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andré carrington
@andrecarrington.bsky.social
Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic

andrecarringtonphd.com

insta: audio.futurism
Pinned
Make a place for me on the Ark of Bones.
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Verdin were everywhere I went in Las Vegas, but were still hard to get good looks at. They were also busy seemingly getting their nests ready.

#birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #wildlife #birding #TRAHR
February 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Birds I saw in & around Joshua Tree National Park: Phainopepla!

🦉
February 15, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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Also, by reducing professorship to just the teaching, that makes it much easier to replace with contingent labor. After which it's that much easier to tell them what to teach.
What I need people to understand is when legislators argue that professors should teach more and research less, it's not because they think our research is actually worthless. It's because they don't want anyone to be able to develop or disseminate expertise that goes against their party line.
February 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities.

Reposts appreciated!
February 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond Sponsors #SB48 to Keep ICE off of School Campuses, Protecting School Attendance and Funding Amid Deportation Threats

www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/y...
SPI Supports SB 48 to Keep ICE Off School Campuses - Year 2024 (CA Dept of Education)
State Superintendent Tony Thurmond sponsors Senate Bill 48 to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement off of school campuses, protecting school attendance and funding amid deportation threats.
www.cde.ca.gov
December 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Also, fascinating that- among benefit societies and mutual aid societies* in NY state in the 1910s, the only ones that codified maternity leave for women workers were run by Black women (Hoffman 2001; discussion in Chapter 1)

*frequently segregated by race and sex, BTW
February 15, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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this scene gives me chills each time I watch it. Casablanca was a contemporary film: it was set in 1941 and released in 1942. They were celebrating neighbors and compatriots across the globe. It'd be like releasing a film next year about what's happening in Minnesota

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
February 15, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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I wrote and @palletgx.bsky.social illustrated a comic! We're both trans.

Ash & Saturn is about trans and queer heroes in the 1880s fighting Vampires using alien tech and info from the future!

Check out this page.

Launches on Kickstarter March 1st:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...
February 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
I had the good fortune to visit Joshua Tree National Park with bae. Some nice views. (I have to get my camera lens cleaned!)
February 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM
OK. "Regents of the University of California Retirement Plan" should not be invested in the company that flies people to/through torture prison.

Sigh.
February 15, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again
She fucking killed an entire family while speeding in her Mercedes SUV and they’re not going to even take her license away??
February 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Futurism was literally invented by fascists, then communists and Black people *specifically* took it to task -- why do these people not read?!
First line of the introduction: “‘Conservative futurism’ might seem to be a comical oxymoron.”

SIGH.

James, let me stop you right there. Alvin Toffler was conservative. Herman Kahn was conservative. I have trouble thinking of a single brand-name futurist who WASN’T conservative.
February 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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When there’s a feud going on and you have no idea what’s going on.
a black and white dog is sitting on a couch with its tongue out and says `` wait ! what ?? '' .
ALT: a black and white dog is sitting on a couch with its tongue out and says `` wait ! what ?? '' .
media.tenor.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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a fair amount would ride on whether you classify people as high/middle/low income relative to national income distributions or something more local but it would come with the perk of more honestly talking about what we're talking about
February 14, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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a good question that I wanna give my two cents on here: look I don't expect either regular folks or pollsters to use a Marxist definition but I'd be immensely more sympathetic grouping people are working class based on their income or self ID

bsky.app/profile/west...
A reasonable meta-question, what is an actually useful definition of the American working class these days? Definitely feel like the 20th century categories have broken down and 19th century are irreparably antiquated. And what does cross class solidarity imply?
flagging that the definition of "working class" Marquette used here is "non college graduate" here, but in any case the analysis here seems plausible to me
February 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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AND STAY DOWN
BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shuts down due to lack of funding
February 14, 2026 at 5:30 AM
February 14, 2026 at 6:15 AM
My esteemed colleague Malik Gaines posted this from Black Reconstruction recently & it still hits.
"I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience."
We been knew.

archive.org/details/blac...
Black reconstruction; an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 : Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1...
First edition.
archive.org
February 14, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.

Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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My suspicion is that when billionaires say "A.i." will eliminate 10 percent of jobs, they're just telegraphing their pre-existing desire and plans to cut their payroll by 10 percent and pocket the difference.
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