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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 50m

Important piece of marine science nuance: when a shark attacks a human, it's almost always an unintentional encounter. Sharks do not think about you, at all. When a whale strikes a ship, it is almost always intentional. They know us. They understand us. And they remember what we did.

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 9h

I need to figure out what I’m reading/watching for spooky season

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 11h

Seems like this would be an OSHA violation

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11h

they named a car after this good pup

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 11h

Guess I can put a cobweb on it and call it a spooky hibiscus

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 14h

I did not think I could hate AI more but reading End Times Fascism is indeed making me find new depths of loathing

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 14h

Agh the College of Arts and Sciences - which houses graphic design and art and communication - is posting AI slop on Instagram 🤦‍♀️

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 22h

We don’t read and study literature just for jobs or skills or credentials. We read so that one sunny morning we get smacked in the head by a poem so hard the world tilts

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 22h

I always read Mary Oliver outside but reading this poem by the river on the first morning of October in the last thirdish of my life hit really hard

October
There's this shape, black as the entrance to a cave.
A longing wells up in its throat like a blossom as it breathes slowly.
What does the world
mean to you if you can't trust it to go on shining when you're
not there? And there's a tree, long-fallen; once
the bees flew to it, like a procession of messengers, and filled it with honey.
I said to the chickadee, singing his heart out in the green pine tree:
little dazzler, little song, little mouthful.

cave.
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The shape climbs up out of the curled grass. It grunts into view. There is no measure for the confidence at the bottom of its eyes-. there is no telling
the suppleness of its shoulders as it turns and yawns.
Near the fallen tree
something a leaf snapped loose
from the branch and fluttering down tries to pull me into its trap of attention.
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It pulls me
into its trap of attention.
And when I turn again, the bear is gone.
Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?
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Look, I want to love this world
as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it.

Sometimes in late summer I won't touch anything, not the flowers, not the blackberries brimming in the thickets; I won't drink from the pond; I won't name the birds or the trees;
I won't whisper my own name.
One morning
the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident, and didn't see me and I thought: so this is the world.
I'm not in it.
It is beautiful.

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 22h

Day 2 and last class. All this sand is from the Helene flooding - before that there were gravel trails alongside the river

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reading End Times Fascism and thinking about how all these billionaire tech bros could have been Dolly and made people’s lives easier or Sam Reich and employed a bunch of people to make people happy but NOOO they had to burn the planet

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The nation explicitly cast as a fortressed bunker ensuring "survivability" for the in-group. A.K.A. end times fascism.

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am grateful for colleagues who at faculty meeting acknowledged and remembered the folks laid off and who had kindness and empathy for the people directly affected by those losses

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So I keep seeing a list floating around on IG of majors that will no longer qualify for federal student loans in 27 but I cannot find a news outlet reporting that. Anyone know what the source is for that list?

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Had a dream last night about a perfect bike ride and it makes me want to get back out there (almost got hit twice by cars in one week in June and have been scared to be on the road since ☹️)

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Day one of nature writing at the Greenway with comp students

Sun through tree and the river lined with trees

A crane on a rock with millions of little bugs

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Villanova Theatre is hiring! We’ve just opened our search for a TT Assistant Professor of Playwriting position. Details below, and very happy to answer questions. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/36362

jobs.villanova.edu

Tenure track Assistant Professor of Playwriting

Why work at Villanova?Join a mission-driven organization. Since Villanova University’s founding in 1842, we have been inspired by the values of truth, unity, and love, and are a community dedicated to...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer.

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please share!! The Department of English at Arizona State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies position. PhD in literature, rhetoric, media studies, linguistics, or related discipline required at the time of appointment. apply.interfolio.com/194236

apply.interfolio.com

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

[a five minute chunk of my day] - read news story that federal government now has its own AI chatbot - open government AI chatbot - type "what are the effects of climate change" - read that CO2 helps plants grow and there will be less economic damage that we thought! - close chatbot fin

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

W called saying his car had been towed but thankfully it turned out to be someone pranking him on YikYak (YikYak was and remains a campus menace)

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not the Game Changer finale BTS making me cry - it makes my heart happy to see such creative collaborative joy

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John O'Brien @johnobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Behold, a job post in my department. The University of Virginia’s Department of English/Program in Creative Writing (creativewriting.virginia.edu ) invites applications for a tenure-line Assistant or Associate Professor in Fiction. To apply, please visit apply.interfolio.com/192511

creativewriting.virginia.edu

Mother Love

Fiction Reading

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A part time job would be a solution to my bored + broke problem but all the jobs around here are Uber or McDonald’s or sad retail and I am apparently not bored or broke enough to do that

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Jose Been @josebeentv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

World Championships elite men road race 🥇 Brandon McNulty (USA) 🥈 Michael Matthews (Australia) 🥉 Mathieu van der Poel

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Two years since Helene and the house up the street that got bifurcated by a tree still isn’t completely repaired. Whole lot of people still waiting on relief money

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can’t blame W anymore when one of us does something wild like leave an empty cracker box sitting in the pantry

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would like a spinoff of Smartypants that is all the presenters in a secluded manor mystery

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yesterday I finished Upstream which is a lovely collection of Mary Oliver’s essays so now I’m starting New and Selected Poems Vol 1. Perfect for reading outside with the neighborhood cats while attempting to ignore the delivery drones overhead

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would like to read China Mieville’s new novel but it is daunting even for me as a fast pro reader

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Poor W is regretting buying season tickets

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I see so many yard signs around town for Tim Moore. The orgies, the corruption and people still happily vote for him 🤦‍♀️

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It was briefly hoodie weather at the farmers market

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had hoped to open the windows but it’s going to be in the 80s for the next week so the AC will be back on in a few hours ☹️

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now

He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ANUBIS: "And nowe the weighinge of your hearte, to see the worthe of your lyfe, the sum of your deedes. Reache ynto your chest, seize it, and putte it on the scale. You may not believe you kan do thys, but you kan. Heere all rules bende and change." Me [figuringe out wher to putte my iced coffee]

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Over a month into empty nesting and I do not like it. We have time but not money so no going out or traveling or anything. Just boring

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe I shouldn’t read Exit Party and End Times Fascism at the same time

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i'm just putting this out there: CASTLE OF OTRANTO movie with the sense of humor of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Remember when Pepperidge Farm cookies were huge? (Pepperidge Farm does not remember apparently)

An ordinary size Chesapeake cookie by a can of water. In Ye Olden Days the cookie would be twice as large

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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Took myself and my little disposable income to the bookstore

Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems Vol 1
Klein and Taylor, End Times Fascism
St John Mandel, Exit Party

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.

reed.edu

Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Post-1945 Fiction and/or Narrative of the United States - Office of the Dean of the Faculty - Reed C...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Climate change affects everything. "These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns."

What is the report?
In the first report of its kind, the UK’s spy chiefs set out stark warnings of the catastrophic risks to the UK from the collapse of vital ecosystems around the world, driven by the climate crisis and our failures to protect nature. The Guardian has seen part of the report and has spoken to a large number of people familiar with its contents, which warn of food shortages, conflicts, mass migration and other threats to the UK’s national security, including going as far as the risk of nuclear war or the breakdown of society. These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns.

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