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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 9h

Not to do popular media discourse on here but it is baffling in a very unsurprising way that major media studios saw the success of Heated Rivalry and decided that what it meant was that we need a bunch of heterosexual hockey romance adaptations

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Illustory 🌈✨ @illustoryart.bsky.social · 10h

Long story short: I’m an asylum seeker in France now. I don’t know how long this process will take, but for I still can’t officially work here. So I’m looking for any opportunity to earn money to be able to pay for rent and food. Please, read and share this post ❤️‍🩹 ko-fi.com/illustory

WE NEED HELP
Please, read and share this!
(text version of the pics above)
We are a group of queer artists, and we are in big trouble.
In April 2025, we immigrated to France, seeking a safe place to live and make art.
Our humanitarian visas expired a year ago.
Since then, we have been trying to get legal status in France.
To be able to work, open a bank account, get health insurance and just have some basic human rights.
We spent a whole year fighting for our lives against Strasbourg Prefecture and we lost.

All this time we couldn't properly work, so we were burning our savings.
In August, all three of us were denied a residence permit.
According to the Prefecture, the only option for us To stay legally in France is to become asylum seekers.
About a week ago, we sent out our applications for the asylum.
Now we are looking at another indefinite stretch of time, before we are summoned to Paris for interviews.
It might be two months, three months, half of a year or even more... no one knows for sure.

We had planned for a year without documents max, and now it's been a year and a half already.
No matter how hard we tried to stretch our savings, they have run out.
Currently, we don't have enough money to pay for rent and food in November.
It's hard for me to admit that, but we are in huge trouble, with all our hopes and plans ruined by the French bureaucracy.
We really need your help and every little bit matters, so I came up with some options for how you can support us.

HOW YOU CAN HELP
❤️ Share this post to bring attention
❤️ Join my monthly Club at Ko-fi
❤️ Participate in my art originals sale this week
❤️ Donate a few cacaos at Ko-fi
❤️ Buy some of our merch (big sale at Ko-fi next week!)
❤️ Order a commission artwork
❤️ Vote in the interest checks for our new projects (soon)
❤️ Go visit our printshops
❤️ If you have a job for freelance illustrators, please let us know!

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 11h

I hate the job market because the absolute worst thing you could EVER ask me to do is humblebrag about anything. I am the most self-critical person on the planet and you want me to hype myself up? Torturous!!

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 13h

The Cornell case is the Hockey Canada scandal is the girl I knew from undergrad who had to fight publicly to not get expelled for being suicidal after her assault is the Emma Sulkowicz mattress protest because men are never held accountable for their actions

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

PWHL making an all-stars game for the season MY all-star is out on injury.... tragic

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026

*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nothing brings me more joy than how much my students LOVE Bisclavret. We once again had our "who's in the wrong in this text" discussion and they did SO well

A whiteboard absolutely covered in close reading commentary about Bisclavret and his wife's wrongdoings in the text

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bisclavret day in monster class, you know what that means (I'm wearing my "Bisclavret: I got that dog in me" t-shirt" from the geniuses in WMU's Goliardic Society)

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

thank god middle english reading group is back. I need to spend an hour every week reading weird shit with my fellow medievalists or I'll lose it

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If I had a nickel for every time a Robert Eggers film was incorrectly described as using "Old English," I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's weird that it's happened twice

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

just got an instagram ad for the VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT? (like, a facsimile, but still)

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm not going to complain about the thing that's irritating me but just know. I'm extremely irritated and also extremely stressed out about it. When can I catch a break

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Opening 25-26 PWHL cards is like a dead wife montage with how many players got swiped in the expansion process

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am GOING to knit some kind of PWHL dataviz situation this season

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That's my "second highest PIM in the league (and she definitely would've been no. 1 if she hadn't been out on IR for the last few weeks of the season)" girl #pwhl

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just saw an AI-generated goalie helmet wrap. What has the world come to 😭

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For Earth 🌍 , Wind 🌪️, and Fire 🔥 Day—we never forget the 21st night of September—here is a depiction of the Four Elements in a manuscript from Bruges, 1470-1480, fr. 137, fol. 1r. (© BnF) : « Dieu Créateur et Ovide avec l’œuf » @labnf.bsky.social. See: journals.openedition.org/crmh/13890?l...

manuscrit fr. 137, fol. 1r.

(© BnF) : « Dieu Créateur et Ovide avec l’œuf »

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

sending my father to Dad Jail for his dad crimes (FOURTH TIME in THREE MONTHS that he has just dropped some wild major knowledge, completely contextless, WAY after he should've communicated it. for instance, sending me a photo today of the x ray for the ankle he broke LAST WEEK.)

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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Kiana Mai @kianamai.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Aika from “I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl” at three different stages in her life. Child Aika is in the foreground, arms spread and smiling. She wears a blue oversized two toned t-shirt and her hair is all black. Behind her is 13 year old Aika in her magical girl from with her hands clasped and a smile on her face. She is completely blonde with long locs. In the background, current day 15 year old Aika faces away from camera with a tired, over it expression. Her hair is now blonde on top and and black on the bottom

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's EGREGIOUS that we have children having to testify at hearings to keep their local public libraries open and grown people still don't know how much is being spent to bomb civilians in Iran... www.instagram.com/reel/Dc37brF...

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

draft of my LAST CHAPTER sent to my advisor, it's celebratory takeout time and I'm not touching any more work until Tuesday

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

liveblogging the writing process: I am on the Last Paragraph of this draft and the SECOND I finish it, I'm sending this thing to my advisor and then sleeping for thirty years

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was kind of joking about getting myself an "I finished this chapter" treat but the MINUTE I finish this I'm treating myself to something nice. Hellish experience.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Finally gave up on trying to make Word work so I am suffering Google Docs (which I have endless haterism for). I am writing everything by hand henceforth, I don't care, I am sick of technology. This is the worst

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026

this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

just got an ad for a bed with storage underneath and for some reason they framed it as "you can store 35 FULL-SIZED PIZZAS in this bed!" like. probably the least useful unit of measurement for under-bed storage if you ask me. idk

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A university founded in the Middle Ages in a city that centers itself around a Medieval castle does not see a need to study Medieval History

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Eliel Cruz @elielcruz.com · 18/09/2026

NYC TUESDAY PULL UP FOR TRANS KIDS

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The iPad Word app is my new nemesis. I have not been able to get it to work for longer than MAYBE two minutes at a time. I'm saving after every change I make. I'm racing against the clock to scroll down to page 34 and make changes before it crashes. I'm going to Lose It.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

arstechnica.com

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

"what if the democrats become labour on trans rights" is the nightmare scenario for trans people in the united states and avoiding that is why I think we need to continue pushing back on dems who waver as hard as possible

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Uncharismatic Megafauna @liminalitea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Islington has just announced some brutal cuts to their libraries - over 25% of the budget in one go. There's a protest at 6:30 on the 24th for anyone in the area. islingtonunison.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/s...

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Say NO to cuts to Islington Libraries

Alan Wylie, Islington librarian and UNISON shop steward, on why we need to fight cuts to our libraries: Islington Libraries have a long and illustrious history from James Duff Brown to our very own…

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is just one out of every five or so butch lesbians in the state of Michigan

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Don’t bring a union rep” is one of those sentences that always means your employer is going you treat you with respect and dignity

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thinking "wow, I haven't cited this one particular book in here at all, I need to do that" only to find that I HAD, because the book is made up of stuff the author published elsewhere, and I've got the article version of the chapter at hand already in there 👍

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

Fighting FOR people never helped a fascist ever in history. The road to fascism is paved almost exclusively with moral concessions.

Serenity Now @ex-xer.bsky.social • 4h
Bullshit.
Dems fighting for trans people got trump elected.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ipad Word app crashing every like five seconds, as if I did not already have enough problems today. PLEASE just LET ME FINISH THIS CHAPTER. I'M RUNNING OUT OF DEVICES.

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mgm1229.bsky.social @mgm1229.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Two years ago today I attended the opening of the retrospective for Alvin Ailey at the Whitney museum. My panel for the AIDS quilt had been chosen as the final piece. It was a whirlwind of emotions and a memory I will treasure forever. I even met George Faison, and sang Janis Joplin with him🥰

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I get to the library to work on my dissertation chapter that I have to send TODAY and guess what? My laptop charger has stopped working overnight! I'm going to throw myself off a cliff

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Visceral negative reaction to the article I just came across in my spelunking that's putting Harry Potter in my French Arthuriana. Criminal.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

between the article title and the brief preview of the article text, JSTOR has managed to turn Laȝamon into Lazamon, Lagamon, AND Layamon. impressive, considering the preview and title amount to maybe three lines of text total

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I need to cite something about the figure of the wise man in romance but you can probably guess how much of a citation-spelunking search this is, given the subject

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bought a soda from the vending machine in the library, which doesn't show you the price until after you push the button to dispense your bottle of soda (aka you have already paid), and it was four entire United States dollars. I will NEVER make that mistake again!!

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 17/09/2026

why do pro-AI researchers seemingly hate doing research so much

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