bsky.social @glyphtrax.bsky.social , Grav3yard, @crystaleternal.online
November 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Hey you there! Yeah, the one that just woke up from the turkey coma - we’re bringing Nostalgia Lounge to Cincinnati next week, I hope you’ll join us!
🎛️ @yungshiro.bsky.social @glyphtrax.bsky.social , Grav3yard, @crystaleternal.online
🎛️ @yungshiro.bsky.social @glyphtrax.bsky.social , Grav3yard, @crystaleternal.online
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This is a really sick story.
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is a really sick story.
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
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Trend report: all the twenty-something girl relatives I've seen have worn oatmeal-colored vests.
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Trend report: all the twenty-something girl relatives I've seen have worn oatmeal-colored vests.
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Please don’t ask me how my writing is going. But please buy these books for your great aunts, cousins, crafty pals, & art lovers who like to learn about history. americanart.si.edu/books/patter...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/internationa...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/internationa...
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Please don’t ask me how my writing is going. But please buy these books for your great aunts, cousins, crafty pals, & art lovers who like to learn about history. americanart.si.edu/books/patter...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/internationa...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/internationa...
Here's my little book on how pop business books shaped Trump's life writing. Lots of weird close readings of things like Lee Iacocca's autobiography and books about Japanese management techniques.
www.routledge.com/Trump-and-Au...
www.routledge.com/Trump-and-Au...
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Here's my little book on how pop business books shaped Trump's life writing. Lots of weird close readings of things like Lee Iacocca's autobiography and books about Japanese management techniques.
www.routledge.com/Trump-and-Au...
www.routledge.com/Trump-and-Au...
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Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy related issues because of blatant and systemic racism and this is an example of how and why hospitals need to do better
Mercedes Wells, the mother who gave birth on the side of the road minutes after she was discharged from a hospital, has been hospitalized with post-birth health issues
Mom Who Was Turned Away While in Active Labor Back in Hospital with Post-Birth Health Issues, Family Says
The mom who gave birth on the side of the road minutes after she was discharged from an Indiana hospital has been hospitalized with post-birth health issues.
people.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy related issues because of blatant and systemic racism and this is an example of how and why hospitals need to do better
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Excellent Mi’gmaq language flash card.
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Excellent Mi’gmaq language flash card.
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It can't just be on the teachers and professors. Parents and other members of the community need to stand with them.
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It can't just be on the teachers and professors. Parents and other members of the community need to stand with them.
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it's hard to get your mind around how irredeemably broken this country has become. no one in charge at this time seems to understand even the basics of our system of government as written or our stated set of values as a secular society
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
it's hard to get your mind around how irredeemably broken this country has become. no one in charge at this time seems to understand even the basics of our system of government as written or our stated set of values as a secular society
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This book wot I wrote is mostly about experimental music in the late 20th/early 21st century, but it's accidentally also a time capsule of cultural preoccupations between 1989 and 2016.
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This book wot I wrote is mostly about experimental music in the late 20th/early 21st century, but it's accidentally also a time capsule of cultural preoccupations between 1989 and 2016.
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The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The spirit of Thanksgiving has infused the White House press office today, bringing us together in a blessed moment of harmony and goodwill.
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My hot take on politics and history and religion this year is that a religion which is actively about a child sacrifice should consider shutting the fuck up about a narrative of stopping child sacrifices.
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My hot take on politics and history and religion this year is that a religion which is actively about a child sacrifice should consider shutting the fuck up about a narrative of stopping child sacrifices.
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Id rather go for work-life balance than be "successful" by the metrics society tells me are important.
Id rather take the sick days to get my bodymind back on track (and thank heaven for sick leave).
Id rather be perceived as middling or unmemorable.
Id much rather have a lifetime of happiness.
Id rather take the sick days to get my bodymind back on track (and thank heaven for sick leave).
Id rather be perceived as middling or unmemorable.
Id much rather have a lifetime of happiness.
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Id rather go for work-life balance than be "successful" by the metrics society tells me are important.
Id rather take the sick days to get my bodymind back on track (and thank heaven for sick leave).
Id rather be perceived as middling or unmemorable.
Id much rather have a lifetime of happiness.
Id rather take the sick days to get my bodymind back on track (and thank heaven for sick leave).
Id rather be perceived as middling or unmemorable.
Id much rather have a lifetime of happiness.
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Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
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Illustrious Eunuchs is definitely a band name. As is Phantom Twanger. Or Masonic Super Mario.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Illustrious Eunuchs is definitely a band name. As is Phantom Twanger. Or Masonic Super Mario.