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Kyle Thayer @kylethayer.com · 11/04/2025

On Mr. Rogers as an example of intentionally fostering non-toxic parasocial relationships: @susannotess.bsky.social and I have a short write-up here, including letters Fred Rogers wrote back to me and my sister: social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/reddit/...

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6.5. Parasocial Relationships

Another phenomenon related to authenticity which is common on social media is the parasocial relationship[ f32]. Parasocial relationships are when a viewer or follower of a public figure (that is, ...

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Kyle Thayer @kylethayer.com · 06/01/2025

Started teaching 150 students today how to make Bluesky social media bots (and also trying to teach ethics). Sorry to add to your bot load @pfrazee.com Our textbook: Social Media, Ethics, and Automation by me and @susannotess.bsky.social social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/bsky/in...

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Social Media, Ethics, and Automation

Free textbook on programming social media bots and considering the ethical implications of having done so. Automation drives our experience of social media platforms, from timeline feeds to disinfo...

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

In which Zuck takes a move out of Pavel Chichikov’s playbook #deadsouls #gogol

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 04/12/2024

Perhaps relevant, but here's a piece I wrote earlier this year about the long history of fear and joy around some foods' supposed ability to queer the body. Both of which are rooted in the knowledge that the body, and the self, can indeed be changed. www.eater.com/24162871/foo...

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The Food That Makes You Gay

Too many people grow up fearing what food might reveal about themselves. Maybe it’s time we embrace self-discovery.

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We’re also working on a version of this course with no programming, for those that just want to explore ethics in tech at a starter level with their students. Bonus is that it helps incoming undergrads develop a literacy and critical reflectiveness about interaction and information online!

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

I was never gonna be British for real, even when I thought I’d be there for the rest of my life. But this pyramid is me.

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day20 #BookSky

The Queen of Spades and other stories, by Alexander Pushkin

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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

“Other struggling people aren’t the enemy.” ~ Nathan Monk

A two-paneled image shows an outdoor, lettered bulletin board. The first panel shows the board’s actual message which reads: “Why is narcan free to a dope addict but my insulin is $750 a month”

The second panel shows the same sign with part scratched out to read: “Why is…my insuling $750 a month”

Beneath the image is the quote: “Other struggling people aren’t the enemy.” ~ Nathan Monk

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

I love all Caroline Eden’s cookbooks, esp. Samarkand

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

information/entertainment skills are so different now to 20 years ago. like food pre/post industrialisation of the food supply. the skill used to be: finding & storing so that you had enough. now it’s often: selecting from a vast selection that contains a lot of junk. & knowing when to stop.

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day19 #BookSky

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day18 #BookSky

Talk: the Science of Conversation by Elizabeth Stokoe

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day17 #BookSky

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2024

Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky “There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.”

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day16 #BookSky

How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova, eds Moore, Peters, Jojola, and Lacy

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day15 #BookSky

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day14 #BookSky

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day13 #BookSky

The Politics of Reality, by Marilyn Frye

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day12 #BookSky

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day11 #BookSky

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day10 #BookSky

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day9 #BookSky

The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day8 #BookSky

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day7 #BookSky

Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, by Emmanuel Levinas

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day6 #BookSky

A Hat Full of Sky (Tiffany Aching novel #2), by Terry Pratchett

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Fig leaf to legitimise spamming imo

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day5 #BookSky

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day4 #BookSky

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day3 #BookSky

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day2 #BookSky

The Passion of New Eve, by Angela Carter

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Day1 #BookSky

Invitation to a Beheading, by Vladimir Nabokov

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #561,269!

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Kyle Thayer (doomscrolling) @kylethayer.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Our free online textbook now has all programming bot activities available for Discord and Reddit, and some activities available for Bluesky. Social Media, Ethics, and Automation by me and @susannotess.bsky.social social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/

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Social Media, Ethics, and Automation

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Kyle Thayer (doomscrolling) @kylethayer.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

I co-authored a free online textbook with @susannotess.bsky.social: Social Media, Ethics, and Automation. It teaches how to program social media bots and think about the ethical implications. (There is also no a no-coding option) social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/reddit/...

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Social Media, Ethics, and Automation — Social Media, Ethics, and Automation

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Okay now I want to hear about the vending machines! What are 5 topics you can talk about unprepared for 5 minutes? 1. Fonts 2. Teaching Ethics 3. Food Ethics 4. Dairy Free Food in Global Cuisine 5. Food

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

So it is with a great deal of sadness that I will be spending the next month packing up my life here and saying goodbye to the friends and places I've called home. At the end of February I move to Louisville, where I'll live with my cousin and his family until I can set up my own home in Kentucky.

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

There are various options for retraining or transferring my skills into other sectors, but that sort of transition is difficult to execute on a work visa in a country that's currently working hard to discourage immigration.

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

I built a life here and had every intention of staying indefinitely, but the last three years have seen the slow, tragic death of my academic hopes. It's a fate shared by so many who finished PhDs in humanities fields during the pandemic, which changed the game on us in so many ways.

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

News: Susan is moving. 💔 After 8ish years in the UK, I am returning to the States, trading the lovely seven bridges of Newcastle for the three bridges of Louisville Kentucky (via several months' detour in Bath and then in London).

on top, a photo of Newcastle's seven bridges over the Tyne River. below, a photo of Louisville's three bridges over the Ohio River.

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

For philosophers interested in creative ways to teach applied ethics, this UG textbook (which I cowrote) is free to read and use. This is just one way to teach ethics, designed for students of any field to develop their skills in critical ethical reflection. I hope some folks find it useful ✨

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Hah yes! I took notes for my future reference :D

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Fun to see who comes up on the other lists though. And for my fellow scatter-readers, know that our way is okay too 🥰

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

It would be nice to join in on the listing of 10 authors, 5 books, but I can't do it. I dunno if it's ADHD or being an ex-academic who pulls more from articles and surveys than books, but I've only got Dostoevsky, Pratchett, Louisa May Alcott. Shakespeare if we count plays. 🤷

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Reminds me of music class in school being told that Beethoven preferred ‘40-bean coffee’ and we all goggled appropriately despite having no idea of that was meant to be impressively strong or tragically weak. Once I counted out and weighed 40 beans & my aeropress cried. ❤️‍🩹

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

I #amwriting and #amreading, finding wisdom in Salman Rushdie’s choice of door knocker. Read more here: substack.com/@susannotess...

…for writers, there’s no escape from the fellow. (I myself have a brass door knocker in the shape of a bust of Shakespeare on my study door, so that every day when I go in to work, I can knock on my door and tell myself to come in and know that I’m entering not my domain but his, Shakespeare’s, whom no door knocker can limit or contain, who leaps off the door knocker and takes possession of the room behind the door, ruling it as he rules all the rooms in literature’s poor, rich house.)’

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Susan Notess, PhD. @susannotess.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

My networks are small now, so any engagement I get will be a pleasant surprise. But I will try to post a few times a week about something I’ve written, read, or thought about. To start, today I’ll post a poem I wrote several years ago.

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