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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 9h

GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 8h

I was just telling my first years (on day 1!!) about Stanley Fish's thing about Paradise Lost making Satan sexy so the reader becomes complicit in the Fall of Man!

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 11h

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026

The underlying assumption is that budget allocations in universities are ideologically neutral: that institutional investment just goes to wherever lots of students choose to spend their time. But this is not how it works. Admin decide what forms of knowledge they want to incentivize.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I suspect that watching Pillion as an asexual person is a rather different movie, because I was wondering why that table seemed so heavy for 2 naked men to carry, and then I realised it was probably reinforced in some way to bear several bikers pounding on it. Specialist orgy furniture, or DIY?

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Simple Sabotage Field Manual @simple-sabotage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you hate academic reading and writing? Do you hate them so much that you’ll buy an app to turn them into tiktoks and slop for you? Try this one simple trick: Do something else

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've been watching Alone on all4 and I'm baffled. 1. Do other people feel lonely when they are NOT around humans? Weird. 2. Are the contestants contractually obliged to keep crying that wild wolves & bears are going to attack them?

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

you cannot defeat fascism by ceding anyone’s bodily autonomy.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The problems these grading machines solve: grading fast, more, and cheap, are quite different from the problems writing instructors, writing tutors, writing center solve: developing ideas, human conversation, learning.

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Monks of New Skeet @amagire.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

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elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH?
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE?
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE?
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rewatching Trueblood and it is truly awful, but the highlight is Ginger, who must be a professional horror-movie screamer

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I can't really swim, and am terrified of water, but maybe this would work for me??

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am delighted to be on several “unhinged about AI” lists because of my firm believe that human beings should not participate in our own deskilling and replacement for the further enrichment of tech billionaires. Yes, please block me. Cleanse my timeline of your creepy pick-me energy.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📣 Now Hiring: Events, Conferences and Marketing Administrator (12-Month Fixed Term) 📣 Salary: £23,500pa Contract: Full-time (34.5 hours per week) role for a fixed 12-month period Application deadline: Friday 25th September at 1pm Please visit our website for full details and how to apply.

A poster with the background of the building of Gladstone's Library framed by flowers. Along the top reads 'Work With Us!'. The text reads: Now Hiring: Events, Conferences and Marketing Administrator
You will work across the breadth of the library to deliver strong administrative support for our group bookings and events programme. We are looking for someone with an eye for detail, excellent communication skills, who is highly organised and proactive. This a full-time (34.5 hours per week) role for a fixed 12-month period with a salary of £23,500pa. www.gladstoneslibrary.org/about/work-at-gladstones-library/

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I was in charge of an educational institution and learned that a technology fostered “cognitive surrender” in young people, I’d like to think I would do everything in my power to keep it away from the young people who pay my institution to educate them. But I guess I’m just a weirdo.

Students are using artificial intelligence for everything, including cheating, and a recent M.I.T. report said the technology was creating
"cognitive surrender."
Philip Cheung for The New York Times
Many university leaders are embracing A.I. anyway. →

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's always astonishing to me how effective "THEY don't get it, but YOU have the special insight and intelligence to get it" is at suckering people into cults. High achievers and strivers are easy marks precisely BECAUSE their achievement and high self-regard renders them susceptible to this line.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Frog and Toad stayed on the island all afternoon. They ate wet sandwiches without iced tea. They were two close friends sitting alone together.

Frog and Toad sitting on the island together, reveling in their friendship.

From "Alone"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Always top autistic representation here

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have learned, as a Humanist, to stay in my lane re: AI. Do what you want in your disciplines. In the humanities, and in English in particular, AI-generated writing and ideas are inappropriate and destructive.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My courgette plant gave birth to the Eraserhead baby

A green courgette that is bent in the middle and bulbous at the ends

The same courgette is swaddled in white cloth (toilet paper) with its bulbous end sticking out like a baby's head

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I have seen two Irish changeling folk-horror films revolving around fairies in 'ancient woods' that are obviously commercial softwood plantations, and I am unreasonably annoyed by this. I get that you probably can't film in sensitive environments like primary temperate rainforest, but...

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I saw it in Bayeux when I was 4 or 5 and already obsessed with Harold being shot in the eye. I admit I rushed through most of it to get to that bit :(

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/09/2026

Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.

We’re eliminating AI use for students in 2-K through 8th grade for the upcoming school year.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Refuse the brutal world the fascists make.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Watching the netflix documentary about Dr Raygun breakdancing. As an academic this is intensely stressful and a warning to us all to stay quiet and never leave the house, much less roll around on the floor in front of an audience.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 01/09/2026

What if the Weyland Yutani Corp actually has a point and the weapons division creating a lot of value for shareholders is a worthy goal

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Literally the moral of A Christmas Carol is “the system would work okay if business owners didn’t hoard wealth or mistreat their employees,” not “get out the guillotines Now.” It’s not even anti-capitalist! So…they’ll be making the case for hoarding wealth & mistreating employees, I guess???

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Listening to the audiobook of The Exorcist, and still can't understand why people found the film or the book scary. Obscene, yes. But every time I see a possession/ excorcism movie I just think 'give them a slap and tell them to stop making a show of themselves'.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

absolutely horrible episode of Human Remains, except for this one moment when the Diana-obsessed Julia Davis' character holds up this souvenir tray next to her face, and her friend marvels at the uncanny likeness

thin blonde woman with prominent teeth and massive thick glasses holds Princess Di souvenir tray up next to her face

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hot Take Saturday: I think we are on the cusp of a MASSIVE humanities revival. I’m talking handmade, craftsmanship, maximalism, art collection for everyday folks, rich music, unfettered written masterpieces, deep thought experiments…all in rejection of AI and our corporate overlords.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My favourite film actually is 'two unemployed actors go on holiday, discover the cottage is awful, and then come back again'. The real challenge would be to make it sound exciting.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Live Aid. I think my mum did a sponsored walk (pushing me in my navy & red pushchair)

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

with alt text. this is so beautiful 💕

Dolly Partons IMAGINATION LIBRARY

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!
This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.
I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.

Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.

You are terrific, and remember...
I Will Always Love You,
Dolly

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

After the first few times it's just not a big deal 🤷

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 24/08/2026

the way of the future | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE is looking down. A SECOND PERSON is on the ground.
MATTIE: WHAT ARE YOU DOING DOWN THERE?
PERSON: OH I'M MOVING AROUND LIKE A LITTLE WORM.

PANEL 2: Closer in on the PERSON, who smiles beatifically.
MATTIE: SEEMS UNCOMFORTABLE.
PERSON: IT'S THE FUTURE! ALL THE BIG MONEY IS ON IT, MANY ARTICLES AND LEADING FIGURES ARE SAYING IT AS WELL.
PERSON: WHO AM I TO ARGUE!

PANEL 3: MATTIE puts a hand to her chin.
MATTIE: I JUST DON'T SEE THE BENEFIT. FOR MY OWN LIFE.
PERSON: YOU CAN EITHER GET WITH IT OR PERISH IN THE FUCKING DUST, OLD WOMAN.

PANEL 4: The PERSON holds up their phone. On it is a photo of a tech CEO-looking guy on the ground, being interviewed by a journalist
TEXT: DAVOS
TEXT: CEO OF SquirmX SAYS WRITHING AROUND WILL ACCOUNT FOR 700% OF US ECONOMY WITHIN 2 MONTHS
PERSON: THAT'S A DIRECT QUOTE.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 23/08/2026

“Attacks on LGBTQ+ health are a threat to all”: A new Lancet Editorial. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Cover of The Lancet, 22 Aug issue. The quote reads, “...movements that seek to undermine LGBTQ+ people are those that seek to control all of us—our freedom of expression, our personal medical decisions, and our privacy.”

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