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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Miami #NoKings

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 2d

headed to Miami #NoKings on a metro full of people headed the same way. Late start, full of heart!

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Generally, we are the dorks of the nerds, but some of us are geeks.

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 5d

Ten bucks says not a chance. (not a real bet; just cynical AF)

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 7d

I see it’s marketed as a “hotel housekeeping service” set. A
botched attempt to make kids aware that others work while they play?

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 7d

I can’t…. Tell me it was 50 years ago and it’s not long ago enough.

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe because we would expect it to be really cheap but also piled high with expensive toppings? (Now I’m hungry and will go eat a leftover potato.)

Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 7d

Academics and graduate students: have you ever found your own writing incorrectly flagged as AI generated? If so, how did you handle it?

Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 8d

“NARA’s their next target.”

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 8d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 8d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 8d

Do you have particular plants that attract these birds?

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 11d

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 13d

moonset

Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 15d

Why? What does this facilitate, and how? (Sincere question, because I don’t see how a website alone without aggressive social media self-promotion does anything.)

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 16d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump casts shadow over Nobels as prize-awarding body warns academic freedom at risk

US president has proposed measures that Royal Swedish Academy of Science VP says will ‘have devastating effects’

www.theguardian.com

Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 16d

What are the criteria for influencer, here?

Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 22d

A taste of what might be in store:

www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-i...

Government Shutdown Forces MIA Airport to Close a Terminal

Donald Trump's tantrum over his absurd border wall has now made life even more frustrating for Miamians

www.miaminewtimes.com

Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 23d

GWAR is still around??? I feel old. Or young. I can’t figure out which.

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · 27d

Me. My daughter was mildly disappointed this morning. (Junior Year in HS is hard.)

Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · Sep 19

Youngster. I’ve done that for years.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 17

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?

PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?

KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · Sep 16

Florida is now open carry. But some spaces are still not. Including courthouses, schools.

www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/15/f...

Open carry is ‘law of the state,’ Florida attorney general says

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said people being able to openly carry guns is “the law of the state,” after a ruling last week that a longstanding ban was unconstitutional.

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social · Sep 16

Faculty placed on leave at FAU and fired at UM
www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/14/s...

South Florida universities take action over Charlie Kirk comments

Florida Atlantic University put a tenured faculty member on leave pending an investigation, and the University of Miami announced an employee’s departure.

www.sun-sentinel.com