Zack Furness
@punkademic.bsky.social
Professor | Noisemaker | Half-Steeler | Dad | Luddite | Books - One Less Car: Bicycling & the Politics of Automobility, Punkademics, The NFL: Critical & Cultural Perspectives | Views are mine alone | Pittsburgh, PA | https://linktr.ee/punkademic
Getting a PhD in Synagro Technologies™️ Presents Using Human Waste as Fertilizer on Food Crops
NSF partners with universities and industry on pilot initiative for four-year Ph.D. programs with real-world research placements
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a $47 million investment over five years, along with additional financial commitments from nearly three dozen universities and private industry...
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The coolest thing about LeBron coming to Philly is that Gov Shapiro once classified the death of 27-yr old Philadelphia teacher, Ellen Greenberg, as a suicide despite 20 stab wounds in this pattern:
My partner @daniellemaggio.bsky.social is on WRCT right now for a 2 hr radio show talking about Betty Davis and playing her music, her influences, and people who were influenced by her. stream.wrct.org/wrct-hi.mp3
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Any journalists still referring to Flock as a ‘license plate reader’ company are doing free PR for one of the truly ascending evil corporations of our time
Letter to the Editor: The creepiest ‘sales demo’ of all time
In a letter to the editor, Dunwoody resident Jason Hunyar writes about a recent incident involving a Flock camera feed in a community center in Dunwoody. He questions the partnership agreement the cit...
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I am hearing that on his deathbed Lindsey Graham received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah.
The free hand of the market once again working its magic (diarrhea)
Forbes@forbes.com · 4w agoMichigan has logged 1,251 cases of the illness in less than three weeks, immensely more than the average of about 50 infections recorded there annually.
We took Title IX away from little girls today and nearly took birthright citizenship too, and our leaders are calling it a victory. I wish the US Senate could show up with even 1/100 the energy of the average public school mom in Minnesota.
If Dems made this their party line a lot more people would be excited about voting for them.
I’ve been teaching college courses since Fall 1999 — at a community college, an art school, and two research universities in three different states — and I’ve never once heard this expressed by anyone, anywhere, at any level in higher ed. This is bullshit of the highest order.
The Economist@economist.com · last mo.It is growing common to hear academics shrug that perhaps students no longer need strong basic skills. That is not pragmatism—it is surrender
Anti-IDF image from the Israeli anarchist zine, It’s All Lies #3 (1992). The Hebrew part says “We don’t!”
Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.
The fascist turn in this country has not impacted press coverage one bit, except to make it even more accommodating to the right.
Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · last mo.This narrative during Pride month was absolutely intentional. The corporate media is fully in for fascism and desperate for you to agree.
I was told this is how leadership would behave in failed communist states
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.White House enhancements that Trump said he would pay for, like replacing a walkway and repairing masonry, have in fact cost taxpayers $689,232. The admin has slashed spending on many national parks and redirected money instead to D.C.-area improvements — "a quiet crisis unfolding."
I feel like ‘Jewish Israeli who made thousands of bomb threats to US Jewish institutions (and had CSAM on his computer)’ should be a bigger story in the US.
Extradited US-Israeli indicted in Florida for 2016-2017 threats to Jewish institutions
Michael Kadar, 27, faces hate crime and bomb threat charges in Florida, Georgia and Washington, DC for calls to Jewish institutions; has previously served 7 years in Israel
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And whatever theoretical (though hardly on the ground) concept of democracy / equality there may ever have been, this 2018 law basically enshrined Jewish supremacy on a whole new level. So Yidden, you cannot, cannot take issue with his statement.
Israel passes controversial ‘nation-state’ bill into law | CNN
Making no mention of the values of equality and democracy, Israel has passed into law a highly controversial bill that serves to define the nature of the state of Israel, with critics slamming it as t...
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