William Dobbins
@wcdobbins.bsky.social
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Yeah, my 'hours' as an adjunct have always been carefully calculated so that I didn't get health benefits and the one time the department slipped up and put me over the line they 1) didn't notice until I told them and 2) have been cutting back my teaching bit by bit ever since.
I'm only halfway through the video, but...YEAH.
My favorite* part of adjuncting was how they deliberately, contractually classified us as not working more than 29 hours a week so that not only were we not eligible for any benefits...
but we can't count that time towards PSLF bc it's not full-time.
My favorite* part of adjuncting was how they deliberately, contractually classified us as not working more than 29 hours a week so that not only were we not eligible for any benefits...
but we can't count that time towards PSLF bc it's not full-time.
This (youtu.be/2AvfOhtmCZY?...) is an older @acollierastro.bsky.social video I must have missed, but it is brilliant in explaining the intensity of the bullshit of the adjunct system, for students and instructors.
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Yeah, my 'hours' as an adjunct have always been carefully calculated so that I didn't get health benefits and the one time the department slipped up and put me over the line they 1) didn't notice until I told them and 2) have been cutting back my teaching bit by bit ever since.
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It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
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This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
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If you live in Louisiana and have had any nasty run-ins with Louisiana Right to Life, hit my inbox.
I'm compiling info for a thing I'm working on.
I'm compiling info for a thing I'm working on.
November 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If you live in Louisiana and have had any nasty run-ins with Louisiana Right to Life, hit my inbox.
I'm compiling info for a thing I'm working on.
I'm compiling info for a thing I'm working on.
Spotify for journalism? I pay you $12 a month and then you distribute it proportionately to the newspapers I read as I click around the Internet each month. I'm not subscribing to statesman journal, but they could make a little coin from my occasional visits for kelp and urchin news.
November 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Spotify for journalism? I pay you $12 a month and then you distribute it proportionately to the newspapers I read as I click around the Internet each month. I'm not subscribing to statesman journal, but they could make a little coin from my occasional visits for kelp and urchin news.
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I do think the current status quo of One Giant Omnibus With Everything For Someone In It really hurts our politics because you can't actually make everyone happy with one bite at the apple and it's also really hard to know what you got when the bite is big enough to take some branch with it
November 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I do think the current status quo of One Giant Omnibus With Everything For Someone In It really hurts our politics because you can't actually make everyone happy with one bite at the apple and it's also really hard to know what you got when the bite is big enough to take some branch with it
ADHD is quite simply when the human body doesn't produce sufficient amphetamine.
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
ADHD is quite simply when the human body doesn't produce sufficient amphetamine.
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If you boycott elections, candidates logically ignore you and focus on the voters they can still get.
There’s a reason pundits keep nudging Dems to a mushy middle. Those folks are idiots, yes, but they’re idiots who show up to vote.
And that matters more to a candidate than your smart apathy.
There’s a reason pundits keep nudging Dems to a mushy middle. Those folks are idiots, yes, but they’re idiots who show up to vote.
And that matters more to a candidate than your smart apathy.
October 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
If you boycott elections, candidates logically ignore you and focus on the voters they can still get.
There’s a reason pundits keep nudging Dems to a mushy middle. Those folks are idiots, yes, but they’re idiots who show up to vote.
And that matters more to a candidate than your smart apathy.
There’s a reason pundits keep nudging Dems to a mushy middle. Those folks are idiots, yes, but they’re idiots who show up to vote.
And that matters more to a candidate than your smart apathy.
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A related fantasy that apparently many people share that exacerbates this issue:
October 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A related fantasy that apparently many people share that exacerbates this issue:
Hmm but I don't remember forgetting.
October 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Hmm but I don't remember forgetting.
This is the most powerful sentient burger or a man that rules over a kingdom of burgers?
October 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is the most powerful sentient burger or a man that rules over a kingdom of burgers?
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New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
Mark Daigneault has the best thinking face in the NBA. You can tell he's really concentrating.
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Mark Daigneault has the best thinking face in the NBA. You can tell he's really concentrating.
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Seriously, I have wasted hours in community meetings about the historic nature of a 1920's laundromat. And yet without so much as a posted notice, an excavator started digging into the side of the White House.
October 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Seriously, I have wasted hours in community meetings about the historic nature of a 1920's laundromat. And yet without so much as a posted notice, an excavator started digging into the side of the White House.
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BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞
@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
October 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞
@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
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Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.
Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.
ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.
ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.
Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.
ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.
ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
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i really hate when we talk about books like they're shopping lists of tropes
October 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
i really hate when we talk about books like they're shopping lists of tropes
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we need Universal Basic Dorm Bong Sessions so that people don't feel the need to inflict takes like this on national politics
October 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
we need Universal Basic Dorm Bong Sessions so that people don't feel the need to inflict takes like this on national politics
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Actually just occurred to me that those of us who worked at Al Jazeera America — a hugely expensive boondoggle backed by an authoritarian regime that thought it could have it both ways — are uniquely well positioned to predict the future of CBS News.
October 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Actually just occurred to me that those of us who worked at Al Jazeera America — a hugely expensive boondoggle backed by an authoritarian regime that thought it could have it both ways — are uniquely well positioned to predict the future of CBS News.
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My e-bike has turned my hilly suburban East Richmond area into a 15-minute neighborhood. Post office, hardware store, 3+ groceries, Kaiser, gym, waterfront all in easy reach for this creaky 74 yo.
October 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My e-bike has turned my hilly suburban East Richmond area into a 15-minute neighborhood. Post office, hardware store, 3+ groceries, Kaiser, gym, waterfront all in easy reach for this creaky 74 yo.
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We should do cap and trade for takes on here. I would happily sell off my right to participate in Swift discourse for a few more shots on goal about burrito taxis. Really force people to lock in, clear out the amateurs on any given subject.
October 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We should do cap and trade for takes on here. I would happily sell off my right to participate in Swift discourse for a few more shots on goal about burrito taxis. Really force people to lock in, clear out the amateurs on any given subject.