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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸

@erique.bsky.social

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 9h

This, in turn, implies that Al Qaeda exists in the Digimon universe

Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 10h

The craziest Digimon lore is that it is canon that Mimi was a front line volunteer emergency rescuer after the 9/11 attacks

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 3d

Twink Superboy isn't real he can't hurt you
Twink Superboy:

Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 4d

?!??!?!?!?!?!????

Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 4d

he said “I would like to take this opportunity to disclaim paternity once and for all. I refuse to pay alimony to those bastard developments. They destroyed our cities.”

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 4d

Anonymous student: can you stay political unbiased in lecture

Me: the person who designed the modern mall was a Socialist Jew who fled Austria during the Third Reich and envisioned malls as utopic third spaces, but by the 1970s he denounced what capitalism and consumerism had transformed malls into

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 4d

I had a dream where Cole Escola and Tori Amos competed on Drag Race together.....someone get me on the phone with World of Wonder

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 6d

What in the "blue lives matter" nonsense is this shit

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 6d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 6d

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 8d

Update: I did not have time in lecture to show this slide

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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 8d

"All reactionaries are paper tigers." – Mao Zedong

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 9d

I apologize in advance to my students for me fujoshi'ing out in class tomorrow

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 9d

Guys I need you all to not judge me for what I'm about to say but.... Stuart Hall was kinda daddy.....

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final grrrl 𓂀 @charlotlaveau.bsky.social · 11d

Legendary Trans Activist Miss Major Has Been Hospitalized With Sepsis. Here’s How to Help

She was also diagnosed with a blood clot.

www.them.us

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 11d

What if I responded and said yes I'd love to hear how trans theory has shaped your research on "autonomous vehicles"

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 11d

I love getting AI-written cold emails from prospective grad students b/c WDYMMMMMM my work on trans media studies intersects with your interest in self-driving cars?????

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Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 18d

nothing makes you feel quite as fish as walking past a group of white girls who are all taller than you

Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 19d

i love teaching media studies

Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 26d

yeah sex is cool but have you ever untangled a ball of yarn

Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 27d

cursed slide of the week

Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 27d

"If you learn AI for long enough, AI will learn you back" — Nietzsche, probably

Dr. Erique Zhang // 张尔宁 🇵🇸 @erique.bsky.social · 28d

«Une vie à t'aimer» has no business going that hard