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Casey

@drcothran.bsky.social
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Lover of teaching, writing, 19th century British literature, detective fiction, and fairy tales.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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William Butler Yeets @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026
i need to know what happened
sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired." — Jonathan Swift
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Spinning around #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We thought you might enjoy ending the day with a peaceful midsummer moment with Babs 🧡 Please share kindness for all beings everywhere 💛 🙏
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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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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @aletheakontis.com · 06/09/2026
Rainbow light is the best light… But well-placed sunset rainbow light turns the entire world into someplace pink and peach and orange and magical and otherworldly 
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Jan @janstreit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ukrainian artist, Arthur Anokhin
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @aletheakontis.com · 05/09/2026
The sky is proof that endings can be beautiful 
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Brown bear floating along in Bristol Bay Alaska: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Break Free" by artist Disha Dua.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Find you a man who says goodbye like John Donne
Dull sublunary lovers' love
   (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
   Those things which elemented it.

But we by a love so much refined,
   That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
   Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
   Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
   Like gold to airy thinness beat.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Have some Goats.😍
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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Golden Sky II 30x48 acrylic on canvas monica-morrill.jimdosite.com
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When I’m fully disassociated but I put on my resting interested face
An emu looking inquisitive and insane
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026
Never let a writer help you move
A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.
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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Banana splits are the leading cause of banana divorces.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
the real race will be between those trying to perfect an AI writing detector and those trying to normalize AI writing so no one cares if it is AI or not making said AI detector unnecessary
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026
This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In 1912, a young writer in Reading watched an eclipse. In his journal, he described 'the sky was clear, and very weird the universe seemed; the atmosphere dulled as if charged with volcanic dust, especially on the horizon.' His name was Wilfred Owen. collections.reading.ac.uk/special-coll...
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Wilfred Owen, Mabel Rayner, and a solar eclipse | Special Collections
In our new blog, Dr Rhi Smith reveals the story of Wilfred Owen and Mabel Rayner's chance meeting during a solar eclipse and the impact of each on the life of the other.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026
"Instead of thinking about AI itself, we should be thinking about its effects. It concentrates power;obfuscates accountability;further despoils nature & climate;is a means of the wholesale expropriation of cultures, languages & lands for massive profit;& it will probably make us lonelier & stupider"
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/08/2026
Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!
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DanSlott @danslott.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
#HappySpiderManDay
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
These little piggies! In honour of #theodyssey movie, here’s a fantastic scene of Circe transforming Odysseus’s men into pigs, from a French translation of Boccaccio‘s Of Famous Women dated 1403 and now @labnf.bsky.social MS Fr 598, f. 54v 🐷✨
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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Invented by men who were unaware of all the work their wives did
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
obviously Mitch McConnell is physically fine but has just started watching One Piece
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Jake Wildstrom @dwildstr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Between this and the discovery that solar panel shade can actually _increase_ certain crop yields, people are discovering that there are truly extraordinary opportunities to make better use of the earth's surface area with solar panels. There's so much power waiting to be harnessed!
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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A delightful historical summary 💗
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Irish libraries need to move with the times instead of always lagging behind current trends.
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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
in 2020, i visited baja to report on a mysterious die-off of grey whales. people were only sort of worried then: this happened, sometimes. Seven years later, though, the whales keep dying — their entire population has nearly halved. And now we know why. my latest, for @orionmagazine.bsky.social. 🐋
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Unusual Mortality Event - Orion Magazine
The mysterious die-off of eastern North Pacific gray whales
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NurseBrianRN @nursebrianrn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
lowcoste
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Increasingly sympathetic to druids because by a certain age a lot of your day revolves around brewing various medicinal concoctions and mumbling forgotten lore
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For more on how to talk about tech sold as "AI" in more precise terms: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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How to talk about
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Nice try, Simon and Garfunkel, but I am paper.
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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"Here in 2026, joy itself is a rebellion. [...] Poetry is a rebellion. Smart books that trust their readers are a rebellion. Reading prologues and epilogues is a rebellion. Writing in cursive is a rebellion. Writing your own emails is a rebellion. [...] Imperfection is a rebellion..."
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Brian Sletten @bsletten.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
After all this time looking for it! #humor #math #foundontheinternet #nerdhumor
A beach by a lake in the mountains. Blue sky, trees, pretty water. In the foreground there are the remnants of a tree trunk on its side. Roots are exposed. There are two prominent branches at 90 degrees that have another 90 degree turn in each direction to meet back up in what appears to be a natural rectanglish shape.

The text says, “I finally found it… the square root”.
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Casey @drcothran.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Big Idea: Alethea Kontis whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/16/t...
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The Big Idea: Alethea Kontis
Not all books fit the mold of the genre they’re in. For Alethea Kontis, she wanted to write romance without the explicit parts, wanted to write a YA book that wasn’t dumbed down for kid…
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15/06/2026
A "saturnalia of bad taste"..."grizzled men...beat each other silly on the White House lawn in a cage spangled with ads for prediction markets and Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump’s crypto businesses." www.thebulwark.com/p/we-can-rej...
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We Can Reject Trump’s Orgy of Decline
And in many ways, we are.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 11/06/2026
Just as importantly, capitalism (as evidenced by our lived reality) doesn’t account for the purpose of society or our role within our shared ecosystem. The purpose of society is to improve the most lives. Our role within our shared ecosystem is to sustain it. Current-stage capitalism does neither.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/06/2026
Dad’s Eyes Well Up At Sight Of Perfectly Packed Cooler theonion.com/dad-s-eyes-well-up-at-…
Dad’s Eyes Well Up At Sight Of Perfectly Packed Cooler
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good."
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Finitude, when truly accepted, does not diminish us but opens us to recognizing the face of God and others. Indeed, precisely because we experience limits - vulnerability, suffering and failure - we can recognize the inviolable dignity of every person, both our own and that of others."
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Our relationship with life seems to be in crisis today. Everything that appears as a "limit" -incapacity, illness, old age, suffering, vulnerability- tends to be seen primarily as a defect to be corrected, rather than as a reality through which our humanity matures and opens itself to relationship"
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