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“Do not let the lamp of hope dim in the chaos that descends. May peace know you by name.”
Hymn for Every Version of You This New Year Be more present for the universes inside you. Make more pilgrimages to the interiors of your own heart. Clear away the smoke, the wreckage that tries to convince you that you do not deserve joy. Tell your friends you love them more often. Tell good people they are needed; include yourself in that list. When love comes knocking, do not doubt it. Instead open the door with warmth and let it in. When grief claws at your window, don't ignore it. Instead, hold it close and let it stay as long as it needs. Do not let the lamp of hope dim in the chaos that descends. May peace know you by name. May you be greeted by birdsong often. May hope curl up like a well loved old dog at the end of your bed every night. And when the ruins of your past call your name, remember the monument of courage you built in their place. - Nikita Gill
January 1, 2026 at 2:13 PM
natebard.bsky.social
Another great essay by Anne Helen Petersen.
annehelen.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great Feminist Exhaustion
And a Partially Formed Theory of 2025 Culture
annehelen.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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booksthatburn.com
Every year since the Pulse Night massacre, The Memory Palace posts their episode "A White Horse" on the anniversary of that date. @natedimeo.bsky.social
thememorypalace.us/a-white-horse/
A White Horse - the memory palace
Notes and Reading:* Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from “Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation’s Second Oldest Gay Bar” by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on th...
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June 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."

Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
“Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation,” the statement reads. “Humans are not divided biologically into distinct continental types or racial genetic clusters. Instead, the Western concept of race must be understood as a classification system that emerged from, and in support of, European colonialism, oppression, and discrimination.” “It thus does not have its roots in biological reality, but in policies of discrimination,” the statement says. “Because of that, over the last five centuries, race has become a social reality that structures societies and how we experience the world. In this regard, race is real, as is racism, and both have real biological consequences.”
March 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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natedimeo.bsky.social
Because of the way we receive media (in a deluge, in random order, all day long) and the way our brains work (doing constant threat assessment of novel inputs), I find it useful to pause sometimes, take a breath, and check in with myself before saying, as I do now, this is fucking insane.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Mar 28
President Donald Trump issued an executive order promising to eliminate “divisive narratives” from the Smithsonian Institution’s museums and restore “monuments, memorials, statues, markers” that have been removed over the past five years.
Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian
The order directs the vice president to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.
wapo.st
March 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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ilyamarritz.bsky.social
how did we get to this place, with the gov't cancelling grants to make an example of a prestigious american university?

listen to "The Harvard Plan", the audio series I did with @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social, abt how higher ed became a battlefield

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
On the Media | The Harvard Plan | WNYC Studios
WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our worldview.
www.wnycstudios.org
March 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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lisabdavidson.bsky.social
Someday in the not-so-far-future this headline is going to be used as an example in a linguistics class about how language changes can be so considerable that we no longer recognize the meaning of a sentence.
The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...
defector.com
December 10, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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patrickwyman.bsky.social
All that bullshit about “this isn’t who we are,” and here we are again, but more convincingly this time. It’s exactly who we are! Read this country’s actual history, not the pretend version that makes you feel warm and fuzzy, and the through-line is pretty obvious
November 6, 2024 at 2:21 PM
natebard.bsky.social
Hello world! Hoping to follow the migratory herd.
October 21, 2024 at 2:21 AM