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Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 6h ago

Can anyone out there recommend a good article for students on how to annotate readings?

Fountain pen enthusiasts, please send me all your recs, links, and tips! My fingers are inkstained. My soul is fixed. My heart is happy. I'd planned to head over to Atlas Stationers while in Chicago for ALA, but never made it. Tempted to preorder for Inkvent, but I'm brand new to this category.

There’s really no penalty for Islamophobia in media/political careers in the center, and massive incentives for it on the right

There’s an intense focus on other forms of discrimination throughout the English speaking world and no attention to no-holds-barred Islamophobia in right wing outlets, and casual Islamophobia in mainstream outlets

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3h ago

If you think Fox has ramped up the Islamophobic outrage over Abdul El-Sayed's victory, you really need to check out what Newsmax was doing last night. It's hard to put into words how racist this is, but also notice how the anchor lies and calls El-Sayed an "immigrant from another Muslim country."

for reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carré Spillway twice for a total of 123 days. The spillway dumped over 1.35 trillion cubic feet of polluted freshwater into the Mississippi Sound. The Mississippi Sound may become "a dead sea" due to future spillway openings.

Mississippi Sound ‘Will Be a Dead Sea’ Soon Due to Spillway Openings, Coalition Warns

Advocates warn that the Mississippi Sound  will be “a dead sea within a generation” without corrective action.

buff.ly

this is how you should treat me

like, this sentiment is equally as bad as white nationalism. everyone sees that right? it’s just less popular rn

Billie Ω (masterless muse)@billie-it-is.bsky.social · 10h ago

Humans are the most destructive and stupid thing to ever evolve. Any natural wonder, we’ll fuck it up. Any technology that has great potential for our better we figure how to kill each other with it. We deserve to extinct ourselves.

Really don't understand the end game of all the billionaires building their climate change apocalypse bunkers. You need society to function. You can't farm. You can't cook. You can't even clean. You think you won't be the first thing on the menu for all the underground servants?

Here are takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries: https://cnn.it/4wJkYXa

it's a death cult, and if the only ones they were killing were themselves, that would be fine.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9h ago

I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

well, you can actually breathe the air in major cities these days. that's a plus, imo.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

"Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom. A new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom

A new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university.

insidehighered.com

Bible study I AM DYING Jesus: My dad's into surveillance, me not so much

Sassy0210@sassy0210.bsky.social · 8h ago

The cameras really shouldn't have been out that time of night. What were they wearing? 💀

LLMS are like, imagine you built a robot that could cook and you fed it a billion cheeseburgers and now it could make a cheeseburger 75% of the time you asked for one, and these guys are out here like “let’s replace all chefs with the cheeseburger robot.”

Let me ask Abdul El Sayed

This man might go to prison for allegedly wiping his phone before DHS officials could search it. No warrant for the phone, no specific claim of what 'evidence' might be on it. But he used a duress/wipe password, leading to the charge Watch more and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmik...

Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...

Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.

cbs12.com

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.'"

Many academics have to find the money to publish books from grants. This is a job on top of a job and they earn no royalties on anything.

Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026)@tnflorvil.bsky.social · 8h ago

Greetings, Psst, most academics aren't making much money from their book publications. They can't use their royalties. This means we are not popping our collars and purchasing prosecco or NA prosecco. The few scholars who are making bank are not publishing with university/academic presses.

Please roll back the word processors, spreadsheet, and graphic tools to their pre-monthly subscription fee versions.

Mike the Mad Biologist and PM of the "Islamic Republic of Japan"@mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 10h ago

…just have to return to doing work the way they did it in 2022 (not all jobs etc.). Though I wouldn't mind it if most word processors, spreadsheet, and graphics tools rolled back to their 2022 versions either…

Congratulations @abdulelsayed.bsky.social! Outspent 11 to 1, Abdul proved that people-powered campaigns can still beat big money. Michiganders chose hope over fear, and a future rooted in dignity, justice, and opportunity.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donavan McKinney wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Michigan's 13th Congressional District.

“A maggot knows things about the outside world in a way that no computer does.” — Matthew Cobb, Manchester University Right on, Dr Cobb, right on. (This article is terrific btw)

Neuroskeptic@neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 9h ago

"AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK" www.quantamagazine.org/ai-is-nothin... Hmm... it's a great article, maybe not a great headline.

yeah this has been true for like a decade now hello

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 15h ago

“The tragic implication of Plümper and Neumayer’s analysis is not that individual scientists are unusually dishonest, but that a system designed to incentivise truth-seeking has been incrementally transformed into one that often rewards its distortion” blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

“Inshallah!” — Anne Hathaway

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 21h ago

I hope El-Sayed absolutely trounces that lady.

‘I anticipate us to be able to acquire quite a few of their customers.’ www.theverge.com/science/9754...

SpaceX is coming for T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon

You knew this was coming.

theverge.com

Okay then! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.

nbcnews.com

They're calling it for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social — this is a victory for Medicare for All, for every American who has ever needed care but couldn't afford it. We are one step closer to realizing health care as a human right in this country.

Abdul El-Sayed tells his supporters the election results will be known tomorrow, pivots to defeating Mike Rogers in the general.