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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Disney Channel in the 80s and early 90s showed all kinds of quirky Canadian movies, and this one disturbed me for reasons I can’t fully articulate.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

👇🎯 If you send kids the message that the only majors that are good are business & STEM from the time they’re in middle school, & then you don’t find the humanities & social sciences at the college level, it all becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy & that was clearly the point in the first place.

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whenever someone posts a “cute animal video” on here that turns out to be AI slop, thats an automatic block. Somehow that kind of slop makes me angrier than most slop.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Honestly, the asexuality part is really important. (Polyamory too for legal reasons especially.) People always demand why asexuality requires protection, but it’s already happening in many religiously conservative places—it’s being labeled a deviant “ideology”.

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Kit hopes you’re having a nice Sunday. She wants to show you her carrot.

Picture of a chocolate lab smiling while standing over a stuffed carrot

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Love this thread. This is how I feel, too.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introduce yourself with five artists you’ve seen at least twice: Fiona Apple Paramore Florence + the Machine Ani DiFranco Sarah McLachlan

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A real "what am I doing with my life" kind of score line as a fan

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So many academics signing that open letter in support of the Racist of the Month with their whole chest is not really surprising but it’s still the worst.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

sunday mid-august is just about the sundayest. balm for the sundays: this solidarity guide to back-to-school support for the wide refusal movement updated w new assignments, teachable readings, labor resources +more after launch 1 year ago send us your updates! bon courage! against-a-i.com

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AGAINST AI -

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I will continue to make my fliers and PowerPoints a little shitty so people will know I didn’t use AI

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I constructed a “window seat” in my study for my dog Kitten, and it’s so gratifying when she naps in it.

A chocolate lab napping in a dog bed atop some book shelves.

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I just think she's the cutest

Picture of a happy chocolate lab laying in a chair

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Cassidy Hettesheimer @cassidyhett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Cheryl Reeve’s shirt today:

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

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The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center

The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity

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E Anderson @emcanderson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If your loudest opinion on women’s sports is about preventing transgender people from participating, you aren’t engaged in women’s sports enough to know what “protecting” them would actually mean or count as a “good-faith person who cares”. That’s not care, it’s ignorance.

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The “golden age” for corporate sciences has been a “golden age” for corporate humanities for a while. It’s important for humanists and scientists who are disinclined to participate in this takeover to see that we are in this together.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"THE ODYSSEY is historically inaccurate" Oh word, did you notice that there is a Cyclops in it

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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/07/2026

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Love this piece by Lorna Wallace! Feels like all early modern drama scholars I know regularly have the experience of being accosted by these conspiracy theories.

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

All of this. There are a handful of solidly mid network shows I watch just because I like how consistent they are.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Why is this just so crazy to read from him. Explaining how the robots are not human. Just spelling it out

tangible benefits across many fields. Yet this power remans entirely tied to data
processing. So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate language, behavior and analytical skills, or even simulate empathy and understanding, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. Even when these tools are described as capable of
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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Feels like the $1.7 billion slush fund should make the “but muh taxes” folks more angry than it seems to be.

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

5 goals is 2 games is absurd regardless of the competition #Chawinga

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

If a person has to be told to not give their bank account info to OpenAI, it's probably too late for them tbh

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

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singlecatlady23.bsky.social @singlecatlady23.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 29/04/2026

John Lewis was beaten with clubs wrapped in barbed wire on the Edmund Pettus Bridge fighting for voting rights. Today’s SCOTUS decision takes the sacrifice and fight of all who marched before us and throws it away. We must keep marching — too many have fought too hard to give up.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Man, I'll tell you what: I love those messy, meandering essay drafts from my students because they show thinking rather than product. Messy drafts are a middle finger to the smooth, soulless perfection of AI.

Image shows two lines from Emma Lazurus's poem "The New Colossus" with lines crossed out to instead read, "With silent lips. "Give me your messy, your weird, / Your awkward prose yearning to breathe free..."

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Looks like a Jason Sudeikis character

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 18/04/2026

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

2/ We see public and private schools in blue states all pivoting to the same "return on investment" discourse pushed heavily by the Obama Admin (through the dept of ed, but also the white house), in ways that embody the neoliberal consensus around higher education.

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

As a Chicago fan, I look forward to being traumatized by this highlight reel goal for years to come.

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Cat Clifford @catcliff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Putting all the dictator implications aside for two seconds, his signature is objectively ugly.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Everyone is wondering what the correct level of contrition is and this seems about right

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