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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 6h

I fucking love buying books.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 8h

Very disappointed to hear quack doctor and failed gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen on @mprnews.org today. He would have been a dangerous governor for this state and MPR shouldn't be platforming his idiotic ideas.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 1d

My gig at @dukepress.bsky.social rules. I sell translation rights so our books end up translated all over the world, like these books on this table here. Japanese publishers make beautiful hardcovers with ribbon bookmarks, central and eastern European book designers are scary creative. Books are rad

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t believe this has to be said, in boldface no less, by an acquisitions editor requesting a review, but welcome to 2025.

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 2d

I have many thoughts, and only a few of them show up on social media. Probably less than .001% of thoughts. If you are looking for a thought or opinion on my social media feeds and do not see it, the thought might be elsewhere, such as in my head. Or the thought may not exist.

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 3d

Me posting "Thanks for the updates." in Slack with a period instead of exclamation point like a total hardass.

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 8d

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 8d

ALERT! ALERT! We're in the last days of being able to preorder my book EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED: ON ASSASSIN'S CREED, which is a book about the Assassin's Creed franchise and how games reflect and impact the real world! Click this link and use the code MN93450 for 30% off! z.umn.edu/14943

Everything Is Permitted

An entertaining deep dive into the world, gameplay, and evolution of the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video game franchiseA hooded figure stands i...

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 8d

ALERT! ALERT! We're in the last days of being able to preorder my book EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED: ON ASSASSIN'S CREED, which is a book about the Assassin's Creed franchise and how games reflect and impact the real world! Click this link and use the code MN93450 for 30% off! z.umn.edu/14943

Everything Is Permitted

An entertaining deep dive into the world, gameplay, and evolution of the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video game franchiseA hooded figure stands i...

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 8d

Via @publisherswkly.bsky.social: "Creature feature buffs will be thrilled." 🦋
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The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Takehiko Fukunaga, Yoshie Hotta, Shin'ichiro Nakamura

In the afterword to the first English-language edition of this wonderfully weird 1961 novella that inspired the classic kaiju fi...

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 10d

It's rare to see an elected official standing up for the people. Thank you!

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 10d

Very interesting to see quite a few Becka Thompson signs in my part of Longfellow. Don't quite get that yet.

Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 10d

Can't get over what a loser this guy is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Hegseth: "I don't want me son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat units with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men"

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 12d

Glad to be getting to Leif Weatherby’s much-anticipated LANGUAGE MACHINES, wish he was here on Bsky. This slaps.

Page photo of passage from book: “But it is simply not clear how language is grounded and what role sensory information plays for humans, let alone for symbol systems running on statistical pattern recognition. As in so many cases that we will see throughout this book, critiques of Al are too often made in the name of cognitive unknowns, presumed capacities that humans possess about which we hardly possess a scientific consensus.”

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 15d

I live .7 miles and across Hiawatha from the Roosevelt High field and on some nights like tonight I can hear the loudspeaker clear as day.

Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 16d

The last few days I’ve been unpacking my childhood mammal skull collection, retrieved from the family barn in northern Minnesota last weekend.

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 16d

The inability of some faculty to see beyond their own tenured noses enough to notice that it isn't business as usual around academia.

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 17d

I've been thinking a lot about "debate" as a word and concept, as a stand-in. Lincoln-Douglas, debate teams, the guises of debate. Who gets to debate about whom?

Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 18d

These "Live Updates" the Minnesota Star Tribune keeps doing about events that really don't require live updates is so cringe.

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · Aug 19

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 18d

Let me guess. Inskeep.

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 19d

Great picks. The Scenic Route is monumental.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social and Emily Holloway for so skillfully interviewing myself and my 3 coauthors! Nice summary of how we got to this decade long project.

Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎧NEW on UAR Remixed! Listen to our interview w/ @msafri.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social Stephen Healy and Marianna Pavlovskaya, co-authors of "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation.”
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New Books: Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation — Urban Affairs Review

Featuring Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Craig Borowiak, and Stephen Healy, authors of Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation , published by University of Minne...

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 22d

It's almost like social media networks have tricked us into replacing our real communities, the strangers and real humans around us, with social networks.

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · 22d

I've been thinking a lot about how daily life in the city feels much more aggressive and antagonistic between strangers. Living at the expense of strangers.

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23d

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...

The United States Of Snitches | Defector

On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...

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