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Nancy Lee (she/her)

@pantsmclee.bsky.social
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Co-editor of SHARP NOTIONS: ESSAYS FROM THE STITCHING LIFE (2023). Author of WHAT HURTS GOING DOWN, THE AGE and DEAD GIRLS. Corgi fanatic. Always stitching.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nobel Laureate Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines.
O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love

Anne Carson

I like being with you all night with closed eyes.
What luck—here you are
coming
along the stars!
I did a road trip
all over my mind and heart
and
there you were
kneeling by the roadside
with your little toolkit
fixing something.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026
Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying
Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.
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💀 Cromortuary 💀 @lapanique.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Donate to Mandi Gray Legal Defense Fund, organized by Mandi Gray
Who Your Donation Will Help A.B. made a report of sexual harassment and sexual assault to… Mandi Gray needs your support for Mandi Gray Legal Defense Fund
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remembering Vancouver music writer Andrea Warner, who died this week of cancer at age 47 This is a beautiful remembrance that includes many links to Andrea's work. www.cbc.ca/music/andrea...
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Saying goodbye to Andrea Warner | CBC Music
We lost one of the very best on Sept. 27.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One thing I end up going back to over and over again is: while the criminal justice system could do so much better in protecting rights, the only thing that can adequately address a pervasive problem like this is social/cultural change. Rape arises from and reasserts rape culture/patriarchy.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
it is a travesty that the brilliant Indrapramit Das is not more widely known in fantasy and horror fandom. The way Indra pulled South Asian history, politics, monstrosity, and queer love together in one book is a thing to behold
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Raoul Fernandes @raoulfernandes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This starts in less than a week! Well, if I get a few more students!? 😬 So doing one more push to let you know, and to let your budding (or more blossomed) writer friends know. Feel free to DM me if you have questions
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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Do it, people!!
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SFU Continuing Studies @cs-sfu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Congratulations to The Writer's Studio at SFU grad and 2026 #CBC #CanadaReads winner Loghan Paylor for becoming Vancouver Public Library's 2026 #Writer in Residence! Learn more and register for one of Loghan's free #creativewriting #workshops: ow.ly/HSL450ZMK96
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Loghan Paylor is the New VPL Writer in Residence
Vancouver Public Library VPL announces Loghan Paylor as 2026 Writer in Residence. Paylor is a queer, trans writer who lives in Chilliwack.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Me when the writing is coming out really easily: This can't be good. Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.
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Nancy Lee (she/her) @pantsmclee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
AI is a massive financial grift. The first thing to wonder about any PR push (positive or negative) is who is about suggest more money is required.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I used to love this time of year, hearing from students applying to work in my lab. No more. Every day a fresh batch of nearly identical emails with nonsensical remixes of the text on my lab website. It makes me so sad.
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Dr ARD @weemadandrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm on hiring panel currently (MS/PhD level job, not academic), reviewing applications that require narrative component. They all read like the same warmed-over text that is barely Just Fine. Deeply depressing. And likely self defeating, whatever they did is now hurting and not helping them
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I still believe that AI will only kill us spiritually and intellectually. Not physically.
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 11/09/2026
The Brooklyn Public Library's first-ever craft library allows library cardholders to borrow art supplies for a variety of activities, including screen printing, bookbinding, metal stamping and hand embroidery: gothamist.visitlink.me/Alv59O
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026
AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/09/2026
Take all these Anthropic and OpenAI resignations and op-eds and put them in a spreadsheet with a column that shows the exact date when the author's final tranche of options vested. I just want to see something
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Do you think all this is happening right before IPOs just by coincidence?
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Nancy Lee (she/her) @pantsmclee.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The most Sunday of Mondays.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In honour of Dolly Parton, encourage your children to read books. In honour of Tim Curry, encourage them to play near an open storm drain in the rain.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Soraya has gone but of course her work lives on, here there and everywhere. Spend your day reading some of it! defector.com/author/soray...
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Soraya Roberts | Defector
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For as long as my pro-AI university allows me to ban generative AI, I'll continue to do so. But because so many classes allow or even encourage it, even in the Humanities (ugh), I feel like I have to lay out more of my reasoning every semester. Basic argument: LET'S MAKE HUMAN THINGS, WHILE WE CAN.
Generative AI Policy:

Other classes at ASU may allow or even encourage the use of generative AI, but in this course, you will not use it for either your fiction or your reading responses
Together, we’re reading and writing work made by humans, for humans, in search of a human reaction. It is not appropriate to ask me or your classmates to read fiction or other prose written primarily or in part by machines
(I will also not use AI in my class prep or in any of the materials I make for you: this course is an expression of my ideas, art practices, and imagination, designed for you by me, based on years of study and experience)
Especially at the start of your artistic and academic careers, I believe that even light reliance on tools such as AI will inhibit the development of the skills, mindsets, and abilities necessary for your success
TLDR: I want your fiction, and your reactions to the books we read. That’s the path to an A in this class (and, more importantly, to learning all that this class has to offer)
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.
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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 10/08/2026
If you're a teacher or librarian and would like a PDF of this comic about using your brain and being creative instead of using AI, send me an email (it's right on my website - alexandragallant.com) and I will send you a copy of it and you can share it with whoever you like
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Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A new poetry award in memory of Barry Dempster. Details on the League of Canadian Poets website! poets.ca/offerings/aw...
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"literary men are disappearing" Am I... am I gifted with a special "I can see literary men" superpower
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Nancy Lee (she/her) @pantsmclee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“Takaichi had indicated to him afterward the existence of pressure from the U.S. to review Japan’s nonnuclear principles. “She appeared troubled by it,” he said. “It sounded as though maintaining it (the nonnuclear policy) would be hard even if she wanted to.”
japantimes.co.jp
Takaichi emphasizes Japan’s commitment to nonnuclear principles on Hiroshima anniversary
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s first appearance at the ceremony as the nation’s leader comes as the government prepares to revise key national security documents later this year.
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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A poem by Virginia Hamilton Adair, who published her debut collection at the age of 83
REUNION BETWEEN PLANES

I'm the old school friend swooping out of the sky like a Halloween witch in my Hollywood shades and my stretchable wig and a girdle of groans. Since we shrieked our goodbyes in a shower of rice
my babies have grown beards been jailed and divorced. My husband the broker embezzled, absconded, is living abroad with a kennel of bitches. I remember your dad who fondled our bottoms your mom with her bottle she hid in the sofa.
My God, they were younger by decades than we are crossing into the dusk
of this terminal bar.

-VIRGINIA HAMILTON ADAIR
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Nancy Lee (she/her) @pantsmclee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I know we’re being told a lot of lies right now, but the $5 haircut we got at Supercuts in the 80s rebranded as the trendy “bixie” is next level.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.
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Nancy Lee (she/her) @pantsmclee.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Forever and always the patron saint of karaoke queens, rest in power, Bonnie Tyler. ❤️
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you read just a few comments on any article about Graham Platner it should become crystal clear why victims don’t come forward earlier. The level of cruelty people direct at victims is gutting
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Nathan Whitlock @nathanwhitlock.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Sarah Leavitt and I talk about long process of turning her graphic memoir Tangles into a film (that just premiered at Cannes), about souring on social media, and about her new project, which might turn out to be a novel, except without the graphic part.
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Podcast Episode · What Happened Next: a podcast about newish books · June 29 · 28m
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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The Al and Eurithe Purdy A-Frame has opened applications for their 2027 residencies (deadline Sept 28th). www.alpurdy.ca/residency/ Applications for the Steven Heighton Fellowship are also open, with the same deadline: www.alpurdy.ca/steven-heigh...
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Al & Eurithe Purdy Residency – The Al Purdy A-frame Association
Origins Acknowledgement of the Land The Al and Eurithe Purdy A-frame Association acknowledges that our residency and the activities of our writers-in-residence are sited on the traditional territories...
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A recent survey found that 44% of Gen Z employees are currently sabotaging their employer’s attempts at AI usage. Good luck with that big take up, AI guys. You’ve got the future on your side.
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It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Gen Alpha: 2013-2025 Gen Z: 1997-2012 Millennials: 1981- 1996 Gen X: 1965-1980 Baby Boomers: 1946–1964 Presidents, Senators & Congresspeople: 1845-1945
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