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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
made some new websites recently:
livefutures.eu
LIVEFUTURES
LIVEFUTURES is an interdisciplinary project interrogating one of the critical questions of the planetary present: what becomes of the idea of a liveable future in the throes of an earth unstable and u...
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
any time I find myself facilitating a room (just started GTA at uni)... I can't help but think of how grateful I am for the incredible facilitators that I've had the honour of working with and learning from, @claragt.bsky.social most especially!
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the academic culture of everyone joining a call without video is one of those little things that really impoverishes life in this sorry world
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
also: hanging laundry outside 🥲
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
i'm having an absolutely wild experience with a locally-run AI transcription package... I first downloaded it a few months ago when I was going through my ethics application (to make sure nothing was going to the cloud)...
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The author of Enemy Feminism is gonna know what's up, innit
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As I’ve been saying for almost two decades now, a majority of academics are either conservative or solidly centrist. The myth of the Marxist professors is one of the most successful propaganda campaigns in modern history.
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A list of names to make it easy to find who to avoid. No surprise to see Peter Singer on there. d
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...
leilacancode.github.io
Everything Good About Jason Arday
First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
i'm such a fucking baby when i have to cold-email potential research participants, i schedule the emails instead of just sending them ... dunno why it makes it easier to share that moment with the computer
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
did you know that turtles 1) talk to each other 2) EVEN BEFORE THEY HATCH
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Voice of the turtle - sonia turcotte
Freelance designer and researcher
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
i just finished reading Glitch Feminism and it's made me a little heartsick for what the internet could have been, for what it was in some places for a time. reading it now feels like reading an eulogy
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tell it. "Hysterical whiteness makes Blackness the provoking agent of the mass hysteria that is the province of whiteness itself… Hysterical whiteness is conquest pedagogy. Murder pedagogy." - Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes, Note 215
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
help i'm getting excited by html again
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
i'm in for almost all the reasons
bellkiosk.website
95 reasons for having your own website
A running list of reasons to have your own website in 2026.
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
my tech background cannot help but find it interesting how much anthropocentrism is built in to technology. My research is in farming and the automated transcripts will insert THE MOST RANDOM words instead of, ie 'calving' 'slaughter' etc.
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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Your problem isn't with ai it's with capitalism" Well yes, the shit is coming out of the asshole
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Let’s just flip this around and we’ll be good
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
best translation I have read (comparing fav passages across 3) and I can't wait for it to be a whole book. i would die happy if it was in print.
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
it rained
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
4 neighbourhood cats on rotation coming into my house and sleeping the garden. i am blessed amongst people
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
yesterday i finished 2 books, this morning i started 2 more
Meme of a black man looking pensive clearly photoshopped over a background of the ocean. The colours and style look almost pastiche. White text reads "I suffer from huge success"
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
nauseating
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ooops
Screenshot from The Storygraph book tracker that says "Current Reads (8)"
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 02/07/2026
added delphitools to my links page :) coolest set of small and useful tools for all sorts of common Computer Jobs i've seen in a minute — long live the handmade web. tools.rmv.fyi
A website, delphitools, which explains itself to be "a collection of small, low stakes, and low effort tools. No logins, no registration, no data collection. I can't believe I have to say that. Long live the handmade web.". Tools visible include a meta tag generator, qr generator, regex tester, algebra calculator, etc.
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I made a Reddit account finally so I can ask questions on vermicomposting
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
i love that the first place i’ve gone anything close to viral is noted baddies hangout @are.na
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
some of us live here all the time
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Fred Moten talk at Conway Hall is FULL of baddies. Good politics makes you hot.
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JeWitch68 @witchywoman68.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ― Cicero
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
GOOD DAY
Graph of Heart Rate zones showing 94% 1hr 47min 55sec in HR zone 4 between 170-198bpm
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Yet another platform raising their costs but “now you get access to our AI features”. Kindly fuck off. I’d be less irritated if it was paying more to remove said features.
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
huge news i have an excuse to read D&G for my work... was already thinking to read them for fun but now I can justify it! Trembling with excitement.
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thinking about my friend Michel at least every other day
And then I have some news for you: for me, the problem of prisons isn't one for the "social workers" but one for the prisoners.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
think about this mfer every damn day
“The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?”
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Animali tomorrow, we're reading Kate Zambreno's Animal Stories. No homework, just turn up and we read together xoxo
luma.com
Animali: a slow reading group – Animal Stories by Kate Zambreno · Luma
Animali is an online reading group meeting on the first Tuesday of every month. We’ll read out loud together, stopping as desired to discuss the text, with no…
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
i realise a lot of ppl use social media for work etc but I’m just here to shit post, sometimes about work yes, but don’t count on it.
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Both of these are stunning and just plain fun to read. Saved right onto the ai hater board are.na/sonia-turcot...
are.na
👾 ai hater | Are.na
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
published my instagram reading roundups on my website because in this house we don't trust any platform with og content
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What I read Jan-March 2026 - sonia turcotte
Freelance designer and researcher
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
What keeps coming up again and again is the risk of AI is really the flattening and erasure of plural forms of knowledge and capability with one way of doing things. To appropriate the Zapatista slogan, we need a world where many worlds not only fit but thrive and flourish
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
it’s such a pet peeve when forms throw an error before you’ve blurred the input. my email isn’t incorrect you clod I just haven’t finished typing. engineers everywhere, go fix your forms!
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
every time I email my supervisors, I add in some whimsy (also known as friendliness). every time they reply, they ignore my whimsy, but I remain steadfast… throwing whimsy to the wind!
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Finding the childlike celebration of artemis on this site, as the US deliberately destroys scentific infrastucture in Iran, incredibly jarring.
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
It is finished. Less painful than I expected though I'm still getting my head around the features.
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Alicia Kennedy @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
TOMATO TOMATO MAGAZINE LIVES. tomatotomato.xyz
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sonia @soniaturcotte.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
ok guys last year I moved banks (fuck hsbc > nationwide) and email (fuck Google > proton) and I think I’m ready for the big dog. Notion to Obsidian. wish me luck
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The two states of having a job are basically, "Oh no why hasn't that person emailed me back, is everything okay, do they hate me?" and "CAN EVERYONE STOP EMAILING ME I'M TRYING TO DO SOME WORK".
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