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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 3h

Anyway. @butwhytho.net is woman-run and not just by me being EIC. Outside of comics, all of our sections are run by women and if you've freelancer or written for us, you've seen that. If you wanna support us here you go:

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Support Us - But Why Tho?

We believe in the power of independent media. By not answering to any VC stakeholders, we shape an editorial voice that champions passion, different

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Mothership @mothership.blog · 30/09/2026

Friendships between men are often quiet. In Big Walk, silent communication just isn't enough — that is, unless you're doing a puzzle where communicating with your body is the only option. New from @daytenrose.bsky.social here:

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Big Walk lights the way for non-toxic masculinity in games

Interrogating "men don't talk to each other" through a game about communication

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sites just have to hire more non-men. It’s unforgivable how few women and nonbinary people are staff writers and editors at major sites, across the board. not just in games but games in particular has a serious problem.

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The film is written, directed, and co-stars Hitoshi Ozawa, a legendary Yakuza actor who is a villain in Yakuza 0, who got his fellow legends involved. This was his passion project inspired by one of his best friends, a trans woman, and he worked with the community for representative casting.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

And when I say bad behavior I mean no, you should not be fucking your students and I mean that broadly. Not a student in your department, not a recent graduate, not even a student in another department. Not someone you’re mentoring. Some of the men who like to talk about me have done these things

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 24/09/2026

I Big Walk, you Big Walk, we all Big Walk. Also happy anniversary Sable???? This month's Unwinnable Monthly has @kellymerka.bsky.social on Sable, plus our regulars on everything from big walking to penguins who have seen too much. Buy: buff.ly/IPrw7Fa Subscribe: buff.ly/PXHeLJe

The cover of the September 2026 issue of Unwinnable Monthly, featuring art of the main character of Sable sitting on the desert sands.

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Clint Morrison @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

just disrespectful to authors/peers. if you don’t have the desire to do the work, then don’t say yes.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

NEW WRITING! I continued my thinking with Alfred Tennyson's poetry that started with my latest New Scientist column: "Could something like 'The Kraken' come to be in a world where scientific curiosity is confined in the ways those in charge seek to limit it?"

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The Poetics of Science

What "The Kraken" teaches us about the relationship between science and poetry

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Lynzee Loveridge @annlynzee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think it would be really cool if everybody with an Ed Sheeran dunk tweet donated $5 to Palestinian charity.

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join me as I chat all things infernal with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social shows.acast.com/gone-medieva...

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The Invention of Hell | Gone Medieval

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 15/09/2026

gotta shake the bucket for a $250 power bill y'all, I'm sorry. I expected to receive either unemployment, a freelance check or my severance this week and have gotten none of them, so I'm gonna ask it directly: if you enjoy our writing, streams or let's plays please consider:

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Buy noescapevg a Coffee

Become a supporter of noescapevg today!

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hi all, LSU is hiring for the long 18th century. Come be my colleague!! Please feel free to share and send it to anyone you might know that is on the market! I'm happy to answer any questions. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...

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Assistant Professor - 18th-Century British Literature

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Macklemore has put out an incredible statement about being removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour. His removal was engineered by Trump’s bestie Robert Kraft, the owner of the Patriots and Foxborough stadium who rallied other owners to silence Macklemore for speaking out about Palestine.

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Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

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Clint Morrison @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Challenge: How many times can I compare a text to Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer this semester? (So far: twice)

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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey #medievalsky! Abstracts for #icms2027 are due 9/15 & we’d love to include you in a session honoring Gale Sigal! We’re seeking papers addressing an aspect of Gale’s research in female voice & #lyricpoetry, including multilingual lyric, troubadour & trobairitz poetry, #pastourelle tradition, &c!

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John Oliver's Pure Poetry Reaction

ALT: John Oliver's Pure Poetry Reaction

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The details aren't quite up on the website yet, but @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social and I are organizing a subtheme for the 2027 @sewaneemedieval.bsky.social that I'm extremely excited about. Deadline for abstracts is 10/15, give us all your authentic/inauthentic hot takes!

Scandalous In/Authenticity
Megan L. Cook | Colby College | mlcook@colby.edu
Clint Morrison, Jr. | University of Wisconsin - Whitewater | morrisoc@uww.edu

In response to the conference theme, this thread invites panels and papers that consider moments in medieval literature and culture in which authenticity or inauthenticity becomes a site of scandal, concern, or disruption. Such moments of epistemic crisis inevitably raise foundational questions about perception, the nature of truth, and social norms and cohesion.

Recent work on authenticity and inauthenticity has considered the complicated relationship between the concept of the “original” and the “forgery” respectively, emphasizing their mutually constitutive status. What can we learn about structures of meaning-making in and about the Middle Ages by considering instances disputed, ambiguous, or contested authenticity?

Papers might consider these issues within a range of frameworks, including:
the textual (canon, attribution, translation, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha)
the ludic (disguise, performance, impostors)
the religious (discernment, heresy and orthodoxy, relics)
the aesthetic (artifice, imitation, copying)
the moral (forgery, hypocrisy, deceit)
the political (public attitude, accountability, narrative, sovereignty, succession)

We also welcome proposals that consider questions of authenticity and inauthenticity in the Middle Ages diachronically, whether by looking to medieval ideas about the biblical and classical past, or to post-medieval explorations of the Middle Ages through medievalism, historiography, or even hoax.

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Clint Morrison @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@meganlcook.bsky.social & I are organizing a subtheme for @sewaneemedieval.bsky.social ! Please send us scandalously authentic abstracts on the scandalous authentic or inauthentic

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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Heading back to school, the office, your desk, or your sketchbook? Why not join us for our next Making Space session, where you can work with fellow creative-critical medievalists on YOUR project, or simply carve out time to explore! 📆Fri 18 September 🕐5:30pm-7:00pm (BST) 💻Online

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 03/09/2026

ICYMI: "No one dreams of giving themself to reshape the world. They do it because there is no other choice[.]" Feature excerpt: @edgarallanbro.bsky.social on the nature of revolution in Final Fantasy X: buff.ly/09eI3kB

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The World That Brought You to This Will Not Save You - Unwinnable

No one dreams of giving themself to reshape the world. They do it because there is no other choice.

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Clint Morrison @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hell of a first day here at UWW No active threat email came a bit later.

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Clint Morrison @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

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Smaug

Alt: Smaug’s open eye surrounded by treasure

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Mothership @mothership.blog · 01/09/2026

"I never collected every single creature that Animal Crossing had to offer in any of my original playthroughs of the game, but that’s not really the point. I don’t play to achieve objectives; I play as a task of resistance." -- @mossheadlives.bsky.social

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How Animal Crossing helped me swim to sobriety

Searching for meaning in the ocean and inside of trees

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Clint Morrison @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nope. “To try and appear more folksy” — nope. If it clearly communicates an idea, keep it. I follow two accounts here that type in Middle English.

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

JOB!! The Department of History at the University of Ottawa invites applications for a position in medieval and/or transregional history, 7th-16th centuries. French or English, bilingualism an asset. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A review essay on recent work in close reading in EXEMPLARIA by Ingrid Nelson calls CLOSE READING FOR THE 21C "the most valuable teaching text I have discovered in years" www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

The collection Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (2025) complements
Guillory’s essay, explicating and demonstrating the practice that Guillory theorizes.
Edited by Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant, this book has much to offer beginning
close readers as well as experienced practitioners. The “Introduction” organizes the
mechanics of close reading into five components: “Scene Setting,” “Noticing,” “Local
Claiming,” “Regional Argumentation,” and “Global Theorizing.” This breakdown,
together with the brief critical history of close reading in the discipline of literary studies
that follows it, makes this book the most valuable teaching text I have discovered in years.
I am already using it to teach close reading and to structure assignments in my under-
graduate courses.

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Mothership @mothership.blog · 18/08/2026

Today we're thinking about Hayden Panettiere's wonderful performances as Kairi and Xion in Kingdom Hearts ❤️ So we've made this story free to read for all of you, no email or subscription required.

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Unlearning misogyny to truly appreciate the women and girls of Kingdom Hearts

Kairi, Larxene, and the rest of Kingdom Hearts' female characters were too often the butt of jokes in the 2000s

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Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The semester is approaching! If you’re teaching race & premodern contexts, check out throughlines.org - premodernist scholars across fields (including literature & other disciplines) with informational videos, reading lists, classroom activities, and much more! @acmrs.bsky.social

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Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom

Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.

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Clint Morrison @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Spider-Man Brand New Day worked so well post-hero burnout because it didn’t require Marvel’s weird homework. This is between 40 and 50 hours of homework for a 3-hour movie (Not including any of the new content they’ve already released this year)

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Given the state of things re books, predatory corporations, etc... it is more imperative than ever to buy your books from indie bookstores and their online sites. Exclusively.

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Clint Morrison @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The last two films I’ll see in Austin theatres before the move: - End of Oak Street - Camp Miasma

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

"Bluesky is dying" is amateur shit. My good bitches, I was here when the feed would run out. You'd read like 20 skeets and that was it, no more skeets for you, you had to wait an hour for enough to scroll through again because there weren't enough people here to fill a mid-sized sports stadium.

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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 12/08/2026

been seeing lost of folks on here talk about no opps in games journalism right now. at @mothership.blog we pay decent rates, edit your stories carefully, and provide support and community for our freelancers. we accept stories about games and identity (no news). our pitch guide here:

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Write for us

Here at Mothership, we have a specific focus: the intersection of games and identity, specifically as it pertains to gender, sexuality, and the bodies we inhabit in reality and in games. By “games,” w...

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Maseylia - Wishlist on Steam @solbrothers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I don't know if people realize how valuable retweeting indie developers is. It can add 100s of wishlists to an indie game, which can accumulate to mean the difference between a developer being able to finish a game and forcing them back into a 9 to 5 job. Maseylia is now Out on Steam! Thanks all :)

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Clint Morrison @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Two things I’ll never do again: - plan a major move directly after international travel - drive from NYC to Austin

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

NEW STORY DAY “Not Like Other Girls” is now out in ebook and @reactorsff.bsky.social A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot. Art: A.W. Sommers Design: Jess Kiley Editor: Ann VanderMeer reactormag.com/not-like-oth...

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Not Like Other Girls - Reactor

A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot.

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Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Good morning, dear readers! Today I present to you the brilliant and evocative fiction of @ghoulpus.bsky.social Only on Reactormag.com. Enjoy! reactormag.com/not-like-oth...

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Not Like Other Girls - Reactor

A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot.

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Four baselines for academic conference attendance: 1) keep to your allocated speaking time. 2) everyone is clever; stand out by being warm & kind. 3) be interested in everyone equally - from postgrad to Prof to conference administrator to catering & hotel staff. 4) in Q&A, ask an actual question.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’ve seen in two culture /higher ed magazines recently the claim that the printing press engendered a crisis of authority at universities bc anyone could publish what they wanted and people could learn things without universities. This is not true.

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Stuck in line waiting for emergency passport renewal which gives me ample time to share today’s SEACRITTERS COVER REVEAL!!!!!

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American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Wednesday, best day!!! New episode! @profgabriele.com talks with @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social and they GO TO HELL!!! We talk apocryphal, old Norse legends, & descend into the netherworld. Enjoy! #medievalsky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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Let’s go to Hell with Stephen Hopkins

Podcast Episode · American Medieval · July 29 · 57m

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