Livi Heebsh.
@dialivia.bsky.social
Wannabe Archaeologist, studying CHRM at UMD.
Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.
Overwhelmingly: white, male, STEM. Dishonourable Mention: East and SouthAsian names; Hindutva-oriented ethnonationalists, also male.
roterote@roterote.bsky.social · 6h agoAll of these people signed from Universities around the world. This is a clear example how easily it was for Nazi Academics to take over the academy in the 1930s and 1940s. People will defend people whose views would see them all destroyed and most in camps.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if you are signing a letter supporting a disgraced eugenicist famous for hounding a Black scholar to death your main concern is not academic freedom. This goes double if you don’t have the same smoke for the Trump administration’s attacks on academia.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h agoIf anyone wants to have a look at the letter itself, here it is: johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/...
This wasn’t the first protest we’ve had in response to the ICE incident at Bohrer Park and it won’t be the last. Just as ICE can’t operate on state property thanks to recently passed laws, we want the city of Gaithersburg to prohibit ICE from using their property as well.
Today, just outside of Bohrer Park, we protested ICE terrorizing our communities and the city of Gaithersburg’s inaction in the face of that terror. (Gaithersburg, MD - August 22, 2026)
"These include the Cambridge University professor's claim that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days for charity and that he played semi-professional football, which both became central talking points in recent attacks on the late academic."
Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d agoJason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ardays-marathon-challenge-and-football-claims-found-be-true-after-his-death
It never really mattered what kind of person Arday actually was/if he did the things he said he did. To the baying mobs of journalists, Twitterati, pundits, and academics that drove and continue to drive the frenzy around him, he was not human. Just the embodiment of the sins of DEI/EDI made flesh
Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d agoJason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ardays-marathon-challenge-and-football-claims-found-be-true-after-his-death
A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
Time to take out a subscription to Byline Times. They are covering stories of real public interest which involve academia right now
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d agoHere‘s the real story from @nafeez.bsky.social The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
The university's leaders are, alas, complicit in a lot of harm and a lot of brain-rotting. Just one of the things I've written about this: bsky.app/profile/drsu...
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 6d agoAnd by the way, those tasks that some people say isn't really writing, or isn't really research, and so is outsourceable to the psychosis machine? It's not okay to use it for them, either. And those tasks ARE writing and research. Insight is an emergent property of doing the work. 5/5
"If there was a story in the public interest in this case, it was that there is a growing legitimacy given to race science and eugenics even within major universities, and that this is putting Black and antiracist scholars at enormous risk." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Jason Arday’s death is institutional murder
Arday was subjected to a vicious campaign fuelled by anti-Black racism.
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Horrific. So many gleeful ghouls, ranging from far right to liberal, who jumped on this issue to vent their spleen over everything they think they’re entitled to if only they didn’t have to share with people they, deep down or shallowly, deem unworthy. A murder by social media witch hunt.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last wk.B*njamin Ryan spent whole days posting about Arday endlessly on Twitter. He seems to have deleted/be deleting his posts now. But plenty of academics were very happy to continue in his comments and elsewhere. Hounding someone to death is unlikely to weigh much on the minds or hearts of these people.
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Stop calling it AI and refer to it as "Digital Meth". "What are you using AI for?" "Digital Meth? Nothing. It turns your brain into slop." "Are you using AI for writing?" "Digital Meth? It will guarantee you get Dementia in a decade. Why would I want dementia?"
me: hey do you have this movie I want to watch? Disney: no Netflix: not anymore Apple: ew no CBC Gem: yes and it’s free Prime: maybe I do, maybe I don’t. Maybe it costs $5 for no reason, even though you already pay for this. Maybe you should fuck off into the sun.
A recent federal government report found that deferred maintenance is rampant across museums and historic sites. This article warns that deferred maintenance is a trap that is difficult to escape once your org falls into it. Maria Ruiz argues for a change in mindset to a prevention-first culture.
Deferred Maintenance Isn’t a Strategy: Build a Prevention First Culture Instead
Learn about deferred maintenance, preventive maintenance, facility management, facilities leadership, maintenance strategy, asset management, predictive maintenance and related trends for building operations success
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youtu.be/NFwLot9nswg I got to 2:40 in this video and had to rant a bit. These YT mutherfuckers moved/built a house on a lake in Ojibwe land and now have the audacity to sue??? STFU and get the fuck off their land!!! Its their lake! They decide how its gonna be used/who has access!
Tribal sovereignty is at issue in Lac du Flambeau's lawsuits | Here & Now
YouTube video by PBS Wisconsin
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An important reminder to a nation full of pious busybodies:
i'm mad about the inane and senseless destruction of a 900 year old archaeological site, yes, very mad i'm even more mad about the genocide those same destroyers have been committing against actual humans because people matter more than archaeology, to be clear but i'm also mad about the castle
Reminder: Todd Blanche has… -Weaponized the DOJ to persecute Trump’s political foes -Purged hundreds of career DOJ lawyers -Botched the release of the Epstein files and ignored victims’ wishes He can’t be trusted and has no business being Attorney General. The Senate must reject him.
yes. the reason Alex Pretti and Renee Good's murders went viral and reshaped the narrative (and the more recent murders have not, despite being no less egregious) is that they were on video that quickly made its way to social media. like even more than skin color, I'm deadly serious.
neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 3w agoTactical analysis: no, because the conditions were wrong for what Hancox-Li calls positive virality. Unsympathetic individuals doing an unsympathetic activity with no crowd to take video from multiple angles. These incidents can be provoked but they can't be manufactured.
Chevron, ExxonMobil, & Shell combined raked in $404 million in profits/day for the last 3 months. This bonanza for oil companies/executives is raising eyebrows & ire among EU lawmakers & Democrats in the U.S. Congress, who're calling for windfall taxes on oil companies. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...
Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices
Chevron reported its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell had its second-biggest quarter, and ExxonMobil doubled its earnings compared with the same time last year.
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