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What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling: Doomscrolling turns our phones into misery machinesβand makes us see the world as a mean, scary place. Here's what happened when Jennifer Mercieca's students tried hopescrolling instead
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There is a distinct difference between βunityβ and βsolidarityβ: where solidarity recognizes our differing social contexts and positions but still highlights the criticality of working together, βunityβ pushes a violent doctrine of sameness. It allows for individuals in positions of relative dominance to set agendas that more marginalized and disenfranchised individuals and communities are dogmatically expected to follow.
βThere is a distinct difference between βunityβ and βsolidarityβ: where solidarity recognizes our differing social contexts and positions but still highlights the criticality of working together, βunityβ pushes a violent doctrine of sameness.β
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06.05.2025 17:32 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Tunnelled footpath portal.
Seventeenth century river bridge portal.
Derelict pumphouse portal.
Lime kiln portal.
A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.
27.03.2025 10:17 β π 5760 π 951 π¬ 127 π 91
Guys, #sdjournos PLEASE help out. We really need nominations for βJournalist of the Year.β Please share. The only requirements are 1) the nominee is a journalist 2) in San Diego. 3) is not on SPJ board.
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Write the book youβd like to see someone pull from a higgledy-piggledy pile in a secondhand shop sixty three years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
24.04.2025 11:43 β π 169 π 37 π¬ 7 π 3Check out this dossier of reflections on #ungrading from a range of Film & Media Studies faculty (including me) - thanks to @jennblaylock.bsky.social for co-editing!
quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach...
Decisions about what libraries and archives choose to collect are more significant sources of censorship and erasure than patron book challenges.
19.03.2025 18:04 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0How can we translate the real impact of DOGE cuts to voters? What is her concrete, "explain like I'm 5" message in response to something like gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? What can we tell people? And what can we do now? (Also, thank her for me. She's remarkable)
08.03.2025 07:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Very worried about what this means for UC San Diego medical and Radyβs Childrens.
08.02.2025 16:41 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Higher ed institutions need to step up not just to save themselves, but because democratic institutions are an important part of a larger resistance against an over authoritarian project. The stakes couldn't be higher. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
20.02.2025 13:47 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 1 π 2
Today, February 20th, is a day of action at UC San Diego. Join us and tell your reps what you think about cuts to NIH funding that will severely affect lifesaving University of California research: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...
20.02.2025 18:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am
19.02.2025 14:05 β π 459 π 177 π¬ 6 π 11
"It is my hope that this tool in process, which benefited from the input of many seasoned activists, helps you to connect the personal to the political. I hope that this offers the beginning of a bridge between information and action." millionexperiments.com/zines/making...
15.02.2025 16:40 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO TURN ANGER INTO ACTION
Hereβs advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. Iβm retyping from Allison McGuffieβs post, which she cut and pasted from a friend.
There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and theyβve by far the most important things.
The more of us can be awake and clear in this moment, the better we can respond with power to the horrors they are hoping to unleash. The easier to organize. To show up.
And? Even now? Youβre allowed joy. You should have joy.
More on all this here, w/some practical tips:
How to find instant clarity
(no hacks or apps)
Feeling stuck? Here's the action map:
1. Overthinking spirals?
β³ Write it down. Get it out of your head.
2. Lost inspiration?
β³ Read. Others' ideas spark yours.
#academicsky #acwri #sciencesky #productivity
Everything about this is incredible, a total scholarly thriller, a triumph in every way, I have rarely read an article with more excitement β¬οΈβ¬οΈβ¬οΈ
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I knew Jack from Act One. He was a great teacher and so generous
28.12.2024 04:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Pointing again at my US Blue State Challenge. If you live in a "blue state", pick the red state you hate the most and the issue you care about the most and find a group in that state working on that issue and support them.
13.10.2023 15:40 β π 900 π 451 π¬ 18 π 26
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30.09.2023 12:37 β π 482 π 265 π¬ 18 π 13
What kind of tormented soul does this to the iconic, historic, beautiful, Sycamore Gap on Hadrianβs wall? Felled in a matter of minutes overnight in what can only be described as an attack on nature. There are very few trees in this landscape this medieval tree was truly special. Devastating. π₯²
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