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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 2h

These are literally how 90% of middle schoolers get to school in my neighborhood.

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when Jim Rome was the worst thing about sports?

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 3d

a large alligator is laying down in the grass

ALT: a large alligator is laying down in the grass

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 5d

My 15 year old daughter, a Swift fan but not, she insists, a Swiftie, said the new album sounds like it was made to be played in Target while people are shopping.

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 5d

And...tuition isn't always (or usually, or most of the time) raised bc higher ed is "greedy." Imstitutions deal with inflation like everyone else; raising tuition in line with inflation helps keep schools in the black. Many public are limited by state statute already.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

Sarah Mullally was named the new archbishop of Canterbury on Friday, becoming the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Church of England, and of the global Anglican community, in the church’s nearly 500-year history.

First woman is named archbishop of Canterbury, leader of Church of England

Sarah Mullally, previously the bishop of London, is the first woman to serve as spiritual leader of the Church of England in its nearly 500-year history.

www.washingtonpost.com

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 6d

My university already does all of these and the strategic plan includes expanded professional and corporate training opportunities. Everyone is looking to expand & diversify revenue streams.

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 7d

The BOG is becoming increasingly skeptical about NCF and know DeSantis is on his way out. If they go pvt I'd be surprised if they last 5 more years. I can see UF or FSU taking it over as a satellite campus (something in the works for years behind the scenes before this nonsense)

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 7d

Corcoran complains about peer review being unfavorable to FL unis but the only one in free fall is his institution. Hmm...

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 8d

We are approaching a situation where working or enrolling in public higher ed means that the state wields inordinate power to control your speech and impose partisan rules on your conduct. What do we do when higher ed is a special site of state oppression?

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 8d

For some of us in Red states thos is already our reality. To see it being speedrun at the national level via ED and the federal govt is terrifying.

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 9d

Wait, *now* they care about WIC and FEMA?

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 9d

We collectively mistook the means of delivery for human communication for the connection itself. Soon, we will pay the price for that

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 9d

Hasn't the SF community been all over his shenanigans for years now?

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Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social · 9d

The fact that this article on soy causing deforestation doesn't cover how all that soy is being used is a wild media failure. The vast majority (70-80%) is being fed to animals.

It's not the "world's taste for soya" it's the world's taste for meat.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon

Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

www.theguardian.com

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 9d

All those dangerous, subversive musicians coming out of C'Ville like...Dave Matthews Band.

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 12d

"Give yourself over to absolute pleasure"

Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 12d

For this week's POP STYLE OPINIONFEST podcast, we look at #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow at 50 and unpack its relevance to queer people, give our thoughts on #HouseofGuinness & check back in on the Jimmy Kimmel situation
tomandlorenzo.com/2025/09/pop-...

Pop Style Opinionfest: HOUSE OF GUINNESS & Happy Birthday ROCKY HORROR - Tom + Lorenzo

Rocky Horror is fifty! We took the opportunity of the Rocky Horror Picture Show’s 50th anniversary to unpack why it became such a cultural force, what

tomandlorenzo.com

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 12d

Today's perspective: “I don’t like when people call us camp,” he says. “Camp means you don’t know you’re ridiculous, and we know what we’re doing. We’ve always known what we were doing.” -Fred Schneider, The B-52s.

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 12d

Hell yeah.

TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 14d

Is success in sports measured in something other than wins and losses?

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 15d

Here's something you learn in business school- data is not information. Learning a fact, *by itself*, does not make you any wiser. You must understand the context around the fact as well- how it fits into other facts, what it implies about the past, present, and future.

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 15d

20 million people live in LA? That's over twice the total population of LA County. Where are they getting these numbers? Even a high school student has to site their sources but SCOTUS can just pull numbers from the air for a binding legal document?

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 15d

Yes. Performance Based Funding has been (IMO) terrible for what universities are supposed to be. It's the tail wagging the dog that's given people and organizations who were already hostile to education a cudgel to wield against it, legally.

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 15d

Neither has the $900M in cuts from the IES: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

$900M in Institute of Education Sciences contracts axed

The National Center for Education Statistics has been hit hard while researchers say grant review panels have been halted.

www.insidehighered.com

TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 15d

The current administration dramatically cutting grants for teacher training certainly hasn't helped: www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Trump administration slashes $600M in teacher training grants

The Department of Education announced yet another round of funding cuts Monday as part of the Trump administration’s attempt to ax what it calls “divisive ideologies” in public education.

www.insidehighered.com

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