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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My book REWRITING THE MECHANIC comes out in in a month! Please preorder to read the 18th-century prehistory of the tech bro (aka the way that literary speculations crafted the models of technological power that still shape our horizons of possibility) www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rew...

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Rewriting the Mechanic

Rewriting the Mechanic examines how written descriptions, circulating across genres in eighteenth-century Britain, transformed certain mechanical arts by imagining them as newly innovative, authoritat...

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Rewriting the Mechanic

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

"God keep me from ever completing anything."

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Y’all, @irmavep.bsky.social’s forthcoming book is so fucking good—do not miss this one!!!

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Somewhere sometime on some corner of the internet I saw Britney Spears's (masterpiece) Blackout described as "voidier than the darkest black metal." I just finished reading Shelley's The Last Man and that's the description that keeps coming to mind.

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).

17th century engraving of a capybara under a palm tree eating a banana

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The phlebotomist described my blood as “nice and juicy” today

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

One of the things I hate most about AI is the way it poisons my relationship with my students. I'm constantly unsure if what I'm reading is their thoughts. I feel at once like a chump for potentially responding earnestly to AI and a cop for questioning if this is really their work.

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Finally I can hold it in my hands!! 💓 @zugenia.bsky.social

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I just read the intro to this book while procrastinating on grading and it could not be more extremely my shit...can't wait to read the rest

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Hearing Canadian accents on tv makes me so deeply homesick (yes I am watching Heated Rivalry)

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Hello everyone I am so depressed about AI. Every time I think about AI and my students and my job and what teaching is now for more than 0.01 seconds I get so sad and upset I feel like I need to crawl in a hole. So that’s fun

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I’m thinking of posting again…here’s my beautiful Margie for the timeline

A large cat lying in a box and showing her fluffy belly

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My perfect Marge and her perfect daughter

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Heard this Finnish contender for Eurovision 2025 today and will now be heartbroken if it isn't selected youtu.be/PFWtYcKb7C8?...

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Erika Vikman – ICH KOMME (music video) // UMK25

YouTube video by Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I solved the Saturday crossword without looking anything up and in pretty good time … usually when I do that and go to the comments they’re all “this is a puzzle for BABIES, even a pet dog could solve this puzzle” but this time they’re complaining about how hard it is 💅

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I haven't tweeted (or posted regularly to any social media site) in years but here I am anyway

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