AC Carlson
@ohitsasea.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Rhetoric, writer, performer, literal tree hugger
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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AAUP: IU is not MAGA University! Faculty and students speak against the Trump Compact and abuses by the IU upper administration.
Meet us on November 7 at 11 by the Herman B Wells statue to show your support.
Learn more: iubaaup.org/2025/11/05/p...
Meet us on November 7 at 11 by the Herman B Wells statue to show your support.
Learn more: iubaaup.org/2025/11/05/p...
Press Release: IU is Not MAGA University
On Friday at 11 am, the Indiana University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) will hold a press conference to declare its opposition to the Trump Compact for Academ…
iubaaup.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
AAUP: IU is not MAGA University! Faculty and students speak against the Trump Compact and abuses by the IU upper administration.
Meet us on November 7 at 11 by the Herman B Wells statue to show your support.
Learn more: iubaaup.org/2025/11/05/p...
Meet us on November 7 at 11 by the Herman B Wells statue to show your support.
Learn more: iubaaup.org/2025/11/05/p...
One of the things they don’t tell you about transitioning is you get on T and you do start sneezing Like That
my father's sneezes are loud enough that they once woke my baby from two floors away. I'm aging into his power
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
One of the things they don’t tell you about transitioning is you get on T and you do start sneezing Like That
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So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.
Saying that someone doesn’t deserve to be a senator isn’t canceling them, that is the public opinion candidates are subject to in a democracy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.
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The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.
October 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.
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The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater
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say what you will about leonardo dicaprio but it's crazy that he painted sixteen chapels
October 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
say what you will about leonardo dicaprio but it's crazy that he painted sixteen chapels
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Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
October 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
Going to see Mumford and Sons tonight. Also saw them October 2019. Forever chasing the feeling of removing the plastic on the newly released Babel deluxe edition CD and listening to it in my dorm room
October 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Going to see Mumford and Sons tonight. Also saw them October 2019. Forever chasing the feeling of removing the plastic on the newly released Babel deluxe edition CD and listening to it in my dorm room
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
Didn’t have to make any adjustments lining up with the track at the car wash. I’ll be riding that high for days.
October 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Didn’t have to make any adjustments lining up with the track at the car wash. I’ll be riding that high for days.
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Heartbroken Man Realizes He Only Loved Idea Of Fried Egg On Burger https://theonion.com/heartbroken-man-realizes-he-only-loved-idea-of-fried-egg-on-burger/
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Heartbroken Man Realizes He Only Loved Idea Of Fried Egg On Burger https://theonion.com/heartbroken-man-realizes-he-only-loved-idea-of-fried-egg-on-burger/
Ok Taylor Swift has a new album today but so does Cheap Perfume so…
October 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Ok Taylor Swift has a new album today but so does Cheap Perfume so…
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We are now also the most official looking Taco Bell account on here and I would just like to let everyone know that eating Taco Bell makes you trans
October 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We are now also the most official looking Taco Bell account on here and I would just like to let everyone know that eating Taco Bell makes you trans
I wondered why I was still barely into Saving Time after the better part of a year but I picked it up and tried again and it’s because of The Horrors. Having to confront The Horrors in print sends me into a spiral every 5 pages or so.
September 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I wondered why I was still barely into Saving Time after the better part of a year but I picked it up and tried again and it’s because of The Horrors. Having to confront The Horrors in print sends me into a spiral every 5 pages or so.
Got my D&D party trying to piece together the events of a haunted keep from different fragments of text. They started to figure out today that they might be talking about two separate events. A good time had by all.
September 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Got my D&D party trying to piece together the events of a haunted keep from different fragments of text. They started to figure out today that they might be talking about two separate events. A good time had by all.
I said “where is the recent protest music?” So I went looking for it and I’m pleased to report there’s been a real boom of explicitly political music in 2025. I wonder if there’s been anything going on this year to inspire a bunch of new music?
September 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I said “where is the recent protest music?” So I went looking for it and I’m pleased to report there’s been a real boom of explicitly political music in 2025. I wonder if there’s been anything going on this year to inspire a bunch of new music?
Friendship is referring to each other’s therapist by first name
September 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Friendship is referring to each other’s therapist by first name
Fellow rhetoric grad students in the Midwest: I hope to see you here in Indiana for the Midwest Winter Workshop! For the low price of free (thanks to the amazing organizers and their grant writing efforts) come workshop some works in progress with grad students and faculty from around the Midwest!
Call for Papers | Midwest Winter Workshop
midwestwinterworks.wixsite.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Fellow rhetoric grad students in the Midwest: I hope to see you here in Indiana for the Midwest Winter Workshop! For the low price of free (thanks to the amazing organizers and their grant writing efforts) come workshop some works in progress with grad students and faculty from around the Midwest!
The LinkedIn design and interface are just so unpleasant to use. I don’t know how people are on there every day.
September 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The LinkedIn design and interface are just so unpleasant to use. I don’t know how people are on there every day.
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entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster
September 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster
Anyway, in the same meeting we had a mock debate about different bison mascot costumes as a team building activity. The spirit of debate took over my body and I’m not sure I’ll ever live down saying our assigned mascot was “objectively hot” in front of all my colleagues.
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Anyway, in the same meeting we had a mock debate about different bison mascot costumes as a team building activity. The spirit of debate took over my body and I’m not sure I’ll ever live down saying our assigned mascot was “objectively hot” in front of all my colleagues.
In a meeting yesterday we were asked to consider how we can “shape AI’s ethical, innovative use.” It might’ve just been me, but I felt a real tension being drawn between “ethical” and “innovative” in the room.
September 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In a meeting yesterday we were asked to consider how we can “shape AI’s ethical, innovative use.” It might’ve just been me, but I felt a real tension being drawn between “ethical” and “innovative” in the room.