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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I kind of think that we won't come to terms with the effect of the internet on mental health until we can talk about the whole spectrum from "people talking with their friends" to "influencers talking to their customers"

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love it when a sentence makes me befuddled about my own linguistic intuitions. Sounds bad to me: "Please put the VMAs out of its misery." Sounds nearly as bad: "Please put the VMAs out of their misery." Definitely worse: "Please put the VMAs out of their miseries."

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I once read the quote "If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away" on an herbal tea box, attributed to Mark Twain. I've read a lot of quotes attributed to Mark Twain, and he said some of them, but he definitely didn't say that one.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A really good (and not too difficult) Quiptic this week (though I didn't solve the whole thing) www.theguardian.com/crosswords/q...

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Quiptic crossword No 1,401

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thinking "I'll be under my gas budget for September if I don't fill my tank, but then I can't go hiking..." reminds me of that Marx quote where he says that the more you refrain from eating, drinking, buying books, etc, the greater the saving of your alienated being.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Overhead at Pick n Save : "If you close your eyes, it's almost like Whole Foods."

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's never a bad time to read The Left Hand of Darkness, but I do wish we had more than two days before book club.

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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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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Little celebration for a 100-lb deadlift 🎉

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Low-grade cold attacking the entire office at once.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sometimes you have a day when your mood is absolute trash even though things are otherwise totally fine so you go to barometricpressure.app and then it's like, oh, OK then.

A screenshot from barometricpressure.app that shows the barometric pressure heading downwards throughout September 19th, before being predicted to start rising again.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am not the person who complains when the ebook is just as expensive as the print book. I understand, reasonably well, the economics of book publishing. I have not complained as ebook novel prices crept up to $14, 15, 16. But holy heck, THIRTY THREE DOLLARS for the ebook edition of a cookbook?

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

129 pages left to read. Book club tomorrow. Locking in.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The September pocket prairie is attracting goldfinches!

Female (I think) American Goldfinch sitting on a dried-out coneflower with gray tattered petals.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well, if we're running into catastrophic diesel shortages, at least I've got a reasonably sized bag of rice and a couple reasonably sized bags of dried legumes.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dark academia mystery told from the point of view of an anatomical model skeleton that is kept behind the library services desk

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IFJ- International Federation of Journalists @ifjglobal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#Canada 🇨🇦: A Canadian news site is using AI-generated 'Indigenous correspondents' to cover northern communities. The use of AI in this way raises serious concerns about the exploitation and commercialisation of Indigenous identities. #AI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News

The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Going in and out of love with this book, which is a peculiar feeling. Most books I love or hate straight away; or else they win me over very gradually, or lose me very gradually. Rarely such a patchwork of yes and no.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well, every time somebody posts this, me & my drummer get tagged, so, preemptively: mountain goats are wild, majestic animals. The Mountain Goats are a band. Out of respect to our namesake, we do lick pee from rocks when we’re in a national park, but nobody ever airlifts us anywhere. We walk home

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Butternut squash curry with chickpeas: delicious and makes enough for SEVERAL meal preps. (Will pan-fry some tofu tomorrow to amp up the protein.) rainbowplantlife.com/thai-buttern...

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Butternut Squash Curry with Chickpeas

This Butternut Squash Curry is packed with warm Thai flavors and is a complete one-pot plant-based meal that’s ready in about 45 minutes.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Give me the serenity to accept that it's not actually possible to make a whole class good at doing database searches in 75 minutes.

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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An "update" to JSTOR’s free reading program: they're downgrading access from 100 free articles/month to just 10. Access to academic writing is being whittled down, bit by bit. about.jstor.org/blog/an-upda...

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An update to JSTOR’s free reading program

Beginning September 1, 2026, JSTOR’s free reading program will provide registered readers with access to 10 articles every 30 days.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Have successfully installed recipe management software Tandoor on my computer! tandoor.dev Now all I have to do is figure out to set up a proxy so that my phone can access it on the go - and painstakingly write out dozens or hundreds of recipes - and that's dinner figured out. Kind of.

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Tandoor: Smart recipe management

Tandoor is an online cookbook. Manage your ever growing recipe collection online. Drop your collection of links and notes. Get Tandoor and never look back onto a time without recipe management, storag...

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is one of my favorite structures. Haven't read Fair Play yet, but will!

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Gas price increases timed by someone in the presidential administration who wants to make my day worse

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you believe Instagram, every teenager who's been accused of something sneaky is actually secretly bringing food for their food insecure friend, or trying to make sure their disabled friend gets accommodations,

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tech annoyance: When the podcaster says "OK" and Gemini interprets this as a conversation it needs to get involved in, even though I don't have voice recognition set up on my phone. I'm sure I can go into the settings and figure out how to turn it off but don't bother me with this info right now.

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𝕁𝕠𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔻𝕊𝔸 ℕ𝕠𝕨🌹 ⚙️ 🌱 @mistermercury.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We should be talking about how gobsmacking what’s happening with renewables is every day. It’s more shocking and influential than anything an LLM has ever done

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

People who praise chatbots for finding sources should know that in tests, they only find about 30% of the published literature on any specific research question.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The vacationless stretch of Intense Teaching Time from Labor Day to Thanksgiving

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One of the things I talk about, when I talk about AI info literacy, is that the skills students need now are very old-fashioned skills: how to evaluate information; how to evaluate things like author, purpose, and bias.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The math tells me that if I write ~525 words per day every day from now till Nov. 30, I'll get to 80,000 words on this project.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think some people say "you can break the rules if you're a genius" to mean "every rule can be broken to good effect" and some people say it to mean "if people already think you're a genius, they will cut you more slack to write badly," and we end up talking past each other

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When there are dialect quizzes they're always US-only, which bums me out, because I just want to know if I talk more like someone from the US or like a Montreal anglophone. (I think that I pronounce merry/Mary/marry as three different words, but other people disagree...)

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celli @aliascelli.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

did you know due south is available for free on youtube? now you do! (if you're watching it for the first time...listen, it's from the 90s, and cops are the good guys. it aged probably as well as it could have. that's what I have to say about that.)

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Due South

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The hour from the plane touching down to me getting out of the economy parking lot is a very long hour

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Joanna Russ in French AND English at L'Euguelionne

A shelf of books in a bookstore includes the French and English version of How to Suppress Women's Writing as well as a French book called Joanna Russ's Feminist Exoplanet

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Getting a direct flight out of Chicago sounds like such a great idea until you add: 3 hours because it's an international flight 1.5 hours for driving in case there's traffic However long it takes to get from economy parking to the terminal Five last-minute things to take care of in the morning

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I should be into Torrid's "middle-aged goths and romantasy readers" thing, but for some reason it's just not hitting for me.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Eager to find out what Customs and Border Enforcement is like these days (have not traveled internationally since 2016).

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Never realized how much my cat loves an open window. Maybe it's time to build a catio... if I weren't already spending $$$$ to replace my AC.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The AI spellcheck in my email won't let me say "I'm free at 11 a.m. or 1 p.m" - it forces me to capitalize Or as if it were the beginning of a new sentence - so I will admit to hating that too.

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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Heard the new Mountain Goats single "Candlebox" on the radio and it fixed me. I'm fixed. Probably still bad at keeping up with chores though.

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