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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 1d

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Mood.

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 1d

New episode of the Rhetoricity podcast featuring Dr. Derek G. Handley! We talk about his recent book Struggle for the City, which documents how Black communities organized to resist urban renewal in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and St. Paul. rhetoricity.libsyn.com/no-end-to-th...

Rhetoricity: No End to the Struggle: An Interview with Derek G. Handley

This episode features an interview with , author of the book . Dr. Handley is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is also affiliated faculty i...

rhetoricity.libsyn.com

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 2d

Johnny Cash didn't switch costumes with Elton John on SNL just to have some asshat call him "deeply uncool." I hate to even share this but the ratio is nice.

Left: Johnny Cash wearing a pink feather boa, a sparkly gold ascot, and gold glasses with pink feathers at the temples.

Right: Elton John in a black cowboy hat and leather jacket over a plaid shirt.

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Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · 2d

CHICKENNNNNN MAAAAAAAAAAN

Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 3d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 3d

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 3d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 3d

Nice! I should clarify that this was only for the first ending, so I hadn’t even touched Act 3 yet.

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 4d

Very much looking forward to this whole event including the discussion of my book on Dec 10th! I wanted to share again that the book is available for preorder and the discount code “DAMAGE” will reduce the cost by 30 percent if ordered from the press website.

www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 4d

It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks! By and large I’m just delighted (though I gotta go for a better ending). But in my head I was expecting maybe a 70-hour play clock, so 98 really got me for a second.

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 5d

Is this is self-own? Possibly. Am I a 40-year-old turn-based RPG devotee who completed Silksong? It is decidedly so!

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 5d

Didn’t finish last week’s @remapradio.bsky.social episode till I wrapped up Silksong, so consider this proof that @gameonysus.bsky.social was right about the true time it takes to beat this game. 😅😭🕸️

Silksong completion clock showing just under 98 hours.

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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️ - KOFI COMMS OPEN @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 5d

The fact that this got slapped with the "intolerance" label is really just the icing on the cake huh

onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here

Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 5d

So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from:

WhiteWind
Skylight
Bluescreen
Flashes

Basically all ATproto apps/projects?

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 6d

"Drawing on a wealth of sources ranging from satire and comedy to essays, sermons, and film, On Pedantry sheds critical light on why anti-intellectual views have gained renewed prominence today and serves as essential reading in an age of rising populism across the globe."

On Pedantry

A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice

press.princeton.edu

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 8d

This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications at Internet Archive. 📻 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h...

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Kairos Journal @kairosrtp.bsky.social · 9d

Kairos is hiring! We have an immediate opening for a social media manager who is able to join our current social media co-editor @vymanivannan.bsky.social to assist with outward-facing communication & act as a social media ambassador for Kairos on X, FB, BlueSky, and professional listservs.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 9d

ALERT! ALERT! We're in the last days of being able to preorder my book EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED: ON ASSASSIN'S CREED, which is a book about the Assassin's Creed franchise and how games reflect and impact the real world! Click this link and use the code MN93450 for 30% off! z.umn.edu/14943

Everything Is Permitted

An entertaining deep dive into the world, gameplay, and evolution of the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video game franchiseA hooded figure stands i...

z.umn.edu

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Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 10d

Now that’s what I call a brave story.

Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 10d

me playing FFT for the sixth time: no, I don't think I'll learn what Zodiac sign do

Eric @ericdet.bsky.social · 11d

I don’t know that there is a clearer distillation of my Silksong experience than this clip. (Potential gameplay spoilers for late Act II.)

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 11d

I interviewed Toby Fox again. :) You can read the conversation in both and digital and print (!!!!!) editions of Game Informer. We talked about the “stupid” way to make games and his new journey with Deltarune. Read to see our convo and some awesome fan art.

gameinformer.com/2025/09/30/i...

Inefficient And Laborious – The Ongoing Path To Making Deltarune

We spoke with Toby Fox about his “stupid” way of making games and the big leap from Undertale to Deltarune.

gameinformer.com

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 11d

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 12d

"Bleak" hardly captures it. Hell: Kaleb Horton offered more insight and perspective about the fading of the 20th century when he eulogized Toys 'R Us *in a Facebook post* than this TikTok lets slip about our sallow present, through glitches such as 'Old Noby' and "remember when we had fish tank?"

$The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end.$

But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s.

I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are.

I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.

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