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Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9 Founder http://literarywaste.com

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · Jul 21

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · Jul 21

Actually, what the hell. Have a thread. I went to @ucu.org.uk for badly needed legal advice after being made redundant under truly dodgy circumstances. I was told I wasn’t entitled to support bc I’d only been a member for 3 months. This was news to me! I joined in Oct 2017!! 1/

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 8d

Hard to believe a journalist who asserted that Stalin was genetically-engineering fake aliens as part of an underwear gnome-quality psyop in Roswell would do something like suggest a Predator is capable of ballistic missile interception, who ever would have seen that coming.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 6h

America’s paradigmatic “Black city” was chosen as the fascists’ preliminary battleground for a reason.

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 6h

This.

Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 6h

A thousand times this! I want it to put out the bins or do my washing up, so I can do fun stuff like art, or reading or writing.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 6h

People surprised that some formerly sensible left-leaning or liberal women are now apparently full of admiration for white supremacists, rapists and genocide might note that their entry point for far right radicalisation was invariably a belief that transphobia is ‘feminist’. Just saying.

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t know about you, but this is what I’m reading tonight and boy am I excited.

May 1966 issue of True Story magazine featuring the following headlines:

MURDER IN THE MATERNITY WARD
Will my baby be next?

A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE & MARRIAGE

I must find out!
IS THE MAN I WANT TO MARRY A PRIEST?

FOUR HOURS OF LOVE
IN AN ELEVATOR
1 was trapped with a stranger— the city blacked out and our building deserted

The Magic Bed:
For each of us who shared it the same miracle happened

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The rich don't integrate

They pay so their kids don't go to your schools.

They pay for Private Healthcare so you don't see them at the hospital.

They live in guarded estates, you are not allowed in.

The only place you MIGHT see them is at work, where they order you around.

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 1d

Pithy.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so awful. I can’t bear to think about the subpar education the remaining kids are going to get. And that dept isn’t going to last the decade. The number of dept closures atm is horrifying & only set to increase.

con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 1d

Thread.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

They want to create the (false) perception that autism is preventable and curable, because that allows them to: 1) cut accommodations, services, and support for autistic kids and their families, and 2) blame mothers for autism in ways that make (1) seem justified.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of appreciating that new knowledge and considering what we might learn from having a better understanding of neurodivergence and what it might add to our understanding of the social, we’re… looking to expunge it? Eugenics 101 right here.

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 1d

And also: consider that until recently most high-functioning autistic people (I don’t like the term but am using for shorthand) were undiagnosed & didn’t know they had it. This is simply fear of a thing that was always there but is now more visible bc we have better diagnostic tools&more awareness—>

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 1d

(In other words: it’s unsafe to be at odds w/an institution looking for excuses to make cuts & if I could go back I would probably just shut up & do what I was told! A lot of the acquiescence we’re seeing is ascribable to the collapse of the job market. Which is why I’m holding onto your case4hope!)

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 1d

It’s difficult to implement that in institutions like my former 1 (I was made redundant in a fire&rehire. They hired a writing composition lecturer w/no PhD in my stead. Apart from basic xenophobia&ableism it was down to my critiques of institutional policies like their encouragement of using AI).

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 1d

Oh and ofc you’re in the US! I’m in the UK&always taught at post92s (vocational schools granted university status in ‘92, traditionally working-class, 2nd gen immigrant, minority, 1st in family). Trust in institutions is low&transactional view of degrees is high. The digital ecosystem has fed that.

con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 1d

Gee, I wonder why!

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Scottish Social Attitudes report a dramatic dip in British identity in Scotland in 2024

con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 1d

This is so great! Could I ask what kind of university it is and what demographics you have? Ie socio-economic class etc? I’m interested in/concerned abt the uneven effects of smartphonification and the applicability of our efforts to combat it to diff demographic groups.

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con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social · 2d

I was about to mention your thread about your zero-tech class, then saw you had commented. It’s really stuck with me and I’ve shared it with everyone I know.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 3d

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5d

FREE LINK NOW

This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic.

We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now

Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 5d

So @spacelawshitpost.me aka Link got banned. I just got text message.

So yeah. We stop saying things are accidents now?

Link of all people?

Apparently Jay said something to him before taking him down. He didn’t even get a chance to reply.

He sent this image.

This is sad.

“Screenshot of a social media post showing ‘Post not found’ error message at the top. Below is a post from user ‘KC Complains a Lot’ (@kcclyburn.bsky.social) that reads: ‘jay Responded to you and you haven’t copypasta’d her, Im disappointed in you link’ Posted on October 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM”

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 5d

"How is it that the country committing genocide is granted any say in the future of the people against whom it has committed genocide?"
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

www.theguardian.com

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 5d

One of the largest school districts in the nation, which was taken over by the state of Texas, deciding to shut out local media (us at chron.com and the Houston Chronicle included) should be a bigger story imo

Chron.com @chron.com · 5d

Get ready for the news, straight from the source.

HISD plans to shut out outside media, hire its own news crew

Get ready for the news, straight from the source.

bit.ly

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 5d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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🪲johnny🪲 [6 DAYS TIL SURGERY] @gatorpond.bsky.social · 5d

it's why i had to drop out of veterinary school. bc it was tanking my mental health to see so much suffering and be unable to help. this isn't compassion fatigue; this is just ppl being callous and using psych language to make themselves feel less bad about it.

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