@erieriverbirch.bsky.social
Scholar of movie and comics things at Ohio State. Spaniel wrangler, with cat. Fan of indie dyed yarns. Parent of a teen. Happiest with trees.
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French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol:
"Because of Elon Musk's actions... Tesla branded vehicles have become strong political symbols and now appear to be veritable extreme-right totems."
@teslatakedown.com #teslatakedown
New special issue co-edited by Armelle Blin-Rolland, Martín Veiga and myself, out now!
11.06.2025 14:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic for a Special Issue of the Journal of Romance Studies: Journal cover displayed to the left, the cover is a warm white with a decorative square tile in the centre, the journal's title is in a slim mid green font. Behind the cover sits a close up of the decorative tile from the journal's front cover, decorated in blue, green and yellow with a floral motif. On top sits text that reads 'ECOMODLANG: GREENING THE FIELD OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES Edited by Armelle Blin-Rolland, Margaret C. Flinn, and Martín Veiga'. A white Liverpool University Press logo and a white Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies, School of Advanced Study University of London logo sit at the top. Below sits a green button with white text that reads 'special issue'.
🌿 A new special issue of Journal of Romance Studies explores how language teaching & research can address ecological crises. Featuring global voices, eco-pedagogies & cultural insights.
Read more: bit.ly/ECOMODLANG
@ilcs.bsky.social @erieriverbirch.bsky.social @eedgington.bsky.social #envhum
Mark my words: today will be revealed as a pivot point in the relationship between Trump and Vance. It’ll be recognized as the first moment when Vance did significant bet hedging with his silence and Trump noticed and it became A Thing between them over time.
06.06.2025 02:30 — 👍 1960 🔁 190 💬 63 📌 12_Drawing (in) the Feminine_ has been shortlisted for a 2025 CCS award for Best Edited Book. 🎉 It’s available open access through the Ohio State University Press website—check it out!
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Big dogs on campus here at Florida State.
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Text from New York Times: “Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism.” “We look at these comparative cases in the 21st century, like Hungary and Poland and Turkey. And in a lot of respects, this is worse,” he said. “These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding.”
God bless historians. How else would we know what shit we’re in
20.03.2025 21:32 — 👍 144 🔁 53 💬 7 📌 4
Climate stripe of annual global glacier mass changes (gigatonnes) from 1976 to 2023. Data source: WGMS. Credit: C3S/ECMWF/WGMS.
On the first World Glacier Day the evidence is alarming:
🧊 2023 saw a record annual mass loss of global glaciers
🗻 The years with the largest global glacier mass loss have all occurred since 2019
🌊 Estimates indicate the 2023 mass loss contributed ~1.7 mm to global mean sea level rise
#glacier 🧪⚒️🌏
Robyn Denholm, who presides over the board of Tesla, has been so generously compensated in that role that a shareholder lawsuit forced her to return part of her fortune, and a judge criticized her for approving a record-setting payout for chief executive Elon Musk reut.rs/41QWX21 1/5
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SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, & committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon**, she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants.
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🇫🇷 French MEP Raphael Glucksmann calls for the US to return the Statue of Liberty, claiming America no longer upholds the values it was gifted for.
“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it.”
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Massachusetts Rep. Keating SLAMS rethuglican for harassing Congresswoman McBride.
www.masslive.com/politics/202...
51 so ... "nice." Nice point one, to be precise.
06.03.2025 14:26 — 👍 51 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0okay what is this obsession with the "faculty lounge" in the American and British media?
Have y'all had a look at the state of most higher ed institutions?
At my last job, they ripped out the phone in my office to save money.
Al Green after he was THROWN out of chambers:
“I was making it clear to the President that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid”
"It is the best way to get it across to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility. "
#SOTU
More simply put, this means gender-affirming care providers nationwide will continue to receive federal funding, pending further litigation. It's great news.
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Protest sign reading Polyculture>Monoculture SENR ❤️DEI
Protest sign reading « Keep trolls out of our classrooms »
Protest sign reading OSU with a human figure kneeling in compliance.
Hundreds present at Ohio State protests against the university’s “sunsetting” of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and against SB1, the “Higher Education Destruction Act”…
04.03.2025 22:59 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A printed out poster for the economic blackout on February 28 on a telephone poll across the street from buildings. The poster shows a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.
Love this! Today’s the day! It’s just the beginning. United we stand, divided we fall. It was nice that a bunch of people asked me if they could use my poster like this.
28.02.2025 12:47 — 👍 485 🔁 89 💬 9 📌 12Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
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A line chart depicts data from 2017 to 2023. The line is labeled "Sepsis rate". The line starts at 2.9% in 2017 and hovers around 3% through 2021. The line spikes up in 2022 and 2023, where it ends at 4.9%. The years 2022 -2023 are labeled "Years abortion was banned."
NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
AAUP Statement “Against Anticipatory Obedience”
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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist
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Dusk Sky with unusual cloud formation
03.02.2025 19:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0PEN America, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
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