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Chrissy Wiley @chrissyone.bsky.social · 19h

Never give up hop 🐸

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 18h

Diane Keaton, photographed by Peter Basch, 1968

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

Weirde how we let a bunche of nerds monetize conversation

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Katy Glenn Bass @katygb.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ve never been to a big protest like No Kings before: It feels great to be part of a big gathering of people who want to change things. It sparks joy, and resolve for the long fight ahead. Sometimes there are dance parties. You could be the one who starts the dance party! Just show up!

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

If you can show up on October 18, you should. The country is shifting. The battleship is turning. And while, yes, usually mass street protests don't do much, there are exceptions.

And sometimes those exceptions go down in history.

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haylie swenson @hayliebswenson.bsky.social · 2d

Just realized Jason Bateman's character in Black Rabbit is his character in Juno 20+ years in the future

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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haylie swenson @hayliebswenson.bsky.social · 2d

I don't have time to write this, but someone should write about the Wes Anderson-ness of One Battle After Another. The French 75! The Christmas Adventurer's Club! Benicio del Toro!!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

anyway I'm off to go dump all my deepest secrets into an AI therapist bot run by a sociopathic technofascist

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

The current paradigm of "AI"— all of its, e.g., embedded values, design, cultural deployment, & structural affordances— has been repeatedly demonstrated to harm both critical skills development & the structure & maintenance of the relational social fabric.

That sounds pretty anti-pedagogical, to me

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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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 7d

michael?
peter.

Page from fox in socks by dr seuss. Drawing of weird little four legged bugs with faces.
Text reads:
What do you know about tweetle beetles?
Well
When tweetle beetles fight, it's called
a tweetle beetle battle.

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Playoffs Eschewer @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 4d

not to skate over the dumb homophobia here but there’s this bizarre delusion in America that cities (people living close together for communal and economic reasons, a mode of living as old as civilization) are unnatural while suburbs (hermetic sprawl invented circa 1950) are natural

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 4d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 5d

The cuts at the National Endowment for the Humanities go far deeper than any of these agencies - almost 70% of 179 people were terminated, despite no change to the agency's budget.

There were no savings here - only idealogical destruction. #NEH

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

How much smaller the federal workforce is now vs. a year ago
Ed Dept 42%
OPM 33%
HUD 31%
Treasury 29%
Defense (civilian jobs) 22%
Small Biz Admin 21%
Energy 20%
Interior 15%
HHS 14%
SSA 11%
EPA 10%
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Much Smaller Is the Federal Work Force? Shutdown Plans Offer a Clue.

The number of federal employees has been trimmed by thousands since President Trump took office, according to contingency plans drawn up by federal agencies.

www.nytimes.com

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haylie swenson @hayliebswenson.bsky.social · 4d

Spaghetti Os

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 4d

I love that the Zoology department was integral to finding text about Merlin that was otherwise invisible to the human eye.

Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book

The ‘extremely significant' text was hidden for centuries.

www.popsci.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5d

I'm genuinely starting to think that the people who say they want to see American's really fight back are really saying they want a specific kind of visible, stereotypical depiction of protest, and have zero zero tolerance for the kind of groundwork it takes to make change happen.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5d

Yesssss www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...

Groups Sue E.P.A. Over Canceled $7 Billion for Solar Energy

www.nytimes.com

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haylie swenson @hayliebswenson.bsky.social · 5d

Struggling to capture the full glory of this t-shirt from the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

A white t-shirt with a cartoon illustration of a rat scaling the Empire State Building like King Kong. Large text reads “RAT’S AMORE”

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haylie swenson @hayliebswenson.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s my conspiracy theory about Wood: I think it was written for Sabrina but she already had a song about her thighs

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8d

smart people: this is a violation of the constitution
me: the antecedent of “you” is the ice officers and cops

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 8d

Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 8d

Repost to showe thyne appreciacioun for the social media folks at Merriam Webster, the best arounde!

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · Sep 3

curly hair is an adventure because sometimes you wake up and it looks great and sometimes you wake up and it looks incomprehensibly bad and there is no way to know what kind of day today is going to be until, like Perseus, you tiptoe to take a fateful look into the mirror

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haylie swenson @hayliebswenson.bsky.social · 8d

YES!

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haylie swenson @hayliebswenson.bsky.social · 9d

THIS. I'm honestly thinking about going again, it was so so cathartic and wonderful to watch in DC, right now.

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