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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What are the most accurate prepositions for where you imagine language in relation to yourself? Real question. Made of real words!

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My two new favorite ways to read: 1. Upside down (because it feels the way I remember reading felt when I learned as a child) 2. Covering the page with my hands, letting my fingers reveal one word at a time, but only after I've taken a guess as to what the next word might be (best for poems)

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

“The Prairieland cases should be understood as the government’s effort to heroize ICE in the face of community defense efforts to stop mass deportations, and to shift the blame for political violence from federal officers to the left.” — @melissagiragrant.com for @newrepublic.com

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Scholars theorizing about LLMs--and specifically about language as an autonomous system--should probably read more poetry and talk to more poets.

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If I were a word I would hate getting chunked.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I am honestly disturbed by the swiftness with which "trans healthcare not available to anyone under 19" is going from being regarded, rightly, as collaboration with trans genocide and a fascist federal government to "the best we can expect" even among those who damn well know better...

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

All of my new favorite sentences come from the Corpus of Linguistic Acceptability. To wit: "John ate his noodle quietly."

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The sky is pink and a rabbit has moved into our garden.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is brilliant.

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I dread a future in which the frictional relationships between readers, writers, and language are smoothed algorithmically out of existence. It reminds me of Virginia Woolf's strange sensation in the early Nazi attacks on her country. Why would we volunteer that vanishing, that surrender?

It struck me that one
curious feeling is, that the writing 'I', has vanished. No audience. No echo. Thats part of one's death.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is a total fucking disaster, holy shit

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026

Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Harriet Clark's novel, The Hill, strikes such a perfect balance between leaving open space in which a reader might think/feel, and choosing marks upon which said reader might stand. And it made me laugh aloud!

The Hill: a novel by Harriet Clark resting a top a rumpled quilt.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

universities have the brainpower, resources,+ community obligation to develop on-site secure NON PROFIT learning management systems + ed tech overseen by actual educators, not data-extraction censorious surveillance profiteers! VOID THE CONTRACTS theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...

theamericanvandal.substack.com

Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production

Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.

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Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I don’t think you should be the president of a university if you hit students with your car and then lie about it

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 01/05/2026

TECH BRUNCHLORDS: we believe AI has successfully achieved human-level cognition NEUROLOGISTS: okay so your brain is like, imagine if there was a kind of pudding that sang two bars from Semi-Charmed Life whenever somebody nearby was baking cookies, right? we don’t know why it does that

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It’s been circulating that the Cleveland State University Poetry Center may close on June 30... This would be an unbelievable loss for a press that’s been around since 1962, & one that features some of our favorite poetry collections (featured here), including a book by Piżama author Lesle Lewis.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

People / are just too attractive! Heather Christle (@heatherchristle.bsky.social)

PEOPLE ARE A LIVING STRUCTURE
LIKE A CORAL REEF

People love to clean their ears and I love people
very much They are everywhere! Every single
thing I love I love for windows only and if
one window reflects another then friends
for me it’s all over And in the windows are trees
and in the windows are people What are they even doing
with their hunger and in their new shirts They are
taking care of themselves and they are taking each other out
for lunch Oh even the rain has to love them People
are just too attractive! and the rain places itself
on the window in order to be closer to the people
the ones who are eating The ones who are
busting out vigor Oh people You have to love
people They are so much like ourselves

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

we could pay women the same as men so it’s not cheaper to hire a woman?

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Feedback is not just feedback! It is relationship-building! This should be obvious! Hire more teachers so they/we can do our jobs properly!

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

For National Poetry Month I would like to invite people to go outside without a phone and notice when two things are trying to resemble each other. You don't even have to write it down.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

They want to make us criminals for needing to pee. Please understand that this is the tip of an agenda designed to give trans people two choices: house arrest or imprisonment. Either we lock ourselves inside or they lock us up and forcibly detransition and torture us. This is exterminationist.

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It seems unfathomable that something that feels as good as writing poems actually exists and keeps happening.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The day before starting a war with Iran, the Secretary of Defense was focused on removing trans scouters from the Boy Scouts.

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

You can't put anything into words; they are already full; you can only ask them to occur in an order and then notice how they respond to each other and you.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The word dismantle has been dogging me in various forms all morning. (Not kindly, not unkindly. Determined.) And the image of a sugar cube. And I do not have time to write a poem. And my notebook is out of reach. So.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This exactly why I tell people to fight misogyny and child abuse if they want to fight authoritarianism. Those are pillars of fascism that so many people think are “normal” parts of a “democratic” society. News flash: they have no place in a democratic society.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This from @andreapitzer.bsky.social is key. “nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training.”

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David Cake @davecakes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It’s a shame that Glasgow don’t have any artists.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yesterday I taught a class about the historiography of Stonewall. I used the official defacing of the Stonewall National Monument - removing the TQ+ by the administration - to illustrate how public memory and debates about history, aka historiography, have relevance today. Next year I'll use this.

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Apostasy Now! @apostasynow.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo via Reuters)

Elderly man wearing only shorts with a blanket over his shoulders is flanked by ICE officers on either side as he descends the front stairs of him home in the snow.

“A man, whose family requested a Hmong interpreter, is detained after ICE agents and other law enforcement officers conducted an immigration raid at his home, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., January 18, 2026.REUTERS/Leah Millis”

via @idreesali114.bsky.social on X

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Dislike the days where lines from "England in 1819" start running at random through my head.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 15/01/2026

In 2026, we're launching an ambitious effort to track legacy news media's coverage of the trans community, with a focus on the words news outlets choose and how those are changing as right wing pressure threatens the independence of our press. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...