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inquiline

@inquiline@union.place

can be found professing #STS #Commodon
AAUP-AFT

Here: magpie, general nonsense, goofing and/or mouthing off, gloomy, inner monologue, books/reading, typos, boosts #ToxicLA #HigherEdWorkersUnite #asstodon #CounterPort

My 📙 OIL BEACH is out now!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

posts ≠ endorsements
pers acct, obvs

header: camel made of colorful post-consumer plastic, Cynthia Minet

profile: vintage postcard of California oil field at night

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SallyStrange, to random
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yes I will absolutely post about politics whilst dealing with death and mourning. When better, really

inquiline,
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@SallyStrange I'm sorry, Sally. Post as much as you need to, ofc! <3

mirijb2, to animals
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for some reason, an empty beach this morning, even though, for the first time in days, it isn’t raining. There is nothing more beautiful than two (or more) border collies running full tilt together. #bordercollie #dogsofmastodon

inquiline,
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@mirijb2 I love going to the dog beach to live vicariously through them

inquiline, to worldwithoutus
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"Massive modern port projects across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean in the twenty-first century are where anxieties about the global economy, state sovereignty, and climate change converge."

Special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East on #ports in #SouthAsia

https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/issue/44/1

#CounterPort #Infrastructure #shipping #EnvHist #ClimateChange

erikconway, to random
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Cancel culture indeed. https://theintercept.com/2024/06/03/columbia-law-review-palestine-board-website/

inquiline,
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@erikconway I saw someone post about this here and I could not believe it, actually. And yet.

shimmeringtrashpile, to random
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I'm thinking of calling artificial intelligence "magic fingers" from now on as it's a coin-operated technology nobody thinks is very effective but is good for a laugh. And if a CEO replaced 15% of their workforce with "magic fingers," they should be immediately fired.

inquiline,
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@shimmeringtrashpile Works for me.

inquiline, to random
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Vaguetooting: if you are encountering union-busting stooges, :solidarity: ❤️

(if you are a union-busting stooge, 🖕)

inquiline, to random
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All right Mastodon scolds and liberals, you win, I will never post about voting/electoralism nuance again...

but to a person, you didn't convince me that you're right, just obnoxious

inquiline,
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@CedarTea I'm not the one stinking up their timelines either. Truly I just want to exert ruthless control over who can reply to my posting

inquiline,
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Also the way people impute things to one that one did not say. It's absolutely 🍌 🍌 out here.

seachanger, (edited ) to random
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just to expand on Arendt's whole banality of evil thing: this entire climate crisis, gaza genocide and a great deal of past and modern white supremacy and colonizer bullshit coasts on social processes made possible by careerism and respectability politics. the road to right now has been so polite, so professional

inquiline,
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@seachanger Uff da

(no lies detected)

StillIRise1963, to random
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Almost $400K later, your fucking diploma is not a FAVOR.

inquiline,
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@StillIRise1963 I hope these schools get sued to shit and lose. But it's still terrible that students would have to waste time and money that way; while the universities have counsel and just dig their heels in with disciplinary garbage.

inquiline, to random
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An amazing theory of change I just received in my mentions:

"If Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, and Moderates all united and voted in EVERY election for Every Democrat against EVERY republicans, states like Texas would be Blue over night"

(I need to step away from the screen, apologies for annoying everyone!) #uspol

inquiline,
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@CedarTea Last I heard some people in Texas were fascists and others have their votes suppressed quite effectively, and it's possible those two things are related, but what do I know

inquiline, (edited ) to academia
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"A university fired a faculty member almost immediately not for out-of-classroom speech but for an optional course assignment. The assignment asked students to, among other things, explain “the impact of genocide/ethnic cleansing on the health/biology of the people it impacts.”"

ETA: Petition to sign in support of reinstating the fired adjunct! https://crm.broadstripes.com/ctf/q9iroj

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/06/03/depaul-adjunct-ousted-optional-gaza-assignment

#Academia #STS

inquiline, to random
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Excavating a time capsule

(find myself reading articles about how masks with exhalation valves are terrible because they only protect the wearer & what we need is to protect each other)

inquiline, to random
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It me

https://botsin.space/@mobydick/112551345541486898

inquiline, to random
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Mastodon scolds scold scolds scold scolds

(to the tune of Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo...)

Sadly as one of the scolds I guess I am reflexively implicated

Anyway who else is starting to get kinda (more) scared shitless about bird flu...

inquiline, to random
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People shaming others to vote and saying we mustn't say anything bad about Biden/DNC makes more sense when they reveal that they think the problem is the voters, not the very, very rigged system we are forced to submit to

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Just a reminder, something like 70% of USians support voting rights, support reproductive rights, support climate protections, and support unions. People in the US not having secure access to those things is not the fault of voters or their political attitudes, actually

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@inthehands @chargrille I've been having some wild arguments on here the past several days. People saying the populace has the leaders it supports/deserves. These discussions are unproductive--there are certain things that, it turns out, people just impute to you even if you're not saying them. (For instance, I haven't been saying I don't vote; I've only been saying it's not the panacea some are making it out to be.) And people are scared. But IMO Biden admin gave up the game w not passing VRA.

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@inthehands @chargrille I know; but isn't Biden also responsible for, like, throwing absolutely all his political capital (or not, as the case may have been) at that issue? To me that was the lever and without flipping it, so many other things we might care about become essentially impossible. I tend to think presidents can often get things done if they really want to & throw weight around; tho ofc I acknowledge how corrupt and dysfunctional Congress is too.

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@seachanger What I don't especially get is the rage at people pointing out how 1, this isn't working; and 2, it doesn't have to be this way. I sometimes have this trouble with undergraduate students where they think that to name an undesirable dynamic is tantamount to endorsing it, because it is so offensive that we must give it power over us by extreme disavowal, or something. Then they learn the critical vocabulary and become less timid, usually

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@inthehands @chargrille I'm not saying he can do anything he wants. I'm saying there could have been threats of stripping them of committee assignments or something. Maybe it still doesn't work! Maybe he had Schumer do that & I missed it; I'd buy it if you said that happened. But what I see is a lot of privileging of things being the way they have always been for comity's sake when very existential things are at stake, & yes I do blame Biden for that, probably as wrong person for the moment.

IcooIey, to random
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Oh.

Maybe the weird joint pain in my fingers (now toes and knees) is Lyme disease, not just an over aggressive weeding injury.

And I can get an appointment w/ my dr. on…July 16.

Cool cool cool. That’s my weekend shot figuring out how to deal with this.

inquiline,
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@IcooIey Oh, shit. Sorry to hear this.

inquiline,
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@IcooIey Glad you got listened to! Huge. And best wishes for the care/treatment.

inquiline, to random
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I'm all for calling out antisemitism when we see it here. It's appropriate to ask people to delete or edit posts that shade into antisemitic tropes, even unwitting ones, for instance.

But, emotional reaction to harsh criticism of a state is not prima facie evidence that this criticism is antisemitic. Sometimes the text is the text.

inquiline,
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@liferstate @anothersociologist I'm not especially comfortable wading into a somewhat sensitive discussion w an acct that has no follows, bio, or interactions except these + yelling at Phil Cohn. You may have good reason to be anon if pretenure or something but it is not ideal for free discussion

Re specific case, I did not follow closely, tho seems med racism > Zionism if that's what was meant. Both more specific & plenty capacious for US dynamics, w/o any antisemitic overtones

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