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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 3d

For anyone who falls outside of this category of academics in Austria (or Austrians abroad): there is also a Changedotorg petition, in which we would be delighted to have your signature/support.
www.change.org/p/academics-...

Sign the Petition

Academics against the Genocide in Gaza - Akademiker*innen gegen den Völkermord in Gaza

www.change.org

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 3d

Dear academics in Austria and/or Austrian academics abroad: a group of scholars and I have composed this open letter to Austrian Members of Parliament to take immediate action with respect to Gaza. Please consider signing it and passing it on
researchers4palestine.org/initiatives-...

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 4d

There is a slight satisfaction I feel when this happens

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 17d

researchers4palestine.org

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 19d

You’re using ChatGPT to summarize a great work of literature.

I’m using it to tell me how to call someone a miserable sack of shit in German.

We are not the same.

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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 19d

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 20d

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader

Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

www.thedigradio.com

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 20d

Fine, you’ve convinced me. I’ll start brushing up on my German again so that I can establish a footing here and get my permanent residence. Anything to avoid going back to live in the USA. That place has gone officially down the toilet.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 21d

"Evaluations are also vulnerable to just about every bias imaginable ... students score male professors higher than female ones, rate attractive teachers more highly, and reward instructors who bring in cookies."
#HigherEd #edchat #university
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

How Teacher Evaluations Broke the University

“We give them all A’s, and they give us all fives.”

www.theatlantic.com

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 22d

Turns out he’s only guilty of being hunky

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 22d

A genie appeared and told me I could have 3 wishes but warned me there are 3 rules, wishes that can never be granted:

1. No wishing for more wishes
2. No wishing harm on anyone
3. No time travel

I wished for Chuck Schumer to be useful.

Genie pauses and says: ok actually there are 4 rules.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jan 7

Guy who sells doo doo (squinting wisely and doing visionary voice): We believe within 10 years the world economy will be almost completely powered by doo doo

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 23d

She’s a ten but “doesn’t care that it’s Sturm season in Austria”

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 24d

I don’t know why Alexander Pope needs to attack me like this:
“There, dim in clouds, the poring scholiasts mark,
Wits, who like owls, see only in the dark,
A lumberhouse of books in every head,
For ever reading, never to be read!”

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 26d

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · 26d

Hi friends/comrades in Vienna, I’ll be leading a monthly Palestinian Literature reading circle, starting in November and going into next summer. All interested participants are welcome. Specific dates and location will be announced in due time.

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Scare Blair @blairloudly.bsky.social · Aug 28

cmon baby you know you want to hit this

[me flirting with a bus]

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · Aug 26

Much to consider

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/p...

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · Aug 26

It may be International Dog Day, but waffles never takes a day off from her royal duties

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Aug 26

Happy International Dog Day from the dog international

Drawing of Laika in space suit with Negro Matapacos

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · Aug 23

Conservatives Liberals
🤝
Falling for astroturfed pseudo-controversies

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · Aug 19

Um, what?

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Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · Aug 18

The funny thing about Trump’s crusade against mail-in ballots is that absentee ballots in Florida quite likely solidified his electoral majority there in all three elections.

Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social · Aug 14

Do academics normally promote their own work to others via email? I feel icky doing it.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · Aug 12

bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · Aug 13

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza - my latest @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein

In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein

www.theguardian.com

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