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Hannah Silverstein

@hillhannah.bsky.social
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MFA poetry, Warren Wilson College. She/Her. Black Lives Matter. Zero tolerance for fascists. linktr.ee/hannahsilverstein

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026
No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.
A faded, scratched postcard advertising the 'Edge of Town Motel.' Next to the motel sign is a vast pink piggybank, out of whose slot rises a motel key on a diamond keychain, emblazoned with a metallic dollar-sign.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ben was a master editor who approached a manuscript like a tree to be pruned—always seeing the possibilities for new growth, respecting the roots
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Hard Cider Was Once More Popular Than Water. He Foresaw a Comeback. (Gift Article)
Ben Watson, also known as Brother Apple, played a pivotal role in turning cider into a thriving slice of America’s craft-beverage movement. He has died at 64.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shoe shop event horizons
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
hi abolish the death penalty the state should never have the power to murder (yes this includes indirectly, I see you, ICE)
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m so viscerally embarrassed for him
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"you see it too and you realize how that image is simply the extension of another image, that your own life is a chain of words that one day will snap." —Ai, talking about AI, probably
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is a tough time to be searching these interwebs for the poems of the (real, human) poet Ai, but she has things to say www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42541/...
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Conversation
Did you ever, you start, wear a certain kind of silk dress and just by accident, so inconsequential you barely notice it, your fingers graze that dress…
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026
Overall, the United States has entirely too goddamn many people who legitimately believe The End is Nigh in positions of massive power. We have to fix that.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No notification dopamine hit compares with the feeling of finding a fat envelope in a mailbox, covered in stamps
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Social media promised to connect us but in so many ways it just flattened everything
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Advice, riddles, song lists, disasters, triumphs, questions, invitations
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our travels, our fears, our loves, our obsessions
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How we tried to impress with vivid descriptions, outrageous confessions, lists of books to read and art to appreciate
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The way we knew each other by our handwriting, doodles, weird syntax, absurdist lingo, private jokes
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Going through some folders of old letters from when my friends and I used to write letters
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Powerful essay. Among many themes, almost casually , the failure of Algebra for All. Gift link. In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Let's talk about a book series NOT getting attention that is among the finest of the decade: James Elkins' Five Strange Languages, the latest of which is Stories, Like Illnesses-- just released to resounding silence. Prior 2 novels are among my favorites ever and the new one so far is as good 1/?
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!"
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!"
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
apropos of nothing, I went back to "Howl," and, my god, could Alan Ginsberg write a poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/...
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I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for…
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I saw the best minds of my generation sacrificed to death cults
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
… the thing I can’t get over is how the “AI “ discussion has successfully prevented any discussion of the human future They’ve managed to shove any long term planning for what the world will look like in even five years
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
She thinks of Harriet as wanting guidance and of herself as the guide
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
IIRC “breeding” refers specifically to upbringing and education, independent of parentage—one of those usages that confuses modern readers. Someone is ill-bred if they show bad manners and ignorance, even if they’re an aristocrat.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Emma is the canonical fancaster
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My read is that Harriet’s early childhood survival depended heavily on her ability to placidly go with the flow and not ask questions
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To be fair, she left her in the care of Miss Taylor
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Time to get out the magic markers, kiddos!
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
(whispers) poetry has always treated uncertainty as a resource
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026
Abortion bans make exceptions for ectopic pregnancies, but some people still don’t get care. One doctor told a woman intervening in her pregnancy could land him jail time, according to a lawsuit. “I felt like my life was a risk he couldn’t afford.”
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 10/09/2026
“I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots” ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai_policy.html > My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know. This.
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I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots
I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Phew
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The sound I made launched my dog into a barking frenzy
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pro-tip: This principle works for any number of much worse films.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m glad I read up on the odyssey movie before I went. It allowed me to set my expectations low enough that I ended up enjoying it.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s ghosts all the way down to the first story spun in the glow of the first fire
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Syntax without semantics is a river without water Rotting fish on smooth stones
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Regency hotness standards ≠ late-stage capitalist 21st century beauty standards
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
LLMs, or as we genxers used to call them, madlibs
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m obsessed by his closing with “sincerely”
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This was the story I needed this morning
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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Look, if an infinite number of typing monkeys could reproduce it, how good could it be, hmmm?
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sam Waterston: "The lesson couldn’t be simpler … It’s as old as the schoolyard, as old as the Bible. And I won’t forget my father saying, after the war, with the finality and the quiet way that he said it: Never give in to a bully.'" ctmirror.org/2026/09/01/y...
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Demonstrators ring in semester with calls to 'democratize Yale'
It was the first event of its kind since students returned to Yale for the start of the school year. But discontent has been brewing longer.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As Brian Teare says: “doomstead men live doomstead days already sealed in extreme fiction as if there were ever a way to stay safely self-contained” www.oversoundpoetry.com/brian-teare-...
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Brian Teare--DOOMSTEAD DAYS - OVERSOUND
Brian Teare DOOMSTEAD DAYS   today’s gender is rain it touches everything with its little silver epistemology mottled like a brook trout with a hundred spots white as bark scars on this slim trunk thr...
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is the way
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The expression when I ask where he hid my other slipper
A floofy dog giving side-eye; a very good boy who happens to have big feelings that cause him to steal slippers
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