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Alexander Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder if Dutch philosophy departments in the 1630s were only hiring in the philosophy of tulips.

Doctor Logic @saraluckelman.bsky.social · 5h

One might also say "hiring committees".

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve had olive bread and tapenade but not in a while. Are there other good ways to combine them?

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 13h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 12h

No, it’s not like that. Just kind hovering on the edge

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 12h

I keep trying to like olives but it hasn’t taken yet

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 14h

That’s understandable

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 16h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 14h

Is safe a lose because you’re not suppose to eat it or because voters assume you’re lying?

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 14h

I’m not a New Yorker in any way except I grew up eating H&H bagels on the regular and apparently it had an effect

Plain or sesame bagel, untoasted, with plain cream cheese and lox. Capers and red onions if we’re being fancy

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, the Dems are stuck on ”but they like the racism” but I think a lot of people only like the racism with the plausible deniability and that’s been dumped a while ago. There’s a chance here to engage the Overton window and I wish more leaders would lead

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 19h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 18h

Calling these things “mistakes” is disingenuous and lazy. A 45 year old fragrance in a bottle that is scented like the fucking fragrance is not a damn drug and everyone knows that. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

www.nbcnews.com

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 17h

The expressions are priceless. “You couldn’t have tokenized us in June?”

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1d

They gave the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who supports and praises Trump’s extrajudicial execution of Venezuelan civilians?

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 1d

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Soo everytime America swears that something has never happened before

It has happened and usually to a Black person

History may not fully repeat but it rhymes with

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. author recently blocked from leaving the U.S. reminded me of Robeson, Du Bois, and another free Black gentleman who was denied a passport when he wanted to leave the U.S. after the Dred Scott decision (his name will come to me).

Step 1. keeping others out
Step 2. keeping us in

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Danny V @dmv8286.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, nobody ever thought this guy was cool. Not once. Ever.

Johnny Cash throwing up an emphatic middle finger during a performance at San Quentin prison.

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 1d

In which, as usual, prosody does almost all the indexical and semantic work at the same time and the lexical content is just along for the ride

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 1d

I would respect this whole conversation a lot more if "We have to use AI" finished truthfully with "because powerful people are forcing us" instead of leaving it like it could be pixies

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

We are 8 months into the term and almost 18 onto the ba and Dems are more willing to give millions and time to assholes whose main message is

“Screw trans people and erase Black folks”

Than

HOLY HELL WE WILL BE REBUILDING THIS ALL AND TAKW CARE OF YOU

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

'What we may be reluctant to acknowledge even now is that these brutal dismissals are an expression of deep-rooted antiblackness that says Black people are never qualified to hold the jobs they have, whatever their actual qualifications.'

Trump’s Purging of Black Officials Makes Latent Racism Official Policy

President Trump's firings send a clear message that white mediocrity is always preferable to Black achievement.

capitalandmain.com

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 1d

🎙️ Last week, a group of Columbia professors — most of them Jewish — took a stand. Risking reprisal, they publicly rejected the university’s recent incorporation of a controversial definition of antisemitism. Their statements, excerpted here, can be read in full at cu-standsup.org/events/free-....

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