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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · 3d

For anyone looking for a Wordle alternative, I'm really enjoying Well Word: wellwordgame.com or in-app

Well Word

Your new daily word game.

wellwordgame.com

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6d

My single Red Hood issue was the 15th best-selling comic of September, like out of all serialized comics in America. Incredibly funny.

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · 12d

What do you call a depressed cactus?

A sadguaro

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · 13d

Love sending anti-GenAI propaganda to all my fellow haters. Love you, Merriam-Webster! Best thesaurus in the game.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · 14d

If you live in the U.S., it's a good day to call reps to keep pressure on them about not caving to pressure to harm trans people: 5calls.org/issue/gender...

Protect Funding and Access to Gender-Affirming Care ⭑ 5 Calls

Updates Sept 29, 2025: Trump threatened, via social media, that he wouldn’t negotiate any funding deal that does not include restrictions on …

5calls.org

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · 14d

Hell yeah

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · 14d

Transvestigating the xenomorph in ALIENS (1986)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16d

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22d

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 22d

dudes rock

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Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · 22d

this is how you know the domestic terror stuff ain't real: nobody's that organized

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · 22d

why, dear god, have i been texting the same 5 transsexuals to get a g-d passport since november and (despite being able to/afford it) none of them have????

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 23d

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.

So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 15

Here's how to support my work:

I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social.

The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · 27d

What’s the convent’s most popular weapon?

Nunchucks.

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 28d

This is the kind of shit they'd sell you in Kakariko Village

Laura Frost - Contemporary Fiction Author @lfrostwrites.bsky.social · 28d

My cucumbers did it their way.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 28d

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · 28d

It does! After about year 5, usually, though some folks continue. Dermatologist was able to prescribe two things that helped me a lot, fwiw

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · 28d

A civil litigation attorney’s favorite dessert?

Tiramisu(e)

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 11

Meanwhile, on HBCU campuses, lockdowns after bomb threats and though I'm sure this won't interest most media types, it is worth noting: abcnews.go.com/amp/US/multi...

Multiple HBCUs under lockdown after receiving threats amid rising campus security concerns

At least six historically Black colleges enacted lockdowns after receiving threats, amid heightened concerns following recent campus violence at Utah Valley University.

abcnews.go.com

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · Sep 11

This morning’s whitewashing of Kirk’s legacy by civility-obsessed liberals isn’t just offensive to anyone targeted by Kirk (ask anyone on the ‘professor watchlist’) but dangerous. 1/2

NYT headline to Ezra Klein op-ed “Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way”

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · Sep 11

Absolutely makes sense (and I deleted that post bc I hadn’t yet seen your first reply). Fascism is here in the U.S. and it’s moving fast, already violent in ways -even the U.S.- isn’t normally, so the defensive posture is contextually where many folks are at present

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · Sep 11

Not sure if this is about the writer Gretchen Felker-Martin, but Kirk explicitly called for the deaths of trans people by vigilantes and—moments before death—said that there were “too many” trans mass shooters, so I’m not sure how the moral high ground is anything but self-destruction in his case

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · Sep 11

As an American: over the last 50 years, the religious right has successfully taken over our politics and shifted the Overton window, and even the “left” plays along. As someone raised secular humanist: I have no idea how Christians don’t see the deep gulf between Jesus and all this. It’s evident.

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · Sep 11

Lotsa people having to explain the difference between situational and dramatic irony today, and I think that’s a beautiful thing

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emrys donaldson 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @exlibris.bsky.social · Sep 9

Does it let you easily move between it and other things (like exporting the files to a computer)?

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