Shannon Barnsley
@shannonbarnsley.bsky.social
Writer and folklore devotee from New England. Author. Poet. Editor. Chronic illness bard. 2x stroke survivor. Forest wanderer. Lifelong pagan. Dog person. Amateur baker. Occasional balladeer.
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I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm at the combination
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"How can you ethically recruit somebody into a clinical trial if you can't be sure the administration won't change its mind on its priorities and terminate your study mid-stream?" @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social slams new NIH policies making it easier to halt grants
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New NIH Policies Make It Easier to End Grants, Ignore Peer Review
Also, long-time AIDS leader was reassigned
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December 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"How can you ethically recruit somebody into a clinical trial if you can't be sure the administration won't change its mind on its priorities and terminate your study mid-stream?" @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social slams new NIH policies making it easier to halt grants
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Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hey all,
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.
Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.
You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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it doesn't freak you out yet, I promise you, it should and it will if it gets worse.
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
it doesn't freak you out yet, I promise you, it should and it will if it gets worse.
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you want to understand it elsewhere in the anglosphere, look up video nasties. Censorship, even of the worst kinds of art, is prudish horseshit, and it gives ammo to people that will absolutely wreck your most benign art. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has been talking about this a lot wrt KOSA, and if
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
you want to understand it elsewhere in the anglosphere, look up video nasties. Censorship, even of the worst kinds of art, is prudish horseshit, and it gives ammo to people that will absolutely wreck your most benign art. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has been talking about this a lot wrt KOSA, and if
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And the second you give any censorship ammo to the right, they will use it on bullshit crusades to clear queer people and anyone who isn't saltine cracker ass white out of the visible part of the culture. If you really want an understanding of US censorship culture, read about the comics code. If..
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
And the second you give any censorship ammo to the right, they will use it on bullshit crusades to clear queer people and anyone who isn't saltine cracker ass white out of the visible part of the culture. If you really want an understanding of US censorship culture, read about the comics code. If..
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A lot of these people calling for censorship didn't grow up in eras where it was pervasive. You don't want that shit back. Like if your memory of TV is only from the last 15 years, you have noooo idea what it was like even 25-30 years back, and it was even worse 20 years prior, and worse.. etc.
i am going completely insane watching gamers make up shit about horses and interrogating every single thing the devs have said for inconsistencies and then deciding well it probably had cp in it. this is the easy mode version of the kinds of censorship that are to come and you're failing like babies
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A lot of these people calling for censorship didn't grow up in eras where it was pervasive. You don't want that shit back. Like if your memory of TV is only from the last 15 years, you have noooo idea what it was like even 25-30 years back, and it was even worse 20 years prior, and worse.. etc.
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people are extremely ready to put everyone but the sex offenders on the sex offender registry. we know who the predators are and some people will, consciously or unconsciously, project that onto anyone else instead, to create an external villain rather than one granted power in their communities.
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
people are extremely ready to put everyone but the sex offenders on the sex offender registry. we know who the predators are and some people will, consciously or unconsciously, project that onto anyone else instead, to create an external villain rather than one granted power in their communities.
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Spouse watching Hallmark Christmas films: ...there is ZERO inkling of any sexual activity between anyone, like *maybe* a kiss at the end? SHREK had more sexual chemistry in it than these things.
December 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Spouse watching Hallmark Christmas films: ...there is ZERO inkling of any sexual activity between anyone, like *maybe* a kiss at the end? SHREK had more sexual chemistry in it than these things.
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No lies detected.
Pete Hegseth Roasted After His Placard At Cabinet Meeting Includes Hilariously Fitting Typo
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December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
No lies detected.
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How do online id checks impact abortion access? We’ll be discussing this and more of your questions tomorrow during our r/prochoice AMA with guests @eff.org @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social
From the prochoice community on Reddit: We are digital rights and abortion access advocates concerned about how online ID checks/age verification censors abortion info + sex ed, AMA Thursday!
Explore this post and more from the prochoice community
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December 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
How do online id checks impact abortion access? We’ll be discussing this and more of your questions tomorrow during our r/prochoice AMA with guests @eff.org @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social
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Yea. I mean there’s a reason this is a national story and not just a squabble in the deans office
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Yea. I mean there’s a reason this is a national story and not just a squabble in the deans office
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like, even if you disagree with her call! it doesn't really matter if you agree with the grade or think the assignment was not ideal or whatever. it doesn't even matter if you think the paper was a masterpiece!
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
like, even if you disagree with her call! it doesn't really matter if you agree with the grade or think the assignment was not ideal or whatever. it doesn't even matter if you think the paper was a masterpiece!
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and again, this attack on trans identity has been withering, brutal, and extended. if you are concerned about free speech, you need to be very concerned about a university firing a trans grad student for trying to do her job!
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
and again, this attack on trans identity has been withering, brutal, and extended. if you are concerned about free speech, you need to be very concerned about a university firing a trans grad student for trying to do her job!
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marginalized people are targeted for censorship *regardless of their opinions* because the main thing people want to prevent them from saying is simply "I exist."
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
marginalized people are targeted for censorship *regardless of their opinions* because the main thing people want to prevent them from saying is simply "I exist."
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"viewpoint diversity" is bullshit because *the main danger to free speech is not the silencing of unpopular opinions.* The main danger is the *silencing of unpopular people.*
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"viewpoint diversity" is bullshit because *the main danger to free speech is not the silencing of unpopular opinions.* The main danger is the *silencing of unpopular people.*
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the idea that the real danger to free speech here is that a Christian wasn't allowed to spew hatred without evidence in a psych class seems like a fundamental confusion endemic to a lot of 1st amendment discussions.
December 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
the idea that the real danger to free speech here is that a Christian wasn't allowed to spew hatred without evidence in a psych class seems like a fundamental confusion endemic to a lot of 1st amendment discussions.
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one of the single most controversial and dangerous opinions you can have right now is "trans people exist and I am one of them."
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
one of the single most controversial and dangerous opinions you can have right now is "trans people exist and I am one of them."
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there is a years long moral panic ongoing to force LGBT ppl, and esp trans ppl, out of public life. their books are banned; they are being targeted in secondary and higher ed; their healthcare is being slashed; their passports are being revoked.
December 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
there is a years long moral panic ongoing to force LGBT ppl, and esp trans ppl, out of public life. their books are banned; they are being targeted in secondary and higher ed; their healthcare is being slashed; their passports are being revoked.
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the problem is that the TA appears to have been the target of a deliberate campaign to silence trans people and force them out of public life. so, it seems like that should be a factor when discussing the first amendment? 1
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
the problem is that the TA appears to have been the target of a deliberate campaign to silence trans people and force them out of public life. so, it seems like that should be a factor when discussing the first amendment? 1
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This is bananas.
But also faculty please now more than ever make your rubric on memos/ writing super explicit.
This would fail in my class because it doesn’t “meaningfully engage readings.” Protect yourself as much as possible from engaging on politics.
Hope this prof sues the shit out of them.
But also faculty please now more than ever make your rubric on memos/ writing super explicit.
This would fail in my class because it doesn’t “meaningfully engage readings.” Protect yourself as much as possible from engaging on politics.
Hope this prof sues the shit out of them.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This is bananas.
But also faculty please now more than ever make your rubric on memos/ writing super explicit.
This would fail in my class because it doesn’t “meaningfully engage readings.” Protect yourself as much as possible from engaging on politics.
Hope this prof sues the shit out of them.
But also faculty please now more than ever make your rubric on memos/ writing super explicit.
This would fail in my class because it doesn’t “meaningfully engage readings.” Protect yourself as much as possible from engaging on politics.
Hope this prof sues the shit out of them.
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It's unsourced and self contracting. In the first screenshot she says she thinks "teasing" (bullying) to enforce gender stereotypes is fine, then spends most of the paper claiming it isn't necessary to force them, then tries to say she doesn't think it's right to.
It's absolute blather.
It's absolute blather.
November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
It's unsourced and self contracting. In the first screenshot she says she thinks "teasing" (bullying) to enforce gender stereotypes is fine, then spends most of the paper claiming it isn't necessary to force them, then tries to say she doesn't think it's right to.
It's absolute blather.
It's absolute blather.
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But no, white Christian privilege seems to trump (pun intended) basic everything and we're all going to pay for decades to come if we don't short-circuit this theocracy asap
November 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
But no, white Christian privilege seems to trump (pun intended) basic everything and we're all going to pay for decades to come if we don't short-circuit this theocracy asap
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And the fact that OU has been cowed into suspending a professor who had the barest of academic standards is TERRIFYING because the theocracy is billowing at an increasingly rapid rate and our collective standards are all at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.
November 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
And the fact that OU has been cowed into suspending a professor who had the barest of academic standards is TERRIFYING because the theocracy is billowing at an increasingly rapid rate and our collective standards are all at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.
The future of our leadership for the next generations are at risk.