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andré carrington
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Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · Dec 8
You can pre-order Audiofuturism from @fordhampress.bsky.social now!
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lollardfish.bsky.social
R1: No we're not hiring on the tenure track because our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
lisadiedrich.bsky.social Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2h
"Warren stated that job outcomes were a 'key factor' in the decision-making process—within the previous decade, only a 'tiny percentage' of PhD students who graduated from the LCS program went on to receive tenure track at an R1 institution." An absurd metric & sign of the conservatism of higher ed.
February 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
andrecarrington.bsky.social
This seems significant
schwanksta.com Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 4h
Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart.

www.propublica.org/article/habe...
A line chart going from Jan 2009 to Jan 2026 showing very few cases until Trump’s second term, where the line takes off nearly vertically, showing more than 6,600 cases in Jan 2026 alone.
February 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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komadori.bsky.social
If it can't do that - and the evidence is that it can't - then the Government should not be allowed to force an ID scheme on us. It's not competent to do so.
5/5
February 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
andrecarrington.bsky.social
Yes, the Stonewall Inn, that historic site where... someone... did... something... with respect to law enforcement
February 10, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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fresques.bsky.social
My team @propublica.org is hiring.

We're looking for a data reporter itching to do ambitious, impactful investigations that uncover abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust. Maybe that's you? grnh.se/iunysgl96us
Data Reporter
Remote, United States
grnh.se
February 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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actioncookbook.com
2020 twitter post from @actioncookbook: "Every article about a major retailer going bankrupt spends eight paragraphs musing “I guess millennials just don’t buy shirts?” before casually mentioning a private equity acquisition three years ago in one sentence at the end"
February 10, 2026 at 2:08 PM
andrecarrington.bsky.social
Got accepted for the Academic Track at LA Con V, the World Science Fiction Convention in August. See you in Anaheim! @laworldcon.bsky.social
Meme from Mean Girls with three women in a car, caption reads Get in lower, we're going to WorldCon
February 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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kentremendous.bsky.social
Santa was WHITE
Football is OURS
Skittles are CURRENCY
Nermal was CUTER than GARFIELD
Plants are NOT ALIVE
Vests should be worn BACKWARDS
Lakes are IMAGINARY
Jumping is BAD
Shoes are for HANDS
mikenellis.bsky.social Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 20h
Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.
February 10, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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johannawinant.bsky.social
CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!
Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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lataco.bsky.social
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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ilovepets420.bsky.social
youtu.be/o2vdCm4tZDA?...

It's just so happy
[I'll Be Glad When You're Dead] You Rascal You
YouTube video by Louis Armstrong - Topic
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February 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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jadeabliss.bsky.social
💃🏽🙌🏾
a woman in a white dress is dancing in front of a crowd with the words " can you feel a brand new day " below her
Alt: From The Wiz, Diana Ross is dancing in front of a crowd with the words "can you feel a brand new day" below her
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:56 PM
andrecarrington.bsky.social
My colleague points out the equally relevant Luis Figueroa's book Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico uncpress.org/978080785610...
andrecarrington.bsky.social andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 23h
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
bookshop.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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wingfoot1618.bsky.social
The Taste of Empire, Collingham. Hits on this also
February 9, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
now that's the power of a union
February 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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cam.bio
Highly recommend the Big Sugar podcast which explores how Cuban sugar barons came to Florida after the revolution and set up more sugar plantations where they illegally underpaid migrant Jamaican workers while we line their pockets with artificially high prices
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
February 9, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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elidibus.amaurot.social
Sweetness and Power mentioned! Sidney Mintz was a deeply important cultural anthropologist whose work on food history has greatly inspired me in what I want to do. Please please read this book and some of his others. He’s written some of the best histories of the Caribbean and colonization.
February 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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gregpak.net
Shut down all of these concentration camps and provide everyone inside with medical care and US citizenship as reparations, if they want it.
sarasilverstein.bsky.social Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 2d
One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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stuartkreilly.bsky.social
Dude

The guy that wrote this news article was fucking DONE

aftermath.site/steam-machin...
The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails
'The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing'
aftermath.site
February 6, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
I kid you not, when I TA'd for a U.S. History, post-1865 course taught by a Latino Studies prof, everything, and I mean everything, always came back around to sugar.

And he was right.
andrecarrington.bsky.social andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 23h
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
bookshop.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
andrecarrington.bsky.social
One of the greats
February 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM
andrecarrington.bsky.social
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
bookshop.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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courtneymilan.com
There are some great threads going about how awful sugar plantations were.

I just want to add something as a historical romance author: every time you see someone adding a sugar cube to tea in a historical romance, think of those threads and the blood-soaked cost of the sugar.
February 9, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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heymrsbond.com
My favorite days on the internet are when people across diasporas come together to prove, yet again, that whiteness really isn’t all that.

#SuperBowl
February 9, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Keep seeing the misinformation that this was Liam on here--has been reported that it was not
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d
A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...
Screenshot of a recent Instagram post from the account of child model Lincoln Fox showing a photo of a five-year-old in a brown shirt and blue pants with the caption, "I booked a cool gig! Can't wait to share it with you guys."
February 9, 2026 at 2:47 AM