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Matt Dowell

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Teacher of college writing. WPA. disc golfer. bass fisherman. T1D. disabled academic. I tweet about ableism and academic neoliberalism bc I am fun at parties.

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Matt Dowell
3 years
Most colleges and universities are not proactively considering the needs of disabled and chronically ill faculty, staff, and students at this point in the pandemic and never ever will because they legally don’t have to until the people they should be considering out themselves.
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Matt Dowell
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What would a “liberal January 6” be?. Wrong answers only, except you can’t actually be wrong.
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Will Sloan
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Colbert had nothing to lose, he needs to spend his last 10 months mobilizing a liberal January 6.
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Matt Dowell
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Me at 13: I’m not really sure why the Ford CEO would be a good fit for Secretary of Defense. I’ve got some questions.
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Matt Dowell
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I read Robert McNamara’s “In Retrospect” shortly after it came out because I pulled it off a library shelf. So I was ~13yo. Turns out it had a rather significant impact on how I think about “the world.” Was that an appropriate book for a 13yo? Not for developing docile citizens!.
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riley sciarappa
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I would like a library service where I put in the age and general interests of my kids and I get a curated bag of 10 books that I can pick up weekly. Is that so lazy? Yes. but my kids pulling every book off the shelf just for me to say “that’s not appropriate” isn’t working lol.
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Matt Dowell
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RT @MereSophistry: I am looking for new academic books about social media culture. Recommendations?.
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Matt Dowell
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Somone must organize the deck chairs because the ship can’t go down with unorganized deck chairs!.
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Nate Holdren
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a lot of my work life these days feels like trying to correct typos on the deck of the titanic or something, really. idk, dislocating. discombobulating.
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Matt Dowell
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RT @n_hold: a lot of my work life these days feels like trying to correct typos on the deck of the titanic or something, really. idk, dis….
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Matt Dowell
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Oh, it’s not that one fatigue but that other fatigue. Got it. Now let me do some bodily analysis now that we’ve “cleared” that up.
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Matt Dowell
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I love how the diagnostic symptoms for any one medical condition imagine a person having no other medical conditions. Seems like an unsolvable problem, but what does one do when the diagnostic symptoms of a condition are already present due to another condition?.
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Matt Dowell
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“We were all in it together” so their vile jokes are in solidarity!.
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Matt Dowell
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An understanded explanation for the massive expansion of ableism in this country since 2020, including on social media, is that able-bodied people feel like they sacrificed to “protect” disabled people so now they feel they have a right to be explicitly vile. They earned it!.
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Matt Dowell
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Ai is perfect for a system that hates humans and is fine demonstrating its hate of people while simultaneously vaguely duplicating the lowest bar of human interaction via non-human agents.
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Lindsay Ballant
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As someone who's been applying for months I can say from personal experience that qualified employees are buried in AI-generated rejections. Great system we've set up here.
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Matt Dowell
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RT @lindsayballant: As someone who's been applying for months I can say from personal experience that qualified employees are buried in AI-….
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Matt Dowell
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This is one reason I really try to avoid getting acutely sick. Given the presence of symptoms related to other conditions, isolating symptoms that demonstrate that one is acutely sick can be very hard. It’s never a simple sick-well binary for the chronically ill.
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Matt Dowell
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I love how the diagnostic symptoms for any one medical condition imagine a person having no other medical conditions. Seems like an unsolvable problem, but what does one do when the diagnostic symptoms of a condition are already present due to another condition?.
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Matt Dowell
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RT @melnickjeffrey1: Third 🙋‍♂️.
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Matt Dowell
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No one is reporting the full story. They had previously attended an O.A.R. concert without incident.
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Matt Dowell
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Sesame Street is very clearly an ideological apparatus. It announces various values, beliefs, practices, and relations as good and explicitly celebrates all of them. And that’s why it is awesome. More of that propoganda, please.
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Covie
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What exactly is the left wing propaganda in Sesame Street???.
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RT @BL_Balthaser: There is an understandable tendency atm to blame the liquidation of the liberal arts on MAGA - but w the massive layoffs….
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RT @propjoesays: worst part about this is you know it's gonna lead to him posting on linkedin something like "i got caught cheating at a co….
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RT @OnlyPhanatics: Mr. Met is just somewhere, thanking god he’s had the second most embarrassing concert moment of the week now.
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Next to impossible to go to those places with particular medical conditions. And, no, they don’t give a single fuck about legally-mandated accommodations.
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Raytheon Greyjoy
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ngl i lowkey hate how you just aren't allowed to bring a bag anywhere, no shows, concerts, sporting events etc. Just makes it less feasible to come straight from work or elsewhere less you have a car.
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