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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Got an email from my employer about supervisor training ahead of rolling out Copilot to staff. I’m disgusted. I am quite aware of the “cognitive dimensions of employee AI resistance” and I sure as fuck will not be practicing “mechanisms to reduce resistance.”
Managers and supervisors are best positioned to provide the support and guidance staff need to adopt and use Copilot in ways that fit their daily work. In this session, managers and supervisors will learn the cognitive dimensions of employee Al resistance, the behaviors that can result, and practical mechanisms to reduce resistance.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’d really like to stop talking about this but the hits just keep coming. It’s been a brutally cruel week for people in my community, people trying to stay alive, to keep believing they deserve safety and access to the world. Be kinder than you can get away with.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Look forward to talking to you more about this coming from the perspective of someone who has played many RE games, hated the Anderson movies, and thought this one was adept at accomplishing a lot of what it set out to do.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Immediately made me think of this bizarre but fun video from Leominster Heritage, where quoins get a mention. www.instagram.com/reel/DcRZB_P...
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Blah,” said Toad.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sorry to have missed this, but excited to hear that you got to talk to some of my colleagues at NLS about accessible technology!
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
After I posted that it occurred to me that my banner image on my Bsky profile is from yet another Hirshhorn exhibit, Laurie Anderson’s “Four Talks.”
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Similar to Manifesto (which I also loved!) I would go with the Ragnar Kjartansson exhibit “The Visitors.” hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/ragn...
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Ragnar Kjartansson – The Visitors, 2012 - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian
The Visitors, 2012.Nine channel video projection, colour, sound.Duration: 64 minutesCourtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík. Photo: Elisabet Davids
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
bsky.app/profile/josi...
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Aaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Collected editions of Calvin and Hobbes
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Homer could’ve saved us all these debates about which translation of the Odyssey is the best if he’d just written it in English in the first place
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Nobody is getting out alive.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
ANDOR honestly makes ROGUE ONE feel a lot weaker than it did when I saw it initially.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
bsky.app/profile/iams...
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Wilson audiobook is read by Claire Danes. So, ymmv, but she does a good job, imo.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thanks! I listened to the audiobook of the Wilson version recently and found the translation into iambic pentameter very fluid and natural. I also listened to a bit of Mendelsohn’s recent translation, which retains the original dactylic hexameter. It was nice, but a bit harder to follow, imo.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Which translation is it?
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
boggling at the *first r-rated movie* responses. did no one else have an insane father who basically injected them with r-rated movie in the womb so they would come out covered in vernix and knowing all of arnold’s catchphrases
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 15/07/2026
hello i am here to tell you actually probably don't need to be panicking about the explosive diarrhea parasite a thread: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
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No, You Shouldn’t Avoid Fruits and Vegetables Due to Cyclospora - Consumer Reports
A parasite called cyclospora has sickened thousands with explosive diarrhea. Here's what you must know and how to reduce your risk of infection.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Sugi Real Real Japan
Alt: Sugi from Real Real Japan waggling his finger in admonishment
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Ah, interesting! I’d be curious to know what it is, and whether it was a mixup. I bought what I thought were six kale seedlings at the beginning of the growing season. One of them looked a little odd, and now I’ve discovered that it’s a cauliflower!
A raised garden bed featuring five kale plants and one surprise cauliflower!
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Looks like Thai basil to me. Currently have some that is taking over a garden plot.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Literally manifesting a united front against the will of their own constiuency with a swiftness and vigor they could not muster to even feign resistance to open fascism
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Growing up, I was happy that my dad was pretty permissive with the books and movies he let me consume. He showed me A Boy and his Dog when I was a young teen and it was one of the few times I was like, “Yeah, no, maybe a little less permissiveness is in order.”
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lydelle BLEAAAH!ster @babyshoes4cash.com · 24/06/2026
it's called a job because needing to have one is like being cursed by God
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spooky sky ✨🌙✨ @sky-writes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
yeah i'm into
planet fitness
fitness Planet into mv MOUTH

pic of galactus stolen from wotc bc fuck em
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“Clearly, we are capable of terrible perseverance.” Ooof. Killer line.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Sexy Randal the Pharaoh Wizard??
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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Repeating my old Twitter adage: Is it "discourse" or is it one very loud wrong man we can all block?
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Petition to rename this the Special Miniaturized Omnibus Library (SMOL)
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I don't put my foot down a lot, but I will kill any audiobook deal for my work where they try to slap an AI narrator on it. Narrators are artists. The greats have filled my heart with light on countless nights. They will not be replaced with slop.
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother's Day
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
the best dinosaur is clearly Iguanodon, because of all the dinosaurs it most resembled a middle-aged Sicilian-American dock-worker with a switchblade
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This is Huntress erasure.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 10/04/2026
Help Matthew Cover Emergency Surgery Costs If, and only if, it would NOT at all be a financial hardship, and you find what I do valuable ⤵️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Why didn't She-Hulk, the best-performing series, not simply eat the other thirteen?
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I could NEVER do what Jennifer Grace or Adjoa Andoh does. A fabulous thing about audiobooks from the author's point of view is how they become a collaboration, with a good reader bringing out nuance and specificity.
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
How long have you been sitting on “Abughelection Day”?
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I directed a production of Phaedra’s Love when I was in college, and have gotten to see a couple of productions of 4.48 Psychosis. I hope you get to catch a production of her stuff at some point!
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Yeeeeeesssss. Would love to see him direct Cleansed!
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Paxton didn’t lose the primary. It’s going to a runoff election on May 26.
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The combo of your words and her voice is one of my absolute favorite artistic combinations.
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Russ The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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books books books @somewordnerd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Oooh, interesting. @maustermuhle.bsky.social
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