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Nicole Guenther Discenza

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Medievalist who loves reading, especially science fiction & fantasy. I don't speak for my employer or anyone else. she/hers

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · Jun 1

Remember alt text, folks!
And if you're like me and sometimes forget, go to your Settings, find Accessibility, and have Bluesky remind you!

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 9h

The whole thread is worth reading:

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 16h

Perry asks directly whether the feds started the alleged violence in Chicago.

She asks whether it matters if the inability to execute the law was "caused by the federal agents."

Hamilton: "No, your honor."

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 15h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 16h

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 17h

Congratulations! 🎉

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 17h

Wish I could be there; NY friends, maybe you can!

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 20h

Next week in NY! Would love to see folks come out. www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/rif...

Poster for a talk at city college NY that reads, “Stripmining History:
How the 'Al' Industry Extracts the Past & What Scholars in the Humanities Can Do to Stop It
IN-PERSON & VIA ZOOM
OCTOBER 16 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM | NAC 6/316
Universities and museums have recently begun partnering with technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their Al products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises, however, are not supported by the reality of what computer vision-a foundational branch of Al-can achieve.
This talk provides an introduction to computer vision's origins in military surveillance, an overview of its development under late capitalist regimes of exploitative micro-labor, and an orientation to how computer vision works. This vision has relied on extracting history, and Drimmer argues that it is the responsibility of scholars in the humanities to be knowledgeable about the forms this extraction takes.
Sonja Drimmer
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst”

Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 17h

Drop what you’re doing and read this important and informative thread:

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 17h

They did this to a US citizen. If he were not a citizen, we’d probably never have heard about it.

Miranda should not have been treated this way.
No one else should be either.

Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

We've all seen that movie scene. It's usually written that way to indicate who the antagonists are.

www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 20h

Next week in NY! Would love to see folks come out. www.ccny.cuny.edu/calendar/rif...

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Joe Discenza @jdiscenza.bsky.social · 21h

Welcome to my OnlyBeans page #ProofOfCat

White cat lounging on her side, showing pink toe beans

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

We've all seen that movie scene. It's usually written that way to indicate who the antagonists are.

www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 1d

Happy anniversary!

a greeting card that says happy anniversary with balloons and confetti

Alt: a greeting card that says happy anniversary with balloons and confetti

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 1d

If only we could cancel @washingtonpost.com more than once!

Shame!

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 1d

I knew she’d prepared, but I thought she’d put in the time to memorize this stuff! Silly me!

Also, I remember when officials called to testify did NOT regularly yell at and insult senators. Where are the civility police now?

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking news: Jim Comey has a trial set for January 5, 2026 — but his lawyers will try to disqualify Lindsey Halligan, the attorney President Trump appointed at the very last minute to indict the former FBI director.

Comey's team will try to have the case dismissed for "vindictive prosecution."

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

An unexpected archaeological discovery in Oxfordshire County Council’s proposed new HQ could transform our understanding of Oxford’s history. Madeline Odent @oldenoughtosay.com unearths a fascinating site – and floats an intriguing possibility…

oxfordclarion.uk/have-we-foun...

Have we found St Frideswide’s Priory?

An unexpected discovery at Oxfordshire County Council’s proposed new HQ could transform our understanding of Oxford’s history. Madeline Odent explains more… Oxfordshire County Council received some u...

oxfordclarion.uk

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d

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Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 2d

Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa, Leading to Death Threats for Him and His Family
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Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa

Rutgers University professor Mark Bray no longer feels safe at home.

newrepublic.com

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Nicole Guenther Discenza @ndiscenza1.bsky.social · 2d

If you're a fan of The Oatmeal, you already know it will be gross and offensive as well as thought-provoking and hilarious.
If you're not, now you know before you click. Your choice.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 2d

Vermont Senator Peter Welch asks why the attorney general of the United States has zero apparent interest in figuring out what happened to the $50,000 undercover FBI agents gave border czar Tom Homan.

She... doesn't take it well.

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