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Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My article on #criticalrole is finally out in Storyworlds (and open access!). This was a labor of love and couldn't be more excited! muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 16/09/2026

I’m up before dawn for travel, which means I can bug the lunchtime UK crowd: Do I know any game nerds with interests in 18th century (1660-1835) within shouting distance of Oxford (or willing to be for purposes of talking about their work for/with 18th century scholars?)

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Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This one was very helpful!! Everyone is very kind and helpful at TRANSMARE

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Citation Rivalry Now streaming on HBO

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 30/07/2026

I am unbelievably touched that @dropout.tv titled my @dimension20.dropout.tv Adventuring Academy episode “A Duty of Care”  I’m overwhelmed today, but I want to circle back in a while to share the links to everyone & everything I cited. More soon.

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A Duty of Care (with Dr. Emily Friedman) - Season 7 - Dropout

Dr. Emily Friedman joins Brennan to discuss the history of actual play and the best gaming system. Content Warning: Misophonia (Crunching) - [throughout 54:37-1:01:03]

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is awful for everyone. Also, mark my words: it’s going to lead to a speeding-up of degree times (and likely degradation of the quality of programs) at many institutions as they continue to admit non-US applicants and tacitly “promise” them that they can complete the program.

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Christina Clemm @clemm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Politikverdrossenheit entsteht auch, wenn Politiker*innen unglaubhaft sind, sich Dinge herausnehmen, die sie anderen untersagen, ihre Privilegien zur Schau stellen. Jens Spahn ist ein gutes Beispiel dafür: www.queer.de/detail.php?a...

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Die Doppelmoral der schwulen CDU-Väter

Die Union will am Verbot der Leihmutterschaft nicht rütteln, ihre Spitzenpolitiker setzen sich privat darüber hinweg. Jens Spahn und Hendrik Streeck zeigen: Für Menschen mit genug Geld und Einfluss ge...

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

People should be able to tell the difference between "Good Books" and "Fun Reads". There are many books that are objectively NOT Good Books, but they're Fun Reads, and there are many books that are NOT Fun Reads, but are very Good Books They're not mutually exclusive, but they're different criteria

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This excellent. You will laugh, but it's also disturbing.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Not only is writing thinking but you don’t really know what you think until you start writing.

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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 25/05/2026

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

So there‘s a het hockey series now cause what drew everyone to Heated Rivalry was definitely specifically the hockey and nothing else

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Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I miss this library and wish it would actually look like this

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

No. 9 in my tour of indie bookstores is Charlie Byrne’s in Galway where bookseller, Mikey chose Kevin Barry’s That Old Country Music as a favourite recommendation #indiebooksellers #SaintsAndWarriors

Exterior of Charlie Byrne’s bookstore Galway

A copy of Kevin Barry’s short story collection That Old Country Music

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Me, being left behind…❤️

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 29/03/2026

I saw a question on Discord about non-Actual Play TTRPG podcasts, and my response got a little out of hand so I’ve posted it. (As always, free to read) I’m hoping that folks will see this list & recommend podcasts I might not already know.

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What I’m listening to: non-AP TTRPG Podcasts | Dr. Em Friedman

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Sorry folks you’re going to have to be sincere and earnest and uncool and otherwise lame if you want to defeat fascism

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Worlds Beyond Number @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Alternate post: Brennan Gesserit

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Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"You don't regret that people might have lost important income to just to support their lives?" "No." "I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero." "Did you reduce the federal deficit?" "No, we didn't." www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvd1...

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Nathan Cavanaugh Deposition in ACLS-AHA-MLA Lawsuit About the NEH, Part 5 of 6

YouTube video by American Historical Association

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Dane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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404 Media @404media.co · 10/03/2026

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The person who made this image is well versed in the iconography of the transatlantic slave trade.

NYT article “How ICE Plans to Put 8,500
Immigrants in This Warehouse,” with the comment “Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.” The image is a vertical floorplan with pods tightly packed that resembles diagrams of slave ships in abolitionist literature from the 18th century

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Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Mellon can and should be criticized, but this claim is a doozy I think.

Goose Meme. Goose asks "Why does Mellon have a monopoly on humanities funding?" as it chases the person ("The Atlantic") in the second panel.

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds

Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers

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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Brutal numbers on Marie Curie Fellowships: over 17 000 applications, with success rate dropping to below 10%. For a scholarship of 2-3 years only, no matter how prestigious, it only shows how impossible academia has become.

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Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Truly not a great day for the kind of AP research I want to do

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Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I knew getting an #MSCA PF was a long shot, but this is absolutely terrible. A cut off above 96% for funding is absolutely ridiculous.

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Something I've been thinking about since the AI hype started is that the inevitable end game here is that human interaction will only be for people who can afford to pay for it. This isn't accessibility, it's automated inequity

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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Martenstein, Mario Barth und die Armee der Amazon-Rezensenten Nichts bringt das Bürgertum so in Wallung wie das befreite Wiehern über geschlechtergerechte Sprache. Hier habe ich darüber geschrieben. kulturundkontroverse859.substack.com/p/martenstei...

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Martenstein, Mario Barth und die Armee der Amazon-Rezensenten

Über den Triggerpunkt geschlechtergerechter Sprache

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

“Teach western civ” “So the Ancient Greek philosophers thought…” “No not like that”

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Under the discursive alibi of "technology" or even "knowledge," the worst edtech scam of our lifetime is being granted global reach, to the pleasure of ideological grifters and authoritarian governments everywhere.

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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

People are convinced that grimdark worlds are more "realistic" but I disagree. In the worst places and conditions and places on earth, people have found ways to create joy and meaning, to foster hope and goodwill, move forward. Giving in and accepting is only one response to the world's horrors.

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Diego León-Villagrá @dlv.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

KI schreibt Anträge, die von KI begutachtet werden, für Arbeiten, die von KI geschrieben… 🫠

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: publicdomainreview.org/essay/m... #OTD

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

To review: Sincerely : formal Best : neutral All the best : positive All the very best : can we be friends??? Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

people think of generative AI as Janet from The Good Place but it’s actually the clam chowder fountain from The Good Place

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Do they mean white straight Anglo American masculinity? 2020 Scottish gay man 2021 South African man 2022 Sri Lankan man 2023 Irish man 2024 Woman www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction | Editorial

Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men

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Alex @cooleyad.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Thanos couldn’t snap me up fast enough if she said this about me

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Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Light. Fire. Electricity. Mary Shelley is pretty obvious about Victor's obsessions and the Creature's animation. The discourse is exhausting. Especially if it's contained under a comment arguing that Shelley didn't write the novel. I remember a listserv imploding because of this argument.

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Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

KI im Mathe- und Deutschunterricht. “Ich kann nicht bei allen Schülern gleichzeitig sein.” Ok. Macht die KI trotzdem nicht besser. “Jeder Schüler bekommt seine eigene Kurzgeschichte geschrieben, um zu sehen, ob da auch Fehler sind.” Warum? Und “Fehler” ist für mich auch ein großes Problem

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Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Looking a bit frazzled (because the room (and Konstanz) was incredibly hot and humid that day), but here's me giving a talk on metamodernism and @criticalrole.bsky.social at the Games and Game Studies Beyond Conference at the University of Konstanz.

Picture of me standing at a podium with the presentation "Narrative Affect, Oscillating Storytelling Levels, and Critical Role's Metamodernism at the Games and Game Studies Beyond Postmodernism Conference in September 2025 at the University of Konstanz

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Jack Kost @jackkost.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Born on this day – Albert Camus, Writer, Philosopher, November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960

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lou-ellen 🎃 @louceph.com · 21/10/2025

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

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Mario Zechner @mariozechner.at · 07/11/2025

Anyways, ich hör jetzt auf mir diesen Scheiss zu geben. Abschließend noch zu diesem Zitat aus dem "Paper": nein, das ist keine challenging question, mein Econ-Dude-Bro, weil eure Methode nicht funktioniert. Die challenging question ist, wieso Pseudowissenschaft wie diese medialen Anklang findet.

A more challenging question is whether it is ethical or socially desirable to screen individuals based on facial features within a given demographic group.

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Ed Kazarian @kazedkaz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Which is also -- and it's extremely odd how the entire tradition just sort of collectively pretends this isn't the case -- a perfect one-sentence summary of the Iliad.

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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program

Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/10/2025

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

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