Matt
@eclectickettle.bsky.social
he/him | Disabled queer transmasc taking the long way around for grad school. | Categorically obsessed with Hamlet. | My day job is in historic preservation.
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I hope everybody is noticing that public and private universities all over the country are dismantling religious studies programs as white christian nationalists are ascendant in all levels of our government
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
August 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I hope everybody is noticing that public and private universities all over the country are dismantling religious studies programs as white christian nationalists are ascendant in all levels of our government
i tried a cologne and am spending the day flat on my back for allergy reasons. it’s also tormenting my partner. aough. every air purifier in the house running is not enough
May 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
i tried a cologne and am spending the day flat on my back for allergy reasons. it’s also tormenting my partner. aough. every air purifier in the house running is not enough
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as a text-based creature in an increasingly video-first world I'd like to be cherished as a sort of charismatic but doomed animal, to be fed treats in my enclosure until I meet my inevitable demise, after which my taxidermied corpse might greet visitors in a lobby somewhere
May 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
as a text-based creature in an increasingly video-first world I'd like to be cherished as a sort of charismatic but doomed animal, to be fed treats in my enclosure until I meet my inevitable demise, after which my taxidermied corpse might greet visitors in a lobby somewhere
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IMPORTANT!! 🚨
Surveillance state update —
From a friend with informed intel. No more crowd photos of any kind, friends. I’m sorry.
Surveillance state update —
From a friend with informed intel. No more crowd photos of any kind, friends. I’m sorry.
January 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
IMPORTANT!! 🚨
Surveillance state update —
From a friend with informed intel. No more crowd photos of any kind, friends. I’m sorry.
Surveillance state update —
From a friend with informed intel. No more crowd photos of any kind, friends. I’m sorry.
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"May his name be erased."
January 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"May his name be erased."
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If I could do one thing on a curriculum basis to American high education, it would be to ban undergraduate business majors. It wouldn’t fix everything. But it would fix a lot.
I’ve now had 3-4 exchanges with business profs who seem baffled that humanities profs are resisting their assertions that AI can teach our courses and AI can replicate our work.
They all seemed quite shocked that “you don’t matter and this machine will replace you” isn’t a winning sales pitch.
They all seemed quite shocked that “you don’t matter and this machine will replace you” isn’t a winning sales pitch.
December 26, 2024 at 8:23 PM
If I could do one thing on a curriculum basis to American high education, it would be to ban undergraduate business majors. It wouldn’t fix everything. But it would fix a lot.
up at 2:30am to eat my silly little dinner and take my silly little meds. doing groovy.
December 27, 2024 at 10:30 AM
up at 2:30am to eat my silly little dinner and take my silly little meds. doing groovy.
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Say it with us—a library loan is not a lost sale! 📚
Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.
I got it from my local library system, which has 28 physical copies (more than half are checked out) and 4 audiobooks. The branch library is two blocks from my house so I get most of my books from there. Hope this helps because I loved the book - I'm not a historian and knew nothing of that period.
December 27, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Say it with us—a library loan is not a lost sale! 📚
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Look see he’s doing the thing he threatened he would do what are we doing here bluesky
Bluesky let Jesse Singal stay and now he's posting the spreadsheet again with the PHI of trans youth from Missouri.
They only emboldened him.
They only emboldened him.
December 15, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Look see he’s doing the thing he threatened he would do what are we doing here bluesky
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Private company buys a public good. A few years go by and the company decides the public good is no longer worthwhile; the public suffers as a result.
This story arc is way too common in modern society.
deadline.com/2024/12/max-...
This story arc is way too common in modern society.
deadline.com/2024/12/max-...
December 16, 2024 at 3:09 AM
Private company buys a public good. A few years go by and the company decides the public good is no longer worthwhile; the public suffers as a result.
This story arc is way too common in modern society.
deadline.com/2024/12/max-...
This story arc is way too common in modern society.
deadline.com/2024/12/max-...
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it's weird that people are homicidally angry at corporate America when a CEO hired four months ago fires the entire workforce of a 40-year-old company five days before Christmas with no severance and no benefits www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...
December 20, 2024 at 6:44 PM
it's weird that people are homicidally angry at corporate America when a CEO hired four months ago fires the entire workforce of a 40-year-old company five days before Christmas with no severance and no benefits www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...
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Whenever you see one of these stories you learn: it was acquired by private equity, it took on debt to pay the new owners dividends, it raised prices to pay off the debt. Every time.
Party City is going out of business after 40 years, closing down all its stores.
Corporate employees were told today is their last day of employment.
Corporate employees were told today is their last day of employment.
December 20, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Whenever you see one of these stories you learn: it was acquired by private equity, it took on debt to pay the new owners dividends, it raised prices to pay off the debt. Every time.
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The judge presiding over the Luigi Mangione case is married to a former Pfizer executive. More about the judge here:
Luigi Mangione Judge Married to Former Healthcare Executive
Judge overseeing case involving murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson owns millions in stock, including Pharma and healthcare, through husband
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 23, 2024 at 7:06 PM
The judge presiding over the Luigi Mangione case is married to a former Pfizer executive. More about the judge here:
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If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
www.newsweek.com
December 25, 2024 at 3:54 AM
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
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That's fucking depressing...
December 26, 2024 at 2:30 PM
That's fucking depressing...
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K-Klipp getting right back on it
Here's a new Luigi Mangione document the media wouldn't publish in full:
Post-Luigi, the "Extremist" Threat is You
Read the NYPD’s Luigi Mangione report the media wouldn’t publish in full
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 26, 2024 at 8:56 PM
K-Klipp getting right back on it
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Multiple companies are discontinuing their blu ray and 4K players.
In addition to the obvious, devastating implications for film preservation, it illustrates once again that the ultra-rich will not be happy until everything in our lives is subscription-based. A landlord for every need.
In addition to the obvious, devastating implications for film preservation, it illustrates once again that the ultra-rich will not be happy until everything in our lives is subscription-based. A landlord for every need.
December 26, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Multiple companies are discontinuing their blu ray and 4K players.
In addition to the obvious, devastating implications for film preservation, it illustrates once again that the ultra-rich will not be happy until everything in our lives is subscription-based. A landlord for every need.
In addition to the obvious, devastating implications for film preservation, it illustrates once again that the ultra-rich will not be happy until everything in our lives is subscription-based. A landlord for every need.
welp, after nearly 5 years, we got covid for christmas. does anyone have any advice on how to weather the plague?
December 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM
welp, after nearly 5 years, we got covid for christmas. does anyone have any advice on how to weather the plague?
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I made a gingerbread panopticon
December 24, 2024 at 11:53 PM
I made a gingerbread panopticon
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Taking poison damage by being alive
December 25, 2024 at 1:49 AM
Taking poison damage by being alive
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Years ago when the Tea Party shut down all govt funding, a friend's cancer treatment was halted as it was Medicaid & govt funded. She had 1 treatment to go. She had to REAPPLY FOR AID. Took months, during which cancer returned & got in her bones. Paul fucking Ryan killed her.
Every time the government shuts down some self proclaimed leftists say it's actually good on anti-imperialism grounds, and I just want to remind everyone that (a) Veterans benefits get cut off, but the military is still funded, and (b) PEOPLE WHO NEED GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS DIE WHENEVER THIS HAPPENS.
December 19, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Years ago when the Tea Party shut down all govt funding, a friend's cancer treatment was halted as it was Medicaid & govt funded. She had 1 treatment to go. She had to REAPPLY FOR AID. Took months, during which cancer returned & got in her bones. Paul fucking Ryan killed her.
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The story that more cameras equal more safety is one of the most persistent evidence-free lies about technology in existence.
Walmart employees are now wearing body cameras in some stores
Walmart store associates are now using body cameras in some locations as retailers look to deter theft and make employees safer.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:01 PM
The story that more cameras equal more safety is one of the most persistent evidence-free lies about technology in existence.
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Tapping the sign and reminding folks that the strict binary between "safe cozy books" and "risky transgressive books" is fake. A few writers and readers on extreme ends of that spectrum made it up. In reality there are many varied works with many tones/content types and there will continue to be.
December 15, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Tapping the sign and reminding folks that the strict binary between "safe cozy books" and "risky transgressive books" is fake. A few writers and readers on extreme ends of that spectrum made it up. In reality there are many varied works with many tones/content types and there will continue to be.
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Bluesky, September 2024: "Horny for Gramsci. I will die for his hair" [110 reposts, 36 quotes, 236 likes]
Bluesky, December 2024: "Some guy in my Popular With Friends tab says he doesn't give a shit whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. I can be silent no more"
Bluesky, December 2024: "Some guy in my Popular With Friends tab says he doesn't give a shit whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. I can be silent no more"
December 15, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Bluesky, September 2024: "Horny for Gramsci. I will die for his hair" [110 reposts, 36 quotes, 236 likes]
Bluesky, December 2024: "Some guy in my Popular With Friends tab says he doesn't give a shit whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. I can be silent no more"
Bluesky, December 2024: "Some guy in my Popular With Friends tab says he doesn't give a shit whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. I can be silent no more"
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this interview is full of bangers
![A. Those who wage war often conceive of those they annihilate as lives that were not worth living anyway. They don't grieve the loss of those lives when they are killed because they are not considered to be valuable lives. Palestinians are being regarded as threats to Israeli life, not as living beings. Once a group of people has been so dehumanized that they no longer count among the community of humans, then the pathway is cleared toward genocidal action. And what we're seeing in
Gaza are genocidal actions.
Q. Not quite a genocide... A. A genocidal action is one that not only targets a very specific ethnic or racial group, but also the infrastructures of life. Raphael Lemkin, who devised the doctrine of
genocide in 1944, was very clear about that. Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur
on ralestine for the U.N
., accepts his
definition for the current condition in Gaza. So I think what we are seeing is genocidal conduct. What's harder for people to fathom is that these kinds of tactics and this form of killing, of forcible dispossession, did not start in retaliation for the killings of October 7[2023] but have been component parts of Israeli state violence since 1948 [when the
state of Israel was created].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mpgrcbcjq7rq3qemfy3ldi5g/bafkreib3gta7xc2xu4vqzja2lmkitqbtqborpmct4lsctxv46nboktfoxq@jpeg)
December 15, 2024 at 6:11 PM
this interview is full of bangers