the other will be utterly excluded from your contemporary consciousness

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

Uh oh

"In my dreams I'm beautiful. And bad."

David Greenberg was a charming and slightly odd prof to share a dept with and it’s so cool his substantial retirement account goes to fund socialist organizing.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · last wk.

okay now we're really on a heater news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-ben...

Co-signing here and I wish just *one* of these articles would point out the history of authoritarian regimes attacking sociology specifically because it makes authoritarians uncomfortable.

Lisa Wade@lisawade.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sociology is amazing. Our biggest problem is bad-faith actors who maliciously spurn the field because we teach people how societies work and they'd rather we all stay in the dark. Not today, Satan!

Spent a good chunk of my life studying sociology before having to give the academia career track up. Sociology has so much to teach us and 100% it makes people uncomfortable because if you’re embracing authoritarianism… you don’t want your people educated and asking questions based on fact.

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 2w ago

Co-signing here and I wish just *one* of these articles would point out the history of authoritarian regimes attacking sociology specifically because it makes authoritarians uncomfortable.

God keep me from ever completing anything.

Hey hey Bluesky 😎 Software Engineer by day, Doom Mapper by night. I also like lifting and live music. May occasionally post about those things too. Here are some things I made (not all released)

up next for the Mac II: making some tunes with it

Oh so when they get drunk amd make bad decisions its Nixonmaxxing but when I do its inappropriate and ruining Easter

Hans-Georg Gadamer had a fable he'd sometimes tell. It was about how God in his Glory created someone magnificent, a figure who was pure and wise and free and serious and deep: the Scholar. But then alas God created the exact opposite, a veritable demon of stupidity and wrong: the Colleague.

Getting funky with MAP16 of the megawad. #doommapping

When will 97th Century Fox be back they said? #doom #classicdoom #pixelart #yaoi

Trying to get that Quake Brutalist Jam energy in DOOM #DOOM #DOOM2 #Quake #Retrofps

Approaching 20k linedefs with 1/3rd of the gameplay done, "oh surely this must take a while to beat so far" i thought to myself Playtime: 10 minutes

Foxo@fomxo.bsky.social · 3w ago

Early teasers of whats to come

The Owl gang

The people we rely on to hold the powerful to account are hopelessly and pathetically in thrall to them

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 3w ago

Uh, weird story

rare Rivi bsky post enjoy GREEN #doom

Yes, Trump made them worse. But refusing to recognize the toxicity of the pre-Trump Republican Party that made it so easy for Trump to take over will undermine efforts make REAL change when Trump is gone. Case in point: Lindsey Graham. This was in 2010!! www.politico.com/story/2010/0...

Graham eyes 'birthright citizenship'

The South Carolina senator wants to end automatic citizenship for kids of immigrants.

politico.com

Sad to hear of the passing of Robin Wagner-Pacifici. Her book WHAT IS AN EVENT? is one of those that kind of baffled me on my initial read, yet I found that it stuck with me to the point where I probably think about it on a weekly basis. Maybe it’s time I finally read her book on Aldo Moro

Jenn Lena@jenniferlena.bsky.social · 3w ago

The obituaries for our dear friend and colleague Robin have been posted. I still can’t find the words to mark her passing beyond sharing my deep grief and sadness. sociology.sas.upenn.edu/news/2026/07...

Robin Wagner-Pacifici (1954-2026). Smallest amongst many other things, emerita holder of the best-named named chair in the United States, the University in Exile Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. sociology.sas.upenn.edu/news/2026/07...

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

I'm failing miserably at trying to come up with reasons why the world would be a better place with Graham still in it. He identified Trump as exactly the toxic poison that he is but still bent the knee anyway. No tears here, sorry.

after almost 16 years my time with id is done as layoffs ravage everyone across the companies. i'm going to be fine money wise, but if you have money to spare, donate it to the game worker hardship fund! uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...

Game Worker Hardship Fund

Who is eligible to apply for this fund?This fund is for game workers in the US and Canada impacted by record layoffs & other hardships in the games industry within the timeframe of January 2024 to the...

uvw-cwa.org

Physical media is important because that's how you get art like this

age assurance restrictions are now in effect for Texas Bluesky users (please direct your anger towards Texas politicians for passing SB2420 👎) if you're on iOS 26 or Android, you can choose to share just your age range to verify that you're an adult – no other personal data is shared

Bluesky Safety@safety.bsky.app · 4w ago

We've been working to comply with a growing number of age assurance laws around the world. For more information on how we approach this work (and specific information regarding impacted regions) read our constantly-updated blog post. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

from Bill Gates holding a shotgun and wearing a trenchcoat green screening himself in front of Doom E1M2 to try and sell Windows 95 because Doom was just that popular to Microsoft laying off most of iD is unfortunately a too poetic summary of the history of the game industry as a whole

John Linneman@dark1x.bsky.social · last mo.

If they ended up decimating id Software's tech team then I have no faith in anything they'll ever do again under the current leadership. Between last week and today's news...I just don't know what to say at this point.