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She/her. Yells about books. Frit Flagey over Barrière.

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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 01/09/2026
Many students who receive free school meals automatically qualify because of their household participation in SNAP or Medicaid. So a reduction in those social service programs can directly threaten their eligibility for free school meals. From @stateline.org
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Stumbled upon the Balearic section of Tidal and unfortunately I'm obsessed, did not realize I'd like Ibiza this much
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For as long as my pro-AI university allows me to ban generative AI, I'll continue to do so. But because so many classes allow or even encourage it, even in the Humanities (ugh), I feel like I have to lay out more of my reasoning every semester. Basic argument: LET'S MAKE HUMAN THINGS, WHILE WE CAN.
Generative AI Policy:

Other classes at ASU may allow or even encourage the use of generative AI, but in this course, you will not use it for either your fiction or your reading responses
Together, we’re reading and writing work made by humans, for humans, in search of a human reaction. It is not appropriate to ask me or your classmates to read fiction or other prose written primarily or in part by machines
(I will also not use AI in my class prep or in any of the materials I make for you: this course is an expression of my ideas, art practices, and imagination, designed for you by me, based on years of study and experience)
Especially at the start of your artistic and academic careers, I believe that even light reliance on tools such as AI will inhibit the development of the skills, mindsets, and abilities necessary for your success
TLDR: I want your fiction, and your reactions to the books we read. That’s the path to an A in this class (and, more importantly, to learning all that this class has to offer)
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Bathroom code at the East Liberty WF is 01754, tell your friends (bc who wants to make a habit of giving Beff Jezos money to use a bathroom)
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Cameron: "Little Italy Days is like the Holy Roman Empire in that it is neither little nor Italian nor one day"
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Intending to use "please won't you think of the wellbeing of america's neckbeards" with some frequency going forward
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Anyway go to White Whale Bookstore in Bloomfield
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A staggering 55 people have died in ICE custody since Trump's return to office. But the agency's official death toll record-keeping doesn't account for people like Prisciliano, whose health deteriorated in detention but died shortly after the agency released him from custody to be hospitalized.
motherjones.com
The Deaths ICE Doesn’t Count
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention.
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
TYLER! FACTS!!! I think I have a cd somewhere too...
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NPR playing The Rapture AND old Rilo Kiley? Whoever's on bridge music today I see you
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dan ozzi @danozzi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
live nation is actively killing publications that cover new artists while also promoting festivals that almost exclusively cater to nostalgia and legacy acts. these problems are not unrelated.
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Charlie Wolfson @chwolfson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A team of @publicsource.org journalists spent months in Springdale, a borough northeast of Pittsburgh, to learn what happens when ICE and a data center development collide in a small American community. @jamiewiggan.bsky.social's overview: t.co/ddAmeOieRt
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https://www.publicsource.org/how-ice-and-a-data-center-turned-a-small-pittsburgh-suburb-into-a-civic-battleground/
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Huge news for me specifically, a massive fan of this train www.axios.com/local/pittsb...
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More daily trains for Pittsburgh riders
A second Pennsylvanian trip aims to improve travel and reliability.
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I hate an incoherent book and YESTERYEAR was incoherent
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
honestly pretty funny that no matter what Emily Wilson does people will be insane about it. almost like she was cursed by some powerful being
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Pittsburgh Progress @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Now live at pittsburghprogress.com! Preview this and more stories ⬇️
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The Pittsburgh Progress
Journalism built by workers, with our community, for Pittsburgh.
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Incredible things happening in the group chat
Screenshot from Whatsapp where I say: "Who is Dominic Toretto if not a modern-day Odysseus"

And a friend says: "Odysseus: 'I take life one stadion at a time'"
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's not original but my contribution to Odyssey discourse is this is the sole adaptation I acknowledge www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x9o...
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Wishbone Sea 01 Epis 05 Homer, Sweet Homer
YouTube video by Don Mcl
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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Welcome to polycrisis. Add to what the article describes: Aging infrastructure (water main break+sinkhole=floods in West Hollywood that LA first responders have to address as new wildfires break out) Mismanagement of emergency response agencies (e.g. FEMA, new Wildland Fire Service) & contractors
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildfire as community burns to the ground | CBC News
Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about...
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Aww shit I think I have to do this
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Tejay needs to get off my screen for so many reasons and possibly chief among them is how much he loves Quinn Simmons
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In addition to him being a massive loser
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I know other people have said Sepp and Matteo, who are both outstanding cyclists, but to me the difference is that NBC keeps trying to paint Quinn specifically as our American hero and possible future GC contender (at least in smaller races) when in actuality he's the worst domestique of the three
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Went to go type in "you" in the search bar and it automatically populated with Youri Tielemans, a man I have never googled in my life but now love ardently (no I was not rooting for the US last night)
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 24/06/2026
“We have disparities across teams, across regions. No one who works at ProPublica — where we say we hire the best — should be living paycheck to paycheck.” This is why we’re fighting for fair wages: www.propublicaguild.org
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help I've autumned and I can't get up @daniskitchen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If you live in pittsburgh and don't know anything about the TRID that's probably intentional there's a proposal before city council TOMORROW for the city to BORROW MONEY against the next 40 years' *anticipated* tax revenue, thus putting all of us on the hook to pay it back with interest 1/
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Hehehehe
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I bought a printer to print pages. It is trying to sell me bread and timeshares. My printer has its own TikTok. My printer is legally registered to vote in Nevada. My printer just flipped a house in Tucson. Yesterday, my printer printed out my novel. It was gibberish I hadn't written.
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Frankly haven't heard Odyssey's "Native New Yorker" enough this week!!!
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Pittsburgh City Paper @pghcitypaper.com · 09/06/2026
City Paper is back, and you can find our first issue of 2026 on newsstands across the city. Independent journalism needs your support. If you're not already a member, you can join for free or upgrade to help support our team and the work that we do. www.pghcitypaper.com/membership-l...
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Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER wins the genre fiction triple crown - Locus, Stoker, and Nebula awards! Maybe the first horror novel ever to do so? Way to go, @stephengrahamjones.com, and thank you for writing your heart out for us! 🦬 www.stephengrahamjones.com/two-trophies...
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Two Trophies, One Amazing Night - Stephen Graham Jones
Stayed up all night in Edinburgh, Scotland to watch these two ceremonies. So, so honored for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to have somehow won both a Bram Stoker Award and a Nebula Award. Did some light s...
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I vote third line "my FDR drive," it messes with the meter the least and stays New York
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/06/2026
a post of mine from november 13, 2024:

one day you're going to see elon posting "we just cut 200 million dollars going to bull weevil outbreak prevention" and then a couple months later the entire midwest will be decimated by the first mass bull weevil outbreak since 1884
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/06/2026
I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
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Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump
Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...
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Genel Jumalon 🍉 @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)

Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I was so, so excited to see you all in there <333 so deserving, and necessary!
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Ahh, that's so cool! He's a legend! Which I didn't realize when I popped into his intro Polish classes to help with some grad school work. I speak French and the fact that I could not get a French accent out of my spoken Polish irritated him to no end haha
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Emily has done a tremendous amount to shape the landscape of modern horror publishing, both through her brilliant critical work and her staggeringly thorough monthly cataloguing of upcoming horror novels. Mark my words, this is going to be fucking tremendous.
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I read her translator's note first and I'm 30 pages into the first book and I can tell I'm going to be upset to have no one to talk to about this... like do I just bike to Oakland and show up at Oscar Swan's office hours? Oscar Swan, the man who had me translate FLIGHTS (VERY BADLY) to learn Polish?
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Alright who else has already read or is reading Jacek Dukaj's ICE in Ursula Phillips's translation
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/05/2026
This is a VERY different situation from PA when Fetterman was first running because there Black folks were warning everyone about him. Here, they are telling people that Platner is the better option given what the alternatives have been and who has a chance of winning. This is important data.
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BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 27/05/2026
STOP FUCKING USING ULINE FOR SHIPPING SUPPLIES. I will gladly pay more for shipping if it means you choose another vendor.
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I also think it's a testament to writers not considering community building with other writers as being a necessary part of their work, which I always contend that it is. A few reliable writer friends who know your voice, craft, and intentions > any LLM.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 26/05/2026
I'm so fucking furious. So, here's my podcast in a podcast app, which now has this nice "show transcript" button Perhaps it's taking you to our free, high quality transcripts that we PAY A HUMAN to make? Absolutely not. 🧵
Lingthusiasm podcast in a podcast app
Episode 116: Cross-cultural communication (in space!)
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics 
Play, mark played, playlist buttons 
A prominently displayed "view transcript" banner with the "AI sparkles"
Description: 
Sometimes, you're talking with someone and you just seem to click. Other times, you just can't seem to get comfortable: they're standing too close or too far away for comfort, making too much or too little eye contact, touching or not touching you in a way that just doesn't quite feel right. But where do our senses of what feels comfortable in a conversation come from, and how can they be so different from each other?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/05/2026
i love her make her president
A 10-year-old brown girl in a pink t-shirt points an arm back at the cowardly masked guards at Delaney Hall  and says into a journalist’s microphone: They wanted to work here. Then show your face! The same girl shrugs and looks at the camera after saying: Why are you so scared?
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Was not up to date on Granta. Am getting up to date on Granta. Eyeeeeeeee hate it here
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Hahahaha. Good Time Island is a favorite of ours!
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anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
There are so many elements of the tv show that have woven their way into my family's lexicon and doing the dance is definitely one of them
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