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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Men online: me and my friends would never, so this 'speak up' advice is silly; who would I even speak to? Women everywhere: if you're a full-grown man who thinks that in yr entire life you've never seen another man say/do something at the expense of a woman, START PAYING ATTENTION and SHUT IT DOWN

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This this this this this. Every woman you know. And if you say you know some who haven't, it's only that they haven't told you their stories, not that it's hasn't happened.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, I think the really touch synchro judge would dock some points because that one on the left is jumping in the wrong direction and off the beat.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, to me that play sounds like Trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with D, and that stands for Dance. (chorus: "that stands for DANCE")

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lit studies too bc they happened at the big annual conference. I had a number of these interviews when I was on the job market in 2000 & again in 2015. Luckily none of mine were made weird due to that but the things I had to think about in prep are NOT things interviewees should have to think about.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People who list used clothing for sale without bothering to mention size details, who ask hundreds of dollars for grandma's tchotchkes, who think they can sell rare items for auction prices on the "neighborhood buy/sell/exchange" page: WHY? I am truly mystified.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And Mr. Gotcha from MO thinks *quoting Stalin's head of secret police* helps his case. Not to mention accusing Smith of perjury for saying he didn't attend a game he didn't attend and then calling the man a 'dirtbag.'

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's been pouring all afternoon & the leaves are starting to change & weather like this makes me want piles of baked goods. Preferably some chewy molasses cookies now. Honestly those little machines the Jetsons could talk into & order any food to miraculously appear is the only kind of AI I endorse.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026

The Chronicle Against Higher Education gives the Vanderbilt report endless publicity while not running a single story on the World Humanities Report, which shows that the disciplines slandered in the Vanderbilt report are actually making vital contributions to the world. worldhumanitiesreport.org

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Home - The World Humanities Report

The World Humanities Report Demonstrating the vitality of the humanities throughout the world

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is SUCH a good metaphor for using AI. What can you outsource to the robot w/o having to spend as much time explaining to the robot how to do the thing as it would take to do it yourself? W/interns, the payoff is that you're helping train humans. W/AI such training seems only to threaten humans.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tragic. “”None of us have any experience treating this disease, because up until a couple of months ago, it didn’t occur,” said Dr. John Goldman, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The learning curve among doctors, he said, is “very steep.””

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SOC in Phoenix at the botanical gardens tonight. The southwest skies are something!

Glowing peach and gold sunset with cactus silhouette in the foregeound

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is idiotic. My 22yo son, covered on my insurance through work, has spent $0 at the doctor or on prescriptions this calendar year. No one is kicking him off his insurance because it's not Obamacare. But also because HE IS ONE REASON MY INSURANCE COMPANY MAKES MONEY.

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bythepeople1863.bsky.social @bythepeople1863.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump is canceling ~$1B in spending approved by Congress for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives. The Government Accountability Office, says the maneuver is illegal. And, isn't $1B the amount he requested for his ballroom? Coincidence? I doubt it.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i take an iced coffee to the job interview. while the interviewer is talking, i take a long sip from the straw, pulling the microfilm into my mouth. i lock eyes with the interviewer. we kiss deeply. the microfilm is no longer in my mouth. i return home through the checkpoint. it is berlin, 1970.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Do I got sit on the hotel terrace to write for the next two hours, or stay in my room where there isn't fresh air but also my chocolate won't melt? #ConferenceInPhoenix

tall rocky hills in the background against a cloudless blue sky; giant saguaro cactus and other desert plants in the foreground

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Alex MacGregor @alexmacgregor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Great. Now when this database is breached, hackers will have all your info including full names, address, social security number and probably drivers and passport numbers. 🎁 🔗 Supreme Court Allows Federal Voter Identification Tool Ahead of Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...

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Supreme Court Allows Federal Voter Identification Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The warm era is dying, and the cold era struggles to be born. Now is the time of the people who wear sweaters and jackets in the morning on their way to work because the weather is chilly, and forget them there in the evening because the weather is so nice.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes. Because if the AI introduced the reference, and you didn't even bother to look it up, let alone read it, then putting your name on the article as author is a lie, since you didn't so the work.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From the outside, it sure looks like quality of life for everyday New Yorkers just keeps going up and up (free daycare, free babysitting nights, potholes fixed, express bus lanes added...the list goes on and on). PLEASE @democrats.org take a lesson from this guy. We need more like him everywhere!

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My dog has just discovered a completely desiccated RAT in the (115yo, limestone, unfinished) basement. It's obviously very old, since it's flat and about as hard as a piece of rawhide. I have never seen a single sign of a rat anywhere in my house. Should I be worried or shrug it off?

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cue the handwringing of the very same people aggressively taking third spaces away from tweens and teens, re: "kids don't do anything but sit on their phones these days and have no idea how to be social or communicate in person."

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is unbelievably stupid, but I have to believe that insurance companies will never let this happen, since people who don't make claims help make companies' vast profits possible.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is, quite simply, a treat and a delight to write a letter of support for a review/tenure/promotion file. People are so brilliant, and their work so moving, and every time I get to make a deep dive into a file, I feel lucky to see humanity in action in these thoughtful ways.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean, I just get invitations to attend vaccine and pharmacology conferences in Singapore based on the "truly impressive" findings in my recent paper. This job, by contrast, could save the damn world if you trained Grok right (to do away with itself? I'm not sure what that training would be).

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We’ve got an Ivy League provost over here who can’t use his own brain to write an OpEd, he needs ChatGPT to help him with his sentences and thoughts. He needs the bot to write emails clearly. I’m so disgusted and also laughing so hard somehow

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Timeline cleanse: Can’t stop laughing at these ingenious entries for the annual historical artifact costume contest at the National Museum of Korea The porcelain carp won, but my favorite was the bronze rattles.

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This is Korea’s most unhinged cosplay contest #shorts

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's been an overcast, damp, chilly 60-and-raining all day long, and I am now fantasizing about eating all the pasta that has ever existed in the whole entire world, which seems like the only thing that might get me warm.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The thing that brings me to tears every time I watch this is how much Carole King simply CANNOT, just absolutely is BESIDE HERSELF, at how astonishing Aretha is. It is so beautiful how Aretha's tribute to Carole becomes Carole's to Aretha.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Listen, I know your packaging needs information in many languages, disclaimers, &c. But it's a 10lb bag of grout. It's big enough that the pictograms explaining how to mix, timing of use, &c could be labeled in something other than 9pt font, so that it's less easy to misread 1 qt of water as 1 gal.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Come chat about the nineteenth century in Minneapolis this spring!

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🎉Midwest Victorian Studies conference CFP alert🎉 Aviva Briefel is keynote speaker. Theme is Detection—not just detectives, but also medical mysteries, tech innovations, colonial extraction, plant species discovery & everything in between. April 1-3 in Minneapolis. Please apply/pass it on!

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“Detection: Exploring, Innovating, Locating, Uncovering”2027 Call for Papers April 1-3, 2027, hosted in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sidney Paget, “Glancing about Him Like a Rat in a Trap,” …

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why are these news agencies not making lists of all the promises he's made to send checks to Americans — NOT ONE OF WHICH HE HAS KEPT — instead of reporting on this as if there's a snowball's chance in hell of these checks actually getting sent?

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