'You are not encouraged or invited to engage with the substance of their scholarship; instead, you are invited to clap. Instead of his appointment conjuring the question “what new opportunities for research will this lead to?”, it was “doesn’t this make you feel good?”'

Dr Laura Sangha@lsangha.bsky.social · 3h ago

'how little space remains for a genuinely progressive critique of institutional diversity practice ... how for many organisations ... symbolic representation has been a substitute for deeper reform, leaving it vulnerable to just this kind of backlash.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Me, driving: Look! That hillside is covered in goats! My kid, not missing a beat: My father was a shepherd. His father was a shepherd before him. I want to follow in their footsteps. And those footsteps are COVERED IN GOATS! AAAH! COVERED IN GOATS! I'm so proud.

“The EU’s 17th sanctions package targeted Russia's cultural heritage looting in Crimea. It listed Chersonesus occupation director Elena #Morozova and the museum she leads.” euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/05/r...

Russia loots occupied Crimea’s ancient sites through six illegal archaeological digs - Euromaidan Press

Russia runs six illegal digs in occupied Crimea while Ukraine documents stolen artifacts and struggles to prosecute those responsible.

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Eat shit you murderous oily little blasphemous quisling.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h ago

Oof. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Good for them

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 10h ago

More than half of young adult women who grew up as Latter-day Saints have now left the church. Many are reacting against politics, purity culture and powerlessness.

the City of Boise's increasingly aggressive campaign against the state's repeated attempt to ban pride flags flown by cities is extremely funny

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 6d ago

i have never seen a higher density of pride flags than in Boise

I don't want it here. I don't want it anywhere, frankly, but if they must build them perhaps they can put them in derelict malls and build out self sufficient off grid power infrastructure and cool them with wastewater.

I don't care how many millions of dollars they want to give "the community", they're Immortan Joe trying to take our water and give us worthless things in exchange. You can't drink money. Money won't save the pronghorn when there's no water for them. I don't want their money I want them to stay away

www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/p... Federal judge slammed the Justice Department as he “reluctantly” dismissed the seditious conspiracy case against leaders and members of the Oath Keepers in the final January 6 US Capitol riot case. “Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day…”

Judge slams the Justice Department as he ‘reluctantly’ dismisses final January 6 riot case | CNN Politics

A federal judge slammed the Justice Department as he “reluctantly” dismissed the seditious conspiracy case against leaders and members of the Oath Keepers in the final January 6 US Capitol riot case.

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Introducing my teenager to sacred ancient texts youtu.be/HqZudXP_u3o?...

Barnes & Barnes - Fish Heads (1980) (4K 60fps)

YouTube video by The 80s, a Decade of Music (Master Noise HD 60fps)

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If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future. The @theguardian.com just published an amazing piece about my book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." Coming August 18! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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there’s some beautiful stuff happening out there

Jamie@crayonsocialism.bsky.social · 15h ago

I heard “inshallah and the creek don’t rise” the other day.

Fuck you, vance

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

JD Vance takes a big dump on American colleges and universities and college graduates

Mike from Florida (he’s not) is an amazing cheap shot and I love it very much. welcome to Detroit motherfucker

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

Canadian survey says: Bullshit is the number one answer!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

INGRAHAM: How is Canada doing? VANCE: They're doing terribly

This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.

Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 10h ago

Google Docs leaks private information - www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...

This is worth amplifying (also this podcast is rad), that Roman slavery was, y'know, slavery. In fact, all slavery is horrifying, but the broader 'Mediterranean' slavery tradition (which is also, by the by, the ancestor of Atlantic slavery) is one of the *more extreme* such traditions.

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · last wk.

Next time someone tries to tell you that Roman slavery was different or better than other forms of slavery, tell them to listen to last week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com and/or buy Emma’s book.

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

I don't want to have a timely take. I want to spend months thinking deeply about all one thousand words of my opinion on something that happened approximately ten to tens of hundreds of years ago, as God and Fatima al-Fihri intended

if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon

onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 18h ago

This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

New Past Lives: The Human Sacrifices of the Shang Dynasty. Over a little more than 200 years, more than 13,000 people were sacrificed at the Shang capital. Who were they, and where did they come from? pod.link/1852618120/e...

The Human Sacrifices of the Shang Dynasty

Listen to The Human Sacrifices of the Shang Dynasty from Past Lives wherever you get your podcasts!

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History repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farcical tragedy.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 8h ago

The CIA is said to have created a task force to enact a more concerted campaign to pressure Cuba’s government.

To this student and all the chuds in the comments, AI is not inevitable www.reddit.com/r/VirginiaTe...

From the VirginiaTech community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the VirginiaTech community

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relevant bsky.app/profile/mske...

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h ago

I've read most of the books on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's proposed reading list and plan to read the rest. These are excellent recommendations. In fact, @gilduran.com (author of The Nerd Reich) will be a guest on Movement Memos soon.

When Garlic Defeated the Magnet: The Long Life of a Medieval Natural Belief www.medievalists.net/2026/08/garl... #history

When Garlic Defeated the Magnet: The Long Life of a Medieval Natural Belief - Medievalists.net

For centuries, scholars believed that something as ordinary as garlic could weaken the mysterious power of a magnet. The strange claim survived from…

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I think we can agree that AI detectors are out. But universities are ignoring the fact that faculty cannot really out-design assessments to meet the challenges of this moment. We need sustained institutional support to be the best teachers we can be, and we aren't getting it.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 18h ago

AI Detectors Are Out, New Assessments Are In A growing number of universities have prohibited AI detectors, arguing they are ‘unreliable’ indicators of cheating. But where does that leave faculty, who know all too well that cheating is rampant in the age of AI? https://bit.ly/4wGitF7 #EDUSky

Moon isn’t haunted…yet.

Tom McAllister@tmcallister.bsky.social · 15h ago

we should be hitting the moon with more stuff. sick of it controlling our tides, causing people to spiral into insanity, turning some of our best guys into wolves

Everyone is treating the quoted text like the guy is just really dumb or weird. That's not what this is! It is manufactured consent! Do you not know how that works? It's a media tactic where you present a distorted version of reality as the baseline assumption and natural state of affairs.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterday

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

this is truly motivating me to use inshallah even more than I already do after all it’s the faster and more fun way to say “if the good lord’s willing and the creek don’t rise,” speaking as someone with Southern roots.

✨queer commie terrorist✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 16h ago

starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”