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@notsurprised.bsky.social
ask and ye shall be cited.
academicians 1:3
you are. the rest is description.
academicians 1:3
you are. the rest is description.
Pinned
Don't go rushing into the day like you're made out of time.
You are more than a means of production.
#academicsky #writingsky
You are more than a means of production.
#academicsky #writingsky
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A party that runs on betrayal.
Weak. Performative. Useless.
Such utter contempt for anyone who isn't them. Such certainty they will get away with it unscathed.
How trust an organisation whose members will sell you down the river any chance they get?
Disgraceful.
#academicsky #writingsky
Weak. Performative. Useless.
Such utter contempt for anyone who isn't them. Such certainty they will get away with it unscathed.
How trust an organisation whose members will sell you down the river any chance they get?
Disgraceful.
#academicsky #writingsky
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A party that runs on betrayal.
Weak. Performative. Useless.
Such utter contempt for anyone who isn't them. Such certainty they will get away with it unscathed.
How trust an organisation whose members will sell you down the river any chance they get?
Disgraceful.
#academicsky #writingsky
Weak. Performative. Useless.
Such utter contempt for anyone who isn't them. Such certainty they will get away with it unscathed.
How trust an organisation whose members will sell you down the river any chance they get?
Disgraceful.
#academicsky #writingsky
Reposted by not surprised
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
1 million a week? Isn't that a massive public health issue?
*looks at current state of US public health infrastructure*
New question:
Is this deliberate endangerment of minors and vulnerable people by a heavily funded corporation?
For profit? Or for something much worse?
#academicsky #writingsky
*looks at current state of US public health infrastructure*
New question:
Is this deliberate endangerment of minors and vulnerable people by a heavily funded corporation?
For profit? Or for something much worse?
#academicsky #writingsky
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
1 million a week? Isn't that a massive public health issue?
*looks at current state of US public health infrastructure*
New question:
Is this deliberate endangerment of minors and vulnerable people by a heavily funded corporation?
For profit? Or for something much worse?
#academicsky #writingsky
*looks at current state of US public health infrastructure*
New question:
Is this deliberate endangerment of minors and vulnerable people by a heavily funded corporation?
For profit? Or for something much worse?
#academicsky #writingsky
Imperial History: Come again?
2025: They're not paying or feeding the troops, sir.
Imperial History: Say that again.
2025: Soldiers are not being paid or fed, sir.
*checks past 6000 years*
Imperial History [incredulous]: How precedented do you want this to get?
#academicsky #writingsky
2025: They're not paying or feeding the troops, sir.
Imperial History: Say that again.
2025: Soldiers are not being paid or fed, sir.
*checks past 6000 years*
Imperial History [incredulous]: How precedented do you want this to get?
#academicsky #writingsky
Millions of servicemembers and veterans rely on the commissary system for basic needs. The tax-free grocery stores offer a substantial savings on many items and also comes with the benefit of the Star Card, a defense system credit card used at the commissary and PX (like a Target/Walmart).
Military officials tell troops 168 commissaries could close next month trib.al/3F3Ks58
November 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Imperial History: Come again?
2025: They're not paying or feeding the troops, sir.
Imperial History: Say that again.
2025: Soldiers are not being paid or fed, sir.
*checks past 6000 years*
Imperial History [incredulous]: How precedented do you want this to get?
#academicsky #writingsky
2025: They're not paying or feeding the troops, sir.
Imperial History: Say that again.
2025: Soldiers are not being paid or fed, sir.
*checks past 6000 years*
Imperial History [incredulous]: How precedented do you want this to get?
#academicsky #writingsky
Reposted by not surprised
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
Reposted by not surprised
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
News Person: "Military Families are counting on food banks."
The Planet: Come again?
NP: US Soldiers are lining up at food banks.
Planet: Why?
NP: Payroll is frozen due to the shutdown.
*Imperial History enters chat*
Imperial History: EXCUSE ME WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!
#academicsky #writingsky
The Planet: Come again?
NP: US Soldiers are lining up at food banks.
Planet: Why?
NP: Payroll is frozen due to the shutdown.
*Imperial History enters chat*
Imperial History: EXCUSE ME WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!
#academicsky #writingsky
October 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News Person: "Military Families are counting on food banks."
The Planet: Come again?
NP: US Soldiers are lining up at food banks.
Planet: Why?
NP: Payroll is frozen due to the shutdown.
*Imperial History enters chat*
Imperial History: EXCUSE ME WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!
#academicsky #writingsky
The Planet: Come again?
NP: US Soldiers are lining up at food banks.
Planet: Why?
NP: Payroll is frozen due to the shutdown.
*Imperial History enters chat*
Imperial History: EXCUSE ME WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!
#academicsky #writingsky
"This Committee was initially created during the McCarthy Era, a dark time when the federal government repressed and persecuted American citizens for their political beliefs [...]"
To the voices that will be heard / May they speak loud and clear.
#academicsky #writingsky
www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...
To the voices that will be heard / May they speak loud and clear.
#academicsky #writingsky
www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...
Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech
The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.
www.npr.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"This Committee was initially created during the McCarthy Era, a dark time when the federal government repressed and persecuted American citizens for their political beliefs [...]"
To the voices that will be heard / May they speak loud and clear.
#academicsky #writingsky
www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...
To the voices that will be heard / May they speak loud and clear.
#academicsky #writingsky
www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...
Reposted by not surprised
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
Every couple hours it's like a new level of absurdity unlocks: Oldheads are avoiding (Boomer) parents' bewildered texts, The Chronically Online feel like they're on crazy pills, all while The Hypocrisy™ burns through yet another layer of the social contract.
The vibes aren't just off. They're gone.
The vibes aren't just off. They're gone.
September 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Every couple hours it's like a new level of absurdity unlocks: Oldheads are avoiding (Boomer) parents' bewildered texts, The Chronically Online feel like they're on crazy pills, all while The Hypocrisy™ burns through yet another layer of the social contract.
The vibes aren't just off. They're gone.
The vibes aren't just off. They're gone.
What are you reading right now? Fiction, non-fiction, speculative, genre, you name it.
#academicsky #writingsky
#academicsky #writingsky
September 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
What are you reading right now? Fiction, non-fiction, speculative, genre, you name it.
#academicsky #writingsky
#academicsky #writingsky
WTF.
Project MUSE is an academic lifeline! Cutting access is deliberately hurting researchers' access to multiple knowledge bases!
Horrible.
#academicsky #writingsky
Project MUSE is an academic lifeline! Cutting access is deliberately hurting researchers' access to multiple knowledge bases!
Horrible.
#academicsky #writingsky
My university canceled its library subscription to Project MUSE, making it harder for me to do research, but enrolled all us faculty in Salesforce
People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
August 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
WTF.
Project MUSE is an academic lifeline! Cutting access is deliberately hurting researchers' access to multiple knowledge bases!
Horrible.
#academicsky #writingsky
Project MUSE is an academic lifeline! Cutting access is deliberately hurting researchers' access to multiple knowledge bases!
Horrible.
#academicsky #writingsky
The vibe these days:
All the juice has been squeezed. The violent re-squeezing for the last few drops.
A vending machine stops working. Cue banging, rattling, more banging, more rattling. Nothing.
Irresponsible persons clicked on obvious malware. All computers jitter, freeze, bluesceen.
#humpday
All the juice has been squeezed. The violent re-squeezing for the last few drops.
A vending machine stops working. Cue banging, rattling, more banging, more rattling. Nothing.
Irresponsible persons clicked on obvious malware. All computers jitter, freeze, bluesceen.
#humpday
August 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The vibe these days:
All the juice has been squeezed. The violent re-squeezing for the last few drops.
A vending machine stops working. Cue banging, rattling, more banging, more rattling. Nothing.
Irresponsible persons clicked on obvious malware. All computers jitter, freeze, bluesceen.
#humpday
All the juice has been squeezed. The violent re-squeezing for the last few drops.
A vending machine stops working. Cue banging, rattling, more banging, more rattling. Nothing.
Irresponsible persons clicked on obvious malware. All computers jitter, freeze, bluesceen.
#humpday
A necessary read.
Considering developments, this is a good reminder of the macro-currents at play. It's noteworthy that Klein & Taylor frame what's happening as a religion-adjacent global assault.
Yes, it's bad. No, it's not hopeless.
#academicsky #writingsky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Considering developments, this is a good reminder of the macro-currents at play. It's noteworthy that Klein & Taylor frame what's happening as a religion-adjacent global assault.
Yes, it's bad. No, it's not hopeless.
#academicsky #writingsky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A necessary read.
Considering developments, this is a good reminder of the macro-currents at play. It's noteworthy that Klein & Taylor frame what's happening as a religion-adjacent global assault.
Yes, it's bad. No, it's not hopeless.
#academicsky #writingsky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Considering developments, this is a good reminder of the macro-currents at play. It's noteworthy that Klein & Taylor frame what's happening as a religion-adjacent global assault.
Yes, it's bad. No, it's not hopeless.
#academicsky #writingsky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
/rant on/
This commitment to deep dysfunction is entirely baffling.
So many people are committed to keeping a sick system going, it's unconscionable. Not just a few: millions. What is this religion-adjacent faith in a system that clearly only serves a handful of people?1/5
#academicsky #writingsky
This commitment to deep dysfunction is entirely baffling.
So many people are committed to keeping a sick system going, it's unconscionable. Not just a few: millions. What is this religion-adjacent faith in a system that clearly only serves a handful of people?1/5
#academicsky #writingsky
August 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
/rant on/
This commitment to deep dysfunction is entirely baffling.
So many people are committed to keeping a sick system going, it's unconscionable. Not just a few: millions. What is this religion-adjacent faith in a system that clearly only serves a handful of people?1/5
#academicsky #writingsky
This commitment to deep dysfunction is entirely baffling.
So many people are committed to keeping a sick system going, it's unconscionable. Not just a few: millions. What is this religion-adjacent faith in a system that clearly only serves a handful of people?1/5
#academicsky #writingsky
It's like he's actively looking for The Yuckiest Thing To Do and hitting it bullseye each time 🤢
Beyond weird.
Beyond weird.
August 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
It's like he's actively looking for The Yuckiest Thing To Do and hitting it bullseye each time 🤢
Beyond weird.
Beyond weird.
You know that saying, "How you get them is how you lose them"?
*looks at History of the United States of Yikes*
..ethnic cleansing, religious extremism, brutal racialized oppression, vicious misogyny, massive wealth theft, horrific hypocrisy..
*looks at news cycle*
Huh.
#academicsky #writingsky
*looks at History of the United States of Yikes*
..ethnic cleansing, religious extremism, brutal racialized oppression, vicious misogyny, massive wealth theft, horrific hypocrisy..
*looks at news cycle*
Huh.
#academicsky #writingsky
August 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
You know that saying, "How you get them is how you lose them"?
*looks at History of the United States of Yikes*
..ethnic cleansing, religious extremism, brutal racialized oppression, vicious misogyny, massive wealth theft, horrific hypocrisy..
*looks at news cycle*
Huh.
#academicsky #writingsky
*looks at History of the United States of Yikes*
..ethnic cleansing, religious extremism, brutal racialized oppression, vicious misogyny, massive wealth theft, horrific hypocrisy..
*looks at news cycle*
Huh.
#academicsky #writingsky
The heartbreak at witnessing the deciders in beloved institutions click their heels and salute is understandable.
It might help to look at other countries to see how they dealt with this shift, because it's going to get much worse.
*cracks open Klaus Mann's Mephisto*
#academicsky #writingsky
It might help to look at other countries to see how they dealt with this shift, because it's going to get much worse.
*cracks open Klaus Mann's Mephisto*
#academicsky #writingsky
so, in the course of a month, the New York Times reassigned four veteran critics, the Washington Post’s film critic took a buyout, Vanity Fair decided it doesn’t need a film critic at all, and the Associated Press got rid of book criticism altogether?
Cool.
Cool.
August 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The heartbreak at witnessing the deciders in beloved institutions click their heels and salute is understandable.
It might help to look at other countries to see how they dealt with this shift, because it's going to get much worse.
*cracks open Klaus Mann's Mephisto*
#academicsky #writingsky
It might help to look at other countries to see how they dealt with this shift, because it's going to get much worse.
*cracks open Klaus Mann's Mephisto*
#academicsky #writingsky
What a disturbing amount of pple seem to refuse to understand is that the Disunited States of WTF exist on a planet and everybody is watching.
The revolting portrait in the attic is on full display & millions are vomiting into their purses, morally puking into flower pots.
#academicsky #writingsky
The revolting portrait in the attic is on full display & millions are vomiting into their purses, morally puking into flower pots.
#academicsky #writingsky
August 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What a disturbing amount of pple seem to refuse to understand is that the Disunited States of WTF exist on a planet and everybody is watching.
The revolting portrait in the attic is on full display & millions are vomiting into their purses, morally puking into flower pots.
#academicsky #writingsky
The revolting portrait in the attic is on full display & millions are vomiting into their purses, morally puking into flower pots.
#academicsky #writingsky
July 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Reposted by not surprised
We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
July 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
Wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't at least 50% genAI wrecking autocorrect. That mess sneaks into everything like toxic pollen, adding unnecessary letters, changing correct words into nonsense. Autocorrect is basically Automess now. And thus the Enshittification continues 😒
#academicsky #writingsky
#academicsky #writingsky
i recently noticed a lot of online creators very slightly mispronouncing words and it's been slowly driving me into madness. anyway here's my list
July 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't at least 50% genAI wrecking autocorrect. That mess sneaks into everything like toxic pollen, adding unnecessary letters, changing correct words into nonsense. Autocorrect is basically Automess now. And thus the Enshittification continues 😒
#academicsky #writingsky
#academicsky #writingsky
July 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM