I cried a lot playing @sunsetvisitor.studio's 1000xResist so it's a complex kind of joy, but it was also an incredible game/narrative. I've genuinely never played anything like it store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/...

Every year, I plan to knit holiday gifts for family and think "Surely this time I will have them all finished by November!" but, it's one week before USPS's ship-by deadline, and here we are, so this is my knitting update thread haha

Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Every Lions fan watching this game rn

Solidarity with @teamsters.bsky.social , who sanctioned our strike nationwide and won't be delivering food, picking up trash, or bringing packages across picket lines! ✊🔥 #NoContractNoCoffee

Happy #Caturday! Here's Meep figuring out how to use her sister's treat puzzle

California State University’s trustees will vote tomorrow on whether to increase how much the system’s 22 campus presidents and other senior executives earn. bit.ly/4oHbzv6 📝 @mzinshteyn.bsky.social 📸 Jules Hotz

This thread, and to be frank, it's interesting to see that posting figurative death threats is the hill so many leftist men are willing to [redacted] upon. See you all on fedsky, I guess

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When I worked for Starbucks full-time, I'd routinely get scheduled to close the store at 10pm then come back and open it at 5am. For a fun bonus, management would schedule full daytime shifts, then send us home halfway through to cut labor costs. Starbucks workers deserve a fair contract.

Behold: you can now see all 23 years of BYTE magazine in all its glory, all at once. Every issue on a single zoomable interface www.404media.co/byte-magazin...

"At the heart of our work together was the question: How can the online communities that we participate in use tools that truly reflect our values?" This looks so useful for #TeamRhetoric folks seeking to reframe our social media pedagogy!

so Grokipedia is really bad, in case anybody was wondering, but I'm going to just kind of quickly write a short thread about why. I'm going to focus on the article of neo-fascist William Luther Pierce, because I just published my MA thesis on him a few months ago. Which Grokipedia cites.

Me adding all the Grokipedia pages to the @waybackmachine.bsky.social archive for future research use

This is so bleak: www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

Remember those times i said we were headed for an epistemic crisis because bad people were gonna use deepfakes to make propaganda & conspiracy theories & destabilize consensus reality-making & how the central paradigm of "generative AI" enables, encourages, & was indeed built on this premise? Yeah.

Attn: Everybody with good music taste: Following a fit of delusion during race signups back in January, I'm attempting a trail race in which I will be #running (read: speed hiking) overnight, and I'm putting together a playlist to get me through. What are your best bangers, any genre/any language?

For my buds still sad about the end of Real Life mag, and anyone else bored of the current state of writing-about-tech, it's time to get excited — a very exciting new left tech-etc magazine is dropping later this month. Empty Set! No website yet but follow on insta www.instagram.com/emptysetmaga...

It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism" www.routledge.com/Contemporary...

Celebrate #FeministFridays with us! ✨ Got an article published, written a book review, received a teaching award, or reached another milestone? We’d love to highlight your achievements! Use this Google Form to share your wins! forms.gle/6JiytdhVS5oT...

Hey #TeamRhetoric, SJSU is hiring an Assistant WPA! We're a union campus (@cfaunited.bsky.social), and in my first year here, I've found the department to be welcoming + supportive. There's a strong community especially among the junior faculty. jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

This doomscrolling break is brought to you by #4C26 announcements: See you all in Cleveland for "Wresting Power Back: Tactical Technical Communication for Social Media Under Rising Authoritarianism"

The fundie-snarking communities have been celebrating all day. There are no words for the harm Dobson caused so many children. For the unfamiliar, D.L. & Krispin Mayfield's "Strongwilled" describes Dobson's child abuse advocacy & its role in Christian Nationalism (www.strongwilledproject.com)

🩵 Friendly reminder! 🩵 If you're still revising your ideas for Peitho's Summer 2026 special issue, Academia in Crisis: How Feminist Rhetorical Scholars Respond, be sure to send them by tomorrow, August 15. CFP: tiny.cc/PeithoSummer...

This is how Meep and Mushroom celebrate #InternationalCatDay

*Academics in early August

For any BlueSky friends engaged in Digital Humanities projects, here's a place to apply for seed money www.acls.org/programs/acl...

I'm adding a blurb to my syllabi clarifying that I will never use AI to evaluate or respond to student work. If I can't be bothered to read it, why should students be bothered to write it? This ends up with bots responding to bots all the way down, imo.

Mushroom and I are catching up on #FemRhet2025 virtual presentations--I love that there's a space to leave comments or questions for presenters. Here, we're listening to Dr. Julia Allen's talk on feminist rhetorical furtherance. #FemRhetHappensHere

If you're still buzzing from #FemRhet2025, consider submitting to Peitho's upcoming special issue, Academia in Crisis: How Feminist Rhetorical Scholars Respond. As our time together at the conference made clear, the value of feminist rhetorics is higher now than ever. CFP: tiny.cc/PeithoSummer...

Reposting for the evening crowd

Sending up the #TeamRhetoric bat signal--who's writing on tech comm + social media + trans rhetorics (aside from Avery Edenfield, whose work is great)? Grad students? Am trying to recruit for a 4Cs Virtual Institute proposal!

First blooms on this rose I planted in June! It's a DA Desdemona--such a fresh, lemony fragrance 🌱#GardenSky

Chat, what do we think this even means?

See y'all at #FemRhet2025! 

A good thread--I've been wondering similarly since the location was announced 👀

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After feds fired a tear gas canister towards someone in a wheelchair: "While attempting to assist the disabled bystander who could not see or breathe, Dr. Caravello was abruptly taken down by immigration agents, dragged into an unmarked vehicle, and taken to an unknown location."

A worker was killed. Dozens detained. Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing. Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL. seiuca.org/press-releas...

Hey #TeamRhetoric, the CFSHRC is on Bluesky now! Give us a follow for updates about the upcoming #FemRhet2025 conference, new articles in Peitho, CFPs, and more. #TheFeministsAreComing

I’m frustrated for many reasons at surface-skimming media history takes on AI like “people opposed the printing press too!” If media history is going to help us navigate the present, we have to reckon with something people often omit from those comparisons—the intersection of power & new media (1/4)

Really cheering for Tara Dower and Riley Brady in this year's #WSER #HereForTheWomensRace (since WSER doesn't have an NB category)

Came down out of the mountains early because of some altitude issues, but after logging on, I'm starting to think I should've just stayed up there 👀

there are decades where no posting happens, there are weeks where years of posting happens

what a time to be online

Some #CommunityGarden snapshots on ColorPlus 🌱(@tashakaye.bsky.social's plants!)