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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

tracking the Ring

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You need to be well wrapped up when you're out in the fields sowing seeds in October. #medievalcalendar BnF NAL 3055; Livre d'Heures de Jean Sans Peur, duc de Bourgogne; XVe siècle; f.10r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺 @katetopper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love it! It looks like a heron catching fire.

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Brenda Hiles @beehiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

An alligator glides past an observation deck in Sunset Beach, N.C., on Monday, as an alligator-shaped cloud drifts out to sea.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some of you sneering about those who mask/care about masking, have you considered that one day you might also have to care about masking again in a non-pandemic sense? Would you like to see yourself relentlessly mocked by journalists, politicians and ordinary folk on social media?

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TashasEv @tashasev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seriously this is just how she is

A large fluffy white dog sleeping on a raised cot with her mouth slightly open and, you guessed it, her tongue dangling out from the side

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Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺 @katetopper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Let's hear it for keystone species of all kinds!

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Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺 @katetopper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm glad to see this, but it's too bad they can't make it happen sooner. The conditions you're describing are beyond inhumane. And I'm sorry you're suffering too, Jen!

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Elizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"the assessment did not consider the crocodiles" is my new metaphor for people choosing to just ignore the data point that doesn't agree with them

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Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺 @katetopper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The first two episodes were great! I look forward to many more.

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Kris Winters🏳️‍🌈 @krisw058.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If genai went away today, the only difference in my life would not having to scrutinize so many pictures and video clips. It would actively make things better if it all went away.

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Nikes | AlexLeeDee @alexleedee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026

I also find it hilarious how universities are justifying these expenditures using the language of 'equity.'"If we don't buy these tools for everyone, then only the rich kids will be able to afford them, and that's unfair." But you don't buy books assigned by profs for anyone? Why not subsidize that!

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is I. Have never even been to the website, for the same reason that I wouldn't eat an arsenic sandwich.

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Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺 @katetopper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nope, and I've never used any of its competitors, either.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Elephant with salt. The elephant is late 15thC Deccan, while the mounting was done in Lisbon about 1550. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer)

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You call it asking your students a series of probing questions designed to draw out their beliefs and assumptions, I call it

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've been tasked to cover data center issues at work recently and I've learned some interesting things about data centers' environmental impacts that I thought I'd share Some really unexpected stuff beyond the energy/water stuff most people know about at this point

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“Well then,” said Toad, “a little more sleep will not hurt me.”

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm sure she got advice on her image, on how it might be better to reject her LGBTQ audience. She didn't. She knew what it was to be powerless & poor & she didn't want *anyone* to live that way. A lesson for people w aspirations to public life: Hurting others doesn't have to be part of the equation.

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Back to the 1920s with a new economy of underground speakeasies but for shops serving cappuccinos and clandestine photocopied course packs. 🤔 👀

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Some of us are using his body to produce content for clicks and profit on Twitter and to get eyes on endless op-eds and "journalism," or ears to listen to podcasts etc. Is it a subject worth discussing? Yes. But this is morbid.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"If we want people to stop using AI, we need to help them come up with alternatives for what they use it for." THINKING. WITH YOUR BRAIN. THAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE.

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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It frankly very noticeable that Dems refuse to do this (and have refused for decades). What is the first thing conservatives do when they take over a higher Ed institution? Change the core curriculum and attempt to limit what is taught in those classes.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026

I cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I've seen a lot of "advice to writers on how to counter accusations of AI." Let me remind you: the onus is on the accuser to prove the accusation. Most accusers aren't detecting AI. They're detecting the source material used to train AI. Our voices were stolen. Do not fall into this trap.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the point is that the fix cannot be on individual faculty. we need our institutions to recognize that gAI is, essentially, anti-knowledge and therefore anti-education. we need radically new models of higher ed, frankly. not schools partnering with OpenAI.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Believe me, AI turds, disabled people have done all this embodiment work over and over whether we want to or not. You’d know if you listened to us instead of condescendingly offering a computer program to simulate art.

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Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺 @katetopper.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Haha, I'm the total opposite. Dark mode gives leaves me with a really persistent after image in my vision, so I find it unusable.

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Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺 @katetopper.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Relatedly, I never understood why people went crazy for sweet potato fries. (I feel like they were big for a while.)

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Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺 @katetopper.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Pickle juice is an essential part of my migraine regimen.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

one of my favorite things when buckaroos do bad things is we are given opportunity to find grace. it is a loaded word because there are religious connotations but as a non religious buckaroo i find the concept so powerful: not just forgiveness but grace. thankful for those moments when they come

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Kate Topper 🏳️‍🌈 🏺 @katetopper.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Thank you for this. Snail Friend is the best thing I've seen all day.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10/03/2026

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

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