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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026

Today in "I read too many advice columns:" I've noticed a genre of letter that is basically "everyone knows it is common decency to do [thing] and I want to cut off people who did not do it" in cases where there is not actually a cultural consensus that [thing] is an obligation or even a good idea

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 10/08/2026

"When a small class consolidates rents to a degree that excludes a large class from the productive economy, both classes stop producing, and both classes start performing." henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...

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Degeneracy is a Symptom

On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

1/ Over the weekend, the FDA announced that a lettuce sample from Taylor Farms tested positive for Cyclospora. Within 24 hours, the FDA backtracked, calling the result a false positive. Taylor Farms quickly deleted its own posts about its bagged lettuce and boasted the FDA had apologized to them.

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Saw an interesting thread about disliking A Chritsmas Carol as a story of redemption. Going to thread here instead of QPing because I want to talk instead about the modern take as a whole. Because ACC wasn't originally a story of redemption. It's about repentance. 1?

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 27/06/2026

If you find yourself moved by some viral post or trend or video or YET ANOTHER NYT clickbait story, consider: in whose interest is it for me to engage with this peice of content? I can guarantee that it's not YOUR interest that's being best served by that action.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 27/06/2026

As someone with a day job in marketing, can confirm. IT'S ALL AN AD!!!!!!!!

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Maybe if more than 40 million people have student loan debt,* the issue is bigger than individual decision making. Maybe, just maybe, the issue is that education is a public good that is purposely underfunded and treated like an optional, consumable good. *1 out of 6 adults in the country

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 17/06/2026

“Tech billionaires want us to believe that our embodied/human ways of knowing are useless”. That’s exactly it. All those ads for “AI” products saying “stop hiring humans” and the like — The real target audience isn’t employers. It’s the rest of us. The despair they make you feel _is the point_.

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Every time I rewatch an older show I am mad about this again. Writing has so much room to breathe! The characters can develop!

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Biblioeclectica @biblioeclectica.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It’s a great story, and also has one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever read.

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I just do not understand this. Why are people including citations they haven't read in the first place??? You citing a paper because something materially in the paper (generally in the results or methods) emphasizes or supports something you are saying. How do you get there without reading?

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In addition to railing against AI, I also get to rail in favor of learning search query skills

As a man with a library science degree and thus a nerd about searching for information generally, stuffing search tools with AI is also bad for everyday people’s ability to understand and query systems, if you’ll bear with me through a little rant. Everyone faces a challenge when exploring a new library catalogue or work database or figuring out boolean operators in Google, but learning to talk to a system in its language is one way we get a sense of how its creators structured it and their worldview and priorities. Going through a system’s results also teaches you how to think about them critically: Are they what I’m looking for, are they trustworthy, what information do they connect to and reveal? Google Search is probably one of the first and primary places that people experiment with and grow their information searching skills; spoonfeeding them AI summaries while obscuring or bypassing the source of the information might seem convenient, but it’s just robbing them of the chance to develop vital information literacy skills that they need more than ever in an AI-obsessed world.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 13/05/2026

“A citation is a formal assertion of a relationship between works, and when that relationship is fabricated, the integrity of the entire document and the scholarly record is compromised.”

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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Many folk consider Australia’s compulsory voting anathema to ‘freedom’, but I would argue that they are looking at it from the wrong perspective. A thread. 🧵 #auspol 1/9

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 01/05/2026

good tweet

screenshot of a very long rant tweet about the state of technology. Its too long to paste into the alt text

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Once again asking people not to post about poll results without links to the surveys, and not to repost anything that cites poll results without links to the surveys. This is not (primarily) about credit, it's a data credibility check.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22/03/2026

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/03/2026

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 03/03/2026

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The students mention there not being classes in media literacy for middle and elementary students, and that's likely because schools are less likely to have a professional librarian in those schools than in the high schools. Because guess what's first cut during budget issues? Media specialists.

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I do not love every damn login requiring me to use my phone. I don't love the extra 'security' that makes life more complicated for average folks while data companies are out there leaking our info like it's stored in colanders. Am I safer now? Less at risk for having my identity stolen? HELL NO.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026

I think it’s really important when you get something wrong that you fix it. We are in an age of parasocial journalism where everyone is talking into tiny microphones. People have their faves and they trust what those faves say. If you get something wrong, fix it. It makes you more credible.

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I do not understand why the A.I. people do not get it. We do NOT want something that does our work for us. We want TOOLS that allow us to do our work. If you can't understand the difference, you shouldn't be pushing this shit on us.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

OKAY I am going to go on a side tangent rant here about the "luxury grocery store" thing (see below thread up and down, very excellent comments). In-store delis (with the little meals, the trays, sometimes family meals that you bake at home) REDUCE STORE LEVEL FOOD WASTE. A rant thread incoming

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

We *only* watch old school Sesame Street in our house, for this exact reason. They deliberately cast it to have white cast members in the minority. The Mr. Hooper actor did time on the McCarthy blacklist. The racial integration was so in your face, Mississippi stations initially refused to air it

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

🚨 WA and other vote-by-mail states: The post office changed its postmark policy and no longer guarantees a postmark will be given on the date mail is received. For deadline sensitive mail, like ballots, this means that you need to mail far in advance (10+ days before) or use a drop box. #waelex

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 29/12/2025

IF YOU ARE READING SOMETHING AND IT IS HARD BUT YOU HAVE TO READ IT 1. use a thing that will sit right under the line you're reading, so you know where you are in the text 2. read it out loud because your active participation will help 3. get a definition of a weird word and WRITE IT DOWN

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CJ Ryan @vitreouslight.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A fucking LLM trained on the collective insanity that is the internet cannot do useful things without going off the rails in weird and unpredictable ways that make it a HAZARD for anything even semi-serious. They’re a goddamn toy and I will die on this hill

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CJ Ryan @vitreouslight.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Yes hello, former senior dev here: Every time someone says “AI does [useful thing]” you can place a safe bet that what they actually mean is “a machine learning algorithm trained on very specific high quality data does [useful thing]”

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Biblioeclectica @biblioeclectica.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

@flowerhorne.com hope it’s ok to ask directly - couldn’t reply to your comment about passkeys (prob so the other person wouldn’t get tagged). I'm pretty good w computers but have not found a good explanation for how passkeys work. How to use w accounts where you need to log on with 2+ devices? Halp!

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Good and cogent piece about who owns food culture

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This is an excellent thread, and if I might add, with care, that I think our academic staff are also all exhausted as well, by so many things that were not always a part of their role, as well as the pressure and precariousness of academia. Students feel that, too - the whole environment is fraught.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Kate makes an excellent argument here. Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 29/11/2025

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/11/2025

it is absolutely the tech companies fault that people now assume they’re doing something evil and sneaky even when they actually aren’t (regarding the latest Google kerfuffle) like, no kidding that people have zero willingness to cut big tech the benefit of the doubt anymore

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I’ve always found it interesting how much microblogging character limits streamline language use. No room for weasel words, purple prose, digression. But I think it’s also part of how extremism ramps up. Because neither is there room for nuance, citation, qualifiers, any softening or mitigation.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Stretch every couple of hours. Exercise regularly. Eat better. Drink less booze. Stop using your phone in bed. Do the impossible task that you keep putting off and is weighing you down: it'll probably take you under thirty minutes. Touch grass more than your phone.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I see your, "remove sound description from closed captions that annoy me, a hearing person" and I counter w/ put more details in the CC. I want the sound descriptions. I want the lyrics. I read 4 languages so miss me with the “speaks foreign lang." Give me exhaustive and insufferable deaf-ass CC 😂

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

have been also learning lately that data centers primarily draw water from public drinking water systems with huge implications for access, infrastructure quality, cost of buildout, and water rates for residential customers who already usually subsidize industrial use, in addition to capex

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