Kelvin Parnell Jr., PhD
@kelvinparnelljr.bsky.social
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas 🐗
Art historian, ttrpg enthusiast, mediocre wood worker
University of Arkansas 🐗
Art historian, ttrpg enthusiast, mediocre wood worker
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we believe we are special and we simply are not
March 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
we believe we are special and we simply are not
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#BlackSky
Mornting Cuzos! Are we still Black? Are we still healthy? Hell yea, we are!! Let's high step into March + crush this Monday like it's a Friday 🙌🏽
Mornting Cuzos! Are we still Black? Are we still healthy? Hell yea, we are!! Let's high step into March + crush this Monday like it's a Friday 🙌🏽
a man in a yellow suit and white gloves salutes
ALT: a man in a yellow suit and white gloves salutes
media.tenor.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
#BlackSky
Mornting Cuzos! Are we still Black? Are we still healthy? Hell yea, we are!! Let's high step into March + crush this Monday like it's a Friday 🙌🏽
Mornting Cuzos! Are we still Black? Are we still healthy? Hell yea, we are!! Let's high step into March + crush this Monday like it's a Friday 🙌🏽
I very much hate that conservatives pulled another linguistic fast one on the American political and media apparatus by saying DOGE enough and treating it as if it’s a federal agency when it fundamentally is not. Now they’re court cases asking about its head admin when THERE IS NO ADMINISTRATION
February 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I very much hate that conservatives pulled another linguistic fast one on the American political and media apparatus by saying DOGE enough and treating it as if it’s a federal agency when it fundamentally is not. Now they’re court cases asking about its head admin when THERE IS NO ADMINISTRATION
Is it me or does it seem clear they will use the gov’t shutdown to expedite firing federal employees while at the same time make demands from democrats. Which the Dems will give into, and then gov’t opens but republicans don’t allow federal workers to come back or refuse/slow walk their backpay.
February 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Is it me or does it seem clear they will use the gov’t shutdown to expedite firing federal employees while at the same time make demands from democrats. Which the Dems will give into, and then gov’t opens but republicans don’t allow federal workers to come back or refuse/slow walk their backpay.
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BREAKING: NPR obtained a State Dept document revealing the Biden admin planned to allocate only $483,000 in FY 2025 for EV purchases—far less than the $400 million Drop Site revealed was being set aside for Teslas under the Trump admin (until a recent quiet revision to the procurement document).
February 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
BREAKING: NPR obtained a State Dept document revealing the Biden admin planned to allocate only $483,000 in FY 2025 for EV purchases—far less than the $400 million Drop Site revealed was being set aside for Teslas under the Trump admin (until a recent quiet revision to the procurement document).
Musk is r/im14andthisisdeep in corporeal form
February 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Musk is r/im14andthisisdeep in corporeal form
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“The professor noted that many faculty members voiced concerns about how the University’s actions will impact Penn’s “educational mission” and were upset about a “lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.””
February 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“The professor noted that many faculty members voiced concerns about how the University’s actions will impact Penn’s “educational mission” and were upset about a “lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.””
Why am I up
February 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Why am I up
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AGAIN: If they actually cared about the deficit they wouldn’t also be cutting trillions in taxes for the rich.
They think we are all very dumb.
They think we are all very dumb.
Elon Musk: "If we don't solve the deficit, there won't be money for medical care, there won't be money for social security ... it's gotta be solved or there's no medical care, there's no social security, there's no nothing. It's gotta be solved. It's not optional ... that's why I'm here."
February 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
AGAIN: If they actually cared about the deficit they wouldn’t also be cutting trillions in taxes for the rich.
They think we are all very dumb.
They think we are all very dumb.
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“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Tom Homan says he sent an email to the Deputy AG asking if AOC is crossing the line by providing webinars to undocumented immigrants: I’m not an attorney… maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now
February 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start
What I’m about to say is very obvious but still makes me 🧐. It is seemingly clear that the vast majority of men do not have/believe it impossible to have women friends. And that is very pathetic.
February 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
What I’m about to say is very obvious but still makes me 🧐. It is seemingly clear that the vast majority of men do not have/believe it impossible to have women friends. And that is very pathetic.
Something I often think of is if we manage to survive this with the government relatively intact in its current form, we will need to purge the government of those who willingly participated in the vast illegal actions taken by the current admin. And conservatives will call democrats hypocrites…
February 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Something I often think of is if we manage to survive this with the government relatively intact in its current form, we will need to purge the government of those who willingly participated in the vast illegal actions taken by the current admin. And conservatives will call democrats hypocrites…
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“The rollout will cover 23 campuses of the largest public university system in the United States, enabling students to access personalized tutoring and study guides through the chatbot, while the faculty will be able to use it for administrative tasks.”
OpenAI targets higher education in the U.S. with ChatGPT rollout at California State University
Microsoft -backed OpenAI said on Tuesday it will roll out an education-specific version of its chatbot to about 500,000 students and faculty at California State University as it looks to expand its user base in the academic sector and counter competition from rivals like Alphabet .
www.reuters.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“The rollout will cover 23 campuses of the largest public university system in the United States, enabling students to access personalized tutoring and study guides through the chatbot, while the faculty will be able to use it for administrative tasks.”
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New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
If anyone has any literature on the U.S. and gaming/games before the 1950s I would really appreciate it.
February 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
If anyone has any literature on the U.S. and gaming/games before the 1950s I would really appreciate it.
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I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
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You say: they shutdown USAID.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
February 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
You say: they shutdown USAID.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
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Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
January 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care.
This one at UVA Hospital.
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hey question, is this bad?
January 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
hey question, is this bad?
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And I posted this once today, but I'll add it again here, because most people don't seem to realize that Guantanamo has hosted mass detention for immigrants before, with some very grim results. And that history is a key part of how it wound up used for torture and other inhumane ends after 9/11.
Gitmo Started as a Detention Camp for Immigrants
From the Bolshevik Revolution to 9/11, mass detention starts as a temporary measure and becomes an indefinite nightmare.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
And I posted this once today, but I'll add it again here, because most people don't seem to realize that Guantanamo has hosted mass detention for immigrants before, with some very grim results. And that history is a key part of how it wound up used for torture and other inhumane ends after 9/11.
Their malicious incompetence is already killing people.
January 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Their malicious incompetence is already killing people.
Daily reminder that fascists don’t hit.
January 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Daily reminder that fascists don’t hit.
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Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
January 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."