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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of them are, yes. All are art professionals.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I find it deeply weird to see so many friends and colleagues travel to the US as if everything were normal.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If only there were a profession who had the mandate to report on the actions of elected officials and hold them to account when they break the law or violate ethical norms.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wages were won through people power. We dispel 5 common myths in my new video, Myths Around AI and Productivity, based on the work we’ve been doing at @dairinstitute.bsky.social with The Luddite Lab. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BO0...

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jane thé Virgin is so underrated.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The only radio I listen to is college radio. That has been the case since I was 14, with exceptions for the opera show on cbc.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Imagine listening to the radio to hear music you don’t like, just so you can tell yourself your tastes aren’t siloed. Is that something real people actually do? Because it sounds positively masochistic to me.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Me: spends 30 years making abrasive art that is repulsive to most people Also me: absolutely heartbroken that people don’t love my abrasive art

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, hiring committees are none of my business.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On and I’m *doused* in Halston like it’s 1977. It’s also cozy and though it’s not listed in the scent pyramids, I get a blast of fresh picked apples from it.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s the first real fall day here and I have my Irish fisherman’s sweater, some sweatpants, a mug of herbal tea, and a Stephen King book I picked up for 3$ on a whim at the thrift. I’m so cozy that for now, everything is fine.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I could have never guessed how important sweaters, and having a wide assortment or them, would be to my life before moving to Edmonton.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I might be naive but I think I sidestep a lot of that as a sessional lecturer in studio arts. It’s normal and expected that I show up to work in jeans, steel toed boots, and a paint spattered work shirt.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fucking auto correct. The service industry.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Apparently it’s disqualifying to show up to a (corporate) job interview with an iced coffee. Which make me glad my entire life has been arrive industry/freelance design/arts/art academia because while I might only drink an iced coffee every 3 years, that level of uptight would make me lose my mind.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The iced coffee discourse makes me glad to have never worked a corporate job in my life because wtf. These unwritten rules sound completely irrational and bizarre to me.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others. It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

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Associate Professor of the History of Science and MedicineAssociate Professor of the History of Science and Medicine
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I don't know where to start with this but... Grammerly is now offering "expert review" of your work by living and dead academics. Yes, dead ones - without anyone's explicit permission it's creating little LLMs based on their scraped work and using their names and reputations. Obscene.
It may be possible to opt out of having YOUR work used to train genAI - https://lnkd.in/eXZB6TY8'
The post includes a screenshot of an option for "Expert Review" in Grammarly from "Selected Experts, David Abulafia, Historian specialising in Mediterranean and global medieval history, author of the Great Sea

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the US economy & our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable… that bet isn't looking good. The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more than you spend…“

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if you don't support trans rights, you are a loser

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was heating my place in Montreal with a heat pump with zero issue.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What’s going on with his sleeves?

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Having to use an eye brow brush with Murphy’s oil soap to get the dust out of the detailing makes me wonder what the hell I was thinking to buy an art deco vanity. I live on a boulevard in the prairies, there is *so* much dust.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

More ornate styles, like art deco, are harder to clean. I have a piece I love, but the dust is *so* hard to clean from the curlicues.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

His policies also led us to the housing crisis we are currently in.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That poor baby. Doug Ford knew accidents like this would happen. "The speed camera, which was near the crosswalk where the teen was hit, had been removed as part of a provincial government directive..." #GiftLink 🎁 #OnPoli #ToPoli #WalkTO #BikeTO www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

$According to the statement of claim, the boy suffered multiple injuries, including a traumatic brain injury, vision loss in his right eye, multiple skull/facial fractures, carotid artery injury, colonic injury and ongoing cognitive, psychological and behavioural effects.$

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

(I got rid of 23 boxes of books when we moved from a large two bedroom we had lived in for 18 years to a tiny one bedroom. I came to terms with the fact I would probably never read Mishima or finish Gravity’s Rainbow but I *would* re-read everything by Barbara Pym every 5 or 6 years until I die.)

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anyway, I had forgotten how much I loved his writing, how gorgeous it is.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was seated next to a engineer specializing in water infrastructure and usage this evening and all I could think to ask was if he had read Imperial by William Volmann. He hadn’t. Now I want to read Volmann but can’t remember if I sold all my books of his last downsize or if they are still packed.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s amazing how confidently people think make-em-ups about art history.’

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I actually have a degree in art history and am a working artist/ art academicand the field has always had significant presence in the trenches of the new.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A stament that could only be made by someone who has never studied art history or art and has never spent time talking to art professionals.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was so hungry but it was so dry and crumbly I could only eat one bite. It legit tasted like how dust smells.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Me and my partner just walked out and had some if the best falafel of our lives a block away. The other band eat it and we’re very upset.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

These caterers need to be marched down to a veg friendly Viet place and have a satay tofu bahn mí with extra jalepenos and a good generous squeeze of peanut sauce just to learn that people who don’t eat meat do in fact like flavour.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh my god. Like what the fuck. They would never prepare meat that way, why on earth would tvp be tasty that way? In my touring musician days, a venue in Paris served us vegans roasted potatoes covered in canned maraschino cherries. It *had* to have been passive aggressive.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very likely. The non vegan sandwiches were on baguette, which is pretty much always vegan. The vegan sandwiches were served on old pumic stones and had no condiments or seasonings at all.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was just served a sandwich that was probably made out of sand. That’s how dry and crumbly it was. I had no idea bread could be a desiccant.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don’t think any caterer in the history of catering companies has *ever* eaten their own vegan options.

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There seems to be a bit of misinformation circulating on social media about my latest @albertaviews.bsky.social column and what it actually says. So perhaps you’d like to read it for yourself and draw your own conclusions. (Feel free to share, it you are so moved.) #ableg #abpoli #Canada #cdnpoli

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Alberta's Referendum Questions - The Noxious Nine - Alberta Views

Nine disingenuous, malicious referendum questions, push-polls, designed to incite social division and undermine confidence in the country.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

According to his bio, he is a political scientist.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wow, this kind of attention to detail and depth of critical insight is all it takes to be a political scientist?

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

YES to Canada 🇨🇦, reason, and compassion❗ NO to the 9❗ As the (ridiculous) Alberta referendum nears, let's keep the message simple. VOTE❗ Much of the motivation for referendum based on xenophobic and regressive BS. My take 👉 thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep... cc @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social

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Alberta’s Separatists Are Chasing a Total Cowboy Fantasy | The Walrus

The province they describe—rural, homogeneous, under siege—bears little resemblance to reality

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Syllabus= done, class portal=prepped, week by week map of lectures, demos, and workshops=done, guest artist= sorted, readings=uploaded. I’m as ready as I’ll ever be for class on Wednesday.

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I can’t tell who is more baby brained; the people who insist that ‘woke’ was a serious constraint on them, or the academic who argue that Gen AI is no different from any computer usage whatsoever.

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I hate this game of Choose Your Fighter and I refuse to praise Doug Ford for anything. Great that some politicians aren’t traitors on top of being corrupt, cruel pigs who are more than thrilled to roll around in and fling some shit at the bigger pigs for as long as the spotlight stays on.

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