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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 2h

Reading this delightful chapbook, Ghost Mom, by @tguzman.bsky.social !

Cover of GHOST MOM featuring a drawing of a lemon tree with green leaves and yellow fruits above a long skinny brown trunk emerging from a blue and white porcelain planter over a pale yellow background

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you to the Oakland Public Library for carrying MY HUNGRY GHOSTS:ESSAYS & INCANTATIONS! 🙏

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 8h

There is SO MUCH evidence that generative A.I. use degrades our learning, thinking, reasoning, and imaginative capacities. It is a cognitive disaster and that would be blatantly obvious even without the studies to back it up. Leaving that quote unchecked is terrible work.

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 9h

"Teaching students how historians work, rather than simply what historians know, has proved a powerful pedagogical tool." In #AHAPerspectives, Arminda Lawrence Sr. shares a class assignment that asks high school students to research, write, and edit their own history book.

historians.org

Making Students into Historians – AHA

In a high school historical methods course, students researched, wrote, and edited their own history books.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 16h

"Information from Russia has been incomplete, confusing, and contradictory." My colleague @martinenserink.bsky.social on what we know so far about the possible plague death in Russia and the implications. 🧪

science.org

Possible plague death at a Siberian lab baffles scientists

Much is unclear about the tragedy, but plague researchers say there is “zero” chance of an epidemic

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. A lot of people in the investment community had hoped he was the adult in the room,” said Stephen Myrow, a former Treasury official. Investors are “starting to see him as acting more and more like Trump…and that’s shaking confidence in him.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 16h

'LLMs are not search engines or truth machines' gonna print this out onto a piece of card and brandish it at everyone I hear saying 'I asked ChatGPT'

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Troy Jackson: Eight years ago today, Maine women begged Susan Collins not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. She did it anyway. He helped overturn Roe v. Wade. And today, she says she has no regrets. Would you trust her to pick the next Supreme Court justice?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/10/2026

The theft and fraud and disinfo continue to gush out of these companies as an unending flood of excrement while they desperately point at imaginary Terminators on the other side of the room.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026

Gov. Josh Shapiro: "Measles was eliminated back in the year 2000. And now, 26 years later, we’re dealing with it coming roaring back. Pennsylvania has now eclipsed 1,000 cases across 39 counties, with five deaths." Shapiro says amid the outbreak, vaccinations have now doubled.

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San Francisco Public Press @sfpublicpress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bay Area transit is facing an existential crisis. Without new revenue, BART and Muni operators warn of catastrophic cuts. To prevent a total collapse, transit advocates are asking voters to pass two citizen-led ballot measures this November – each needing just a simple majority to pass.

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Isn’t this always the case though? Like the Toynbee quote …

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
Arnold Toynbee
Tags: cultural-decay

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Or part of a deliberate plan to leave Europe undefended?

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Never thought i'd see the day when a US president called for a foreign nation to destroy two major American cities and people cheered.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She was maliciously shot by CBP agents who proceeded to lie about every single element of the incident and criminally charged her. The charges were dismissed after film and photos showed she was right and they were lying. Now she demands criminal charges against the CBP agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol sues feds — and keeps pushing for criminal charges

Marimar Martinez was labeled a "domestic terrorist" and criminally charged after she was shot by agent Charles Exum last year. Since her exoneration, she has fought the Trump administration's aggressi...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And by "violating banking laws" CBS News means former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert molested boys he coached for wrestling in high school, boys as young as 14. To-may-to/to-mah-to!

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The Economist @economist.com · 05/10/2026

“Wealthy parents want two full-time nannies who can cover every single waking hour.” Nannying for plutocrats, “The Intelligence” learns, is demanding but lucrative bit.ly/4xXcU4N

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Like so much else, this should result in the prosecution of everyone involved.

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks to everyone who came to my reading at @booksinc.bsky.social Laurel Village with poet Mai-Linh Hong. It was a joyful time! Signed copies available for purchase in-store and online.

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 05/10/2026

Russian authorities are investigating the death of a woman who worked at a Siberian institute for infectious diseases and have placed her contacts under close medical observation as they try to determine how she died.

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Russia Probes Death of Woman Who Worked at Anti-Plague Institute

The Kremlin has sought to play down the death of the worker who contracted ”pneumonia of an unknown cause.”

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/10/2026

Almost 200 people are under medical observation in Russia’s Siberia region after the death of a 28-year-old lab worker who may have been exposed to pneumonic plague, according to local media reports.

nbcnews.to

Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation

The pneumonic plague is caused by the same bacteria as the bubonic plague, and can spread from person to person through airborne respiratory droplets.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/10/2026

Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine accused of robbing and killing a woman on Okinawa, officials said Sunday, in the latest criminal case involving U.S. military personnel on the southern island where the heavy American troop presence is a sensitive issue.

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US Marine arrested for alleged murder of a woman on Okinawa, triggers outrage from Japan

Japanese police said Sunday they have arrested a U.S. Marine for the alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Okinawa.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A man in the UK pled guilty to drugging and raping his wife for 20 years. She believed him to be a “good man”. He was inviting strangers off the internet to rape her. 12 other men have been charged and go on trial this week. Throw the book at them: www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/u...

cnn.com

UK man pleads guilty to drugging and raping his wife for 20 years | CNN

A British man has admitted to drugging and raping his wife without her knowledge for a period of more than two decades.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 04/10/2026

⚡️Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia. The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.

kyivindependent.com

Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia

The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

gadgetreview.com

Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We ❤️ a preorder on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY!! Former poetry contest judge @chenchenwrites.bsky.social’s debut essay collection IN CAHOOTS WITH THE RABBIT GOD (forthcoming 12/1/2026) is available to preorder now 🤩 buff.ly/nYVZ3du

Book cover of In Cahoots with the Rabbit God by Chen Chen.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Russia state media has since denied the accident at a BSL-3 lab in Irkutsk, Siberia. Earlier, the local municipality issued an order banning travel to the area. The published order has since been deleted from websites. Multiple international flights continue to arrive and leave the area.

A map showing the location of three quarantined hospitals and the lab

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

chron.com

How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is actually very concerning possible pneumonic plague outbreak in Russia. This strain I believe was responsible for Black Death in 14th century which killed half of Europe.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The first time Michael Goessling spoke to his biological father, he asked what he did for a living. Musician, he said. In fact, he was on tour and was coming to St. Louis. “And I’m looking, and the voice, and it all starts coming together,” Goessling said. “Are you Michael McDonald?”

nytimes.com

Missouri Man Discovers Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers Is His Biological Father (Gift Article)

Michael Goessling’s first phone call with his biological father brought a shock: He was speaking to Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What could go wrong?

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It was supposed to be cooler today but it’s already 84 degrees F in San Francisco. And the sun is just now emerging from clouds. 😶‍🌫️

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/10/2026

The Department of Homeland Security signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft at a substantial markup from a company owned by a political contributor of Kristi Noem on her last day as secretary, documents show. trib.al/a3d0s6B

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today’s the day! Book reading at Books Inc-Laurel Village in San Francisco, today Sunday 10-4 at 5 pm. I’ll be on conversation with poet Mai-Linh Hong! www.eventbrite.com/e/may-lee-ch...

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MAY-LEE CHAI & MAI-LINH HONG: My Hungry Ghosts & Continental Drift

Local author and SFSU professor May-Lee Chai will be in conversation with fellow local author Mai-Linh Hong at Books Inc. Laurel Village

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

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socalbookish.bsky.social @socalbookish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This👇👇👇👇👇👇

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