Nathan Rambukkana
@beeblefish.bsky.social
Academic, trouble maker. Digital, platform, and AI intimacies; non/monogamy and privilege. Intersectional Automations: https://tinyurl.com/bdehyvcz Hashtag Publics: https://tinyurl.com/32m5dm6a Fraught Intimacies: https://tinyurl.com/3a7tb22p
To be fair, I’m not entirely certain I’m not a troll by some AI…
Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w agoWhat if the “AI persona” is just a troll by a person? #AOIR2026
I am loving seeing all of the work on digital and platform intimacies at #AoIR2026! Sad that some are scheduled opposite each other, but I am taking that as reflective of the growing prominence of critical intimacy work in internet studies.
I love watching the the posts start to come in from #AoIR2026. Sorry to miss the workshop day, but I get in later tonight, see you all soon!
Nice to see this handy guide thanks @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy! #AoIR2026
Robert W. Gehl@rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 2mo agoI edited my old Mastodon-to-Bluesky (and vice-versa) guide for #AoIR2026 https://fossacademic.tech/2025/09/01/aoir-socials-guide.html If you're attending #AoIR2026 (or want to lurk) and you're interested in bridging between #Mastodon and #Bluesky (and #Blacksky), please check out the guide. Or […]
"But he did a Groyper meme" That's the "Slav squat," not groyper-specific www.economist.com/1843/2019/09... "The song is on a groyper playlist" It's just some random guy's playlist. The Spotify account has 5 followers And none of these reference trans issues at all
If you’re a journalist writing about the Kirk murder and you don’t know what the Groyper Wars are, I beg you to find someone who knows what the Groyper Wars are before you write your article
I wrote this yesterday. This is how predictable you are
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Liz Shannon Miller@lizshannonmiller.com · last yr.this does not seem like a good thing mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/substack-j...
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · last yr.Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Are you near Brighton the first week of Nov? Check out this talk by one of my favourite people @drfigree.bsky.social
Tom Pryce@tompryce.bsky.social · last yr.#CfP now open! "Everyday Resistance: Thinking, making, and living in the material world". Submit to join keynote speaker, Prof. Anna Feigenbaum (@drfigtree.bsky.social) in Brighton on Nov 7th. Read the full CfP & submit: drive.google.com/file/d/1V9N0...
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
IAEA DIRECTOR ON IRAN: “We did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon.”
As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.
Unfortunately, it's already happened, many women have been sexually assaulted by men, pretending to be ice agents, there are tons of reported issues, #abolishice
Today in "Is Los Angeles Burning?": No.
Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · last yr.Today in “Is Los Angeles Burning?”: No.
Trump actually managed to push CNN into saying the truth plainly, which is no small feat
The right only care about "free speech" when it is their preferred speech in question.
Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social · last yr.Popular Information compiled a list of 22 actions taken by the Trump admin that "undermine the principle of freedom of speech," from targeting The Associated Press to deleting websites to gutting VOA to stripping books from shelves. Here's the list:
Entire Madleen crew representing 7 countries has gone dark and presumed kidnapped by Israel Greta Thunberg Rima Hassan Yasemin Acar Baptiste Andre Thiago Avila Omar Faiad Pascal Maurieras Yanis Mhamdi Suayb Ordu Sergio Toribio Marco van Rennes Reva Viard
Strange development "Freedom Flotilla Coalition says surrounding boats have left In an audio message on the coalition’s Telegram, activist Thiago Avila has said the boats that surrounded the Madleen have now left. “This, unfortunately, has been a very unlikely false alarm. we have been […]
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The Madleen aid ship with Greta Thunberg on board heading to Gaza is now surrounded by Israeli boats, says Freedom Flotilla Coalition member Thiago Avila: “We are being attacked.”
Bully: Hey Columbia, gimme your lunch money. Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?) Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia. Columbia: OK, here you go. Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money. Harvard: No. Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.
@marisakabas.bsky.social identifies seven GOP reps who were welcomed to tour Trump's concentration camp the day before they refused Van Hollen entry: Ron Estes (KS) Kevin Hern (OK) Mike Kennedy (UT) Carol Miller (WV) Riley Moore (WV) Jason Smith (MO) Claudia Tenney (NY)
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2y agoMy latest —