SE Strongman
strongman.bsky.social
SE Strongman
@strongman.bsky.social
Asst. Professor @ UM, Writing a book on literary culture and Black feminist sociality in the 70s and 80s. This account represents just me, not my employer.
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Homicides are down.

Men eating entire grocery store rotisserie chickens are up.

Was it really worth it?
Homicides in Philadelphia drop to lowest level in 60 years
DA Larry Krasner and others attribute the drop to gun violence prevention efforts, grassroots violence-interruption work and supportive programs for young people.
whyy.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
The mayor is evil because he’s tall and spent summers at Interlochen?
#a2council IMO, there's nothing worse than being a bad poster, and creating a copypasta that starts off by saying you main op is tall and handsome is some bottom tier stuff.
January 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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The one thing I like about American sports is how inclusive it is of the furry community
Hook 'Em making a Cheez-It angel.
January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Ann Arbor NextDoor currently features one of those “a black person was in my neighborhood so I called the cops” posts and the author is fighting for their lives in the comments.
December 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
bit.ly
December 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Also I'm sorry, but before we can have this conversation, we all need to sit down and carefully untangle the marketing that has conflated every possible use of machine learning with ChatGPT.

And not in a "well you ignorant people don't understand the difference" way.

The confusion is deliberate.
December 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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As a lit professor, I just died inside a little bit
Re books: books and literature are useful for information, but they aren't interactive and dialogic. They don't fulfil the same function that I'm referring to.
December 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Black women in Ypsilanti, MI, have been supporting the community for over a century through the Palm Leaf Club, the city's oldest Black women's charitable organization. concentratemedia.com/black-women-...
Black women in Ypsi have been supporting community for over a century through the Palm Leaf Club – Concentrate
Ypsilanti's oldest African-American women's charitable organization, the Palm Leaf Club, grew out of a church club established in 1904.
concentratemedia.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Thank you, Canadian taxpayers!
December 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?
December 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Merry Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 10d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The FDA says tight underwear is a medical device if trans people enjoy wearing it.

More on the nonsense from our federal government by @alyssaur.bsky.social

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
FDA Threatens Companies Selling Binders — Assigned
The FDA sent twelve businesses threatening letters on Tuesday, demanding that they register their chest binders as medical devices with the FDA.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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It is open season on all of us, but I am so deeply concerned about our contingent colleagues, lecturers, and graduate student instructors.

Hope that she sues and wins.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 10d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Welp. Shan’t be stopping at the Sheetz in Donegal, PA on the drive home.
December 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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killing random people to make a statement about people you've decide they're associated with is how bigotry and fascist violence work.
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
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 4:34 PM
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it's truly wild how institutions are like it's cool, we never wanted to do this teaching and learning stuff anyway
December 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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If you're an academic who is protective or defensive about your own area of expertise (understandable, in this day and age), but are offended when it's suggested that professional archivists & librarians have unique expertise outside your own experience, that's worth some self-examination
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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There’s so much bad stuff going on that I hope this one doesn’t get lost — Trump’s war on nurses. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/22/g...
The GOP War on Nurses
Donald Trump and the Republicans cut graduate student loans for nurses and social workers to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
washingtonmonthly.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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I wish we pushed for research on the political economy of academia more. It's what takes us beyond "oh why did this one person cite a fake journal article?" into "why do we have a system that rewards people who do not engage with prior research and simply churn out pubs?"
December 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Mark Scerbo and I cleared the ice off this sidewalk yesterday and put down salt and sand. Can you take it from here, please, #a2council ?
December 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM