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critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan. catch me staffing at anime cons! pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️‍⚧️

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wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · Jun 13

Introducing LUDDENITES: a collective whose goal is to counter oppressive technologies like surveillance tech and generative AI, instead seeking communal infrastructures in service of CONSENTFUL PLAY and CREATIVE JOY.

blog.wellssanto.com/luddenites/

Introducing Luddenites

Playing off both LUDENS and LUDDITES, LUDDENITES is envisioned as a collective whose goal is to counter oppressive technologies like surveillance tech and generative AI, instead seeking communal infra...

blog.wellssanto.com

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wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 16d

yes! take your time

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 16d

does anyone have leads on publications that use **survey methods** to help investigate identity / gender / racial formation?

i'm trying to run a mixed methods study re: streamers online, and most lit only gets me the interview/observation stuff

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 18d

seeing what's happening w all the censorship on here and i feel upset at myself for not investing more seriously in making an alternative that allows for privacy and protections and nsfw content and critiques of empire

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19d

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us

www.them.us/story/trump-...

FBI to Categorize Trans People As "Nihilistic Violent Extremist" Threat Group, Report Says

The choice is being championed by the Heritage Foundation, which is behind Project 2025.

www.them.us

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wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 21d

what the fuck are we even doing anymore

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 21d

guys i'm about to no longer exist

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 23d

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material

The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

Total porn ban proposed by Michigan lawmakers

Some states have moved to require age verification to ensure only adults are watching porn, but no states have outright banned the viewing of pornographic material.

www.fox2detroit.com

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 22d

1. it's genocide
2. fuck that nazi
3. a student got lynched and y'all rather grieve for a racist white man with influence
4. fuck that nazi

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 25d

are any of my mutuals over at UIUC? i want to visit this coming friday/weekend, but i'm up in the air about it. (i'm down to do a talk or meet with a research group or tech collective or something tho!)

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 25d

oh shit i've been called upon

i'm incorporating my co-op this year but i need to find a team of ppl who wanna make it happen 😭

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 26d

i think the @wsj.com should pay every trans person's rent this month

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 26d

Charlie Kirk’s shooter was a 22 year old white cis man & 4chan groyper.

Charlie Kirk’s last words were “gang violence”. he was claiming Black people were inherently violent right before his life was ended by another white man.

Here is a description of Kirk’s terrorism by one of his many victims:

Dr Stacey Patton

I am on Charlie Kirk's hit list.

His so-called "Professor Watchlist," run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. I landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life.

For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: "bitch," "c*nt," "n****r." They threatened all manner of violence.

They overwhelmed the university's PR lines and the president's office with calls demanding that I be fired. The flood was so relentless that the head of campus security reached out to offer me an escort, because they feared one of these keyboard soldiers might step out of his basement and come do me harm.

And I am not unique.

Kirk's Watchlist has terrorized legions of professors across this country. Women, Black faculty, queer scholars, basically anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism suddenly found themselves targets of coordinated abuse.

Some received death threats. Some had their jobs threatened. Some left academia entirely.
Kirk sent the loud message to us: speak the truth and we will unleash the mob!

That is the culture of violence Charlie Kirk built.
He normalized violence. He curated it, monetized it, and sicced it on anyone who dared to puncture his movement's lies.

And now, in the wake of his shooting, there's all this national outpouring of mourning, moments of silence, yellow prayer hands, and tributes painting him as a civil debater. But the truth is that Kirk and his foot soldiers spent years terrorizing educators, trying to silence us with harassment and fear!

And now the same violence he unleashed on others has come full circle.

But what i find especially jarring is the dissonance in public mourning for a smug white man whose life work was actively hostile to certain groups. Kirk spent years demonizing LGBTQ people, mocking gun survivors, spewing racism about Black folks, and pushing policies that literally shorten lives.

It is so revolting to watch a bipartisan wave of grief sweep over this hateful racist as if he was a neutral community servant.

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wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 26d

i can't believe my academic research is linked to this

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 26d

my research topic of vtubers is once again relevant in political news... one of the biggest and first vtubers to do it had a hugely viral video that includes the phrase of what’s on one of the bullet casings…

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wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 27d

bluesky run by nazi sympathizers? likelier than you think

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 27d

my chi paper is as dead as that one guy

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 27d

wait this is so good 😭

unrelated, i have a sts paper critiquing ai alignment but i think it could be stronger, does anyone wanna collab? it mainly approaches thru the lens of technopolitics rn

Will Fleisher @willfleisher.bsky.social · 27d

Very important work being done here.

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

We align the aligners

alignmentalignment.ai

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NPR @npr.org · 27d

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

Southern University, other HBCUs close due to ‘potential threat’

Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge will be closed through the weekend after officials called a lockdown Thursday morning due to a “potential threat.”

www.wwno.org

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wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 27d

surprisingly, this is the plot of twisters (2024)

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28d

When a mile-wide tornado hit St. Louis, the entire back wall of DeAmon White's house was blown off. The third floor of his mother's home was gone.

The next morning, at 8 am, the phone calls started: Would he be interested in selling his home?

@grist.org

Disasters destroyed their homes. Then the real estate ‘vultures’ swooped in.

“We buy homes” companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they're taking advantage of tragedy.

www.whatimreading.net

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 27d

Charlie Kirk started the Professor Watchlist, which caused friends of mine and their families to be terrorized by right-wing assholes. So, you know, fuck everyone trying to find some nugget of decency in that shitpile.

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wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 27d

why do you only care when white people get shot

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 28d

and y'all said federated social media would fix this 😂 y'all dumb as hell

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · 28d

ok so i'm an ok writer and a decent scientific communicator but a terrible researcher it seems

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28d

If you are a right-leaning professor who had their lecture cancelled, it's a great way to become a national figure invited to join various boards and publish in places like the Wall St. Journal and Free Press. (See Dorian Abbots cv). If you are on the left, good luck finding a new job.

public writings from dorian abbot - all focus on campus speech

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wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · Sep 7

you know my mental health is extra bad when i'm looking at band photos of myself from 13 years ago

wells is making a social media co-op @wells.bsky.social · Sep 7

but seriously though, some folks living in the bay area were getting really really sick and were wondering why and it turned out a data center was built by them without their knowledge

not to mention what's happening in memphis rn