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clementine 🍊

@clementinereads.bsky.social
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reader, knitter, media scholar • she/her • hamilton, ON

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Kathryn Waring @kathrynwaring.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
For @teenvogue.com, I wrote about RFK's desire to send people to 'wellness farms'--and how the US has already tried that. A big thank you to @allegrak.bsky.social for believing in this piece!
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RFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That.
RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms."
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Sunday knitting & podcast combo 🧶 🎧
A multicoloured sockScreenshot of the Blowback podcast playing on Spotify
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Jfc did the "AI: The New Aestheics of Fascism" article call it newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
White House tweet of chatgpt studio ghibli image of government agent arresting a crying brown skinned woman..
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I'm so brave publishing grades on a Friday and logging out knowing students will be emailing me all weekend!!!!
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
americans what the fuck did you do to the bloc quebecois

6:05 p.m. EDT: Bloc Québécois calls for ‘buy Canadian’ act to counter U.S. protectionist measures
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet has called for Canada to adopt a law that encourages the federal government to purchase goods made in the country.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/03/2025
if you lose an argument to a chatbot you should have to pass an independent turing test before you're allowed to rejoin society
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".
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BigViragoEnergy™️ @sgwong.com · 26/03/2025
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Crime Writers for Trans Rights 2025
Silent auction 'Crime Writers for Trans Rights 2025' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
again, compare jurors and grand jurors, every day people, who stood up to death threats and were not cowed in the least, with prosecutors, many judges, and politicians, who mostly dilly dallied and hoped trump would go away on his own or folded entirely.
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Mélikah Abdelmoumen @mabdelmoumen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
WOW. Dans le Miramichi Reader, recension par Clementine Oberst de Baldwin, Styron and Me (@biblioasis.bsky.social, trad. Catherine Khordoc). "By knitting together this literary history with her own personal experiences, Abdelmoumen has created something new and vital." Ces mots me bouleversent.
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Baldwin, Styron, and Me by Mélikah Abdelmoumen, translated by Catherine Khordoc
This expansive, evocative, and insightful book is part memoir, part imaginative reconstruction of history.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It’s truly plain as day.
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
How great is it that I got to destroy a forest in order to get this INCORRECT AI-powered answer??? (Netflix has 26 Oscars.)
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Canada needs: strict regulations on housing, food supply, energy, environment. We need a national housing and alternate energy plan. We need massive capital transportation projects. We need broad national dental, pharma, and child-care, no opts-outs allowed. We need a strong social safety net.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Pink Spring Sky Robert Newton Hurley 1972
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I learned this semi-recently and it truly helped ease my post-rain anxiety about accidentally stepping on worms. 😢
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I read a lot. Part of the appeal is that the act of reading connects me - across space and time - with another human being who created something with intentionality. I don't want to read things written by computers. It defeats the purpose entirely.
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Grading short quizzes when you're used to grading 2000+ word essays is such a breath of fresh air. I don't even like quizzes, but this is undeniably a benefit...
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Q. Pheevr @q.pheevr.ca · 24/03/2024
Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
Screenshot from a scan of page 289 of an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. The text is set in two columns. In the left column, we read in part “thou hast hit the point, Sancho, which can alone shake my resolution”, and on the right “thy share of the booty would would have been at least the emperor’s crown of gold”; by coincidence, these align so that the phrase “shake my booty” can be read across the columns.
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I’ve been thinking for a while that it’s becoming politically untenable for many “international” academic associations to be US-based. Here is yet another reason why - many people literally cannot travel to the US for conferences, which we are supposed to do for our careers.
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
me needing to fly out of Pearson in 2 months for a conference 😭😭😭
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/02/2025
It is shameful that RAINN, representing sexually abused people, erased trans people because they are scared of Trump. To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too. But we are all in this together.
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
On Valentine’s Day, I successfully defended my PhD in conversation with my incredible committee, surrounded by friends, family, and colleagues. Overwhelmed is an understatement!
I sit at a table with my PhD committee in a university classroom, presenting my work.A card that says “Dr. Oberst” sits nestled in a bouquet of magenta, orange, and yellow gerbera daisies.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/02/2025
Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory
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king's co-op boo store 👻 @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
yeah, we know www.404media.co/microsoft-st...
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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 10/02/2025
Doug Ford's goofy hat gimmick was cringe, but cute in its own way. Forget it. Focus on the man and his record. And then vote for somebody else. thewalrus.ca/doug-ford-tr...
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The Hat Was Cute. Doug Ford’s Record Isn’t | The Walrus
The province he promises to rescue from a trade war is the same one he’s driving into the ground
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Andrea Long Chu never misses. Every line is 🔥
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing
"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?"
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Introducing Olive! Her adoption was quick & unexpected, but she's settling in beautifully and she is such a snuggly girl. She's about a year old and full of love.
Olive, a small tabby cat, sleeps on a heating pad with her head resting on a small Lambchop toy. She looks very peaceful and cozy.
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
First read of 2025!
I’m holding up a book - The Singularity by Dino Buzzati - in front of a lit up Christmas tree.
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
2024, 2014, 2004, and 1994
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
This is the fourth or fifth year of my NYE tradition of using my Christmas gift card at the used bookstore. Perfect way to end the year.
6 books leaning against the end of a shelf: A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand, Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood, Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwartz-Bart, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards, Notes on a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
My biggest goal for 2025 (other than defending my PhD 🫣) is to learn to sew. Fast fashion is terrible for the world, everything is low quality, it’s so hard to find funky fun things that express my personality… I already knit garments, so it’s time to kick it up a notch!
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I’m reading Beloved for the first time in 8 years, and I don’t want to say I forgot how good it was…. but… it’s definitely even better than I remembered!
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Arms embargo Ceasefire Justice Freedom
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I think it is amazing that stuff like this - and like having ebooks you bought deleted from your readers etc - happens for "copyright" and "IP" and yet LLMs and similar can just... hoover up everything they want and say "oh well that's life" when people complain? Baffling.
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Today’s baking adventure! Very easy recipe. Next time I’d leave ‘em in the oven a tiny bit longer for more caramelization. thedessertedgirl.com/2023/11/05/b...
I’m holding a plate with a “bee sting bar” - made up of toasted almond coated in a caramelized honey topping.
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I made peppermint bark! Easiest recipe ever, especially when you can buy pre-smashed candy canes at Bulk Barn.
I’m holding a plate of peppermint bark - shards of candy canes embedded in a layer of white chocolate on top of a dark chocolate base.
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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Libraries are so cute. Please get the Libby and Hoopla app on your phone and the Kanopy app for your TV. It makes the libraries so happy and you can access books, movies, magazines, audiobooks, tv shows, and joy. YOU GET FREE JOY
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I managed to make a chocolate orange last 20 days. Just ate the last slice. Please clap!!
Me holding the final slice of my chocolate orange
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Sometimes I have the indulgent thought that the librarians gathering my holds are wondering how all the weird disparate books I requested fit together. Today’s library haul is atypically cohesive.
Me holding 3 books: Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies, Performing Utopia, and Utopia as Method
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I think I have been in the Word Doc mines for too long because there is almost nothing more beautiful to me than a double-spaced document in Times New Roman.
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Trevor J. Adams @trevorjadams.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Look how they massacred my boy
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Iconic Halifax ship Theodore Too partially sunk at Ontario dock
An iconic ship that was a fixture in Halifax Harbour for 21 years has partially sunk in Ontario.
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/12/2024
is it too soon to say that schools should have a manifesto writing class because the quality of these are going down dramatically. we need to fund public education immediately
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I feel like every mid-90s baby is obligated to say 9/11. Cliché but nonetheless true. (And, as a nice tie-in to the original post, my mom was in labour with me during OJ's Bronco chase!)
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Skeleton in a Human Suit @ladambell.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
First Disney removed an episode of Moon Girl that centered around a trans character, now this. Cowardly as hell. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...
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Disney Pulls Transgender Storyline from Pixar’s ‘Win or Lose’ Streaming Series (Exclusive)
The original animated show about a co-ed high school team debuts on Disney+ in February.
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clementine 🍊 @clementinereads.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
There have probably been about 27 collective minutes in the last 8 months in which neither HOT TO GO! nor Pink Pony Club is in my head. My brain always has at least one small corner devoted to Chappell at all times.
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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I have been thinking about this a lot lately: that the “phasing out” of humanities scholarship as part of popular education is an effort to prevent people from being able to interpret their political reality.
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