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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 20h

I can finally, finally announce that I'm having a baby in late summer 2028.

Publishers Marketplace announcement:
Geographer, Baffler, and n+1 contributor Britt H Young's SILICONE VALLEYS, an investigation of prosthetics by an author who was born with a limb deficiency, delving into the military-prosthetic complex, biohacker culture, the transhumanist movement, and the ways Big Tech seeks to control all of our bodies, to Catheribe Tung at Farrar, Straus, at auction, by Caroline Eisenmann at Francus Goldin Literary Agency.
Rights also to Sam Harding at William Collins (UK), by Imogen Morrell at Greene & Heaton.
Translation: rights@goldinlit.com

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It doesn't make anyone happy but President Trump's carbon tax is driven by his passion to combat climate change.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Btw while I have your attention on diet and climate, “eat local” also isn’t a real climate strategy either. To reduce climate impact: 1. Minimize your food waste 2. Eat more plants and less animal-based foods (esp beef and lamb) 3. Everything else matters a lot less (so eat what you like)

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You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local

“Eat local” is a common recommendation to reduce your diet's carbon footprint. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it comes from?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When you read a book only a fraction of what you get from the experience is the information in the book. The vast majority of what comes from reading is a new experience of yourself that comes to exist in relation to the book’s unique patterns.

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just for the record, I'm a writer. I'm authoring a book, which entails performing a lot of archival work, analysis, synthesis, original research, and literature reviews. I have given AI a fair shot and it is consistently, 100% useless to me. Independent of my ethical opposition to it, it's just bad.

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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The President of the United States continuing to bring the full force of the federal government down on a guy *everyone knows is innocent*, just like he did with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and so many others, is absolutely 1,000% impeachable IMHO. This is just straight up tyranny

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

IMAX? More like EARMAX! (movie was loud)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Rudy Giuliani is why a lot of people died during and after 9/11. Has anyone said he shouldn't show up? How about George W. who cut anti-terrorism measures that might've prevented it? Why does racist fantasy harm matter more than real harm; the answer is racism, including in amplifying these voices.

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They're not gonna make a fool out of me!!!

Promotional poster outside of a Bank of America reading "introducing BofA Rewards, rewards for every ambition. Ask how to join inside."

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Duncan Meisel @duncanwrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

AI companies are trying to do this, but with human knowledge. It's why they're destroying the books. Wipe out our ability to think for ourselves, then own the means of thinking.

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Feeling especially fatalistic about our shared ecological future and I'm searching desperately for a kernel of hope, and, no, this state of mind is unrelated to my bad deadlift day

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It’s literally not possible to have a functioning society, anywhere on earth, where this piece of shit is not imprisoned for life and stripped of all his assets.

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Americans are using oatmeal to stretch their food and dreaming about robbing grocery stores while Republicans use government to make their rich friends richer. There are many words for this. Like plunder. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

nytimes.com

Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps (Gift Article)

Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.co.uk · 18/07/2026

I often see non-disabled people and people who live without chronic illnesses asking, and to be honest sometimes angrily demanding, why disabled and chronically ill people so often have tattoos and piercings, dye our hair, dress alternatively, decorate or mod our mobility aids Here's some answers

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

All joking aside Jimothy is evidence that eugenicists don't understand nature at all, things that shouldn't work or be possible or thrive in nature do so anyway all the time, you're not pinning your sociopathy on them

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The causal inference is all over the place--do ppl who believe different things make them look different or does the looking different make them believe different things? The utterly terrified position from which he barks about people needing to appear normal, all of it. Chef's kiss fucking stupid.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This place has *everything*: - Explosive diarrhea - That’s it, what else do you need

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The only kind of people I'd call "the right kind of people" are the kind of people who say "the right kind of people."

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'm sorry but what the fuck has happened to the NYTimes

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Every US city just willingly buried in chemical-plant-explosion levels of particulate matter

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 01/07/2026

sounds great! 👍

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

By getting rid of physical discs, PlayStation isn't trying to reduce its environmental footprint or reduce the cost of consoles, they're trying to make sure you can never share a game with a friend, resell a game after you beat it, or rediscover an old game you loved without paying them more money.

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In This House, We keep a small bottle of champagne in the fridge at all times for when it happens

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Fun fact: throughout all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls, not a single gram of fiber is consumed.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

jesus christ

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I had a dream that it happened during some kind of Congressional session followed by a perfectly choreographed coup and CSPAN, just, streamed the whole thing.

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

ok, here's something good, from @xlenc.bsky.social and @britthyoung.bsky.social writing for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org - it's BART PROM, an event I would have loved to attend, full of the playfulness I associate with the best aspects of the Bay Area: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/overthinking...

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Overthinking BART Prom

"a mélange of kelp boas and poodle skirts and BART ship captain/conductor’s hats and cardboard train costumes covered in fish"

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I wrote about BART prom with @britthyoung.bsky.social

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It started with Cliffsnotes, and now everyone thinks they can just get the tl;dr on everything and it’s this, like, “summary” culture I think that’s killing us.

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The thing is, narcissists also tend to have hypochondria.

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This article by @colindickey.com in @oaklandreviewofbooks.org is not only the best existing review of Backrooms, but it's one of my favorite pieces on tech and Silicon Valley this year. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/bay-area-hor...

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The Undervalley

Why is the Bay Area emerging as the preeminent setting for underground labyrinth horror?

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Increasingly convinced that people who parrot the “AI is a tool, you’d be a fool not to use it!” line either genuinely have a job with a tremendous amount of mindless grunt work (and that work was largely automated years ago) or they have zero idea how anything works.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A major challenge for anyone who comes to power soon (the next Congress & post-Trump admin in 2029) is figuring out 1) how to quickly restore everything vital dismantled by Trump, and 2) how to guarantee long-running vital work in such a way that a future reactionary cannot just dismantle it at will

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There's a GLP-1 ad with fucking Serena Williams and, maybe at some point this Olympian was "overweight" or she wanted to lean out after kids. But suggesting in an ad you can be like Serena, who has more muscle mass than most Americans have in fat, is deeply misleading and dangerous.

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Tsaiberia @tsaiberia.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026

Are *you* subscribed to @oaklandreviewofbooks.org?

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 02/05/2026

Put your nose close to the screen:

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Current policies = 2.6–3.4°C by 2100 NDCs = 2.3–2.8 °C Net-zero pledges = 1.8–2.1°C Expanding + accelerating Net-Zero = 1.4–1.7°C, but 1.5°C (no overshoot) now unlikely Mitigation driven by: ↓coal, ↑renewables (up to ~80% by 2050), electrification, and efficiency www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Promising climate progress from net-zero ambitions to the Paris Agreement goal - Nature Climate Change

It is important to assess the gap between national climate ambitions and the goal of limiting global temperature increase. This multi-model analysis shows that if net-zero pledges are implemented, mee...

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 21/04/2026

ORB is approximately 162/250 of the way to achieving the mandate of heaven on our subscription drive, after which the vine shall give her fruit, the ground shall give her increase, the heavens shall give their dew, and coders will go back to school to learn how to write poetry.

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Oakland Review of Books

ORBital. absORBent. fORBearance. motORBus.

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Britt H Young @britthyoung.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Everyone at my gym laughed at me when I said “I miss text-based social media.”

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 16/04/2026

Forget touching grass—"touching grass means noticing how little grass there is to touch and how everyone around you is usually somewhere else." Touch water instead.

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Touch water

Thinking more about Temescal Pool, a place where you can think less.

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