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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I’m finding, and reporting, several cases of AI plagiarism in my intro English course every month at this point. They are all coming back as substantiated by the Academic Integrity committee. Is there any point to English Literature study in this new world? #definitionofdispirited

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

What is it going to take for direct action, for former presidents to unmute, for general strikes, for actual resistance? Trans women dying in jail? Ukraine levelled? Where is the fucking huztpah of Americans?

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The (benign) Dictator, the small planet in my last book of poems, just called to instruct me to sing a little song each morning: “Que bonita estoy, que bonita estoy, yo me quieeeerro…” then hung up. I’m still laughing.

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Not just snakes on the plane now! It’s snakes and tarantulas! And maybe rabid bats! All on the plane!

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

My doctoral supervisor @reubenroseredwood.bsky.social, from back in the day, at his best on CBC news, comparing 47 to a bloated, poisonous, blimp fish that gets tossed onto beaches after storms to annoy barefoot walkers and titillate stray dogs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Need respite from the horror? Listen to this gorgeous conversation with Rick Rubin and Vikingur Ólafsson. What he says about Bach and music is some of the most inspiring thinking I’ve listened to in years; it could also easily be applied to poetry and art. pca.st/episode/4714...

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Víkingur Ólafsson - Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

In-depth interviews that may blow your mind. With Rick Rubin

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I used to call these the Canada Council grant results flowers, as they were always in bloom when that fat or thin letter arrived. (Actual name, red-flowering currant)

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

So there's a Dream Journal GPT, a Rupert Sheldrake GPT and an Alien GPT, in case you need an interpretation, a conversation about consciousness, or a new perspective. You're welcome. chatgpt.com/g/g-Es0S2343...

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ChatGPT - AlienGPT

I am AlienGPT, a curious and insightful alien new to Earth. With no assumptions about human systems or cultures, I break down complex ideas and offer fresh, playful perspectives to help people questio...

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Other than bourbon, I can’t really think of a comestible that US red states produce that I’ll miss. And even that, well…

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Canada and Denmark share a 1.2 km long land border on Hans Island since we ended the Whisky War in 2022. So technically we could join the European Union.

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Much more excited about this, though.

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Really not inclined to be generous on this one.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Don't let go of reality, no matter what the Trumpers say billmckibben.substack.com/p/for-reality

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For reality

A few thoughts on the last day of the old world

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I’m devastated by New Star’s closure. So many great books. My book, “Gardens Aflame,” about Garry oak meadow ecosystems, has sold well there for years thanks to Rolf.

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scooter sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Enjoy this last weekend. May we make it one of hope, beauty, and art. May we keep focus on our loved ones and our community. May we fill our hearts to last for the dark years ahead.

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Also very interested in this. Female friendships—complicated beasts.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/01/2025

'The air, as dusk came, grew yellow, like the fog in Prufrock that licks its tongue into the corners of the evening.' Colm Tóibín writes from Los Angeles, online early from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Colm Tóibín · In LA

A new fire started in Hollywood. It might have looked as though we were now surrounded on three sides by fires, but it...

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"but we fall asleep next to each other riding into the tunnel sharing without knowing the same dream in it we are carrying something an empty casket somehow so heavy only together can we carry it over a bridge in the snow..." — Matthew Zapruder, 'Poem for Passengers'. #poetrycommunity

Poem for Passengers

By Matthew Zapruder

Like all strangers who temporarily
find themselves moving in the same direction
we look out the window
without really seeing or down at our phones
trying to catch the dying signal
then the famous lonesome whistle
so many singers have sung about
blows and our bodies shudder
soon we pick up speed
and pass the abandoned factories
there has lately been so much conversation about
through broken windows they stare
asking us to decide
but we fall asleep next to each other
riding into the tunnel
sharing without knowing the same dream
in it we are carrying something
an empty casket somehow so heavy
only together can we carry it
over a bridge in the snow
emerging suddenly into the light
we wake and open our laptops
or a book about murder
or a glossy magazine
though we are mostly awake
part of us still goes on solving
problems so great they cannot be named
even once we have reached our destination
and disembark into whatever weather
for a long time there is a compartment
within us filled with analog silence
inside us the dream goes on and on

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This looks (sounds) like a great thing.

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Maleea Acker @emaleea.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

So THIS is where the poets all ended up.

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