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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them

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SEX SOUNDS (open access): https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045193/sex-sounds/ Professes music theory & tech, electronic music area coordinator at UDayton 🏳️‍⚧️🎾🎛️🎻🎹

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · Jun 24

Time for my favorite review of Sex Sounds (first public review of my book)

A good reads love you by popular stating"no Depeche mode here folks, just an academic positively upper own butt writing largely about music you either wouldn't listen to for enjoyment or wouldn't consider electronic music, depending on what part of the book he reference. As much as I enjoy critical theory, postmodernism, and modern academia is interest telling everyone's story from as many intersectional angles as possible, it's also become a disappointing free past to allow people to professionally spouse opinions and interpretations that are some combination of meaningless, preposterous, or Don right wrong. I recommend avoiding this book at all costs. The one the bright side it was a fast read with the amount of footnotes and appendix material.

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 10h

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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bitch-king of angmar (her) @wetropolitan.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Julie Andrews as Maria Von Trapp with her arms raised and singing in the hills of Austria

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone live in this country? The gardens, however, are immaculate. (also, do not click on that hashtag, oops 😆)

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2d

The lawyer representing Rep. Bost argued electoral candidates have standing to challenge such laws.

Justice Brown Jackson countered that elections are for the people to decide who governs them. “It’s not the candidates who are the object, it is the voters.”

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe we'll finally learn how to pronounce it!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d

During its July 2025 Prime Day event, Amazon shipped an estimated 450 million items. What it fails to report about its Prime Day operations, however, are the guaranteed spikes in carbon emissions that will linger in the atmosphere for centuries.

If You’re Thinking of Snagging an Amazon Prime Day Deal, Stop and Read This First

Amazon’s emissions are rapidly rising, and its Prime Day deliveries play a significant role in stoking climate change.

truthout.org

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 2d

Landed in Luxembourg for #SHOT, took a nap, ready to explore... historical steel mills! What else should I do?

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 2d

Georgia Mann on #BBCradio3 has @musicasecreta.bsky.social new album as Album of the Week. Yesterday she quoted from the @lauriestras.bsky.social article about the source www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/articl...

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Reacher from the Jack Lagoon @daltondeschain.com · 3d

It's not that I won't vote for Gavin Newsom if he's the presidential candidate. It's that if the Democratic Party chooses him, then they are communicating to me that they actively do not want my vote, and believe they don't need it. I will simply honor their wishes

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus @scmsqtc.bsky.social · 3d

The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize!

Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due
Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected
Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication

MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

"We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context."

Indigenous nations plan tariff-free trade corridor across US-Canada border.

From our friends at @nationalobserver.com:

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

www.motherjones.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING:

The Supreme Court just rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.

The decision means that her conviction and 20-year criminal sentence remain in place.

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 4d

I would pay actual money to see this alternate future PM Satie. Maybe just in a movie, though.

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𝔰𝔦𝔣 🎃 @meowpa.ws · 10d

❗ Quick reminder that age verification on Bluesky is fully client side!
Meaning you can easily get around it!

More on it here!
gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...

#bluesky #age #verification #bypass

👇 Repost so people who need it will find this post! 👇

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Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them @shlomitsofer.bsky.social · 5d

Clearly, they didn't take em down enough.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 5d

They took down the Klan.

FBI cuts ties with Southern Poverty Law Center after MAGA push

The SPLC is the second civil rights group to lose its affiliation with the agency this week.

www.politico.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 5d

New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia

“Authored by an Australian and international team of clinicians, ethicists and researchers, the report argues that the Cass Review’s recommendations are plagued by methodological, conceptual and ethical flaws”

New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia - Star Observer

A major new peer-reviewed report warns that the Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide Australia's care for trans young people.

www.starobserver.com.au

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5d

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 5d

Oh crap, it's back at #1 in movies again today on Netflix too. That's awesome!

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Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 8d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 6d

"Protests Are Highly Effective, Met Police Confirm"

Itsalladeepend @itsalladeepend.bsky.social · 6d

This article is absolutely bananas - 'There aren’t enough of us. Hard-working police officers are continually having days off cancelled, working longer shifts and being moved from other areas to facilitate these protests.' - Paula Dodds, chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation.

‘Enough is enough’ says chief of police federation over Palestine Action rally

Met Police said many of those arrested needed carrying away after they refused to walk from Trafalgar Square – but Amnesty International says arresting hundreds of people at the demonstration is ‘not ...

www.independent.co.uk

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 6d

In law that is called a chemical weapon and it is classified as a weapon of mass destruction.

The Chemical Weapons Convention is not unclear on the matter.

We’ve become so used to being attacked with WMDs by our own government that we sort of internally normalize it. But these are WMD attacks.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 6d

The use of "female" as a noun is always a big red flag that we're about to get into some pseudoscience bullshit.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 7d

Sure, literally will not matter in big boy war

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 6d

Same here.

We still have a very long way to go, in my opinion, but views about gender and sexuality have shifted radically even since the late 2000s and early 2010s.. which is why the pushback's been so harsh and unrelenting.

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 6d

It is wild to me, thinking back, how conservative everything was and how narrow the spectrum of ideas we were exposed to.

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