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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The same people probably buy copies of The Stranger to teach their kindergarteners about stranger danger.

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If it’s the “worst kind of fake journalism” then how is it even possible to get a lower rating from this person?

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I didn’t figure you were put off by it, but sometimes I’m a little surprised how far she will go! (I don’t know if you’ve read Fledgling, but that’s one that surprised me. Wild Seed gives a jolt in some places too, but it’s really cool.)

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Unsettling” seems to be one of Butler’s specialties :)

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Is this good? I loved Wild Seed and often teach it in my feminism & SF class. But I haven’t read the other Patternest novels.

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just published: my contribution to a symposium on Danielle Tumminio Hansen's book, Speaking of Rape: The Limits of Language in Sexual Violations. philpapers.org/rec/REANHA

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Walking around campus listening to AC/DC doing sound checks for their upcoming concert in the stadium tonight…is very cool!

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Daniel Nolan and Sara Bernstein have a recent paper on creepiness (called “Creeped Out” I think) that is probably in this neighborhood.

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I have it. Can I send it to you in a dm or via email, or did someone else already get it to you?

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s a glorious thing when your kid can drive you to work—and her siblings to school—instead of you always having to be the chauffeur.

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Alas, that seems like h to a least of our worries these days

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I’m a little over halfway through it. It’s so good.

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I’m reading a book about superhuman AI called “if anyone builds it, everyone will die”. That’s the thesis of the book. 😳

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Should I worry that my kids have found my Wikipedia page and are now laughing about the fact that they can make edits?

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

That was a pretty fucked up thing for him to say to you

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

rewriting a paper rejected by Analysis

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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“Among Cities Church’s pastors is Joe Rigney, who has recently become a MAGA media darling because he, along with podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey, has been pushing the idea that empathy is a sin.”

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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Courtesy of the "don't tread on me" crowd

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I would absolutely email the editor.

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I submitted a paper to the journal Ergo in 2021 and, in the process, made the “optional” donation to Syracuse U. to support the journal. (If you don’t get the scare quotes around “optional”, just think for a bit about the dynamics.) Now I still get regular support emails and mailings from Syracuse 🫤

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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We cannot forget the outrages against democracy bsky.app/profile/kath...

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I’m done teaching until Fall 2026!

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

They are a bit more cakey—they don’t flatten out as much

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Good ol’ Tollhouse chocolate chip (but with twice the baking soda and slightly undercooked)

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I wonder if we will also be delayed for de-icing.

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Michael Rea @michaelreand.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

My fake flight is delayed by almost an hour. The bus is awaiting clearance to get to the gate. Flight control is probably like, “Dude, you’re a bus, WTF.”

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