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destroyer of worlds
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aggressively aspirational | grad student in theoretical psychology | philosophy, statistics, the rhetoric of science ⭕️ and hard work.
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BLUESKY. DRAFTS. WHEN????
January 22, 2026 at 7:03 PM
hawksley.bsky.social
groceries are so expensive i want to kms lol
January 22, 2026 at 7:02 PM
hawksley.bsky.social
me in my grad program
wormblizzard.bsky.social Rosssssssss @wormblizzard.bsky.social · 11d
I'm like 2 years into training for this job and I don't know anything
January 20, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Most people didn’t think much of it when the university dean, Ben Crocker, called a student named Dan into his office on Monday, Sept. 9, the first day of classes. But at 7:44 in the evening, they received an email from three administrators saying that Dan had been removed from campus, “transported to his home out of state,” and barred from further access to the university. The nature of the allegations concerned, at their core, a pair of charged statements Dan allegedly made that would be familiar to any Title IX officer. The first was a general statement implying that UATX girls carried themselves physically in a way that invited sexual assault. The second was a suggestion to a specific female student that she had carried herself in a way that invited sexual assault. Dan had already been the subject of some negative attention on campus because of provocative statements he’d made in a UATX-based Discord “introductions” chat. These included a challenge — “If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you” — which was a reference to the 1981 movie “Stripes” and likely misunderstood by fellow students. In another exchange, a discussion of transgender issues, Dan expressed reservations about hormone treatment and said that he couldn’t wait “to play devil’s advocate for legalizing pedophilia.” Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Crocker visited the dorms, where he hosted a meeting on the roof to discuss the issue with students. Crocker’s message was that Dan’s conduct had been evaluated to be a “credible threat” — a phrase that would be repeated by the administration many times over the following days. Crocker then faced what one student attendee recalled as a “firing squad” of questions. Some students said that Dan had seemed off, but others saw his hasty removal as an example of the very cancel culture to which UATX was supposed to be the antithesis. Several students noted a lack of diversity. Consistent with its emphasis on “merit-based admissions,” UATX doesn’t publish demographic data. The students with whom I spoke said their classmates — and the college’s leadership — were overwhelmingly white, disproportionately came from wealthy families and had an overrepresentation of apparent neurodivergence. They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. “I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be,” one current student told me. “You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.” Classes weren’t as innovative as most students expected. “Year one was exceptionally boring,” the student said. “They did great books, they just didn’t do it in a great way,” said another student, who lamented the amount of memorization required. “I thought we were going to be intensely debating,” he said. Several students shared course syllabi with me. Most are easy enough to imagine being offered on any campus — with the notable exception of math and science. “The math classes go over algebra you learned in ninth grade,” a student told me. “There was just nothing there.” He described the offering as “schizophrenic” and described a class he’d taken at University of Texas at Austin as “exponentially more important.” Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment. The poor quality of the science offerings had bothered Heying and Pinker. “Others thought I was the token liberal,” Heying told me, “but I came to understand myself as the token scientist.” In an email, Pinker wrote, “They should have hired a widely esteemed scientist and proven program builder to set up their science division.” Another surprising similarity with other colleges stemmed directly from Dan’s expulsion: The students feared cancellation. “At any moment a frivolous Title IX complaint could be filed against you,” a former student told me. “I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” During the many conversations I had reporting this story, two questions came up more than any other. The first: Where was Bari Weiss? Many of the people I interviewed told me about internal conversations and shared internal emails. Weiss, who remains on the board of trustees, was almost never present in the conversations as they were related to me, and while I saw many emails on which Kanelos and Ferguson were copied, I never saw any including Weiss. speaks onstage during an event in New York City, on Nov. 19, 2024. | Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press One person I spoke to, who was present during the early planning stages, told me that Weiss was “very elusive” and almost never present in person. This was ironic since UATX was closely associated with Weiss — a bust of whom now resides in the school library. Weiss, meanwhile, has only risen further during the Trump 2.0 era and is now editor-in-chief of CBS News, where she has been criticized as genuflecting to the Trump administration. A spokesperson for CBS News did not respond to a request for comment from Weiss. One former member of the development team told me that they would routinely ask prospective donors how they got to know UATX. “Eighty percent of the time, the answer was Bari Weiss,” they said. “It was very often referred to as Bari Weiss’ University, or Bari Weiss’ University Project, or Bari Weiss’ University of Austin.” For several people, this was a source of resentment. “I don’t care whether she wants to pretend this is all gone now — she is the reason that this place exists. She was huge, she was held in such high regard, she had such an enormous impact,” the former staffer said. “I want her to be held to account,” she added. “I’m pissed.”
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
hawksley.bsky.social
"do you like that? do you like the hole in the middle?" #menaceS9
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 AM
hawksley.bsky.social
"she's seen thomas ONCE" "i have no way to prove it, but i am sure that i could resist all kinds of electric damage" #menaceS9
January 16, 2026 at 4:52 AM
hawksley.bsky.social
"sillyphus the bolder was foretold in the prophecy" #menaceS9
January 16, 2026 at 4:35 AM
hawksley.bsky.social
y'all i've added an evening goal setting meeting with a friend because i guess having 4 hours between getting home and bedtime was just unbearable to me
hawksley.bsky.social destroyer of worlds @hawksley.bsky.social · 17d
gotta remember that not every single day has to be wall-to-wall productivity and that prepping dinner in the morning and doing chores and then hosting a writing group and teaching a class is probably a normal amount of things?
January 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
hawksley.bsky.social
gotta remember that not every single day has to be wall-to-wall productivity and that prepping dinner in the morning and doing chores and then hosting a writing group and teaching a class is probably a normal amount of things?
January 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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deltaecho.bsky.social
I have a vague blurry photo of my ass in my camera roll. How many likes to post it? Asking for a friend.
January 14, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.
Solidarity forever,
for the union makes us strong.
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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Local underground rock festival Unreal City returns for its 2nd edition next week + we have two (2) pairs of full-access passes from them up for grabs: bring a friend + enjoy bands, solo artists, DJs, hot food, drinks, on-site tattoo artists + more...
January 10, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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Love live radio & need to stop farting around and get your ass to the station? Then come on down, because it's almost time for more Excerpts From My Rock Opera.

Tonight's theme: Crooks (redux)!

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January 10, 2026 at 4:38 AM
hawksley.bsky.social
gotta make a to-do list for this weekend because im just obsessing and overwhelming myself
January 10, 2026 at 5:47 AM
hawksley.bsky.social
<laughs nervously> hahahaha
January 6, 2026 at 3:17 AM
hawksley.bsky.social
semester starts up tomorrow and i am .................. Not Ready
January 5, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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I just published my official roundup of the 10 funniest things that happened in our American hellscape!!! Join me in remembering the lights in the darkness of our desert of the real. Some are a little spicy. It ends in a dance number. Click click share thanks I love you so much! youtu.be/2t07ie3FUeU
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December 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
hawksley.bsky.social
guys, its up to us to get weirder and louder and more fierce about it
January 4, 2026 at 6:21 AM
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this is live today, and trust me when I say you need some skillful weird fiction with soul more than ever
uel.bsky.social uel aramchek @uel.bsky.social · 28d
The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over its better known cousin, the common jackalope, as the...
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AN ENDANGERED SPECIES
The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over ...
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January 4, 2026 at 1:07 AM
hawksley.bsky.social
i keep using the fact that i don't want to open my thesis stuff as motivation to do all the things i have put off for months. texting people. filing business taxes. figuring our next year's tenant insurance. planning and organizing. going to the gym.
January 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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uel.bsky.social
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uel.bsky.social uel aramchek @uel.bsky.social · 28d
The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over its better known cousin, the common jackalope, as the...
www.greaterrealityarea.net/an-endangere...
AN ENDANGERED SPECIES
The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over ...
www.greaterrealityarea.net
January 3, 2026 at 6:55 PM
hawksley.bsky.social
hi who wants to inspire me to work tonight? who has a good spell or curse? or a long stick to poke me with?
January 3, 2026 at 7:51 PM
hawksley.bsky.social
trying to be ok with just being sad for a little bit
December 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
hawksley.bsky.social
folks, grading AI slop final research papers, dealing with the discovery of a mouse, and trying to patch the roof ahead of a huge rainy period has not raised my spirits
hawksley.bsky.social destroyer of worlds @hawksley.bsky.social · Dec 6
i'm trying really hard not to fall into despair lately. i'm trying to tackle writing something i feel VERY vexed by, and the combination of sucking at something SO hard and being so disappointed in the world is making for some long sighs
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
hawksley.bsky.social
i'm trying really hard not to fall into despair lately. i'm trying to tackle writing something i feel VERY vexed by, and the combination of sucking at something SO hard and being so disappointed in the world is making for some long sighs
December 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM