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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. redpopnews.com/beyond-the-g...

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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms Receives 2026 American Book Award

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Month the day be with you @lapsedcanadian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A make-work project for his corrupt art dealer friend

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve come to realize that if I didn’t volunteer to host every once in a while, I’d basically never clean my house.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The hinges on a toilet seat are the most difficult thing in the bathroom to get clean.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If anyone knows of any scholarship on The Princess Bride, I’d love to hear about it.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Students chose The Princess Bride (1987) for the fantasy film in our Fantasy & Speculative Fiction course. Surprised that they chose the oldest option. Also surprised to find that there’s very little academic writing on the film (unless I’m missing something).

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can’t access Google Scholar from my phone anymore. I always get this error. No other website gives me this issue, which makes me think the problem isn’t on my end. Anyone else dealt with this?

We're sorry...

... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.

See Google Help for more information.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Publication News! You can now pre-order the Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Weird, edited by me and @jasonhaslam.ca Look at that cover!! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Weird

Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Weird

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The H-Net Book Channel @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So you have signed a book contract, and you realized that you are on the hook for indexing your work. @emily-elliott.bsky.social provides our #FeedingTheElephant readers with advice on indexing their work baed on her experience indexing a co-edited volume. 🔗 networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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Tips for Indexing Your Book | H-Net

A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.Post by Emily Joan Elliott, associate director of research and publications, H-Net.

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

bring your online anger to the public where it belongs with our new tote bag! proudly ruin parties, annoy the tech bros, and effortlessly make it known where you stand in the fight against AI Slop with this season’s hottest fashion accessory. Pre-order yours at kingsbookstore.ca/AISucks

a black tote bag that says DO NOT TALK TO ME ABOUT AI

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can you imagine sucking so bad you make Scott Moe look good?

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 23/09/2026

Meanwhile, countless current and former Canadian-trained academics languish in a broken job market caused by Liberal changes in the social transfer that led to massive provincial divestment from higher education, making Canada one of the least supportive wealthy countries when it comes to higher ed.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

two years gone, forever here

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you describe yourself as an empath, your name better be Deanna Troi.

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reason number 832 for not handing over even parts of Canadian airports to anyone with some cash to invest.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey, I’m teaching The Hobbit later today!

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you describe yourself as an empath, your name better be Deanna Troi.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve seen a lot of online discourse that’s like “can MAGA outlive Trump? Can fascism succeed without a charismatic leader?”, and I realize that one thing this has really brought home to me is that people have wildly differing ideas of charisma.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Reacher is a fun show, but between the “Reacher Smash” portions, some of the actors have to deliver some exposition, and it’s like no one on the show has ever heard a human talk before.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. (Walter Benjamin)

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bleak reminder that we used to see hundreds of academic jobs in the humanities posted every year at this time. Now there are maybe 3 tenure-track English lit jobs in all of Canada. AI is only further devaluing the arts in ways that are decimating how we teach and secure future positions.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have stolen this from the interwebs to share with you

I'M THE OPPOSITE OF AI. IT TOOK ME AN HOUR TO WRITE ONE EMAIL AND IHAVEN'T HAD ANY WATER
TODAY.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Usually, I unwisely drink several cups of coffee before doing cardio. Today, I’ve decided that my risks of debilitating acid reflux aren’t high enough, so I’ve added a bowl of reheated chilli to the mix.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have stolen this from the interwebs to share with you

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Leo McKay Jr. @leomckayjr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mark Carney is protecting Canada from the US by selling Canadian assets to wealthy Americans. That’s some 4D chess right there.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This season of America got really weird. Think the writers are running out of ideas.

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is bad!

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Alberta - Kyle Campbell, the NDP candidate in Calgary-Shaw, has won the by-election. 🟠NDP FLIP

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You know, Rollins Band was occasionally much weirder and more experimental than you’d reckon. m.youtube.com/watch?v=eOxE...

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Almost Real

YouTube video by Rollins Band - Topic

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nostalgic for the lockdown days, when I could hire a bike courier to deliver a case of craft beer to my doorstep.

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All of these things require well-compensated faculty with small enough teaching loads that they can devote considerable time to each class.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sorry, Canadian grocery stores, your newfound nationalism in the face of tariffs won’t make me forget your COVID price gouging.

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gonna be tricky

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sorry, Canadian grocery stores, your newfound nationalism in the face of tariffs won’t make me forget your COVID price gouging.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The day after 9/11 I remember seeing a still of King Kong knocking planes out of the New York skyline, with the caption “Where were you when we needed you?”

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The plagiarism machine I created will likely kill us all, there’s a 40% chance, no, higher, like 75%,or more! But NO I will not “unplug it,” that’s an insane suggestion. The scientific solution is to *give me more money.*

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s a real shame that this guy isn’t harmless, so we could guiltlessly enjoy how fucking funny he is.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

what is it about academics becoming university presidents that makes them lose 30 IQ points

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hello, I watched The Animatrix as a young person, and now I have some wild takes about large language modules.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So many boosters of A.I. in ed are just launching dressed up appeals to ignorance. You can’t ignore them, but you don’t have to take them seriously.

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Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

At least it is new Taskmaster Day.

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