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Laura Made of Bast
@botherrantsretreat.bsky.social
280 followers 360 following 100 posts
mad & nachtaktiv. Lit & Book Studies, ADHD culture, critical editions, archives, #DisHist & a bit of PolSci.
🧠🪩 Wohnhaft in 2–3 Bundesländern at all times.

Profile Pic shows a red toy clock at noon/ midnight. Banner by @woutvanart
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verakub.bsky.social
I'll be holding an online workshop on findings from my research into disabled people's encounters in #BlueBadge parking spaces & how encounters can actively exclude people

Fri 12th Dec 12-1pm on Teams with captions, register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/20a4a6...
#DisabilitySky
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November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
botherrantsretreat.bsky.social
Ach, Helme… danke, mein Freund, fürs Mitaufziehen. 🐷🐔🐭
weltverbesserle.bsky.social Luerikerin @weltverbesserle.bsky.social · 16d
Neben der Sendung mit der Maus weckt kaum ein anderes Bild so schnell Kindheitserinnerungen wie dieses.

Mach's gut, Helme Heine.
Bild aus Helme Heines "Freunde": Hahn, Maus und Schwein sausen auf dem Fahrrad durch die Landschaft.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
botherrantsretreat.bsky.social
My nibling frequently calls me
„Mum—err—Dad—errrrr—LAURA“
& and that’s my biggest achievement in life and also my pronouns.
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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dtnaarm.bsky.social
"Examining the sources" is what life is all about, my man. Don't outsource it to a vending machine.
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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alexanderchee.bsky.social
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
botherrantsretreat.bsky.social
"Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
Brave, funny, loving, shameless, compassionate, horny, and in solidarity with everyone fighting a good fight: Alice Wong was the example of how to live your life. Live it in such a way that people around the world gush about how much they loved you when you pass. Alice knew how to live!
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
botherrantsretreat.bsky.social
FWIW it’s an ADHD topos… there’s zero actual data on how and/ or why this works, but anecdotally a lot of us like listening to podcasts/ audio books better this way. However, here it’s clearly ND supremacy bullshit; he’s trying to brag about his cognitive abilities (processing speed etc.).
freydalpishti.bsky.social 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 27d
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
botherrantsretreat.bsky.social
This is solid reading advice, full stop. I particularly like the emphasis on reading being an activity – grab a pen & get into it, yes please. And also yes, ultimately, ‚difficult texts’ need to be read in print (‚difficult‘ = whatever text sb has difficulties with at any given time).
tedmccormick.bsky.social Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Oct 30
An old post from late in my Twitter days. I'm going to have to update this in some fashion for the post-generative AI context, but in that context I think something like it remains important -- perhaps is even more so. I do not think these are skills that should be outsourced, even if they could be
Reading advice for young historians
This is a sheet of reading tips I’ve developed over the past few years for my first-year students in history. I posted it on Twitter yesterday, as a png image and a tweet thread, and it got q…
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October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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juliahauser.bsky.social
Dear colleagues, we drafted an open letter to the conference of German federal ministers of education asking for a reform of the Privatdozentur, that stage in a German academic's career where your work is not paid - a situation that can easily extend over years.
Petition unterschreiben
An die Bildungsministerkonferenz: Schluss mit dem Prekariat der Privatdozent:innen!
chng.it
October 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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markus.reuter.netzpolitik.org
Die Bundesregierung entscheidet in den nächsten Tagen. Hier gibt es Tipps, was Menschen jetzt sofort tun können, um die #Chatkontrolle noch zu verhindern.

chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20...
October 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
botherrantsretreat.bsky.social
Alas, I did not see this in time, but here is how to delete an academia edu account without agreeing to their appalling new TOS:
danielprime.bsky.social Daniel Feshbach @danielprime.bsky.social · Sep 17
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree: instead click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
September 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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hystericalblkns.bsky.social
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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helloarno.bsky.social
Wie lange wird es dauern bis ein sog. Legacy-Medium das Wort "Trans-Terror" aufgreift? Ich gebe der Angelegenheit maximal 2 Monate.
September 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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cjfaraday.bsky.social
Cf Kate Beaton…
Black and white cartoon with a woman telling her father “the day is here, the day the Middle Ages are over at last!”. Her boyfriend arrives: “knock knock, The Renaissance is here! I bought celebration ruffs!” He says he read about his new beard style because they’ve invented the printing press. The father looks angry in his ruff: “Bah, paper news! I get my news from balladeers. A plague on all of this.” His daughter says “Daddy plague will be looked DOWN UPON from now on.”
August 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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dorothyjberry.bsky.social
Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.

www.weherepress.org
Book cover. The top of the image is covered in overlapping black&white and sepia photographs of Black pas from the early to mid 20th century. Below that, against a seafoam green or robin's egg blue (depends on your view I suppose!), the book's title "The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is printed in black. There is a small white rectangle inset that reads "Dorothy Berry"
August 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City
Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs This is my will and my final message. If my words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you. God knows that I have given all my effort and strength to be a support and a voice for my people since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that God would grant me life to return with my family and loved ones to our original town of Ashkelon (Al-Majdal), occupied land. But God's will was swifter, and His decree is binding. I lived pain in all its details, tasted grief and loss repeatedly, yet I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is—-without distortion or falsification— hoping God would bear witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, those who besieged our breaths, and whose hearts were not moved by the shattered bodies of our children and women, nor did they stop the massacre our people have faced for more than a year and a half. I entrust you with Palestine, the jewel of the Muslim world and the pulse of every free heart in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its innocent children who were not granted the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart, their remains scattered on the walls. l urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward liberating the land and the people until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you with my family. I entrust you with the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter, Sham, whom fate did not allow me to see grow as I dreamed. I entrust you with my dear son, Salah, whom I wished to support and accompany until he grew strong, carrying my burden and continuing the mission. I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose prayers were the reason I reached where I did. Her supplications were my fortress, and her light my path. I pray God to ease her heart and reward her abundantly on my behalf. I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah Bayan, from whom war separated us for long days and months, but who remained faithful, steadfast like an olive tree trunk that never bends, patient and devout, carrying the trust in my absence with strength and faith. I urge you to gather around them and be their support after God Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast on my principles, bearing witness to God that I am satisfied with His decree, believing in meeting Him, and certain that what is with God is better and everlasting. O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path to freedom for my people and family. Forgive me if I fell short, and pray for me mercy, for I have remained true to the covenant, never changing or betraying it. Do not forget Gaza... And do not forget me in your good prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025 This is what Anas ordered to be published upon his martyrdom.
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
botherrantsretreat.bsky.social
The foundation funded my PhD project; we’ve been informed about this attack a couple of days ago. Still early, but whoever did this would/ might have had access to personal data of thousands of students and academics who are/ were members of German trade unions (or otherwise politically active).
comparitech.bsky.social Comparitech.com @comparitech.bsky.social · Jul 30
🚨 Hans-Böckler-Stiftung 🇩🇪 has confirmed it has been hit by a #ransomware attack. Critical IT systems are impacted but the foundation can be contacted by email and phone.

No hackers have claimed the attack as of yet.

bit.ly/3T0yGne
July 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
botherrantsretreat.bsky.social
Same but with me as somebody working on critical editions who hangs out with the rest of literary studies a lot. My people are unraveling & I don’t necessarily only mean ‚text’.
oldjerryfodor.bsky.social Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · Jul 10
Being a philosopher who hangs out with psychologists a lot, it is truly shocking how much more professional and put-together, as a whole, psychologists are compared to us
July 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
her link is here, if you can’t donate please share thank you so much for your help. i just can’t stomach the thought of getting her into this room for one month only to them evicted right after xoxo

gofund.me/9d3083c9
July 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
botherrantsretreat.bsky.social
Sure true, but also plenty academics & ppl with lived experience have been fairly correct in their early assessments re: Trump, Covid or Gaza. And that’s bc they’re thinking in terms of overarching dynamics as opposed to specific things: WWW & AI are new, yes, but so were radio & cinema ‚back then‘.
melanienewport.bsky.social melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · Jun 27
historical comparisons fail because we are encountering something especially new, specific to our context, and uniquely terrible in its own right
June 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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riacheyne.bsky.social
Day 2 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference @durhamimh.bsky.social and REALLY looking forward to this presentation from my brilliant @ndhumanities.bsky.social colleague @ainokash.bsky.social
Photo of PowerPoint slide with colorful abstract pattern and title reading "Divergent socialities and textualities in post-truth landscapes" by Dr Abs Ashley, University of Bristol
June 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
botherrantsretreat.bsky.social
There is a GFM set up for Helen De Cruz‘s family. 🖤
June 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM