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sensitive comrade | taga ilog hanggang dagat assntprof @ unc-ch music/american studies cultural history of the atomic bomb and nuclear age, screen media, opera views my own etc. etc.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · Jan 10

Everyone wish Max Furheimer and Teddy Adormeow a happy 4th birthday!
“To achieve the condition of an animal at the level of reflection—that is freedom. Freedom means not having to work.”

abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 3d

What even is a Vice Provost of AI? (wrong answers only) www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

Development of a new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill

The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...

www.unc.edu

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 3d

He’s a class traitor (positive)!

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 3d

My niece and her imaginary friend

Hyeonjin Park (they/them) @hyeonjin.bsky.social · 3d

Honey is not happy about this recent addition next to her 😂

(Many thanks to @gatsbea.bsky.social for the very belated birthday gift though 🤭)

A calico cat looking slightly displeased next to a plushie of Derpy from Kpop Demon Hunters.

abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 4d

Civic duty etc etc Durham does have the best town puns with the nickname Bull City.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 9d

I’m sad to say that Filipino restaurant is closed. I really miss my kababayan… I’ve never not lived around Filipinos from Manila to Chicago. It’s just not the same without my fam, my food, my culture

abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · Mar 15

I’m feeling very grateful. A new Filipino restaurant opened near me and I made friends with the GM who is from cavite and I got to speak tagalog and the Filipina next to me was also from BF Resort in Las Pinas where I was born. Kababayan in NC! I am happy!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 10d

Good news! The full table of contents for THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT, edited by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolommeo, is now available on the @sunypress.bsky.social website: sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-.... Follow the link or see next post for screenshots. 🤗

The Campus Crisis Toolkit

sunypress.edu

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10d

Yes yes yes. A lesson in this even for people who aren’t CEOs but who are a little bit of a somebody.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10d

Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️ @jennschiffer.com · 10d

i am catching up on the moderation discourse and it’s really annoying that this episode basically goes back to leadership trying to have a goof and a gag. there’s not a lot of room-reading happening which comes across as immature and unprofessional

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 10d

omg I would be so embarrassed

12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · Jul 21

Imagine "liking" "music".

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 11d

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 13d

currently researching music education in the Philippines during US colonization. Across my desk is scattered paper cranes etc from Japanese kids I met during my travels to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · Sep 11

Just a reminder that the p*lice are defunding YOU

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · Sep 11

NEW — Today, Chicago’s top lawyer Mary Richardson-Lowry is expected to announce a proposed $90 million global settlement resolving 176 police misconduct lawsuits tied to former CPD Sgt. Ronald Watts and other members of his tactical team.

This is a developing story.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

Chicago’s top lawyer proposes settling 176 lawsuits tied to ex-cop Ronald Watts • The TRiiBE

The proposed $90 million settlement offer from the city’s law department is tied to Sgt. Watts and his corrupt tactical unit.

thetriibe.com

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Sep 10

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing.

www.science.org/content/arti...