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@oddletters.bsky.social

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politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere. enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press writing - https://oddletters.com/ stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch i curse a lot he/they

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · Nov 10

hi new people! there are a lot of you! here are some linked threads re my work that you might be interested in:

1. maybe you're interested in ddos and digital activism? i wrote a book on that, which you can download for free!

bsky.app/profile/oddl...

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · Nov 8

apropos of nothing: ten years ago almost to the day i published a book on disruptive digital activism and ddos, and you can download the full pdf for free from my website oddletters.com/the-coming-s...

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 16h

MY HEAD HURTS

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 17h

i will dm you!!

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 17h

the government shutdown is preventing me from bothering the archivists at NARA 😭

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 18h

legitimately pissed that i had to interrupt this snipe hunt to eat something this isn't fair

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 18h

ERIN i have to talk to you about a paper im working on!!!

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 18h

no i havent found it yet

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 18h

hashtag historian posting

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 18h

some of you did not spend your entire morning trying to track down the transcripts of a single department of labor hearing in february 1980 on ERISA plan assets and it shows

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 1d

"you cant judge me just based on who i follow" BITCH IM JUDGING YOU ON THE COMPANY YOU CHOOSE TO KEEP YOUR FOLLOW LIST ISNT LIKE PUBLIC TELEVISION YOU MAKE IT YOURSELF ON PURPOSE

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 1d

i keep telling my therapist things about, like, how academic job searches work or how tenure review works and he just blinks and says "this seems like an unhealthy amount of secrecy"

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 1d

"but i have to follow them for research" THAT'S WHAT ALTS ARE FOR YOU ABSOLUTE KNOB

FUCK. OFF.

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 1d

if you follow jesse s*ngal, i dont want to see your shit and i dont want you to see me. youre either an active threat to me and mine or so oblivious that you are a threat to everyone around you. i dont like you. you can follow whoever you want to but i still dont like you. its legal to not like you.

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 1d

i see we are doing "i subscribe to playboy for the articles" but for : checks notes : following jesse s*ngal and the heritage foundation instead

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 1d

oh man i print e v e r y t h i n g. i work with hand annotations on printouts basically exclusively

☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 1d

my freshmen basically structure their entire lives around not printing things out bc the university makes it so expensive for them to do that. im looking into coursepacks for the next time i teach this course

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone still make coursepacks for students?

Super common when I was in college & grad school, but I imagine putting PDFs on the LMS has mostly (entirely?) replaced it. Anyone just printing out everything for them?