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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 7h

We have hit our submission quota for the month and are now closed until November. BUT–we are experimenting with short-form poetry. For a chance to be featured in an upcoming issue, write an eco-inspired haiku, use the tag #TheRottingHaiku, and tag us in the post!

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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 10h

You have passed. You have pass failed. You have failed. You have failed in passing. We are past. We are passing. We have passed. All ghosts are ghosts to each other. Please sign your name at the bottom and turn in your paper as you leave. You have left. You are never leaving.

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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can human waste be sustainable? Dr. Jason Graham-Nye thinks so. In our latest issue, he discusses his recent research on compostable diapers 🌎 www.briefecology.com/life-after-w...

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What It takes to Give Diapers a Life After Waste — Brief Ecology

by Dr. Jason Graham-Nye

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We need more weird nature to read. It sustains us.

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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At The Academy, we make students a part of the educational process. Come visit our campus. We'd love to know what you know. Tell us. Speak. Now. Reveal your innermost knowledge.

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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So, remodeling recently and I just figured out how to get more wall available for art and shit. Get rid of doors! Such a waste of space. So, yeah, just leave the food outside the part of the wall where you can hear me screaming the loudest.

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

wait the Mike Tomlin minecraft thing is real???

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/

Issue 3: Ekphrasis
Between October 17 and November 17, guest editor Zachary Gillan will accept submissions of weird flash fiction that features ekphrasis.
Ekphrasis is the verbal representation of a work of visual art.
Weird fiction is a verbal representation of the world, in order to unsettle it.
We want stories that live at the intersection of the two. Pieces that emphasize the eerie power of weird art, whether fully ekphrastic or embedded within a traditional narrative. How does the weird seep in as reality is doubly estranged from these two layers of representation? Cursed paintings, uncanny statues, haunted mezzotints-send us your stories of weird art.
Publication date: February 1, 2027

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The leaves are falling. Soon they'll be rotting. Send some our way. Submissions open tonight at midnight, EST 🍂

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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In Beyond Clean-Ups, Professor Ria Dunkley discusses her recent research into "wasted-edgelands" as opportunities for ecopedagogy 🌎 🌐 👇 www.briefecology.com/life-after-w...

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Beyond Clean-Ups: Joy, Discomfort, and Ecopedagogy in Wasted-Edgelands — Brief Ecology

by Professor Ria Dunkley

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

when a two star review truly understands your soul better than most five stars. make it the blurb. THE MARIGOLD.

No. Noooo no no, did not like. Characters meh. Didn't care what happened to them. Glacial overwrought pace. Prosey AF. Felt like I was wearing a grey sludge patina over my soul for days while reading. Nearly DNF. Need several dozen hot showers and a good fantasy novel to shake the feeling of being sunk neck deep in neverending dull Scottish muggy moors for a week under a doomsday sky, alone. Not even birds. If soggy ancient grain bread were a novel.

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fellas, has this ever happened to you?!?

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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know when you open a door and there's the door you already opened, closed in front of you, and you think to yourself, Ha, I guess I must've not opened the door, and then someone opens you instead? That feeling?

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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You are being graded. The grades are letters representing numbers embodied by tiny beings in glass jars who refuse to tell us their names, for now.

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was a fascinating issue to put together. Waste is so ever-present in capitalist society that we rarely stop to think about what it actually is, or what it could be instead.

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was a fascinating issue to put together. Waste is so ever-present in capitalist society that we rarely stop to think about what it actually is, or what it could be instead.

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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As "Gemini and ChatGPT have been designed first to keep users hooked, placing plausibility or attractiveness before veracity"..."AI flattens the historical record by relying on the most popular sources, eliminating minority voices." An alarming must-read on AI from Georgetown's Jordan Sand.

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This issue features our latest piece, Reclamation, by @nettirw.bsky.social 👇🍂

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Michael Bailey @nettirw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have a new story in this called "Reclamation."

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 26/09/2026

Pleased and downright fascinated to read a review of my short story "Take Him" in Brief Ecology. The story was recently an editor's pick on @gavagai.com & I'll confess it was very difficult to place & rejected many times, which makes the interest and attention of the reviewer especially lovely.

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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our latest issue is here! Life After Waste is a collection of essays, interview, fiction, and poetry, all exploring the concept of ecological waste from different perspectives. Pick up a copy here 🌎 🚮 ♻️ 👇 www.briefecology.com/store/p/life...

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Life After Waste | Brief Ecology #32 (eBook) — Brief Ecology

In This Issue Non-fiction Introduction: Life After Waste | Ben Lockwood Beyond Clean-Ups | Professor Ria Dunkley What it takes to give diapers a life after waste | Dr. Jason Graham-N...

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026

Every day we get closer to this:

Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Chart showing solar panel exports from China (the main solar panel maker by a long shot) growing steadily & mightily from 2018 through 2026, then spiking by almost 2x in March 2026.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The degree to which I need to see this is probably unhealthy

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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

COVER REVEAL Our September issue is coming soon

Cover of September issue of Brief Ecology. Image of person carrying garbage bags with text: Life After Waste

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

hey just curious where did the “protect women athletes” crowd get off to

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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Generative AI is demolishing what little trust remains in online media. It’s getting harder to know what is made by actual, real people. Brief Ecology has a relentless commitment to the human. We don’t use generative AI for *anything*. Human writing for human reading.

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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now that it's finally getting colder out I need everybody to know that this bag makes enough food to feed a family, only calls for like two additional ingredients, and costs less than ten dollars. Also it's fucking delicious.

Bagged, dried, 15-bean soup, cajun variety.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026

The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.

A line chart showing temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean, compared to a 30-year rolling base period since 1982.

A gold line shows temperatures in 1997, a teal line in 2025, and a red line in 2026. The red line surpasses all others reaching 3.07ºC, and at an earlier point (September) than the previous El Niño that reached a comparable range in November 2015.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last week, the world lost an extraordinary scholar and person. Alexander Reyes, a PhD student at UCI and my advisee, died after a severe illness. Please considering contributing to this fundraiser for his family, who have incurred tremendous expenses this summer, in his memory if you can.

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Donate to Supporting A Final Farewell to Alexander, organized by Elizabeth Sandoval

Our family is reaching out to ask for support for our beloved cousin, Alex… Elizabeth Sandoval needs your support for Supporting A Final Farewell to Alexander

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you are an organizer and have been wanting to get more skilled at conflict transformation, our next Communiversity session on Saturday 9/26 might be of interest. We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Strengthening the Relationships that Sustain Our Movements is facilitated by Adaku Utah

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Communiversity Catalog: Abolition, Incarceration, and the Rule of Law — Interrupting Criminalization

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me: can I get some fries for the table The table, whispering to me: garlic fries Me: let’s make that garlic fries haha

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What stage of regime collapse is the dictator banning press? Just curious

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

a winning message if i ever heard one

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

lmao

Bill Mitchell ®
@mitchellvii
X.com
With regards to beef prices, have you ever tried a veggie burger?
They're actually really good. A little lettuce, tomato, pickles, a portobello mushroom, slice of Swiss cheese. Excellent.

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think when the maga era is finally over and we’re able to fully quantify its effects, we’ll see it as one of the largest transfers of wealth from the working class to the wealthy in American history

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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah someone should look into those emissions for sure. Maybe figure out how much co2 is in them. Maybe do something about that

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Post from "The Rundown"

July 18 at 5:30 PM
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DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online.
The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery.
While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material.
Source: TechCrunch

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