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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 19h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · 20h

This new guide ‘Emotionally Engaged: A Toolkit for your Archive Journey’ is a great introduction for students (or anyone else) that demystifies working with archives as well as navigating the ethics and emotions of historical research ahc.leeds.ac.uk/history-rese...

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Developing Healthy Engagement

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

And I had a multi year battle to keep intro Judaism--which TPTB had dictated MUST include a mandatory, assessed field visit scheduled during class time--from being scheduled Friday afternoons (when Jewish institutions are all closed, on account of being Jewish).

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

Hey hey, it's... @bandcamp.com FRIDAY!!!!! A simply perfect day to pre-order LOSER BABIES -- thus supporting not only the great work of @hausofcodec.bsky.social, but ALSO great independent musicians everywhere!! Pre-order -- and stream @lustytirefire.bsky.social's "Paramour" -- right now!!!

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Loser Babies: Music Inspired by Josephine Riesman's "The Last Temptation of Beck", by A Few Good Records

11 track album

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ted Lasso posting: I am irate. I need to burn something to the fucking ground. What the actual fuck.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

I would watch the fuck out of that.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hate how many of us have to know this.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

The egg. Absolutely the egg. Any questions?

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Mark Godin @haldbeg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's hardcover publication day for A Theology of Particularity! To celebrate, here is the discount flyer again. #theology #literature

A flyer advertising a discount for a book called A Theology of Particularity: Unruly Bodies and the Stories They Carry (T&T Clark). In the top left corner is a reproduction of the cover, with a black and white photo of a person partially in shadow, the lower part of their face and top of their chest showing in the light, with Loren ipsum written on their skin. The discount code is GLR AT8 for 35% off purchases of the hardcover edition at bloomsbury.com/9781978713710

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 30/09/2026

Do I know any Dubliners who work in the arts or media?

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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

for those who don't know: mabon is a Welsh word meaning "son" & it comes from a Mabinogion story that has fuck all to do with autumn equinox, but in the 1970s an American wiccan thought it'd be cool to have a word from a weird-sounding language that no-one ever uses* for that festival so... *sarcasm

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have listened to this and it is amazing. I have also read the book. You should do both, too!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be greetinge each othir "hey miracle!" We ought to be dauncinge.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

I feel like this car might have some thoughts on god it wants to share.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Great new study from @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social at @socprobsjournal.bsky.social. Analyzing 21 years of data from the forum Stormfront, he shows the religious foundation of White nationalism is not solely Christian, but integrates Christian, pagan, & positivist repertoires. doi.org/10.1093/socp...

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Christian, pagan, positivist: the religious repertoires of white nationalism

ABSTRACT. Scholarship on the far right often treats Christianity as the dominant religious frame structuring contemporary white nationalist politics. I arg

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

Checking the weather to make sure I take the garbage out in the pouring rain so that I can minimise the risk of meeting neighbours is possibly the most Swedish thing I have ever done.

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They Call Me Doctor Mae @dr-maeforrest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If I, a whole transgender lesbian and theologian, have not been able to destroy Christianity, I doubt Meryl Streep cast as a talking lion will be able to do it

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.

Zizek wearing a T-shirt that says I Would Prefer Not To

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

I can only assume that the nine officers were necessary because they had to take twenty seven 8x10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back explaining what each one was.

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UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The second European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantastic Spaces and Places, will take place at the University of Karlstad in Sweden from June 15th to 17th 2027. CfP here (deadline Nov 1st): www.kau.se/kufo/aktivit... Hope to see many of you there!

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Fantastic Spaces and Places | Karlstads universitet

The second European Conference on the Fantastic Karlstad, Sweden 15-17 June, 2027

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wow, I (unsuccessfully attempting to stave off the traditional start of term lurgy) got the whiskey-lemon-honey-ginger ratio in my evening tea exactly "right" for a value of "right" that correlates with the flavour of TheraFlu.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tired is a totally valid gender!

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

My Second Cousin Once Removed Vinny

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

TBH I absolutely *would* schism over attempts to use white wine at mass. And I'm not even Catholic.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

When my mother decided to turn up on the doorstep of my student house and leave a series of messages on the house answering machine starting with "I'm outside, where are you", at least I had housemates who could point out that was... not normal.

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am beginning to wonder if this is an element of “sexual diversity is a moral good” I had not yet grasped: The more sexual variations are commonplace, the less room tech bros and the like might have to get into any given thing on the sole basis of its edginess.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

The second European Conference on the Fantastic is in Sweden next June. You should come to Sweden, it's fantastic! www.kau.se/kufo/aktivit...

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Fantastic Spaces and Places | Karlstads universitet

The second European Conference on the Fantastic Karlstad, Sweden 15-17 June, 2027

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

REFLECTION AND HALLUCINATION: A Ricoeur Reader

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I had no idea of this extraordinary episode. I reminds us of how easily people can be declared "illegal" or "immigrant" rather than native. These are not natural kinds, but administrative categories. Striking parallels with the Windrush scandal. Of interest to all, but tagging @spe07.bsky.social

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The spectre of ‘remigration’ is haunting Europe. Slovenia in 1992 gives us a blueprint for this state terror | Miha Mazzini

In February that year, the Slovenian government officially deleted 25,000 citizens, turning them overnight into illegal immigrants, says writer and film-maker Miha Mazzini

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

I will still never forgive the timetabling department at my old university for lobbying to axe very nearly all our joint honours provision on the basis that they were incapable of doing the most basic part of their jobs.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

The second European Conference on the Fantastic is in Sweden next June. You should come to Sweden, it's fantastic! www.kau.se/kufo/aktivit...

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Fantastic Spaces and Places | Karlstads universitet

The second European Conference on the Fantastic Karlstad, Sweden 15-17 June, 2027

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

I keep coming back to Abraham Joshua Heschel's piece on the moral outrage of Vietnam, where he noted that his complicity as an American citizen was sufficient to make him struggle with prayer. Kal v'chomer Gaza.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most culturally American thing I can imagine.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

1. Speaking as an occasional social researcher, sentiment analysis is WILDLY unreliable. 2. Speaking as an occasional target of harassment, hiding "toxic" responses prevents people who may be targeted from performing their own risk assessment and blocking potentially bad actors promptly.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't think 20 y/o me would have a frame of reference for me today.

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

I just saw an advert for a position at an Ivy League university stating that its Faculty of Humanities "is comprised of XX academic departments" and I have found the pettiest usage hill I am willing to die on this evening.

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The Best of All Possible Oaves @erikonymous.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"move slow and make things" as I always say

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