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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 9h

I’ll take it!

Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 9h

10 horror movies to get to know me

Island of Lost Souls
Cat People
I Married a Monster From Outer Space
Onibaba
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Thing
From Beyond
Pulse
A Dark Song
When Evil Lurks

grant @subterrene.bsky.social · 11h

10 horror movies to get to know me

Kill List
Under the Skin
Sauna
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
The Wicker Man (original)
In the Earth
Mandy
Beyond the Black Rainbow
It Follows
The Night Eats the World

Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 12h

10 horror movies to get to know me

The Thing
Haxan
The Shining
Rosemary's Baby
Hereditary
Starry Eyes
Possession
Noroi: The Curse
V/H/S
Evil Dead II

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 16h

A disgusting fact about me: I will happily sip room-temp black coffee all morning.

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 1d

I’m getting on a plane for the first time in about a year, and there’s a guy in line wearing a particulate respirator mask—the kind with the screw-in filters on the side. But he also has a scruffy little beard, which means his mask isn’t really sealing to his skin. America: So Close™️

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 2d

@cantb.bsky.social and I shared some thoughts/concerns about the proposed higher education compact in this @chronicle.com piece. But I still think that quite a few red-state publics would sign up, if for no other reason than state legislatures would expect it.

Trump Says Signing a New ‘Compact’ Will Benefit Colleges’ Finances. It Could Also Do the Opposite.

Despite the promise of more federal dollars, several provisions could upend an already precarious business model.

www.chronicle.com

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 1d

I looked at the potential financial implications for colleges if they sign Trump’s compact.

Trump Says Signing a New ‘Compact’ Will Benefit Colleges’ Finances. It Could Also Do the Opposite.

Despite the promise of more federal dollars, several provisions could upend an already precarious business model.

www.chronicle.com

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 4d

😬

Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 6d

The best guess of climate experts at this Overshoot Conference is that - in an optimistic scenario - we return to 1.5C (where we are now) in 7 generations time.

That's about the same distance from now as the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 6d

You are old, Eric.

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 8d

I made a brief visit to Peoria once, and that was way plenty.

Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 8d

I got caught in what I can only describe as “a dirt storm” once in Camden.

Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 8d

My latest: AI is all over college classrooms, for good or ill, but what about admin offices? It’s making inroads there, too, though what effects it will have remain to be seen.

Can Colleges Be Run Using AI?

A third of college administrators say they use the technology for small and big tasks. The results are mixed.

www.chronicle.com

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 10d

Whether or not you recline your plane or train seat is a moral test.

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Kevin R. McClure @drkevinrmcclure.com · 14d

I’m working on a column about faculty motivation in the current landscape where

-new jobs can be scarce
-academic publishing is messy
-grants are being axed
-merit pay is spotty

If you have perspective and experience you’d care to share, please let me know. (1/2)

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 16d

Yet another moment when I find myself thinking, Are you dead? Cause you look dead. (He is not dead, thankfully.)

Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 18d

*combined, ugh

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 18d

The steering-a-truck-down-the-hill-backward sequence was more pulse-pounding than every cruddy action movie released over the last 10 years combo.

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 18d

Yes, yes you may.

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 18d

Sorry, it’s always hard.

Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 20d

When Evil Lurks. That film is not screwing around.

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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 20d

i was sitting in a really dull corporate event for hours and hallucinated that somebody coined the portmanteau "innobition" (as in innovation + ambition)

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 22d

Brubaker = underrated

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 22d

All the President’s Men, Downhill Racer, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, This Property Is Condemned, All Is Lost

Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 22d

top five Redfords: All The President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, Spy Game, The Sting, Barefoot in the Park

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 23d

The first neo-altweekly? 👀

matoswk.bsky.social @matoswk.bsky.social · 23d

Excited about @coyotemedia.org, covering the Bay Area. A strong start here, on the meaning of the alt-weekly in an era where they've comprehensively vanished. Murderer's row of expert witnesses: @tromano.bsky.social, @annkpowers.bsky.social, @48hills.bsky.social.
www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-talk...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Alt-Weeklies

Alternative newsweeklies launched careers, called out corruption, and made journalism fun. Can we bring that energy back?

www.coyotemedia.org

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 26d

The most unrealistic thing about the Superman movie is all the characters reading hard copies of daily newspapers.

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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 29d

An unmaker space, if you will.

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29d

“Cornell’s Student Code of Conduct does not appear to address animal carcass transportation and processing, or the storage of raw meat.” ithacavoice.org/2025/09/corn...

Cornell students found skinning bear carcass in campus residence hall - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y. — Sometimes you eat the bear, as the saying goes, and sometimes the bear eats you. Two Cornell University students encountered a different, third outcome over the weekend. […]

ithacavoice.org

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