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Julia Leyda (she/her)

@julia-leyda.northsky.social
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jaded academic | new Norwegian | chronically ill | ace woke pinko SJW | surviving mainly on film, TV, SFF novels - doesn't suffer fools - gleefully uses block function - mastodon hcommons.social/@julia - movies letterboxd.com/jleyda

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Capricorn: One skill that will help this week is hibernation. Seriously. Try to figure out how to turn into a bear.
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Leo: Expect romance on the horizon. Do not expect it to ever come closer to you than that.
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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#Mangelwurzel www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Meet the mangelwurzel: The forgotten root vegetable making a comeback
Mangelwurzels are attracting new fans, inspiring a festival and sparking a Somerset craze.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dreamy event!
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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
aje.news/eqpfxw #historikereforpalestina
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Norway’s sovereign wealth fund profits from Israeli holdings amid genocide
As Gaza is being destroyed, the so-called oil fund enjoys robust returns from companies linked to Israel's military.
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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who knew Doctor Strange and literature PhDs have so much in common
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
we watched I Love Boosters and 9 to 5 on two consecutive nights this weekend and it turns out that's a surprisingly perfect double feature, I can't believe there are two different movies that ask "what if you got really high and fed Das Kapital into the outfit computer from Clueless"
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026
meanwhile my own academic institution library won't acquire physical books any more, not even those written by its own faculty
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Gardening. I'm serious. Nothing helps you process life cycles, seasonal cycles, life choices like gardening for more than a few years.
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rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061
The painting "The Moment" by James Warden, with the text "Once I Was Made of Earth" on it by Rivers Solomon. The painting is in the romantic style, quite dramatic and dark in tone if not colour, with a horse rearing with fear in its eyes as a snake launches to bite it, against a back drop of pink and blue mountains.
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Pawel Frelik @nomad93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Neptune Frost and the Final Future of Afrofuturism - Journal #165
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Neptune Frost and the Final Future of Afrofuturism - Journal #165
Charles Tonderai Mudede does a deep dive on Steven Shaviro’s book about the Afrofuturist film Neptune Frost (2021).
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Same, son
little league kid says dream job is retirement
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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
35. Terrific. It's been a while since I read a novel where I found the characters so exasperating because they are well developed, and I cared about them so much. The POV shifts are also clever and *NECESSARY* for the story @emilystjams.bsky.social tells. I won't shut up about this for a while.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
cognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
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Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall
All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“Make a zine if you can’t make a book... Make a flyer if you can’t make a zine. Make a postcard if you can’t make a flyer. Leave a record.” - @marc-fischer.bsky.social “There’s nothing like print,” Foroohar said. “Even if all the data in the world was deleted, I would still have this book.”
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026
Lying in bed at 7pm hitting repost on this feels a bit on the nose tbqhwy. #mecfs #SevereMecfs
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Julia Leyda (she/her) @julia-leyda.northsky.social · 19/07/2026
New publication alert! My article with Maria Sulimma on the gendered regimes of electricity in the TV series Yellowjackets is just put from the ISLE journal. Please share! #AcademicPublishing #EnvironmentalHumanities #EnergyHumanities #Yellowjackets doi.org/10.1093/isle...
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Drawn to Light: Gendered Electricity and the Climate Unconscious in Yellowjackets
Compared to other forms of energy consumption, electricity has long been either a symbol of technological progress and modernity, most recently in the comi
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 07/08/2026
uff, this chimes with Kate Manne's AI piece from a couple of days ago: “ChatGPT fills and fuels a felt need for the female sycophancy that no human being should want, and that privileged men should be weaned off their historical reliance on”
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/07/2026
It's clear that many cis people aren't aware how truly fucking awful the New York Times has been towards trans people and that it is not just a bit transphobic like so many others but a leading voice that has been cited in legal cases taking away the rights of trans people.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
yall (writers, researchers, etc) are using zotero, right. open-source bibliography software that saves all your sources & notes? i realize i sound like an insta influencer but it's the only thing in my life that is even slightly organized. i still have my notes from grad school!!
screenshot of a bibliography. A book called "At Home with Empire: Metropolitan Culture..." is highlighted. Notes on the side talk about the duality of domestic/foreign, home/other, and the family metaphor in imperial Britain. Ch. 3: A homogenous society? Britain's internal 'others', Laura Tabili
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older This multi-award-nominated sapphic, Holmes-esque mystery manages to create a gaseous world that feels lived in.... Investigator Mossa tracks clues all the way back to the university where her ex-girlfriend, Pleiti, researches how to return to Earth."
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The Best Sci-Fi Books of the 21st Century are Very Queer
Far from an obscure subset of science fiction, as it may have been in the previous century, queer sci-fi is now leading the genre.
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Happy birthday Frantz Fanon 💐💐
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Julia Leyda (she/her) @julia-leyda.northsky.social · 19/07/2026
New publication alert! My article with Maria Sulimma on the gendered regimes of electricity in the TV series Yellowjackets is just put from the ISLE journal. Please share! #AcademicPublishing #EnvironmentalHumanities #EnergyHumanities #Yellowjackets doi.org/10.1093/isle...
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Drawn to Light: Gendered Electricity and the Climate Unconscious in Yellowjackets
Compared to other forms of energy consumption, electricity has long been either a symbol of technological progress and modernity, most recently in the comi
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/07/2026
"Together with Secretary Kennedy at Health and Human Services, we’re removing fluoride from the water supply and replacing it with trace amounts of 100 percent pure testosterone, sourced exclusively from the manosphere."
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Effective Immediately, Every God-Fearing Soldier Will Be Jacked to the Gills with Testosterone
“Whether our military members are deployed to Iran, the Pacific theater, or the streets of Dubuque, Iowa, Americans can feel safe knowing our soldiers are no...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14/07/2026
google's "why don't you want to use our documentation chatbot" survey offers a pretty good list of reasons not to use their documentation chatbot
popup asking Would you like to use an AI chatbot to help you while browsing this site? Yes / No, with No highlightedpopup survey with all checkboxes checked 

What's the main reason you prefer to read the documentation yourself instead of using an Al chatbot?

I want to read the full context of an article to ensure I don't miss any important details.

I find standard documentation design (tables, diagrams) easier to scan than a chat interface.

I enjoy the learning process of researching and discovering solutions manually.

I have strong concerns about the accuracy or reliability of Al-generated answers.

Last input is for "Other" and the text inputs reads "I hate ai"
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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!
Text: Am I a boy? Am I a girl? Who knows! But everyone finds me hot and that makes everyone gay

Picture: Sailor Uranus/Haruka Tenou winking
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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There is no way to use ChatGPT responsibly.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Never forget that Sen. Susan Collins of Maine cast the pivotal and deciding vote to approve Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.
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Rep. Judy Chu @chu.house.gov · 14/07/2026
As we close out on our country's 250th birthday celebrations, I also want to celebrate a notable Woman in History, Pasadena's own Octavia Butler.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/07/2026
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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
She's just like me
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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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Christopher Pahle @tophepahle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Og signer oppropet til KIKI, og få alle du kjenner som er fans av det ekte og menneskeskapte til å gjøre det samme. (Du kommer til å få en bekreftelsesmail du må godkjenne, så sjekk spam etc om den ikke kommer frem.) underskrift.kikinorge.no
underskrift.kikinorge.no
Underskriftskampanje for regulering av KI
Norge er i ferd med å tillate åpent tyveri
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Inkluderende feminisme 💖 @inkluderendefeminisme.no · 01/07/2026
Across the Americas, in South Africa and beyond, feminists are all trans-inclusive. 🏳️‍⚧️ They are trying to build large forms of #solidarity 💪💖🌈 to fight enormous forms of power. Judith Butler
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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
These are best-in-kind guidelines—no surprise, given who wrote them. Thanks to @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @maurasmale.bsky.social and @mkgold.bsky.social for their intellectual leadership and addressing the challenges posed by genAI with characteristic criticality, nuance, and care.
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Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"After all, what is a university? Clearly not the students; they pass through like mayflies, eating, breeding, failing to do the reading and not bringing us enough money. Academic staff? They too are ephemeral, and a drain on our income streams." Read the whole thing 🔥
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Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Defending the humanities.
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Kirk Slaps Computer in Star Trek TOS
Alt: Kirk Slaps Computer in Star Trek TOS
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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Interdisciplinary scholarship often falls between categories, including when it comes to awards. We built the Ideas on Fire Book Awards Guide to make it easier to identify recognition opportunities across disciplinary boundaries. The database is now available: ideasonfire.net/ideas-on-fir...
Line of star-shaped award trophies, with the Ideas on Fire logo. Text reads: The Ideas on Fire Book Awards Guide.
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Lynell George @lynellgeorge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“To investigate a thing is to alter it and discover new questions.“ — Octavia E. Butler #BOTD 1947
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Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A24 announces that they want to put storyboard artists out of work. That's what the headline should be written as. Becuase we should be honest about what these AI "tools" are trying to do, and who it is trying to circumvent. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Google Invests $75 Million in A24 to Develop AI-Powered Filmmaking Tools
A24 and Google have struck an AI research partnership that will see the independent studio work to develop new AI-powered technologies for filmmakers.
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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Now We Ride! - new original available in my shop. It will also be my gay rodeo release in August. I’ll have a booth at the Santa Fe Gay Rodeo
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Olav Torvund @olavtorvund.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Synd, men dessverre ikke overraskende med all den hetsen vi ser, og med all den medieoppmerksomhet hetserne får. Det betyr først og fremst at pride har blitt viktigere. www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/M7EL...
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Rapport: Økt skepsis til pride-markering
Et flertall mener at det er viktig at pride markeres, og er positivet til at offentlig myndigheter deltar. Likevel har skepsisen til markeringen økt siden 2022, ifølge en ny rapport.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"Refusal to Review" – ‪Iris van Rooij
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Leo: The choices you've made are responsible for who you are today, so you have no one to blame but yourself.
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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
CfP for all Nordic-facing #ecocritics! You have just a few more days to put in an abstract for the 2026 ENSCAN workshop on the topic of #resilience. enscan.net/workshops/re... What is the role of resilience in Nordic literature & culture? #EnvHum #Ecocriticism #økokritikk
A jetty on an island in a Nordic country, with wooden houses in the background
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Katie Ritson @untamed.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Coming soon! 🌊 #EnvHum #BlueHums
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.
SO FOR THE FUTURE (LITERALLY) WE'RE NOT ACCEPTING AI POSTERS OR FLYERS FOR THE PUB.

We're right next to Ireland's biggest Art College, lads. It's not a good look.

WE UNDERSTAND BANDS CAN BE SKINT BUT RELYING ON SOME EARTH KILLING APP FROM SOME PAEDO ISLAND BILLIONAIRE IS NOT THE WAY. WE GOT BY WITHOUT IT AND WE'LL GET BY AGAIN.

IF YOU'RE STUCK WE'LL HELP. (YES IT HAS BEEN USED HERE BEFORE BUT CONSIDER THIS THE START OF THE END OF IT.)

THANKS, HUMANS.
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Julia Leyda (she/her) @julia-leyda.northsky.social · 20/06/2026
My latest publication, open access in the Live Handbook Environmental Humanities. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... #OpenAccess #EnvHum #FilmStudies #TelevisionStudies
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Environmental Film and Television Studies
Environmental Film and Television Studies encompasses a set of interdisciplinary scholarly practices designed to foreground ecological issues in film and television. Drawing on approaches from across ...
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