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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 18h

AAUP-Texas Tech Pushes Back Against Campus Censorship

Below is a letter from the AAUP Chapter at Texas Tech University. The AAUP-TTU Chapter is part of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which is affiliated...

aaup-texas.org

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 18h

everyone without a halloween costume googling "frog suit" all of a sudden

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 19h

i really like that when Sir Walter Raleigh needs a metaphor for the utmost despair, he picks being a historian.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 20h

Jacob de Gheyn (II), ca. 1575 - ca. 1625 (Rijksmuseum)

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 22h

god forbid someone have a hobby

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

if courses are taught by teachers, in high school classrooms, under all the usual regulations and restrictions, they are not “college”

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 1d

kiddo is finally feeling better, and so, like the swallows of Capistrano, stomping and petulant yelling have returned to the house

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 1d

god id love to be the moon

walking around, poking people in the eye with a pizza, and then blaming a moray

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed!

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 1d

(was just thinking that this kind of story hits totally differently when you've been a prof.)

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 1d

(not at you, as i hope is obvious! at this meanspirited nitwit.)

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 1d

im laughing so hard

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 1d

It is amazing how dogs transform urban geographies, too! They make you learn a totally different set of neighbors (and smells).

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 1d

henry purcell just dropped a new track

Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 1d

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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darnn.bsky.social @darnn.bsky.social · 2d

also nobody mentioned Stop! In the Name of Love

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 2d

we can hear you at the back of the room!

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 3d

write a political message on the tag of your underwear

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 3d

it's SO GOOD

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 3d

also re-reading, i misunderstood your question and then answered NEITHER the one you asked nor the one i thought you asked.

i am being very MAN ON THE INTERNET this morning, and so I apologize.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 3d

this is a bit aside from what you want (sorry!) but there's a bit in Peter Stallybrass's "Against Thinking" where he talks about the difference between thinking and working that i find to be a great description of how i thought i should be writing vs what i do now

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halloweemer @emer.bsky.social · 3d

Cursory look at my Apple Music:

Don’t Go Puttin Wishes In My Head; Pick Up That Knife; Tell me I never knew that; Feed Me; Bless Me; I’m Not Going Anywhere; Take A Sexy Picture of Me; Lord, Let That Tesla Crash; I Want You Here; Headphones On; Shut Up Kiss Me

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 3d

My brain crashes after awhile and I shift to doing something else.

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Nathan Pensky @nathanpensky.bsky.social · 3d

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away; Paint It Black; Don't Take Your Guns To Town; Pump It Up (Elvis Costello); Don't Look Back In Anger; The Twist; Let's Twist Again; The Loco-motion; Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind); Hey Jude; Don't Stop Me Now; Love Me Do; Jolene; The Weight

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 3d

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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 3d

Break it Down Again; Stand by Me; Shine on You Crazy Diamond; Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.

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