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Laura Schmitt

@schmittpod.bsky.social
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Fiction: New England Review, Boulevard, Pinch... Bread baker. I don't know what I'm doing here. Home of Deadline Club and #treepingtom ••• linktr.ee/schmittpod

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They should put a little piece of candy under the plastic push-up part that falls off when you're out of deodorant
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Not every part of that Wasian NYMag article makes me want to throw all the way up.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
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The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center
The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity
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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is a week tomorrow. I’ll be one of the lucky ones playing 412 chords per minute for an hour. www.bbc.co.uk/events/efm6gw
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Steve Reich at 90 (Bristol)
The Paraorchestra brings an immersive take on Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, presenting this seminal work with the players distributed across Beacon Hall
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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com
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Free short science fiction, published weekly · Science Fiction Weekly
Science Fiction Weekly publishes a free short story every weekday and a curated digest every Sunday. Subscribe by email.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
find someone who looks at you the way RFK Jr looks at raw meat
RFK in his cooking show, staring down longingly at a pan of raw salmon
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Orcas have started targeting commercial ship control systems, like rudders, to disrupt or break them. Eyewitnesses feel unnerved by the precision of these attacks in how the orcas ignore peripherals and know exactly what to do. Well, duh. Sophisticated intelligence as good or better than our own.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today
"I want people to know that what's happening in Portland - the creativity, the irreverence, the refusal to be intimidated - that's replicable," she says. "Every city has artists. Every community has weirdos. We just need to find each other and start creating the alternative story. The revolution doesn't have to look like a protest.
Make it weird. When they tell you to cover up, shut up, and comply, the most radical thing you can do is be visible, speak truth, and take up space. With joy. Tap into your creativity. Art isn't a luxury in times like these - it's survival."
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/06/2025
A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT FROG.” He has already made at least one run on the stove. A man stirs the pot with a large stick. “It’s a metaphor,” he says.
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Signs the Frog Has Been Boiled
A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT F...
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
TFW you realize your health care provider has scrubbed the phrase "women's health" from its website and you cannot search for the doctor you need. Cowards. COWARDS. #fuckingcowards
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My dream scenario tbh people.com/man-in-norwa...
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Man in Norway Wakes Up to Find Huge Ship Has Crashed into His Backyard: 'It Was So Unreal'
A man in Norway was left in shock after waking up to find a container ship in his backyard and just a few meters from his home on Thursday, May 22.
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 01/05/2025
@acls1919.bsky.social, the AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions of the NEH to devastate the agency, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. 🗃️
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American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and Modern Language Association File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the Humanities - AHA
Lawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff. For Immediate Release / May 1, 2025 (New York, NY) — The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Historical Assoc...
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Jessica Dawn @jessdawn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Can’t wait to read stories with Taco Bell references in a bunch of journals after we all get rejected by @tacobellquarterly.org
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2025
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?"
"Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: 

The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History
By Gillian Brockell 
When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Have you visited a physical bookstore lately? They're delightful. There are actual people there. You can touch the books, flip through them, smell them, and marvel at the crazy way the shop has decided to group the books. Sometimes an author even shows up to read part of her book to you.
A group of people gathered in a cozy, well-lit bookstore, listening to a woman reading aloud from a book. The shelves are lined with colorful books under green hanging lamps. Some attendees are holding books, and festive decorations are visible at the back of the store.
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
And also Stories Books and Cafe www.storiesla.com
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Stories Books & Cafe
los angeles independent bookstore echo park
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Now that I live in LA I feel lucky to live near Skylight Books www.skylightbooks.com/new-front
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Most of the NYC Indy bookstores I haunted have closed but Book Culture (neé Labyrinth) still stands. www.bookculture.com
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
For Independent Bookstore Day, I thought I’d highlight a few of my fave bookstores, starting off with D.G. Wills in La Jolla, CA, which sells new and used books and was a haven for me in high school. www.dgwillsbooks.com
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D.G.Wills Books
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/04/2025
one of the greatest letterman performances AND one of the great (greatest?) rock songs of the 2000s youtu.be/SlHrCg67axw?...
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TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me (Live on Letterman)
YouTube video by TVOnTheRadioVEVO
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
JFC www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study
The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.
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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
How many times will I expand and contract this story
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
TFW you are 70% through your application letter to the Elizabeth George Foundation and you find out the grant is no longer.
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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Bat, Literally Translated into English. Map by me
Map of bat in European languages
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Just read the email from Harvard about suing the feds and man, the PR people at Columbia right now must be under a table in shambles. So much of the defense was always about framing and narrative…
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/04/2025
Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
My son just saw this in a parking lot in Kansas City 😆
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Michael Rooney @mr00ney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
“Consider Fort Sill, which—before it was a site of Japanese American incarceration, before it was used to detain migrant children—was founded as … a base from which war was waged against the Comanche, the Kiowa, and the Cheyenne.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Legacies of Japanese American Incarceration | Francisco Cantú
Brandon Shimoda’s book about how the descendants and survivors of the United States’ Japanese internment camps try to keep their families’ histories alive is also a look at the brutal system of migran...
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Never seen it framed this way by all recent elections Wild
Graph showing did not vote often being the majority
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Weather is getting nice, what if 10 million people went outside at the same time
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annie parnell 👽 @avparnell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
what I love about this one is the interviewer is clearly trying to get them to say it’s ironic, and they’re like “no this song just fucking rules” youtu.be/9iRuIr9OQBI?...
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Screaming Females cover Sheryl Crow's "If It Makes You Happy" - AV Undercover
YouTube video by Don Giovanni
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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This story is absolutely getting overlooked. They are deploying the military within US borders. This is so dangerous for Natives from border tribes, and all public lands users in this region. And they won't restrict it to the border, this is just where they are starting.
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Deborah La Torre @deblatorre.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Men are more likely to have fertility issues after 35, but there is a societal myth that men can have healthy babies into their old age, and that the issue is just women. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Fertility and the Aging Male
In the United States since 1980, the birth rate in women aged > 35 years has increased by nearly 60%, whereas the birth rate for women aged 20 to 34 years has increased by only 10%. The trend in paren...
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Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · 20/03/2025
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I work in grants. The only serious option right now is to yell at our Congress people. You’re already crowd funding research in the form of taxes. Congress has already said that money should go to research but Trump and the Doge folks have decided they make the decisions instead of We the People.
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Are you a #ColumbiaAlum who has yet to sign the letter in support of academic freedom? Now is a good time. (With thanks to @luxalptraum.com ) www.columbiaalumniforacademicfreedom.org
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Columbia Alumni for Academic Freedom - Columbia Alumni for Academic Freedom
Columbia Alumni for Academic Freedom Columbia alumni, join us in defending academic freedom by signing the letter below. Columbia University Alumni Statement on Academic Freedom “There is a certain en...
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Laura Schmitt @schmittpod.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social Oh look! It’s what you should have done. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Same, medieval dudes. Same.
A medieval illustration showing two people pointing at a figure in the lower right corner who looks like he's trying to take off his chainmail but has gotten it stuck while it's over his head. The caption reads: "When I'm drunk AF and try to take off a turtleneck."
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
“Let my people goth.” - Emoses
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”
A hamster / mister saddlebags with EXTREMELY chubby cheeks
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