tools for commensality 🧿

gloomy scholar of technoscience. quotidian dross documentarian. (see pinned posts)

here: muttering/hollering, books/reading, typos, boosts (you can hide em). i don't cw uspol news but i #. 🧿😷

#ToxicLA #CriticalLogistics #asstodon #flosstodon #PolicingTheCampus #HigherEdWorkersUnite ✊🏻

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header: colorful post-consumer plastic camel, Cynthia Minet

pfp: California oil field at night, vintage postcard

#NoIndex #NoArchive

Trudges around: Southern California
Answers to: she/they/some guy
Union?: Yes!
Posts: Many delete

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2026-08-06 01:16:40 UTC

2026-06-27 20:34:28 UTC

"Over time, we simply stirred the virus in with all the other forms of disorder and dysfunction we live with — problems that appear to be acceptable because they merely inconvenience some large portion of people, even as they devastate others"
still one of the best pieces of writing about the pandemic (Jon Mooallem in 2023)
https://web.archive.org/web/20230302191258/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/22/magazine/covid-pandemic-oral-history.html

2026-06-10 23:21:52 UTC

#trashtodon going meta and/or absurd
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/728/371/672/929/645/original/d4689b1707658872.jpg

2026-06-08 23:02:12 UTC

a #flosstodon - #BikeTooter crossover
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/716/972/738/788/805/original/2e032c877e8d4891.jpeg

2026-06-06 18:51:16 UTC

atoning for (some of) my grumping with agave stalk against gloomy sky
#California
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/704/659/712/451/671/original/aa86129c93a2ae5e.jpeg

2026-06-06 04:52:35 UTC

science: political? who can say!
"Police removed five doctors and researchers Friday from an American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans after they said they had handed out copies of an editorial critical of President Donald Trump"
https://www.nola.com/news/doctors-diabetes-trump-new-orleans-removed/article_e569bcf6-d6e2-4d1c-9c47-bdbf8686c567.html
#uspol #medicine

2026-06-04 20:05:00 UTC

i do complain about the leafblower, but the garbage truck ensemble picking up the trash and recycling is almost like a mechanical symphony of clatters and whines

2026-06-03 19:25:57 UTC

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update: my colleagues WON their union!! a decisive victory with 70% voting yes!! I'm so proud of them for everything they've done to organize members of our campus under incredibly adverse conditions!!! ♥️✊
(admin, ofc, will keep fighting them--if you have ties to USC, feel free to let them know if you have an opinion on this)
https://web.archive.org/web/20260603183541/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-06-03/usc-faculty-vote-to-unionize-uaw-election
#higherEd #unions #academia #UAW #USC

2026-06-02 23:30:47 UTC

my colleagues' votes on whether to form a union are being counted today. last night the university administration ran to the Trump administration asking them to "review the legality" of the situation, meaning, they're scared of losing the vote so asked for a favor in which the feds declare the union in formation null and void
evil shit, with implications for workers everywhere: https://www.provost.usc.edu/an-important-update-on-the-rtpc-faculty-unionization-process/
#unions #higherEd #academia #HigherEdWorkersUnite #USC

2026-06-02 21:50:45 UTC

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i love how the foliage looks like the left bird has fairy wings

2026-06-02 20:47:30 UTC

"oh"
The US Congress has quietly advanced a proposal to fuse U.S. & Israeli militaries via sharing data, co-producing weapons, integrating AI, cyber etc. It would give Israel deeper military integration with the U.S. than any country, including NATO allies
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-military/
#uspol

2026-06-02 00:44:49 UTC

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A ban-evading troll stalks me and other people from dozens of sock puppet accounts
He's on his second one today using gazing@theforkiverse.com
Please block/report, boost if you wish
@npub1unt…k4k7 please check on this new user and decide whether this is welcome on your instance.
Thanks to mods and people reporting!
#SockStalker

2026-06-01 18:41:49 UTC

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A ban-evading troll stalks me and other people from dozens of sock puppet accounts
Right now he's using felicitous@ troet.cafe
Please block/report, boost if you wish
@npub1vl4…s7vd , please check on this new user and decide whether this is welcome on your instance.
Thanks to mods and people reporting!
#SockStalker

2026-06-01 17:27:52 UTC

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people whose knee-jerk response is that "X thing should be illegal" are simply not thinking about what the law is as it is practiced
funnily enough they are the same people, often, who will say "X thing is *illegal* so it mustn't be happening/should be punished" when it is in fact happening and not being punished
it's... right... there... that the law isn't *doing* what it "does" "on paper"... so maybe it is *doing*... something else??

2026-05-29 23:09:28 UTC

how it started / how it's going
#bloomscrolling
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/660/376/989/688/030/original/49de796bdfa38173.jpeg
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/660/377/551/126/921/original/123716a38c03d316.jpeg

2026-05-28 21:52:38 UTC

"The greater Los Angeles area became a global hub for aerospace and defense manufacturing around the start of World War II, with companies here producing military aircraft, electronics, plastics, petroleum products..."
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-05-27/garden-grove-crises-exposes-southern-californias-hidden-industrial-risks
archive link: https://archive.ph/VewQx
#LosAngeles #ToxicLA #GardenGrove #California

2026-05-28 15:40:30 UTC

the neighbors decided to remove their pineapple guava tree 😭
no more tree out my kitchen window, no more birds and squirrels eating the blossoms and the bugs and the fruit 😭

2026-05-28 04:56:31 UTC

There are at least five #HungerStrike actions going on at different #ICE facilities across the US right now. Thank you to LA Taco for connecting the dots between #Adelanto #DelaneyHall and more
https://lataco.com/huger-strike-dhs-detention
#USpol #ICEprotests

2026-05-27 19:43:16 UTC

LA River crisscrossed with plastic berms to contain 2500 gallons of oil that was discharged upstream in #LosAngeles
#LongBeach #oil #FossilFuels #ClimateDiary #LARver
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/648/230/433/318/270/original/bc0b8e3fdf5df361.jpeg

2026-05-27 03:31:05 UTC

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(sorry, didn't link earlier, was actually away from screens, gasp)
Plenty of people don't have a problem with harassment on Mastodon but this does not mean that harassment on Mastodon isn't a massive, massive issue. I've been thinking about this more and more, the longer I'm here (Oct 22)
Sincere thanks as always to everyone who helps keep others safe here and also everyone who thinks on the hard problems 💚
https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644
#Mastodon #TrustAndSafety #Moderation

2026-05-26 23:52:36 UTC

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I'm posting Sinders' quote today because I'm continuing to reflect on architecture here, not least due to experiences I continue to have with targeted harassment
This is annoying, obviously
Far worse, though, *I cannot in good faith recommend Mastodon to anyone who's likely to be targeted*--and folks who use this place comfortably may want to think about this, as well
Here's what I wrote last year (🔗 in next post)
#Mastodon #TrustAndSafety #Fediverse
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/643/493/850/658/047/original/73cfb8422fdd1fae.png

2026-05-26 22:56:13 UTC

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https://medium.com/@carolinesinders/im-sinders-on-mastodon-but-i-m-not-giving-up-on-twitter-yet-5dcd4fb810e1
https://archive.ph/CMQ79
HT @npub19q4…kzch

2026-05-26 22:55:11 UTC

"I’m on Mastodon, begrudgingly.... My harassers are also on Mastodon; some have multiple accounts. The blocking feature is like horror house anxiety game- I block when I see their new account, hoping I’ve now blocked all of them but knowing I probably never will. Because it’s a federated system, and you can have accounts on multiple servers, it means there’s multiple accounts I have to block to create some digital safety and distance."
-Caroline Sinders (🔗 next post)
#Mastodon #TrustAndSafety

2026-05-26 18:12:14 UTC

[EDIT: don't boost this, but see thread. TY!]
A ban-evading troll stalks me and other people from dozens of sock puppet accounts
Right now he's using @McGee @piaille.fr [EDIT: I think this account has been zapped now]
Please block/report, boost if you wish
@npub1w6y…p9cw , please check on this new user and decide whether this is welcome on your instance.
Thanks, folks
[EDIT: I will add to this thread as needed. THANKS MODS & PPL REPORTING!!]
#SockStalker

2026-05-25 20:58:56 UTC

to a supremacist, having one's narrative challenged feels like oppression

2026-05-25 03:40:24 UTC

what the US is doing to Cuba is an abomination
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/cuba-announces-that-its-fuel-reserves-have-been-depleted/

2026-05-25 01:52:26 UTC

comrade Nuttall’s woodpecker pooped on a red Tesla
#BirdCallout

2026-05-24 22:28:17 UTC

"The last time we had a very intense & sustained marine heatwave, we saw mass seabird die-offs, whale entanglements, kelp forest degradation, harmful algal blooms which poisoned shellfish (& surfers!), sea lion starvation"
[and i'm still not over seeing its effects, either]
https://ktla.com/news/california/a-strong-el-nino-is-coming-to-california-you-may-notice-something-different-at-the-beach/
#CaWx #ElNino #ClimateDiary #SoCal

2026-05-23 20:21:39 UTC

i'm impressed with how quote-boost was implemented here: i just saw an interesting quote-boost and the interface notified me that i'd blocked the server OP was on, asked if i wanted to see OP anyway, and i said yes and saw an interesting post
i'm not a computer toucher but this seems to indicate that it's possible to do some form(s) of reply controls with some 1, functionality and 2, nuance, in spite of how federation does weird things
#Mastodon #Fediverse

2026-05-23 17:36:09 UTC

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“DID YOU KNOW that the union will take 1.4% of your wages in the form of dues?” DID YOU ALSO KNOW that if you had a union your wages would easily be 20% higher? clown shit

2026-05-23 17:30:03 UTC

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they’re running targeted social media ads! it’s wild
(please don’t anyone explain to me that my colleagues shouldn’t use instagram)

2026-05-23 17:28:08 UTC

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a couple people have replied to say this doesn’t make sense on its own terms. yes! that’s the point of this post! make sure to tell it to the boss, who’ll tell any old lie to bust a union
it’s almost hilarious how much $$ my employer is spending trying to suppress my colleagues’ union-in-formation. (almost)

2026-05-23 02:55:51 UTC

real #monsterdon vibes
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/621/628/131/813/549/original/0a876a4d3498b4ee.jpeg

2026-05-22 20:14:33 UTC

"there's no money to pay anyone more because we spent it all fighting your unionization effort"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/how-much-companies-spend-fight-unions
#unions

2026-05-22 19:22:35 UTC

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a funny thing: lots of people seem to think evil leftwing professors indoctrinate students to oppose their tuition dollars supporting the military-industrial part of the military-industrial-academic complex
we actually... don't? they figure it out on their own and get super righteously mad, on their own
(I do pass down, via my own advisor's training of me, the correct nomenclature, which is MIAC, not just MIC. such brainwashing!) (he was an electrical engineer who didn't want to build weapons)

2026-05-22 18:58:00 UTC

"The university’s finances are therefore structurally pro-war.. Extensive video evidence indicates that [students] didn’t touch Kotlikoff, or crowd him, or threaten him. They asked him questions in a somewhat hectoring tone"
https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/22/national-affairs/cornell-car-scandal-president-michael-kotlikoff-higher-education
#Cornell #HigherEd #PolicingTheCampus #Academia #GazaProtests

2026-05-21 00:59:07 UTC

#asstodon : very metal
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/609/846/780/311/314/original/87c8bdf02da02dc1.jpg

2026-05-20 21:09:47 UTC

i'll never get over the peacocks here as long as i live
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/608/947/480/106/336/original/f9eecb5bd1e7596f.jpg

2026-05-17 20:07:52 UTC

Students (along with other campus community members) were punished severely for opposing the use of US tax dollars, and their own institutions' financial investments to support policies that are now... utterly mainstream to oppose
https://forward.com/fast-forward/819118/democrats-vote-to-block-weapons-sales-to-israel/
#PolicingTheCampus #Uspol #GazaProtests

2026-05-17 01:24:29 UTC

90% of ICE detentions have been illegal
(begging people who think the law has magical effects to read this)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/10k-rulings-ice-mandatory-detention-trump-analysis-00914195
#ICE #uspol #immigration

2026-05-16 20:12:59 UTC

haha, i'd missed this
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/12/irish-tv-rte-father-ted-eurovision-final-israel
#Eurovision #FatherTed

2026-05-15 08:17:02 UTC

this looked VERY Where The Wild Things Are IRL
#MagicInTheMundane
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/577/593/303/184/552/original/cc0c8506fa92cfc7.jpeg

2026-05-14 22:39:20 UTC

"Penn State faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing, in a closely watched decision that could have sweeping implications across the university"
https://radio.wpsu.org/2026-05-14/penn-state-faculty-vote-yes-on-unionizing
#PennState #HIgherEd #HigherEdWorkersUnite #academia #SEIU

2026-05-13 23:35:37 UTC

what do we call this aesthetic? unlike the midwest infrastructural sublime from yesterday, i hate it, but i must also acknowledge it surrounds me
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/569/869/885/115/424/original/d2cf4e7d42bdd5a2.png
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/569/871/206/169/924/original/6013dc1e7debc653.png

2026-05-12 20:07:53 UTC

I'm such a sucker for this midwestern industrial aesthetic, always
(via Jennifer Jordan; held in the University of Wisconsin art collection)
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/563/401/147/980/215/original/0cdd6654efa2920c.png

2026-05-10 18:57:21 UTC

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we perhaps need a subcategory of #trashtodon that is for treasures
i also love "road orange"

2026-05-09 18:31:26 UTC

a pinnacle of #flosstodon if i do say so myself
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/546/036/762/771/991/original/6cc7ce80e33a2178.jpeg

2026-05-08 18:26:17 UTC

Don't Let It Happen To You, especially not on #WorldDonkeyDay
#asstodon
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/540/324/086/098/310/original/b08e8e73dcc40453.png

2026-05-08 08:43:39 UTC

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super-big thank you for your swift response here!! i'm sorry they misled you at sign-up...
they seem to be signing up for several accounts at once and burning through the process of getting reported and decommissioned fast 🫠
@npub1p09…m5vl

2026-05-08 08:10:56 UTC

Hi, I'm sorry to @ you, @npub19au…9lss -- but you appear to be hosting a ban-evading sock puppet troll , currently going by @articulately@ mastodonapp.uk
They're messaging me privately but I have a notification filter set so I can't see the content of their posts, and I don't want to click through/accept this communication. They've also blocked me so I can't use the reporting tool(?)
They're also stalking @npub1p09…m5vl , as is their custom.
(everyone else, please block and report as you see fit, thanks)
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/537/920/014/174/849/original/5bb1626336a370fe.png

2026-05-07 21:43:22 UTC

"Ask me for a free mask" button designs for download!!
also a bunch of other mask-bloc type stuff, from an LA Mask Bloc organizer
*whoops i posted without the link: www.abbymahler.com/linktree
#MaskBloc #CovidIsNotOver #DIY
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/535/461/887/366/480/original/74936738fb83e6db.png

2026-05-06 02:47:38 UTC

a big THANK YOU to the moderators out there in the fediverse!!
the ban-evading stalker troll's been kicked out of commission pretty fast on a couple more servers, and that means volunteers are watching reports like hawks 🙏
(📸 Kathryn Keith/Audubon)
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/525/334/233/513/543/original/8680417971b6da90.png

2026-05-05 19:21:31 UTC

this yard has had these flying saucer blooms going for maybe two months? now!!
for @npub1tpt…kvpg
#bloomscrolling
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/523/580/854/015/360/original/99f3dd72a794d8e2.jpeg

2026-05-05 03:56:56 UTC

Nancy Fraser: "'Gaza’, I’ve suggested here, signals many things, but not least the crisis of the West’s moral order. If it now bids to replace ‘Auschwitz’ as the reigning symbol for human atrocity, might ‘Gaza’ also contain the principle of hope—of solidarity and social justice, self-determination and reconstruction, repair and care for the planet?"
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/nancy-fraser-gaza-as-world-event

2026-05-04 23:17:58 UTC

"On a day meant to honor students for their accomplishments, I thought it important that we would honor the student activists who have, over the course of time, pushed the institution toward justice"
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/university-michigan-professor-derek-peterson-commencement-speech-israel-gaza/
#GazaProtests #HigherEd #academia #PolicingTheCampus

2026-05-04 05:45:55 UTC

something just reminded me of when my friend got onto the plane to go to an academic conference wearing shorts, had packed no other bottoms, and had to buy them at the destination 😂
#SoCalProblems

2026-05-03 02:32:36 UTC

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bonk, bonk, it's the sound of #Saturdonk
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u3xuLD7a-No

2026-05-02 21:50:09 UTC

not me trying to see if i will get ostracized for boosting #asstodon on #caturday

2026-05-02 17:36:15 UTC

RE: https://vt.social/@lina/116502179614343118
Mastodon leaves open massive holes that function as harassment opportunities. Users can't block replies; and harassers are often given the benefit of the doubt. I wrote about this here:
https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644
As some of the replies to OP state, as there is new leadership it's time to bring these issues forward (again)
#note17dv…790m

2026-05-02 03:31:25 UTC

anthocyanins #NoFilter
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/502/855/684/350/253/original/563f3bb98207e20a.jpeg

2026-04-30 04:51:13 UTC

shoutout to Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis, my mom just forwarded :
"providing a few mask-required performances during the run of our production allows us to create a safe environment for immunocompromised or otherwise Covid-conscious patrons to see the show safely" 😷
#CovidIsNotOver #MSP #Minneapolis

2026-04-28 19:16:37 UTC

why i'm so mad all the time, i guess. also why this war is overdetermined even though no regular people want it at all
#uspol #IranWar
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/483/921/416/192/139/original/52bf7002e1d05e3b.png

2026-04-27 21:19:41 UTC

deeply and profoundly embarrassed by proximity to scholars who are so insecure that they claim everything as within their purview, hilariously including both Big Topics Du Jour *and* very small little things tended to by only a few people

2026-04-26 02:34:54 UTC

maximalist nasturtium scene
#Bloomscrolling
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/468/663/478/398/751/original/cf7b9d12a67a6017.jpeg

2026-04-25 20:34:43 UTC

"When we help students reclaim their attention, they’re well-positioned to think directly and critically about AI. ...we find African-American abolitionist writing to offer an especially powerful archive of reflections on literacy and power"
https://www.oakland.edu/cetl/teaching-tips/2026/4/Creating-AI-Free-Learning-Spaces.php

2026-04-24 17:22:08 UTC

#bloomscrolling #MagicInTheMundane
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/460/820/908/951/133/original/eec47d23ebe1055b.jpeg

2026-04-24 05:00:22 UTC

#ICE has detained Yousof Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech who holds a valid visa. He is a social scientist who's being punished for commanding public attention about Iranian nuclear energy policy
News story here; legal fund & petition below. Please share/sign/boost/donate if you can
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/yousof-azizi-ice-department-homeland-security-aliyeh-hashemi-iran-conflict/65-6415d42b-d6ee-4353-a4e9-5063dc90fa19
https://www.yousofazizi.com/
#YousofAzizi #IranWar #USpol #academia

2026-04-24 04:21:55 UTC

"This is more than a labor story; it’s an account of the assault on democratic institutions, the NLRB, worker rights, and higher education itself at a moment when universities are under attack from federal funding cuts and DEI rollbacks. USC’s non-tenure-track faculty are fighting not just for a contract but for the principle that workers can organize at all"
Shoutout to my colleagues who are featured on this #Jacobin #podcast !!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacobin-radio-organizing-outside-the-tenure-track/id791564318?i=1000763043456
#HigherEd #NLRB #academia #UAW #USC

2026-04-20 22:49:35 UTC

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LOL ok the sock puppet weirdo who stalks me found this thread and started replying to everyone. Some people really just can't be normal on the internet!
https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/116432697306138252
#note1mqw…pzsf

2026-04-19 19:55:56 UTC

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granted i only know about a quarter of the references people are throwing out here, but lol, good job everyone

2026-04-19 18:06:08 UTC

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what do we think is the best term to call someone goes out of their way to communicate that they're violating a consent boundary, repeatedly?
have fun losing with your super well-adjusted tantrum, creepy loser! 💅
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY

2026-04-19 05:38:35 UTC

whose skull is this (wrong answers only)
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/429/749/338/578/234/original/04d77a5e253e45bc.jpeg

2026-04-18 06:54:04 UTC

past few days such a blur with work and exhaustion i had forgotten i snapped this. it's easily as big as my fist
#Bloomscrolling
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/424/388/731/339/148/original/729e386c2144ba92.jpeg

2026-04-17 05:40:10 UTC

"Moms Club is a documentary film investigating one of the most consequential battles shaping the future of the United States: the organized, well-funded effort to dismantle public education and weaponize LGBTQ+ rights as a political tool"
The filmmaker is seeking to crowdsource to complete this project bringing the #CNP into the light, support it if you can! (& boost pls)
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-finish-moms-club-documentary
#TransRights #uspol #MomsClub #documentary #CouncilForNationalPolicy

2026-04-16 23:29:03 UTC

uhhh wow... they're not feeding the troops, nor are care packages sent by families getting through the infrastructural snarl
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/16/iran-war-mail-packages-middle-east/89609308007/
#uspol #IranWar

2026-04-16 22:14:36 UTC

so i have been using bluesky mainly because the academics went there and i need to keep an eye on higher ed stuff in the political shitshow
bluesky went mostly down yesterday (?). i'm on a blacksky part of the architecture (myatproto.social). it now appears to have logged me out and says that to log i have to verify age. which i don't want to do, and i had thought i'd seen rudy say blacksky wouldn't ever ask for that
anyone know WTH is going on??

2026-04-16 17:50:13 UTC

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i did not know you were a potter. that's a lovely artifact! (do you have your own kiln?)

2026-04-16 06:03:13 UTC

Wetland Project invites listeners around the planet to tune in to the 10th annual “slow radio” broadcast on International Earth Day (22 April) 🐸 📻
more from @npub14ar…5ys3 :
https://mailchi.mp/4396a6512d1e/wetland-broadcast-2026
#radio #SlowRadio #EarthDay #wetlandProject #CommunityRadio

2026-04-14 17:43:24 UTC

Nearly 100 protesters were arrested yesterday during a demonstration calling on Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to block the sale of thousands of U.S. bombs to Israel
https://apnews.com/article/chuck-schumer-kirsten-gillibrand-protest-israel-e53eab511e0d5f435b76c66ad772c6f9
#uspol

2026-04-13 06:49:14 UTC

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lucky you! i actually do wish i could blend in more online. my parents also both go by their middle names only and so somehow decided not to give us kids them at all

2026-04-13 04:06:14 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.com/@latimes/california-2ijlpkgrz/-/a-EMQIXuAnR0O0DdS76C--XQ%3Aa%3A460011909-%2F0
ahahah
#note12cq…7pyr

2026-04-13 03:58:36 UTC

camouflaging anti-ICE sentiment into the built environment in #LosAngeles, via #LATaco
https://lataco.com/anti-ice-parking-signs
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/395/377/028/965/425/original/dd2f429140cc071d.png

2026-04-12 23:37:04 UTC

do i trust the radar weather or my own lying eyes 🌧️

2026-04-12 22:19:27 UTC

needless to say:
people sticking up for their homies is the right thing to do; but also the huge crowd defying the ban on Budapest's Pride parade last summer was a rehearsal for massing together and sticking it to fascists
there are some lessons here for D voters and politicians who think it's ok to throw trans people under the bus, if anyone chooses to listen
*yeah i said voters too, some of you need to fix your hearts or die
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/06/30/budapest-pride-2025-a-record-crowd-stands-up-for-democracy

2026-04-12 21:39:28 UTC

RE: https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/116393292245545697
this may be more important antifascist praxis than is currently acknowledged (the article about Mpls is strong on this point)

2026-04-12 19:23:56 UTC

growing up we only had amaryllis in pots on the windowsills; i haven't fully adjusted to seeing them in yards
#Bloomscrolling
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/393/362/284/695/948/original/0cb07956b4ad2250.jpeg

2026-04-12 07:03:13 UTC

if i were a 🧦 troll stalking people to @ them with truly pathetic propaganda, i might consider that they are just going to boost more of the offending content 💅
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/390/449/734/215/295/original/2219881d2987b908.png

2026-04-11 00:22:29 UTC

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.... and, i heard no explosion

2026-04-10 23:54:39 UTC

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i'm always complaining about hearing explosions of unknown provenance here so i appreciate the heads-up on this one

2026-04-10 23:51:50 UTC

PSA: apparently we in SoCal may? will? hear a sonic boom with the #ArtemisII reentry so before we jump out of our socks, that's what the boom is(?)
supposed to be 5 or 5:15pm Pacific
#LosAngeles #SoCal #Artemis #SanDiego

2026-04-09 22:35:02 UTC

always a bummer to read peer-reviewed, recently published work that was seemingly not proofread
at least it's a tell it's not AI, i guess

2026-04-09 21:53:41 UTC

are there examples of US newsrooms or media outlets who are explicit about *not* tracking readers on their websites? (or tracking for internal use only but not selling data into the data broker tracking stream?)
(yes i know ad tech is bad, and i am asking on behalf of students)
#journalism #privacy #AdTech

2026-04-08 06:46:24 UTC

#LosAngeles is evicting an historic stuffed burro!! what!
#asstodon #JorgeElBurro #OlveraStreet
https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2026-03-23/olvera-street-iconic-donkey-eviction-judge-ruling-la-city-el-pueblo
https://archive.ph/aQMhK

2026-04-08 05:56:27 UTC

an #asstodon - #mosstodon crossover
(📸 CountryAngels/Shutterstock)
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/367/533/132/423/835/original/d7c0ad228b85a539.png

2026-04-08 04:55:43 UTC

🚫 Petition to ban Pete Hegseth permanently from the Minnesota State Fair, started by Ashley Fairbanks
https://www.change.org/p/permanently-ban-pete-hegseth-from-the-minnesota-state-fair
#Minnesota #uspol #MNastodon

2026-04-04 18:34:22 UTC

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i'll ask a household member for recs, we've gone a number of memorable places but i can't remember names. will you be driving or actually attached to a tour?
if you are in Bergen which i assume you will be, take the funicular! this is not an insider tip by any means tho

2026-04-04 17:47:14 UTC

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how long you going, what areas, just you or family, etc.? the thing to do is get out into the country and go hiking IMO

2026-04-04 01:27:00 UTC

University of Minnesota Nursing School has begun a scholarship to honor Alex Pretti, read and/or donate here:
https://crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/AlexPretti

2026-04-02 22:23:33 UTC

USC-AAUP supports RTPC faculty's right to unionize! (Statement here if you scroll down past the top)
https://www.uscaaup.org/
#Academia #unions #UAW #HigheredWorkersUnite #USC #AAUP #USCAAUP #HigherEd

2026-04-02 04:58:27 UTC

seems fine:
"Pfizer and BioNTech have decided to halt a large US trial of their updated COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults aged 50 to 64, after failing to find enough people willing to take part in it"
https://firstwordpharma.com/story/7157141
#Covid19 #vaccines #CovidIsNotOver #Pfizer #BioNTech