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League of Women Voters of North Carolina @lwvnc.bsky.social · 16h

We’re partnering with North Carolina Asian Americans Together to hold a series of FREE in-person & online Absentee Ballot Clinics to walk voters through the process step by step. Register here: Wake Co.: ncaat.org/VBMWake Mecklenburg Co.: Ncaat.org/VBMMe Online Training: Ncaat.org/VBM

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Arianne H. @hartsea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Covid and flu shots acquired!

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...

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CFP: Generative Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

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Event:WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign - Meta-Wiki

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Arianne H. @hartsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been doing such a good job sticking to my promise to myself to not buy fast fashion, and then I find out that Old Navy is selling Muppet Christmas Carol pajamas. I caved in basically five seconds. In my defense, it's been a rough couple of weeks?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/09/2026

Also wow okay are we POSING, is this your next AUTHOR PHOTO, Mr. FANCY-PANTS (not wearing pants)

a large, fluffy grey tabby with a white bib and white toes, sitting and looking AS SERIOUS AS POSSIBLE on a faux-wood table in front of blue and gold blackout curtains.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Chris DeRose @scratchyderose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The fact that only ONE animated show is on this list further proves the stigma towards animation is still alive and kicking, which is a damn shame. No Primal, no Arcane, no Scavengers Reign, no Blue Eyed Samurai, no Avatar The Last Airbender. Like C’MON PEOPLE.

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Arianne H. @hartsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some work days feel like a slog. Other days you get to go to interesting talks with amazing historians, and then go to a meeting with the student leader of the LEGO club at your university to see if the club can make a LEGO replica of your library in time for the renovation!

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When you spend enough time in academia you will notice class based distinctions on career outcomes that have more to do with culture than with talent or work. You’ll also notice the improbably high share of faculty members who had at least one parent who is/was a faculty member.

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Arianne H. @hartsea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t always love it when they play music when I swim. I like to let my mind drift. But this morning my favorite lifeguard was playing Robyn. I was feeling it!

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026

Thousands of supporters gathered outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on the evening of Sept. 18, following the vote to close the center for at least two years for repairs. Read more: wapo.st/4rhwDug

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League of Women Voters of North Carolina @lwvnc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There are three constitutional amendments on all NC ballots. Learn more about them and check out this one-pager about them: ow.ly/lXLu50ZNv7V @publicschoolsfirstnc.org

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/09/2026

Cool cool, so every time I read an Austen book I will encounter a character who is a little bit embarrassing, and I will invariably see myself in said embarrassing character. Is that correct? Is this her whole deal? I'm not even done with chapter one!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

3. That college is about reading for “the workforce.” No, it’s about development for the adult force. Of which work is a part. 4/

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I was lucky enough to sit down for an extended interview about We the Platform with the endlessly creative @tomcomitta.bsky.social. We talked about experimental writing, the early days of the Web, mail art, and escaping the doom loop around literary study. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-t...

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Literary Web 2.0 | Los Angeles Review of Books

Is it the end of reading or a brand-new era?

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 31/08/2026

This is what happens when a director conflates a parable with real-world nuance. No, we don't need to "both sides" this tale because Dickens wrote the story as it was meant to be understood. Scrooge made mistakes and needed a wakeup call. That's it.

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Arianne H. @hartsea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Reading resumes for a position, and I know candidates are doing these laundry lists at the beginning of resumes (called things like "professional summaries") to get through computer systems. So I don't blame them, but I feel like I'm skimming through junk to find out if they have the right degrees.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

you'll never guess what the context for this post is

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Arianne H. @hartsea.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Having a needed quiet day. There’s also a napping husband on the other side of the couch next to me. lol

A brown tabby cat sleeping on my leg. You can see a book on my lap.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Rabies is 100% fatal if untreated. Please help spread the word about the exposure at the Farm Adventures mobile petting zoo in North Carolina. The vaccine is incredibly effective and will save your life. Also…. Rabies at a petting zoo!?!? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Four baby goats at mobile petting zoo in North Carolina test positive for rabies

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.

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Arianne H. @hartsea.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We saw The Cookie Queens documentary, and there were several Girl Scout troops at the theater! It was so sweet to see. It brought back a lot of very fond memories I have of being in Girl Scouts. Selling cookies was not as intense in the 80s and early 90s, but I did win a Walkman one year!

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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League of Women Voters of the US @lwv.org · 26/08/2026

Voting rights organizations today supplemented the complaint in their lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting to add claims against the US Postal Service’s (USPS) newly-finalized mail ballot rule Full statement: bit.ly/4cd8nDq

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Voting Rights Groups Move to Block Newly-Finalized Mail Ballot Rule | League of Women Voters

Plaintiffs in League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump Supplement Original Complaint and Seek Emergency Court Order to Block USPS From Implementing Mail Ballot Rule for November Election

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League of Women Voters of the US @lwv.org · 27/08/2026

We're proud to join the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation as an official partner in building the first monument on the National Mall dedicated to the history of American women and the suffrage movement! Learn more: bit.ly/4gnDcrq

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The Woman's Suffrage National Monument and the Ongoing Fight for Equality | League of Women Voters

LWV is proud to be partners in a new, historic effort: the creation of the first monument on the National Mall dedicated to American women's history. The Women's Suffrage National Monument honors the ...

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Rich people should learn from the post mortem adoration Dolly Parton is reviewing, how most of it isn’t even about her music, and take notice imo. Rich guys seem legacy success but won’t built a fuckin community center. Curious.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No greater tribute to Dolly than depicting her as she always preferred to be: stacked and snatched

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Kathryn Peters @katyetc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

States administer elections. States verify voters’ addresses. States provide a variety of effective security measures. This new USPS proposal impinges on state authority and adds no additional election security—only confusion and disenfranchisement. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

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Postal Service Publishes Finalized Plan to Restrict Mail Ballots

The plan, which complies with President Trump’s executive order to curtail mail voting, will only go into effect if the Supreme Court rules in the order’s favor.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/08/2026

"I get that you are having an existential crisis of self, facing the realities of aging, and accepting your social and economic circumstances, but listen, there is nothing I can do; I’m just a cat stretching in a bodega."

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I Can’t Fix Your Life; I’m Just a Bodega Cat Stretching

“I can’t do anything about your unaffordable rent or exorbitant student loans; I have no expenses in my life. I live in a potato chip display and sleep twent...

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Sarah Ovenall @ovenall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

All Durham County public libraries are open as cooling centers during normal business hours. Off hours it sounds like the only option is to call Entry Point Durham at 984-287-8313 www.durhamnc.gov/4888/Severe-...

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Severe Weather Updates & Resources | Durham, NC

Find information on how severe weather may be impacting City of Durham services.

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Arianne H. @hartsea.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm trying this styling box subscription for short women called The Short Story, and the shipments are called chapters. Someone in their marketing department has entirely too much fun with the theme. LOL. I really did receive some cute well fitting clothes, including jeans!

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League of Women Voters of North Carolina @lwvnc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

📣 TAKE ACTION: The LWVNC and our coalition partners are urging Governor Josh Stein to veto HB 377, legislation that raises serious concerns about judicial independence in North Carolina. ⬇️ Read more and see how to contact Gov. Stein and North Carolina legislators. ⬇️ my.lwv.org/north-caroli...

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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In short succession, we lost the English Short Title Catalog, British Book Trade Index, and London Book Trade. It rendered much of my work difficult to impossible. And now they're slowly coming back amd being rebuilt, something I truly wondered if it would be possible in 2026.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My friend was laid off a few months after moving to a new state to take a job. I can't imagine how devastating that must be. Consider making a small donation to show support for a trans librarian who's going through a terrible time. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

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Donate to Support for a Trans Librarian, organized by Violet Fox

Hello! My name is Violet Fox and I'm raising money for a friend, a trans librarian who rece… Violet Fox needs your support for Support for a Trans Librarian

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Vaccines do not cause autism. Autism is not something to be fixed. Autism is not something to be cured. My autistic friends, you are autistic joy. Thank you for being wonderful you ✨ Sincerely, Your Autistic Library Friend 💛

Mychal smiles in a shirt that reads, “Be a buddy not a bully”

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It feels like a good time to re-post this thread and remind people of the benefits of #vaccines.

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