If you are 38 years old or older, I want you to start working on your foot strength and ankle mobility. Unless I hate you. Then I want you to rest for ten years and then suddenly try to hop off a step one day, cold.
Michelle Moyd
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Historian of Africa, soldiers, war. Mom, spouse, daughter. Author of *Violent Intermediaries*. Vet. Wish I had a dog. Wish I could just write what I want.
The music industry loves itself some racial segmentation, I swear.
Pop Base@popbase.tv · last wk.BTS announces they will not submit their music for the 2027 GRAMMY awards, following the Recording Academy’s addition of an Asian-focused category: “I hope music itself can be heard and loved rather than being distinguished by region or language.”
I felt this in my soul Gardening is Not a Relaxing Hobby open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
Gardening is Not a Relaxing Hobby
And it’s only sexism that made us think so
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“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say
I just had this conversarion with an editor yesterday. If you start hedging for imagined bad faith readers, you have stopped writing and started journaling a fan fic to them.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w agothere is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.
just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards
Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 12mo agoAnyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision
I don’t talk about real life on Main but my comment requires credentialing: i was at food banks 4x times last month, trying to support etc. Food insecurity is off the charts & I just don’t see anything on the horizon to help people. It’s terrifying. I just come home and sulk and cry and dissociate.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w agoPage One. @nytimes.com
every time you write overly defensively you should remember that you are pursuing a strategy of writing careful sentences specifically for people who demonstrably either won't or can't read them
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w agothere is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.
For #BlackWomenEqualPayDay, @ayannapressley.bsky.social and I in @bostonglobe.com discussing why the attacks against workers begin and end with Black women. There is no world where workers are valued, and Black women workers are not. Either the economy serves us all, or it serves no one. #blacksky
The attack on workers begins and ends with Black women - The Boston Globe
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is about more than wage gaps. Job losses and stalled pay for Black women are an early warning sign for every American worker.
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This is Walsh, Dane, Sweetpea, and Wiley. They are all service dog dropouts. Together they have successfully completed one single task. 13/10 for all (IG: dogtor.walsh)
the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable
Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 3mo agoFWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”
You are actually oppressed because Black people are even if you're not Black, but that doesn't mean you use our articulations to free ourselves to free only yourself without joining the struggle for our freedom. The point is you have to want us free. Not want yourself free alone from what we do.
Holy shit, this Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge found "AI" bullshit in briefs filed by the lawyers in this case and was having utterly and completely None Of It. Fucking *Love* to see it.
Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5mo agoEveryone stfu the Sixth Circuit issued *gigantic* AI sanctions storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."
One of the oldest Black museums is going viral with a new social media series open.substack.com/pub/phillewi...
A viral video series is breathing life into one of the country’s oldest Black history museums
Staff at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History are spoofing what it is like to work at the legendary institution from a distinctly Black perspective.
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NEW: After Indiana passed its draconian abortion ban, an interfaith group of women in 2022 sued the state, arguing the ban violated their religious liberty rights. A trial court just granted a permanent injunction against the ban. Thread 🧵:
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 5mo agoX is a fascist propaganda website.
It’s entirely possible that this was at least partially about ending their association w/black and queer people. Now they will try to rebuild as the “safe” third space, by which they mean a space where white people feel safe. The problem is the usual one. We make shit cool. See also Starbucks.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5mo agoTarget plans to spend billions of dollars this year to end a persistent sales slump and to regain its image as a fun place to shop for stylish clothing, housewares, beauty products and packaged food at affordable prices.
@matildagreig.bsky.social, Baher Ibrahim, @juliairwin.bsky.social, Norman Joshua, Jonathan McCollum, Justine Meberg, @michmo.bsky.social l, Daniel Palmieri, @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social, Lou Pingeot, Pietro Stefanini, & Jiayi Tao. Please pre-order here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Military Humanitarianism by edited by Brian Drohan and Margot Tudor | Paperback | Cornell University Press
While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the idea that.....
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Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.
This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)
Statement of the Molelia Family from Kibosho/Tanzania with specific demands to Germany for reparative justice concerning colonial crimes 👇 @ecchr.bsky.social @hrwdeutschland.bsky.social @hrw.org @michmo.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social
Decolonial Memories@colonial-memories.bsky.social · 6mo agoEnglish version: 👉 dekolonial-erinnern.de/the-ancestor...
Feb 18 marks the surrender of Mora in Kamerun. 🏳️ @donalh.bsky.social & @michmo.bsky.social argue we must look beyond the battle to the colonial veteran—a "prism" for race and citizenship in the post-war order.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.