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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Recently read DUPLEX by Kathryn Davis. Weird and surreal and singular. Why has nobody told me about her before?

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Italo Calvino from If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Relevant discussion of gen Ai from 50 years ago… “What is the reading of a text, in fact, except the recording of certain thematic recurrences, certain insistences of forms and meanings?”

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I asked Lotaria if she has already read some books of mine that I lent her. She said no, because here she doesn't have a computer at her disposal.
She explained to me that a suitably programmed computer can read a novel in a few minutes and record the list of all the words contained in the text, in order of fre-quency. "That way I can have an already completed reading at hand," Lotaria says, "with an incalculable saving of time. What is the reading of a text, in fact, except the recording of certain thematic recurrences, certain insistences of forms and meanings? An electronic reading supplies me with a list of the frequencies, which I have only to glance at to form an idea of the problems the book suggests to my critical study. Naturally, at the highest frequencies the list records countless articles, pronouns, particles, but I don't pay them any attention. I head straight for the words richest in meaning; they can give me a fairly precise notion of the book."

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i dont understand what winning ai means and why i should be scared of not winning ai

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ha ha ha Ed you cowardly hypocritical loser.

Sheeran explained that he doesn’t use his platform for politics in order to be “a place of safety and sanctuary, to maintain diplomacy and keep conversations open”. Though this isn’t accurate: he performed at the Concert for Ukraine in 2022, signed an open letter to Theresa May about Brexit, endorsed Jeremy Corbyn and supported the equality act in the US.

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just once I need a journalist to ask those “AI is going to cause human extinction” geniuses to explain how. Just once

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026

There are very real safety concerns we need to address with generative LLMs. Deepfakes, privacy, AI psychosis, etc We don't need to entertain goofy nonsense from people claiming they're inventing the torment nexus from the science fiction classic "Dipshit That's Not The Torment Nexus Go Outside."

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’ve had two sci-fi stories published this summer! And Labor Day weekend seemed like as good occasion as any to share them

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

PSA: your book is not “horror-romance” just because there’s a sex scene

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's extremely revealing that one of Harper's main takeaways from the tenure track as a Black professor was to become singularly suspicious of his Black colleagues' qualifications (and his own) rather than, say, at all interested in the existence of racism and white/male mediocrity within academia.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 17/08/2026

more places should have artists-in-residence. like there should be a residency where you live on a particular train for a month. there should be an oil rig residency, an arctic research station residency. maybe a residency at a zoo

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 29/07/2026

where is that fool leibowitz I told him I wanted fifty fresh canticles on my desk by lunch

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Happy There Will Come Soft Rains day to all who celebrate

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I need someone to do a deepdive on gender essentialism toward pets. Been seeing a lot of weird “boy dog/girl dog” and “boy cat/girl cat” content…

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Vampire Lestat is…wild and maximalist and has some truly baffling storytelling choices but it’s honestly worth it for Sam Reid

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How do I convince my cat that paper bag (scary) can be just as fun as cardboard box (exciting, a comfy bed, a delicious snack)

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is who you just tackled

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · 16/07/2026

73.2 is at the printer, and 74.1 opens for submissions in two weeks! Please note we have a new AI policy that you can read on our submission page (TL;DR: we don't want AI-generated text), and a blog post from our editor on the subject, linked below.

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On AI, in EPOCH and Elsewhere — EPOCH

Human beings are made to be moved. We respond to patterns. AI generates patterns. When there is nothing of substance there, we use our imagination to fill in whatever will give us what we need. It’s n...

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We had YA when I was a kid, but that didn’t stop me from reading the Dragonriders of Pern series when I was like 9

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

five years ago today, robert e lee’s final ride out of charlottesville

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Just got off the phone with Mitch McConnell. We spoke for about 20 minutes and he said, “Play the best song in the world. Or I’ll eat your soul”

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Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/07/2026

‘Once you acknowledge that most of the Americas were inhabited long before 1492, everything changes, starting with the idea that nature in its ideal state is what they used to call virgin wilderness, in which people don’t belong.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Rebecca Solnit · Before 1776

In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Every trial makes me stronger…

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

this Türkiye win was for Eric Adams 🇹🇷

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Had to walk down this very liminal hallway to see Backrooms.

An eerie, liminal movie theater hallway with off-white walls and patterned carpet straight from the 90s.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/06/2026

"Many of you have asked why an institution with a $46 billion endowment is freezing salaries, rescinding job offers, refusing to adjust tenure tracks, and laying off staff instead of using an endowment the size of Iceland's GDP to keep our community afloat."

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A University President Responds to Those Who Have Suggested the School Should Dip Into the Endowment

“We hear you. You are valid. You. Matter. Secondly, and no less importantly, let me make something clear: The. Endowment. Is. Not. For. You.” May 11 2021 5/8...

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 13/06/2026

you have been visited by the Cool Baby!!! repost for good luck

A very cool baby in a jean jacket vest, jorts, backwards baseball cap, sunglasses, and high tops. He is making a hand motion like he is dropping an invisible mic

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...

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Intellectual Homelessness: The Adjunct and the Disappearing University - Working Mass

By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...

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Tyler @okty.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I would never call a wife “mid“ no matter what her job is

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Maybe this is a hot take, but the Commonwealth Prize discourse just makes me nervous that writers will soon be considered guilty of using AI until proven innocent. Only, with AI usage, you can’t really prove your innocence

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My annual Mother's Day post. Because some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true.

Mother is a verb as well as a noun, so I hope everyone can honor whatever mothers them and whatever capacity to mother they have, or the equivalent in whatever gender language works for them:
Some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true. The other half of the question of what there is to celebrate is what mothered and mothers you, how you mother yourself, how you celebrate and recognize what cares for you and takes care of you, and what do you care for in return.
I remember once looking at the Pacific Ocean, to which I often reverted in trouble, and thinking "Everything was my mother but my mother." Books were my mother, coastlines, running water and landscapes, trees and the flight of birds, zazen and zendos, quiet and cellos, reading and writing, bookstores and familiar views and routines, the changing evening sky, cooking and baking, walking and discovering, rhythms and blues, friends and interior spaces and all forms of kindness, of which there has been more and more as time goes by.
And of my own mother I wrote, in The Faraway Nearby: Like lawyers, writers seek consistency; they make a case for their point of view; they do so by leaving out some evidence; but let me mention the hundreds of sandwiches my mother made during my elementary school years, the peanut butter sandwiches I ate alone on school benches in the open, throwing the crusts into the air where the seagulls would swoop to catch them before they hit the ground.
When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I realized that my mother had done all these things for me before I remembered. I was fed; I was washed; I was clothed; I was taught to sp…

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Anna Sheffer @annasheffer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Hantavirus cruise story was engineered in a lab to keep me, specifically, up at night

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Daily Memo: A Push for ‘Quieter’ Immigration Raids and An Increasing Use of Force at Detention Centers We are also exactly a month away from June 6th, when the Border Patrol arrived in Los Angeles and began the raids that terrorized so many around the country. lataco.com/quieter-ice-...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/04/2026

breaking: 80-student encampment up at Occidental College in California, demanding the Board of Trustees commit to divest from Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Maersk, and Caterpillar amid the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine at an upcoming meeting on Monday.

Los Angeles, CA (April 24, 2026) — 80 Occidental college students and community members set up an encampment on the Academic Quad to demand that their college divests from weapons manufacturing, the prison industrial complex, and war profiteering. Occidental students collected over 600 signatures on a resolution calling on the College to divest from companies that profit off and enable israeli genocide. After the Board of Trustees refused to vote on the timely resolution, the students launched an encampment ahead of the Spring trustees meeting on April 27th to demand that the board vote on the resolution and take action towards divestment.

“We are a new class of students calling on Occidental to uphold its stated values by divesting from companies that build the bombs which are used by the zionist state to obliterate families in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran. It’s been two years since the last encampment, and we have witnessed the College double down on genocidal investments and student repression.”

– said Aurelia Mendez-Ortega

On Monday April 27th, the Occidental College Board of Trustees will be meeting on campus to enjoy a extravagant meal while they authorize the further investment of our schools money into the military industrial complex, ICE detention centers, and surveillance technology.

Students are calling on the University to divest from companies like Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Maersk, and Caterpillar that aid in the zionist military’s genocide in Palestine and facilitate their brutal warfare, surveillance, and ethnic cleansing around the world. “How can I go on as usual, while students in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran are murdered by the zionist state? We came to college to learn, not to have our tuition dollars invested into a the cult of death. ” — said Athya Paramesh who decided to join the encampment.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We are, to my knowledge, the only city that lets the police just joy ride over the city in helicopters when there is no emergency

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