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Holly Masturzo

@hollym.bsky.social

Professor of Humanities (Florida State College system) | Humanities, Ethics, Women’s Studies | 💜s: art, dance, writing, walking, calcio/fútbol -- @drz0 elsewhere

created August 21, 2023

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Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

I was invited to use one at an Italian spa! They called it a “Scottish shower” - idea is very cold water in dumped on you all at once. Often part of a sequence with other types of saunas/baths. I declined.

13/9/2025, 2:24:48 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have you seen this website? Visit window views from around the world: www.window-swap.com/Window

13/9/2025, 2:18:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

At least everyone present received details about the free local counseling resources available to everyone at the college? Grim. Sitting with gratitude for all the people who in one role or another try to facilitate meaningful conversations of any kind.

10/9/2025, 8:46:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

This a.m. I taught about the deaths of Socrates & Hypatia. An attempt to create space to discuss the potency of worldview difference without descending into debates about hot topics. Sometimes the long arc of human history helps me have hope;other times that hope seems for others in a distant future

10/9/2025, 8:42:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Logging on to this now... already zonked from the work week and perhaps hoping against hope for inspiration but topic/line-up looks good and we need to be having these conversations: www.chronicle.com/events/virtu...

10/9/2025, 6:00:38 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Now this is a political platform. The FIFA grift is shameless so I don't expect them to listen, but maybe it nudges the conversation? "Game Over Greed" a good slogan for many uses.

10/9/2025, 12:19:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

An actual goal from fluid play. Nice connect from Zendejas. #USMNT

10/9/2025, 12:09:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Heavy work/grading day so didn't tune in for Italy's World Cup qualifier. 4-5?! That's not a game for the work week. Even Gattuso looked stunned at the end despite the last minute victory.

8/9/2025, 11:18:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

In the same boat in the last year or so! Used to love saying I was 5’ and 1/4”… alas. Still hold out hope I can re-lengthen neck/spine just enough with renewed Pilates efforts. Curses to all the online work required of us.

8/9/2025, 10:59:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

College email includes warning of an alligator sighting in the lake across from my dept. building… one more hazard to navigate this week. cc: @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social

8/9/2025, 5:36:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

My summer students really had 80s nostalgia for some reason… peppered me with questions one day. Strangest misconception was that we were healthier then. So I had to explain going out pre-smoking bans.

7/9/2025, 8:20:25 PM | 46 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, 2nd half not really much better. One wonders what the #USMNT training sessions have been like as there just seems to be a kind of drift.... Shot of the game = Klinsmann grinning in the VIP boxes.

6/9/2025, 10:53:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

My thought exactly!

6/9/2025, 10:17:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

1st half: #USMNT OK (until goal 2) yet clear there is no cohesion; lines/partnerships not used to playing with each other. Korea pressing well, so any flow towards their box interrupted at the 18. Also I know the negatives, yet do appreciate when "away" fans seem to be enjoying the night #USAvKOR

6/9/2025, 9:52:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mary Grace (@emgeekay.bsky.social) reposted

This is a very cool lady and I want to be like her when I grow up. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

3/9/2025, 2:25:53 PM | 19 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

I listened to a podcast recently about religious orders taking the hard decision to “move to completion,” as in close a particular convent and redirect any new novices to join other orders. I admired the wisdom & courage of their conversations - and I wish the same for these AI ventures.

3/9/2025, 7:42:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

So sorry to hear this. With appreciation for the life and work of Andrew Huse. USF’s Florida Studies program and archives are a gem.

3/9/2025, 1:37:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Not in @maxrushden.bsky.social ‘s league.

1/9/2025, 11:30:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes! The party is where we make it 😎

30/8/2025, 1:04:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

My parents are in town. We went out for Italian Ice this evening. My mother ordered (and ate) a pumpkin spice Italian ice. My Italian-American father, always up for desserts, didn’t even want to “share.” These times we are in.

28/8/2025, 11:38:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Ha. Send me to Strasbourg!

28/8/2025, 11:36:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Even better with a Chelsea-style 7-year contract.

28/8/2025, 11:25:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

🌲

27/8/2025, 9:23:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Twilight Greenaway (@twyspy.bsky.social) reposted

I appreciated this story about the Miccosukee people, who were part of the lawsuit that is shutting down Alligator Alcatraz. english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

26/8/2025, 9:23:34 PM | 208 73 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Was thinking I needed to make something special for myself now that both colleges I work for are back in session…

25/8/2025, 5:20:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, and I thought this is what people liked about the virtual DNC roll call... going around and seeing/hearing the wide range of people participating.

24/8/2025, 7:02:05 PM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Enjoy your visit. Downtown area… Kaya: guide.michelin.com/us/en/florid... Camille: guide.michelin.com/us/en/florid... Strand: guide.michelin.com/us/en/florid... Otto’s High Dive: guide.michelin.com/us/en/florid...

23/8/2025, 2:51:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Orlando Weekly (@orlandoweekly.bsky.social) reposted

Photos: Orlando rallied and repainted at the Pulse crosswalk

22/8/2025, 4:00:40 PM | 13 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you. Shared with a colleague in Jacksonville who had choreographed an in memorium dance performance at our college.

21/8/2025, 3:50:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

It was really noticeable to me when I moved here how many public reminders of welcoming/safe spaces were visible, including a paved roundabout at the hospital that received many of the wounded from the shooting. To treat this as a pol statement only instead an act of public grief is heartless indeed

21/8/2025, 3:15:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

When Convocation begins with the Emergency Announcements and how to find the emergency exits… hitting a little differently for me this year I have to say.

21/8/2025, 2:00:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Shared intentions from our NWSA session today. Wishing us all a good teaching year: ~It's about them (our students). ~Our teaching is our resistance. ~Minimize parts of the job that drain us. Bring joy back. ~Relax more. Classroom time can be community time. ~I want to remember our human inheritance

20/8/2025, 9:33:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon - 3:30 Eastern. 📚Registration link in thread.

19/8/2025, 11:31:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Morales (@johnmoralestv.bsky.social) reposted

In yet another episode of 21st century extreme rapid intensification, Major Hurricane #Erin has reached Category 4 intensity overnight. Maximum sustained winds are now 130 mph (215 km/hr), where as yesterday at this time they stood at 70 mph. Thankfully Erin's core is missing land.

16/8/2025, 11:09:27 AM | 456 116 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

!!

15/8/2025, 7:07:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Tell Me About It, the Plenary Session

12/8/2025, 3:15:12 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

November, 2019. Unity for Puerto Rico March.

12/8/2025, 3:49:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. And I know many teachers who plan to fill the classroom with what the children create or let them have a say in designing the space somehow - as intentional community building.

12/8/2025, 2:34:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice! On the list 😊

8/8/2025, 3:20:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Open to all. NWSA members can log in to their account, guests and friends will be prompted to create a free account to register. www.nwsa.org/events/event...

7/8/2025, 1:01:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

I’m cohosting this virtual meet-up with NWSA. Join fellow members & the Feminist Pedagogy Special Interest Group. Have a question about trying something new? Curious to talk through a teaching strategy? Or interested in grounding with affirming colleagues? Feel free to bring your favorite beverage!

Digital flyer image: A green chalkboard serves as the background image of this flyer. The words Back to School Co-Working Space are written in a stylized chalk-like font. Images of pens in a row are poistioned along the bottom of the flyer with scattered multi-colored paper clips along the left and right edges
7/8/2025, 12:58:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Near Camp Blanding, less than 30 miles from downtown Jacksonville. Beyond the obvious rights & ethics (and decency!) issues, seems absurd self-inflicted harm to a century of PR for “the sunshine state.”

6/8/2025, 7:07:42 PM | 2 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Fun example of how tech “helps” us… I’m teaching a course at a new satellite campus in 2 weeks. Trying to get passcard access to my classroom, faculty lounge & copy room. So far we have 6 people on an email chain. All good people & a sparkly new campus - watch me skulk by doors to get in week 1

5/8/2025, 6:13:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Freedman (@afreedma.bsky.social) reposted

NEW: The NWS has received permission to hire up to 450 meteorologists/hydrologists/radar technicians after DOGE-related cuts. Agency also given a public safety exemption from federal hiring freeze after losing more than 550 people in those cuts. (1/2)

5/8/2025, 4:02:23 PM | 145 66 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Philosophy Talk (@philtalkradio.bsky.social) reposted

Well it's official: we just got word that @nehgov.bsky.social will not be supporting further seasons of our #WiseWomen series. Disappointing and painful, especially in the wake of the abrupt termination of our previous grant and the clawing back of $38,000 in funding. But here's how you can help:

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1/8/2025, 3:03:01 PM | 22 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Renewal by Anderson (windows) asked me the same just yesterday, although in non-heteronormative language. Something of “Do you confirm all deed holders will be at the property…”

3/8/2025, 12:01:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

I was just thinking... does Aug. 1 or Jan 1 feel heavier for those of us on an academic calendar?

1/8/2025, 4:43:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Amazing argument. Thank you.

30/7/2025, 4:08:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) reposted

I really appreciated this episode of @npr.org's Consider This, about the Texas floods, how to talk to people on the worst day of their lives, and the care good storytelling requires. I'll be sharing it with my qualitative methods students this year. one.npr.org/i/1269546823...

30/7/2025, 2:52:18 PM | 83 24 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

OK. Working to be happy for individual Lionesses. Because Italy. Still superb mental effort on top of everything.

27/7/2025, 6:50:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anthony DiCicco (@adicicco.bsky.social) reposted

Chloe Kelly has lived her best life since escaping from Manchester.

27/7/2025, 6:47:14 PM | 52 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Dated an architect about 20 years ago myself… short version, I relate. Whew.

27/7/2025, 5:30:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Sell out. The lot of them.

26/7/2025, 2:41:11 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

I can ask!

24/7/2025, 2:14:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Definitely an old heavy metal model. Whew. Was thinking about handwriting some assignment instructions if I ask them to handwrite in return. Maybe I can get out the calligraphy tools. :)

24/7/2025, 2:10:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

After all the Canvas-OpenAI chat yesterday, I dreamed I was awkwardly hauling a heavy, oversized KitchenAid stand mixer up several flights of stairs to my office…. There’s a metaphor. So if any #DHMakes folks or others have ideas, I’m listening 🙃

24/7/2025, 12:23:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

I love Blue Books. Started thinking about making course-specific "blue book" templates? Not sure what to call them yet - basically mostly blank pages with prompts, excerpts from public domain readings, etc. A way to encourage closing the laptop all together. "Take your notebook to the museum and..."

23/7/2025, 11:06:18 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Final project zines making a come back. Let's go. Maybe I will teach basic book binding.

23/7/2025, 10:19:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Too many Ed Tech folks also refuse to acknowledge how many students do not have reliable digital access either. I have multiple students always on the edge with hand-me-down machines, phones substituting as computers, or various housing issues that mean access is severely limited.

23/7/2025, 9:49:15 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laprofmme (@laprofmme.bsky.social) reposted

The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman

23/7/2025, 9:29:16 PM | 454 141 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

I was listening to the sound on the BBC radio! Pain either way. Thanks for watching with!

22/7/2025, 9:40:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Anderson (@jasondcsoccer.bsky.social) reposted

Italy fans, it's completely reasonable to be mad about this for the next ~30 years

22/7/2025, 9:34:45 PM | 325 36 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Why do I like this sport? 💔🇮🇹

22/7/2025, 9:35:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Ugh. So painful - and predictable plotting. Sigh.

22/7/2025, 8:56:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

#Azzurre! Prepared for tears today, yet glad they are on the board. Another veteran goal scorer.

22/7/2025, 7:35:52 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) reposted

Fantastic

19/7/2025, 8:36:28 AM | 4370 775 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

So maybe that yard work I was planning this weekend can be pushed back again... that or I need to invest in floodlights to work in the middle of the night.

17/7/2025, 1:41:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Parts of this piece read like a McSweeney's post. In my experience, a "messy girl aesthetic" is equal parts small space living + over-scheduled life: www.realsimple.com/messy-girl-a...

14/7/2025, 10:30:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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!!!

12/7/2025, 2:29:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Feels so harsh. And punishes most the people (players, fans) who did not cause the problem). I understand some action required, yet seems another sign the multi-club ownership issues need to be addressed a different way.

11/7/2025, 3:27:29 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

I am so sorry! I disrupted an email chain recently on “AI ethics” with this: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Not that it helped but it was better than screaming

8/7/2025, 11:28:40 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Orlando one degree “cooler” today.

8/7/2025, 8:17:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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From Chuck Blazer’s cats’ apartment to this. An absurd trajectory.

8/7/2025, 3:06:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted

It's payback time: Miami Herald looks at the Alligator Alley concentration camp and finds that DeSantis is using it to transfer money from the Florida treasury to the pockets of his political cronies and supporters. That's what it's all about. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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Profile picture Stand With Chicago Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted

www.popehat.com/p/the-fourth...

4/7/2025, 3:21:56 PM | 654 243 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

This post is the end of a long thread worth traversing.

4/7/2025, 3:12:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A college I work for sent out a message today w/ an offer for Buy One Get Four (4) tickets to Fluminese v Al Hilal in the #CWC Club World Cup Quarterfinal tomorrow. Game’s at 3pm in Orlando heat, Tstorm forecast, plus July 4th. Good local Brazilian audience but that will be a hard match to fill.

3/7/2025, 8:47:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Excellence.

3/7/2025, 1:55:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Much to say/not say about these times... will simply observe that as I ran errands after teaching, the energy on the road & in stores felt so pitched, people rushing to distraction & consumption. Had the thought it was like people were going to have a blow out July 4th as one of few escapes left.

1/7/2025, 5:29:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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💔

1/7/2025, 4:00:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of many thoughts, would this meet FL housing codes for storms?!

1/7/2025, 2:45:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

It would not be hard to make an entire July 4th menu of “classic American” foods eaten with one’s hands, from snacks/starters to mains and sides + desserts.

30/6/2025, 7:34:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Danny Rivero (@danielrivero.bsky.social) reposted

Back in 2022 I did a whole podcast about the origins of the immigration detention system called Detention By Design. As I detailed in the second episode, it started mere miles from "Alligator Alcatraz," in the Florida Everglades. They will once again be a symbol. www.wlrn.org/podcast/dete...

30/6/2025, 12:46:17 AM | 8 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

“Dynamic brackets”

29/6/2025, 4:46:52 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Many wonderful details in this (and congrats to the author!) - particularly liked this observation: “in a nice moment of practical ordinary-language philosophy, that while the certificate was an important document, it was the moment of taking the oath that would make us citizens.”

28/6/2025, 9:16:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Managed to get out a conference proposal this morning - 150 words has rarely felt so much like writing underwater.

27/6/2025, 3:54:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One year I got “being in her class is like being stuck in an R.E.M. video”

26/6/2025, 12:01:22 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jay Rosen (@jayrosen.bsky.social) reposted

"My students tell me that they don’t sleep..." @jenmercieca.bsky.social told her class to replace their own doomscrolling with some "hopescrolling" for at least part of the week. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens... Some students noticed that their social media algorithms began to change.

23/6/2025, 3:21:00 PM | 148 58 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

Florida news as metaphor- Florida Approves Plan to Help Billionaires Export Their Sewage www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

22/6/2025, 2:28:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Two points from these memories filling my morning: 1) young recruits and early emerging officers during the Iranian hostage crisis are likely at the height of their careers now, and 2) wherever there are military exercises and operations, nearby - sometimes very close - children are playing.

22/6/2025, 1:44:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

One day seemingly alone in the pines, a formation of low flying helicopters, speeding much faster than usual, came directly over us; it was terrifying, and the reality of what one “trained” for became all to real.

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Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Across the street from the base at the time was a trailer park where a few school friends lived. Sometimes on the weekends I was allowed to visit and we’d play in the adjacent pine forest overrun by palmettos (btw, you've not seen insects until you lift palmetto leaves in such settings!).

22/6/2025, 1:42:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My brother’s soccer coach would “disappear” for weeks at a time for missions in the Middle East and my dad would assume coaching duties. Major [redacted] became Lt. Colonel [redacted] over the course of a season.

22/6/2025, 1:41:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social) reply parent

Since we lived literally down the street from MacDill Air Force base, now the home of CENTCOM, perhaps there were more ribbons than in other areas. I remember trying to “read” the trunk patterns of trees from underneath the wide bands of ribbons and the ritual of watching the evening news.

22/6/2025, 1:40:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Masturzo (@hollym.bsky.social)

A couple thoughts this morning if I may… I think it’s accurate to say my first awareness of the world beyond my girlhood home came from yellow ribbons up on many trees in my Old Port Tampa neighborhood during the Iranian hostage crisis (79-81).

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The Riverwalk was in all its sunshine splendor - museum is across from the University of Tampa, whose main building is the historic Tampa Bay Hotel, once the end stop on the Henry B. Plant railway; famously a staging area for Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders during Spanish-Am War.

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Felt called to visit this exhibit in Tampa for Solstice weekend ☀️ A re-exhibition of works by Purvis Young, a Bahamian-American Miamian artist; paintings on scrap wood & found lumber, intended to be displayed with this mural effect and layering in places. At Tampa Museum of Art.

Wide view of Purvis Young Art installation, dozens of plywood panels painted with repeating motifs displayed as an assembled mural on two large gallery walls Closer view of a section of Purvis Younh art panels with a minimalist museum bench in the foreground Side view of Purvis Young art panels to show the layers and overlap of plywood panels Door painted with repeating self portraits hung perpendicular to the gallery wall next to a single large plywood panels painted by artist Purvis Young
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Sorry about the Florida weather - predictably unpredictable June thunderstorms. Hope Orlando is treating you well otherwise.

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Don’t read the comments, but always read the footnotes.

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