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!)

Excited to be part of this panel at #CWCon25! I'll be talking about LLMs, argument bots on social media, and invitational rhetoric 🤖🦋💬

Y'all, students in my social media writing class are presenting their final portfolios of work they generated for their community partners—one student worked with a Little League team that gets snacks after every game, so she brought Spartan cookies for a "post-game" treat and they're so cute!

This is a @tashakaye.bsky.social community garden appreciation post 🌱

CW: Nazism "Civility" is a poor determiner of toxicity.

I've been getting back into film photography (not seriously, just snapshots) as a counter to taking hundreds of cellphone photos that I'll never look at again, and it's been fun to revisit experiences as I get the film developed. These are from Shinjuku Gyo-en in March, shot on Portra 400.

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

Faculty, students, staff, and community members out today with @cfaunited.bsky.social National Day of Action for Higher Education

babe wake up, new #4C26 CFP just dropped

It's good to be home

It was so much fun to talk about queerness and LLM logics with folks! Materials (slides, script, jupyter notebook) can be found at tiny.cc/Glitching 🪩

Excited to be in Baltimore for #4C25 soon!

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CFA Statement Demanding Release of Mahmoud Khalil and on Attacks on Free Speech and Academic Freedom. #Nojustice #NoPeace www.calfac.org/cfa-statement-demanding-release-of-mahmoud-khalil-and-on-attacks-on-free-speech-and-academic-freedom/

The state of content moderation is Not Great, obviously, but repealing Section 230 wouldn't hold Big Tech accountable—it would just make individuals and smaller platforms more vulnerable. @eff.org has a good explainer of what Section 230 actually does: www.eff.org/issues/cda230

Hekki ALLMO sisters! Now announcing the first-ever #1000xRESIST fan zine! Applications open for ten days, with a goal of releasing on the game's first anniversary, May 9th. tinyurl.com/1000xresistZ...

The 2025 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

Seems like a Fun Run kind of year—curious to hear what Laz changed in the course!

@ratjaw.bsky.social your work? 👀