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Academic & theatre kid| Canonical Misogyny out now from Edinburgh UP! | less funny half of @nashaxpodcast.bsky.social | she/her | 🇱🇧
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
10.02.2026 03:18 — 👍 11231 🔁 3125 💬 238 📌 230As the feds distribute photos of victims while veiling their abusers,
"These photographs are both emotionally overwhelming and politically shallow. It looks like the system is exposing everything when really it is exposing the harm and hiding the hand."
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BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes.
This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.
‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
*This*. It cannot be said often enough that Trump's 5th column in the UK is planning precisely the same fascist makeover. In broad daylight, and with "democratic" politicians being silent onlookers. And I wonder if Brits will have the courage of Minnesotans when it comes down to it.
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My first Nerdy Book Club post is up! I'm starting with Kate Manne's now-classic work Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Whether it's your first time or a re-read, come think with me for one chapter per week #booksky
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It needs to be said that it is extremely telling of what role ICE is ultimately playing in society that schools respond to it as though its a horde of potential mass shooters.
20.01.2026 23:18 — 👍 610 🔁 181 💬 8 📌 2It's like a substack, but it's not substack lithub.com/the-case-aga...
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“When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.”
Yellow honey drips on a pink backdrop
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Directed against the United States.
I spent 35 years as a US diplomat abroad and at the Department of State, often working closely with our NATO and European allies. We prepared for all sorts of contingencies. Except this one. I have no words.
Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state
14.01.2026 04:17 — 👍 6526 🔁 1544 💬 70 📌 18maybe I'm just jaded from spending my entire adult life watching sexual abuse committed with impunity, but i dont think X will suffer any consequences.
society likes to pretend it cares about sexual violence, but actually doesn't.
We are doing new eps but just at a glacial pace - this one I'm super excited about! We've got the brilliant @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social joining us to talk all things PERICLES!
28.12.2025 21:22 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
20.12.2025 16:49 — 👍 1227 🔁 209 💬 27 📌 82Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
14.12.2025 06:38 — 👍 10820 🔁 2315 💬 190 📌 93Stop it because why am I tearing up at a cartoon wolf in a supermarket ad 🥹🥹
10.12.2025 10:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0FACULTY GREW TOO POWERFUL
excuse me while I laugh myself off this cliff
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
09.12.2025 15:40 — 👍 11812 🔁 3254 💬 434 📌 153People expect miracles from medicine, but refuse the miracle that would let them avoid needing emergency care in the first place
05.12.2025 15:00 — 👍 629 🔁 93 💬 7 📌 2if you gut higher education successfully, it will take decades to recover. Subject experts, skilled pedagogues, and experienced research leaders don't pop off a factory line for next-day delivery. Once it's gone, it's going to be very hard work to get it back, even if everyone decides we want to.
03.12.2025 08:51 — 👍 19 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0if you gut higher education successfully, it will take decades to recover. Subject experts, skilled pedagogues, and experienced research leaders don't pop off a factory line for next-day delivery. Once it's gone, it's going to be very hard work to get it back, even if everyone decides we want to.
03.12.2025 08:51 — 👍 19 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0The people driving the dismantling of the sector seem to believe that academic capacity is easily replaceable. Maybe that's understandable, when they're currently getting hundreds of applications from over-qualified mid-career scholars for paltry part-time and fixed term contracts.
But --
I have a lot to say, including that it's despicable to drop this news 3 weeks before Christmas. I am devastated for my friends and colleagues. Butchering 20% of the university's staff poisons the working environment in ways that will linger.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
28.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 12401 🔁 2023 💬 212 📌 302
Canonical Misogyny is currently 50% off, direct from the publisher Edinburgh University Press. That makes the ebook just £10 all weekend!
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Fab thread.
Truly nothing beats the moment when you're so surprised by executing something you've been working on that you lose it mid-stream and fall over/start crying or laughing/drop everything/however your body reacts 🤸🏻♀️ 🤸🏻♀️ 🤸🏻♀️
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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