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aknupsky.bsky.social
Cognitive humanities collaborator. I continue to search for awe and wonder AND also for a sledgehammer named Great Enoch. Coal patch kid, queer bibliophile, president of Friends Group for the library, mum of fur babies; pencil sniffer. 🏳️‍🌈⚒📚🐈✏
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A spiral galaxy, possibly merging, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.22 (lookback time 2.74 billion years) with coordinates (150.43208, 2.83156). 47 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Sharing again because everyone in the world should see this

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem... on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

This is my philosophy 100%.

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Here's the script, folks. It's now or never. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Local office numbers: www.congress.gov/members/find... RTs appreciated.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Posting for morning-me to read tomorrow. 😊

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So, this happened today.

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I tell my students, when everything feels out of control, stay curious. This is me staying curious today. Thank you, Marginalian. "'Every day’s ramble showed me fresh wonders,' she wrote in what may be the single best summation of her life, and of any life well lived."

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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. 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/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 3 days ago • 154 comments

Thank you Bluesky, I've been missing our word play. 💕

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He wasn't mistakenly deported and I resent this language. The DOJ and Trump admin. very intentionally did this, and lied on him and others. Not a single person should be going to that hell hole of a concentration camp out of MY country www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/p...

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

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I want a million dollars and that's not happening. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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How am I doing? Well, my Christmas tree is still up and every time my wife talks with me about taking it down, I want to cry. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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God have mercy on our souls for the evil done in our name.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Inspiration

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A quick 🧵of the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now. Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution. Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏 #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne (📸Nate Blouin)

submitted 10 days ago • 138 comments

Hands off. Harrisburg.

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So much banning.

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My @nehgov.bsky.social grant “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” was canceled by “DOGE.” The project doesn’t support "the furtherance of the President's agenda.” Jews surviving genocide: out of step w/ the agenda of using Jews to destroy higher ed.

submitted 12 days ago • 55 comments

"You don't have to read about critical ignoring, mom. Just pay attention to me."

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Libraries across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants, effective April 1, 2025. www.everylibrary.org/trump_termin... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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"Here we are ... — each of us a trembling totality, made of particles both absolutely vulnerable and absolutely indestructible, hungering for absolutes in a universe of relatives, hungering for permanence in a universe of ceaseless change, famished for meaning, for beauty, for emblems of existence.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Guess what isn’t going to lower costs for Americans struggling with heating and cooling bills.

submitted 13 days ago • 58 comments

Thank you @maddow.msnbc.com for explaining the role of Speaker Mike Johnson in ensuring that the House would never get to vote on S. Resolution 37 - a vote that could stop Trump’s tariff lunacy.

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Shame on the APA. “The Commission does not want to put programs in jeopardy of not existing because of a conflict between institutional guidelines” and accreditation standards" Accreditation means jack shit if standards can be blackmailed. You gotta figure out what fucking matters.

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