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Susanna Forrest

@susannaforrest.bsky.social
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Writer The Age of the Horse (AtlanticBooks/GroveAtlantic) & If Wishes Were Horses. Essays for Paris Review Daily, Long Reads, Lit Hub, Perspective & more. Amazons of Paris on Substack. Exberliner from 🇬🇧living in 🇸🇪 & married to a 🇬🇷.

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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Writers of Bluesky, who is running good pitching workshops?
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Farewell, Threads account.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Hope you enjoy not having air conditioning next summer so that incels can generate unlimited big titty anime girls on demand
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Djamé 🟥 @zehavoc.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
can't believe the latest elon musk crazy shit is not trending here. TF;DR: he deleted that far-right terrorist account, then reactivated it but without its history and with search and translate deactivated.
X, after reinstating the terrorists' profile, has deleted all posts before November 2024
They also deactivated search function on his profile, so you can only see his last 2 months posts.
Why? Probably because it helps the "far-right/pro-israel" narrative that he is "not an ex-Muslim atheist, nor is he a fan of the AfD or Elon Musk"
There were 2016 posts proving the opposite, before Elon Musk deleted them.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
In re:
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
For readers' reference, here are the two court cases. Hundreds of documents, more than five years. Even if you just scan the list, it's a chilling insight into what a corporate predator can put an artist through. www.courtlistener.com/docket/15766... www.courtlistener.com/docket/67399...
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Norris v. Goldner, 1:19-cv-05491 - CourtListener.com
Docket for Norris v. Goldner, 1:19-cv-05491 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Have you ever seen or shared an 'oh no' cartoon? Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist? Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property? Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?
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Donate to Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norris
I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for he… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics
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noeinan @noeinan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Orca also used to team up with humans to hunt whales. Random but interesting orca fact www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kil...
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The Killer Whales of Eden and the 'Law of the Tongue'
Orcas and humans once hunted together in southeastern Australia, until their millennia-old relationship broke down.
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popgengoogling.bsky.social @popgengoogling.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
One man's echo chamber is another man's Social Science Genetic Association Consortium
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We’re already in a hybrid war with Russia. Have been for years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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What is hybrid warfare, which some fear Russia will use after Ukraine’s strike?
Strike with US-made missiles has prompted fears of Russian reprisal that would broaden the scope of a frontline
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In the mailbox today from the Swedish government: “If Crisis or War Comes,” our guide to surviving war, nukes, terrorist attacks, climate-change freakeries, propaganda, and cyberwarfare. And explaining it to our children. First published 1961. #lifeinsweden
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Feeling less invested in Bluesky since learning it’s owned by bitcoin people and that EM is being encouraged to buy it.
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Cars in the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of cars on the U.K's roads as there were 30 years ago, but the media are still running articles claiming that a handful of cycle lanes and LTNs 'cause congestion' in London...🙄
A Morris Minor parked next to a huge new SUV.
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
If Trump pulls a Truss/Kwarteng/Varoufakis move on the economy can he, like Truss and Kwarteng, be speedily ejected?
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This is not a drill, a mummified sabretooth cat has been published from the #Pleistocene permafrost of Russia. It's a Homotherium cub! The team (Lopatin et al.) reckon it's Homotherium latidens. It's too young to have enlarged upper canines. Paper is OA ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... cont...
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Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Wowwww
Quote from Greenwire article on Gaetz AG nomination: “Luckily all of our environmental laws are older than 18 years, so Rep. Gaetz shouldn’t have much interest in them,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, a frequent litigant in environmental lawsuits.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A Tennessee Board of Education has now banned Wicked, Beloved and 35 other books as "pornography." Under a new TN law, any description of sexual activity is "harmful to minors." Another 150 books have already been flagged for removal. Sex workers tried to warn you. www.wsmv.com/2024/11/14/r...
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Rutherford County faces heated debate over book bans in school as 150 more titles are pulled from library shelves
The book bans were initiated by board member Caleb Tidwell, who flagged the titles as sexually explicit under school board policy and state obscenity laws.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15/06/2024
Look at me. Listen to me: If someone is selling you a "search" & "knowledge" "AI" product they claim is smarter & better & faster than you, but it literally cannot be guaranteed to give you simple true facts about consensus reality when asked, then that product DOES NOT WORK and SHOULD NOT BE USED.
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Starter packs are excellent. On the hunt for book business, EU, Sweden, and archaeology packs. ❤️
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
NB someone asked me for a Guardian/Observer starter pack so i can legitimately say THERE IS ONE HERE IT IS go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX PS i absolutely did not make it, credit due to @severincarrell.bsky.social i think
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Sudden flood of dodgy male catfishers on Blue Sky.
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GrumpyGirdle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿〓〓🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇵🇸🐈‍⬛🐾📚🌊☮️ @grumpygirdle.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Oasis reunion announced
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Imagine if the media just ignored Elon Musk.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
We love desperate local angles, and this is about as desperate and as weird as it gets.
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
Applause for Ukraine for successfully militarising chutzpah.
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Go Reuters! And the New Scientist! www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...
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Equestrian governing body finds blue horse tongues in dressage review
The equestrian governing body (FEI) in charge of the Olympic riding in Versailles has found pictures of horses with blue tongues caused by oxygen shortage during dressage competition, the organisation's chief vet told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
"In calls to save the wild horse, I hear a plea to protect the animal from the reality of that treasured title. An animal cannot be both wild and safe. Wildness is a violence or necessarily includes it. I can’t kill romanticization without romanticizing death." www.conjunctions.com/online/artic...
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Rendered, by Julia Juster  |  Conjunctions — The forum for innovative writing
Conjunctions Online, July 24, 2024
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
Russian disinformation contributed to riots in the UK by spreading, and perhaps originating, the lie that a recent murder by someone born in the UK was by an immigrant. Even made up a fake name. Ex-Twitter apparently helped spread the false info too, including (unsurprisingly) the website's owner.
telegraph.co.uk
The obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ outlet fuelling violence on Britain’s streets
Channel3 Now falsely named the Southport murderer, sending conspiracy theorists and the far-Right into a tailspin. How did this happen?
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
Soooo will the UK media stop coverage of abuse in equestrianism now or will they pick up on press coverage of further scandals at the Olympics? idraetsmonitor.dk/nyheder/art1...
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Danish Olympic riders face harsh criticism: Photos reveal potential horse abuse
Photos taken this year reveal Danish Olympic riders on horses in potentially »extreme pain«, according to several veterinarians and experts in the field. Based on the images, the Danish riders have no...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/07/2024
"It’s getting harder and harder to come up with enough incoherent perspectives to meet the moment."
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News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions
NEW YORK—Calling out the unsustainable pace at which historic events seemed to be occurring, local man Brad Gifford told reporters Monday that important news stories were now happening faster than ...
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 20/07/2024
This piece from The Bookseller seems to confirm Informa /Taylor & Francis / Routledge intends to use academic work to train AI without any consultation with authors. www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...
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Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
Authors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment.
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
Four women writers who did not have a room of their own or a private income. womenshistorynetwork.org/radical-port...
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Radical Portraits of Working Class Women Writers – Laura Maw
Virginia Woolf’s maxim in her now-classic polemic was this: ‘a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction’.[1] But what if a writer did not have access to these resource…
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgptand i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNEDthis kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 05/07/2024
Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Generative AI is a climate disaster
Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
“The authors said that almost all the Nazi poems they discovered fit the current Russian context perfectly, except for a few obvious anachronisms. References to Germany were changed to Russia, but otherwise the poems were published in exact translations.” www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Pranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse
Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z poetry’
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
What should I read next? - The Quickening by Elizabeth Rush, - High Caucasus by Tom Parfitt or - My Work by Olga Ravn?
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 15/06/2024
Does anyone write love letters? Between news items about Dylan writing to Hardy and Clapton to Boyd it feels like we’ve lost some innocence and eloquence along the way.
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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
New research, and very exciting: "While dolphins and parrots have been observed addressing each other by mimicking the sound of others from their species, elephants are the first non-human animals known to use names that do not involve imitation." 🧪🌍
theguardian.com
Elephants call each other by name, study finds
Researchers used artificial intelligence algorithm to analyse calls by two herds of African savanna elephants in Kenya
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Tried to use Twitter for the first time in months. Couldn’t even post anything. What an incredible genius EM is.
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
BEL MOONEY IMAGINES should get memed to hell and back. What a crappy way to pay your bills.
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
Too cloudy the one night we have northern lights…
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Why don’t British people have samovars? Why do we make individual cups or pots and save tea urns for public spaces? Anyway, that’s what I’m pondering today.
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Starting to notice that a lot of people don’t check news sources when they are interested in a country. And a younger generation doesn’t seem to even think about radio. Or am I getting a false impression?
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
Allow me to regale / regael you with some of my favourite Irish names for animals…   5. Ladybird = bóín Dé or “God’s little cow” 4. Otter = madra uisce or “sea dog” 3. Bat = amadáinín or “little fool” 2. Jellyfish = smugairle róin or “seal snot” 1. Hedgehog = gráinneog or “horrible little thing”
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Why is there not already a massive lawsuit re. Boeing? Because all the airlines would have to ground the planes and lose business?
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Susanna Forrest @susannaforrest.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Because “growing pool of freelancers” actually means “no more essential apprenticeships”. lithub.com/publishing-m...
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Publishing Models That Rely on Gig Workers Are Bad For Everybody
There are only two reasons to get into book publishing: the books (that’s how they get us formerly idealistic English majors) and the people (the other weirdos who also got gotten by the books). Th…
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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 10/03/2024
Before you use that chatbot prompt, you should be aware that these generative AI companies are using so much power that they're trying to get more power plants built. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Jawdropping PR screw-up from the royals. The Princess is obviously undergoing a crisis of one sort or another. I continue to think an irrefutable argument against royalty is that it’s not fair to condemn people to permanent hyperpublic lives for our entertainment www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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First post-op photo of Princess of Wales withdrawn due to ‘manipulation’
Picture agencies issue ‘kill notice’ after editing error of the image of Catherine with her children comes to light
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