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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Criminal Intent is the missing link between Columbo and Poker Face

Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It was less terrible to have a migraine in the days before effective medication than now, when good meds exist but insurance denies them.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

it's a monday afternoon at the end of july, of course we're writing syllabi against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, PLEASE SEND! against-a-i.com

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E.J. Fagan @ejfagan.com · 23/07/2026

Here’s a count of workers in the trades from a building trade association. In a country of 350 million, even doubling the trades does little to replace our higher education system. The reality is that cutting off college will push the marginal student toward a low wage service job.

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Charles Barkley did it first and better. Humanity way ahead in criticizing Texas beaches, which I love and are gross.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22/07/2026

I like the ones who stop hellish jungle indeed and finally I say okay you try you get high and bright and try then you say oh just praise what you can you smiling bag of death ‘Smile’, a poem by Anne Carson. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Smile’

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A preoccupation w/"rigor" in ed. is related to an insight by Lilian Katz: "We overestimate children academically & underestimate them intellectually." She notes that early-childhd classrms are too focused on (dev'ally inappropr) academic skills while simultaneously being insufficiently intellectual.

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Just turned the-young-dentist-calls-me-“dear” years old (46.3)

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

It's that time of year again!

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In Corpus, which is running out of water, and there are so many commercials about how data centers are good actually

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Odyssey but he’s a lady early riser at a beach motel trying not to wake her family, violate pool hours, get murdered, or be eaten by bugs

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

don't love, in the pages of the new york times, chris rufo claiming trans people commit "more mass violence than any other group," with no pushback.

By contrast, you look at something like the trans ideological movement, that I think is a lie — it’s grounded in a series of falsehoods — and maintained this suppressive, threatening, censorious power in the pre-Elon Twitter days, and in the general woke years. And then look, another uncomfortable fact: Per capita, this group has committed more mass violence than any other group.

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Gina is honestly one of the best candidates running in any state for any office right now and I’m thrilled to see her becoming a national figure

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

‘My advisers had also told me that all of this talk about parks, beauty is soft stuff that will not get you any votes,’ Hardberger said. ‘But I felt deep down in my heart, as well as my political mind, that people were responding to that.’

theguardian.com

In pictures: a San Antonio land bridge designed for wildlife and people

Spanning a six-lane highway and located in a public park, this crossing is part of a larger restoration of endangered Texas prairie land

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

wanna learn more about myths and lies, and truths and numbers, on lifetime employment opportunities for english majors and other humanists? we've got (free) merch! humanitiesworks.org

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HUMANITIES WORKS – posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I said I was hungry and an older family member said, "that's called food noise."

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

No matter how many people are talking about this, it is not enough people talking about this.

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Mal a BOO 👻 @hallowedverses.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

You’ll survive but you’ll be funnier in ways that worries people

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

They already are.... What libraries need are less "libraries could be" and more "libraries are," with people getting off the computer and into the seats and board rooms where decisions about libraries are being made. Advocate for them, support them, champion them, do the work to keep them alive.

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Nice sixties bookplate from Internet Archive

Boston Public Library bookplate, white on black, books on shelf

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Pretending that education is just job training and that it should be stripped of all non-utilitarian elements is one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. Acting like it's some kind of axiom we should be using to orient ourselves at the moment is disastrously wrong-headed.

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Creating work for myself by including place of publication, knowing I'll need to strip it out later.

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Candidates Eat Their Meat to Show They're Not Effete

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

summer house is a show about 40-somethings caught inside a web of oppressive social expectations, forced to reflect on how they’ve become the architects of their own misery (summer house is an edith wharton novel) www.vulture.com/article/summ...

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Reality TV’s Midlife Crisis

In season ten, Summer House stopped being about fun and started being about existential dread.

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The HR lady stuff is reminding me of when I worked public-facing in a library and my male boss told me to tell a male subordinate to tuck in his shirt, and the the male subordinate raged out at me for being so controlling and uptight.

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My mayor on the ropes My bagel a taco Trump was a hex Spurs in six

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We need to expand what it means to make public school policy if we’re going to successfully defend what it means to hold public school values.

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s My Beautiful Laundrette 90s Dead Again 00s Mulholland Drive 10s Ocean’s Eight 20s Da 5 Bloods

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My brother Joe as the first live-action He-Man.

Three children in homemade costumes dressed as He-Man, She-Ra, and a clown.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 03/06/2026

Reflecting on a conversation with my students about AI in teaching. The promise of AI is infinite productivity, at infinite speed. But the implicit promise of teaching is that an expert will give you some of their very *finite* time. You are important enough that your instructor will incur a loss.

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

arguing over whether politicians are masculine enough is just another way of hating women EVEN WHEN THEY AREN'T THERE TO BE HATED and it makes me crazy

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Do you still deal in 'Books'?

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I thought replacing "Amadeus" with "Talarico" and singing the chorus whenever I saw a yard sign with his name had made me forget the other lyrics and had brain concerns, but it turns out I only (?) forgot the rest of the song is in German.

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Falco - Rock Me Amadeus (Official Video)

YouTube video by FalcoVEVO

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The businessmen have crushed the great talents, and they are so lacking in foresight and so indifferent to the future of their own industry that they haven't provided the conditions for the development of professionals. (1968)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/05/2026

This by @cwarzel.bsky.social really captures it. "a black-box machine of obscure corporate motivation that simply tells us, Here is the answer." I really have trouble imagining a happy ending to all this.

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The Feeling of Control Slipping Away

AI is causing a crisis of agency.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

They will pay any price to avoid paying workers

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The Many Saints of the Houston Astros Bullpen

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Things were better when librarians were allowed to like books more than people.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Jacob Lawrence, "The Libraries Are Appreciated," 1943 www.philamuseum.org/objects/59568

Painting with graphically simplified forms of three Black figures seated at a table in a library-like space, surrounded by books on bookshelves

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A Berea College in every county.

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

“Dvorak, on his first day of work in the Austrian senate, / stole all the pencils and never came back. They were perfect, // he said, for composing music.” —Lisa Dordal, “Traveling” www.greenlindenpress.com/issue17-lisa...

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Under a Warm Green Linden, Issue 17 — Green Linden Press

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I'm going to law school!* *Watching Law & Order (seasons one through twenty) commercial free on Hulu.

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