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Jennifer Sarha

@necverbum.bsky.social
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Independent scholar, sort of writing a novel. Interests: translation, historiography, toutes les révolutions. She/they. Suomalainen.

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Émilie Oléron Evans @bringyourownsun.bsky.social · 21h
As my institution invites staff to 'conversations' & 'critical' dialogue around AI while still shoving it down our throat, I plan to print out this quote from @olivia.science' essay for my door: 'AI is a totalising force that destroys people and planet from the inside out.' olivia.science/entryism/
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AI entryism subverts anti AI critique.
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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22h
Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.
Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What is happening in Waterford?? Did the worst people in the world (billionaires) all get a memo about Waterford? Did their computer tell them to set up there?
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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OnTheCouch @10000talkers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This seems like an appropriate time to remind people of the 1990 book, Fraternity Gang Rape, by the anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday, who was my favorite professor in college and unfortunately passed away last year.
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/
Issue 3: Ekphrasis
Between October 17 and November 17, guest editor Zachary Gillan will accept submissions of weird flash fiction that features ekphrasis.
Ekphrasis is the verbal representation of a work of visual art.
Weird fiction is a verbal representation of the world, in order to unsettle it.
We want stories that live at the intersection of the two. Pieces that emphasize the eerie power of weird art, whether fully ekphrastic or embedded within a traditional narrative. How does the weird seep in as reality is doubly estranged from these two layers of representation? Cursed paintings, uncanny statues, haunted mezzotints-send us your stories of weird art.
Publication date: February 1, 2027
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Zee (missing life's little cues) @miscue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
With his finger on the pulse of the US zeitgeist, Presidential Wannabe Gavin Newsom wades into the fight against rape on the side of ....the rapists. I cannot explain to you how hard I will NOT VOTE for this man. If you put him on the ballot, you will lose
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/09/2026
Chicagoland friends, I have a favor to ask. I have a pro bono client, a Black woman, who is currently facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at her abusive ex - who admitted to raping her. I would love if there could be a show of support for her at her next few court dates.
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nowhere 🏳️‍🌈 @nowhere.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Somehow I missed that, by 2018, at least 4 women were calling Neil Degrasse Tyson a sex pest? One says she was drugged after accepting a drink, then woke up to Degrasse Tyson raping her. And we're just letting him carry on as the beloved public face of science?
The rape, she said, happened one day that semester, at his apartment. He gave her a drink in a cup that looked like a coconut shell, she said, which she thought was water. The next thing Amet remembers is waking up naked in Tyson’s bed, seeing him naked performing oral sex on her. When he realized she had woken up, she said, he began to penetrate her. The rest of her memory of the day is fragmented, she said.

“I came out of it for a moment and shook my head, and then I went out again,” Amet said. “The next thing I knew, I was at class the next day.”

Amet said that the combined trauma of the rape and of testifying in the murder trial prompted her to see a therapist at the university. At that single session, Amet remembers the therapist suggested that she drop out of school, given her difficulties. And so, after just a year in the program, she did. (The therapist, who has since moved to a university in the Midwest, declined to comment for this story.)

Amet’s ex-husband, Mario Vela, told BuzzFeed News that around the time he first met her in 1986, she told him something bad had happened with Tyson, and that he came up many times throughout their marriage.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, which leads … you get the idea.”
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“There are cockroaches and rats everywhere in the school," Fadila, a 17-year-old student, told Reuters. She ​said temperatures in classrooms could swing from sweltering to below freezing, depending on the weather..” www.reuters.com/world/dozens...
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Injuries and arrests as French high school student protests spread
Dozens of people have been injured and hundreds arrested, most of them teenagers, officials said, in a wave ‌of French student protests against teacher shortages and dilapidated buildings that on Wedn...
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fascinating! ‘Greece will hand ​over to Bulgaria the remains identified as those of Bulgarian ‌medieval ruler Tsar Samuel under an accord signed on Tuesday that also provides for the transfer of other historic and religious ​artefacts between the two Balkan neighbours.’
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Tiernan Blanchard @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I think a problem with a lot of 'retellings' is that the writer goes in with an attitude like they've 'solved' the original story, or 'corrected' it in some way. That usually results in something bad. But a writer who is in conversation with the work, who is exploring different elements? better.
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Social Care is affordable in the UK. Just not Privatised Social Care. Currently a Social Care Worker is paid £12.60 an hour. The Council is charged £33.20 an hour. A huge amount of this is profit which goes completely untaxed. As you can see this will NEVER be affordable.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat
Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"indoor cats are miserable and they long for the outdoors and you are depriving them of their true nature by trapping them inside" okay here's my cat when he was outdoors vs now that's he's indoors
orange cat all beat up and bloody in the snow :( orange cat asleep splayed out on his side on his blanket
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Anthrodiva @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oooh
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Anthrodiva @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent in-depth argument about how to tax wealth effectively
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 29/09/2026
Readers and writers of #BookSky, I got a story for you. Last year, I released a major nonfiction and sequel to an award winning mystery. This year, I released an audiobook on forensic history. But like most authors, I struggle to make sales/get recognition, and am a poor AF. Now the funny part: 1/
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fragment of a statue of 14th-century BC ruler Akhenaten. Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Firenze www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘Stern, sensuous, almost kissable lips’: why sculptures can have far more power when they’re broken
From a pharoah’s pouting and almost kissable lips to a Mussolini with a hole in the head, a new exhibition is exploring how some ancient fragments speak more profoundly than fully intact treasures
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As always, "I'm unable to understand why this thing is important" is not a valid argument for why the thing is not important.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Women messing with men’s heads du jour: Judith decapitates Holofernes with distaste but determination, 1597. By Caravaggio, born OTD in 1571.
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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to believe that boys can do better for them to do better. You have to take your own agency as a parent. This is a little human being who is learning how the world works from you. It is horrible and daunting, but teaching a little boy that men naturally step on women IS BAD FOR BOTH OF YOU
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And the last one I’ll mention is for mothers to set boundaries in their own relationships with their sons. The way he treats you is a model for how he treats all other women. If you succumb to the social pressure to make every sacrifice for him, he will expect the same of other women too.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.
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bricup.bsky.social @bricup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In a joint investigation by Liberty and Al Jazeera, thirteen British universities have been exposed as collaborating with BAE systems to ‘handle’ pro-Palestine campus protests. www.bricup.org.uk/news-2/uk-un...
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UK universities briefed BAE Systems on pro-Palestine campus protests – BRICUP
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How could far-right racist Islamophobic bigot Jordan Bardella, who said on live TV in 2023 that he did not believe that Marine Le Pen’s antisemitic Holocaust-minimizing and revisionist father was antisemitic, possibly be antisemitic himself? What a shocking turn of events!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
This is why I am walking miles for the Young Center this month against my husband. Because babies should never, ever have to face this kind of thing.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have fairly strong opinions of that kind of system, actually: India has this system, where you "decide" early STEM or humanities early on, and the perception is STEM="intelligent" students, humanities=not. The STEM branch rarely get any humanities, and are taught they don't need it. I genuinely..
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think we need to differentiate between “AI uses a lot of water!” (not necessarily bad on its own) and “AI stresses local water supplies” (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even “modest” use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I teach in an interdisciplinary department in Canada; almost all my students end up in healthcare adjacent fields. You can bet they need history. It’s not some kind of pollution of their training, but a necessary part of their foundation
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes
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Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes, yes, yes - it’s absolutely wonderful.
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026
Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my girlfriend is both a known MILF Stan and a member of the “Evelyn O’Connell made me a lesbian (who works in a library)” generation, truly do not know how she’s going to survive MILF Evelyn O’Connell she looks. SO GOOD.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mahmoud Darwish: ‘The End of Things’ There are events around the world this September 25-27 celebrating the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, after the Arab World Institute and Centre Pompidou declared September 25 to be "Mahmoud Darwish… arablit.org/2026/09/27/mahmoud-darw…
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Mahmoud Darwish: ‘The End of Things’
There are events around the world this September 25-27 celebrating the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, after the Arab World Institute and Centre Pompidou declared September 25 to be "Mahmoud Darwish Poetry Day."
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An 87-year-old woman lived in the same Madrid apartment for 70 years. Then a real estate firm bought it and forced her out. The housing crisis is global because the underlying logic is the same: your home is someone else's investment vehicle.
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87-Year-Old Evicted From Her Home Tells Spaniards to ‘Fight’ to Avoid Same Fate
María del Carmen Abascal, whose case has become a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis, appeared in a video from her hospital bed after police officers removed her from her apartment.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛
a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings downtwo crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish skya crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extendeda crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways
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NikkSinc 📚 @nikksinc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!
Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.
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