Sign in

Annie Are You Oakley

@anniesredpen.bsky.social
331 followers 697 following 116 posts

Editor of science, advocate of libraries, co-host of podcasts. The Ink Sink podcast (linktr.ee/inksinkpodcast) is everywhere you listen!

PostsRepliesMedia
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And remembering that Vogue story that was something like "Best T-Shirts Under $300" Truly, this is the most boring dystopia.
010
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why learn science? Because lots of things can seem like a big scary conspiracy theory when you don’t understand how the world works! Empower yourself by learning about facts and evidence and reality. As a bonus, it’ll lead to a healthier and more prosperous society for others around you.
29865273
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trust your healthcare and mental-health professionals. They don't make as much money as your drug dealers, but you have to admit their waiting-room art is more tasteful. [Darcy Michael, Attention Seeking]
120
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
it's crazy to think that there were people thousands of years ago writing down their thoughts, and some of those thoughts still exist to read today
1331
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
GIRL, WHAT? #booksky #bookgossip
screenshot of a Book Gossip newsletter saying "In Other News... Co-Star will soon be launching a dating app for people who love books. Caroline Calloway and Emily Segal will be hosting the launch party next month."
080
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yall ever see a photo and wonder how that conversation went? "yeah, so you're gonna have cucumbers on your eyes." "oh, like at a spa?" "not like at a spa, no."
Image of a model with coiffed hair and orange, cucumber, and tomato slices layered onto her face.
010
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Noooooo. Nonononononono. No. Don’t.
020
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Someone once told me that it's "classist" to advocate for people to have indoor cats because you need to buy them lots of expensive toys. Marcel has been playing with the discarded stem of a fresh green bean for 20 minutes. 🤷‍♀️
4424333353
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Lots of us have probably used those "AI detectors" on our own stuff and been told we are definitely AI... when we definitely aren't. When someone else uses those apps to say someone's writing is AI, I'm not sure I trust it.
040
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
reminder: dont serve sake to an octopus today
page of art from the Met Museum. a small ivory carving of a buddha like figure shaking its finger at a mermaid serving sake to an octopus. Netsuke of Daruma
Admonishing a Mermaid Serving Sake to an Octopus
1516121
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Am I the only one removing the tracking bits when I share a link? I need to show you the Jimothy pics, you don’t need to know I was scrolling LinkedIn 🫣
120
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
293450632
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Not sure who needs to hear this: You turned the wrong burner on. That’s why your water isn’t boiling. Go get it before that stray green bean in the burner grate combusts and you have to deal with the smoke alarm, too
041
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
There’s probably stuff WE’RE certain is right that future ages will correctly judge to be monstrous. The fact that everybody is convinced of something is no guarantee that it isn’t evil horseshit. (David Mitchell, Unruly)
020
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#booksky
Books are amazing because a stranger from 200 years ago can still ruin your afternoon emotionally
351877251
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If you are in any way making an effort to fight back against the heightened lack of kindness and empathy we are experiencing, no matter how small, I love you and you are my hero. Kindness fills chasms.
331068247
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I, for one, hope this trend continues. I look forward to Wes Anderson’s Oedipus, Michael Bay’s Antigone, and George Lucas’s The Frogs (Special Edition).
2314
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
this is a GREAT deep dive interview with the @ocregister.bsky.social thank you so much for trotting with me www.ocregister.com/2026/06/30/h...
120338
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
As always
The X-Files. FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). The caption reads, “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government. If you die, you let them off the hook.”
1457642463
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I've made the biggest mistake of my life. I've also made the best decision of my life. I've also made all the other choices inbetween.
21517
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
0322116
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
[chuckles in dystopian sadness]
Page of a book with text highlighted: “I’ve just had a virtual wander round it on Google Street View and it still looks idyllic: it must have been a lovely sunny day when the dystopian droid car went through stealing everyone’s data.”
020
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Kip Conlon @kipconlon.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Your “joke” disgusts me. My chicken died crossing a road.
733286
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My office door sign yesterday said “Annie is a cucumber with anxiety.” Someone walked in and quietly said, “you know they make medications for that?” So good news, cucumbers are curable!
030
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“Decomposing” meaning “an LLM cutting up and absorbing an article” <— That’s new for me and feels hella ironically accurate Seen in an article on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social #academicsky #wordsky
041
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
a screenshot of lyrics from Good Charlotte's Boy and Girls, but I've poorly edited them to read, 

"Girls don't like [discoursing about social media sites] 
Girls like [talking about their hyperfixations]"
128142
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Wake up kids, our bi-annual "do we like hardcovers or nah" discourse is here! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #booksky
theguardian.com
The hill I will die on: Heavy, awkward and incredibly expensive – we don’t need hardback books | Larry Ryan
It’s an annoying choice: either lug around a heavy tome or try to remember when the paperback version is coming out, says freelance writer Larry Ryan
110
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The past is unknowable… It’s an infinity of former nows all as unfathomable as this one. - David Mitchell, “Unruly” Damn, David. #booksky #academicsky
080
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 04/05/2026
If you ever think you've made a joke so 100 percent obvious that absolutely no one can misconstrue it, rest assured that you're wrong.
917713
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Thwarting chances for people to whine (a labor that never ends) is truly god’s work.
041
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Literature and history coexist, and they tell us similar stories, but they have different nuances to them. - Meghan Kobza, Betwixt the Sheets SUCH a good way to talk about context in media 👌 Art imitates life, et cetera! @k8lister.bsky.social @fancyhistorian.bsky.social #academicsky
040
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
deneb @v3gaaltair.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
demeter when her daughter goes missing
34103773430
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Down with toxic masculinity. Bring back dudes shouting Monty Python and the Holy Grail quotes at random. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
030
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…
A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”
2749731152
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Self-care means distracting myself with fantasy, sci-fi, and self-improvement lately. I can't read the news when the vampire is falling in love, or the aliens are attacking, or when I might finally figure out "decluttering." #booksky
081
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Canadian friend: How are you all doing with this America war stuff? American friend: I’m dissociating, reading gay hockey romance
020
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I’ve given Bert the day off! I’m here until 4pm - Sally
Just a gentle reminder: you don’t have to read fast, finish the longest book or have the prettiest shelf, if reading bring you peace, you’re doing it right.
344338563
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
How can I watch the Lord of the Flies TV show when I still haven’t recovered from reading it in middle school? 😭
020
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Alexander Katourgi @eliderad.se · 30/03/2026
The notion of "correct" and "incorrect" language stems from classism and racism (and is in many cases still fueled by it). 🐦🐦
212627
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
404 Media @404media.co · 26/03/2026
NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.
404media.co
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
201237746752
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
wow VERY impressed there is water and air that is very cool we are super lucky
1042938
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 22/03/2026
I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...
user abbiistabbii: 
The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.

Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.

It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.
11398123384
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Finding out that a publisher didn’t edit/review a book before publishing is never good PR. But finding out they did it AFTER the readers had already called out the AI-slop-ness? Would you not at least check???
010
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
Image of Charles Darwin quotes, with the recipient of the letter and the date the letter was written. He said "I hate every wave of the ocean" to W.D. Fox on 15 February 1836, "Oh my God how I do hate species and varieties" to J.D. Hooker in 11 March 1858, "I am very tired, very stomachy, and hate nearly the whole world" to Thomas Huxley on 10 September 1860, "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything" to Charles Lyell on 1 October 1861, "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" to John Lubbock on 3 September 1862, and "I am languid and bedeviled and hate writing and hate everybody" to J.D. Hooker on 23 June 1863.
7549661784
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Melville’s chapter title are like random word documents saved on Desktop
Chapter 89

Fast-fish and loose-fishChapter 43

Hark!Chapter 59

SquidChapter 57

Of whales in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheet-iron; in stone; in mountains; in stars
2669
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"There's two things that are important to understand... People are as dumb as they ever were, and people are no dumber than they ever were. You have to get both of those things. Otherwise, you're going to misunderstand history." Robert Evans on "Behind the Bastards" Accidentally the best quote ever?
120
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Hard to describe something I could possibly hate more than “Machine that destroys books to consolidate corporate information dominance”
05620
Reposted by Annie Are You Oakley
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
in times of turmoil it is very easy to feel like theres nothing you can do to help, especially if you are far away, but i promise buckaroo EVERYTHING helps. there is direct action like donating money or protesting, and there is cultural action like creating art and cultivating atmosphere of change
5756262
Annie Are You Oakley @anniesredpen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"It’s time for CPAs to put their eye black on and put the W in W-2" (@morningbrew.bsky.social) Morning Brew's version of Tax Season makes me smile 😂
media.tenor.com
a person is holding a watch in their hand and the words `` it 's go time '' are visible .
Alt: a person adding war paint to their skin with the caption "it's go time."
020