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Graham Oliver

@grahammoliver.bsky.social
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Teacher Writer Editor in Taipei, Taiwan 台灣台北市. Currently at NTU/AWEC 台大/寫作教學中心. For Mandarin posts - 中文貼文:@oumoran.bsky.social linktr.ee/grahamiam

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"As things stand, students who commit infractions like plagiarism — which typically has no real victims — are often punished more harshly than the male students directly responsible for making the campus dangerous for female ones."
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In no particular order
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem
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Sorrow is composed of a heart in autumn
a short lyric by Xin Qiji, and some thoughts on translation to mark the fall equinox
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
此生此夜不長好 明月明年何處看 happy autumn moon #everynightapoem #fragment #蘇軾
Full moon over Duke east campus arches
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I know that list of tv shows is bait but only having American shows and a handful of British ones but not saying best of English language tv makes it extra sad. (Frieren should've been #1)
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麻糬和人類室友木火 @bicolorcat2077.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
中秋節快樂!!XDD (魔族不喜歡圖中人)
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh no
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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why can’t students use LLMs to create summaries as part of a larger project? (Have genuinely been asked this) Because figuring out how to summarize the thing is the work! And we’re supposed to teach them how to do it!
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Are they wolf-shaped
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am so tired.
copied screenshot of an email that says "
In response to the rapid development of generative AI, artificial intelligence has become an increasingly important tool in teaching and learning. To help faculty and students quickly access relevant AI information, the Office of Academic Affairs has launched the NTU AI-in-Sight platform. This resource hub integrates AI-related policies, campus activities, teaching practices, and learning resources, providing comprehensive support for exploration and application."
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
observation of the week: in the US, holidays are celebrated more extravagantly by the wealthy. giant christmas trees, special holiday dresses, elaborate feasts, etc. in Taiwan, the opposite often seems true. wealthier acquaintances seem least likely to 烤肉 on 中秋節 or eat 粽子 at 端午節.
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i have no idea, 20 y/o me was a weirdo
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The press called me ... and said, 'What are you doing right now as you hear that you have won the Pulitzer Prize?' And I said, 'I'm washing spinach.' And they said, 'Don't you know that this means you need never wash spinach again?' And I thought, and probably said,
'Sure, I do. I don't like sand in my
spinach.' And I've been washing spinach ever since.”

Annie Dillard
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friends gave us "cardamom bun" flavored almond butter and this stuff is so good it should be illegal
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I keep seeing ChatGPT ads about Olds having chatty convos with the voice to text feature to help them do stuff on their phone and every single use case is just a thing you used to be able to just google before AI ruined Google
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I feel like the people are due a good Chotiniering
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
oh great, i'm now required to make an account that includes my full personal details (SSN and all) with a private company to access my treasury bonds, and there's no way for me to opt out, and I can't just close the account because the bonds haven't vested
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Finally ready to slam my head against Malenia until one of us breaks. Almost to the DLC!
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
BOCCHI is so warm and cute but it's also incredibly FUNNY, maybe the funniest book I've read in a long time. Highly recommend.
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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is 「咚」— the sound of slapping a wall fiercely, "don," usually used in the context of "kabe-don (壁咚)," when a male character forces his attention on a female character by cornering her. The manga meme has been used in a creative but controversial energy-saving campaign in Taiwan.
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Excited by the idea but disappointed they'll not let local expertise curate.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
i’ve been solving a lot of problems lately with my calculator like 5 + 8 and 12 x 3. but now i’m starting to think it’s alive
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
when in doubt, bake it down ps i failed at keeping a sourdough starter alive twice
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thinking about this exchange today
A YouTube video for the Water Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The comments section has an exchange as detailed below. “@TheMrdangles16 • 11y ago: 
i hate the water temple... too confusing :(“ “@KeithHalsell • 2y ago: 
it's been 9 years, i hope you are doing great in life now.” “@TheMrdangles16 • 2y ago: it couldn't be going worse Keith.”
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Asked a friend for manga recommendations after enjoying SKIP & LOADER. They suggested BLUE PERIOD and BOCCHI THE ROCK!. The former was beautiful and had good vibes, but plot was slow and the cast got too big. The latter is hilarious, laugh out loud funny. Highly recommend.
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
After seeing it mentioned online so many times, HI-FI RUSH has been pretty disappointing. Visuals and music are great but the combat is just ok, and plot+dialogue are super grating.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a horseshoe crab watches as a variety of prehistoric creatures swim towards an ethereal light. An ammonite calls back to the crab, “come on, horseshoe crab! We’re all evolving!” Panel 2: the horseshoe crab stays in position and replies, “nahh that’s crazy” Panel 3: the horseshoe crab is superimposed in front of a future premonition: a rather miserable-looking human slouched in the glow of a desktop computer. The horshoe crab swims away and says, “good luck tho”
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
First day of my 10th (oh god) year of teaching at a university. Send help.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wendell Berry lived his life as an example, but I think it would be a mistake (and inconsistent with his own views) to hold him up an exemplar. biblioracle.substack.com/p/wendell-be...
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Wendell Berry: Example, not Exemplar
Thoughts on the passing of a poet/essayist/novelist/farmer/human being.
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wrote about starting to go to the gym for the first time in my life at 40 years old, and the dangers of taking instructions in a language you aren't fluent in when holding heavy things... buttondown.com/telegraham/a...
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On Picking Up Slightly Heavy Things
Friends, Is there any question more guilt-inducing than when someone who has given a serious go at writing is asked “Are you still writing anything?” I am! I...
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
After shopping occasionally at same Indian grocery for seven years, just realized last trip they have tempeh in their freezer.
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Jacquelantyrn Rhys 🍂 @fuliginflipflops.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Liz Lemon saying “What a struggle to be born into the new world, huh?” and Jack Donaghy replying “Lemon, it's the time of monsters.”
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am sad for all the talented students who assured me it was a clear path to a better life for them as they discarded study plans they loved and studied coding instead.
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charlesjpratt @charlesjpratt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One of Hideo Kojima's real talents is that he would have exactly this idea but the stew would be dropped off by a drone that sings a little jingle which can alert enemies if they're in range. You then get a phone call from a nuclear scientist who warns you not to eat too much starch and dairy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is the correct position.
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the goose chasing a man meme where the goose says “what else did he say” and then “WHAT ELSE DID HE SAY” as the man runs away
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As usual, @keeanga.bsky.social brings facts, seriousness and depth to the fake debates. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Was “Defund the Police” Crazy?
A reckoning with the “woke” years.
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Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Google Translate on the phone has gotten significantly worse - it's harder to see pinyin on OCR text than it used to be, and it keeps reading me Japanese pronunciation of 漢字 even when I have Mandarin selected as the language. Does anyone have an alternative app they like?
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I can’t believe the semester starts this week. Somebody DO SOMETHING!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A clip from the last time 831 had me over.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Hugo winner for Best Game or Interactive Work is based on the French SFF novel LA HORDE DU CONTREVENT by Alain Damasio, which is coming out in October in English from Alexander Dickow as THE HORDE OF THE COUNTERWIND- a masterful translation #SFinTranslation
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Horde of the Counterwind: An Epic Voyage to the Upper Reaches The Cult Classic That Inspired Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
France’s defining fantasy/science fiction odyssey of the 21st century, the basis of the award-winning video game Expedition 33 and now published in English for the first time, celebrates twenty-three ...
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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 30/08/2026
Lay’s Durian-Flavored Chips FAQ: • Will the room reek of durian when opening the bag? No, but there is a mild peculiar odor. • Is durian in the list of ingredients? No. • Does it taste like durian? No, it tastes buttery at first but then comes the garlic powder + creamy dairy + sugar • Recommend? NO
Lay’s Durian-flavored potato chips
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Graham Oliver 歐墨然 @oumoran.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
七月的主題有點奇怪,但是剛剛貼了中文翻譯版的: buttondown.com/telegraham/a...
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預防性維護:我台灣的大腸檢查
這是我自己翻譯的七月文章 "Preventative Maintenance - My Taiwanese...
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