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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 08/09/2026
For years police have been building a digital infrastructure with personal information on people with criminal backgrounds in the name of public safety — often exposing people's personal information online without their knowledge.
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It’s Not Just Flock. Police Can’t Be Trusted With Our Data.
An Illinois State Police database available online listed personal information, including Social Security numbers.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I traveled. lizahl.com/2026/09/05/e...
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Enumeration (Summer 2026)
I departed New Hampshire on July 16 with three good pals whose secret nicknames I now know and will never tell. Returned on September 4 solo. (My friends flew back weeks earlier. I didn’t dit…
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 03/09/2026
Many thanks to Kevin for letting me try @fortcircle.bsky.social x @folger.edu collab FIRST FOLIO. I may have said “this is gonna be the Pentiment of board games” which is admittedly hyperbole. But damn me if it isn’t a charmer of an entry for newbies to the hobby who are suckers for bookish vibes.
Board area reading Stationer’s HallTwo cards of men in Shakespearean clothing: a Black man with close cut hair who is The Bookbinder and a white bald man with glasses and a beard who is The BooksellerA small board that includes 5 zones for worker placement, two rows of 4 cards, and various tokens.A wooden First Folio book token
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alkali @alkali19.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The narrow range of experience is my big thing Right now you have 9 people who have never campaigned for office, written a bill, or led an executive agency making wild assumptions about what that is like Sotomayor is the only former trial judge
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Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is a terrific set of strategies.
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🫀nenetto [🌳 Deku edition ▿] @nenetto.com · 17/08/2026
By www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08...
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Article here. This will be updated as I learn more, especially about any access difficulties. If a question is unanswered in this article, I don't know the answer yet, but I'm working hard to get more info as quickly as possible.
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What to Know About New Covid Vaccines for Fall 2026 (Gift Article)
The shots have been approved for people 65 and older, and for younger people with underlying conditions. Others may be able to get them off label.
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Allison Adair @fascicles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Cue "The Cat's in the Cradle."
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry.
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Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Excellent, important books like this make me miss teaching even more than I’m already missing it! Still so much to learn and try and do (differently) and wonder about when it comes to creative writing pedagogies. www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/08/revi...
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REVIEW: Divergent Writers: Disability, Illness, Neurodivergence, and Ableism in Creative Writing, Edited by Christie Collins and Saul Lemerond | Hippocampus Magazine
"...this is a reference text every creative writing instructor should have." -- Marissa Gallerani's reviews Divergent Writers, edited by Christie Collins & Saul Lemerond
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Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This book deserves aaaaalllllll the awards and recognition. It's so good, so SINGULAR -- you should read it.
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it was chosen, but once it was finally upon us, it passed like all days." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...
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Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set
The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 02/08/2026
Charles Schulz drew a new Peanuts comic every single day for almost 50 years. That is 17,897 individual comic strips. I'm sure, somewhere in that vast archive, you can find an ACTUAL DRAWING that fits whatever you want to say and easily edit in your own speech bubbles instead of using "AI" slop.
An image of Charlie Brown and Linus from the Peanuts comic strip in color leaning on a brick wall. Linus is looking at Charlie Brown, who is looking slightly aside of the "camera" Charlie says:

It's not very leftist of folks to use fascist corporate "AI" to make memes of me regardless what they say
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Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I like paper maps & directions b/c I care to know where I am relative to where I’ve come from & HOW I got there & how I‘ll leave. This has me recalling my 80s teenhood, how girls were told it was good to know how to drive stick so we could exit any situation via whatever car we could get keys to.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
What is UP with this specific creepy (Canva? GenAI?) "design" "trend" or "vibe?" Just a template? I feel like I'm seeing it everywhere -- in print and online -- these are just a few examples. Why does it seem creepy to me? (I guess that's a question for ME to answer...)
six examples of advertising texts using similar type, design, and imagery
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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
They gave US zinester Elizabeth Soto *50 fucking years* in prison for publishing a zine that supports an anti-fascism stance. Prosecutors also used her feminism themed zine, and an anti-AI zine as evidence against her. This is unprecedented.
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Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I worked on revising poems while the house was getting worked on. Both are taking a little longer than planned. Rot repair all around. You really never know the full extent of what you're going to find under there until you pull the boards off.
an open laptop surrounded by poem drafts and notebooksa hammer and a metal measuring triangle on wood deck with sawdust and wood scraps
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HAD @havehashad.com · 22/06/2026
love this Carrie inspired poem today from Hannah Wyatt ! "and what she would have done if they hadn’t all laughed at her, or if her amber hair hadn’t been perfectly swept past her temples..." www.havehashad.com/0u9cl
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Sometimes I think about Carrie, from Carrie (1976) by Hannah Wyatt
and what she would have done if they hadn’t all laughed at her, or if her amber hair hadn’t been perfectly swept past her temples, her breasts not so tucked in satin (and really, wasn’t her petal-pink…
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HAD @havehashad.com · 16/06/2026
"Sexual Orientation • Heterosexual • Homosexual • Okay, so it’s 1999 and The Mummy is in theaters and everyone is falling in love with men and women and eyeliner as thick as the lid of a sarcophagus..." today from Frances Klein! www.havehashad.com/lk1uf
June 16, 2026
Demographics
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Sexual Orientation (select one)

Heterosexual
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Okay, so it’s 1999 and The Mummy is in theaters and everyone is falling in love with men and women and eyeliner as thick as the lid of a sarcophagus and all the teens are doodling on their notebooks in loopy cursive, Mr. Rachel Weisz’s Belted Tanktop, and Mrs. Brendan Fraser’s Center-Part Bangs, and Arnold Vosloo’s Shaved Head and the small towns of America aren’t so small when you sit in the dark with desert stretching past the horizon, and we all see the movie every weekend, tickets are cheap if you smuggle in your own snacks, cargo pants pockets stuffed with Skittles, and the ticket taker doesn’t notice because he’s making eyes at the cardboard cutout of Brendan, we all are, we all want to be all four lips and two tongues inside the big kiss at the end, want to be every locust buzzing out of Imhotep’s unhinged jaws, we have no words for what we feel, know only that something inside us h
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.
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HAD @havehashad.com · 05/06/2026
These Erin Dorney Scrabble Poems are so great and inventive and fun. "These visual poems were conceptualized by hand on a Scrabble board using a standard bag of 100 tiles." and they come with a couple of bonus HAD poems! www.havehashad.com/ft5su
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"The AFT has also partnered with OpenAI and Anthropic to train teachers on AI. Weingarten told NBC News that despite their collaboration, she views many of the big technology companies as “playing a really negative role in terms of trying to push more tech into schools.”
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Last night, ICE purposefully targeted medic, pacifist & veteran Adam Marshall, an organizer with Eyes on ICE, while he was trying to help protestors at Delaney Hall who had been gassed three times. They slammed him to the ground and ripped off his gas mask. He was arrested and dumped 10 miles away.
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The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 22/05/2026
"Today’s poem ... was built to last," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1521. Read "You Try to Fix It" by @surlyacres.bsky.social, originally published in RHINO: bit.ly/4fBIJdU Episodes of The Slowdown are published every weekday in your preferred podcast app!
graphic featuring a portion of Liz Ahl's poem, which can be found in full at the link in the postphotograph of poet Liz Ahl
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Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The first of the yellowtails on the first of the lilacs. Both small and new.
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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Folks should be aware this has been retracted: RETRACTED ARTICLE: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
“The LMS strips agency from students and teachers and staff alike, forcing them into the template of what the software engineers have coded, into the template of what the LMS companies have decided pedagogy looks like,” writes Audrey Watters.
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That Damned LMS Dependency
For the second time in less than a year, a major disruption to the learning management system Canvas has prompted cries (and headlines) that “we can’t do school!” In the fall of 2025, an Amazon Web S...
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education
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Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I think I've reached a tipping point with my pinning of e-mails. I shouldn't have to scroll down SO FAR to reach the end of the "pinned" emails. My metaphorical corkboard has too many papers "tacked" to it. I broke the metaphor. Now I'm just stacking. Piling. I don't deserve cute thumbtack icons.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We're at war to reopen a strait that was open until we went to war Masterful gambit, sir!
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Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Been a minute since I had a villanelle out there. Here's a one, in the latest South 85 Journal. Thanks to the folks at the Converse University Low Residency MFA program and Editor Leslie Pietrzyk for putting together a great issue. www.south85journal.com/both-things/
A photograph of a red-cloaked figure statuette next to an orange traffic cone in front of a dirty snow pile, with a tree and brick building in the background.
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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.
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Carnegie Mellon University Department of English @cmuenglish.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Exploring the human dimensions of space exploration: the (In)hospitable Space Conference approaches! Details on keynote speakers + conference excursion were recently updated, and our registration deadline is April 24. Will you join us from May 25-27? www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...
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(In)hospitable Space Conference - Department of English - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University
An interdisciplinary conference cooperatively organized by representatives from Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of English and partner organizations.
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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
4/29/26 at 7pm ET on Zoom we’re launching this fabulous issue into the stratosphere with 1-minute readings by Issue 12 contributors. Register here: washcoll.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live
Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’
Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.
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Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Oh look. The thing that was predicted is happening, with a huge thick underline under my assertion about the hubris of devs believing they could code around the fundamentals of Garbage In, Garbage Out. The models are ingesting AI garbage, and spitting out more AI garbage. bsky.app/profile/hype...
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 16/04/2026
The systematic destruction of feminist spaces online is what inspired us to start  The Flytrap. Since last year, part of this work is archiving key Bitch Magazine articles that have disappeared from the internet. Here's some pieces we reprinted this year!
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