Hannah Forsyth 🍉
@hannahforsyth.bsky.social
Historian in Oz (history of work, education, capitalism) on unceded Dharug & Gundungurra land. Books = Virtue Capitalists: rise & fall of the professional class (2023) and History of the Modern Australian University (2014). She/her. Views mine. 🍉🍉🍉
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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Here’s hoping the new year brings us an iconic young lead singer named Polly Crisis.
January 1, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Here’s hoping the new year brings us an iconic young lead singer named Polly Crisis.
I’ve only read the first para and I’m in love 👇
My husband just told me about this 🤣
Did you all know that the domain name has been purchased and spoofed before the orange one could get it?
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Did you all know that the domain name has been purchased and spoofed before the orange one could get it?
share.google/dR79EMHsvNWx...
HOME | Trump Kennedy Center
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January 2, 2026 at 8:56 AM
I’ve only read the first para and I’m in love 👇
I wrote 39 blog posts in 2025. I know! Here are the top 11, by themes 1. Work sucks,why? 2. Global economy wtf? And most popular of all, 3.universities. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...
Best of 2025, unpaywalled.
I wrote 39 substack posts this year. They were all free to begin with. I've selected 11 to unpaywall for your New Year reading.
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January 1, 2026 at 5:15 AM
I wrote 39 blog posts in 2025. I know! Here are the top 11, by themes 1. Work sucks,why? 2. Global economy wtf? And most popular of all, 3.universities. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...
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here’s hoping 2026 is just one year
January 1, 2026 at 4:02 AM
here’s hoping 2026 is just one year
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Arsonist says that wasn’t a fire, your toaster oven sucks
Amid rising concerns about the health of the nation’s democracy, Chief Justice John Roberts expressed faith that the nation’s founding charters and key principles are proving resilient.
Chief justice says rule of law is strong at time of rising concerns
Chief Justice John Roberts said in his annual year-end report on the judiciary that the nation’s founding charters remain robust.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Arsonist says that wasn’t a fire, your toaster oven sucks
This is fucking brilliant 👇
November on The Sphinx…
This is the Internationalisation Strategy. And this
Is the Impact Strategy, whose use you will see,
When you are assessed for REF preparedness.
And this is the Future Priorities Strategy,
Which in your case you have not got.
thesphinxblog.com/2025/11/07/t...
This is the Internationalisation Strategy. And this
Is the Impact Strategy, whose use you will see,
When you are assessed for REF preparedness.
And this is the Future Priorities Strategy,
Which in your case you have not got.
thesphinxblog.com/2025/11/07/t...
The Naming of Parts
Today we have Strategic Vision. Yesterday,We had financial imperatives. And tomorrow morning,We shall have what to do after firing. But today,Today we have Strategic Vision. The quiet girlAt the ba…
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January 1, 2026 at 1:33 AM
This is fucking brilliant 👇
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The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors.
He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on.
Inhuman.
He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on.
Inhuman.
Please read this & speak out.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
Understand how relatively modest US investments in health systems and commodities can stem an unspeakable burden of suffering.
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
December 31, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors.
He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on.
Inhuman.
He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on.
Inhuman.
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There are many sound and well-researched plans from faculty and staff that address the deficit; they are being totally ignored in a flouting of the principles of shared governance. We demand the administration rescind the cuts. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
‘We’re Being DOGE-ed’: Sweeping Buyout Plan Rattles the New School’s Faculty
Leaders say cuts are necessary to close a $48-million budget hole.
www.chronicle.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
There are many sound and well-researched plans from faculty and staff that address the deficit; they are being totally ignored in a flouting of the principles of shared governance. We demand the administration rescind the cuts. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
The value of democratically organised universities for making urgent change, in this case at the New School: check out utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...
Liner Note 45. What Did They Do to the New School?
Train Entering Station NYC on Oct 30, 2022 I mean the question literally. The New School (TNS, by which I’ll mean all its colleges) has...
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December 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The value of democratically organised universities for making urgent change, in this case at the New School: check out utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...
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This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.
"Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn't courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people"- Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.
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This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
Tiny
Tim, who did
NOT die,
and who
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
he was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I have eaten
Tiny
Tim, who did
NOT die,
and who
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
he was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
"My name is Tiny Tim, who did NOT die,
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair"
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair"
‘It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite, Tiny Tim who did NOT die, when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me’
December 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This Is Just To Say
I have eaten
Tiny
Tim, who did
NOT die,
and who
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
he was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
I have eaten
Tiny
Tim, who did
NOT die,
and who
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
he was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
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Merry Christmas one and all, from the Vaders 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Merry Christmas one and all, from the Vaders 🎄
I don’t want to brag, but Christmas in summer is the best. 🎄🥂
December 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I don’t want to brag, but Christmas in summer is the best. 🎄🥂
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All you have to do is look at the ed tech pushed over the last few decades! Little of it worked, unless you assume the goal is to find ways to stop paying teachers and professors.
December 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
All you have to do is look at the ed tech pushed over the last few decades! Little of it worked, unless you assume the goal is to find ways to stop paying teachers and professors.