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One last pass, let's do this

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

that gramsci quote about the time of monsters except it's "the wackest people in history"

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

not an auspicious start to the season #doop

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Welcome to today's episode of Shut The Fuck Up Friday! Check out this video for some tips from a local lawyer for those of you headed out to the streets to protest. You're a target of the state when you take action. NEVER talk to police & always STFU! Full video in thread👇

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

that's fuckin right

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

did this earlier today, was small and probably futile but i think practicing such things will likely be important going forward

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is only the 20th game of Embiid’s career where he was -20 or worse, but seven of them have come against the Celtics

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

i find it so funny that the sixers had al horford and decided he was a bum and proceeded to sign/extend every high priced loser they could find

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

do i know anyone in Pittsburgh who has suggestions for housing leads for two of my friends who live there? they are two trans women (a couple) who are in temporary housing situation right now that is very much untenable - and they're looking for something else, either temporary or permanent

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

OK, so

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

an addiction industry built on top of an addiction industry :(

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

i really hate how "classes are now switched to remote" is a thing that my employer just decides at 10:30pm as if it's not going to totally upend my entire work week, a few days after "classes are canceled because we think people want to go to a parade :) "

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

there are worse places i'm sure but edinboro truly sucks

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Shop update.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

i appreciate seeing this, because it made me reflect on how amazing having actual human relationships is, how consistently challenging and rewarding it is to know others and to be known, and how all the money in the world and teams of engineers cannot begin to approximate it.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

When I was a kid the city of pittsburgh did a big cleaning project on the main branch of the Carnegie Library/Museum. The building had years of accumulated soot from the air pollution. Here's what that looked like: (photo from the pgh city archives)

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Thinking about how Occupy Wall Street is remembered by so many as a "failure" basically because it got its teeth kicked in by cops

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

submitted 8 days ago • 74 comments

impossible question but......busby berkeley dreams

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submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

oh hell yeah

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

we want a more free press. we should be thinking now about paying for our common services which will guarantee proper freedom to those who actually provide the service, while protecting them+us against a domineering minority. there are ways, if we really believe in democracy. Raymond Williams, 1958

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Trae Young is the best player I've ever seen whose hair situation almost always looks at least kind of like Big Ern McCracken near the end of "Kingpin"

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 12 days ago • 309 comments

Every day i see another one of these messages in my inbox, every day i get a brief flash of panic that one of you is talking crazy about me

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

this week's newsletter: the soy right maxread.substack.com/p/soy-right-...

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

The degree to which some people in education are passively accepting or even welcoming gen AI into what we do seriously enrages me. Put aside the unethical & environmental aspects of model development; telling students it's ok to use betrays the non-negotiable core of our responsibility to them.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

this is offensive—i never took a creative writing class

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

and also students, and also unionized staff. the cowardice was not even strategically useful and that was obvious at the time

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Recent news shows the importance of solidarity and new alliances among teachers and researchers across all fields and disciplines in higher education. One of the many steps you may consider is joining or renewing membership in the AAUP. Annual dues are between $78 and $345, depending on income.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is so humiliating jfc. Just a world-historically wack society

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

One of the signs of clinical depression is devoting a lot of energy to coming up with reasons not to do things you're afraid of doing or seem like they might be hard.

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Every time I walk by a spy shop, I think that I need to put some surveillance on somebody. Rick's been acting fishy! I need to buy a safe that looks like a Spray 'N Wash can. "Hey, Mitch, can I use the Spray 'N Wash?" "Yeah, if you want to spray your shirt with DOCUMENTS!"

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments