Siyanda 🐼

Siyanda 🐼

@siyandawrites.bsky.social

Woefully ungovernable and pathologically optimistic. Writer, Satirist & Sociologist. I used to be big on Twitter but I refuse to tango with the devil so here I am! Let’s dance 💃🏾

850 Followers 1,343 Following 1,227 Posts Joined Aug 2024
2 weeks ago
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Does humanities research matter anymore? (opinion) The rapid collapse in available research funding is one crisis in the humanities we aren’t talking enough about, Asheesh Kapur Siddique writes.

It's possible to do a non-reactionary critique of the current landscape of humanities research funding: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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1 month ago

Bro

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Doctors say children should be vaccinated. This ketamine-addicted CBS News contributor says they shouldn't. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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1 month ago

The MIC working hard for their money I see

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This picture is wild 🤣

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1 month ago

learned from who??? Who are these random people sending stuff to state legislators

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2 months ago
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the thing is that none of these guys are actually going to do anything more than sit behind a screen

they're not going to do any raping and pillaging, that's not even the "reward"

what they get off to is talking about how much they would hypothetically rape and pillage on the internet

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2 months ago

I pledge allegiance, to the profits, of the corporations and puppets of America. And to the stakeholders, who all demand, one monopoly, under cis white male God, divisible unevenly among the empowered, for injustice and slavery for all.

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It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

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Did you know Scottish generators pay the highest charges in Europe to connect to the grid, while English plants get subsidized? We are penalized for producing green energy. It is a rigged system designed to keep our energy cheap for London and expensive for us.

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Why did BS stories like the John Kerry swiftboating and Obama birtherism get into major media? Because news bosses wanted to show their “fairness.” I know this because I edited the Chicago Tribune’s first story on Obama’s birth certificate. We didn’t want to touch it. The higher-ups made us. 9/10 🧵

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One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵

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"sorry, this opening has been filled"

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Nothing horrifies me more than the thought of walking for no reason

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and I hate to say it, but I feel like most of us on bluesky are the outliers with our aversion to it 🥴

at least from what I’ve seen on other apps (namely IG and Tiktok), wayyy more people have seemed to embrace it

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I think the weirdest thing about AI usage has been seeing how quickly people are willing to surrender themselves to it

like that desire to offload every mental challenge, any need for validation, every single curiosity is channeled through it

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They done finally laid Duolingo to rest

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3 months ago

obviously plenty of other things should have already been disqualifying but people willing to defy Trump publicly and appeal to decency as their reason for doing so both seem pretty good

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Are there?

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In Washington, everything appears to be for sale And the government has given up on prosecuting corruption

Was that chip deal or this tariff break a credible decision made in the national interest, or a finagle made in Donald Trump’s self-interest? Was it both? Who knows

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Pop quiz! Who wrote this book?

Is it 

a) a random guy
b) the current minister of finance in Brazil

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4 months ago
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just....enjoy this

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4 months ago

Classic cope

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4 months ago

This man is (also) a Peruvian citizen. He really means what he says

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4 months ago

I’m sorry I just got here from outer space. New York is a suburb built on an old cornfield right

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Awww thanks for answering! I grew up in a more ethical agrarian environment and wouldn’t mind drinking milk there but here I’m nervous about treatment of cattle. Should I try to seek out local farms or is like “Big Dairy” also not painful to the cows

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