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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains

@lskains.bsky.social
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I write and code and draw and crochet and stitch and lift and ride and swim and bike. No, I don't have a neurodivergence diagnosis, why do you ask? lyleskains.com

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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Voted YES very first thing this morning! #WeAreTheUniversity @bournemouthucu.bsky.social
Ballot being posted inte red post box
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Fighting for our jobs and the future of the uni. #BU-UCU #FightTheCuts #UCUBU www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2523095...
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"Miracle" if Bournemouth retains university status after cuts, says protester
Bournemouth University staff are protesting over planned job cuts in the first of four days of strike action.
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You and CO2 @youandco2.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
So excited to share that we're working to support special schools, pupil referral units and units attached to mainstream schools with climate change education. All learners should have equal access to exciting topics such as #sustainability. www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office... #EnvironmentalEducation
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New partnership to revolutionise climate education for Welsh Pupils with additional learning needs
Swansea University has joined the Welsh Government and Keep Wales Tidy to form a new partnership that will help better understand how climate change and sustainability education can be delivered to pu...
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Dr. Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Smart reading of monstrosity, fluid female bodies, and sanctioned violence in the Resident Evil series: @morganmushroom.bsky.social's "Mouldy Matriarchs and Dangerous Daughters: An Ecofeminist Look at Resident Evil Antagonists” journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...
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Mouldy Matriarchs and Dangerous Daughters | M/C Journal
The Resident Evil video game series is especially notable for engaging with uncanny nature and monstrous reproduction, often facilitated through viral contamination. These third-person games usually...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/12/2024
No cash policies “disadvantage a number of groups, including low-income people who don’t have bank accounts, people who have accounts but don’t qualify for credit or debit cards, the homeless, undocumented immigrants and older adults.”
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Payments Are Going Digital, but Many Seniors Still Rely on Cash
“We’re putting another burden on the elderly that we don’t have to,” one researcher said.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
One thing that’s great about being up at 5:50am is: nothing 0/10 do not recommend
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In high school, I created an imaginary land where the only boys allowed were the ones who treated us with respect (so, like, one or two). This is still relevant. New iteration of the University of Lyle: just women. Fuck all y'all.
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I Want To Go To There Liz Lemon GIF
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You and CO2 @youandco2.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Myth-busting time! Small actions may seem minor, but together, they create powerful climate solutions. Every bit counts! Can you bring change in your classroom or group? Take a look at the resources available on our website #ClimateChangeEducation #SciEd #EnvironmentalEducation #EduBluesky
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You and CO2 @youandco2.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This Buy Nothing Day, let’s reflect on the impact of our choices. You & CO2 empowers students to understand & address consumption's role in climate change. Together, we can inspire a mindful approach to resources & see that small actions lead to big change. #SciEd #EnvironmentalEducation #EduBlueSky
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Dr. Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Now playing: With Those We Love Alive (2014) by xrafstar.monster/games/twine/... (One of my favorite videogames--a beautiful, weird, prickly, melancholy work of videogame literature. I've taught it in over a dozen English courses.)
A screen shot from With Those We Love Alive asking the player to choose a birth month.A photograph of an arm inscribed with the abstract sigils that a player is asked to draw during a game of With Those We Love Alive.
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This month is #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, but today we want to let you know about a couple 2024 spec-fic titles from First Nations authors around the world like: A Vicious Game by #MelissaBlair, Sunforge by #SaschaStronach, and Enclave by #ClaireGColeman, to name just a few!
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SustFashWales @sustfashwales.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The aim of #GwenerGwyrdd / #GreenFriday is to encourage people to think twice before you hit the sales and shop #BlackFriday. Just questioning whether you *need* or *want* something is the first step to consuming more responsibly. #BuyNothingDay
A text box placed over the green SustFashWales logo with the following text: “Gwener Gwyrdd encourages people to *do something* other than shopping. This could be repairing old clothes, having a crafty social or making something from upcycled materials. #GwenerGwyrdd #GreenFriday"
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 23/01/2024
I love the Ignyte Awards and I cherish my finalist medals. This is a thread. Get to know this award and how it operates, because it's remarkable. (P. S. FIYAHcon 2021 was legendary. The highest of the highs.)
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
All women, LGBTQIA+, POC, immigrants, working class, and disabled folx (and any marg'd group I, er, marg'd here) should just receive extra padding in their workloads to deal with bullying. Bc this is what f*cks with our time the most. #AcademicSky
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You and CO2 @youandco2.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
What are we doing? Teaching climate change through digital activities, You and CO2 is an innovative, interdisciplinary project combining research and public engagement activities regarding the global problem of climate change on a local scale. buff.ly/3ZrYRXb #climatechange #digitalactivity
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A student just told me they could only get through 20 minutes of #HotFrosty. This doubles my desire to live-skeet a viewing. Who's with me?!?!
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a man wearing a pumpkin hat is dancing in front of a cartoon scene
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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Considering dusting off my old live-chirping skilz and comedy-watching "Hot Frosty" this week. Because the world is a dumpster fire, why not.
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a snowman is wearing a hat and scarf and says man this is getting hot this is hot
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Electronic Literature Organization @eliterature.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Second Tuesday Salon: Let's celebrate this wonderful new book: Reading #Instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram: Electronic Literature James Mackay Bloomsbury Academic Tuesday, November 12, 4 pm UTC bit.ly/elo-salon 8 am Vancouver (PST)
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Locus Magazine is available as an ePub or PDF for all of you bookish eReader people! That way, you can fit it in your pocket and read it anywhere. Check out digital subscriptions here at subscribers.locusmag...
locus magazine cover featuring nghi vo and nnedi okorafor
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
The struggle to go get your meds when you haven't had your meds today is real.
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
This is the content I came here for.
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
The world is a shitshow, but we got an excellent skylight show at the farm last night.
Aurora borealis in dark pink and light green, framed by dark clouds and a bit of a power line.Aurora borealis in dark pink and light green, framed by dark clouds over the roof of a farmhouseAurora borealis in dark pink, light green, and dark purple, highlighting the silhouette of an ash tree
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Of all the things to DDOS attack, why the internet archive? That's just mean and dumb.
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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 10/10/2024
Hey, y'all — I'm live on Twitch with the incredibly charming It Takes Two to Tangle, a King's Quest fangame. Join me for an adventure! twitch.tv/decafjedi
A screenshot from It Takes Two to Tangle. Cassima is climbing a rope.
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Yay me! My US 2024 Election vote is cast. Go blue!
I voted today sticker
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Fridays are supposed to be my creative/research days. But I sit down and just... stare at the screen like a zombie. Fitting for October, I guess. #AcademicSky
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an elderly woman with glasses is laughing with her mouth wide open .
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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
my new article, "The Platformization of Fandom and its Discontents: Understanding Platform Harms Through the Archive of Our Own," is out. i talk about the 2023 End OTW Racism campaign and the tension between platforms and archives ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
I really want people to understand that this is just as awful and upsetting and invasive for a trans girl as it would be for a cis girl under the same scrutiny. Because when it happens to cis girls/women people get upset, but when it’s an actual trans girl somehow it’s “complicated.” It’s not.
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Last time I had a procedure I decided at 3am that if I was going to die, I'd do it at home. I capped off my IVs (yoinking is BLOODY), snipped the balloon tube that holds foley catheters in your bladder with my crochet scissors, and walked the fuck out. I was recaptured in the parking lot. Fun times.
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Just changed my email OOO to: "I am overwhelmed with workload due to infrastructural inadequacies. I will respond to you when I have returned from the brink of burn-out. Thank you for your patience." I just can't with the shenanigans/shambles anymore. #academicSky
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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
I honestly don't know how any nerd in their early 30s (or certainly younger) could think disability can't be represented in fantasy. we grew up with Fullmetal Alchemist and matt fraction's Hawkeye and Darth Vader and Luke's hand and Tyrion Lannister and professor Xavier and Oracle and
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Jolie Braun @joliebraun.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Really excited to share that I have an article about 1990s zine distribution & learning about zine distros through the catalogs they produced in the new issue of The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America! You can check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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1990s Zine Distribution and Understanding the Work of Zine Distros through Their Catalogs | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 118, No 3
Abstract During the 1990s zine distros—small-scale, DIY distributors—emerged to become a vital part of zine communities by addressing the lack of established distribution channels, championing the med...
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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Something for @eliterature.bsky.social + #dhmakes folks to check out! (and that's my student! 😄)
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Somto Ihezue @somtoihezue.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
I'm creating a starter pack of African Spec Fiction authors! If you are one (or know one) please let me know so I can add you. go.bsky.app/TVLxXew
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 16/09/2024
OK look, I appreciate the opportunity to be on any convention programming but I really don't like being invited ONLY to join "Black" or "African" or "BIPOC" panels and nothing else. I don't mind doing those kinds of panels, as long as...
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
trump is so lucky that all his assassins have only concepts of a plan
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Yes, this. And even though x-fic is exhilarating and inspiring, it's still hard to get the energy to get started. Whereas starting reading mass market is super easy, but then is a bit of a "I read all that for THIS?" There's a comparison about men in here, I'm sure. But I'm too blah to find it.
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Never let anyone tell you you can't put together a(n internal) grant application in one day. Opened, drafted, submitted. Why not, we won't get it anyway. #AcademicSky
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
There’s a name for Trump’s debate tactic: the Gish Gallop. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum... by @leafwarbler.bsky.social
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Trump's Weird Debate Strategies Come From Creationist Tactics
A dishonest creationist debating tactic shouldn’t go unchallenged in American life. Or in national politics
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New Media Writing Prize @nmwprize.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
First post on this platform. Just to tell you... NMWP is open for 2024-25! Bring us your "born-digital" narratives and journalism! Win prizes, respect, the envy of your peers! newmediawritingprize.co.uk.
Call for entries: Submit your “born-digital” storytelling (fiction or non-fiction): works created on digital devices, for digital devices. E.g., hypertexts, participatory films, i-documentaries, Twine stories, transmedia novels, and more. 

Open to all (Entries must be in English).

Main Prize
Student Prize
Opening Up Prize
Journalism Prize
Social Good Prize

Entries close 1 February 2025, 2359 GMT
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Electronic Literature Organization @eliterature.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
ELO is delighted to announce the addition of three new Board Members: Lyle Skains, Shanmugapriya T, and Zach Whalen. Each will contribute an extensive set of skills, expertise, and creativity to the all-volunteer board. @zachwhalen.bsky.social eliterature.org/2024/09/elo-...
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ELO Welcomes 3 New Board Members – Electronic Literature Organization
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Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
Okay, I made it here. Hope this platform makes it. I'm tired of making stuff up about myself.
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