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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

this entire passage is awful, but even if one accepted the wildly ableist logic, why would dyspraxia of all things bar someone from academia?

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The scare quotes around Toxic Family Quiz, as if this is totally silly concept, followed by mentioning that this quiz is about, among other things, sexual abuse, sets a profoundly callous and nauseating tone.

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io (shop is open!) @waxwings.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

interstate angel

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

22 years ago today, a digital video forum accidentally became the internet's loneliness hub

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If you have a crush on a woman you should give her $200. Women love $200.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

academic on a first date: my red flags? um... manichean binaries. and deleterious lacunas.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell was very moving. Deftly handled balance of humour and sadness, and a voice that felt genuinely fresh and surprising. I loved Sorry to Disrupt the Peace and also loved how this book felt so tonally distinct while exploring the same themes.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Have a beautiful launch!! Can't wait to read this :)

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Glad you liked it! Their first book, The All + Flesh, is also great.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New books from several favourites out this season, including Brandi Bird, Patrick Cottrell, Sara Peters, and Ada Hoffman. What a great summer.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

That was my interpretation, too. Gave it the benefit of the doubt when reading, especially because it was written in a different political climate than today, but now have questions given the other critiques of his methodology. Definitely an odd claim to drop in without elaborating!

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

find what makes you want to write and do more of that thing. find what makes you not want to write and don't do more of that thing. in fact, avoid that second thing. ok that'll be $5,000.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

before academia: nothing makes sense and i am so confused after academia: i am stymied by doxastic conflict and epistemic akrasia

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li = best book read in ages.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Update. Still don't know what I meant but I've decided to keep this permanently on my to-do list. You should too. Very inspiring.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Psychologically healed by the local bookstore. Eclectic independent literature > end of semester stress.

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Laura-Louise Slattery @redheadpinupreader.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

For any writer who needs to hear this: You don't have to write a bestselling literary masterpiece 📚💸 Write the book you wish existed 🌸✨

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I did not know that! Thank you for sharing this excellent news. Can't wait to read these.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Yeah, I see what you mean. I've personally often found the portal guidelines unclear, but if you've had success in the past applying to these same grants, it seems more likely that it's a matter of them deprioritizing midcareer artists lately.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There has been a shift towards prioritizing emerging artists; many established and midcareer artists seem to not be receiving funding they used to count on :( Re: grant writing, some committees have opaque & idiosyncratic expectations, so maybe that's what they meant rather than writing quality?

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

that last stanza of the last poem, wow. and "The ruthlessly dedicated world…" so good!

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long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

"Walked outside and my hands struck their own / endings, more mind than my mind. My mind didn’t end." Excerpt from @effervescentvoid.bsky.social's poem(s?) "River at Night" + detail from Matthew Wong's 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 (2018) Read "River at Night" in ISSUE 2.3: longconmag.com/issue-2-3/ma...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

it is really bad how many people across the political spectrum on social media seem to discuss things in terms of discredited genetic pseudoscience when it comes to identity

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

It's giving Buster Bluth from Arrested Development saying his stuffies are his awards from army.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Being a professor is like Picture of Dorian Gray except it’s the students who stay young and full of life while you decay year after year in front of them

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

level of sleep deprivation where i write "pay bill" on my list only to immediately stare at it in confusion trying to remember who Bill is

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Slideshare Gems @goodslides.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026

I just thought everyone should see this

Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

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mtlreviewofbooks.bsky.social @mtlreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"Temporally and geographically expansive, 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦’s apparent digressions sediment into uncanny layers." Madelaine Caritas Longman in conversation with Stephanie Bolster. Read the rest at the link: mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/long... @effervescentvoid.bsky.social

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

edited big essay. possibly made it worse but oh well. a process has transpired.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Just read Justin Torres' We the Animals. Love when a book is so good it leaves you thinking, "Oh yeah. This is why books exist."

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

"I’m renovicting all the sky" great line!

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I would say it depends on the social norms within the group. Some social environments equate eloquence with status, while others treat it as a sign someone doesn't belong. Gender, race, class, etc also play huge roles in who is implicitly encouraged and discouraged from cultivating elaborate speech.

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madelaine caritas longman @effervescentvoid.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

books i have reread most often: short talks - anne carson the vertical interrogation of strangers - bhanu kapil god's silence - franz wright stilt jack - john thompson

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