Michael E. Skyer, PhD
@michaelskyer.bsky.social
Anarcho-pragmatist. Doctor of Education - University of Rochester. Tenure-track Assistant - University of Tennessee. Teacher educator. Agitator. Deaf. Multiply disabled. NF2-SWN. Bi. Critical deaf pedagogy. Disability Studies. Theory. Methodology. Praxis.
Boycotting is easy and fun too! Here's an info graphic of all the ultra processed crap that Nestle makes. You can punch upward and improve your health at the same time.
Blackstone and BlackRock are two sides of the same dystopian coin falling into a well of infinite darnkess. It is a race to the bottom for all and the coin is going faster and the bottom is getting nearer. To hell with capitalism.
Holy shit. www.reddit.com/r/Global_New...
From the Global_News_Hub community on Reddit: The New York Times' office building in Manhattan was 'vandalized' with red paint this morning. The words 'NYT Lies Gaza Dies' were written on the windows.
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Freedom of religion includes freedom from religion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u... Fascists going after shared governance at George Mason University.
Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
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This is a hostage situation: www.10news.com/news/nationa...
Education Department says it will release billions in remaining withheld grant money for schools
President Donald Trump's administration had suspended more than $6 billion in funding on July 1, as part of a review to ensure spending aligned with the White House’s priorities.
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Just wait. They will try to rehabilitate the careers of these ghoulish enablers. It's going to happen. And probably sooner than you think.
No sitting politician lacks for food. No sitting politician lacks for healthcare. No sitting politician lacks a home to sleep in. Put another way, every politician has their basic needs met and therefore do not embody the lives of all those they represent. This alone is an indictment of democracy.
Life on the tenure track is Sisyphean. While publishing articles is one of the most important goals, it seems like publishing is the last thing you can manage to pull off after teaching, grading, correspondence, grantsmanship, budgeting, travel, committees, conferences, mentoring. Pic related.
Violence is never the answer if you are a victim. Violence is always the answer if you are a cop, a CEO, a president, a soldier, a guard, a jailer, a vivisectionist. - Conventional "Wisdom."
Dutifully up-voting images of the dystopia, wondering when the future is supposed to arrive.
Normalize having honest talks with prospective PhD students. About workload, expectations, what academic hierarchies they can expect, what life after the doctorate looks like, how timelines go to shit.
"It is not a genocide, it is a war of choice" is not a refutation but an admission of guilt for both.
JCSCD invites submissions examining the impacts of sociopolitical shifts and evolving governing ideologies on communication and disability. criticalstudycommunicationdisability.org/index.php/jc...
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sociopolitical Shifts, Communication, and Disability | Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability
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It is important to remember that the powerful are also extraordinarily weak. Their power is so tenuous and holds on by a thread. That is not deep authentic power but fragility.
It sucks that transcription AI only works for spoken languages. Another example of audism baked into research. And yes, I've seen the promo video for sign language AI and that shit is cool but light years behind what is needed for deaf signers to match the tools available for speaker hearers.
Doctor: You shouldn't take this one OTC pain med, it has a negative cumulative effect on the body's filtration system. Instead, here are new prescriptions for pain that won't actually reduce the pain level and now your body has to metabolize three new drugs as well. Oh and weight gain. Me:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Autistic joy. What a nice idea for a research paper.
Experiences of autistic joy
Challenging mainstream narratives of autism as disaster, this participatory study of Autistic Joy found that a majority of its 86 participants often experienced joy. The study was conducted using a...
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sokalnouveau.com/2025/06/16/t...
The Viral Ontology of Linguistic Transmission: A Hypercomplex Analysis
This essay, taken from Sokal Nouveau #051, interrogates the the hypercomplex vectors of the hypothesis that “language is a virus” by triangulating structuralist semiotics, virological m…
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> Overall, the independent workers association appealed most to the very constituencies that Democrats have struggled to mobilize or retain in recent cycles: working-class Americans, people of color, and those who feel that the American Dream is slipping away. jacobin.com/2025/06/rust...
Rust Belt Voters Are Sick of Both Parties
Polling shows Americans are ready to support independent populists running on economic platforms. But what they don’t want is anything associated with the Democratic Party’s brand.
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Kinda bullshit that the "et al.," designation takes up two words, when often it is replacing just two words. I feel like this kind of thing should not count for word counts.
What is interesting about the aesthetic of ICE is that there has no aesthetic other than "casual white guy" dress. This is frightening in a way that a uniform could never be. Whoever make this judgement call is a fucking psychopath beyond measure.