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Caroline Wilkinson

@carolinewilkinson.bsky.social
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Writer, Poet, Critic (she/her) Words in DIAGRAM, Witness, Fourteen Hills, NOVEL www.carolinewilkinson.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23h
I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.
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Nacho @nachonachete.bsky.social · 19h
"The AI-forward education platforms are expected to provide indispensable systems for surveilling and disciplining two despised populations - educators (especially unionized ones) and young people - who remain durably resistant to fascist propaganda".
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on ­ post-
­ traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a ­ moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 23h
"Those losing their health benefits who were previously eligible include refugees of war, asylees who fled persecution, victims of sex trafficking, and interpreters who risked their lives assisting U.S. service members in Afghanistan..."
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US Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims - KFF Health News
The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good morning
A peach-colored sky moving into a gray-blue above with two trees in the lower corners
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shut every fraternity down.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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All Grim Prints @allgrim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Committing to getting back on my printing game. It’s been a few months, and I’m ready to be back. Finishing the Morris soon and starting a new monster (already chosen).
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Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Farmington, Maine today 🌱
Red, yellow, and green trees in a line beneath a cloudless, brilliant blue sky.
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Currently...
On a flooded Bangkok street, water splashes from a motorcycle carrying a small family.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Registration is now open. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
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The Alchemy Lecture
The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of three to four thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in...
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
charles wright
ARCHAEOLOGY

The older we get, the deeper we dig into our childhoods, Hoping to find the radiant cell
That washed us, and caused our lives to glow in the dark like clock hands 
Endlessly turning toward the future,
Tomorrow, day after tomorrow, the day after that, all golden, all in good time.

Hiwassee Dam, North Carolina

Still 1942,
Still campfire smoke in both our eyes, my brother and I
Gaze far out at the lake in sunflame
Expecting our father at any moment, like Charon, to appear
Back out of the light from the other side,
low-gunwaled and loaded down with our slippery dreams.

Other incidents flicker like foxfire in the black 
Isolate distance of memory,
cross-eyed,
horizon-haired.

Which one, is it one, is it any one that cleans us, clears us,
That relimbs our lives to a shining?

One month without rain, two months third month of the new year, Afternoon breeze-rustle dry in the dry needles of hemlock and pine. 
I can't get down deep enough.
 Sunlight flaps its enormous wings and lifts off from the back yard, 
The wind rattles its raw throat, but I still can't go deep enough.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My kid asked me what‘s something I teach my students and I said “That if you write what you have to say on paper then—unlike devices—no one has access to it except you and whoever else physically interacts with the paper” and you guys, it made an immediate impression
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI is the largest theft of labor in history, but the case doesn't go far enough -- AI steals not only from journalists and researchers but from authors throughout history, from policymakers and legal writers, from photographers and artists in every medium.
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Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Novelists Kathryn Davis and Ann Joslin Williams are reading at UMaine Farmington on Thurs, Sept 24, 7:30 PM at The Landing. The reading's free and open to the public. We're reading Davis's brilliant The Silk Road and Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir in my classes now. #Booksky #WritingCommunity #Maine
A photo of novelist and memoirist Kathryn DavisThe cover of The Silk Road, a novel by Kathryn Davis, featuring a spiraling shape in white and light greens on deep greens with a faint grid behind the words, "a novel"
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
SAT, SEPT 19, 1–3:30PM: Praise Day for David Henderson, a “Community Gathering, Reading, Celebration & Memorial” at St. Mark’s Church, 131 E 10th St. His children, Najuma Henderson and Imetai Henderson, will be present. Free and open to all. centerforthehumanities.org/event/praise... #poetry #NYC
Instagram post from CUNY Graduate Center/gcpoetics about Praise Day for David Henderson at St. Mark’s Church in New York City. A black and white photo of Henderson is featured.
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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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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...
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Erinrose Seon Mager @erinroses.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Started a writing workshop with @alecniedenthal.bsky.social called Nightwork, and registration for our online classes is open now :)
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nightwork
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is the way!!!
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/09/2026
Occasional reminder that the right-wing attack on higher ed, including the push for "viewpoint diversity" and "civic education," is largely a racist backlash against an increasingly non-white college-going demographic.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What’s missing: 1/ Any framing about what higher is or has been that misses the big public investment post-WW2 and then massive disinvestment starting in the 1980s which spirals into rising costs and student debt is disingenuous at best. 5/
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Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My dog heading toward the library in Farmington, Maine.
A dog in an orange halter walking across a large lawn toward a brink library
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The American Postal Workers Union @apwu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Stand with postal workers. Tell Postal Service leadership to do their job and protect the people's Post Office.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“And then we told them the wealth would
"trickle down" Famous meme of Reagan and cabinet belly laughing
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 07/09/2026
Data centers are torture devices.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On the one hand, the press hound a black scholar to death, on the other hand, on this one, where the academic fraud is front and centre and the dude is an Epstein pal... crickets... www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“There’s so much fear right now around making a living...How do you channel the fear into something productive? I don’t have an answer for you, but I think there are a lot of people who could find common cause who wouldn’t have in the past.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A tech prophet finally gets her second coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
AI is not inevitable. resistance works!
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Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools
Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I stopped buying the whole "omg we hate Trump but we just *have* to do what he says!" shtick a long time ago.
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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.
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Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Morning moon
The waning moon in purple and pink clouds at dawn
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
seems like a good time to remind people that Niemöller (the author of the confession memorialized in the "First they came for the Communists" poem) was a Hitler supporter, and made that confession after spending time in the Dachau concentration camp
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Andrew ✶ Huff @me3dia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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"In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5,' I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder."
— Roger Ebert, Life Itself
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
RIP Marx. Corporate Profits in the US "have hit the highest level since the aftermath of the second world war, while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows, fuelling discontent and a widening political backlash" www.ft.com/content/6f3a...
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Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton
dolly parton new yorker cover
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Lindy 🐲 @rowantreeforest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lunar eclipse, time-lapse August 27, 2026
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just remember this thread anytime you hear people say professors are the problem. Four colleagues made me cry today with the crazy extra miles they’ve gone this summer for their students.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'll again note that the folks willing to sign a letter supporting a raging eugenicist (purportedly in defense of his academic freedom to be racist) aren't nearly as motivated when it comes to *actual* threats to academic freedom, like this.
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Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tonight’s moon
A near-full moon with a wisp of clouds coming off the right side and top. A tree borders the right.
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