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Yannik VeryLongCovid Thiem
@thiemwork.bsky.social
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Queer theorist & philosopher @ Columbia Religion; AAUP member; settler on Lenape land; citizenship & gender migratory; pronoun agnostic; #LongCovid #pwLC since 3/2020 #pwME
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RIP, Bill Moyers, who warned in 2013 that we are losing democracy to the mercenary class making change from within next to impossible. — They’ll put up one hell of a fight against Zohran Mamdani, who we elected as Democratic candidate for mayor of NYC. But we know that & are ready ✊🌹
June 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Some people at Columbia U have a spine & don’t want it to be Vichy Upon the Hudson U @meghnadbose.bsky.social reporting on a banner drop at alumni weekend. Among a Defunded Science Fair held by some faculty, other faculty were handing out flyers criticizing the CU Trustees columbiarises.org
Text: During Columbia University's Alumni Weekend celebrations, members of Columbia's faculty and staff surprise the university administration by hanging 35-teet banners that read "Hands off our students", "Defend Science" and "We will fight back" at the end of acting president Claire Shipman's address to alumni. Shipman notices the banners on her way out from the address. Within 15 minutes, the university administration takes down the banners and campus security officials confiscate them right after. Images: One depicting the banners. One showing a campus security worker walking away with a confiscated banner.
June 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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May 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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May 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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The US WWII Sabotage Field Manual does a great job describing academia #AcademicSky
ALT TEXT 1: Screenshot of page 28 from the declassified "Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States" by Office of Strategic Services, with some portions highlighted. (11) General Interference with Organizations and Production. (a) Organizations and Conferences (1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit shortcuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. (2) Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate "patriotic" comments. (3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideratlon." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five. (4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. (5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions. (G) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. (Z) Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on. (8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision — raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether It might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon. ALT TEXT 2: Screenshot of page 29 from the declassified "Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States" by Office of Strategic Services, with some portions highlighted. (b) Managers and Supervisors (1) Demand written orders. (2) "Misunderstand" orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can. (3) Do everything possible to delay the delivery of orders. Even though parts of an order may be ready beforehand, don't deliver it until it is completely ready. (4) Don't order new working materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown. (5) Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don't get them argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean inferior work. (6) In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines. (7) Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw. Approve other defective parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye. (8) Make mistakes in routing so that parts and materials will be sent to the wrong place in the plant. (9) When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading instructions. (10) To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work. (11) Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.
February 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Pavement graffiti of a sitting stick figure with a speech bubble containing a heart
September 8, 2023 at 10:51 PM