Mþ. Kestrel (pronounced Myth)
@kestrelsward.bsky.social
They/them. Early-career librarian/archivist living in FL & working in higher ed archives & OER. Nonbinary, queer, disabled, white, divorced, parent
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the onion newspaper is worth it for the ads alone they always kill me
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
the onion newspaper is worth it for the ads alone they always kill me
Decided this morning when I got to my mom’s to sit in her recliner & have tea while I worked, instead of propping myself up on her bed. Ended up never laying down today, so was sitting up all day (with appropriate standing breaks). So now my body is Angy. #NEISVoid
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Decided this morning when I got to my mom’s to sit in her recliner & have tea while I worked, instead of propping myself up on her bed. Ended up never laying down today, so was sitting up all day (with appropriate standing breaks). So now my body is Angy. #NEISVoid
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December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I also think this is a key reason why so many of my fellow white people can’t seem to understand that most racism is actually systemic, built into institutions & practices & community structures, & that needs to be addressed as much or more than “random Joe’s bigoted opinions”
Non-white ppl who experience racism, use the term as an adjective.
“That was racist.”
“That Karen was racist.”
White ppl use “racist” as a noun:
“I’m not a racist! I have a Black husband!”
“Trump’s a racist!”
It’s a distancing mechanism for terms they view pejoratively: “illegals,” “Blacks,” etc.
“That was racist.”
“That Karen was racist.”
White ppl use “racist” as a noun:
“I’m not a racist! I have a Black husband!”
“Trump’s a racist!”
It’s a distancing mechanism for terms they view pejoratively: “illegals,” “Blacks,” etc.
Agree. I notice white people think of racism as some indelible trait. In this conception racist is something you are, vs. racism is something you do. I think this is a reason why we fail to acknowledge the racism we are already doing or benefiting from, for fear of a Mark on Our Permanent Record.
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I also think this is a key reason why so many of my fellow white people can’t seem to understand that most racism is actually systemic, built into institutions & practices & community structures, & that needs to be addressed as much or more than “random Joe’s bigoted opinions”
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Non-white ppl who experience racism, use the term as an adjective.
“That was racist.”
“That Karen was racist.”
White ppl use “racist” as a noun:
“I’m not a racist! I have a Black husband!”
“Trump’s a racist!”
It’s a distancing mechanism for terms they view pejoratively: “illegals,” “Blacks,” etc.
“That was racist.”
“That Karen was racist.”
White ppl use “racist” as a noun:
“I’m not a racist! I have a Black husband!”
“Trump’s a racist!”
It’s a distancing mechanism for terms they view pejoratively: “illegals,” “Blacks,” etc.
Agree. I notice white people think of racism as some indelible trait. In this conception racist is something you are, vs. racism is something you do. I think this is a reason why we fail to acknowledge the racism we are already doing or benefiting from, for fear of a Mark on Our Permanent Record.
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Non-white ppl who experience racism, use the term as an adjective.
“That was racist.”
“That Karen was racist.”
White ppl use “racist” as a noun:
“I’m not a racist! I have a Black husband!”
“Trump’s a racist!”
It’s a distancing mechanism for terms they view pejoratively: “illegals,” “Blacks,” etc.
“That was racist.”
“That Karen was racist.”
White ppl use “racist” as a noun:
“I’m not a racist! I have a Black husband!”
“Trump’s a racist!”
It’s a distancing mechanism for terms they view pejoratively: “illegals,” “Blacks,” etc.
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today is the first time since 1988 that the united states is not observing world AIDS day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
December 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
today is the first time since 1988 that the united states is not observing world AIDS day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
in fact, per STAT, the state department has forbidden federal employees AND GRANTEES to not utilize any funding to promote or commemorate this day
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There is a part of me that is really really bitter that people are only now noticing how bad things are at large red state public universities like OU. It’s been this way for a long time.
Minority faculty targeted and abandoned.
Deeply conservative admins and vicious politicians.
Minority faculty targeted and abandoned.
Deeply conservative admins and vicious politicians.
Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
There is a part of me that is really really bitter that people are only now noticing how bad things are at large red state public universities like OU. It’s been this way for a long time.
Minority faculty targeted and abandoned.
Deeply conservative admins and vicious politicians.
Minority faculty targeted and abandoned.
Deeply conservative admins and vicious politicians.
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and white.
"How can I do my job under these conditions?"
By being cis: none of these fake arguments and rules will apply.
By being cis: none of these fake arguments and rules will apply.
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
and white.
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timeline cleanse
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
timeline cleanse
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Good thread highlighting some of the ways the popular narrative around Rosa Parks is wrong and elides her more radical politics and actions.
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Good thread highlighting some of the ways the popular narrative around Rosa Parks is wrong and elides her more radical politics and actions.
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It's the same way 350,000 Black women individually losing their jobs doesn't constitute any pattern we should examine.
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It's the same way 350,000 Black women individually losing their jobs doesn't constitute any pattern we should examine.
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So, this is about OU, and I think it’s a fair characterization of a problem, the solution to which cannot be “put the instructor on leave immediately.” You cannot do things that way, or the rule is that Calvin gets an A.
December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
So, this is about OU, and I think it’s a fair characterization of a problem, the solution to which cannot be “put the instructor on leave immediately.” You cannot do things that way, or the rule is that Calvin gets an A.
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The Sapphic Book Advent Calendar has started!
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From today until December 25, you get to open a new door every day, revealing:
🎁 a free ebook
🎁 a book giveaway
🎁 or a book on sale
by one of the 110 participating authors!
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From today until December 25, you get to open a new door every day, revealing:
🎁 a free ebook
🎁 a book giveaway
🎁 or a book on sale
by one of the 110 participating authors!
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Sapphic Book Advent Calendar has started!
jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...
From today until December 25, you get to open a new door every day, revealing:
🎁 a free ebook
🎁 a book giveaway
🎁 or a book on sale
by one of the 110 participating authors!
jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...
From today until December 25, you get to open a new door every day, revealing:
🎁 a free ebook
🎁 a book giveaway
🎁 or a book on sale
by one of the 110 participating authors!
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For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
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The NYPL sent out info about their FY25 numbers. NYPL includes libraries in Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island. BPL and QPL are separate systems.
1. 12.9 million visitors across NYPL.
2. 17M in circulation.
3. 2.37M cardholders.
4. 93K programs for all ages.
Our libraries need increased funding.
1. 12.9 million visitors across NYPL.
2. 17M in circulation.
3. 2.37M cardholders.
4. 93K programs for all ages.
Our libraries need increased funding.
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The NYPL sent out info about their FY25 numbers. NYPL includes libraries in Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island. BPL and QPL are separate systems.
1. 12.9 million visitors across NYPL.
2. 17M in circulation.
3. 2.37M cardholders.
4. 93K programs for all ages.
Our libraries need increased funding.
1. 12.9 million visitors across NYPL.
2. 17M in circulation.
3. 2.37M cardholders.
4. 93K programs for all ages.
Our libraries need increased funding.
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This is indeed an astonishing thing to learn but I’m distracted by the fact that Constantine appears to be executing a mic drop
Astounded to learn that York’s statue of Constantine was commissioned because York was apparently suffering from ‘a dearth of great men’ in statue form…
castinstone.exeter.ac.uk/database/s/e...
castinstone.exeter.ac.uk/database/s/e...
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is indeed an astonishing thing to learn but I’m distracted by the fact that Constantine appears to be executing a mic drop
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On World AIDS Day, I’m reminded of all the positive folks who have fought, and continue to fight, secrecy, stigma, and shame. HIV is a chronic illness conditioned by state violence, poverty, inequality, and discrimination. We can end HIV by cultivating better healthcare and more inclusive societies.
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
On World AIDS Day, I’m reminded of all the positive folks who have fought, and continue to fight, secrecy, stigma, and shame. HIV is a chronic illness conditioned by state violence, poverty, inequality, and discrimination. We can end HIV by cultivating better healthcare and more inclusive societies.
Two cats zonked out exactly where I dumped them when I extracted my legs to go potty, and one bratty boy looking at me in clear judgment for abandoning our cuddle pile. Binghe has since wandered off, disgusted by the disruption. He wasn’t even laying ON me!! #Cats
November 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Two cats zonked out exactly where I dumped them when I extracted my legs to go potty, and one bratty boy looking at me in clear judgment for abandoning our cuddle pile. Binghe has since wandered off, disgusted by the disruption. He wasn’t even laying ON me!! #Cats
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Those who think “cis” is a slur are likely the same people who object to calling heterosexual folk “straight.” When you’re used to your identity being assumed and celebrated in society, people pointing it out to you can feel oppressive. But labeling reality isn’t oppression — it’s just description.
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Those who think “cis” is a slur are likely the same people who object to calling heterosexual folk “straight.” When you’re used to your identity being assumed and celebrated in society, people pointing it out to you can feel oppressive. But labeling reality isn’t oppression — it’s just description.
👀👀👀 *makes a note*
11/11 "...our understandings of history and ourselves rest on those invisible foundations. This book clarifies those foundations [labor and theory that upholds archives] while offering new possibilities for imagining archival futures in and outside of institutional holdings."
www.weherepress.org
www.weherepress.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
👀👀👀 *makes a note*
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Si accounts sounding like the toxic ex/ friend who demanded your obedience to stay connected … then proceeds to verbally abuse and belittle you for
“Not fighting for the relationship”
“Not fighting for the relationship”
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Si accounts sounding like the toxic ex/ friend who demanded your obedience to stay connected … then proceeds to verbally abuse and belittle you for
“Not fighting for the relationship”
“Not fighting for the relationship”
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The country started falling to pieces in MONTHS the moment the got rid of the Black women and targeted the LGBTQI+ community and went into eugenics
MONTHS
and STILL STILL we can’t get folks to admit it or make plans to bring those people back .. that’s why shit is failing but …
MONTHS
and STILL STILL we can’t get folks to admit it or make plans to bring those people back .. that’s why shit is failing but …
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The country started falling to pieces in MONTHS the moment the got rid of the Black women and targeted the LGBTQI+ community and went into eugenics
MONTHS
and STILL STILL we can’t get folks to admit it or make plans to bring those people back .. that’s why shit is failing but …
MONTHS
and STILL STILL we can’t get folks to admit it or make plans to bring those people back .. that’s why shit is failing but …
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You can’t get something fixed that you don’t admit is broken and a lot of this just not admitting they didn’t think certain people being permanently underserved and targeted for extraction was “broken”
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
You can’t get something fixed that you don’t admit is broken and a lot of this just not admitting they didn’t think certain people being permanently underserved and targeted for extraction was “broken”
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Your voice -- your responses, your messaging that you will not pay for this garbage -- becomes the weapons workers in the industry need.
I guarantee you, every Reddit post, every huge Twitter thread, every article on a news site will be shared with management as an I TOLD YOU SO.
I guarantee you, every Reddit post, every huge Twitter thread, every article on a news site will be shared with management as an I TOLD YOU SO.
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Your voice -- your responses, your messaging that you will not pay for this garbage -- becomes the weapons workers in the industry need.
I guarantee you, every Reddit post, every huge Twitter thread, every article on a news site will be shared with management as an I TOLD YOU SO.
I guarantee you, every Reddit post, every huge Twitter thread, every article on a news site will be shared with management as an I TOLD YOU SO.
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English coastal towns circa 830 AD
Imagine getting home invaded over fake money.
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
English coastal towns circa 830 AD