The Gurgling Cod (he/him)
@thegurglingcod.bsky.social
jonathanbeecherfield.net
JBF IRL. (Jonathan Beecher Field) The Internet's only early Americanist. Acting Dean of Weird Kids. Uncle. Assistant SID, PTKU. Early American settler colonialism, charcuterie, stonemasonry, mutts.
JBF IRL. (Jonathan Beecher Field) The Internet's only early Americanist. Acting Dean of Weird Kids. Uncle. Assistant SID, PTKU. Early American settler colonialism, charcuterie, stonemasonry, mutts.
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OK coaches. John Brown Look for the Helpers is back, in stock as a magnet. A handsome accent for your Tahoe, fridge, Escalade, desk or Raskog. Want one?
1) Drop a donation in any amount to a diaper fund.
2) Dm me your address. I don't want screenshot or amount.
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1) Drop a donation in any amount to a diaper fund.
2) Dm me your address. I don't want screenshot or amount.
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
My friend who is an actual Marielito, and ex MP, gave my WASP ass the green light.
February 11, 2026 at 12:04 AM
My friend who is an actual Marielito, and ex MP, gave my WASP ass the green light.
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Not surprising from a historical perspective, at all. "Labor saving" technology never actually reduces the amount of work that people are expected to do. It increases it. That's because A) work is fundamentally a social relationship and B) technological innovation creates new problems to be fixed
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
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February 10, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Not surprising from a historical perspective, at all. "Labor saving" technology never actually reduces the amount of work that people are expected to do. It increases it. That's because A) work is fundamentally a social relationship and B) technological innovation creates new problems to be fixed
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This is bleak as hell. Who cares about literature when you’ve got computers?
Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty
the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...
Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty
the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...
Literature and Cultural Studies program cut, replaced with Computational Cultural Studies - The Tartan
In Feb. 2024, Richard Scheines, Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, placed an administrative hold on admissions to Carnegie
the-tartan.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
This is bleak as hell. Who cares about literature when you’ve got computers?
Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty
the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...
Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty
the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...
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Dr. Aletta Jacobs was born #OTD in 1854.
+ First woman officially to attend a Dutch university
+ First female physician in the #Netherlands, 1879
+ Founded the world's first birth control clinic, Amsterdam, 1882
+ Led women's rights & suffrage campaigns
#WomenInSTEM
+ First woman officially to attend a Dutch university
+ First female physician in the #Netherlands, 1879
+ Founded the world's first birth control clinic, Amsterdam, 1882
+ Led women's rights & suffrage campaigns
#WomenInSTEM
February 9, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Dr. Aletta Jacobs was born #OTD in 1854.
+ First woman officially to attend a Dutch university
+ First female physician in the #Netherlands, 1879
+ Founded the world's first birth control clinic, Amsterdam, 1882
+ Led women's rights & suffrage campaigns
#WomenInSTEM
+ First woman officially to attend a Dutch university
+ First female physician in the #Netherlands, 1879
+ Founded the world's first birth control clinic, Amsterdam, 1882
+ Led women's rights & suffrage campaigns
#WomenInSTEM
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I read this and my entire body just... froze for a minute
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I read this and my entire body just... froze for a minute
What a treat to have @glitterburrito.bsky.social in the virtual building for Electronic Media class today!
February 10, 2026 at 10:08 PM
What a treat to have @glitterburrito.bsky.social in the virtual building for Electronic Media class today!
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“People need to reject this kind of disingenuous framing and recognize the potential end result: a scary overreach of the surveillance state designed to catch us all in its net.”
No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare
Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a heartf...
www.eff.org
February 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“People need to reject this kind of disingenuous framing and recognize the potential end result: a scary overreach of the surveillance state designed to catch us all in its net.”
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After all the invertebrates we've been seeing driving dem leadership, it's so heartening to see these public servants doing their jobs with appropriate fury.
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
After all the invertebrates we've been seeing driving dem leadership, it's so heartening to see these public servants doing their jobs with appropriate fury.
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Goldman: You said references to ICE as secret police encourages threats. The problem is you have it backwards sir. People are making valid observations about your tactics which are outright fascist. If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime, stop acting like one.
February 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Goldman: You said references to ICE as secret police encourages threats. The problem is you have it backwards sir. People are making valid observations about your tactics which are outright fascist. If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime, stop acting like one.
I don’t want the maple creamee market to get out of hand
Don't know if I should tell people we have drive thru boudin ball availability around here.
While Buffalo wings are now a ubiquitous app all over the country, not every regional food goes national. What cuisine from YOUR region do you most want to share with the country/world?
February 10, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I don’t want the maple creamee market to get out of hand
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The MCA should respond by installing a Wesley Willis drawing of Comiskey Park
In what will likely be a major draw for the museum, the Art Institute of Chicago on Tuesday installed its first-ever Norman Rockwell painting, and it depicts the Chicago Cubs.
The Art Institute of Chicago just hung its first Norman Rockwell, and it depicts the Cubs
chicago.suntimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:46 PM
The MCA should respond by installing a Wesley Willis drawing of Comiskey Park
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I've been hearing people who are witnessing the impacts of AI on coding saying, "Aside from physical labor, the thing people should be focusing on is...mmm...I don't know what to call it..."
...and then they haltingly describe a liberal arts education.
...and then they haltingly describe a liberal arts education.
February 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
I've been hearing people who are witnessing the impacts of AI on coding saying, "Aside from physical labor, the thing people should be focusing on is...mmm...I don't know what to call it..."
...and then they haltingly describe a liberal arts education.
...and then they haltingly describe a liberal arts education.
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Great work by the @iatse.bsky.social crew members putting on a fantastic half time show. Union made!
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Great work by the @iatse.bsky.social crew members putting on a fantastic half time show. Union made!
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ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
What a fucking disaster for Clemson
news.clemson.edu/clemson-to-e...
news.clemson.edu/clemson-to-e...
news.clemson.edu
February 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
What a fucking disaster for Clemson
news.clemson.edu/clemson-to-e...
news.clemson.edu/clemson-to-e...
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learning about "triangular trade" and humans were part of that, and we made rum from the sugarcane.
hello molasses flood, because we sure as heck weren't growing sugarcane in boston.
hello molasses flood, because we sure as heck weren't growing sugarcane in boston.
I am not the one who gets to make the call, but the role of sugar cane in the Bad Bunny halftime show surprised me a little bit. Like tobacco and cotton, sugar cane was a crop in the Americas produced through the labor of enslaved Africans.
February 10, 2026 at 2:26 PM
learning about "triangular trade" and humans were part of that, and we made rum from the sugarcane.
hello molasses flood, because we sure as heck weren't growing sugarcane in boston.
hello molasses flood, because we sure as heck weren't growing sugarcane in boston.
I’m now calling going to PT gym class instead of sad gym
February 10, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I’m now calling going to PT gym class instead of sad gym
Buddy, let me share a poem with you after I have gym class
February 10, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Buddy, let me share a poem with you after I have gym class
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Nirvana, sending a message from the 1990s: 🖕🖕
February 10, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Nirvana, sending a message from the 1990s: 🖕🖕
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Uh hey, Andy, I don't think you were tuned into the same channel as the rest of us? Can you describe the porno you were watching?
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Uh hey, Andy, I don't think you were tuned into the same channel as the rest of us? Can you describe the porno you were watching?
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Multiple times I have seen major news outlets refer to the government violating constitutional rights as “cracking down,” a phrase normally used in the context of legitimate law enforcement
ICE has been tracking the names of protesters in an internal database for several months, according to two US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operations reut.rs/46wwn1j
ICE is cracking down on people who follow them in their cars
Becky Ringstrom was heading home after following federal immigration officers in her gray Kia SUV in suburban Minneapolis when she was suddenly boxed in by unmarked vehicles.
reut.rs
February 10, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Multiple times I have seen major news outlets refer to the government violating constitutional rights as “cracking down,” a phrase normally used in the context of legitimate law enforcement
I know that some people find using cotton plants as decor as offensive b/c of a presumed nostalgia for slavery times, so the sugar cane thing was a surprise. It does not have to make sense, but I have already thought about it more than all of the previous 59 SB halftimes combined.
February 10, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I know that some people find using cotton plants as decor as offensive b/c of a presumed nostalgia for slavery times, so the sugar cane thing was a surprise. It does not have to make sense, but I have already thought about it more than all of the previous 59 SB halftimes combined.
I am not the one who gets to make the call, but the role of sugar cane in the Bad Bunny halftime show surprised me a little bit. Like tobacco and cotton, sugar cane was a crop in the Americas produced through the labor of enslaved Africans.
February 10, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I am not the one who gets to make the call, but the role of sugar cane in the Bad Bunny halftime show surprised me a little bit. Like tobacco and cotton, sugar cane was a crop in the Americas produced through the labor of enslaved Africans.
You may be entitled to a cash settlement.
February 10, 2026 at 1:32 PM
You may be entitled to a cash settlement.