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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are you an unpublished* writer with ideas about why music, and music criticism, matter? New Voices is a competition for aspiring music critics being launched by The Wire... www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

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Introducing The Wire New Voices - The Wire

New Voices is a new competition for aspiring music critics being launched by The Wire

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Playing Oakland but not SF is an elite choice 🤌

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These products are designed to generate outputs that outwardly mimic human processes. The language used to market them is designed to make it *seem* as if they have become "human-like." You are mistaking marketing hype for fact, which illustrates exactly why more honest language is called for.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Have you encountered this? Great companion to Chaucer! www.sup.org/books/litera...

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We have no direct accounts of Jesus’s life or sayings, but the love and care stuff is all over the gospels so yeah, at the very least it appears to reflect what early Christians understood his teachings to be.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Unfortunately I think this is not far from the truth.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Using the word "argues" to describe what Chait does is insulting to anyone who has learned how to craft an argument.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's giving Zed from Zardoz on Risa.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social's video about the Sea Peoples presents some interesting nuance, in that it sometimes seems to have become a rather vague "bad guy" category that could be used as a scare tactic or justify militarism etc. youtube.com/watch?v=q9jq... Maybe this is what Wilson means?

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Who were the Sea Peoples? | The Bronze Age Collapse

YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

officially entering my Sappho phase

photo of a person (me) holding a barbiton lyre

detail of an ancient Greek vase painting depicting Sappho holding a barbiton lyre

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David Wesley Golightly @davigoli.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'll be playing a few dates on the West Coast this summer in support of my new cassette "Seven Songs for Solo Piano", come see me live!

David Wesley Golightly - Summer Tour 2026
July 24 - Seattle @ Chapel Performance Space
July 25 - Portland @ Holocene
Aug. 28 - San Francisco @ The Lab

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I guess it was a given that Odyssey translator Emily Wilson would have an interesting take, but you may not have expected her fluency in L.A.ish.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

👆🏼 ok so this is an example of a reply I wouldn't personally engage with, lol

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I guess I don't necessarily think empathy is something people should have to earn. At the same time, obviously not every reply is made in good faith, and I think it's probably a waste of time to give time and attention to the ones that aren't.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

FWIW I think Stancil's heart is probably basically in the right place (or at least he intends for it to be?) but the other night I saw him reacting to that cartoon by saying that he thinks some people exaggerate their poverty for clout. And then wondering why he gets so much pushback. 🫠

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You're welcome! Thanks for the kind words.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The target of the humor is the (real or perceived) lack of empathy & apparent inability/unwillingness to code switch when the situation calls for a different kind of response, not necessarily the method or mode of analysis.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

At risk of joining the fray, I think the joke is more about what is perceived as a lack of empathy when people who pride themselves on their grasp of data can't or won't switch out of "Bloodless Quant" mode when confronted with suffering that is no less real when it doesn't line up with trends.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I lived in Seattle from 2003 to 2019. Summer in Seattle used to be unbelievably beautiful. It made the long, dark, wet winters worth enduring. Around 2017 we started having weeks of wildfire smoke every summer that made it hazardous to go outside. Words cannot express what has already been lost.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I watched the first episode on YouTube and now I'm hooked! I'm sorry you did all that work and aren't able to share it with people.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I have searched high and low for Forever Fernwood! Is there any way to see it that you know of?

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Be sure to visit the van Eyck altarpiece at St. Bavo's!

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just got an email from the institution I recently graduated from warning that they’re about to migrate to Microsoft 365. Glad I got out when I did!

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Earlier this year, as I watched how Hacks handled the 50th anniversary of Deborah Vance’s fictional sitcom, I kept thinking about Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which turned 50 this year, and the unparalleled, unsung genius of its star Louise Lasser. emilypothast.substack.com/p/rememberin...

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Remembering Louise Lasser, star of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

As a kid I was endlessly fascinated by the kind of vintage TV shows that aired on Nick at Nite and TV Land: the way they held a warped mirror to an everyday world which was already no longer with us.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New York Times is reporting it now. You could have simply trusted that her co-star wasn't perpetuating a hoax, but hopefully this will be convincing. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/a...

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Louise Lasser, Star of TV’s ‘Mary Hartman,’ Is Dead at 87

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've been going deep on Mary, Hartman, Mary Hartman this year and have fantasies of getting to interview Louise Lasser. Unfortunately that will never happen but I am so, so thankful for her incredible work. (I also love you on the show, Claudia! Especially later on where Heather gets unruly.)

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Same. Do you know the cause? We called PG&E and apparently there was a pole that caught fire (I assume due to fireworks) and had to be replaced. The amount of time it's taking is unreal!

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Five hours later, they've almost made it down to the flats.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Watching PG&E fix the Oakland power outage in the order of most to least affluent neighborhood.

Screenshot of area affected by power outage taken about an hour ago

Recent screenshot of area affected by power outage

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I had the great hono(u)r of interviewing the brilliant DeForrest Brown, Jr. for the new issue of The Wire.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The settler who used this slogan was in favor of a one-state solution where Israel has complete sovereignty.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ah, thanks for the background. I should not have said "originated"; it makes sense that it has an even deeper history. It is pretty wild to see how contentious it has become!

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The first time I heard that phrase was when I toured a West Bank settlement & a settler told us that the entire land belonged to Israel, "from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea." I later learned that this slogan had originated from the Likud platform. This is important context, no?

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm trying to figure out which section my hometown Hubbard is in, and I think it might actually be at the HUB.

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

David's piano songs have been the soundtrack to my life for the past few years. Now the rest of the world gets to hear them, too! ☁️🌀🤍

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Emily Pothast @emilypothast.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I had the pleasure of interviewing EarthBall for the cover feature in the new issue of The Wire!

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