March 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Yup. #RequiredReading
Everything seems to go back to Reagan.
The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat”
In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.
theintercept.com
July 19, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Yup. #RequiredReading
#RequiredReading: "We are now a country in which one man is truly and completely above the law."
January 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#RequiredReading: "We are now a country in which one man is truly and completely above the law."
I mean, I'm kinda sad if programmers don't program any more but... it definitely makes me feel better about my current management-shaped role right now!
#RequiredReading
#RequiredReading
I stumbled across this essay as I was falling asleep last night, and left myself multiple emphatic reminders to remember to circle back to it today.
"The joy we're about to lose...we'll become overseers rather than creators, managers rather than builders."
annievella.com/posts/the-so...
"The joy we're about to lose...we'll become overseers rather than creators, managers rather than builders."
annievella.com/posts/the-so...
The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella
Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code.
But...
annievella.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I mean, I'm kinda sad if programmers don't program any more but... it definitely makes me feel better about my current management-shaped role right now!
#RequiredReading
#RequiredReading
My ecofiction novel "A Diary in the Age of Water" is required reading for some courses at Memorial University ... #books #requiredreading #university #reading #ecofiction #femlit #speculativefiction themeaningofwater.com/2025/06/29/a...
“A Diary in the Age of Water” Required Reading at Memorial University
“A Diary in the Age of Water” selling at Memorial University Bookstore Instructor Keif Godbout-Kinney has made my eco-fiction novel A Diary in the Age of Water required reading in their…
themeaningofwater.com
June 11, 2026 at 6:55 PM
That's a gift link. Go read it. #RequiredReading
Trump's misogyny "gives license to systems that prioritize men's freedom over women's safety."
Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
That's a gift link. Go read it. #RequiredReading
January 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
5 Steps to Resist the Coming Tyranny: Adopt these Urgent Immediate Actions to Safeguard Yourself, Your Family & America.
My studies of the French Resistance activities in WW2 give a lot of insight on what we can do to resist the Trump regime
@malcolmnance.Substack.com
My studies of the French Resistance activities in WW2 give a lot of insight on what we can do to resist the Trump regime
@malcolmnance.Substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:41 AM
May 31, 2026 at 9:52 PM
“The existence of dipshits is indeed unfixable, but building arrays of Dipshit Accelerators that allow a small number of bad actors to build destructive empires defended by Dipshit Armies is a choice.” – @kissane.myatproto.social
Per @ngerakines.me, this year-old Kissane piece s/b #RequiredReading.
Per @ngerakines.me, this year-old Kissane piece s/b #RequiredReading.
Required reading for everyone following @kissane.myatproto.social’s awesome #AtmosphereConf keynote.
Against the dark forest
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.
www.wrecka.ge
March 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM
“The existence of dipshits is indeed unfixable, but building arrays of Dipshit Accelerators that allow a small number of bad actors to build destructive empires defended by Dipshit Armies is a choice.” – @kissane.myatproto.social
Per @ngerakines.me, this year-old Kissane piece s/b #RequiredReading.
Per @ngerakines.me, this year-old Kissane piece s/b #RequiredReading.
TOTAL #requiredreading
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
TOTAL #requiredreading
🚨👇🏻🚨👇🏻🚨👇🏻🚨👇🏻🚨👇🏻🚨👇🏻 #RequiredReading #OurPart #ForEachOther #ActionSteps #ForDemocracy #WorthFightingFor
January 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🚨👇🏻🚨👇🏻🚨👇🏻🚨👇🏻🚨👇🏻🚨👇🏻 #RequiredReading #OurPart #ForEachOther #ActionSteps #ForDemocracy #WorthFightingFor
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
An explanation of the extraordinary mechanisms put in place to ensure that Trump Is the Law for the Executive Branch.
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
Trump Is the Law for the Executive Branch
How the administration conforms legal interpretation to the president’s wishes.
open.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
A quick, poignant #read that should be considered #requiredreading for every American. Another one read from the already owned #tbr
#BookSky #Bookish #Booktok #reading #reader #bookrecommendations
#BookSky #Bookish #Booktok #reading #reader #bookrecommendations
January 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A quick, poignant #read that should be considered #requiredreading for every American. Another one read from the already owned #tbr
#BookSky #Bookish #Booktok #reading #reader #bookrecommendations
#BookSky #Bookish #Booktok #reading #reader #bookrecommendations
Always nice to see my novel, Chicano Frankenstein, taught in colleges!
www.donbookstore.com/donbook/buy_... #HorrorCommunity #RequiredReading
www.donbookstore.com/donbook/buy_... #HorrorCommunity #RequiredReading
September 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Always nice to see my novel, Chicano Frankenstein, taught in colleges!
www.donbookstore.com/donbook/buy_... #HorrorCommunity #RequiredReading
www.donbookstore.com/donbook/buy_... #HorrorCommunity #RequiredReading
June 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself,” @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes:
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
December 6, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Just finished this beautiful love letter to discovering the power of music by @spitznagel.bsky.social — “Rock Stars on the Record.” SO many echoes of my own experiences, proof that we all share more than we realize.
HIGHLY recommended.
#RequiredReading
#VinylCommunity
HIGHLY recommended.
#RequiredReading
#VinylCommunity
August 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Just finished this beautiful love letter to discovering the power of music by @spitznagel.bsky.social — “Rock Stars on the Record.” SO many echoes of my own experiences, proof that we all share more than we realize.
HIGHLY recommended.
#RequiredReading
#VinylCommunity
HIGHLY recommended.
#RequiredReading
#VinylCommunity
Just received my copy of BIBC, the new @daanis.ca -- first few pages and I already know it is going to be excellent. Becoming Kin was also great; highly recommend, even for (or especially for?) non-Native folks. #RequiredReading #nonfiction #books #IndigenousPeoplesDay
Patty Krawec will be there on Monday, November 17 for a talk on her incredible new book, Bad Indians Book Club!
attend.bpl.on.ca/event/14676798
attend.bpl.on.ca/event/14676798
October 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Just received my copy of BIBC, the new @daanis.ca -- first few pages and I already know it is going to be excellent. Becoming Kin was also great; highly recommend, even for (or especially for?) non-Native folks. #RequiredReading #nonfiction #books #IndigenousPeoplesDay
Thought bombs blowing up @villaineralit.bsky.social today! Loved getting this in our inboxes as well! Have you subscribed to Villain Era's newsletter? #ExpoRecommends #requiredreading
Stephen S. Mills has more of a comment than a question, today at Villain Era.
Q: What about queer visibility? by Stephen S. Mills
About a year ago, I heard a cishet art curator say she didn’t include sculptures of queer people because you can’t see queerness. I shifted in my seat. My eyes bounced around the room. The museum room. So it doesn’t matter is the end of the sentence.
villaineralit.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Thought bombs blowing up @villaineralit.bsky.social today! Loved getting this in our inboxes as well! Have you subscribed to Villain Era's newsletter? #ExpoRecommends #requiredreading
Hey y'all, it's Sunday and, therefore, it's @willbunch.bsky.social time (gift link) #RequiredReading
share.inquirer.com/AEICDM
share.inquirer.com/AEICDM
The night America’s doomed ruling class gorged on lamb, blood, and oil
For America’s deeply corrupt billionaires, time heals all wounds — even from a murderous Saudi prince’s bone saw.
share.inquirer.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Hey y'all, it's Sunday and, therefore, it's @willbunch.bsky.social time (gift link) #RequiredReading
share.inquirer.com/AEICDM
share.inquirer.com/AEICDM
My "What You Need To Know About Tear Gas" thread:
First, tear gas is a particulate, not an actual vapor or gas. In some cases, this means you can get some of the tear gas off your clothes by standing in a stiff breeze or strong fan.
First, tear gas is a particulate, not an actual vapor or gas. In some cases, this means you can get some of the tear gas off your clothes by standing in a stiff breeze or strong fan.
January 12, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Today’s #requiredreading. The amount of funding cut from cancer research is mind boggling.
This is what voter apathy, greed and the incessant search for wealth and power have done to US science in just one year.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
www.nature.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Today’s #requiredreading. The amount of funding cut from cancer research is mind boggling.