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Stephanie

@litmaven.bsky.social
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I👻IWriter. Book maven. Unlikable female protagonist. Aspiring time traveler. Words @electriclit, @crimereads, @Kveller, @mental_floss, etc. @litmaven on Threads.

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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
www.economist.com/united-state... '“It is cobbled-together nonsense and it should die a swift death in court,” says Justin Randolph, an immigration lawyer in Chicago.'
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The Trump administration’s big move to limit legal immigration
A new policy restricting green-card applications could wreak havoc
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/02/2026
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
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Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment The global economy must be radically transformed to stop it rewarding pollution and waste, UN secretary general António Guterres has warned. Speaking to the Guardian after the UN hosted a meeting of leading global economists, Guterres said humanity’s future required the urgent overhaul of the world’s “existing accounting systems” he said were driving the planet to the brink of disaster. Continue reading...
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
just popping in to say you should watch Riot Women on Britbox if you haven't already ok bye
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
"Because AI is garbage. It’s an inherently antihuman technology that is doing active harm to the now hundreds of millions of people who consume it." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
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The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"The only way to change these habits is to repeat the truth again and again: social media is rotting our souls from the inside out." open.substack.com/pub/opensecr...
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Truth Hurts: Scrolling at Night Is Cooking My Brain
In this, his first column, John DeVore confronts an ugly truth about bedtime
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
jfc. www.parents.com/gen-z-parent...
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Gen Z Parents Don't Want to Read to Their Kids, New Study Shows
A new study from HarperCollins Publishers shows that parents, specifically Gen Z parents, no longer want to read to their kids. Experts warn that not reading to kids could lead to long term consequenc...
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
this is the most important thing you'll read all year-> "We are convinced that the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line."
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Trixie ☕︎ @dixie13.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
#booksky
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don't know if he still does it, but GRRM writing his books on an Apple IIe word processor makes more and more sense to me every day
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
How To Be a Writer, #24262111: Open work-in-progress No, not that one Not that one either Nope. Try another one. Yeeeeaaahhhhhhhh - no. Worry vaguely that you might *just* have too many works-in-progress - But wait, what's this great new idea? Tea.
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel
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a man with a beard is talking to another man in a movie .
Alt: gif quoting "I don't know. It's a mystery" from the movie Shakespeare in Love.
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
if there's one thing my dad's gonna do, it's drive exactly the speed limit in the middle of a five lane highway
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
one day you're carefree and wild and then suddenly you find yourself scrolling through a podcast called "Boring History for Sleep" but can't choose an episode because they all sound too interesting
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The electric bills in Pennsylvania have gone up because the state cut a sweetheart deal with AI data centers. Good times out here.
a tweet reading, "It's so cool that cities are like 'pweeease only turn your AC on if you're actively dying and don't go below 79,' while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits."
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
“Many people think that a wealthy man wants to get married”
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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
“[I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” – Judy Blume #booksky
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/06/2025
O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I will voluntarily disconnect from the Internet and all of the benefits it provides to my life before I will use the world burning plagiarism and lying machine intentionally.
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Writing and reading are not effortless. But, without that effort, we will slide deeper and deeper into inchoateness, darkness, violence, diminished freedom for all and a diminished state of human being."
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | The end of writing and reading will be the end of freedom
Why graduation season is so heartening to me.
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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
technologyreview.com
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Streamers can't play music in the background as they talk, can't play games with licensed soundtracks turned on, can't even show a trailer with the sound on without fear but sure let's let Sam altman take everything for free
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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Mantel imagined the politician, writer and best-known journalist of the French Revolution having no doubts about it at all: “I wonder why I ever bothered with sex. There’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.’” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
theguardian.com
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"Tragically for historians and literary scholars, her poetry does not survive today, except for one striking, thought-provoking line: 'I ask your forgiveness and I am a mountain tiger.' These words inspired L.M. Elliott’s 2015 historical novel, Da Vinci’s Tiger."
smithsonianmag.com
Meet the Mysterious Renaissance Muse Immortalized in the Only Leonardo da Vinci Painting in the Americas
Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings and artworks left behind by the men who admired her
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 15/05/2025
the internet drives each person insane a little bit differently. it is beautiful to see
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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Should writers and editors be concerned that AI will soon make them unemployable?" "Yes! And, therefore, we should exercise our agency and respond to that concern, individually and collectively." For The Frontlist, I spoke with @vauhinivara.bsky.social about 'Searches,' one of 2025's best books.
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Exclusive: Vauhini Vara wants communion, not "content"
Behind the book with the author of 'Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age,' one of Esquire's best books of 2025 so far.
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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
theguardian.com
Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Those plucky venture capitalists need something to invest in, after all, and what better than generative AI? Be glad, fellow tiny economic unit, for a small number of people are getting insanely rich! That’s what being human is all about, right?"
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Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
What happened to "free enterprise"?
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I'm way behind on this, but BONE VALLEY is one of the best podcasts out there. Starts as a true crime mystery, complete with wild plot twists, becomes a courtroom drama/indictment of the justice system, and transforms into a heartwarming story of redemption. Gilbert King did a beautiful job.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/05/2025
"Après moi, le déluge, motherfuckers"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a
laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE
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Sam G. Howard @samghoward.riliberator.com · 29/04/2025
Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
Michael Shannon is James GarfieldNick Offerman is Chester A. Arthur
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We're evaporating entire lakes to cool server farms - and spew as much carbon as, like, Brazil - to destroy America's world class university system. Because "The Singularity" something something.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I have drunk the milkshakes that were in the yard and which you were probably saving for all the boys
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Why are we adopting tech that makes our lives WORSE? Make it make sense.
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Rowan Coleman @rowancoleman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The ghosts.
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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"Books and art allow us to be fully realized. Authoritarians want to oppress us. They want us to feel downtrodden. But art gives us hope." @gregzimmerman.bsky.social's interview with @samiraahmed.bsky.social is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/01/r...
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Read Your Resistance: Book Bans and Bravery: A Conversation with Samira Ahmed - Chicago Review of Books
The science is certain: Reading engenders empathy. If it’s true that books bring about compassion and a curiosity about the world, ideas, and people different from oneself, then it’s also true that ba...
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
BREAKING: We just got wind of Republicans' higher education bill text for reconciliation. We skimmed it. It's the most dangerous Higher-Ed bill in history. It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
buy books from your local indie today
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
this is the news cycle i want www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
theguardian.com
Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry penis tally after lengthy debate
Two Bayeux scholars at loggerheads over whether dangling shape depicts dagger or the embroidery’s 94th phallus
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
a little something for the history and literature nerds www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 23/04/2025
"today’s internet isn’t really designed for us, but rather to elicit certain responses from us… which are hostile to human flourishing. The tech companies’ growth-at-all-costs mentality has scaled their products’ flaws and vulnerabilities…" – @jacobsilverman.com www.ft.com/content/5d06...
ft.com
Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy
The last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
how i arrived on bluesky
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a man peeking out from behind a lush green field of grass
Alt: a man peeking out from behind a lush green field of grass
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
it's all just too much, which is of course the point
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
finally, a place to cry
Photo of a yellow diamond -shaped road sign on the side of a freeway that says "SOFT SHOULDER"
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
it is a truth universally acknowledged that a girl in possession of a great Jane Austen DVD collection must be in want of attending the theatrical re-release of Pride&Prejudice (2005) for her birthday
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a close up of a person 's hand with a black shirt on
Alt: a close up of a Mr. Darcy's hand flex in Pride and Prejudice film
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The Writer's Studio at SFU @twssfu.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Everyone on Bluesky is welcome to join @TWSSFU (SFU's The Writers Studio), as we discuss Reading Like a Writer during the #TWSOchat today at 10:30am (PDT)! #amwriting #writers #writing #writingtips #WritingCommunity
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 09/04/2025
This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
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Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
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