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Heather Comfort

@heathercomfort.bsky.social
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I teach, write, collage, and play in my garden. Sometimes I discover blooms, sometimes I don’t.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/09/2026
‘I’m not JD Vance’: the Appalachia memoir author running for Congress
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‘I’m not JD Vance’: the Appalachia memoir author running for Congress
Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, is drawing on her reporting experience to win Virginia voters in a longtime Republican district
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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wrote this to try and bear witness; I hope you'll read it. If you do, I hope you'll later find some quiet to think about this man, pray for him if you'd like, and then find out what you can do to help those impacted by this violence and terror in your community.
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His car is still sitting there
An ICE kidnapping in Austin
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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Happiness is releasing a fall issue of Whale Road Review on a Saturday morning in September while sipping an iced chai latte. ☺️❤️🍂
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Dr. Liz: Life in the Aftertimes @lgkatzphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If Hitchcock made films today.
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Thom Weaver @thomweaver24.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yup. We live in-and constantly change-the Past.
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404 Media @404media.co · 07/09/2026
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026
“Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be integrated into ‘writing-intensive’ courses.”
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Harvard Humanities Faculty Push Back on Deming’s Call for AI Use in Writing Courses | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be inte...
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Toby /𝓸𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓶𝔂 𝓸𝔀𝓷 @tobyhark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Toby /𝓸𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓶𝔂 𝓸𝔀𝓷 @tobyhark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I knew I recognized this from somewhere
Bad guys in Andor working on genocide stuff and also their relationship
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🇹🇭Nene Royal🇹🇭 doing Metallica's Master of Puppets. She's pretty damn good. Only 16 but you'd think she's a seasoned rock goddess with how confident she blasts through it. 🤘🤘🎸
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Hey Chicago! An ICE contractor is trying to buy our parking meters — and City Council decides whether that happens THIS WEEK. We've got time to stop this, but we need as many people as possible to fight back: tinyurl.com/icepark
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Stormrider @kwh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
USGS info: Venezuela earthquakes were a “doublet” sequence; EQ1 M 7.2 & EQ2 M 7.5 - USGS OnePager summary of estimated impacts from the larger event - earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026
Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026
Parade 

Thursday 

Manhattan
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
we’re so desperate for good news we've accepted the scaffolding as our wire mother
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Aaaaand CSPAN Scaffolding livestream is done
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
CSPAN feed back up!
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I can here the birds waking 😂
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
rolling up to the hottest Friday night party in Washington lol
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
HE HAD IT COMING HE HAD IT COMING HE ONLY HAD HIMSELF TO BLAME
Construction workers stand on scaffolding in front of the Kennedy Center.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
they seem to have stopped at 1.5 tarps
Front of KC with scaffolding and partial covering
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
OH BLUESKY IS DEAD? THEN WHY ARE ALL THE MILLENNIALS HERE UP LATE WATCHING SCAFFOLDING, HUH?
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 30/05/2026
She was more than just George Lucas's secret weapon--she also was Martin Scorsese's editor of choice on some of his early films, including ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANY MORE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK and TAXI DRIVER.
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Taxi Driver (1976): Travis Gets Ready | Iconic Robert De Niro's Full Scene
YouTube video by Binge Society
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
bunnies playing with squirrels!
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NPR @npr.org · 15/03/2026
Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse. n.pr/3Nptb1g
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Acclaimed 20th century philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96
Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.
I know I buy far too many books but I like to think that lining the walls of my house with them wards off evil in some deeply important way.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.
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Matt Okumura @mattokumura.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Screenshots from Andor when the Gorman councilman told Mon Mothma, “They don’t even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
At Oklahoma University “it is now university policy to give paid suspension to any faculty member against whom a student has filed a complaint.”
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OU Faculty Senate raises concerns with policy suspending faculty members who receive student complaints
Emails reveal OU Faculty Senate is working to challenge the formalization of a policy by university leadership to suspend any faculty member who receives a student complaint.
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I've been seeing people say about their work lately, "I used AI in the edits & refining of this piece, but it's all my own words & ideas." I think people don't quite understand what "my own words" means. If you're using AI, the words are not your own. They are an amalgam of other people's words.
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Enlightenment Transformation Healing (All extremely welcomed)
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Clarity Opportunities Tasgaglome
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Is this anything?
Stop trying to make felch happen
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
“Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’”
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Outrage after Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’
US president roundly decried for Truth Social post after lawmakers told military personnel to refuse illegal orders
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
They spoke, the fifth day, of silence.
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Bus drivers, shelf stockers, code writers, machinists, accountants, lab techs, cellists kept speaking.
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The silence spoke loudly of silence, and the rivers kept speaking of rivers, of boulders and air. Bound to gravity, earless and tongueless, the untested rivers kept speaking.
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The facts, surprised to be taken, were silent. Now it was only the rivers that spoke of the rivers, and only the wind that spoke of its bees, while the unpausing factual buds of the fruit trees continued to move toward their fruit.
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Someone, from deep in the Badlands, began posting facts. The facts were told not to speak and were taken away.
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
and the ones who worked for the bees.
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
On the Fifth Day by Jane Hirshfield
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On the Fifth Day
On the fifth day the scientists who studied the rivers were forbidden to speak or to study the rivers. The silence spoke loudly of silence, and the rivers kept speaking of rivers, of boulders and air.
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Heather Comfort @heathercomfort.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The scientists who studied the air were told not to speak of the air, and the ones who worked for the farmers were silenced,
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