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Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls

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A better world is possible, together. Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, ADHD. https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/ https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall

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Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · Apr 25

Gentle reminder that there's no such thing as a "TERF".

The term you were looking for is "Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe".

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Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 2h

These people don't want us to have affordable healthcare in the USA, but they know affordable healthcare is extremely popular with Americans.

So they're making up scenarios (complete with tired, racist imagery) to distract you from advocating for what actually benefits you and all your neighbors.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 19h

Clearly we're got an emo revival on the horizon.

I keep seeing links to "track by track breakdowns" of new releases.

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Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 21h

Having lived in Rochester while commuting to teach in Buffalo (specifically Niagara County Community College), I'm very curious as to why they're split in two. Maybe I was still too much of an outlier, but I felt more like there was a gradation of change rather than a hard split.

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 21h

Just called and got thru immediately; thanks for this. (I'd even skimmed that article and not realized it was still worth calling!)

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 22h

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 1d

That feeling when you finally get a resource all about microform, but you have no way to read it.

Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 1d

Radical notions like "context shapes experiences" & "nuance contributes to meaning" & "'as well as…' can be a valid option".

Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 1d

"Twitter 2: Mods Meltdown Boogaloo" was not on my bingo card for this quarter, but I'm belatedly realizing it's long been a question of "when" rather than "if" it would happen.

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 12d

Ok, so here's a little 🧵. Safety & moderation are tough all over, & decentralized networks bring unique challenges

This paper about harassment on Mastodon is not very rosy. It shows how a motivated harasser had a lot of room to perpetrate harassment in a decentralized network +

redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 14d

At some point earlier I'd said I was willing to help onboard anyone considering joining Mastodon, & that I am also willing to speak candidly about drawbacks there. All that still stands...

And, I have a just-out paper about user safety & moderation there: openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/Jo...

Pin the tail on the researcher: From distributed to meshy accountability in decentralized social media | The Journal of Community Informatics

openjournals.uwaterloo.ca

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Fascism in America will not stop unless we stop it and that means coming together in collective action to shift the paradigm and begin answering the material conditions that created this crisis.

Seeing how this system works make it obvious. It will continue until we stop it.

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 2d

This is, I think, exactly right. We have more power to self-determine there... in spite of flaws that Mastodon/fediverse has had and continues to have, it's people-powered, at the end of the day

malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not betting on any horses but I am gonna point out that billionaires are riding all the other ones and we might not have too many options before long, so people might want to try to understand what mastodon actually is and where it’s pressure points are and how to push on them

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Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 2d

That whole "Mastodon can be a whole can of sandworms" *~and also~* "Hcommons dot social is the best run online community I've participated in yet" conundrum.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

When I’m trying to catalyze an open ecosystem around the platform but I keep confusing condescension, arrogance and ego for advocacy.

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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 14d

It's pub day 🎉

In 2022, I noticed a [sic] in the English Short Title Catalog, indicating a typo. This isn't a typo, but the record of a publisher named Catherine Sanger. Read about her in the open access People of Print, which has many other great chapters

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Screen shot of an ESTC record with the publisher as K. [Sic] Sanger

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

‪From “THEY’RE VIOLENTLY CAMPING OUT, SEND THE SWAT TEAM” to “where are the young protestors doing peaceful civil disobedience to stop authoritarianism 🥺‬”

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

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Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 3d

Tired: "Kevin Flynn"

Wired: "The Bit Lebowski"

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John Pettus @johngpettus.bsky.social · 3d

All servicemembers and civilians involved in military actions deemed unlawful need to be fully prosecuted.

I know America HATES accountability, let alone accountability above what we're traditionally used to, and done for the protection of the republic.

But we HAVE to do it.

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Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 3d

Ha! It's nothing personal—it's just the name for the list I keep of folks whose posts I want to see more handily. Glad it makes you laugh, though!!! 😅

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Ryan "Ghost Town / Why?" the Randalls @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 4d

Tree rats skilled in parkour + public relations

RI DaSēr K @sotreu.blacksky.app · 4d

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

SQUIRRELS ARE NOTHING BUT TREE RATS

STOP FALLING FOR THE BUSHY TAIL PROPAGANDA

WAKE UUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4d

Humans: generally woke

Vulcans: invented woke

Klingons: anti-woke but funny about it

Romulans: anti-woke and always seething-mad about it

Ferengi: pretend to be woke (think Pepsi cop ad)

Andorians: SJWs

Borg: literally don't understand the concept of woke

Q continuum: extremely woke

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 4d

It also usually includes an unspoken assumption about whose voices from the past we should listen to, because of course the people enslaved or genocided very much objected to that fact and thought it evil.

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 5d

One of the things I always find telling is the idea that we have to judge past people by the standards of their time, as if the fact that they did bad things means that everyone thought it was okay. They didn't. Pretty much every obviously evil act had people saying that it was, in fact, bad.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4d

Since 2020, disabled people have been pointing out the rising ease with ableist rhetoric/language, the comfort with which so many people used the r word, the number of people willing to abandon disabled people for some notion of the "normal."
All of it mattered/matters to understand fascism today.

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Jennifer Waits @spinningindie.bsky.social · 4d

For #CollegeRadioDay, here's an update about the 9000+ item college radio collection that I curate within the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications @dlarc.bsky.social on @archive.org

Internet Archive @archive.org · 5d

This #CollegeRadioDay, stations worldwide are celebrating student radio’s past & future. Discover 9,000+ artifacts—station flyers, playlists & more—in the College Radio Collection, part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications at Internet Archive. 📻 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/h...

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 5d

Consider the added cruelty of Medicaid work requirements (to be implemented in all US states starting in January 2027; previously implemented in AR & GA, resulting in coverage losses)-- on top of the possibility of having your wages garnished for bills that should have been paid by Medicaid.

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 5d

"At least 30% of the cases stemmed from medical care — even when patients’ bills should have been covered by Medicaid, the public insurance program for those with low incomes or disabilities." 1/2

Workers’ Wages Siphoned To Pay Medical Bills, Despite Consumer Protections - KFF Health News

Health care providers and debt collectors are biting from people’s paychecks to cover old medical bills. A KFF Health News investigation in Colorado shows that this aggressive collection practice is w...

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