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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 8h

This is a terrible photo but the moon is so huge tonight you guys!

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 17h

Really hard to spot the downside here. Apart from having to look at Clegg’s face.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

www.theverge.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 16h

White righties: this Super Bowl halftime pick is terrible. They should get someone conservative and hip, like this 96 year old cop I know who has a bluegrass band called Burning Crosses

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Heart disease & cancer are America's top killers.
Deaths from homicide & terrorism are rare but they get the most media attention.
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans @shay3322.bsky.social · 1d

Trump caused this with his tariffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hassett: "China has stopped buying US soybeans. The silos are full and there are soybeans sitting on the ground w/tarps over them. That's unacceptable to POTUS. We're calling up our soybean customers around the world as part of our trade negotiations & we'll strong policies to support our farmers"

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 1d

Reading a banned book out loud in public is a good thing.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 1d

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

A good essay

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 1d

The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch by Henry Raeburn.

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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 2d

There are some very strange things going on at the Library of Congress. I’m doing searches for news articles from the Civil Rights Era. Political cartoons. That sort of thing. They used to be easily found.

That stuff is VERY hard to find now. Things are missing, people.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 2d

:(

I think I will just buy cheap white ones and try to dye them with tablets.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 2d

Sure death and taxes are a bitch but have you ever tried to buy a replacement lampshade?

Seriously, why why why so much???

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a large-scale version of when Person A goes up to Person B and says “I’m not touching you” while sticking their extended finger tip millimeters from Person B’s face.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 2d

DO they?

Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 2d

Well in theory perhaps. In practice…not as much.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite things to do is show students outtakes of ghost story movies where the living kids/people find the truth by visiting a local library and looking up microfiche news stories.

It’s a good segue to discussing this sort of important research work!

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think that is true anymore in the U.S. Ratter, those with access to money, resources, and power are also the ones most upset, mad, and resentful.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 2d

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was just announced:
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

This seems like a good opportunity for me to explain a bit about peripheral immune tolerance and where the prizewinners' work comes in 🧵

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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to:

Mary E. Brunkow
Institute for Systems Biology,
Seattle, USA

Fred Ramsdell
Sonoma Biotherapeutics,
San Francisco, USA

Shimon Sakaguchi
Osaka University,
Osaka, Japan

“for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d

FYI happening this Thursday—free and open to all. Just click the link to register. Featuring @dwcongdon.com, @dawnd.bsky.social, and Alyssa Napier talking all things diss to book—what’s the diff b/w them, how to find a press/approach an editor, tips for proposal writing. Join us & spread the word!

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 2d

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

Turning You Dissertation into a Book webinar promotional tile

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 2d

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...

CBS Is About to Hand Over Its Newsroom to an Anti-Woke Crusader. You Should Be Worried.

She’s made a career railing against “wokeness.” Now she’s in charge of a venerated newsroom.

slate.com

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 2d

Long shot perhaps but does anyone on here do or know someone who does the indigenous practice of birch biting artwork?

If so, would you/they be interested in speaking with a class (can pay)?

Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 3d

Went to Cumberland Falls. Right is daytime rainbow. Left is nighttime moonbow.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Aug 19

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

The 504 Protests and the Black Panther Party – Disability Social History Project

disabilityhistory.org

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 5d

“We have to save money by firing people during a government shut down”

Is like saying you have to disconnect your electricity when no one is home and all the lights are off, plus you will return at some point.

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 5d

Seems a good time to listen to this song from 1986, a year after the dawn of Farm Aid.

Always appreciated the opening image of crosses in the churchyard for farms lost, rather than the more conventional pro-life reasons, and the symbolism at work under all of that.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=joNz...

John Mellencamp - Rain On The Scarecrow

YouTube video by JohnMellencampVEVO

m.youtube.com

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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 5d

@lecagle.bsky.social

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