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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 14h

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can someone explain why bowling alleys — and only bowling alleys — put carpet on the walls

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got an email from myself this morning with only this photo that I must've sent on New Year's Day, since we always go to the same Chinese place that day (and only that day) Happy October, I guess!

A hand holding a fortune cookie paper that says October is a month for gratitude and appreciation.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OK, wait, I did not know this was a Nathan Fielder movie. Sign me up.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

God, do I feel for the marketing team who needs to clean up this mess. A case in which the marketing office set a clear policy to *not* do stuff like this — to not feed students' images into AI *at all* — and partners did it anyway.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're traveling to Austin for the first time starting on Election Day and what do we think that's gonna be like if this all comes true? (I've never been there! Now taking recommendations!)

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Or (god forbid) the giant pasta pot that doesn't quite fit in the sink or the drying rack

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There are many reasons I like to lurk on YikYak, the app where students at my institution can say anything anonymously, and one of them is that that's how I'm aware of a Covid outbreak among the first-years 😷 Will be masking and avoiding crowded spaces accordingly!

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I used to be on zero boards and organizations and now suddenly my life is an endless parade of them how did this happen

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Students who never attended a day of school last year remained on Alliance’s rolls for the entire year, meaning the charter received payment for children they did not educate."

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI has truly created a headache for the people responsible for enforcing a brand's visual identity guidelines (i.e. my office)

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Still seems too risky to vote by mail in the future, specifically 2028, which really sucks. I especially like mail voting for the primary (when a ton of races are on the ballot that require a lot of Googling) and PA requires you to decide at the start of the year whether or not you want mail ballots

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Of all the late stage Trump theories, wants the world to die with him seems increasingly credible.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Got so tired of looking at AI-generated flyers that I had to buy a painting

Two adults stand next to a painting that says I Can Hear the Heart Beating as Obe

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

How delighted was I to get this in the mail?? (Very!)

A pink mailer asking me to participate in a public opinion survey for Franklin & Marshall College

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/09/2026

Trump Claims He Was Falling Man theonion.com/trump-claims-he-was-fa…

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The developer who came to present about the proposed data center in my city said something similar. Everyone laughed at him.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“You’ll assume that our gaunt, 118-pound bodies are incapable of athletic achievement, but the reality is we’re going to show up to the first meet having barely practiced and run a 15:42."

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Folks, my inclination is that this book my mom bought my kid is 100% AI generated, but I feel like I need proof before I am like, "Hey, mom, about this book." Like, how do I know it's not just crummy, self-published dreck?

amazon.com

Amazon.com: Number 9: The Beginning (No.9 Series): 9798345387207: Scorer, Jack, Books Publishing, Kick: Books

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just greeted my alarmed coworker by saying "EVERY MORNING IS HELL" how is your back-to-school transition going

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

OK, now roll out these changes for adults.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Now that both my kids are in the same place, I'm able to ride my bike to/from work again, and ... it's fun! Not only do I not need to drive, I have more fun if I don't!

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pee Wee Herman & Dolly Parton singing a duet? Here ya go...

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This podcast has me wondering what it would take for *me* to claim a sabbatical, which my employer offers to faculty but not staff. Faculty aren't the only folks who might benefit from a few months off to, say, work on a book, you know.

drlauriesantos.com

The Life-Changing Power of a Sabbatical — Dr. Laurie Santos

It’s hard to focus on wellbeing when we’re expected to work nonstop until retirement. Taking a break from time to time should be a given, not a privilege. Dr. Laurie works in one of the fe...

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 25/08/2026

Actual “pro-life” policy alert

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

a higher ed pet peeve is the number of people who call the FAFSA the FASFA

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The government has canceled my research grant to investigate why the whole body doesn't fill up with water through the butt hole when you jump in the pool

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Already got Prime-branded planes flying low over my house multiple times per day. Can't wait for this (sarcasm)

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026

With all these recalls, the only left that’s safe to eat is the rich

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Height lying on dating apps is wild to me. Like ... she's gonna notice, bro. Nothing like starting off a relationship with a little blatant dishonesty.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One part of parenting small children I will not miss is the wait to see whether you will catch their stomach bug (and you usually do)

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Excited to see this column out in the world! (And on the same day I caught a member of my generation distributing a flier with a picture of a six-fingered hand 🙃)

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just had to inform the board I'm on "we can't use this flyer someone made to promote our event because it would be obviously AI generated even if it did *not* include a picture of a hand with five fingers and a thumb, which it does" How are these people not following The Discourse on AI

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Everything you need to know about how this author differs from many (most?) folks who opt to go no contact, in three sentences: "For my friends, this political disagreement was one more reason to go no contact. Instead, we went to therapy together. My father was the one who suggested it."

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

With my colleague Roni Rabin, I dug into the evidence around Covid vaccine safety in pregnancy, and broke down a statistic about miscarriage that has been repeatedly debunked but was still widely circulated again this week.

nytimes.com

Covid Vaccines Are Not Linked to Miscarriage. Here’s How We Know. (Gift Article)

Prominent Republicans and others have falsely claimed this week that the shots are linked, despite years of data showing they are safe.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Americans love to turn to women when the house is burning down. ... I suppose the dumpster fire of climate denialism, political corruption and general scamminess of, well, everything would be dire enough circumstances to make a female president possible." god I hope so

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Kid's crunchy, outdoor, play-based daycare just sent me a photo of the kid dressed as Bigfoot and ... how are we going to survive the transition to a normal public school in just a couple weeks

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