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rylee
@35smithr.bsky.social
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20th c. lit & butch/femme & working-class stuff at p3nn / washed up wannabe sommelier
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35smithr.bsky.social
i hate writing
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
35smithr.bsky.social
www.thedp.com/article/2025...
GET-UP announces strike authorization vote at press conference with elected officials
If the strike authorization vote passes, GET-UP’s bargaining committee will have the authority to call a strike at any time.
www.thedp.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
35smithr.bsky.social
i think i’m doing a marxism right now and it’s my first ever one
October 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
Will put pen to paper at some point about why Vandal Live is going to become a bigger part of podcast mix, but for now I just want to thank Penn English for jumpstarting this season with an event that clarified for me how these recordings can serve the whole humanities.

Also, the sound was perfect.
October 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
35smithr.bsky.social
exam is in one month and 10 days. i am…so scared…what if i didn’t read the books right
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
35smithr.bsky.social
if i was a basketball coach i would simply outlaw three point shooting in close games. you will get in that paint!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
35smithr.bsky.social
hey @clevelandcavaliers.bsky.social the ball is meant to go in the hoop idk if yall know
October 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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atrubek.bsky.social
This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
35smithr.bsky.social
sports betting is so sad & a good reason to start playing the sport you love if you’re able, even if it’s just putting up shots that don’t go in for 45 min a couple times a week
October 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
35smithr.bsky.social
nothing says cleveland cavaliers like losing your season opener 👍
October 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
not gonna lie, this is pretty cool
October 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
35smithr.bsky.social
second project (if i ever get there) will be about historically women’s colleges and the arrival of working-class lesbians which will mark my triumphant return to the smith archives
a page from Lilian Faderman’s Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers describing the rise of historically women’s colleges.
October 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
35smithr.bsky.social
monday monday monday
October 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
35smithr.bsky.social
i have the sunday scaries :)
October 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
35smithr.bsky.social
sometimes grad school is just showing up to events & chatting over glasses of (warm) white wine after
October 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
penn alums faculty staff students donors more sign actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...
Just Say No to Trump's Compact for Academic Extortion
Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania was one of nine targets of the Trump Administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Through it, Trump asks once again for universitie...
actionnetwork.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact

“And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”
Dear Madam Secretary, I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters. I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education. As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples: • MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions. • MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%. • We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree. These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law. The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that tree marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education. As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation. Sincerely, Sally Kornbluth CC Ms. May Mailman Mr. Vincent Haley
October 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
35smithr.bsky.social
ball is life :)
October 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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neorsd.org
don’t let the Cavs or Celtics collapses this year distract you from the fact the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in 2016 NBA Finals.
May 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
35smithr.bsky.social
last day of coursework 🥂 then onto MY WORK (the horror)
April 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
35smithr.bsky.social
pink is really their color
April 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
35smithr.bsky.social
turned in my fields lists for approval 🍻 still can't believe i'm going to read all this (lol)
A screenshot of a word document that has the titles of three lists. It reads: Primary Field: American Literature 1918-2025, Contributing 1: The Sex/Gender System, Contributing 2: Methods of the Everyday: Description, Empiricism, Critique
April 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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dukepress.bsky.social
Save 30% on #NewBook "Boys Abducted" by @a-arvas.bsky.social , which explores the history of abducted boys in English and Ottoman literary and visual culture to examine the relationships between homoeroticism, race, and empire in the early modern period. #QueerTheory #LiteraryTheory
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Cover of Boys Abducted: The Homocrotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity by Abdulhamit Arvas. The dark background features the title in a large, elegant serif font, with "Abducted" staggered over abstract artwork. The cover art is an abstract painting with expressive brushstrokes depicting figures in vibrant colors—red, blue, white, and gold—engaged in a chaotic scene. One of the figures appears to be carrying off another.
April 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
35smithr.bsky.social
how can I lesson plan when the sweater I PLANNED to wear tmrw is out for delivery but not yet arrived
January 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
ACT UP, 1990
A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"
January 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM