Reposted by Amanda Vincentcmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student! 29490485
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026www.npr.org/2026/09/16/1...npr.orgAnnie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, dies at 81Dillard's work was characterized by spare prose and a deep connection to nature. She is best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Maytrees and The Writing Life. 000
Reposted by Amanda VincentElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign 24650341563
Reposted by Amanda VincentErik Steinskog @eriksteinskog.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Today it is 115 years since Romare Bearden was born. 042
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Bluesky, I'm looking for recommendations of works of fiction that are narrated/from the point of view of a space or place (for example, the opening of NK Jemisen's "The city we became," in which the city itself is the narrator) 000
Reposted by Amanda VincentAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/07/2026maybe a more precise phrasing of the original point would be people can produce careless work or careful work but LLMs can only produce careless work, even if it is sometimes correct, because they are incapable of care 216458
Reposted by Amanda Vincentlilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊 6449491404
Reposted by Amanda VincentEmily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 25/05/2026website that picks the Rothko closest to how the weather feels in your location (by Joonas Virtanen) rothko.joonas.wtf 17744233
Reposted by Amanda VincentJoe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/05/2026If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test? 482460688
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I won an award for my book and it apparently broke Bluesky: sah.org/programs/sah...sah.orgSAH Publication Awards - Society of Architectural HistoriansHonoring the most distinguished publications in architectural history, urban history, landscape history, preservation, and architectural exhibition catalogs. 010
Reposted by Amanda VincentGeorge @hannahtempler.com · 06/03/2026move slow and repair things 643781386
Reposted by Amanda VincentShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 24/02/2026"In this class, [we'll] interrogate the way land, plots, + gardens are racialized + gendered, as well as the garden as a site for underground survival + sustenance... [We'll 👀 @ Hannah] Höch, [Derek] Jarman, Maria Thereza Alves, Candice Lin, Precious Okoyomon, Michael Rakowitz, Cameron Rowland..."courses.newschool.eduThe Garden and Visual Culture | Course Catalog | The New SchoolHannah Höch’s material output and illicit activities during the Third Reich included growing plants prohibited by Nazi horticulturalists while burying artworks banned by the fascist regime in her gard... 2274
Reposted by Amanda Vincentderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing 211152812511
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I'm pleased to announce that my article "The Garden in Movement as a Space and Practice of Care" has been published in @landscaperesearch.bsky.social. Thanks to @tim-waterman.co.uk and Zannah Matson! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YQ7GT...tandfonline.comThe garden in movement as a space and practice of careA garden developed by professors at a French secondary education institution, Lycée Agricole Jules-Rieffel, demonstrates how landscape maintenance can function as a caring practice. Designed in con... 143
Reposted by Amanda VincentJohan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly 92166214818
Reposted by Amanda VincentKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/01/2026ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:change.orgSign the PetitionDemand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention 6148864030
Reposted by Amanda VincentJeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son." 1962469712671
Reposted by Amanda VincentJake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Not because Minnesotans are louder but because they are harder to exhaust. 032
Reposted by Amanda VincentMPR News @mprnews.org · 09/01/2026On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.mprnews.orgRenee Macklin Good’s wife says she ‘nurtured kindness’On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News. 302053938
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 22/12/2025If your dopamine receptors light up like a Christmas tree when you watch this and you haven't yet seen the Canal+ series Ovni(s), well, now you know what to do. 000
Reposted by Amanda VincentShane Anderson 🏳️🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it! 8589664143
Reposted by Amanda Vincentkate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 19/12/2025The fascist’s imperative is the aestheticization of politics but that doesn’t give the left the excuse to abnegate the aesthetic question altogether. Aesthetics is politics made tactile. There is no leftist project from Lenin to FDR without a vision of the world they wanted to build. 1019822
Reposted by Amanda Vincentkate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 19/12/2025It does matter! You need to build a world before you can advocate for it! You have to ask what that world would look like and sometimes that means literally. What is your answer to nostalgia bait and slop? Why is only one side allowed to make images? 823618
Reposted by Amanda VincentAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 16/12/2025 This is a good piecemarcusolang.substack.comI'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise. 17829
Reposted by Amanda VincentSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...publicbooks.orgFour Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public BooksWe are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education. 19889367
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Volume 50.4 of Contemporary French Civilization is available, including the 13th Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award-winning essay, "The right to feel bad: ambivalence as resistance in Fatima Daas’s La Petite Dernière (The Last One)," by Blase A. Provitola liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/cfc/50/4liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukContents | Contemporary French Civilization 50, 4Fatima Daas’s debut novel, La Petite Dernière (The Last One), has been both lauded and attacked for its autofictional representation of a Muslim lesbian growing up in Paris’s marginalized suburbs. Analyses of this work have focused on the protagonist ... 000
Reposted by Amanda VincentTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting! 571190773
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 05/12/2025This is a really great discussion and a particularly interesting read alongside the French perspective in the "Paroles d'histoire" episode about Andor Season 2. parolesdhistoire.fr/index.php/20...parolesdhistoire.fr390. Andor, avec Jean-Christophe Piot – Paroles d'histoire 011
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Possibly the most interesting angle on food deserts I've read yet: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comThe Great Grocery SqueezeHow a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert 000
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 25/11/2025You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? It'll be chaotic, chances of survival are low to very low. 010
Reposted by Amanda VincentJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 22/11/2025(alternate french history) damn these tree potatoes are amazing sweet 1627724
Reposted by Amanda VincentNE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 21/11/2025stream restoration work has many stake holders. 823120
Reposted by Amanda VincentHundreds of Beavers Movie @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social · 04/11/2025IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR 822663
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 16/10/2025It's all fun and games until someone decides to check the archives, you know, the place where they specialize in saving stuff b/c it might be interesting to someone one day ... I have never broken a code thanks to an archive but I have found some entertainingly sick burns! 041
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 14/10/2025@caseyjohnston.bsky.social has a banger of a newsletter today with the mini essay on "Gardening to Save the World" at the top. Just yes. 010
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Wish I could be in NY for this event. The film makes Whyte's work so clear and accessible. It would be super fun to see it with a crowd! 041
Reposted by Amanda VincentKatherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social · 12/09/2025silent awed jubilation! a Georges de La Tour show! www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...lemonde.frLe singulier Georges de La Tour, au Musée Jacquemart-AndréUne trentaine d’œuvres du peintre, dont la vie est peu connue, ou d’après lui, sont présentées à Paris. A défaut de chronologie, les toiles sont classées par sujets, profanes et sacrés. 092
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 21/08/2025... now there's an idea for the prose fiction seminar ... 000
Reposted by Amanda VincentRuth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 14/08/2025"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)theatlantic.comSearch LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AIMillions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration. 7611891135
Reposted by Amanda VincentTom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Normal person: It’s a tapestry Tapestry expert: It’s an embroidery! Me, banging table: IT’S A COMIC 1441090
Reposted by Amanda VincentTim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 01/05/2025May Day = radical politics. Radical means 'rooted'. In what is radical politics rooted? Togetherness, solidarity, generosity, fairness, care, beauty, sensuality, place, planetary flourishing, & the idea that freedom, equality, justice, & democracy are something we all give each other all the time. 072
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Sounds like what business students want is a humanities education .... 010
Amanda Vincent @amandasvincent.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Boston Marathon thoughts: I love seeing Hellen Obiri and Sharon Lokedi duke it out but when oh when will marathon broadcasters get more than 2 cameras on the course? Basically zero visuals of the top American women runners, 5 seconds of Des @ finish. 000