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writer, doctoral candidate in theology at Yale, founder of @homodoxy.com, editor of homorearview.substack.com
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We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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NO War, NO ICE, NO Fascist USA! Rallies have been organized in four cities in Connecticut this Saturday: New Haven, Hartford, Stamford and Bridgeport.

Light rain expected, dress accordingly.
January 9, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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Also a reminder that I'm editor-in-chief of a nonprofit open access academic journal, and we are still accepting submissions for our April issue about AI authorship!
serials.atla.com/theolib/anno...
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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new @us.theguardian.com

A 22 y/o organizer + teacher was arrested on camera during an interview after speaking at a Mich. protest over Maduro's abduction

Jessica Plichta says her arrest seems tied to her recent trip to Venezuela as part of an internationalist peace delegation amid Trump's blockade
US protester arrested after TV interview says she was targeted due to Venezuela trip
Plichta faces misdemeanor charges, which locals say is a tactic of Grand Rapids police to suppress protests
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:42 PM
a light walk at Meijer Gardens. tiny phone camera
December 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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who wants to give me the big boobs hypnosis induction
apparently this works btw
December 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I've been at or around Yale Divinity School in some capacity for a decade. Characterizing the theological education at YDS specifically, a big question for students has been "is another world possible?" and if so (even if not), "how do we get there?"
December 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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John Singer Sargent
Study for Sorrowful Mysteries (1900)
December 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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archive.org/details/ceco... a higher quality version.
cecot-60mins : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
60 minutes segment on cecot
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This account tracks which game developers are using AI. I'm not much of a gamer, but I do love Witcher 3. blegh
December 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Assistant Professor or Associate Professor: Collection Development & Acquisitions Librarian
CUNY-City College of New York

#libraryjobs metro.org/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor or Associate Professor: Collection Development & Acquisitions Librarian
The City College of New York seeks applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor – Collection Development and Acquisitions Librarian to be appointed in Spring 2026. This is a full time, tenure-...
metro.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
She was a @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social + @berkeleyatyale.bsky.social student in the early 1990s, so I believe the proper emoji to find the Episcopalians/Anglicans is 🕯️
Does anyone here know, or know how to reach, Prof. Anna N. Williams? aka A. N. Williams—formerly, it seems, of Cambridge
December 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Does anyone here know, or know how to reach, Prof. Anna N. Williams? aka A. N. Williams—formerly, it seems, of Cambridge
December 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I've put off this chapter for a long time, but I've gotta do it now
December 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Palestinian father Ahmed al-Mabhuh builds a shelter for his family in Gaza ahead of winter, using mud and materials salvaged from the rubble of his destroyed home.

📸: Eyad Baba/AFP
December 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”

www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
between trying to turn off AI integrations on my school-licensed Word (impossible as it turns out) and entering six-digit codes a billion times and scanning my face and license three times while trying to convince PayPal, I'm... well, angry
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Random PSA: Mpox is still circulating. If you didn't get both vaccine doses back in 2022, you can still get them. You can ask that the vaccine be given subcutaneously (which doesn't cause a rash). I recommend doing this, not just for your own safety but for you friends and neighbors.
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I'm good at my job. I saw a book on the shelf whose title was Kill Hole, and I thought, that's probably related to my work. Sure enough, it's an allegorical novel about AIDS.
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
www.aljazeera.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Sold over £100 worth of the Gaza fundraiser posters at Queermas yesterday in Deptford. 😍

Only 13 of the red posters left now so buy yours now and we’ll be able to send more money to the Sameer Project before Christmas. polari.press/throw-sand-i...
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Many students at this point have never been detached from screens in one form or another since they have known themselves. I think in ways reminiscent of past forms of civil disobedience, we should be thinking carefully of how various tools come pre-packaged w the ideologies we otherwise critique.
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM