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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 18h

OK, since this thread has blown up a bit, I think it's worth clarifying in a new thread to what extent the 'GenAI is asbestos for the mind' analogy might hold up, and where it breaks down (as even useful analogies always do): 1/n

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 13h

today's tasks ✅send a course promotion ✅get my Spring27 course schedule updated ☕book a bunch of rooms ✅email prospects ✅think about internship proposals ☕worksheet for W8 done ☕read Rh book p.162-189 for R ✅walk doggos ☕GA meeting ☕print 3 things at school ✅book observation ✅answer some Qs over e📫

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16h

Censorship at Texas universities imperils us all, and the republic itself.

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 16h

what a lovely sunny morning after it rained hard until 7am☔🌞

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 17h

this is the week I am asking for a million things from people💌 keeping track of all of this

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Tara @taradaneese.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Embroidery journal: Got apple cider doughnuts at the Cider Mill this afternoon.

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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This one goes out to Dr Bryan Huffman of Holland MI who has met his goal of swimming across all 5 of us. 🌊🌊

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Summer is over, the garden is settling down for its winter sleep, but it still has one last farewell flowering: the dark blue monkshood. Gorgeous, stately, staggeringly poisonous, it looks magnificent against the fading foliage of Magnolia ‘Galaxy’.

A spike of dark purple monkshood flowers against a background of yellowing foliage.

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Rainbow over Settle…

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/10/2026

During more than two decades at Harper’s Bazaar, Richard Avedon transformed the fashion photograph, issue after sensational issue. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

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Richard Avedon’s Defining Early Fashion Shoots

During more than two decades at Harper’s Bazaar, Richard Avedon transformed the fashion photograph, issue after sensational issue.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Good morning! I have two new poems in swamp pink! Here is “Present Tense”:

Present Tense

The flute is older than the wheel
and once was just
as everywhere: on your back
idling in some fescue meadow
or bent, picking over cobble
on a steel-gray shore or upright,
watching streams of wolves depart
a spent kill—you would hear it,
and it would carry you.

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Four days later the snail got to Toad’s house and gave him the letter from Frog. Toad was very pleased to have it.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 10,1944

P1- SLUGGO SEES NANCY IN THE HALLWAY AT SCHOOL
SLUGGO: ARE YOU STAYIN’ AFTER SCHOOL TOO?
NANCY: YEP
P2- NANCY PROUDLY TELLS SLUGGO WHY
NANCY: I WAS VERY GOOD TODAY...
SO THE TEACHER SAID I COULD STAY AND HELP HER DUST THE BOOKS
P3- SLUGGO BUSTS OUT LAUGHING
SLUGGO: HAW HA HO HO HA HA
NANCY: WHAT’S SO FUNNY?
SLUGGO:I WAS BAD TODAY...SO TH' TEACHER SAID I'VE GOT TO STAY AND HELP
HER DUST TH' BOOKS

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Saturday mornings are for reading Style lazily at the kitchen table with a coffee and a champagne. Love this about Grace Coddington's home www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Inside Grace Coddington’s East Hampton Home

The fashion stylist and creative director decorated her Hamptons home with mementos from her storied career and an abundance of cats.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 10,1945

P1- WE SEE A SIGN POSTED ON A BUILDING PROCLAIMING: THIS IS FIRE
PREVENTION
WEEK
NANCY USES A WATER GUN TO PUT OUT A LIT CIGAR SHE SEES ON THE SIDEWALK
P2- NANCY BECOMES ALARMED WHEN SHE SEES SMOKE COMING OUT OF A CITY MANHOLE COVER
P3- NANCY SQUIRTS WATER THROUGH THE HOLES OF THE MANHOLE COVER

P4- NANCY QUICKLY RUNS AWAY WHEN A DRENCHED, ANGRY LOOKING CITY WORKER , SMOKING A PIPE LIFTS THE MANHOLE COVER UP TO SEE WHO JUST SQUIRTED WATER ON HIM

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Susie & Midge w/ an extra Smidge @midgeandsusie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Who knew George Glass could climb trees?

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

learned that most of the mushrooms on the East coast are grown via the manure of the Central Park horses that tromp around its borders, lugging tourists 🐎

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

is that a Black Bear on the left? Lovely!

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Jessica Ramey-Gillam @battleax-70.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Goin' down Route 66 in the 60's as a kid I fell in love with New Mexico. Every piece & part of the state. To my 6 year old self all the colors came alive with magick~ Rocks morphed into a multitude of animals. The very air laced with golds, reds, fuishas. Women so royal in velvets & turquiose...○

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Quaking Aspen, Populus tremuloides. I took so many photos/videos of these when I was in CO in 2014; couldn't capture their tremble at all. What a perfect, lovely name for them.

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I had to go down this hole with Merriam Webster www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/do-y...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/10/2026

“All Americans should probably watch this film like their life depends on it.” Sheelah Kolhatkar reviews the new Elon Musk documentary. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology

“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”

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Free Cats Daily😻 @freecatsdaily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fire breathing cat #Cat #Caturday

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“I will go to Toad’s house,” said Frog. “I will rake all of the leaves that have fallen on his lawn. Toad will be surprised.”

Frog stands at the shed door, rake in hand, gazing at the swirling autumn leaves—ready to tidy up, though nature seems determined to undo his efforts.

From "The Surprise"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Andy @carbrochureaddict.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Czechoslovakia's communist rulers initially wanted luxury car maker Tatra to concentrate on trucks, but before too long the new 603 was launched as transport for high officials of the regime. This brochure in English celebrated the remarkable 2.5-litre air-cooled, rear-engined V8 model. #carbluesky

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/10/2026

lede = introductory section in journalism bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

emails/setting meeting agendas between 2 #techcomm professors is a BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE 💌 Love this for us

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Otto Preminger's 'Anatomy of a Murder' (1959) also had a tremendous impact on the freedom of the screen. The theme of the movie, most eloquently spoken by James Stewart, that people are neither all good nor all bad is worth remembering daily." — Peter Bogdanovich

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

today's tasks: ✅review assessment report so far ✅draft some slides for a presentation introduction ☕prep W7 day 2 of ENGL301, exercises ☕a meeting about planning a meeting ☕think about a marketing grant spending ☕research some travel things ☕a laundry ☕walk dogs 2x ☕concert

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026

NEW: A 26-year-old man has become the de facto advocate of last resort for families who are homeless in Arizona’s most populous county. As ProPublica’s @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social reports, it’s a scene that’s “both heartening and disconcerting.”

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Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.

Austin Davis, 26, has become a lifeline for some homeless families in the Phoenix area who’d otherwise wait months for shelter. His work has highlighted how the system to care for local families who a...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The shiny red floor that leads to the Station Buffet at Barter Books, Alnwick. The amazing secondhand bookshop in a former railway station. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pen #watercolour #drawing #ArtShare

A pen and watercolour of rows of bookshelves leading the eye to a doorway of a room used as a cafe. Above the door is a sign saying STATION BUFFET partly obscured by books on shelves.

A triptych showing a pen drawing, the drawing being given watercolour washes and the finished colour drawing.

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

loathe how uni websites are scraped for their email addresses and all the spam one gets about every possible thing

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Banning a booke ys extinguishing a beacon. Banning a booke ys silencinge a thousand voyces speakinge yn the heart. Banning a booke ys refusinge to looke at the stars. Banning a booke ys damming a streame of feelinge and invitinge flood. Banning a booke ys making a violent litel shryne to ignorance.

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

there is a squirrel in the windowbox outside the window that has a 5 foot shelf of dozens of plants in front of it. Three cats are very interested. What could go wrong

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Sarah Gunning, Ph.D. @sgunning.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

love how Return to Oz traumatized us all. I feel so seen

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Toad was asleep, and he was having a dream. He was on stage, and he was wearing a costume. Toad looked out into the dark. Frog was sitting in the theater.

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