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Trespassers William

@raggedmouths.bsky.social
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Dilettante, Director of Jewish Studies at Queen's, I've stopped working on myself because I am tired.

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Ben Yehuda Press, Jewish books here & everywhere @benyehudapress.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You’ve seen the source sheets. You’ve heard the shiur. Now buy the book! "Sources of Pride: Jewish views on gender and sexuality anthologized from Biblical, Talmudic, Midrashic, Rabbinic, and Chassidic sources with contemporary and personal commentary" by Rabbi Abby Chava Stein
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Arun Film 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @arunfilm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Brian Blessed is 90 years old today, Happy Birthday you bloody legend! 👏🎂🍻🥂🥳
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Physician, repress yourself. Pt 1
thoughts provoked by an upcoming public execution
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I see Canadian goths won the Nobel. A big victory for 17 year old me.
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Cathode Ray Zone @cathoderayzone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Gendrome, I have attempted to write a kind of "social-science fiction," if such a sub-genre exists. Regardless, it is the product of ten years of work and is free to everyone! #writing #fiction #graphicnovel cathoderayzone.com/fiction/gend...
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Gendrome - Cathode Ray Zone
Gendrome is a new novel by Daniel A. Kaufman, illustrated by Mariah Gregg-Fling. It imagines a world that is adjacent to, but not quite our own. Cathode Ray Zone is pleased to present Gendrome in seri...
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Jodi Dean, LLMs, and Your Mother: dustinnoahatlas.substack.com/p/ai-is-not-...
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AI Is Not Your Mother
As always I am late to the party because of my kids.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Irritation and Exhaustion: AI, LLMs, plants.
Yet another possible distinction between human and mechanical thought.
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
You can imagine how young Jewish New Leftists might have seen this. Proof of irrelevance. Out of touch. Even crazy. The thing is, these old Bundists had directly experienced Bolshevik aggression, from being called “social fascists” and shot at to full-on liquidation of their party by the USSR.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is false
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
jewishphilosophyplace.com/2026/07/27/d...
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(Dustin Atlas) How To Talk To A Cat (Author’s Digest + Promocode)
How to Talk to a Cat: Buber, Philosophy, and Dialogue with Unspeaking Things (Prepared by and with permission of the author and Indiana University Press) PROMO code below CONTENTS Introduction: Dia…
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A rather rude thing to say about my autobiography.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Christopher Nolan directs Joyce's Ulysses
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Why are Luddites the worst Luddites?
Since LLMs have been mainstreamed the word Luddite has re-entered our vernacular, no longer just referring to your friend without a phone, but now referring to people, many saturated in tech, who view...
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I’m always surprised when a guy with a death’s head tattoo turn out to be a shit.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It's like in Letter to Menoeceus where Epicurus is like, "All those people who say it's better off to be dead are full of shit, and the way you know they're full of shit is they ain't dead."
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
the media and voter messaging should be this: the current government and the government in waiting do not want your children to be able to go to university, they will not support people in the UK to do original research, they do not care about job losses in one of the largest sectors in the economy
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Sometimes you stare into the abyss, and sometimes ChatGPT stares into you.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk’s politics, because he is desperate to brand himself an insurgent against the powerful elite, but as the world’s first trillionaire, he needs a definition of “elite” not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
we don't deserve much, but I believe we deserve better political scandals
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Don’t cheat with an LLM. Grow up and take speed and do it yourself.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Look I know labour conditions are bad, but that doesn’t meant you should travel into the past for a job.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
my response to that report on the humanities is that I haven’t read it because several of the authors are morons, and you don’t need to read it either
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I’ve been lied to
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
On noises, reading, and disenchantment gone wild dustinnoahatlas.substack.com/p/the-voices...
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The voices in your head (still) aren't just you
Even when they never shut up.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Americans will literally tell you that the most basic regulations are bringing about a police state.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
broke my rule to not argue with americans about something happening outside their own country, and now I remember why I have this rule
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Nothing like a pogrom to bring out that ecumenical spirit
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The hostility you face when you suggest that social media needs regulation just further suggests that social media needs regulation.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There may be worse and better ways of keeping kids off of social media, but it needs to happen. If that ruins social media for the rest of us, so be it.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Ah yes, people should be fired for addressing the topic of their publication. What a wonderful world.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We do not need a cape fear show. Stop.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Hey polymarket, if you want to spend a bunch of money buying out humanities profs who have at least a dozen readers, I am available.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My opinion in philosophy of mind re consciousness remains: whatever's the least satisfying thing to learn existentially, whatever just gives us no reason for hope or joy or an experience of the universe as anything other than deceptive, will turn out to be true. I'm just not sure which view that is.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
With all respect to Carl, the solution is to simply write books no one would want to read. I know full well every request I get is a scam.
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Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Today's note of praise is for @raggedmouths.bsky.social 's wonderful book HOW TO TALK TO A CAT, which I read today - it's an insanely smart book about philosophy, language, being, and the expansiveness and limitations of dialogue while being fully, empathetically, human in its understanding.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
If someone’s way of dealing with a new tech is to say “it’s capital,” as in “talking to AI is talking to Capital” you are dealing with the leftist equivalent of a spiritualist.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A taste of the nonsense I think about. open.substack.com/pub/dustinno...
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You don’t own the voices in your head, pt. 1
This is a proposition, not an argument: I’m not convinced that the voices I hear in my head are mine, and think that sometimes they are other people’s.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I'm really just a coat thrown over an organ grinder. More writing about reading: dustinnoahatlas.substack.com/p/listening-...
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Listening to a Book isn’t Reading it
I'm similar to my brother and yet we manage to be distinct. Amazing stuff.
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That guy Maks @callmesipo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
With disgust I learned Olga Tokarczuk uses AI to help with writing her latest novel - article in Polish, my translation of relevant bit in posts below mycompanypolska.pl/artykul/olga...
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Olga Tokarczuk zapowiada ostatnią powieść w karierze: „Pisanie długich opowieści jest dziś ekonomicznie nieopłacalne”
Czy w świecie powszechnego pędu i pośpiechu jest jeszcze miejsce na duże, wymagające opowieści? Olga Tokarczuk wyraża obawę, że ta era dobiegła końca. Dlatego najnowszą powieść, uważa za ostatnią w ka...
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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Here’s a fun unranked list from last year I’m also working through — 100 novels of “world literature” since 1925 www.spiegel.de/kultur/liter...
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Literatur: Die besten Bücher der Welt zwischen 1925 und 2025 - der SPIEGEL-Literaturkanon
Welches sind die besten Erzählwerke zwischen 1925 und 2025? Gemeinsam mit einer vierköpfigen Jury haben wir eine Entscheidung getroffen: Hier sind die Bücher, die die Weltliteratur in den vergangenen ...
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
should I write a book or start a dark souls game? From soft or frum soft?
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I wrote a grumpy thing open.substack.com/pub/dustinno...
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Against Affect Theory
Or: in favour of castration and weird old Jews.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 13/05/2026
Do sanctions deter corrupt actors — or do they generate the very corruption risks they aim to prevent? Marie E. Harf (@marieharf.bsky.social) introduces the Intersection of Sanctions and Corruption Symposium, a new series in partnership with Perry World House (@perryworldhouse.bsky.social):
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Introducing a New Symposium: The Intersection of Sanctions and Corruption
Experts examine sanctions and anti-corruption policy as tools to target corruption and shape global accountability.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If you don’t want to buy the book, just send me a cheque
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Is teaching worth it?
To teach against cliche means not buying them ourselves.
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Trespassers William @raggedmouths.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
careers.historians.org/jobs/2223345...
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Bader Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish History in Kingston, ON for Department of History, Queen's University
Exciting opportunity in Kingston, ON for Department of History, Queen's University as a Bader Po...
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