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New York Working Families Party @nywfp.bsky.social · 22h

This November, we’re voting on the Working Families ballot line from top to bottom! It's our time to show all of New York that there’s a different way to do politics, and we’re leading it 💪🗳. Find an event near you: www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

some time after our visit to BULBS WORLD, we also had reason to go to Broome Lampshades, Inc. I carried about a 16"x11" cylindrical lampshade all afternoon. I did not mind, because there is a shop for Exactly The Thing. I love New York so much

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apropos of several things in recent news: If you want to have a confidential conversation via a video conferencing call, you really, REALLY should ban all auto-transcripts and "AI" notetakers. Transcripts are a great tool for non-confidential meetings. (though nobody needs an AI notetaker imho)

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The White Sox are going to win the World Series. Calling it now.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today’s question: Will the movers deliver our furniture before nature delivers the nor’easter?

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yesterday suit: wide legged early 00’s-does-70s grey and camel plaid Today suit: split-skirt culottes (black, contemporary), vintage 80s Tahari cream blazer, chrysoprase and baroque pearl necklace (@ceruleancynic.bsky.social)

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Climate week tomorrow! I get to wear suits! I am excited about suits! (and climate week) (if you are at climate week and we know each other and should be meeting up and are not yet meeting up, ping me)

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

my favorite season! also the time for knee-high boots and no stockings currently I am being denied my 9-14 days by virtue of 'all of my belongings are in a POD somewhere between here and New Mexico' and I am annoyed enough about it to visit a shoe emporium of some sort

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well, the most annoying part of this vaccine experience so far is confirming that I really, genuinely am allergic to … the adhesive in bandaids.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Got our covid and flu vaccines! Trying out Novavax, in hopes of skipping the usual Temporary Malaria Experience.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We needed light bulbs that didn’t suck. Behold, BULBS WORLD, a minor wonder of the glory that is New York City

A photo of BULBS WORLD, a lighting shop in Chinatown, Manhattan

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

p.s. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that all of this acceleration in the hype is a reaction to the succesful and broadening opposition to their wasteful, polluting, noisy data centers.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This. There are no false faces. But I have a lot of faces to wear.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I absolutely have Disguise Wardrobe for getting through a con floor/dealer’s room fast. It is very boring. (Because my trademark style item is Very Not Boring, Mostly Jumpsuits.) I never want to be more widely recognized than I currently am.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

my worry about ai isn’t that it will become sentient, it’s that the cognitive impact of outsourcing critical thinking to computers combined with the proliferation of slop making it increasingly challenging to validate information will dissolve society’s already-tenuous grasp on consensus reality

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We’re on the train, moving across the country like it was 1926 all our belongings have been sent on ahead of us there is an observation car and dining reservations best possible way to traverse 2,000 miles

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trump’s Department of Energy lost a big battle today at the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, after the Trump administration decided to keep a Michigan coal plant open past retirement under the broad concept of Executive Branch “emergency powers.” More: substack.com/profile/2357...

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Amee Vanderpool (@shero)

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I will be very, very happy when we are not moving any more. Honestly, I will be completely fine when we are UNPACKING. Unpacking is fun. But the 'time to dismantle your house' thing we're doing now? christ on little crackers

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

my god, they've painted the Le Creuset black to appear ominous www.lecreuset.com/explore-colo...

lecreuset.com

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

a) this is, unfairly, both functional and good b) the experience of listening to it is akin to some of the sequencing tricks I have witnessed @kierongillen.bsky.social pull in a Thoughtbubble set c) I would, in fact, dance to this

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 02/09/2026

Help fund 3LBE magazine for 2027 on Kickstarter and we’ll all get to read new stories by these amazing authors… and more on the way! 🖌 A.T. Greenblatt, Shane Hawk, Jordan Kurella, Arkady Martine, Sam J. Miller, Sarah Read, Eden Royce, A.D. Sui, Michael Wehunt, Kelsea Yu 🖌 kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Still finding more ink that could be your ink rather than ours! Reply with interest and we will get the ink shipped to you ASAP. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

docs.google.com

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

On my way to @laworldcon.bsky.social! Well, I will be, if my plane gets to the Second Smallest Airport I've Ever Flown Out Of. Here's where to find me:

A list of panels Arkady Martine will be on at Worldcon.
Friday August 28
Viable Paradise: a residential writing workshop - 10:30 AM, Avila B
Languages and Linguistics in SFF - 6 PM, Redondo
Saturday August 29
Table Talk - 12 PM, Sunset
Reading - 3:30 PM, El Capitan
Autographing - 4:30 PM, Pedestrian Bridge
Sunday August 30
Alternative Energy: Tools to Switch on Better Power - 10:30 AM, Redondo
Setting the Stakes High: Hugo Best Novel - 12 PM, 252C
Future Cities: New Ideas for Dense & Workable Cities - 1:30 PM, 252AB
Beyond the Pantsers & Plotters Spectrum - 4:30 PM, 252C

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Still some ink available that could be your ink instead of our ink!

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I have always thought that Dolly Parton was one of the thirty-six righteous people - Judaism's lamed vav tzadikim, the people the Talmud says hold the world together, often secretly and unknown even to themselves. I am very sad she is no longer with us, and sure she is with her God, who she loved.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

things you discover while packing to move across the country: you have way too much fountain pen ink would YOU like fountain pen ink instead docs.google.com/spreadsheets... reply with your selections and we'll go from there; everything gets mailed next week. Sadly no shipping outside the US.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I highly approve. Social science core classes at UChicago were amongst the ones that taught me the most in terms of analytical skill, disciplinary breadth, and complex thinking. All of which are next to impossible to cultivate when outsourced to sparkling autocorrect.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I ... I don't think that's ever happened before. Not in a professional baseball game. I could be wrong. But. I don't think that's ... ever? happened? I was going to say 'blaseball' but like for fuck's sake

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One thing that heartens me a good bit: my strong impression is that there’s a broad consensus among at least professional fiction writers that using generative AI makes you look like a lazy untalented hack, and we should do everything we can to solidify that

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Byzantine Mosaics @byzantinemosaics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Maria of the Mongols www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaic…

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

back in NM. now we have to ... pack. I am never more attuned to the Buddhist teaching about attachment to the material world bringing suffering than I am while moving house

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Holy shit you guys are rockstars and I have to source MORE MAILING SUPPLIES <3 (keep it up, I'm enjoying having to pack up all these objects to send instead of haul back to Santa Fe) ~TODAY ONLY everything is HALF OFF~

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

TOMORROW FRIDAY ONE DAY ONLY 50% OFF SALE ON LITERALLY ALL THESE JEWELS there is an absurd amount of semiprecious stone and uranium glass that can be yours for much less money than usual because would YOU want to move rocks across the country, no, no, that's the postal service's job

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

as I said to some coworkers this morning what climate benefits? what actual, defined, measurable benefits? ('magic computer god will fix climate change because AGI' is not a benefit.)

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

in the spirit of several other energysky folks: I am going to be at NYC Climate Week. What should I be going to that I don't know about yet? (pretty booked on Tuesday already though)

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I remember this place! You totally introduced me to it, Alex. During the most dubious part of my 20s. 😆 Note: the dubiousity I was experiencing at least had nothing to do with exploding the restaurant

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Took myself to MoMA to see the Duchamp exhibit. Again reminded that I mostly like 1910s-20s Duchamp on an aesthetic level, even if I think the rest of his work is intellectually interesting.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Cat vampires. That’s what I think. Boat of cat vampires, right there.

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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The article should mention that none of this would have been possible without support of Laborers’ International Union of North America Minnesota & North Dakota, which supported the project and ensured it was built by union workers. Learn more about this here awf.labortools.com/listen/minne...

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Minnesota’s largest solar plant will be built with 100% union labor

The AWF Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Kevin Pranis of LiUNA Minnesota and North Dakota joined us on today’s show.

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

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Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

periodical reminder to check out Bleeding Hart Studio on Etsy for all your beaded necklace and earring needs! www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... :) Shipping a little slower than usual, but we're still open for business! SOME EXAMPLES ~

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