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Ryan (Ry) Warner @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social · 11h

Grateful there’s bicycle crossing with the new Colfax BRT, but anyone want to help me interpret this sign?

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Thank you for the good intentions.” A poem by Nicanor Parra, translated by Patricia Rachal.

PONCHARTRAIN CAUSEWAY

Excuse me, I am extremely sorry
I have nothing to do with these unforgettable bridges
I admit they are long. Infinite? O.K., infinite
But I have very little to do with these beautiful sunsets.
Thank you for the sandwiches and the Cokes
Thank you for the good intentions
(And also the bad ones)
My stomach is full of joy:
Can't you hear the thundering of the guts?
As long as there is nobody to prove the contrary
I will go on calling myself myself.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well hello!

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For me, there's no better way into close reading than memorizing poetry. I notice things about the mechanics of each poem I've memorized without effort/conscious analysis, simply as a byproduct of finding the words over & over in my brain/mouth. (Also a great antidote to doomscrolling/rumination.)

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Imagine. Decide. Act. Make. The human skills, the human verbs

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Put another way, to be legible enough for AI to be useful to most families, they would have to stop communicating as the family they have known, never had to overtly think about, and become something stranger and coarser that has no cultural foundation. Why would I do that?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...

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Every Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)

“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves.

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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Humberto Ak'abal, from IF TODAY WERE TOMORROW (seems a fitting poem for a Sunday morning...) #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

DAWN

Dawn
is a little animal
that comes in noiselessly.

It’s so tiny
it slips under the door.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now that one I’m pretty sure I’ve heard.

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This Thursday!

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 27/09/2026

That ubiquitious hit song, "Jews in Texas"

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DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Made some new hats. MFA or NO MFA? thediagram.com/merch

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In honor of the final day of the Emily Dickinson Marathon, a throwback to the time I translated a quotation about Jair Bolsonaro being a weirdo as though it were a Dickinson poem (specifically, as though it were the 4th and 5th stanzas of F900, “Twas awkward, but it fitted me - “

$Kate Beall @katebbeall • 8/26/22 'Twas awkward, but it fitted me - An Ancient fashioned Heart - Its only lore - its Steadfastness - In Change - unerudite - It only moved as do the Suns - For merit of Return - Or Birds - confirmed perpetual By Alternating Zone - (1/4) [photo of Bolsonaro going ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ // photo of the preserved heart of Dom Pedro I] Kate Beall @katebbeall • 8/26/22 I only have it not Tonight In its established place - For technicality of Death - Omitted in the Lease - -Emily Dickinson$

Kate Beall @katebbeall •8/26/22
''É um órgão muito frágil, que está isolado da luz e do manuseio. E como se fosse um pedaço de pão embebido em um líquido. A qualquer movimento, desmancha-se', afirma Bodanzky, que classifica o pedido de empréstimo como uma 'farsa'"
revistaforum.com.br/politica/2022/…
(3/4)

Kate Beall @katebbeall •8/26/22
It is an organ—very Fragile—
We isolate from Light and touch.
As though a tender piece of Bread —
Were soaked—in Precious liquid.

Whatever movement—however slight—
The whole thing falls apart.
A farce the size of far Brazil—
Lie still, dear Pedro—be Still-unbeating Heart.
(4/4)

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

a Silver Jews kind of Saturday “Grass rabbits, grass rabbits, grass rabbits, grass rabbits, grass” youtu.be/ty44AgX0kIU

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Silver Jews - Like Like the the the Death

YouTube video by leftoverfiller

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Maybe my favorite part of the dissolution of our political system is how much of the time half the candidates refuse to participate in debates/town halls/etc. and as a result the normal ones are just like, "sooo...let's just vibe??"

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Can AI feel pain?" reminds me of when the research came out that said carrots scream when you pull them from the ground except this is more like if I stood behind you and while you pulled a radish I giggled and then I also wrote a breathless article about "Are radishes ticklish???"

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kenneth Patchen

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can the photocopier experience bullying? It certainly shuts down when I give it a good poke in the power button

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A poem a week for the month of October! I might cheat and count this, from Emily Dickinson, for week 1 since I just memorized it in the last week or so.

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We grow accustomed to the Dark -
When Light is put away -
As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp
To witness her Good bye -

A Moment - We uncertain step
For newness of the night -
Then - fit our Vision to the Dark -
And meet the Road - erect -

And so of larger - Darknesses -
Those Evenings of the Brain -
When not a Moon disclose a sign -
Or Star - come out - within -

The Bravest - grope a little -
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead -
But as they learn to see -

Either the Darkness alters -
Or something in the sight
Adjusts itself to Midnight -
And Life steps almost straight.

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Emily Dickinson Marathon, Day 6 She likes the marathon, resents the page turning

A tabby cat, curled up on a blanketed lap, rests her head on the corner of an open book, with Dickinson poems (1237-1240, Franklin edition) visible.

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saddened to hear that a writer was contacted by a fake Danielle Dutton (not our very real and human editor) pretending to be asking for work on behalf of Dorothy. We do not solicit work that way (i.e., cold emails). Please help us spread the word?!

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'You'll choke too' - I wanted to reshare my wildfire aerial embroidery now summer is finally over as it really meant a lot to me. Autumn is here but as the fruit ripened much earlier than normal, I worry the little birds and animals won't have enough for the winter...

An embroidery hoop containing an embroidered aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts a burning wildfire, with dry forest on the right and smoke on the left, with a line of bright flames down the centre.

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“You let her see what she needs to see, and you let her lean up into the rest of all that dark.”

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ordered a martini at a campus interview dinner, is that anything? A NY strip steak too.

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Emily Dickinson on a worm: “Pink lank and warm” (F1742)

In Winter in my Room
I came upon a Worm
Pink lank and warm
But as he was a worm
And worms presume
Not quite with him at home
Secured him by a string
To something neighboring
And went along -
A Trifle afterward
A thing occurred
I'd not believe it if I heard
But state with creeping blood
A snake with mottles rare
Surveyed my chamber floor
In feature as the worm before
But ringed with power
The very string with which
I tied him - too
When he was mean and new
That string was there -

I shrank - "How fair you are"!
Propitiation's Claw -
"Afraid he hissed
Of me"?
"No Cordiality" -
He fathomed me -
Then to a Rhythm Slim
Secreted in his Form
As Patterns swim
Projected him.
That time I flew
Both eyes his way
Lest he pursue
Nor ever ceased to run
Till in a distant Town
Towns on from mine
I set me down
This was a dream -

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

do we know if that man is eating a full 8oz container of worms every day or is cup just a general description?

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Emily Dickinson Marathon, Day 5

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I many times thought Peace had come
When Peace was far away -
As Wrecked Men - deem they sight the Land - At Centre of the Sea -
And struggle slacker - but to prove
As hopelessly as I -
How many the fictitious Shores - Or any Harbor be -

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.

reed.edu

Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Post-1945 Fiction and/or Narrative of the United States - Office of the Dean of the Faculty - Reed C...

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Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Where bloodroot and belladonna insist.” A poem by Charles Wright.

Stone Canyon Nocturne

BY CHARLES WRIGHT

Ancient of Days, old friend, no one believes you'll come back.
No one believes in his own life anymore.

The moon, like a dead heart, cold and unstartable, hangs by a thread
At the earth's edge,
Unfaithful at last, splotching the ferns and the pink shrubs.

In the other world, children undo the knots in their tally strings.
They sing songs, and their fingers blear.

And here, where the swan hums in his socket, where bloodroot
And belladonna insist on our comtorting,
Where the fox in the canyon wall empties our hands, ecstatic for more,

Like a bead of clear oil the Healer revolves through the night wind,
Part eye, part tear, unwilling to recognize us.

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

that bowl full of babies 🥹

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The Fort Worth Zoo is one of the few programs to successfully breed Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) in captivity, with the first zoo-reared group hatched in 2005. They've been so successful, they've been able to release them back into the wild to bolster declining wild populations.

A baby Texas horned lizard with eyes shut is approached by a giant human hand, about to scoop it up. It has a piece of bark on its back, and is yellow with dark patches.
CREDIT: Fort Worth Zoo

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Dallas Zoo & Fort Worth Zoo, both wonderful programs, are working with Texas Parks & Wildlife to restore wild populations of Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) via zoo breed & release programs. 2026 is already a RECORD year: > 1000 lizards released, with documented wild-born babies.

A gloved human hand holds a round plastic container like you might put a salad in, but there are teeny-tiny horned lizards all alert looking and fierce inside.

"Aaand off they go!
Yesterday, 116 Texas horned lizards started their exciting journey to be released into the wild. Our team has worked tirelessly since their hatching to ensure these little ones are fully prepped and ready for this big moment. Stay tuned for more details on their release!
Our Texas horned lizard conservation program is a collaborative effort with Texas Parks and Wildlife, Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation, and several of our dedicated zoo partners."

An adult horned toad sitting in sandy dirt in West Texas, with a mix of native shrubs and non-native grasses in the background. They're well camouflaged against the red-brown dirt, covered in spikes and watch the camera warily.
CREDIT: Dallas Zoo

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.

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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That piece is the 5th & final installment in my years-long and deeply reported series for bioGraphic "on the people and projects re-envisioning infrastructure to benefit wildlife." Big ups to @sbedard.bsky.social for wrangling the grant that supported this work! (2/6) biographic.com/wildlife-at-...

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Wildlife at the Crossroads | bioGraphic

Animals often struggle to navigate the roads, fences, buildings, and other architecture girdling the planet. But as scientists and conservationists work to better understand the ways our infrastructur...

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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

GenAI as alienation from our own critical thinking/cognition. Short lil’ thread:

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Emily Dickinson Marathon, Day 4

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To fill a Gap
Insert the Thing that caused it -
Block it up
With Other - and 'twill yawn the more -
You cannot solder an Abyss
With Air -

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Muppet Pictures @muppetpictures.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today is Jim Henson's birthday! Born this day in 1936. Why not celebrate by hanging out with your weirdest, funniest and most creative friends?

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects. Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it. apnews.com/article/open...

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Diana A @dianalog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve only clicked around the tiniest bit (feels like barely scratched the surface) here, but it looks amazing? dickinsonsbirds.org @katebbeall.bsky.social @kasylongauthor.bsky.social @pounk.bsky.social @anitaholmes.bsky.social @emilydickinson.bsky.social (⬅️ probably already knows all a/b this😁)

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Dickinson's Birds

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Was preemptively mourning the imminent death of my garden. Then I realized I was still looking at the forecast for 9000 ft. The cucumbers live!

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From my table this week, Charred Eggplant Salad (in Reem Assil’s Arabiyya). You know it’s good when the page has a greasy stain on it!

BABA GHANOUJ
Charred Eggplant Salad

4–6 servings
THIS IS A bright, creamy, pomegranate-eggplant salad, but hold the tahini, please. It's a mystery why baba ghanouj, one of our most widely known dishes, is so different in the United States from that in the Arab world. When we talk about baba ghanouj in the Levant, we are referring to a tart salad of creamy roasted eggplant, brightened with pomegranate molasses and flecked with tomatoes—which is what this is!

If you're looking for an eggplant spread made with garlic and tahini, you'll find recipes under mutabal. Eat this baba ghanouj w/ bread, or it's also delicious as a side salad.

2 large globe eggplants (~2 pounds)
Olive oil, for rubbing eggplants, +more for drizzling
2 garlic cloves, minced
¼ cup lemon juice (~2 lemons)
Zest of 2 lemons
½ tsp ground cumin
1 tsp kosher salt, +more as needed
1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 sm Roma tomato, finely diced
½ red bell pepper, finely diced
½ red onion, finely diced
1 T coarsely chopped parsley
1 tsp pomegranate molasses

Cook eggplants directly on the burner of a gas stove or in the oven. On a gas stove, sear directly over a med-high flame. Rotate every 5 min until the globes are completely blackened, ~15 min total. Alternately, preheat oven to 450°F. Place eggplants on a sheet tray, poke all over w/ a fork, rub w/ oil, place the tray in the oven & cook 25–30 min, until the eggplants collapse in on themselves, & skins are blackened.
Place cooked eggplants in a bowl; seal w/ plastic wrap to let the eggplants steam in their own juices.
In a medium bowl, combine garlic, lemon juice & zest, cumin, salt, black pepper.
When eggplants have cooled enough to touch, split lengthwise. Using a spoon, scrape out the pulp, discarding the skins and stems. For milder flavor, remove seeds.
Use a fork to mash pulp into the lemon-garlic mix. Fold in tomato, bell pepper, onion.
Salt to taste.
To serve, scoop onto serving plate, drizzle w/ olive oil, garnish w/ parsley & molasses.

Glistening eggplant salad, studded with peppers, tomatoes, scallions, and pomegranate seeds, garnished with chopped mint and parsley.

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Diana A @dianalog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We did a whole presentation for a global audience! 🥳 Take that, imposter syndrome 💘

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