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S. M. Carroll @smcarroll.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is it a German position by any chance?

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Feeling as tho' humanistic study here (construe "here" as you will) is doomed, but on the bright side I get to talk about this Jackie Kay poem today w/ a dedicated group of undergrads. (What's more I learned about the poem on this very site--🙏): www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/old-ton...

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Old Tongue

When I was eight, I was forced south. Not long after, when I opened my mouth, a strange thing happened. I lost my Scottish accent. Words fell off my tongue: eedyit, dreich, wabbit, crabbit stummer, te...

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Two must-buys. My thoughts on the Ha are handily packaged into the book itself, but I went on at length online about how the weird presents itself in TBWFOTY: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

strangehorizons.com

The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction

The ideal reader of the weird has to embrace a kind of wilful suspension of foreknowledge or generic expectation.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh boy!!!! Here we go!!!

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S. M. Carroll @smcarroll.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Season 2 is where it kicks off, honestly. You can just skip ahead and then go back to fill in the backstory

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.

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Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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S. M. Carroll @smcarroll.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Anyway, Angel Down is brutal and fabulous, and it’s nice to see it recognized with a Pulitzer.

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S. M. Carroll @smcarroll.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

OTOH I am thinking about teaching Angel Down whereas some of the more ambitious novels Nussbaum cites would be inaccessible to non-genre readers. I suspect that’s often why prize committees tend to ignore works that genre readers celebrate.

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S. M. Carroll @smcarroll.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I enjoyed Angel Down but I think Nussbaum’s criticism of awards’ selective genre recognition is valid. Angel Down *looks* like a “great” novel insofar as it takes a Blood-Meridian approach to WwI horrors - but it’s not saying anything new.

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is when I sat down and began paying attention. I love this kind of incisive, thoughtful analysis! "not unlike actual class systems—there are, within both literary and genre fiction, minute and fine-grained distinctions that are sometimes only legible to insiders"

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Good morning

No!
A responsible adult says no to non-euclidean space!

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

every two words is an entire Dickens novel

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Happy 283rd birthday, Anna Letitia Barbauld! Here, from 1795, is her at once funny, domestic, and sublime poem "Inscription for an Ice-House," offered in honour of her day, and also as a reminder to my UK friends who are anticipating a heat wave. Do consider putting ice in your drinks please!

Inscription for an Ice-House
Stranger, approach! within this iron door
Thrice locked and bolted, this rude arch beneath
That vaults with ponderous stone the cell; confined
By man, the great magician, who controuls
Fire, earth and air, and genii of the storm,
And bends the most remote and opposite things
To do him service and perform his will,—
A giant sits; stern Winter; here he piles,
While summer glows around, and southern gales
Dissolve the fainting world, his treasured snows
Within the rugged cave.—Stranger, approach!
He will not cramp thy limbs with sudden age,
Nor wither with his touch the coyest flower
That decks thy scented hair. Indignant here,
Like fettered Sampson when his might was spent
In puny feats to glad the festive halls
Of Gaza's wealthy sons; or he who sat
Midst laughing girls submiss, and patient twirled
The slender spindle in his sinewy grasp;
The rugged power, fair Pleasure's minister,
Exerts his art to deck the genial board;
Congeals the melting peach, the nectarine smooth,
Burnished and glowing from the sunny wall:
Darts sudden frost into the crimson veins
Of the moist berry; moulds the sugared hail:
Cools with his icy breath our flowing cups;
Or gives to the fresh dairy's nectared bowls
A quicker zest. Sullen he plies his task,
And on his shaking fingers counts the weeks
Of lingering Summer, mindful of his hour
To rush in whirlwinds forth, and rule the year.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Hey ho, look at all this. Pretty good. Might be your jam, and we have the ebook on sale for just $4. undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...

UNCERTAIN SONS paperback book listing with award designations circled in yellow highlighter.

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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Screenshot of the article
(I'm sorry I don't have time to type this whole thing as alt text my poor thumbs owww)

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

That anecdote about how Tom Holland did The Odyssey and immediately showed up on the Spider-Man set going "what if we had a script?" like a kid coming home from his first semester talking about Marxism is still killing me

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S. M. Carroll @smcarroll.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Wow. Callbacks to our January study abroad courses!

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’m marking undergraduate creative writing at the moment, so reading the supposedly AI story ‘The Serpent in the Grove’ was a familiar experience. I've been reading it, in their work, all week. It makes you despair, but it's also fascinating for what it tells us about literary fiction as a genre.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Rainstorm Over the Sea -John Constable

Painting of rain clouds that look like huge smudged brush strokes fill a canvas above a thin strip of sea

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Aaron King @aaronmfking.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Every time I open Bluesky,

Text from Ulysses reading (A crowd of sluts and ragamuffins surges forward.)

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 06/05/2026

This is a terrific thread from workwear guy on why anger at the Met Gala is misplaced, rooted in how fashion is seen and coded as consumable rather than art, frivolous rather than serious, and a feminine rather than masculine pursuit. The gala supports a nonprofit arts institution, not "the rich."

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MyPet Health by Vetcation @vetcation.com · 03/05/2026

Dogs’ reactions when you ask them if they want a walk.

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Christiane Eck @frankandfloyd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I have a suspicion that my reach here is near zero but if you see this, please do consider spreading the word about these London-based jobs for German speakers, if you feel so inclined:

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 01/05/2026

We are open to submissions from today until end-of-day May 15th, and look forward to reading your weird unsettling tumultuous seductive stories.

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S. M. Carroll @smcarroll.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

At this stage I’m think it’s anti-labor propaganda spread by admin. Senior professors have the highest salaries, the longest institutional knowledge. They’re the workers most most likely to fight when admin increases their workload. Get rid of them and you have a more compliant workforce.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Not sure any work of art haunts me like this one

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

No Victorian LLM will give you a better window into the 19 century than just reading various perspectives from the 19th century.

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b. wolo @bwolo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

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The lie in tamer @iamreddave.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

'Staff at the University of Edinburgh have demanded an end to the institution’s partnership with technology giant OpenAI, calling it “unsafe” and “insecure”. 1/2

timeshighereducation.com

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal

Academics raise concerns over ChatGPT owner’s links to US military and claim tools are ‘looking to replace knowledge workers’

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

CHECK whether they stole your books to train their AI. And file a claim. Make them pay out as much as possible.

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George @hannahtempler.com · 06/03/2026

move slow and repair things

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Nineteenth-centuryists (#C19th) - I'm looking for novels in the first half of the century where the rural English poor are racialized as "savage", "dark" etc. I know English rural examples from journalism/non-fiction, and fiction about the urban and "Celtic" poor, but fictional examples useful!

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localswampgay @localswampgay.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

Tweet that reads Leo Xander
@STALLEON
Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V
- it is bigger
than the car

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maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Everyone is Maxxing when they should be Marxxxing

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Crocus, Raymond C. Booth.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Poems for Lent (1st Sunday) • Gerard Manley Hopkins •

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S. M. Carroll @smcarroll.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Reddit, you beautifully weird internet place. Never change. Also: this “Best of Reddit update” made me laugh til I cried. And I still don’t have answers.

Reddit post image of title: “could I did deep enough to keep a pallet of 2000lbs of margarine from melting in Arizona heat?”

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