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librarian.bsky.social
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
July 31, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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gretchenmcculloch.com
The academic equivalent of always reblog Tom Holland lip syncing to Umbrella is always reblog The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · May 14
Q: Does my thesis adviser pick the snake?

A: No. Your adviser just tells the guy who picks the snakes how good your thesis was.
FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Thesis Defense
March 13 2022 4/24/23 5/8/24 5/13/26 CALENDAR 2027
buff.ly
May 14, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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fraying.bsky.social
Anyway the moral of the story is there are no good AI companies. None. They’re all in the same morally bankrupt business.
February 25, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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karlbode.com
this is the very obvious game plan, and if you're reading journalism that doesn't at least hint at the possibility, you're not reading journalism at all:
How Orbán systematically suffocated the Hungarian media over the past 15 years
Viktor Orbán has also pledged, in his annual address earlier this month, to “clear out” after the April elections media and civil society organisations deemed to threaten “sovereignty.” Fidesz already...
euobserver.com
February 26, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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lorennacleary.bsky.social
You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.

In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
January 23, 2026 at 2:57 AM
absquatul8.bsky.social
Couldn’t make today’s events, instead donated money to a friend in need… and their need is a direct result of this federal gov’t. Protest takes lots of forms. Find one that works for you. #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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ykhong.bsky.social
Protest must prompt action.
Protest must prompt action.
Protest must prompt action.
Protest must prompt action.
Protest must prompt action.
Protest must prompt action.
Protest must prompt action.
Protest must prompt action.
Protest must prompt action.
Protest must prompt action.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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telescoper.bsky.social
A meme for the modern university...
Meme showing a worker labelled "academic staff" digging a hole in the ground while 10 others look labelled with management titles such as "Director of Human Resources" look on. The caption underneath reads "The only way we can cut costs is to reduce the number of academic staff..."
September 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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denisedwheeler.bsky.social
Today in Boston.

Over a million people turned out.

Even the drone couldn't get it all.

#NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest
June 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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garicgymro.bsky.social
A statement by the Linguistic Society of America on designating English as the official language
www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...
LSA
Four Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un
www.lsadc.org
March 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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nelsonlflores.bsky.social
AOC is one of the few Dems who understands the best way to handle professionals trollers is not to clutch your pearls but to troll them back
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 6
AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.
March 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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melodyannross.bsky.social
Reposting again for absolutely no reason whatsoever
ijayas.bsky.social Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · Apr 5
A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”
Women end up doing the academic housework
kifinfo.no
March 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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leahlitman.bsky.social
Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) is *so* gifted at distilling key political themes.

Trump 1.0 was "The Cruelty Is The Point"; this piece explains how the admin is now pursuing "The Great Resegregation." It captures *so much* of what's happening. READ IT!

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.
February 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
absquatul8.bsky.social
If you are American and haven’t gotten vaccinated yet this season, go do it asap. Better safe than sorry.
February 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
absquatul8.bsky.social
Can’t recommend enough getting on Signal if you’re going to talk about… well, anything with friends and fam.
January 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
absquatul8.bsky.social
I… I am at the cusp of a two-year delayed sabbatical and I do not know what to do with myself #academia
December 19, 2024 at 10:11 PM
absquatul8.bsky.social
If I never post, do I exist?
December 14, 2024 at 7:10 PM
absquatul8.bsky.social
Guess I am here, now
May 26, 2024 at 11:15 PM
absquatul8.bsky.social
Legit forgot I signed up for this until @rrrobbed.bsky.social mentioned it
May 26, 2024 at 10:59 PM