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Dan Finn

@danfinn9000.bsky.social

I teach sociology, including the sociology of popular culture, at UMass Boston. NTT. He/him

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 13h ago

Y'all will eventually reckon with the fact that "woke" is a BLACK word stolen from BLACK people by WHITE SUPREMACIST FASCISTS to stigmatize BLACK PEOPLE and others deemed disposable and to dismantle pro-BLACK qua "progressive" policies IN THE WAKE OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT. The fucking end.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas@ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 13h ago

You can trace the etymology of "woke" in our history, culture, language, and rhetoric. It's in our music. Going back to spirituals sung in the fields. To the ships. To the very first sleepless nights our ancestors faced upon initial capture. We been woke for half the past millennium.

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 15h ago

i know people complain about Bluesky being obsessed about NY Times/ Atlantic and their reactionary bullshit, but let me be clear -- my dean, my provost, my president, my elected officials all do 100% read this stuff and take it as authoritative, so it does 100% shape policy

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h ago

Hey everyone, the New York Times has an AEI fellow interviewing a left-wing professor of media studies about the election, let's all pull up a chair and listen!

Jeff Melnick@melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 7d ago

A powerful piece in the Globe by my union's President and Vice-President (who is also the kind of librarian that anchors campus life for so many of us) about how administrators at UMass Boston have let our library fall into dangerous disrepair. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/11/06/o...

A shabby building at UMass Boston that speaks volumes - The Boston Globe

The city’s only public research university has so much going for it. So why is its library falling apart?

bostonglobe.com

@AuthorMsBev@authormsbev.bsky.social · last wk.

Have to laugh. Elon fired 600k highly educated Black women only to have them return as governors and senators and AGs and mayors and all the rest. Lol. Should’ve left well enough alone because we’re going to rise - no matter what.

Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · last wk.

cis people can cease with all their trans libbing out jokes please!!!! this is disgusting and depressing as fuck I also want to point out that this initiative explicitly states that if you want your kid to do DNA test, as opposed to a physical genital exam, it's on you to pay for it.

OPB@opb.org · last wk.

At least half the states in the country have some kind of restriction on trans girls in sports. But Washington would be one of the first to require medical testing to verify birth sex. Other states with bans require only proof of birth sex via a birth certificate.

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · last wk.

Busy Phillips seems like an amazingly weird lady who also understands the potential intersection of determinism and the many worlds theorem, and I quite dig her vibe. www.npr.org/2026/11/05/n...

Busy Philipps knows the best moments in life don’t exist without the worst ones : Wild Card with Rachel Martin

Busy Philipps found out she had a rare malignant brain tumor within hours of finding out she’d landed a part in the new CBS drama, “Cupertino.” She’s spent the past few months processing the highs and...

npr.org

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · last wk.

THIS. Gerrymandering blocked Dems from gaining unified control over state government in GA, NC, TX, and maybe OH. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans live in those states. Many House races remain uncalled, but my very prelimiary estimate is gerrymandering cost Dems 2 dozen seats—only NC’s map fully fell apart

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · last wk.

I said this on @nativelandpod.bsky.social but I'll repeat it here: A dangerous narrative is going to be "the GOP gerrymandering didn't work." NO. It worked GREAT. We just OVERCAME it. But we'd have even MORE seats, and different candidates could have won those seats, without the gerryamndering.

Tim Marchman@timmarchman.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s such a basic thing people tend to forget it, but Vance had about a year and a half in office before becoming the VP pick, and was not an impressive campaigner before that. He seems to have bad political instincts, but he also has almost no experience in politics. He’s more or less just a guy.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last wk.

was just chatting with a friend about this but it is really stunning to look back at the way vance carried himself in the last weeks of the campaign. just abysmal political judgment — abysmal political judgment that carried over to that bizarre statement he released yesterday.

Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · last wk.

Justin Pearson ran an incredible race. He's going to come up 2500 votes short. They gerrymandered the fuck out of that seat and he almost won. I'm so proud of Asha who ran that campaign and of all of the young people who worked on it. You haven't heard the last of Justin by a long shot.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

The thing is, this is more of a threat to Google’s relevance than it is to teaching. Yes it would be deeply annoying and a stupid burden to place on teachers, students and administrators. But I assure you we know how to teach without search. Does Google know how to not be a villain without schools?

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last wk.

Google is now threatening America's schools, saying they will turn off their core search functions if schools choose to entirely block AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/u...

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

This can be legislated out of existence. We have legislators, laws & institutions for making new ones. But technological exceptionalism—the idea that digital tech is so vital to our econ & welfare that regulating it is to our detriment—has become so entrenched that citizens forget we have this power

Marcus Falk@attusfalk.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is legit one of the most dystopian things I've ever read, and I could literally feel the hope leaving my body as I read it. We cannot allow this type of technology to be wide-spread, it has to be legislated into the ground. futurism.com/artificial-i...