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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks past me for going with 32GB of RAM in early 2020. However, you did skunk me with a budget mobo, leaving me no real upgrade path.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm at a point where I need another Brontë scholar to look at a draft and either tell me, "It's great, keep going," or tell me I'm off the ledge and to stop. Any takers? It's about Wuthering Heights although any Brontë person can probably give me the necessary head-check.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

they needed the extra server space for nazi memes.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Would a machine be able to come up with Tunak Tunak? Absolutely fucking not youtu.be/92ydUdqWE1g?...

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Tunak Tunak Tun Video | Daler Mehndi | Full Song | Daler Mehndi Music

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🌦️Wifeguy Auteur🌦️ @delugeduvall.effigyfilms.com · 25/09/2026

if “we’re all cam girls in a surveillance state” ya’ll better be acting in solidarity with actual fucking cam girls 😒

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

amplifying this whole thread and adding my perpetual plea: create/buy/use/share actual ink-on-paper texts. use the public library and build your own to share. keep media out of the cloud. do things by hand, make things with your hands: cooking, sewing, gardening, art. these are soul-healing skills.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How can films designed for audiences in the past be made accessible to viewers today? Our new blogpost reflects on our ongoing project to restore, digitise, and share a collection of 1,800 films depicting historic farming life. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

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Beyond nostalgia

How do we help audiences of today encounter films from the past?

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“We should stop and think about the tech we are using, or even discussing, and what it actually does.” “AI” does not think. “AI” does not feel. “AI” does not have agency. We need to stop talking about “AI” like it is a person and talk about it instead as technologies with specific functionalities.

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How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ThatFeelingWhen you’ve got 26 original printings of The Columbian Orator, enough to put one into the hands of each student as you begin teaching how #FrederickDouglass taught himself #HowToRead and #SpeakTruthToPower

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this is some good 2009 3 AM twitter shit.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You're not walking a mile for a Camel. You're wading through an AI slop morass for a madeleine. And that's a powerful memory. 💪🇫🇷🌟

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026

thinking about this tweet again, and the fact that it's got such a hold on me that I genuinely think about it whenever I write a feature because I don't want to do "the hot dog thing"

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hip is still cool. There's even a song with nearly 500M views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhTe...

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[MV] 마마무(MAMAMOO) - HIP

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shanna 🩷 @shannasins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

support my garden!

Pink echinacea with tomatillos behind it

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At 10am EST I will be live with @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social to talk about my new biography of Robert Gould Shaw. Join us for what promises to be an engaging discussion. #CivilWarMemory www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na_5...

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The Man Behind "Glory": What Hollywood Got Wrong About Robert Gould Shaw

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My father worked for decades on public health & immunizations in Pennsylvania. It's getting pissed away by these shitbirds. Public health doesn't just happen. It takes work yanking a county, state, nation in that direction. The individual can't do it. It's top down policy built over time.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Posting the Texas flag like that on the anniversary of the battle of Brandywine. The. Nerve.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A student showed me an app (AI powered) that took my syllabus & broke it down by week, converted the schedule into an action list w/ time estimates, & provided some other perks. What struck me first wasn't AI use, but that we could have a syllabus like that. By getting rid of the boilerplate BS.

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Proximity searching is such a brilliant tool for research in newspaper databases. I learned it from the CCP's legendary librarian Carol Rudisell. Even useful on sites that don't advertise that capacity. E.g., "weekly anglo-african"~5 support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/art...

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On this page: Finding similar spellings Wildcards Proximity: finding terms used together Finding similar spellingsYou can find words with spellings similar to your search term by using the tilde ...

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm conflicted on it. It's a lot of Easter egg history showing and not telling relying on held knowledge to work. On the other hand, in these trying times, even flashing an image of JB and saying the word "hero" is something.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m having a morning, and I would guess you might be too. Here is Mustard, daughter of our very ancient Housie, bottle lamb who grew up in the house after her Mom rejected her. Mustard will soon be at a new house as part of a foundational herd. I hope this brightens your day!

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#18thc and Novel people, what work of secondary criticism or work of novel theory would you pair with Eliza Haywood's Fantomina? (this for a hastily pulled together grad seminar, not necessarily populated by people with an interest in the period, but definitely interested in the genre). Thank you!

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

an airport paperback bestseller; a second language; me, after two cocktails

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wanna quote post the last part out of context. I am fighting the urge.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do it. ASECS was my first step away from my 19C roots and towards doing more history adjacent work in the 18C. Not even 2 years into my Moravian stuff at that point. You got much bigger chops than I had at that point when I did it. And they are good people there, too.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's dangerous to go alone, simps. Take this!

a display of several credit cards arrayed in a fan shape

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Dawnlight🌞Neni / ART COMMISSIONS OPEN!! @nenilein.com · 09/09/2026

Fun fact: "Reviewing an AI made translation" is more work for translators than just translating it themselves, because AI translations do not pass the sniff test beyond the most superficial. It's a loophole companies use as an excuse to underpay translators, and nothing else.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That posts explains that disconnect. It aint wrong. A lot of folks explained the need for preparing for those feelings and knowing they were coming. They were not wrong. Positive experiences feel like stolen, unearned respites. An ignored reality undeserved.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As of late, I keep experiencing moments where I think back to the weeks and months after my mom died. How relaxing the time felt. Carefree. I did what I needed to do and rested from my massive burnout. It was nice. My logical brain asks myself: Do you realize how bonkers that sounds?

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I find it grounding not only to try and hold in the front of my mind that everybody around me is degrees of Going Through It not seen in our lifetimes, but also to hold steady distrust for anybody who is not

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't got much stomach for arguments that the NPS is doing their best in a bad environment.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

These are my same concerns with the signage at the President's house in Philly. Someone said do it. Next person said do it. Staff drove out their with their trucks and tools, then took the signs down.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The government reverting the Arlington confederate memorial and signage doesn't bother me nearly as much as every person along the line making it happen. Every person saying doing it, writing the text, manufacturing it, and tightening the last bolt holding it in place-- they worry me.

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🎂 SAVE THE DATE for Feb 11, 2027! 🎂 Douglass Day will feature Transcribe the Early Black Press! 💻 New Crowdsourcing Project 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! Host an event or join us online! Help us spread the word? Register now: DougalssDay.org

Postcard graphic with large text saying "Save the Date for Douglass Day" Below that, text reads "Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Black Press" and the date "2.11.2027" followed by the web address DouglassDay.org.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Relatable. That's my thought process with every marketing message from Breck's telling me to look out for their catalogue in the mail.

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J-E Media Translation Course@JVTA（日本映像翻訳アカデミー） @jemediatranslation.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Coming up next week!📚 Join us on September 12th (JST) for a special look into the world of Japanese-to-English manga localization and editing with Sarah Tangney (@sarasaraht.bsky.social) from Square Enix Manga & Books!🤩 Don't miss it! Sign up here: t.co/CDMRlYcsU8

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What's up YouTube? 90% of you aren't subscribed. So why don't you smash that subscribe button and hit the bell icon so you don't miss any content as they happen. Speaking of hitting things? Are you hitting the internet? Why not make your first stop with our sponsor, Nord VPN.

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Greg Specter @gregspecter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I watched a video of some guy holding a Yeti while sitting in a big chair in front of a fireplace, not even speaking into the right part of the mic. I thought what is this fireside chat live vlogging the Hindenburg with a giant mic vibe? How can you hold such a heavy thing for so long? Anyway...

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Jessie Sage @sapiotextual.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Those working at the intersection of intimacy & public leadership (clergy, sex workers, politicians, activists, dancers) may be interested in this 9 month cohort starting now. I did it last year and found it to be personally and professionally enriching & meaningful. meadville.edu/light/public...

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LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School LEADERSHIP & PUBLIC INTIMACY – Meadville Lombard Theological School

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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