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Katie Levin

@gate11.bsky.social
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I like puns, writing centers, and justice. Vermonter in Minneapolis.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This from Leo Babauta hits, especially as my university embraces AI at the cost of humans learning with and from each other. zenhabits.net/human-habits/
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The Human Habits That Still Matter - Zen Habits Website
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Bragging on our book once more, now with correct link (THANK YOU, @wrigleyfield.bsky.social !)! upcolorado.com/utah-state-u...
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The Reluctant Supervisor
The Reluctant Supervisor
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I am OVER-THE-MOON proud of this collection, co-edited with my beloved friends and colleagues Rachel Azima, Meredith Steck, and Jasmine Tang! Pre-order now with 40%-off discount code ALST26 at upcolorado.com/utah.../the-...
Image description: Book cover for *The Reluctant Supervisor: Recognizing and Rethinking Power in Writing Center Supervisory Practices," edited by Rachel Azima, Katie Levin, Meredith Steck, and Jasmine Kar Tang, from Utah State University Press. Book cover is green with a smashed "World's Best Boss" mug precariously holding colored pencils.
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Full potential of internet finally realized.
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hey, MSP feed comrades! Can anyone point me to the Spectacle t-shirt? (That awesome line drawing of Olivia Miles holding her hands up like glasses?)
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This cinder block is absolutely HOUSING the grass beneath it.
Cinder block that looks like a face, with grass poking up into its mouth.
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Plaintive cucumber has me questioning whether I really wanna put it in a salad…@pareidolia.bsky.social
Sliced cucumber that looks like a face—well, a mouthless face, with two eyes and tiny nostrils
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/05/2026
the scorpion said "hey can I jump on your back and while I'm there we'll bring back victorian illnesses and kill a ton of children" and the frog said "I trust we won't be killing children" and then they killed some children and then the scorpion stung the frog and the frog was like "oh no"
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This filled me with much-needed hope! sahanjournal.com/arts-culture...
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New Dakota center opens on reclaimed sacred site in St. Paul
The new Dakota Waḳaƞ Ṭípi Center is opening in the former Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary in St. Paul, and will feature an exhibit hall, classrooms and teaching gardens.
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Flan @flanknits.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This benefits a neighborhood school where more than 70% of kids were in hiding at the height of the ICE occupation.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 25/05/2026
Every year on the anniversary of George Floyd's murder it's important we take a moment to think of those who explain all the problems we've had over the years as a function of people being too hard on the police.
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
@pareidolia.bsky.social
Aghast-looking cement block
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Fake Signal Name @dropstar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This font you all continue to use is somehow worse than the team on the field (said as a fan)
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The literal least we can do: sign.moveon.org/petitions/hu...
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Tell HUD: Trans people deserve safe emergency shelter!
Transgender people already experience homelessness at staggering rates. Forcing shelters to ignore someone’s gender identity only makes these environments more dangerous. It exposes transgender women ...
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Bree 🇵🇸👍 🧊🚫 @breeminneapolis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I had to write a delicate message fraught with potential consequences, so I asked AI to do it for me. JUST KIDDING I FUCKING WROTE IT MYSELF AND THEN RAN IT BY TWO HUMAN BEINGS BECAUSE I AM NOT A GHOUL
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BonkoBoi @bonkoboi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For sale: baby yoda shoes. Never worn they were
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Connie Willis predicted this in her 1995 novel, *Remake.*
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
There clearly needs to be a ballroom in every school in America.
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david (cheryl reeve stan account) @transfersystem.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
i have a bright, diligent, numerate, lively and kindhearted first-year international student who has been unable to find any internship for this summer. His goal down the road is to be a STEM educator in his home country. Longshot of course, but I'm curious if anyone has ideas for him!
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Anybody know why there’s a helicopter circling the UMN campus?
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…
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Elliot Wilson @islandwarlock.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It’s so fucking infantilizing to be told over and over about ignoring bait, like we’re all chomping at the bit for a fight or something What I wouldn’t give for just a single elected to have our back instead of this shit that implies we are some unruly mob in need of constant checking
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Regina Burstein @mplsfietser.bike · 14/01/2026
My partner @jasoncapsaicin.bsky.social made a step by step guide on how to break up ice in your neighborhood in Minnesota. Enjoy!
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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
There's ~$14k in need & currently $4k of the original $11k goal for SE Mpls rent help for folks financially impacted by 🧊 activity
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Kyle David Rudy @kyru.net · 16/12/2025
Can you even say you're into rock if you can't name all the members of the Riverbottom Nightmare Band?
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Golden Age Explosions 💥 @comicexplosions.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
@captequinox.bsky.social and I are back at our Scary National Figure pumpkin attempts. Can you guess who this is without reading the alt text? Does the second photo help? 😁
Jack-o-lantern rendering of RFK Jr, glowering. Well, it *kinda* looks like RFK Jr; it looks equally like any other scary white guy in charge of things.Close-up of same RFK Jr pumpkin, now with a smiling worm popping out of his head to hammer home which scary white guy we were trying to depict.
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
hey I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but - if you're using Chrome and you don't want this gross little AI Mode button to pop up in your address bar, paste "chrome://flags" into your address bar and search the flags for "AI Mode." find "AI Mode Omnibox Entrypoint" then you can just disable it!
screenshot of edge of address bar with "AI Mode" buttonscreenshot of the chrome "flags" page with "ai mode" in the search bar; the search result "AI Mode Omnibox entrypoint" is highlighted, with an option box to the right set to "Default"
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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
look if you dont want hoards of students chasing nazis across campus for disrupting their class you can always make class sizes smaller
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Hey, Minneapolis Bluesky! I’m giving away three tickets to tonight’s live Normal Gossip show (7:30 at Pantages). You want?
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Marje isn’t haunted by ghosts @minn-finn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Got a brochure asking for our house to vote for the current mayor. It turned into a pretend diaper for the toddler’s stuffed kitty cat. She knows about things that are full of 💩 #Minneapolis
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“Women are prepubescent disembodied torsos” is pretty much exactly what I assumed he thought.
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BonkoBoi @bonkoboi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The goose knows you got the gander the same gift
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
As corporations across the US gleefully regress back to their racist roots, a worker is fighting back after he claims he was fired as retaliation for speaking out against racist Black History Month literature made by General Mills.
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General Mills Sued for Racial Discrimination and Retaliation - UNICORN RIOT
Former employee is suing General Mills for racial discrimination and retaliation over speaking out about racist Black History Month literature.
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Very specialized lane on campus: yield to dancing pairs.
Stencil in pedestrian lane: in the foreground, YIELD sign; farther away, a worn-down pedestrian symbol facing left, with a fresh layer superimposed but facing right. They look like partner dancers.
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I love Charlotte Clymer. charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/my-thought...
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My Thoughts on the 'Gen Z Stare'
And I do have thoughts.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 19/07/2025
we must not look at LLMs we must not buy their fruits who knows upon what text they fed their hungry thirsty roots
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fig @sunteafig.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I can't stop thinking about this because so much of the "benefits" of AI are for problems that could be resolved in other, more enjoyable & humane ways. Not having time to write an email or read a book has better solutions than getting a bot to do it for you for the illusion of having done it
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Shane💀Blackheart (they/them) @shaneblackheart.com · 27/06/2025
A very scary bill just passed in Ohio for transgender folks. No one but local LGBTQ+ orgs are talking about it. First, Ohio is only recognizing sex assigned at birth, male or female. You can get in trouble for stating otherwise on documents, I imagine. I may need to change my state ID back. 1/5
 Sec. 9.05. (A) As used in the Revised Code:
(1) "Boy" means a juvenile human male.
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(2) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large
reproductive cell.
(3) "Gender identity" means an individual's internal and subjective sense of self,
disconnected from biological reality and sex and existing on an infinite continuum, that does not
provide a meaningful basis for identification and cannot be recognized as a replacement for sex.
(4) "Girl" means a juvenile human female.
(5) "Male" means an individual belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small
reproductive cell.
(6) "Man" means an adult human male.
(7) "Sex" means the biological indication of male and female, including sex chromosomes,
naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present
at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender.
(8) "Woman" means an adult human female.
(B) It is the policy of the state of Ohio to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes
are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.
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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I’ve stubbornly avoided listening to Sheryl Crow’s 2002 earworm “Soak Up the Sun” for over 20 years so I’m pretty confident I will never use your AI “Assistant.”
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Katie Levin @gate11.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Amidst the many horrors in the world today, I'm contending with reality-shattering news about the abhorrent behavior of a (once-? still-? is that even possible?) beloved friend. Somebody out there must have written on processing. @whatashrinkthinks.com ? @theradr.bsky.social ? (pls forgive tags)
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 14/06/2025
Since people were asking about the words I shared today at the no kings protest, here's the full text. Thanks @indivistwincities.bsky.social and @mn50501.bsky.social. Wrote it last week, but because it ended up being about how we carry grief and what we might do with it, it felt appropriate:
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“no kings, all bricks”
Full text of the poem that KTM/Guante shared at the St. Paul No Kings protest on June 14, 2025.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
headline construction masterclass
San Antonio Express-News ®
@ExpressNews
Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.
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