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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This man is a walking PSA for the importance of Humanities education

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As someone who will probably be diagnosed in 10-12 years, ot is hard to be measured about this.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Filkins stories are always worth waiting for.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is one of those "how on god's green earth did I miss that?!" observations. AI chatbot speaking in the first-person distorts everything. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.com

The Original Sin of AI

The harms of chatbots are clear enough to do something about them now.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Counterpoint: literally anyone could make that promise. Also, literally anyone could add a pony to the promise. I mean as long as promises don't require a plausible legal or practcal foundation, let's go nuts.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You guys, I am laughing so hard

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They should be proud of themselves. (And mocking kids who never asked for attention is just evil.)

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That is currently the finance equivalent of jumping out from behind a door and yelling "Boo!"

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Omg. This is what "yinz" means. I have wondered for years how on earth that word came to be.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I love the Trio albums so much.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Telephone game, but in Middle English

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

They did warn us about gray goo.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I had to read your comment to realize it wasn't 🤦‍♀️

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Just watched this last night! I am not totally convinced that putting a movie through a situational accelerator improves it as a *movie*, though the ideological point is well-taken.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Not liking centipedes is enough for me.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have at least once myself suspended any reasonable sense of scepticism when interacting with a highly charismatic person retailing (in retrospect) impossible fictions. Why or how that happens is genuinely and deeply interesting. Which, I know, doesn't excuse hounding the storyteller.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It was never not going to grip academics, even just for plagiarism, given the position at stake. And the plagiarism wasn't what made it sensational, imho. It was the clearly pathological fabulism--a kind of tragic parallel to the George Santos comedy. (Not calling Arday a grifter!)

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think my husband and I had each seen a review, maybe? We started watching together with the first season, and neither of us had a super clear idea what it would be.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

1) I am a wife. 2) I love Reacher. 3) I cannot understand how anyone thinks that much mass is sexy. 4) It is hilarious, so why wouldn't one like it?

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

But you gotta start with a lot of your own bread

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 10/08/2026

The federal government’s decision to award a small Texas law firm run by a Trump ally a $150 million contract to represent migrant children is an attempt to undermine their rights and fast-track the removal of minors, immigrant legal aid organizations say. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/child...

ohiocapitaljournal.com

‘Children are going to die’: Advocates decry migrant-child legal contract • Ohio Capital Journal

A $150M migrant children legal contract to a Trump-tied Texas firm alarms advocates who fear rushed deportations

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

To be fair, gerrymandering is part of that. But you're not wrong in essence. More people voted to legalize marijuana and also elected people who promised to legislatively ban it.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My colleagues in the College of Business haven't noticed any superfluity of candidates!

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It is incredibly hard to recruit accounting faculty because university salaries can't match the business sector for good ones. Seller's market.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Bless you. I had no idea why I couldn't turn my phone off.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Ohio is "one-party consent." So no.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wait till the stuff about his topless towers leaks

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

In some cases, yes--but in each of those, their particular superpower was not writing.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

She looks ... amazing? The shoes are cool amd everything else just seems like normal clothes that I am too old to wear successfully. I hate social media.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I loved that book so much as a kid. I read and reread all of them to tatters, but ToA was my favorite.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I had what I thought was a great Minotaur joke, but my family said it was bull.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It is straightforwardly true that literacy has *changed* on average among the college students I teach (English majors and minors, English Ed students, and self-selected others) in the past 15 years. They have less familiarity with older (hypotactic) syntax and pre-1950 vocab.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Jaysus. I had bacteremia from an (unnoticed!) listeria infection a couple of years ago, and I would really prefer not to repeat that experience. Danger aside, I used my out-of-pocket max spend in a weekend.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Fantastic thread! Thanks for the detailed reporting on this.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Ohio is queuing up that very legislation.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In 1984, my family hosted a German high school exchange student for a year. She was so impressed by the honesty of the local museum exhibits on Native American history and on the education about Japanese-Am internment. I am so embarrassed at our national decline now.

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Linguistic decorum score is now 1-1

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Beth Quitslund @profqueue.bsky.social · 27/06/2026